ABERDEEN MISSISSIPPI BLUES

Created on 19/11/2005
Latest update on 08/04/2023

Artist: Bukka White
Author: Booker White
Label: Okeh
Year: 1940

B-side of Sleepy Man Blues. Written (about his east Mississippi hometown) while serving time in Parchman Prison Farm. Cut in Chicago for Lester Melrose (with Washboard Sam). As a relative of B.B. King, uncle Booker chaperoned his nephew in the windy city soon as BB turned pro. See also: Parchman Farm Blues and Shake 'em On Down.

Covers:

1963:

Bukka White [John Fahey and Ed Denson recording]

1964:

Geoff Muldaur

1989:

Snakes [as Aberdeen]

1991:

Terry Garland

1996:

Kenny Wayne Shepherd [as Aberdeen]

2000:

David Gogo

2016:

Rory Block

Fahey & Denson found Bukka White by just sending a letter to Aberdeen, MS, assuming that's where he went back to after jail, addressing it "To Mr. Booker T. Washington White (Old Blues singer), Post Office, Aberdeen, MS". Sure enough it arrived. Couple of weeks later he was back in the recording studio.

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