BLACK ANGEL BLUES

Created on 11/08/2003
Latest update on 28/06/2023

Artist: Lucille Bogan
Author: traditional
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1930

With Walter Roland on piano. This angel's gender is clearly male.

Covers:

1934:

Tampa Red [for Vocalion; Lucille Bogan's ex guitarist]

1949:

Nighthawks [with Robert Nighthawk, Ernest Lane and Willie Dixon attending his very first session for Chess (Aristocrat)]

1950:

Tampa Red [for Bluebird as Sweet Little Angel]

1956:

B.B. King [idem; hit version; taking credits]

1964:

Etta James [idem]

1965:

Big Mama Thornton [idem]

1966:

Muddy Waters [idem]

1968:

Cuby & The Blizzards [idem]

1968:

Buddy Guy

1969:

Jeff Beck [outtake Beck-Ola lp as Sweet Little Angel, with Rod Stewart; released in '04]

1979:

Luther Allison [as Sweet Little Angel]

1981:

R.L. Burnside [as Sweet Black Angel]

1996:

Saffire [as I'll Be Your Sweet Black Angel]

1999:

Corey Harris [as Sweet Black Angel]

2003:

Bob Margolin [as Sweet Little Black Angel]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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