The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - I DON'T WANT NO JET BLACK WOMAN

Artist: Don Barnes & group
Author: traditional
Label: Traditional/Rounder
Year: 1948

Alan Lomax recording in Parchman Prison Farm, MS, first released in '57 on lp Negro Prison Songs and reissued on cd Prison Songs Vol. 1.

Covers:

1948:: Ed Lewis [as Black Gal]
1951:: Lightnin' Hopkins [as Bald Headed Woman, crediting Robert Ellen (alias Robert Shad)]
1959:: Odetta [as Bald Headed Woman]
1964:: Kinks [idem]
1965:: Hepstars [idem; from Sweden]
1965:: Who [idem]
1966:: Jay Jays [idem]
1966:: Torero's
1995:: Big Sugar [as Sugar In My Coffee]

On the Odetta lp containing Bald Headed Woman (My Eyes Have Seen - Vanguard), there's a second song The Kinks covered: I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain, a traditional gospel in the first place.

I DON'T WANT NO JET BLACK WOMAN

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