Atlanta Blues; Georgia (Half on My Mind)

My last chance to hear the blues in the USA? I hope not.

I was recently in transit in Atlanta, thinking about some of the famous singers from Georgia: Blind Willie McTell, Peg Leg Howell, Ray Charles, Gladys Knight, Brenda Lee, Riley Puckett, Otis Redding, Little Richard, Georgia Peach (Sister Clara Hudmon), Georgia White, Georgia Tom/Thomas Dorsey.

Listening to Willie McTell,

Whilst watching for a change of gate:

Delta flight from Atlanta, Georgia.

This terminal - how come it seems so soulless?

Georgia Blues: Blind Willie McTell (documentary)

Searching the Desert for the Blues

Southern Can Is Mine

Statesboro Blues

Motherless Children Have a Hard Time

Ray Charles, Georgia On My Mind

Otis Redding, Sitting on the Dock of the Day

Little Richard, Get Rich Quick

Brenda Lee, Georgia On  My Mind

Riley Puckett, Ida Red

Riley Puckett, Chain Gang Blues

Riley Puckett, I wish I was single again

Riley Puckett, Railroad Bill

Peg Leg Howell, Hobo Blues 

Peg Leg Howell, Broke and Hungry Blues

Peg Leg Howell, Moanin' and Groanin' Blues

Peg Leg Howell on right

Big Boy Crudup also had Georgia on his mind:

Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - Goin' Back To Georgia

Recorded March 1952, RCA Victor

Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - If You Have Ever Been to Georgia

Recorded Atlanta, Georgia, April 1954

(Arthur Crudup was from Mississippi, but he spent a few years in Georgia)

Georgia Tom, What's that I smell

Tampa Red and Georgia Tom - It's tight like that

Thomas Dorsey, Peace in the Valley

Georgia Peach, Where the Sun Will Never Go Down

Sister Clara Hudmon (Georgia Peach), Who's That Knocking

Sister Clara Hudman / Now is the needy time

Georgia Peach, Precious Memories

Georgia Peach, Do Lord Send Me

Georgia White, I'll Keep Sittin' On It

Georgia White, Trouble In Mind

Georgia White, The Blues Ain't Nothin' But...

Down the Georgia Line...

Bill Monroe And The Bluegrass Boys Sing "In The Pines