Artist: Son House
Author: Son House
Label: Library Of Congress
Year: 1942
Reissued on the Deep River Of Song series in the Lomax collection on Rounder, Volume: Mississippi - The Blues Lineage.
Covers:
Bob Dylan [as Lonesome Day Blues on Love And Theft; own lyrics (apart from the opening lines) but melody line and title (from Blind Willie McTell) were clearly borrowed; uncredited, apart from a tip of the hat on the back cover picture]
Rory Block [on a Son House tribute]
Same riff as in Outside Woman Blues by Blind Joe Reynolds ('29 - Paramount) (see there).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)