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:
Black Ivory King [as The Flying Crow, name of a train on the Kansas City Southern line, the version adopted by Robert Johnson]
Robert Johnson [as Love In Vain]
Lead Belly [as I Will See You (When The Sun Goes Down)]
Charles Brown [as In The Evening]
Jimmy Witherspoon [idem]
Big Bill Broonzy [as In The Evenin' When The Sun Goes Down]
Rolling Stones [as Love In Vain; with Ry Cooder on mandoline]
Karen Dalton [as In The Evening (It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best)]
Keb' Mo' [all as Love In Vain]
Roger McGuinn [as In The Evenin' with Pete Seeger]
Eric Clapton [as Love In Vain]
Pretty Things [as Love In Vain]
Van Morrison [as In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down]
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)