hypersongs

Man Hole (Covered Wagon)

An up-tempo folk rock track from Contribution, recorded in the Traffic-linked sessions.
Shawn Phillips, from Contribution (1970)

"Man Hole (Covered Wagon)" is on Contribution, Phillips's A&M debut of 1970, and it is not on Second Contribution. Encyclopedia.com lists it among the up-tempo folk-rock tracks of the album, set against classical guitar, sitar and acoustic pieces. The album came out of sessions recorded in England with Traffic's Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood and with Caleb Quaye.

We found no track-level personnel for this song, no statement on its meaning, and no chart history, video, covers or samples. It did not appear on the setlist.fm pages we could see, so we do not know how often he has played it live, and our upload could not be tied to a version.

Sources

  1. Phillips, Shawn, Encyclopedia.com
  2. Shawn Phillips, Wikipedia
  3. Shawn Phillips interview, It's Psychedelic Baby (2025-02-02)