"Statesboro Blues" | |
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Single by Blind Willie McTell | |
A-side | "Three Women Blues" |
Published | June 3, 1929Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc., New York[1] |
Released | January 1929 |
Recorded | October 17, 1928[2] |
Studio | Atlanta, Georgia |
Genre | Piedmont blues |
Length | 2:30 |
Label | Victor Victor 38001 |
Songwriter(s) | Willie McTell |
Official audio | |
"Statesboro Blues" (Remastered 2002) on YouTube |
"Statesboro Blues" is a Piedmont blues song written by Blind Willie McTell, who recorded it in 1928. The title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia. In 1968, Taj Mahal recorded a popular blues rock adaptation of the song with a prominent slide guitar part by Jesse Ed Davis. 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".[3] In 2005, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ranked "Statesboro Blues" number 57 on its list of "100 Songs of the South".[4]