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[Dekalb_Blues]

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Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.
--- Tom Verlaine



The S-S Band covers Willie Dixon's (d. 1992) song from the early '60s, written for (and first recorded in 1964 by) 
Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett (d. 1976):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF6URTNjCF4


"Mississippi" Fred Macdowell (d. 1972) covers Scrapper Blackwell's (d. 1962) song (recorded 1928):
https://www.knkx.org/post/kokomo-blues-a...me-chicago


Well, it's Kokomo me, baby
Kokomo me right
Kokomo yo' daddy
I'll be back tomorrow night
Tryin' to hide --
Baby, don't you wanna go?
Down to that 'leven-light city
Sweet old Ko-kee-mo

[repeat]

Well, I ain't never loved weak
Hope I never will
This-a-way you got lovin'
Gwine t' git somebody killed
Tryin' to hide --
Baby, don't you wanna go?
Down to that 'leven-light city
Sweet old Ko-kee-mo

Well, one and one is two
Three and more make six
Keep mesmerizin', yo' gwine t' get somebody switched*
Tryin' to hide --
Baby, don't you wanna go?
Down to that 'leven-light city
Sweet old Ko--

*I.e., switchbladed

 Bonnie Raitt (who was mentored by Fred McDowell)...




...covers a song from 1968 by the late Mose Allison (d. 2016):

"Allison helped open the 'blues' racial divide, proving that a white man from rural Mississippi could hold his own in a traditionally 
black genre. The effort proved difficult, which he described in the lyrics of 'Ever Since I Stole the Blues,' one of his most famous 
songs: 
'Well the blues police from down in Dixieland / Tried to catch me with the goods on hand / Ever since the white boy stole the blues.'"




Bonnie covers a song of Chris Smither's (which he recorded in 1971):






 John Hurt

Josh Turner covers "Mississippi" John Hurt's (d. 1966) song (recorded 1928):