You see, she liked these young musicians, and in comes John Work and I - we were young to her. We were something sent down, and she didn't know which one to choose. Each of us knew we were not choosing her! We just wanted to talk, but she was interested in other things - Sterling Brown quoted in Ma Rainey and The Classic Blues Singers, Derrick Stewart-Baxter
The C version of this tune is one of the first rags I learned and is a lot of fun to play. I was inspired to do this tune for SOTM after John Miller gave a class at PT that explained the progression in C and G. I associate it with Blind Boy Fuller because he had numerous versions, but there are lots of others.
Here's the progression:
I [III7] / VI7 / II7 V7 / I
I [III7] / VI7 / II7 / V7
I / I7 / IV / Idim
I [III7] / VI7 / II7 V7 / I [V7]
II7 V7 / I
and here's Blind Boy Fuller:
Memphis Minnie
Milton Brown
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Here's the original--or at least from my limited knowledge I consider it "the original" *in terms of lyrics.* There are many other songs with the same progression ... anyone know of a predecessor with the "Truckin'" theme in the lyrics?
And a version of Chesterfield that I really love from John Jackson:
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