Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

This was also recorded at Johnson's 1930 Paramount session and features the falsetto singing that he used on several of his songs. Its simple but highly effective guitar part is played in standard tuning, E position. Slidin' Delta was the nickname of a train that ran in the central part of the Mississippi Delta, but Johnson's lyrics also refer to the great 1927 flood of the Mississippi River that devastated much of the Delta. Different songs with the same title have been recorded by Mississippi bluesmen like John Hurt and Jaydee Short. My version is adapted from Tommy Johnson's record and figures played by Roosevelt Holts, who got much of his guitar style from Johnson in the late 1920s and early 1930s.