I'VE GROWN SO UGLY

Created on 15/06/2004
Latest update on 23/09/2024

Artist: Robert Pete Williams
Author: Robert Williams
Label: Bluesville
Year: 1960

Passionate Louisiana blues singer, recorded by Dr. Harry Oster. Wrote this after 6 years of incarceration in the Louisiana State Prison for murder. On his LP Free Again. Joe Boyd in And The Roots Of Rhythm Remain (Faber - '24) holds Robert Pete as probably an even rawer equivalent of West African blues roots than John Lee Hooker.

Covers:

1967:

Capt. Beefheart [as Grown So Ugly with Ry Cooder]

2004:

Black Keys [idem]

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