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Minglewood Blues
See Also: New Minglewood Blues
Traditional 12 bar Blues Tune; Widely known
ARTIST: Cannon's Jug Stompers
See on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhpSbNzazGc
CATEGORY: Blues Jazz Bluegrass Songs; DATE: Early 1900’s; 1928 Cannon's Jug Stompers
RECORDING INFO: Minglewood Blues - Lewis, Noah
Cannon's Jug Stompers. Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian/Folkways SFW 40090, CD( (1997), trk# 59 [1928/01/30]
Cannon's Jug Stompers. Cannon's Jug Stompers. The Complete Works. 1927-30, Yazoo 1082/3, Cas (1989), trk# 1
Watson, Doc and Merle. Lonesome Road, United Artists UA-LA725G, LP (1977), trk# 2
Old Crow Medicine Show
RELATED TO: Many different blues are similar melodically including "Rollin' and Tumblin' " and "If I had Possession of Judgement Day."
OTHER NAMES: “New Minglewood Blues (different lyrics)”
SOURCES: Folk Index;
NOTES: Minglewood Blues, attributed to Noah Lewis with Cannon's Jug Stompers, is melodically similar to several blues and is similar to Rollin' and Tumblin' and "If I had Possession of Judgement Day." Hambone Willie Newbern's version of "Roll And Tumble Blues" predates Muddy Waters well-known version. Charlie Patton recorded another related version in 1929 titled "It Won't be Long." Patton includes a verse about Minglewood (Menglewood).
Noah Lewis recorded another blues in 1930 titled "New Minglewood Blues" with different lyrics that was covered by the Grateful Dead and other groups.
My blues song titled "No More Trouble Blues" uses the traditional lyrics found in the first verse of "Minglewood Blues."
John L Yarbro, Jr. gives us this background info: "New Minglewood Blues [and Minglewood Blues] was originally written about a company mill village, Menglewood, Tennessee (built by the Menglewood Box Company) which my grandfather purchased along with the former woodlands in the 1920's, cleared and farmed. The property is still in my family. My father grew up in Menglewood, but it was a lot tamer after my grandfather moved his people there. Local history about Menglewood as a company town paint it as wild and wide open with whiskley, women and gambling. Menglewood is located about 78 miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, alongside the Obion River which is in the Mississippi River floodplain."
Here are the lyrics to “Minglewood Blues” by Cannon's Jug Stompers
Minglewood Blues by Noah Lewis Recorded January 30, 1928 in Memphis
Gus Cannon, Ashley Thomson and Noah Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhpSbNzazGc
Don't you never let one woman rule your mind
Don't you never let one woman rule your mind
Said she keep you worried, troubled all the time
[harp solo]
Don't you think your fairer was li'l and cute like mine,
Don't you wish your fairer was li'l and cute like mine
She's a mar- She's a married woman,
But she comes to see me all the time.
[harp solo]
Don't you never let *no woman rule your mind
Don't you never let no woman rule your mind
Said she keep you troubled, worried all the time
[harp solo]
Well I got a letter mama and you ought to hear it read
Well I got a letter Lord and you ought to hear it read
If you comin' back baby now be on your way
[harp outro]
*sounds more like "no" the second go round.
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