Artist: Lucille Bogan
Author: traditional
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1930
With Walter Roland on piano. This angel's gender is clearly male.
Covers:
Tampa Red [for Vocalion; Lucille Bogan's ex guitarist]
Nighthawks [with Robert Nighthawk, Ernest Lane and Willie Dixon attending his very first session for Chess (Aristocrat)]
Tampa Red [for Bluebird as Sweet Little Angel]
B.B. King [idem; hit version; taking credits]
Etta James [idem]
Big Mama Thornton [idem]
Muddy Waters [idem]
Cuby & The Blizzards [idem]
Jeff Beck [outtake Beck-Ola lp as Sweet Little Angel, with Rod Stewart; released in '04]
Luther Allison [as Sweet Little Angel]
R.L. Burnside [as Sweet Black Angel]
Saffire [as I'll Be Your Sweet Black Angel]
Corey Harris [as Sweet Black Angel]
Bob Margolin [as Sweet Little Black Angel]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)