Charley Patton - Spoonful Blues (Delta Blues 1929)
Charley Patton - Spoonful Blues
A song about cocaine
It has been suggested by some kind sirs in the comments that maybe Charley was head of some clandestine tea drinking coven. There are some that say Shakespeare never wrote those plays but they were written by Elizabeth 1 while she was waiting for some blind beggar to be beheaded for stealing an apple from her orchard.
Charlie Patton born Mississippi, April 1891 was an experienced performer of songs before he was twenty years old and was first recorded (Thankfully) in 1929. His influence is everywhere and was arguably the first of the greats. An influence on Son House, Tommy Johnson, Bukka White and without doubt Howlin’ Wolf. We have to thank archivists, the likes of Harry Smith, that we can hear these inimitable songs today.
Spoonful Blues
(spoken: I’m about to go to jail about this spoonful)
In all a spoon’, ’bout that spoon’
The women goin’ crazy, every day in their life ’bout a...