Pony Blues

"Pony Blues"
Single by Charlie Patton
B-side "Banty Rooster Blues"
Released 1929
Format 78 RPM single
Recorded 14 June, 1929
Genre Delta blues
Length 2:58
Label Paramount
Writer(s) Charlie Patton
Charlie Patton singles chronology
"Pony Blues"
(1929)		 "Prayer of Death" (Parts 1 & 2)
(1929)

"Pony Blues" is a Delta blues song written and recorded by the bluesman Charley Patton. With the help of record store owner, H. C. Speir, Patton's first recording session occurred on June 14, 1929. He cut 14 sides, including "Pony Blues" (vocal and guitar), for Paramount Records.[1] Patton's compositions "Banty Rooster Blues" and "Down the Dirt Road" were also recorded at this session.[2]

Notable cover versions

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dicaire, David. Blues Singers, McFarland & Company (1999), page 7 - ISBN 0-7864-0606-2
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness (1995), page 3201. ISBN 1-56159-176-9

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