Artist: Robert Johnson
Author: Robert Johnson
Label: Columbia
Year: 1937
Mentioning Mississippi river towns Vicksburg, Friars Point and Rosedale, minutes away from the crossroads used in film Crossroads (Beulah, MS). See also: When You Got A Good Friend. The groove flirts with the one in Rollin' And Tumblin' / Minglewood Blues, just like in If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day from his San Antonio sessions. The lyric line You can squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg, borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson, was too obvious so it couldn't be released at the time.
Covers:
Led Zeppelin [BBC session; the squeeze my lemon lyric line resurfaced in The Lemon Song on Led Zeppelin II ('70)]
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