Terraplane Blues

Robert Johnson · 1936 · Blues à l'automobile, enregistré à San Antonio

Context

Recorded in San Antonio on 23 November 1936 and reissued on King of the Delta Blues Singers (Columbia, 1961). Johnson extends the metaphor of the Terraplane automobile.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Blues, spirituals, work songs.

By the same artist

• Cross Road Blues (1936)
• They're Red Hot (1936)
• Come On in My Kitchen (Robert Johnson) (1936)
• Kind Hearted Woman Blues (1936)
• Me and the Devil Blues (1937)
• Hellhound on My Trail (Robert Johnson) (1937)

Sources

• EN: King of the Delta Blues Singers

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