Wabash Cannonball

~ Recording by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.3Wabash Cannonball?:??Lester Flatt & Earl ScruggsThe Versatile Flatt & ScruggsLester Flatt & Earl ScruggsAlbum
Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)CL 2354, CS 9154
1.9Wabash Cannon Ball2:33Lester Flatt & Earl ScruggsOn Foggy MountainLester Flatt & Earl ScruggsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1994-03-05
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)A 18071
1.20Wabash Cannonball2:32Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs1964-1969, PlusLester Flatt & Earl ScruggsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1995-10-17
Bear Family RecordsBCD 15879
1.9Wabash Cannonball2:32Lester Flatt & Earl ScruggsClassic CollectionLester Flatt & Earl ScruggsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)
1.3Wabash Cannonball2:35Flatt & ScruggsThe Versatile Flatt & Scruggs: Pickin’, Strummin’ and Singin’Flatt & ScruggsAlbum
  • XW2015-12-05
Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)
Bootleg
1.18Wabash Cannonball2:28Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain BoysThe Chronogical Classics: Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs 1964–1965Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain BoysAlbum + Compilation
Warped Records (US country reissue)WARPED 6459

Relationships

producer:Frank Jones (producer for Columbia, often with Don Law; also singer/songwiter)
Don Law
banjo:Earl Scruggs (on 1964-12-15)
double bass:Jake Tullock (country stand-up bass) (on 1964-12-15)
fiddle:Paul Warren (US fiddler) (on 1964-12-15)
guitar and lead vocals:Lester Flatt (on 1964-12-15)
harmonica:Charlie McCoy (white blues harmonica player, 1960s-present) (on 1964-12-15)
resonator guitar:Josh Graves (on 1964-12-15)
recorded at:Columbia Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (on 1964-12-15)
recording of:Wabash Cannonball (on 1964-12-15)

Wabash Cannonball

composer:A.P. Carter
William Kindt
publisher:APRS (American Performing Rights Society, Inc.(BMI))
referred to in medleys:The Fighters of Korea (order: 4)
is the basis for:Promised Land