You have just awakened in me a long slumbering nostalgia for my teenage years. In the mid sixties, as a poverty stricken apprentice, I couldn't afford to buy full price blues LPs. So I made do with some of the bargain price records which were then flooding on to the market. That song turned up on a live recording of a coffee house concert featuring Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Big Joe Williams who for some strange reason wasn't credited.

The disc in question was called Lightnin' Sonny and Brownie and the track was listed as Big Car Blues. It appeared on Society SOC 1009 and it cost me all of ten bob (50p). I can still recall the spoken introduction about how Lightnin' had always wanted a Cadillac and finally he got one. "And I'm sittin' up there all black......."