"John Hardy" originally was placed on the B-side of Manfred Mann's strongly -British-influenced cover of the Shirelles' "Sha-La-La," which was a Top 15 hit for the group. "John Hardy" is an old traditional American blues (the exact author is unknown) about a drifter who shoots another man in a jealous rage on the West Virginia-North Carolina state line. About 10 years later, George Thorogood and the Destroyers put out an equally impressive version of the song on their first album.

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