SAIL ON, LITTLE GIRL, SAIL ON

Created on 02/10/2003
Latest update on 17/09/2020

Artist: Bumble Bee Slim
Author: Amos Easton
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1934

Georgia bluesman who moved to Chicago in '30.

Covers:

1938:

Jazz Gillum

1940:

Lead Belly

1950:

John Lee Hooker

1954:

Muddy Waters [as Honey Bee and credited to himself]

1958:

Alexis Korner Blues Incorporated [as Sail On with Cyril Davies]

1963:

Jimmy Witherspoon

1963:

Lightnin' Hopkins

1966:

Mississippi Fred McDowell

1968:

Savoy Brown [as Sail On]

1983:

Albert King [idem]

1983:

John Hammond [idem; in '88 also as Honey Bee]

1984:

Stevie Ray Vaughan [as Honey Bee]

1985:

Buster Benton

1993:

Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan [as Sail On]

1998:

Billy Childish & Don Melchior [idem]

2000:

T-Model Ford [idem]

2003:

Cassandra Wilson [as Honey Bee]

Contact


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