MAMA 'T AIN'T LONG FOR DAY

Created on 21/02/2006
Latest update on 02/03/2024

Artist: Blind Willie McTell
Author: Willie McTell
Label: Victor
Year: 1927

Ralph Peer recording. Unorthodox version of bottlenecktune Poor Boy Long Way From Home, a pre-blues Mississippi standard.

Covers:

1990:

Steve Phillips

1991:

Terry Garland

1992:

Allman Brothers Band [as Midnight Blues; see also: Blues Around Midnight]

1995:

Rory Block [as Tain't Long For Day]

2000:

Dave Alvin

"Nobody can play the blues like Blind Willie McTell". See also: Broke Down Engine Blues, A Married Man's A Fool, Writing Paper Blues and Statesboro Blues.

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