Hard Times Come Again No More

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Recordings

• Dolly Parton opens her 1980 song "Hush-A-Bye Hard Times" with an a cappella verse from the song.
• The North Carolina band Red Clay Ramblers featured the song on their 1981 album Hard Times.
• Recorded by Irish singer Mary Black on her 1984 album Collected.
• Akiko Yano sings this song on her 1989 album "Welcome Back"
• On Syd Straw's 1989 debut album Surprise, Straw and X frontman and solo artist John Doe recorded a version of the song.
• By Kate & Anna McGarrigle on the 1991 Songs of the Civil War collection.
• By Emmylou Harris in her 1992 live album At the Ryman.
• By Bob Dylan for his 1992 album Good as I Been to You.
• As the penultimate track on the 1992 debut album from The Lost Dogs, Scenic Routes.
• Harvey Reid plays his acoustic guitar on his 1994 album Chestnuts
• In Series One of the "Transatlantic Sessions", was performed by an ensemble composed of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black, Karen Matheson and Rod Paterson.
• The 1995 movie Georgia with Mare Winningham and Jennifer Jason Leigh sung by Mare Winningham and band.
• The 1995 movie The Neon Bible performed by Thomas Hampson.
• Nanci Griffith on her 1998 effort Other Voices Too .
• Ambassadors of Harmony perform an a cappella male chorus barbershop arrangement on their 2000 album Sing Sing Sing!
• The 2000 Appalachian Journey, for voice & piano with Edgar Meyer, James Taylor Mark O'Connor and Yo-Yo Ma.
• eastmountainsouth recorded this song on their eponymous album in 2003.
• Johnny Cash on the Redemption Songs disc of the 2003 Unearthed box set of out-takes and alternate versions from his American Recordings series.
• Mavis Staples recorded it for the Grammy award-winning album Beautiful Dreamer.
• In 2005, the song was included in the soundtrack Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, performed by Eastmountainsouth.
• The 2005 film ' by Whitney Hamilton.
• Matthew Perryman Jones included it on his 2006 album Throwing Punches in the Dark.
• Andru Bemis recorded it on his 2006 album Rail to Reel.
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 2009 Working on a Dream Tour and captured on their 2010-released ' concert video, in the midst of the Great Recession.
• Mary J. Blige and The Roots at the 2010 telethon.
• In the Season 2 finale of Parenthood by the same name, the song was contributed to the soundtrack by Brett Dennen.
• The 2012 Voice of Ages by The Chieftains, with Paolo Nutini.
• The 2012 Eesti Kullafond collection of Estonian folk-pop group Folkmill.
• An Iron & Wine performance featured in commercials promoting the 2012 Copper television series on BBC America.
• Black 47, on the 2014 album Last Call.
• The 2014 9/11 Memorial commemoration.
• Kristin Chenoweth performed the song on her 2014 live album Coming Home.
• Katy Treharne sings it on the Tearfund with 'West End has Faith' 2015 album Speechless.
• Joel Plaskett's 2015 album The Park Avenue Sobriety Test.
• Annie Moses Band performed the song on their 2015 album American Rhapsody.
• Australian artists Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen included the song on their 2016 album Death's Dateless Night.
• Civilization VI uses the song as the theme for Theodore Roosevelt of the American civilization.
• Madeleine Peyroux sang it on her album Secular Hymns
• Jennifer Warnes, from her 1979 album Shot Through The Heart
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• Mavis Staples' version opens the second episode of Ken Burns' 2019 PBS documentary miniseries, Country Music.

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