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11 Jun 20 - 02:03 PM (#4058810) Subject: Sail On, by Sonny Boy Williamson? From: MandolinPaul I regularly perform this song that I learned from a Muddy Waters recording, called Honey Bee. The first verse goes:
I'm sure I've seen it done by Sonny Boy Williamson and called Sail On, but can't find it anywhere. Frankly, I'm looking for it because I already do a bunch of Muddy songs, and would like to attribute someone else. Has anyone seen this anywhere, or am I imagining things? |
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11 Jun 20 - 02:25 PM (#4058812) Subject: RE: Sail On From: GUEST,keberoxu Peter Green, the once and first Fleetwood Mac guitarist, has not only name-checked this song, but recorded it in recent years, when working with the Splinter Group and Nigel I-forget-what-his-last-name-is. Green attributes it to Muddy Waters and makes no mention of Williamson. |
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11 Jun 20 - 10:13 PM (#4058864) Subject: RE: Sail On From: MandolinPaul Thanks, keberoxu. |
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11 Jun 20 - 10:26 PM (#4058866) Subject: RE: Sail On From: GUEST,Starship The Amos referred to is Amos Easton. He released it in 1934. He used a few aliases. https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/34351 I think this will help explain the whole who's who and got what from whom. Read p. 295 from the following link. https://books.google.ca/books?id=-w-uGwm_LhcC&pg=PA295&dq=Sonny+Boy+Williamson,+Sail+On,+little+girl,+sail+on&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ah |
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12 Jun 20 - 10:54 AM (#4058943) Subject: RE: Sail On From: MandolinPaul Amos Easton: Dude, I'll take it. You're a rock star, Starship. Thanks for finding that. I've been reading biographies of bluesman lately, and have found that most of the big names "wrote" songs that were "based on" older songs by other artists. e.g. Howlin' Wolf's biography said that his song "Crying at Daybreak" was based on Charley Patton's song "Crying at Daybreak". The Wolf got a ton of stuff from Patton. I think the answer is that almost all blues were written by Mr. Traditional or Mr. Public-Domain. :) |
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12 Jun 20 - 01:12 PM (#4058971) Subject: RE: Sail On From: GUEST,Starship Glad to be of help, MandolinPaul. It's interesting to watch the 'history' of various songs unfold over time. Some that come to mind are 'Corrine, Corrina' or 'Shenandoah'. Between those two songs alone there's gotta be a few dozen copyrights. And I think it was Mark Twain who said something like 'There's only one thing impossible for God, and that's to make sense of copyright law on Earth.' At times it sure looks that way. |
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12 Jun 20 - 06:09 PM (#4059019) Subject: RE: Sail On From: Helen Hi Starship. Sorry to barge in on an unrelated thread but I can't PM you. I thought you might like to know that the bagpipe song was identified, thanks to a combined effort, especially by you and cnd: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167801&messages=23 |
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12 Jun 20 - 07:50 PM (#4059033) Subject: RE: Sail On From: GUEST,Starship Thank you for the heads-up, Helen. I'm happy it turned out to be a good song. It took four of us from different countries to find it. :-) |