Talk:Rollin' and Tumblin'

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According to http://www.originals.be/eng/main.cfm?c=t_upd_show&id=4184, this song has an earlier source than the 1929 Hambone Willie Newbern version:

Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers - Minglewood Blues (Victor, 1928)

Their member Noah Lewis allegedly is the original author. Newbern just retitled the song one year later and maybe changed some lyrics, like others would do later, most notably Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Bob Dylan.

Rewrote to include this, but I am not really an expert. Apparently there are 4 things that you can change in a song: its title, the words, the tune and the chords. How long could anyone claim that it is till the same song? The AMG lists some 200 versions with the title Rollin' and tumblin' but we can guess that there are many others.al (talk) 09:56, 2 February 2008 (UTC)