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Ζώρζ Πιλαλί with Big Time Sarah - Sweet Home Chicago (Robert Johnson Cover)
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Label: ΟΙ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΡΑΤΕΣ - CDA 001
Format: Cd
Country: Greece
Released: 1994
Tracklist
01. Βαλκανικό Blues
02. Never μουσακά
03. Πολ σίδερο
04. Ragtime Ζορζ
05. Rambling On My Mind
06. Sweet Home Chicago
07. The Sky Is Crying
08. White Room
09. Working Mule
10. Ζορζ Πιλαλί Blues
11. Άμα το λέει η σούφρα σου
12. Βετεράνοι των λεωφορείων
13. Εισαγωγή στα Βαλκάνια
14. Ζούλα
15. Θεοκωμωδία
16. Μπάμπης ο φλου
17. Μυίγα
18. Στο Χάρλεμ
19. Τεκετζής
20. Φωνή εξ ουρανού
21. Χορός α και β
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"Sweet Home Chicago" is a popular blues standard in the twelve bar form.
It was first recorded and is credited to have been written by Robert Johnson.
Over the years the song has become one of the most popular anthems for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics.
The melody was previously used in a number of recorded blues songs, including Honey Dripper Blues, Red Cross Blues and the immediate model for the song: Kokomo Blues.
Elijah Wald suggests that the Indianapolis-based Scrapper Blackwell was the first to introduce a reference to the relatively close Kokomo, Indiana with this AAB verse:
Mmmm, baby don't you want to go
Pack up your little suitcase, Papa's going to Kokomo.
More copied was the version recorded a year earlier in 1927 by Madlyn Davis with the refrain:
And it's hey, hey baby, baby don't you want to go
Back to that eleven light city, back to sweet Kokomo.
In 1932, Jabo Williams recorded Ko Ko Mo Blues with the same refrain and included the counting line
One and two is three, four and five and six.
In 1933, James Arnold laid claim to the song, styling himself Kokomo Arnold and his version as Old Original Kokomo Blues.
In 1959 Arnold told Jacques Demetre that he had composed Kokomo Blues.
The Eleven Light City was, he claimed, the name of a Chicago drugstore where a girlfriend worked, and Koko their brand name of coffee.
Robert Johnson changed the character of the song to one of aspirational migration, replacing back to Kokomo with to Chicago, and replacing that eleven light city with another migrational goal that land of California.
But I'm cryin' hey baby, Honey don't you want to go
Back to the land of California, To my sweet home Chicago.
His guitar accompaniment did not follow Kokomo Arnold's bravura bottleneck guitar, but rather the boogie piano accompaniments by Roosevelt Sykes to the Honey Dripper songs and by Walter Roland to the Red Cross songs.
Johnson recorded the song during his first recording session in November 1936, and it was released on Vocalion Records (Recording Number 03601).
He gives a stirring performance, with a driving guitar rhythm and a high, near-falsetto vocal.
It was a limited release race record, and was not a big-seller.
The song's popularity grew only after Johnson's death in 1938.
As the song grew to be a homage to Chicago, the original lyrics that refer to California were altered in most cover versions.
The line "Back to the land of California" is changed to "Back to the same old place", and the line "I'm going to California" becomes "I'm going back to Chicago".
This altered version dates back to pianist Roosevelt Sykes.
California Avenue is a thoroughfare which runs from the far south to the far north side of Chicago. The original road predates Johnson's recording and may have been the subject of the "land of California" references.
The authorship of the song is a matter of some dispute.
The musical atmosphere of the blues and folk community of the 1930's lent itself to considerable borrowing of music and lyrics back and forth. Reportedly, songs recorded by bluesmen Scrapper Blackwell and Kokomo Arnold bear striking similarity to "Sweet Home Chicago", having been recorded years before.
Leroy Carr's "Baby Don't You Love Me No More" (Scrapper Blackwell played guitar and accompanied Leroy Carr who played the piano) shares the rhythmic approach and the feel of the initial two verses.
As of 2002, the copyright to the song was owned by businessman Stephen LaVere, who in 1973 convinced Johnson's half-sister Carrie Thompson to sign a contract splitting the royalties with LaVere.
The list of artists who have covered the song is immense, including Junior Parker (who had a #13 R&B chart hit in 1958 with the song),
Magic Sam, Buddy Guy,
Earl Hooker,
Honeyboy Edwards,
Freddie King,
Luther Allison,
Johnny Shines,
Keb' Mo' with Corey Hart (singer),
Foghat,
Status Quo,
Johnny Otis,
Fleetwood Mac,
Eric Clapton,
Stevie Ray Vaughan,
The Blues Band,
and The Blues Brothers,
while The Replacements (band) and Los Lobos each covered it live but never released it. LaVere once remarked "It's like 'When the Saints Go Marching In' to the blues crowd."
Label: ΟΙ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΡΑΤΕΣ - CDA 001
Format: Cd
Country: Greece
Released: 1994
Tracklist
01. Βαλκανικό Blues
02. Never μουσακά
03. Πολ σίδερο
04. Ragtime Ζορζ
05. Rambling On My Mind
06. Sweet Home Chicago
07. The Sky Is Crying
08. White Room
09. Working Mule
10. Ζορζ Πιλαλί Blues
11. Άμα το λέει η σούφρα σου
12. Βετεράνοι των λεωφορείων
13. Εισαγωγή στα Βαλκάνια
14. Ζούλα
15. Θεοκωμωδία
16. Μπάμπης ο φλου
17. Μυίγα
18. Στο Χάρλεμ
19. Τεκετζής
20. Φωνή εξ ουρανού
21. Χορός α και β
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"Sweet Home Chicago" is a popular blues standard in the twelve bar form.
It was first recorded and is credited to have been written by Robert Johnson.
Over the years the song has become one of the most popular anthems for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics.
The melody was previously used in a number of recorded blues songs, including Honey Dripper Blues, Red Cross Blues and the immediate model for the song: Kokomo Blues.
Elijah Wald suggests that the Indianapolis-based Scrapper Blackwell was the first to introduce a reference to the relatively close Kokomo, Indiana with this AAB verse:
Mmmm, baby don't you want to go
Pack up your little suitcase, Papa's going to Kokomo.
More copied was the version recorded a year earlier in 1927 by Madlyn Davis with the refrain:
And it's hey, hey baby, baby don't you want to go
Back to that eleven light city, back to sweet Kokomo.
In 1932, Jabo Williams recorded Ko Ko Mo Blues with the same refrain and included the counting line
One and two is three, four and five and six.
In 1933, James Arnold laid claim to the song, styling himself Kokomo Arnold and his version as Old Original Kokomo Blues.
In 1959 Arnold told Jacques Demetre that he had composed Kokomo Blues.
The Eleven Light City was, he claimed, the name of a Chicago drugstore where a girlfriend worked, and Koko their brand name of coffee.
Robert Johnson changed the character of the song to one of aspirational migration, replacing back to Kokomo with to Chicago, and replacing that eleven light city with another migrational goal that land of California.
But I'm cryin' hey baby, Honey don't you want to go
Back to the land of California, To my sweet home Chicago.
His guitar accompaniment did not follow Kokomo Arnold's bravura bottleneck guitar, but rather the boogie piano accompaniments by Roosevelt Sykes to the Honey Dripper songs and by Walter Roland to the Red Cross songs.
Johnson recorded the song during his first recording session in November 1936, and it was released on Vocalion Records (Recording Number 03601).
He gives a stirring performance, with a driving guitar rhythm and a high, near-falsetto vocal.
It was a limited release race record, and was not a big-seller.
The song's popularity grew only after Johnson's death in 1938.
As the song grew to be a homage to Chicago, the original lyrics that refer to California were altered in most cover versions.
The line "Back to the land of California" is changed to "Back to the same old place", and the line "I'm going to California" becomes "I'm going back to Chicago".
This altered version dates back to pianist Roosevelt Sykes.
California Avenue is a thoroughfare which runs from the far south to the far north side of Chicago. The original road predates Johnson's recording and may have been the subject of the "land of California" references.
The authorship of the song is a matter of some dispute.
The musical atmosphere of the blues and folk community of the 1930's lent itself to considerable borrowing of music and lyrics back and forth. Reportedly, songs recorded by bluesmen Scrapper Blackwell and Kokomo Arnold bear striking similarity to "Sweet Home Chicago", having been recorded years before.
Leroy Carr's "Baby Don't You Love Me No More" (Scrapper Blackwell played guitar and accompanied Leroy Carr who played the piano) shares the rhythmic approach and the feel of the initial two verses.
As of 2002, the copyright to the song was owned by businessman Stephen LaVere, who in 1973 convinced Johnson's half-sister Carrie Thompson to sign a contract splitting the royalties with LaVere.
The list of artists who have covered the song is immense, including Junior Parker (who had a #13 R&B chart hit in 1958 with the song),
Magic Sam, Buddy Guy,
Earl Hooker,
Honeyboy Edwards,
Freddie King,
Luther Allison,
Johnny Shines,
Keb' Mo' with Corey Hart (singer),
Foghat,
Status Quo,
Johnny Otis,
Fleetwood Mac,
Eric Clapton,
Stevie Ray Vaughan,
The Blues Band,
and The Blues Brothers,
while The Replacements (band) and Los Lobos each covered it live but never released it. LaVere once remarked "It's like 'When the Saints Go Marching In' to the blues crowd."
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