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Lost Highway
Composer: Leon Payne

Lost Highway was played by Phil Lesh & Friends in 2007 and by Bill Kreutzmann, Steve Kimock and Mike Gordon in September 2007.

Lost Highway was written by Leon Payne in 1948 and first released by him on a single in October of that year.

The song was recorded by Hank Williams in the Spring of 1949 and released by him on a single in September of that year. This release was not a commercial success but subsequently the song has become closely associated with Williams.



Leon Payne

no info Single (Baby Boy / Lost Highway), Leon Payne, 1948
no info A Living Legend Of Country Music, Leon Payne, 1963
no info Lost Highway, Leon Payne, 2008

Hank Williams

no info Single (You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) / Lost Highway), Hank Williams, 1949
no info Hank Williams Sings EP, Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys, 1952
no info Hank Williams Sings Volume 2 EP, Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys, 1954
no info Sing Me A Blue Song Vol. 1 EP, Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys, 1957
no info Hank Williams Sings 36 More Of His Great Hits: Volume 2, Hank Williams, 1958
no info Sing Me A Blue Song (LP), Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys, 1960
no info Let Me Sing A Blue Song, Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys, 1961
no info Hank Williams On Stage: Recorded Live!, Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys, 1962
no info 14 More Of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits Vol. III, Hank Williams, 1963
no info The Very Best Of Hank Williams Volume 2, Hank Williams, 1964
no info Lost Highway And Other Folk Ballads, Hank Williams, 1964
no info The Hank Williams Story, Hank Williams, 1965
no info Father & Son, Hank Williams, Sr. & Hank Williams, Jr., 1965
no info I Won't Be Home No More, Hank Williams, 1967
no info 24 Karat Hits, Hank Williams, 1970
no info The Hank Williams Treasury, Hank Williams, 1976
no info On Stage--Recorded Live!, Hank Williams, 1976
no info 22 High-Ballin' Hits!, Various Artists (Hank Williams), 1976
no info 24 Greatest Hits Vol. 2, Hank Williams, 1977
no info Country & Western Classics, Hank Williams, 1981
no info 40 Greatest Hits, Hank Williams, 1984
no info Lost Highway: December 1948 - March 1949: Volume III, Hank Williams, 1986
no info Golden Memories, Hank Williams, 1991
no info The Legendary Hank Williams Sr, 1991
info Original Singles Collection...Plus, Hank Williams, 1992
no info Lonesome Blues, Hank Williams, 1992
no info Health & Happiness Shows, Hank Williams, 1993
no info Legendary Country Singers, Hank Williams, 1994
no info The Hits, Hank Williams, 1994
no info 40 Legendary Hits, Hank Williams, 1994
no info Alone And Forsaken, Hank Williams, 1995
no info Men With Broken Hearts, Three Hanks, 1996
info Complete Hank Williams, Hank Williams, 1998
no info The Best Of, Hank Williams, 1999
no info My Home, The Highway, Hank Williams, 1999
info 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of, Hank Williams, 1999
no info Hot Rods & Custom Classics, Various Artists (Hank Williams), 1999
no info The Ultimate Collection, Hank Williams, 2002
no info Acuff Rose Collection, Various Artists (Hank Williams), 2003
no info The Best Of Hank Williams, Hank Williams, 2004
info Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection, Hank Williams, 2005
no info Gold, Hank Williams, 2005
no info Original American Classics, Hank Williams, 2006
no info Classic Country: Killer B Sides, Various Artists (Hank Williams), 2006
no info Honky Tonk Man, Hank Williams, 2009
info The Roots Of Bob Dylan, Various Artists (Hank Williams), 2009
no info The Legend Begins: Rare And Unreleased Recordings, Hank Williams, 2011
no info Big Box Of Hank Williams, Hank Williams, 2012
no info Lonesome Highway, Various Artists (Hank Williams), 2015
no info Five Classic Albums, Hank Williams, 2017
no info Whiskey Women & Loaded Dice, Various Artists (Hank Williams), 2017
no info Murder Ballads: 15 Original Tracks That Inspired Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Various Artists (Hank Williams), 2017
no info The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings, Hank Williams, 2019

Other recordings

This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

no info Single (Lost Highway / There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight), Delbert Barker, 1952
no info Songs Of The Open Spaces, Guy Mitchell, 1953
no info Goin' Steady With The Blues, Skeets McDonald, 1958
info Country Pickin' & Hillside Singin', Osborne Brothers & Red Allen, 1959
no info The Spectacular Johnny Horton, 1959
no info Single (Lost Highway / You'll Never Know), Osborne Brothers & Red Allen, 1959
no info Single (Lost Highway / A Convict And A Rose), Elton Britt, 1960
no info Beyond The Sunset, Elton Britt, 1960
no info Wanderin', Mark Dinning, 1960
no info Hank Williams Favorites, Delbert Barker, 1961
no info At The Golden Nugget, Hank Thompson, 1961
no info Hootenanny Hoot, Various Artists (Mark Dinning), 1963
no info Single (The Same Old Tale The Crow Told Me / Lost Highway), Johnny Horton, 1964
no info I Can't Forget You, Johnny Horton, 1965
no info Mr Good 'N Country Music, Jimmy Martin And The Sunny Mountain Boys, 1966
no info Great Country Songs, Don Gibson, 1966
info Roy Acuff Sings Hank Williams, Roy Acuff, 1966
no info On Stage, Johnny Horton, 1966
no info Single (Lost Highway / Golden Treasure), Roy Acuff, 1966
no info Country & Western Favorites Volume 2, Various Artists (Osborne Brothers & Red Allen), 1966
no info Golden Country Hits Vol. 2, Various Artists (Johnny Horton), 1966
no info Single (Lost Highway / Around The Town), Don Gibson With The Jordanaires, 1967
no info By Request, Ernest Tubb And The Texas Troubadours, 1967
no info This Is Sue Thompson Country, Sue Thompson, 1969
no info A Treasury of Country Hits, Roy Acuff, 1969
no info The Osborne Brothers, The Osborne Brothers, 1970
no info Single (I Just Keep Hangin' On / Lost Highway), Sue Thompson, 1970
info Dreams, High Country, 1971
no info Sixteen Great Country Performances, Elton Britt, 1971
no info The World Of Johnny Horton, 1971
info Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 1972
info Hank Wilson's Back, Leon Russell, 1973
no info The Way I Lose My Mind, Carl Smith, 1974
no info Single (Everything I Touch Turns To Sugar / Lost Highway), Carl Smith, 1975
no info The Legend, Johnny Horton, 1975
info The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen, The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen, 1977
no info Born To Rock, Ray Campi & His Rockabilly Rebels, 1977
no info Single (Lost Highway / I Saw The Light), Chubby Wise & His Fiddle, 1978
no info Volume Two, Charlie Feathers, 1979
no info Gary, Gary Stewart, 1979
no info It Ain't What You Eat It's The Way How You Chew It, Sleepy LaBeef, 1981
no info Lost & Found, Jason & The Scorchers, 1985
no info Single (Fisherman's Blues / Lost Highway), The Waterboys, 1988
no info Best Of Carl Smith, 1991
no info Are You Ready For The Country?: Essential, Volume One, Jason And The Scorchers, 1991
info Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys, Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys, 1994
no info Solid Gold, Marty Wilde, 1994
no info Teen Angel / Wanderin', Mark Dinning, 1995
info 1956-1968, The Osborne Brothers, 1995
no info Both Sides Of The Line, Jason And The Scorchers, 1996
no info Bakersfield Bound, Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen, 1996
no info The Ghost Of Hank Williams, David Allan Coe, 1997
no info The Highway Kind, Townes Van Zandt, 1997
no info Ready As We'll Ever Be, The Bubbadinos, 1997
no info Hats Off! A Tribute To Hank Williams By Country's Hottest Pickers, 1997
no info Midnight Roads & Stages Seen, Jason And The Scorchers, 1998
no info Hillbilly Shakespeare, Bap Kennedy, 1999
info Waltz Across Texas, Ernest Tubb, 1999
no info 1999 Exit/In 2000, Jason & The Scorchers / Tommy Womack, 2000
no info Rock On Germany, Jason And The Scorchers, 2001
no info Private Radio, Billy Bob Thornton, 2001
info Long Time A Comin': Story So Far, Bap Kennedy, 2002
no info Fear And Whiskey, Mekons, 2002
no info Wildfires + Misfires, Jason And The Scorchers, 2002
no info Medicine Fuck Dream, Greg Ashley, 2003
info Will The Circle Be Unbroken, The Trilogy, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 2003
info Texas Outlaws, Various Artists (Owen Temple), 2003
no info Rough Trade Shops Country 1, Various Artists (The Mekons), 2003
no info Grace (2 CD legacy edition), Jeff Buckley, 2004
no info Live Ghosts, Rod Clements And The Ghosts Of Electricity, 2004
info Tone Poets, Various Artists (Mitch Corbin and David Bromberg), 2005
no info One Piece At A Time, David Allan Coe & Johnny Paycheck, 2005
no info Further East / Further West, Bill Frisell, 2005
no info Last Man Standing: The Duets, Jerry Lee Lewis, 2006
info Songbird, Willie Nelson, 2006
no info Live At The Earl Of Old Town, Steve Goodman, 2006
info Live in Waterbury Center, Kent Gustavson with Micah Schonberg, 2006
no info Sing Me A Hank Williams Song, Various Artists (Johnny Horton), 2006
no info Heard It In A Love Song, Mark Chesnutt, 2007
no info Black Cat Bone, Lee Rocker, 2007
no info Runnin' Down A Dream (3 DVD / CD), Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, 2007
no info Nashville Sessions, Marty Balin, 2008
no info Fervor / Lost & Found, Jason And The Scorchers, 2008
no info Jazz Standard New York City, NY May 1st, 2004 Set 3, Bill Frisell, 2009
no info Together Again, Deryl Dodd, 2009
no info Lost Highway, Willie Nelson, 2009
no info Driftwoods, Ran Blake, 2009
info Live at Pineapple Willy's, Ben Prestage, 2009
no info T For Texas T From Tennessee, Various Artists (Willie Nelson with Kurt Nilsen), 2009
no info Scattered, The Handsome Family, 2010
no info Live In Budapest, Hungary 03/29/03, Bill Frisell, 2010
no info Lost Highways & Treasured Memories, Tony Holt & The Wildwood Valley Boys, 2011
no info Golden Memories Of Country Music Volume 2, Various Artists (David Allan Coe), 2012
no info Songs For Slim, The Replacements, 2013
info Greatest Ever: Country Rock, Various Artists (Willie Nelson / Kurt Nilsen), 2013
no info Flatpick (2 CD edition), Clarence White, 2014
no info 30 Year Birthday Bash, Jason And The Scorchers, 2014
no info The Cutting Edge 1965–1966: The Bootleg Series Vol.12, Bob Dylan, 2015
no info Lil G.L.'s Honky Tonk Jubilee, Charley Crockett, 2017
no info Gone...But Not Forgotten, Mark Chesnutt, 2018
no info Live At The Green Note, Philip Odgers, 2018
no info Sings The Blues Of Hank Williams, Darrell Scott, 2020

 
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