PEA VINE BLUES

Created on 29/04/2022
Latest update on 04/06/2022

Artist: Charley Patton
Author: Charley Patton
Label: Paramount
Year: 1929

About a railroad line in the South no longer functioning. There were at least two Pea Vine lines, one in central Tennessee east of Jackson, in business until 1936 and one in Mississippi, right in the middle of the Delta, looping dayly between Cleveland and the Dockery Farm where Charley Patton grew up.

Covers:

1944:

Sonny Boy Williamson

1949:

Big Joe Williams

1959:

John Lee Hooker [as Pea Vine Special]

1971:

John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat [as Peavine]

1980:

Mississippi Fred McDowell [als Pea Vine Special]

1995:

Rory Block

1998:

Joanna Connor

2022:

Charlie Musselwhite [on lp Mississippi Son]

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