Leadbelly makes some interesting comments before he begins performing on his previously unreleased version of "One Dime Blues" released this year. He says: "You may not know what a four-way blues is, but when the people -- I mean _our_ people -- started making blues, they had four-way, didn't know how to change them, put 'em on three-way...." As Jonny Meister pointed out in _Blues Blast_ magazine, considering that Lemon's version of "One Dime Blues" was a 16-bar AAAB blues, Leadbelly is likely saying there that he believes the earliest blues were 16-bar and later some people changed them to 12-bar.