Dead Shrimp Blues
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"Dead Shrimp Blues" | |
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Single by Robert Johnson | |
A-side | I Believe I'll Dust My Broom |
B-side | Dead Shrimp Blues |
Released | April 1937 |
Format | 78 rpm |
Recorded | San Antonio, Texas. Friday, November 27, 1936 |
Genre | Blues |
Label | Vocalion |
Writer(s) | Robert Johnson |
"Dead Shrimp Blues" is a song written by Robert Johnson.
It is from the recording sessions of November 26 and 27, 1936, in San Antonio, Texas along with "32-20 Blues", "They're Red Hot", "Cross Road Blues", "Walkin' Blues", "Last Fair Deal Gone Down", "Preaching Blues" and "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day".[1]
Use in popular culture
- Dr. Al Robbins (Robert David Hall) is a fan of blues music and has much knowledge of it as does Prof. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) and is seen singing along to "Dead Shrimp Blues" as he is performing an autopsy in the CSI episode, "The Gone Dead Train".
References
- ↑ Robert Johnson: lost and found by Barry Lee Pearson, Bill McCulloch, p.74
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