SUGAR MAMA BLUES N°1

Created on 30/04/2022
Latest update on 22/04/2024

Artist: Tampa Red
Author: Hudson Whittaker
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1934

Yank Rachell's Sugar Farm Blues, cut that same year, has too much it's own tune and words. The three year older Sugar Man Blues by Bessie Smith (under alias St. Louis Bessie for Vocalion) floats between this title and Memphis Minnie's risqué Bumble Bee (see there).

Covers:

1937:

Sonny Boy Williamson [at his first session for Bluebird with Good Morning School Girl on the flip side and with Robert Nighthawk on influential harp solo; he cut a Sugar Mama Blues N°2 later that year]

1938:

Peetie Wheatstraw [as Sugar Man; he played piano on Bessie Smith's Sugar Man Blues in '30]

1941:

Tommy McClennan [as New Sugar Mama Blues]

1948:

Lightnin' Hopkins [as Sugar Mama]

1952:

John Lee Hooker [idem; who also covered Memphis Minnie's Bumble Bee (see there)]

1955:

Lightnin' Slim [as Sugar Plum voor Excello]

1959:

B.B. King [as Sugar Mama]

1960:

Doctor Ross [idem]

1961:

Big Joe Williams [as Sugar Baby]

1964:

Howlin' Wolf [as My Country Sugar Mama; a live version as Sugar Mama that same year]

1968:

Led Zeppelin [as Sugar Mama; saved-up for deluxe edition Coda in '15]

1968:

Cuby & The Blizzards [idem; live]

1968:

John Hammond [idem and in '79 with The Nighthawks]

1969:

Fleetwood Mac [with Otis Spann]

1969:

Taste

1969:

Big Walter Horton

1976:

Hammie Nixon

1978:

Nighthawks [als Thank You Sugar Mama]

1981:

Nine Below Zero

1992:

Cedell Davis

1994:

Mike Morgan & Jim Suhler [as Where'd You Get Your Sugar From]

1996:

Spirit

1999:

Mike Henderson & The Bluebloods [as My Country Sugar Mama]

1999:

Paul Lamb

2003:

Doyle Bramhall

2008:

Billy Boy Arnold

2008:

Joe Louis Walker

2012:

Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore

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