DROP DOWN MAMA

Created on 20/01/2004
Latest update on 29/11/2023

Artist: Sleepy John Estes
Author: John Estes
Label: Champion
Year: 1935

Covers:

1948:

Honeyboy Edwards

1951:

Big Joe Williams [in Mama Don't Allow on Trumpet]

1959:

Mississippi Fred McDowell [for Alan Lomax]

1963:

Geoff Muldaur

1964:

John Hammond Jr.

1970:

Tom Rush

1970:

David Crosby [as Oh Yes I Can]

1974:

Alicia Stewart [as Drop Down Daddy]

1978:

Lonnie Donegan

1979:

Lucinda Williams [as Drop Down Daddy]

1986:

Spencer Bohren

1995:

Ministers Of Sinister

1997:

Tony McPhee

2000:

North Mississippi Allstars [following Fred McDowell]

2001:

Blues Band

2004:

Guy Davis

2007:

Dion

2009:

George Thorogood

On top of that, Led Zeppelin clearly borrowed lyric-lines in Custard Pie along with lines from Blind Boy Fuller's I Want Some Of Your Pie and Bukka White's Shake Em On Down.

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