Tobacco Road (novel) Tobacco Road (novel) Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years, an astounding feat for a non-musical and, as of 2014, it was still the 18th longest-running Broadway show in history as well as being the second-longest running non-musical ever on Broadway. The novel ultimately argues for the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites, as the author's father, Ira Caldwell, had argued in his 1930 article in "The Eugenics Review". A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by
Tobacco Road (song) Mark Lindsay also made a "Remix" of this song in their compilation CD "The Legend of Paul Revere" released May 6, 1990. Also listed in Wikipedia under 'Mark Lindsay' who was the lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders it states under Production Credits: "Tobacco Road" (1977), United Artists - Ritchie Lecea, exec. producer, single. Tennessee rockers, Every Mother's Nightmare, included the song on their 1993 Arista Records release, "Wake Up Screaming". Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle included the song on their 2016 duo album "Colvin & Earle". David Bowie refers to 'Tobacco Road' in Dirty Boys on The