Bessie Smith had a hit with this song before Eric Clapton was born.
Eric always respected the early Blues Artists that invented the genre, and always did a nice job paying tribute to them! :-)
I am glad you liked it.
:-)
Bob Wills used to ride his daddy’s mule long ways through the Texas brush to go see Bessie Smith - he paid tribute to the Blues well enough too. He learned to love it from the shareholders picking cotton on the family farm