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:
Bukka White [John Fahey and Ed Denson recording]
Snakes [as Aberdeen]
Kenny Wayne Shepherd [as Aberdeen]
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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