Ginseng Sullivan

Norman Blake wrote "Ginseng Sullivan", track seven of Home in Sulphur Springs, 3:31, recorded on December 30, 1971 with Tut Taylor on Dobro. A 1987 Rounder compilation, Slow Train Through Georgia, has it as track eleven at 3:29. A web summary says the song's subject is a man seeking his big break in the ginseng trade so he can return to his muddy water Mississippi Delta home; we could not open the primary page to confirm.

Red, White and Blue(grass) recorded it in 1973 on their debut and the New Grass Revival around the same period, among the first of Blake's songs recorded by others. Tony Rice's recording is called the best known, and Phish covered it from August 11, 1993, according to search summaries of phish.net, which we could not open. Bob Minner's 2022 tribute album has a version with Ron Block. We found no chart history, video, setlist.fm count or comment from Blake on the song, and could not tell whether our upload is the 1972 original or the compilation cut.