GROUNDHOG BLUES
Created on 22/01/2003Latest update on 01/12/2023
Artist: Rambling Thomas
Author: Rambling Thomas
Label: Victor
Year: 1932
Covers:
- 1951:
John Lee Hooker [spelled Booker on the label]
- 1971:
Groundhogs [as Groundhog on Split; John Lee used The Groundhogs as backing band on his album Hooker & The Hogs]
- 1973:
Mike Bloomfield, John Hammond Jr. & Dr. John [on lp Triumvirate]
- 2007:
There are older Ground Hogs in song: Jimmie Rodgers in his Blue Yodel #10 (1932) and Harold Gray's Tennessee Tooters cut their own Ground Hog Blues for Columbia in '24 (see: Ground Hog), Sonny Boy Williamson I cut one for Bluebird in '42 (see there).
