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| (Willie McTell) |
| (o): | Lonnie Clark (1929) | label: Paramount |
| | OK, nobody sings the blues like Blind Willie McTell, but "Feel like a broke down engine, ain't got no driving wheel" are someone else's words originally. Reissued on JSP box set The Paramount Masters. |
| (c): | Blind Willie McTell (1931) [as Broke Down Engine Blues, faster version of his two year older Drive Away Blues; second and third stanza are original, the first and fourth one he borrowed from Lonnie Clark], Johnny Winter (1969) , John Hammond (1978) , Spencer Bohren (1986) , Gibson Bros. (1990) , Peter Case (1993) , Bob Dylan (1993) , Hillbilly Voodoo (2002) [with Michael Dinaldo (Radio Kings) & Barrence Whitfield], |
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