Got Them Blues
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 09/08/2020

Day 146 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series

This is another of the many songs first published in 1927 by Sandburg...and which no extant recording exists, by anyone (at least that I can find).

Sandburg writes: "The very essence of the majority of blues," wrote Abbe Niles, "is found in the traditional line...."Got de blues, but too dam' mean to cry.'" . . . One of the earliest blues is presented here, as heard, recorded, and harmonized by Henry Francis Parks, composer, music critic, theater console player, author of the book, "Jazzology of the Pipe Organ." It was moaned by resonant moaners in honky-tonks of the southwest.