Daddy Sang Bass

Daddy Sang Bass is a country song written by Carl Perkins and recorded by Johnny Cash.

It was created in 1968 for the religious concept album The Holy Land, which was released in February of the following year. The piece was published in January 1969 as a single and took six weeks at No. one on the Billboard Country Songs. The single stayed a total of 19 weeks in the charts.

Perkins rejected the piece musically and lyrically to the Traditional Will the Circle Be Unbroken to which had been rewritten by AP Carter years earlier and was made ​​known by the Carter Family. The musicians involved were next to Cash ( vocals, guitar ), nor Luther Perkins ( lead guitar ), Marshall Grant ( bass), Carl Perkins ( electric guitar ), WS Holland (drums ) and the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers (background vocals).

The text is about a person who has already had to help a child the parents in hard work and that singing together in the family made ​​this easier.