Thanks all for a lot of info I've been eager to know. I like the singing of this song by the Carter Family, Alfred Karnes, Stanley Brothers. But Aretha Franklin's is unique and also interesting to me. It is in her albums, Amazing Grace, None But the Righteous, Aretha Gospel, Only a Look (with her father Rev. C.L. Franklin). Possibly her rendition was in part influenced by Clara Ward. Clara's is in Meetin' Tonight as "I Have Heard of a Land."