Blues Run the Game

"Blues Run the Game"
Single by Jackson C. Frank
from the album Jackson C. Frank
B-side "Can't Get Away From My Love"
Released 1965 (1965)
Format 7-inch single
Recorded July 1965
Studio CBS Studios, London
Genre Folk
Length 2:50
Label Columbia (EMI)
Songwriter(s) Jackson C. Frank
Producer(s) Paul Simon

"Blues Run the Game" is a 1965 song by the American singer-songwriter Jackson C. Frank.

Cover versions

The song has been performed by various other artists, such as Simon and Garfunkel (on Old Friends), Sandy Denny, Nick Drake (on Family Tree), John Renbourn and Eddi Reader, and later by Bert Jansch, Counting Crows, John Mayer, Colin Meloy, Robin Pecknold, Mark Lanegan, Laura Marling, Jack Steadman from Bombay Bicycle Club, and Martin Simpson.

Samples of the Jackson C. Frank original appeared on the soundtrack of This Is Us, S01E03, "Kyle," and the trailer for the 2018 film, The Old Man and the Gun.


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