AUTOMOBILE BLUES

Created on 29/11/2005
Latest update on 17/08/2020

Artist: Lightnin' Hopkins
Author: Sam Hopkins
Label: Gold Star
Year: 1949

Version on guitar (as Automobile), version on organ (as Automobile Blues). In '53 also for Jax.

Covers:

1960:

Lightnin' Hopkins [as Brand New Automobile Blues on Prestige]

1983:

Roland [as Brand New Automobile]

1994:

Townes Van Zandt

1998:

Bryan Lee

2017:

Van Morrison

2018:

Robben Ford

Bob Dylan's Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat from Blonde On Blonde is lyrically influenced by both Automobile Blues and Me And My Chauffeur Blues (see there).

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