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IrishBubbaLiberal

(1,641 posts) Mon May 5, 2025, 03:09 PM May 5

Statesboro Blues -Taj Mahal

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Statesboro Blues
Blues song written by Blind Willie McTell

"Statesboro Blues" is a Piedmont blues song written by Blind Willie McTell, who recorded it in 1928. The title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia. In 1968, Taj Mahal recorded a popular blues rock adaptation of the song with a prominent slide guitar part by Jesse Ed Davis. His rendition inspired a recording by the Allman Brothers Band, which is ranked number nine on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". In 2005, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ranked "Statesboro Blues" number 57 on its list of "100 Songs of the South". Wikipedia

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1. The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues

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2. Taj Majal (Jesse Ed Davis - Slide Guitar) - Statesboro Blues - 1968

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From Duane Allman Website;

August 21, 1967: Recording session for Taj Mahal's first album 'Taj Mahal'. Jesse Ed Davis plays electric slide guitar on 'Statesboro Blues'.

"I had never really played bottleneck before that," Davis explained in Guitar Player, "and so for that recording I just put a steel tube on my finger and worked up a line. I just played it in regular tuning. I didn’t know about open tunings until I saw Muddy Waters play at the Whisky in Los Angeles some time after that.

(Steven Rosen: 'Jesse Ed Davis', Guitar Player magazine, March 1974)

1968; Taj Mahal's first album is released. (NOTE) (DETAILS)
Jesse Ed Davis plays electric slide guitar on 'Statesboro Blues'.

In 1970 The Allman Brothers Band recorded "Statesboro Blues" during the recording sessions for their "Idlewild South" album, but that track was not released until 1989 on the "Dreams" box set.
They recorded a live version of the song in March 1971 for their "At Fillmore East" album.