Robert Johnson-Kindhearted Woman Blues

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From Wikipedia. "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" is a blues song recorded on November 23, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. The song was originally released on 78 rpm format as Vocalion 03416 and ARC 7-03-56. Johnson performed the song in the key of A, and recorded two takes, the first of which contains his only recorded guitar solo. Both takes were used for different pressings of both the Vocalion issue and the ARC issue.The first take (SA-2580-1) can be found on many compilation albums, including the first one, King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961). Take 2 (SA-2580-2) can be heard on the later compilation Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings (1990). This was the first song that Johnson recorded, and it was carefully crafted in imitation of recent hit records. It was composed as if in answer to Cruel Hearted Woman Blues by Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton), which in turn was based on Mean Mistreater Mama by Leroy Carr accompanied by Scrapper Blackwell. Johnson uses the Carr melody and conveys something of Carr's style in his relaxed singing. His guitar accompaniment echoes Carr's piano phrases in the first verse, then copies Blackwell's guitar phrases in the second verse. He then adds a musical bridge in the style of another hit record, Milk Cow Blues by Kokomo Arnold. At the end of the bridge, he jumps into a higher register as Arnold does, but then maintains an extraordinary controlled falsetto, which may have been based on the singing of Joe Pullum. Thus Johnson showed in his very first recording that he had mastered the commercially successful urban blues style of the Thirties. However, his debut cannot be dismissed as derivative. He combined elements of the styles of others into a highly individual style of his own. Like Bumble Bee Slim, Johnson wrote lyrics consisting mostly of conventional twelve-bar three-line verses, but varied with an eight-bar bridge. Like many of Johnson's songs, "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" is a staple in many blues musicians' repertoires and has been recorded by dozens of traditional and contemporary blues figures, including Muddy Waters, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Johnny Winter, George Thorogood, and Keb' Mo'. It was included on Eric Clapton's 2004 album, Me and Mr. Johnson, along with many other Johnson classics. On Led Zeppelin's cover of Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues", singer Robert Plant quotes this song with the line "Got a kind-hearted woman/she studies evil all the time". Lyrics : I got a kindhearted woman do anything in this world for me I got a kindhearted woman do anything in this world for me But these evil hearted women, man they will not let me be I love my baby my baby don't love me I love my baby, oooohhh my baby don't love me But I really love that woman, can't stand to leave her be Ain't but one thing makes Mr Johnson drink Its worried bout how you treat me baby I begin to think Oh my babe, my life don't feel the same You breaks my heart, When you call me Mr So and So's name She's a kindhearted woman she studies evil all the time She's a kindhearted woman she studies evil all the time You wells to kill me as to have it on your mind.

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