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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: John Lee Hooker
Author: John Lee Hooker
Label: Riverside
Year: 1959
One year later as Tuplo for Vee-Jay.
Covers:
Capt. Beefheart [as Tupelo]
Bob Dylan & The Band [Basement tape]
Albert King, Steve Cropper & Pops Staples [as Tupelo Part 1]
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds [as Tupelo]
Nick Cave following Stax trio King-Cropper-Staples but turning it into something new without altering the basic idea: the flooding of Tupelo, MS around the time Elvis Presley was born. Cave's version situates both events on the very same day. It wasn't a deluge but a tornado to begin with, hard hitting Tupelo and Gainesville with a death toll of over 200. This same deadly tornado was subject of Elton Britt's 1936 Tornado.
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)