MILK COW BLUES

Created on 06/03/2001
Latest update on 02/08/2022

Artist: Sleepy John Estes
Author: John Estes
Label: Victor
Year: 1930

Covers:

1965:

Bob Dylan [tune and rhythm feel in From A Buick 6; Dylan also cut Estes' Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty]

1967:

Taj Mahal [as Leaving Trunk]

1969:

Keef Hartley Band [idem]

1970:

Johnny Jenkins [idem]

1970:

Harvey Mandel [idem]

1972:

Ry Cooder [as Ax Sweet Mama]

1979:

Geoff Muldaur [as Sloppy Drunk Blues]

1989:

Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws [as Ask Sweet Momma]

2003:

Derek Trucks [as Leaving Trunk]

2003:

Black Keys [idem]

2006:

Jim Dickinson [as Ax Sweet Mama]

2017:

Tedeschi Trucks Band [as leavin' Trunk]

Not to be compared neither with Kokomo Arnold's Milk Cow Blues ('34 - Decca), nor with Papa Freddie Spruell's ('28 - Okeh).

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