Hillbilly Blues: Two witty songs from the early 1930s; proto-Rockabilly!

For fun! My simple guitar-strumming takes on two witty songs: "Long Tall Mama Blues" (from 1932) and "Deep Elem Blues" ("Deep Ellum Blues"), first recorded under another title in 1927; it became a popular song in the 1930's,

I made the video this morning. I tried to find some old photos I hadn't used before.

The two songs were recorded at Nikos Vrachliotis' Studio Echo in Potamos, Corfu, on May 17th, 2005, engineered by Andreas Monopolis.


The Georgia Black Bottom Blues (1927)


The history of Deep Ellum Blues


The history of "Long Tall Mamma Blues"


Recorded 86 years ago, on 15 August, 1932.

Jimmie Rodgers died on 26 May, 1933