| "Come On in My Kitchen" | |
|---|---|
 Original 78 record label | |
| Single by Robert Johnson | |
| Released | July 1937 |
| Recorded | November 23, 1936 |
| Studio | Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas |
| Genre | Blues |
| Length | 2:35 |
| Label | Vocalion |
| Songwriter(s) | Robert Johnson |
| Producer(s) | Don Law |
"Come On in My Kitchen" is a blues song by Robert Johnson. Music writer Elijah Wald has described it as "a hypnotic lament" and "his first unquestionable masterpiece".[1]
A sometime traveling companion and fellow musician, Johnny Shines, recalled that Johnson's performance of the song could be overpowering:
One time in St. Louis we were playing one of the songs that Robert would like to play with someone once in a great while, "Come On In My Kitchen". He was playing very slow and passionately, and when we had quit, I noticed no one was saying anything. Then I realised they were crying – both women and men.[2]
- ^ Wald, Elijah (2004). Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. Amistad. ISBN 978-0-06-052427-2. p. 142.
- ^ Olbrect, Jas (ed). (1993). Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made the Music. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. Quoted in Wald (2004) p. 119.