Pony blues
| Pony blues | |
|---|---|
| Charley Patton | |
| publication | 1929 |
| length | 2:58 |
| Genre (s) | Delta blues |
| Author (s) | Charley Patton |
| Label | Paramount Records |
Pony Blues (often also The Pony Blues ) is a Blue song of the American Delta blues guitarist Sängers- and Charley Patton , the this at 1929 Paramount Records recorded. Patton had previously been placed by the talent scout HC Speir . These recordings took place on June 14, 1929. When Patton wrote the piece is unclear, as he had been a traveling musician for years at the beginning of his musical career and a lot of material was later created on the road . When Charley Patton finally made recordings for the first time in 1929, they consisted of songs that Patton had written years before and played in front of an audience.
Pony Blues became a recognition piece not only for Patton himself (some of today's blues historians speak of his magnum opus ), but also for his colleague and friend Son House . House very often played a version of the piece that he had rearranged in concerts and smaller appearances and recorded his version (he always performed the work as The Pony Blues ) with differences at least three times.
Other musicians also tried the piece. In addition to Son House coverten and Canned Heat , Big Joe Williams and 2010, the jazz blues singer Cassandra Wilson song. Patton's original version, however, was inducted into the Grammy Awards Hall of Fame .