Outside Woman Blues

Black song writer “Blind Joe” Reynolds was born in Louisiana in 1904. He was apparently quite good on the bottleneck guitar. He was herded into the recording studio a few times and one of his songs, “Outside Woman Blues” caught the interest of Eric Clapton who included it on the Cream album, “Disraeli Gears”.
There have been many great blues songs composed by modern artists but few twenty-first century lyrics match this gritty poignancy:
“I’m gonna buy me a bulldog, watch my old lady when I sleep, hmm hmm
‘Cause women these days, get so doggone crooked, till it might make a ‘fore-day creep”
On this YouTube video Eric breathes life into this song with an acoustic guitar. Watching a guitarist who feels at home with a song reminds us that you do not need an electric guitar to cover an electric guitar hit.

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