Lost Highway
Leon Payne1948
Versions (4)
Leon Payne
Original1948Added by Emy
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Written and recorded in 1948 by blind singer-songwriter Leon Payne. He composed it while hitchhiking to Texas to see his ailing mother, and the song expresses the loneliness and fatalism of a "lost traveler" on a symbolic highway.
Jeff Buckley
1993Added by Emy
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Jeff Buckley often performed Lost Highway in concert. He played it solo on guitar, in a stripped-down, almost confessional approach.
The Tallest Man on Earth
2022Added by Emy
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Featured on the covers album Too Late for Edelweiss, released in 2022.
Hank Williams
1949Added by Emy
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Hank Williams' 1949 version made the song famous. He recorded it on March 1, 1949 in Nashville, released that September as the B-side to You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) on MGM Records. Lost Highway became a honky-tonk country standard, forever associated with the haunted, itinerant musician.