THREE BALL BLUES (PAWN SHOP BLUES)

Created on 21/02/2022
Latest update on 18/03/2023

Artist: Blind Boy Fuller
Author: Fulton Allen/J.B. Long
Label: Okeh
Year: 1940

With Sonny Terry. I asked that pawnshop man: What those three balls doing hanging on that wall? Said: It's two to one, buddy, you don't get your things back out of here at all.

Covers:

1946:

Brownie McGhee [as Pawnshop Blues]

1960:

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee [idem]

1997:

Spirit [idem]

2006:

Cephas & Wiggins

2022:

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder [as Pawn Shop Blues]

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