Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

Alan Lomax went down to Mississippi in 1942 looking for Robert Johnson. He didn't find Robert as he had died several years before. But on this field trip for the Library of Congress he recorded Son House, Willie Brown, McKinley Morganfield (later known as Muddy Waters) and a left-handed guitarist named William Brown. He recorded three tracks by William Brown at Sadie Beck's Plantation in Arkansas (as Lomax was chased out of Mississippi!). "Mississippi Blues" is a piano blues played in the key of A. The original recording has vocals but I have performed this tune for many, many years as an instrumental. It has become a very popular guitar solo and one that separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls. It might take you time to master this arrangement but you'll find it more than worthwhile. Have fun!