Other Artists
Hank Williams recorded the song in 1948 or 1949 for the Johnny Fair Syrup Company radio show on KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana. The recording is available on The Complete Hank Williams boxed set, released on Mercury Records in 1998. It also appears in the film Rango, set in an Old West town populated by animals that is suffering from drought. Every Wednesday, the townspeople perform a ritual they believe will return water to their town, during which the song plays over a PA system.
Frankie Laine and The Mellomen took it to #2 on the British charts in 1955.
Marty Robbins recorded the song on his 1959 album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.
Burl Ives recorded this song on his 1961 album Songs of the West.
Odetta recorded the song in 1963 on her One Grain of Sand album.
The Shadows recorded this in 1965 for a television show; later released on the Italian compilation album Dakota.
Fleetwood Mac also covered this song in 1982; it was the B-side to the single "Gypsy".
Other covers of the song were done by Riders in the Sky, Jack Scott, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Slim Whitman, Johnnie Ray and Mason Williams, among others.
The Muppets (Lubbock Lou and His Jughuggers) also covered the song on the set for "Singin' in the Rain" in Episode 501 after Gene Kelly refuses to go on.
The Gaither Vocal Band covered this song as well.
Joni Mitchell recorded "Cool Water" (with revised lyrics), released on Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm, March 23, 1988.
Nellie Lutcher also covered this song.
Bob Dylan and The Band recorded "Cool Water" during the The Basement Tapes sessions, but the cover is only available in bootleg form.
Leo Kottke performed a version on the album Burnt Lips.
The Replacements recorded this song around 1986; it is on a re-released version of Pleased to Meet Me.
Johnny Cash covered this on his second posthumous record American VI: Ain't No Grave
Courtney Jaye and Peter Hayes - Cool Water's cover (2008)
Ramblin Jack Elliot recorded "cool water" on his album Country Style/Live
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