Harlan County

Album: Haven't Got the Blues (Yet) (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • Originally written as a theme song for the TV series Justified (on the FX network), but rejected, Loudon Wainwright III recorded this instead for his Haven't Got the Blues (Yet) album.

    Harlan County is in Kentucky, where Justified is set.
  • Wainwright's version features vocal harmonies by folk-rocker Aoife O'Donovan, whose song "Lay My Burden Down" was recorded by Alison Krauss for her 2011 Paper Airplane album.

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