Anyway, I lifted several cuts off various CDs of the new 5-CD collection I acquired which are nothing *but* pre-war blues, constituting over 125 songs from as many different artists.
You'll know 'em when ya hear 'em if you haven't already, trust me.
Point is, do you know much about the song, Statesboro Blues?
Lemme quote what it says about that song -- which appears on one of the CDs -- by the *original* artist, OK?
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Statesboro Blues
(Willie McTell) 2:32
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell, vocal, guitar.
Recoreded Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia, October 17, 1928
Original issue Victor 38001/BVE-47187-3
Bob Dylan had it right when he sang, "No one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell." The Youngbloods and Taj Mahal covered this piece in 1967, and the Allman Bothers made it into a stadium rock standard four years later, but this is the original...more or less. McTell once said that he often "jumped" his songs from the work of others, and Statesboro Blues comes in part from Sippie Wallace's Up The Country Blues. McTell, who died in 1959, would have made a good living on the folk circuit had he lived another few years: his last recordings show that his nimbleness on the then-popular 12-string guitar was undimmed. Had he lived into the Seventies, Statesboro Blues would have made him fabulously rich, and had he survived the Ninities, he might have played at Blind Willie's in Atlanta.
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I'll include the *original* Statesboro Blues by Blind Willie McTell on a future EMA volume.
...just for you. ;^)
I can't wait...that's really interesting about the song's history. I just happened to pop in that Live ABB VHS you'd recommended a few years back and I liked the way they did this song so much I knew I hadta FReep it. I'm heading to Myrtle Beach fer 3 days of golf in a coupla hours, and I'll see if I can't find some free time to FReep some of yer EMA songs while I'm gone.
I'll be back sometime Saturday evening.
FReegards...MUD