STOP BREAKING DOWN BLUES

Created on 28/11/2001
Latest update on 13/07/2020

Artist: Robert Johnson
Author: Robert Johnson
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1937

Musically related with Lonnie Johnson's No More Troubles Now ('30 - Okeh), You Got To Move by Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy ('34), Buddy Moss' Stop Hanging Around ('35) and Memphis Minnie's Caught Me Wrong Agin ('36). The refrain was already used by Luke Jordan in '27 and Dick Justice in '29.

Covers:

1945:

Sonny Boy Williamson [John Lee]

1954:

Baby Boy Warren

1968:

Junior Wells

1972:

Rolling Stones [as Stop Breaking Down]

1979:

Lucinda Williams

1983:

Nighthawks

1992:

Dim Stars

1992:

Big Sugar

1995:

Jeff Healey

1997:

Steve Forbert

1998:

Peter Green

1999:

White Stripes

2004:

Eric Clapton

2005:

Widespread Panic

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