![]() ![]() They did 'Statesboro Blues,' and Davis played slide on it. ![]() ![]() Īccording to Pete Carr, who was a member of Hour Glass with brothers Duane and Gregg Allman, a performance by Mahal made a big impression on Duane: "We went to see Taj Mahal, and he had Jesse Ed Davis with him. Taj Mahal's arrangement is credited with inspiring the Allman Brothers Band. His 1967 rendition reached a wide audience by being included on the best-selling Columbia/CBS sampler album The Rock Machine Turns You On. He had recorded the song earlier as a member of the group Rising Sons in 1965 or 1966 however, it was not released until 1992. In 1967, Taj Mahal recorded a "wonderful modernized version" of "Statesboro Blues" for his eponymous 1968 debut album. It is included on several compilations of McTell's recordings. In 2016, the song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry due to its "cultural, historic, or artistic significance". In the case of "Statesboro Blues," Richard Blaustein attempted a structural analysis of McTell's song in an approach influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss it is unclear whether his results are applicable to other blues songs. Later versions, such as the one by the Allman Brothers Band, have shorter, simplified lyrics.Īs with many blues lyrics, it can be difficult to establish a definitive narrative order for the stanzas. Throughout the non-linear narrative, the "Statesboro blues" are invoked-an unexplained condition from which the speaker and his entire family seem to be suffering ("I woke up this morning / Had them Statesboro blues / I looked over in the corner: grandma and grandpa had 'em too"). Throughout the song, the woman, addressed as "mama," is alternately pleaded with (to go with the speaker "up the country") and threatened ("When I leave this time, pretty mama, I'm going away to stay"). The lyrics, a first-person narrative, appear to relate the story of a man pleading with a woman to let him in her house the speaker calls himself "Papa McTell" in the first stanza ("Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door?"). The eight sides he recorded for Victor, including "Statesboro Blues", have been described as "superb examples of storytelling in music, coupled with dazzling guitar work." Lyrics Original song Īlthough McTell was born in Thomson, Georgia, in an interview he called Statesboro "my real home." He made the first recording of the song for Victor, on Octo(Victor #38001). In 2005, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ranked "Statesboro Blues" number 57 on its list of "100 Songs of the South". His rendition inspired a recording by the Allman Brothers Band, which is ranked number nine on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". In 1968, Taj Mahal recorded a popular blues rock adaptation of the song with a prominent slide guitar part by Jesse Ed Davis. The title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia. " Statesboro Blues" is a Piedmont blues song written by Blind Willie McTell, who recorded it in 1928. "Statesboro Blues" (Remastered 2002) on YouTube June 3, 1929 ( ) Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc., New York Blues song written by Blind Willie McTell "Statesboro Blues" ![]()
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