Goin 'down slow

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Goin 'down slow
St. Louis Jimmy Oden
publication 1941
length 3:10
Genre (s) blues
Author (s) St. Louis Jimmy Oden
Label Bluebird Records
Cover versions
1961 Howlin 'wolf
1974 Bobby Bland

Goin 'Down Slow (also Going Down Slow ) is a blues track released in 1941 by St. Louis Jimmy Oden on the Bluebird Records label (No. 8889B). The piece is considered the blues standard and is considered one of the most famous blues songs.

Original version

The piece is in a 12-bar standard blues scheme and is played in 4/4 time in the key of B. St. Louis Jimmy Oden recorded the blues on November 11, 1941 in Chicago under the name James B. Oden. Roosevelt Sykes played the piano and Alfred Elkins played the "imitation" bass on the recording . Goin 'Down Slow was Oden's most popular song. He recorded the piece again in 1955 for Parrot Records and 1960 for Bluesville Records label. Goin 'Down Slow lyrics describe a person's suffering.

Howlin 'Wolf's version

Howlin 'Wolf recorded the track in 1961 for the Chess Records label . Wolf as singer and guitarist recorded a Chicago blues version of the piece with the accompaniment of Henry Gray (piano), Hubert Sumlin and Jimmy Rogers (guitar), Willie Dixon (bass) and Sam Lay (drums). Dixon provided a narrative text for the recording to accompany Wolf's singing.

In 1962 the piece was published again on the compilation album Howlin 'Wolf aka Rocking Chair Album . In 1970 Wolf recorded the song again with Eric Clapton (guitar), Klaus Voormann (bass), Ringo Starr (drums) and Jeffery Carp (harmonica) during The London Howlin 'Wolf Sessions .

More cover versions

Bobby Bland's 1974 rendition of the song peaked at number 17 on the Billboard R&B chart and number 69 on the pop charts. Eric Clapton released four versions of the piece, which he transposed to the key of A: 1996 on Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies , 1998 on Pilgrim , and a live version on DVD In Concert: A Benefit for the Crossroads Center at Antigua in 1999 and another live rendition, recorded at the Staples Center , appeared on One More Car, One More Rider and Forever Man in 2002 . Other cover versions are from:

Honor

In 2002 the piece was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in the Classics of Blues Recordings (Songs) category.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recorded on November 11, 1941 as the B-side of the 78 “Monkey Face Blues”, cf. BLUEBIRD numerical listings 8500 - 9042
  2. ^ A b Gerard Herzhaft: Encyclopedia of the Blues (1992), University of Arkansas Press, page 449, ISBN 1-55728-252-8
  3. ^ Jacques Demetre: The Prewar Blues Story (1994), Best of Blues Records, page 25
  4. ↑ The Blues (1995), Hal Leonard Corporation, pp. 90–90 , ISBN 0-7935-5259-1
  5. ^ Keith Shadwick: The Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues (2001), Oceana, p. 368, ISBN 978-0-681-08644-9
  6. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top R&B Singles 1942–1988 (1988), Record Research, p. 46, ISBN 0-89820-068-7