WHEN YOU GET HOME, WRITE ME A FEW LITTLE LINES
Created on 10/05/2004Latest update on 21/10/2024
Artist: Fred McDowell
Author: Fred McDowell
Label: Atlantic
Year: 1960
Home recording in Como, MS by Alan Lomax and released on LP The Blues Roll On, in '93 reissued on Rounder box set Sounds Of The South.
Covers:
- 1973:
Bonnie Raitt [who came to live in Como for a while when she was mear 18; just to meet Fred McDowell and learn from him]
- 1995:
Corey Harris [as Write Me A Few Lines]
- 1999:
Eric Sardinas [idem]
- 2011:
Rory Block [as Write Me A Few Of Your Lines]
- 2011:
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Other originals by artist:
- 1964
- KOKOMO BLUES
Covers from artist:
- 1959
- JESUS ON THE MAIN LINE
- 1959
- SHAKE 'EM ON DOWN
- 1959
- WISHED I WAS IN HEAVEN SITTING DOWN
- 1959
- WHEN THE TRAIN COMES ALONG
- 1962
- SOMEDAY BABY BLUES
- 1964
- WHEN THE SAINTS COME MARCHING IN
- 1964
- KOKOMO BLUES
- 1966
- JOHN HENRY BLUES
- 1966
- COUNTRY BLUES
- 1969
- HOW DID YOU FEEL WHEN YOU CAME OUT OF THE WILDERNESS
Some originals by author:
- 1964
- KOKOMO BLUES
- 1969
- BACK BACK TRAIN
