Rural Burnside

l'un des derniers grand détenteurs du proto-blues, dont les rythmiques hypnothiques et le chant incantatoire, très proches de celles de Mississipi Fred Mac Dowel, rapellent la proximité entre noirs déportés et indiens d'amérique.

"Poor Black Mattie"
Version en groupeParoles:
Poor Black Mattie ain't got a change in clothes, girl got drunk, close that door
Poor Black Mattie, ain't got change o' clothes, girl got drunk, throwed her clothes outdoors
Poor Black Mattie…

Goin' to Memphis, see the World's Fair, reason I'm goin', baby there
Goin' to Memphis, see the World's Fair, reason I'm goin', know my baby there

Need no heater fireplace by my bed, women I got cherry red
Need no heater fireplace by my bed, woman I got keeps me cherry red


"jumper on the line"
Autre version

Paroles:
See my jumper on, hangin' out on the line
Know by that, something on my mind
I wouldn't be here, baby, if it hadn't been for you

Way down here, way you wanna do
Fix my supper, baby, let me go to bed
Guess white lightnin' done gone to my head
Guess white lightnin' done gone to my head

When my first wife left me