DIGGING MY POTATOES

Created on 24/12/2005
Latest update on 18/01/2022

Artist: Little Son Joe
Author: Ernest Lawler
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1939

Ernest Lawlers was his birth name. With Memphis Minnie, his future bride. See also Black Rat Swing and In My Girlish Days.

Covers:

1939:

Washboard Sam [for Bluebird]

1940:

Memphis Slim

1940:

Brownie McGhee [as Picking My Potatoes]

1943:

Memphis Minnie & Little Son Joe [crediting herself]

1948:

Lead Belly

1955:

Lonnie Donegan [banned by the BBC]

1955:

Sonny Terry

1957:

Big Bill Broonzy

1964:

Little Walter

1964:

Dave Van Ronk

1965:

Heinz & The Wild Boys [hit UK]

1966:

Ferre Grignard

1967:

Muddy Waters

1978:

Pirates

1981:

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells

1982:

Dana Gillespie

1984:

James Cotton

2001:

Long John Baldry

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