Artist: Charlie McCoy & Bo Carter
Author: Armenter Chatmon/J. Mayo Williams
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1928
Also with Bo's older brother Lonnie Chatmon on violin. Bo's real name: Armenter Chatmon (see: All Around Man) wrote only the words; the melody is older. Barbecue Bob used this same tune in his How Long Pretty Mama ('27).
Covers:
Jackson Blue Boys [as Sweet Alberta; same song, almost same personnel: Bo Carter, Charlie McCoy and Walter Vincson]
Mississippi Sheiks [as Alberta Blues; vocal: Lonnie Chatmon, brother of Bo; see also under Alberta]
Charlie McCoy & Bo Carter [as The Northern Starvers Are Returning Home]
Johnny Carroll [Texas rockabilly]
Ray Peterson [production: Phil Spector]
Bob Dylan [as Corrina Corrina; free interpretation (melody & lyrics); he could have easily copyrighted it, apart from one verse out of Robert Johnson's Stones In My Passway ("I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings")]
Rising Sons [with Taj Mahal]
Taj Mahal [outtake Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus]
Joni Mitchell [as A Bird That Whistles]
Asleep At The Wheel [and in 2009 along with Willie Nelson (Willie & The Wheel)]
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)