Artist: Sleepy John Estes
Author: John Estes/Hammie Nixon
Label: Champion
Year: 1935
With coauthor Hammie Nixon, harmonica. Released the year after, also on Decca in '37.
Covers:
Big Maceo [as Worried Life Blues (with Tampa Red) and as Things Have Changed in '45]
Lightnin' Hopkins [as Someday Baby]
Charles Brown [as Trouble Blues, his first solo n°1 R&B]
Muddy Waters [as Trouble No More; R&B hit]
Big Bill Broonzy [as Worried Life Blues; credited to Big Maceo & Tampa Red]
Ray Charles [idem]
Fats Domino [as Trouble Blues]
Fred McDowell [credited to himself, as he did with that other Sleepy John Estes song Shake 'Em On Down (see there)]
Sam Cooke [as Trouble Blues]
Blues Magoos [as Worried Life Blues]
Allman Brothers Band [as Trouble No More]
Charlie Musselwhite [as Trouble No More; crediting Estes/Nixon]
Rolling Stones [as Worried Life Blues, live at El Mocambo]
Eric Clapton [idem; again in '91 and in '00 with B.B. King; crediting Big Maceo]
John Lee Hooker [as Worried Life Blues]
J J Malone [as Worried Life Blues]
Buddy Guy [as Trouble Blues]
John Hammond [idem]
James Cotton [as Worried Life Blues]
Mike Welsh [idem]
Jimmy Rogers All Stars [as Trouble No More with Mick Jagger & Keith Richards]
John Mooney [as New Someday Baby]
North Mississippi Allstars [following Fred McDowell's]
Jimmy Burns [as Someday Baby]
Bob Dylan [with own words, putting his own stamp on something familiar]
Trace Adkins [on Gregg Allman tribute All My Friends]
Pere Ubu [as Worried Man Blues, laced with a Crossroads' preachin' David Thomas]
Not to be confused with the Worried Life Blues by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Clifton Chenier, Rockin' Dopsie and Otis Spann.
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)