BLACK WOMAN
Created on 18/12/2000Latest update on 09/11/2023
Artist: B.B & group
Author: traditional
Label: Traditional/Rounder
Year: 1948
"I don't want no jet black woman". Alan Lomax recording in Parchman Prison Farm, MS, first released in '57 on lp Negro Prison Songs and reissued on cd Prison Songs Vol. 1 - Murderer's Home. B.B.'s real name was Dan Barnes.
Covers:
- 1951:
Lightnin' Hopkins [as Bald Headed Woman, crediting Robert Ellen (alias Robert Shad)]
- 1959:
Odetta [as Bald Headed Woman]
- 1964:
Kinks [idem]
- 1965:
Hep Stars [idem; pre ABBA]
- 1965:
Who [idem]
- 1966:
Jay-Jays [idem]
- 1995:
Big Sugar [as Sugar In My Coffee]
- 2014:
Shown James & The Shapeshifters [as Jet Black Woman]
On the Odetta lp containing Bald Headed Woman (My Eyes Have Seen - Vanguard), there's a second song The Kinks covered: I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain, a traditional gospel in the first place.
