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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Mississippi Sheiks
Author: Walter Vinson
Label: Okeh
Year: 1930
Most popular Delta string band of the early thirties. Consisted of the entire Chatmon family (Sam, Bo, Lonnie, Edgar, Willie, Lamar, Laurie, Harry, Charlie) and their adopted brother Walter Jacobs (not to be confused with Little Walter). Their name came from the hit The Sheik (see there). Melody for the most part borrowed from Tampa Red's instrumental You Got To Reap What You Saw (1929), which he cut two years later in a vocal version as Things 'Bout Coming My Way.
Covers:
Memphis Minnie [melody in You Dirty Mistreater]
Clarence Williams' Jug Band [with Lonnie Johnson; jazz version]
Charley Patton [as Some Summer Day with Willie Brown]
Sam Collins [as I'm Still Sitting On Top Of The World]
Tampa Red [as Things 'Bout Coming My Way]
Big Bill Broonzy [melody in Worrying You Off My Mind and three years later as The Sun Gonna Shine On My Backdoor Someday]
Milton Brown [western swing version]
Jimmy Oden [as Six Feet In The Ground]
Kokomo Arnold [as Things 'Bout Coming My Way]
Shelton Brothers [as I'm Sitting On Top Of The World]
Robert Johnson [as Come On In My Kitchen]
Blind Boy Fuller [with Sonny Terry as Mistreater You're Gonna Be Sorry]
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee [as No Need Of Running]
Victoria Spivey [with Big Joe Williams & Bob Dylan]
Bob Dylan [as Pledging My Time]
Delaney & Bonnie [with Leon Russell and Duane Allman as Come On In My Kitchen]
Steve Miller Band [as Come On In My Kitchen]
Allman Brothers Band [as Come On In My Kitchen]
Bob Dylan [just as Sitting On Top Of The World]
Keb' Mo' [as Come On In My Kitchen]
Alvin Youngblood Hart [as Things About Coming My Way]
Chris Thomas King [as Come On In My Kitchen]
Otha Turner & The Afrosippi Allstars [as Station Blues]
Josh White Jr. [as Come On In My Kitchen]
Gare du Nord [lounge hit as Pablo's Blues with lines from Come On In My Kitchen]
Chris Farlowe [with Van Morrison]
Corey Harris [with Otha Turner's Rising Star Fife & Drum Band conducted by his granddaughter Shardé]
Eric Clapton [as Come On In My Kitchen]
James Blood Ulmer [in film Lightning In A Bottle]
Rory Block [idem]
Ndidi Onukwulu [as Things About Comin' My Way on eponymous Mississippi Sheiks tribute cd]
Leon Russell [as Come On In My Kitchen]
Blues Traveler [with Warren Haynes]
Walter Vinson wrote it in the wake of a well payed white gig in Greenwood, MS. The first time they played it was for a black audience in Itta Bena, MS. Vinson knew right away he had a hit on hand when he collected the money: $19 was a huge amount, higher than the white wage the day before.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)