Mule Skinner Blues

[Chris]

Mule Skinner Blues was the first recording I remember hearing.

It was written and recorded by Jimmie Rodgers in 1930 as "Blue Yodel #8" and later renamed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjO_OK03UNY&feature=related

The opening lyrics came from Tom Dickson's 1928 "Labor Blues"...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-rcnYfSMew

Roy Acuff covered it in 1939...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OE91xsimyk

And so did Bill Monroe...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzHgXpR654g&feature=related

Many other's covered it. I kind of like this one by Merle Haggard...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qYWbxyhp6U&feature=related

But I've never found the recording I first heard.

[Goldie Locks]

Dang, how old are you????....LOL

[Goldie Locks]

Love it though.

[Chris]

Not that old! :old:

The year was probably around 1960 I first heard it, at a friend's, from his dad's collection, a 45. We would play it again and again, rolling around laughing about the yodelling.

Was the first music I'd heard. For Christmas years earlier I got a radio kit with headphones I listened to late at night, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry.