FURNITURE MAN
Created on 30/01/2003Latest update on 27/09/2023
Artist: Lil McClintock
Author: Lil McClintock
Label: Columbia
Year: 1931
Street performer in Clinton, SC engaged by a local furniture store. Song about the 'repo man', known and feared by both black and white during the depression for re-possesing unpaid articles. The Georgia Crackers cut a Riley The Furniture Man (Okeh - '27) and countryblues duo Chitwood & Landress a (different) Furniture Man for Brunswick in '25.
Covers:
- 1986:
Brendan Croker & The Five O'Clock Shadows [on A Close Shave, and introduced one year earlier on self-released cd Central Station Hotel]
- 2017:
See also: Furniture Man Blues.
