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| Track | Artist | Title | Composer | Rating |
| A | Robert Johnson | Stones In My Passway | Robert Johnson | Rate |
| B | Robert Johnson | I'm A Steady Rollin' Man | Robert Johnson | Rate |
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Blues Singing with Guitar Accompaniment.
Recorded on June 19, 1937 in Dallas, Texas.
Also issued on Perfect 7-12-67 (300 copies) in December 1937.
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| BigBadBluesMan 30th Jul 2021 | ||
| BigBadBluesMan 18th Feb 2015 | ||
| fixbutte 7th Aug 2014 | Looking further, I found another Dylan connection. Very familiar with the lines, "I have a bird to whistle / I have a bird to sing" of "Stones In My Passway", I was sure I had heard them before, and soon I also remembered where. Surprisingly, it was Dylan himself who added them to his folk rendition of "Corrina, Corrina", credited "[Trad] adapted and arranged B. Dylan" on the Freewheelin' album, and it seems that he borrowed parts of the melody of "Stones In My Passway", too, see Cover Songs: "Corrina Corrine" (also known as "Corrina Corrina") is a black American folksong that was often played by Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, Sleepy John Estes and others. However, Dylan's version is more than just an "arrangement," the melody and whole mood of the song being totally different - from a happy-go-lucky jug band song, it becomes a wistful evocation of the memory of a woman. The verse beginning: "I have a bird to whistle" is actually adapted from Robert Johnson's "Stones in My Passway." and Wikipedia: "Corrine, Corrina" entered the folk-like acoustical tradition during the American folk music revival of the 1960s when Bob Dylan began playing a version he titled "Corrina, Corrina". Although his blues based version contains lyrics and song structure from Corrine Corrina, his melody is lifted from "Stones in My Passway" (Vocalion 3723) recorded by Robert Johnson in 1937. Dylan's version also borrows lyrics taken from Johnson's song ... | |
| fixbutte 7th Aug 2014 | This was Robert Johnson's ninth original Vocalion single, with both sides recorded on the first day of the Dallas session. "Stones In My Passway" goes back to the guitar arrangement of his previous year's hit, "Terraplane Blues", but with a much darker imagery. It begins with the lines, "I got stones in my passway / and all my roads seem dark at night", which Samuel B. Charters found so impressive that he placed them in front of the Robert Johnson chapter in his book, The Country Blues, in 1959, and "Stones In My Passway" was also incorporated in the King of the Delta Blues Singers compilation LP two years later. The lesser haunting "I'm A Steady Rollin' Man", with a continuous rhythm of the guitar, is shaped in the style of Peetie Wheatstraw, including an unusual self-description of the singer as a "hard workin' man". | |
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