BLACK RAT SWING

Created on 06/12/2021
Latest update on 03/01/2023

Artist: Little Son Joe
Author: Ernest Lawler
Label: Okeh
Year: 1943

Alias author Lawlers; vocal: his wife Memphis Minnie, who got credits for the B-side Looking The World Over. See also: Digging My Potatoes and In My Girlish Days.

Covers:

1953:

Lightnin' Hopkins [as Black Cat; not to be confused with the Black Cat Swing Memphis Minnie cut for Vocalion in '36]

1966:

Big Mama Thornton [as Black Rat]

1979:

Dave Kelly

2002:

Precious Bryant

2007:

Koko Taylor [as Black Rat]

Contact


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