BOURGEOIS BLUES, THE

Created on 05/12/2005
Latest update on 17/01/2022

Artist: Lead Belly
Author: Huddie Ledbetter/Alan Lomax
Label: Musicraft
Year: 1939

Written in Washington D.C., the "bourgeois town" he couldn't find a decent hotel room cause of strict segregationist housing laws. He and his wife were supposed to stay with the Lomaxes but they got in trouble with the landlord. That's where this song is all about with some lines added by Alan.

Covers:

1961:

Pete Seeger

1963:

Janis Joplin

1966:

Hamish Imlach

1976:

Ry Cooder

1978:

Rolling Stones [adapted as When The Whip Comes Down]

1980:

Tav Falco's Panther Burns

1987:

Billy Childish

1988:

Taj Mahal

1997:

Hans Theessink

2001:

Odetta

2008:

Eric Bibb

2014:

Fall

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

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