Jack Bonus
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Jack Bonus was a Bay Area folk singer-songwriter best remembered for “The Hobo Song,” the wandering ballad Old & In the Way introduced on their 1975 Round Records album.
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- Wrote “The Hobo Song” in the early 1970s.
- Old & In the Way — the Grateful Dead-adjacent bluegrass band of Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Vassar Clements, Peter Rowan, and John Kahn — introduced the song on their 1975 Round Records self-titled debut.
- The song has since been recorded by Garth Brooks on his 1989 self-titled Capitol debut and by Jackson Browne, John Hartford, and many others.
