Artist: Robert Petway
Author: Robert Petway
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1941
Bluesman from Greenwood, MS. Recorded in Chicago.
Covers:
Tommy McClennan [from nearby Itta Bena, MS as Deep Blue Sea Blues also on Bluebird; knew Robert Petway as a fellow musician and as a fishing pal]
Muddy Waters [as Rollin' Stone, theme and lyrics inspired by Catfish; the song the Stones got their name from (see footnote)]
Muddy Waters [as Still A Fool]
Willie Nix [as Just Can't Stay]
Doctor Ross [as Mississippi Blues (see there) and in '59 as Cat Squirrel]
K.C. Douglas [as Catfish]
B.B. King [as Fishin' After Me]
John Hammond [as Two Trains Running]
Paul Butterfield Blues Band [as Two Trains Running on East-West, crediting Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis]
Blues Project [idem]
Muddy Waters [as She's All Right]
Groundhogs [as Still A Fool]
Bintangs [idem]
Johnny Jenkins [as Rollin' Stone, met Duane Allman]
Mose Allison [as Rollin' Stone]
Mick Jagger & The Red Devils [as Still A Fool]
Corey Harris [and in '03 on cd Mississippi To Mali]
James Cotton [as Two Trains Running; vocal: Joe Louis Walker]
T-Model Ford [as The Old Number]
Johnny Farmer [as I've Been A Fool]
Dave Peabody & Brendan Power [as Two Trains Running; title track cd]
Watermelon Slim [as Two Trains Running]
Zora Young [idem]
George Thorogood [as Two Trains Running (Still A Fool)]
Heritage Blues Orchestra [crediting Muddy]
Kenny Wayne Shepherd [as Still A Fool]
Joe Louis Walker [as Two Trains Running]
Boogie Beasts [as Still A Fool]
Rolling Stones [as Rolling Stone Blues]
Muddy Waters' Rollin' Stone was not the first song with that title; in 1928 Robert Wilkins recorded an earlier one for Victor. Ironically that's the same bluesman the Rolling Stones got their Prodigal Son from. See: That's No Way To Get Along.
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)