Cover versions

• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
  , with the Carter Family
  Carter Family
  The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. They were the first vocal group to become country...
  
  , reached #13 on Billboard
  Billboard (magazine)
  Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
  
  's Hot Country Songs chart in 1963.
• Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
  
   reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100
  Billboard Hot 100
  The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
  
   chart in 1963. This was from his album Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul
  Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul
  Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul is a 1963 album by Ray Charles.In 1990, the album was released on compact disc by DCC with four bonus tracks...
  
  . A live version with Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
  
   was included in Charles' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends
  Genius & Friends
  Genius & Friends is a 2005 studio album by rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, consisting of previously unreleased duets between Charles and musicians recorded during 1997 to 2005...
  
  .
• Nazareth
  Nazareth (band)
  Nazareth is a Scottish hard rock band, founded in 1968, that had several hits in the UK in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog. Perhaps their best-known hit single was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975...
  
   covered it on Expect No Mercy
  Expect No Mercy
  -30th Anniversary Edition Bonus Tracks:-Salvo Records Remaster Bonus Tracks:-Band members:*Dan McCafferty - vocals*Darrell Sweet - drums*Pete Agnew - bass guitar, guitar*Manny Charlton - guitar, producer-Other credits:*Nick Blagona - engineer...
  
  in 1977.
• John Conlee
  John Conlee
  John Conlee is an American country music singer. Between 1978 and 2004, Conlee charted a total of thirty-two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recorded eleven studio albums...
  
   reached #6 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in 1982.
• Patty Loveless
  Patty Loveless
  Patty Loveless , is an American country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in late 1986 with her first album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and...
  
   released a version in 2009 from her studio album Mountain Soul II
  Mountain Soul II
  Mountain Soul II is the sixteenth studio album by American country music singer Patty Loveless. The album was released on September 29, 2009. It is a follow-up to her previous album, Mountain Soul, released in 2001...
  
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• Chris Ledoux
  Chris LeDoux
  Chris Ledoux was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion.During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007...
  
   covered it on Used to Want to be a Cowboy in 1991.
• Green On Red
  Green on Red
  Green on Red was an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground...
  
   covered it on The BBC Sessions released in 2007.
• Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...
  
  covered it on her album The Party Ain't Over in 2011.

External links

• Harlan Howard obituaries: New York Times and bmi.com
• "Busted" at Allmusic.com