WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN

Created on 28/10/2001
Latest update on 03/03/2023

Artist: Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
Author: Leroy Carr
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1935

Carr on piano and Blackwell on guitar (see also: Kokomo Blues). Already popular in Jackson, MS in the late twenties.

Covers:

1935:

Josh White

1935:

Bumble Bee Slim

1935:

Memphis Minnie

1937:

Black Ivory King [as The Flying Crow, name of a train on the Kansas City Southern line, the version adopted by Robert Johnson]

1938:

Robert Johnson [as Love In Vain]

1942:

Libby Holman & Josh White

1948:

Lead Belly [as I Will See You (When The Sun Goes Down)]

1949:

Charles Brown [as In The Evening]

1949:

Jimmy Witherspoon [idem]

1957:

Big Bill Broonzy [as In The Evenin' When The Sun Goes Down]

1962:

Pete Seeger

1963:

Ella Fitzgerald

1969:

Rolling Stones [as Love In Vain; with Ry Cooder on mandoline]

1969:

Karen Dalton [as In The Evening (It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best)]

1970:

Livin' Blues

1978:

Big Joe Williams

1991:

Walter Trout

1992:

Bob Brozman

1992:

Terry Garland

1992:

Marc Lelangue

1999:

Keb' Mo' [all as Love In Vain]

2001:

Roger McGuinn [as In The Evenin' with Pete Seeger]

2004:

Eric Clapton [as Love In Vain]

2013:

Gary Clark Jr.

2020:

Pretty Things [as Love In Vain]

2023:

Van Morrison [as In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down]

Contact


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)

info@originals.be

No Facebook No Twitter