The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - I'D RATHER DRINK MUDDY WATER

Artist: Jimmie Gordon
Author: Eddie Miller
Label: Decca
Year: 1936

"I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log" was a line from Jimmie Rodgers' Blue Yodel #1 ('27).

Covers:

1937:: Eddie Miller [author for Melotone; blues piano version; later one with singer Willie Mae McKenzie]
1937:: Bumble Bee Slim [as Bumble Bee's Muddy Water]
1940:: Cats & The Fiddle
1949:: Stick McGhee [in Blues Mixture]
1962:: Jay McShann
1962:: Jimmy Witherspoon
1963:: Lou Rawls
1965:: B.B. King
1965:: Aretha Franklin [wrong credits]
1968:: Johnny Taylor
1969:: Steve Cropper
1970:: Cannonball Adderley
1982:: Little Milton
1993:: Jimmy Smith
1995:: Magic Slim & The Teardrops [crediting Little Milton]
2000:: Duke Robillard
2000:: Artimus Pyle

I'D RATHER DRINK MUDDY WATER