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"Walking Blues" is a blues standard written by Son House, but made famous by Robert Johnson in 1936 and reaching popularity after its reissue on the LP ''King of the Delta Blues Singers'' in 1961. The song incorporates the lessons Johnson absorbed from Son House. It takes its first verse and title from one of House's favourite verses. The melody and text structure are those of House's "My Black Mama".〔''My Black Mama Part I , Part II'' Paramount Pm 13042.〕 ==Sources== Prior to 1930 there were several recorded songs with the title "Walking Blues" which bear no relation to this song. There were songs with the line ''Woke up this morning feeling down to my shoes'', and innumerable songs with the half-line ''I got the () blues''.〔(Haymes, Max. I Need-A Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan (roots and influences of vaudeville & rural blues: 1919-1940) ) 〕 Son House combined these to make the couplet :''Woke up this morning, feeling round for my shoes'' :''You can tell by that I got the walking blues'' At his 1930 Paramount recording session, House made a test pressing (unissued and lost until 1985) which incorporated the couplet in the usual blues structure, i.e. with repeated first line: :''I got the blues so bad, until it hurts my tongue to talk'' :''I got the blues so bad, until it hurts my tongue to talk'' :''If I had the walkin' blues, it would hurt my feet to walk'' :''I woke up this morning, feeling round for my shoes'' :''I got up this morning, feeling round for my shoes'' :''You know by that, people, I must have got the walking blues'' The remaining verses were mostly on the woke ''up this morning'' theme, but one extended the ''walking'' theme. :''And I started a-walkin, I'm gonna walk from sun to sun'' :''Well I started a-walkin', I'm gonna walk from sun to sun'' :''I'm gonna keep walking, until my time is done''〔Unissued test pressing. Now available on CD, e.g. ''Legends of Country Blues'' JSP Records JSP JSP7715〕 In 1941 a field recording of House performing a different "Walking Blues" with his band (Willie Brown, Fiddling Joe Martin and Leroy Williams) was made by Alan Lomax and John Work for the Library of Congress/Fisk University Mississippi Delta Collection. The session made a great impression on Lomax, which he attempted to describe many years later in ''The Land Where the Blues Began''.〔Lomax, Alan. ''The Land Where the Blues Began'' (1993) Methuen. ISBN 0-413-67850-4. pp 16-19.〕 No other verse of this song shared the ''walking'' theme, the melody was different and the verse structure was very different, i.e. with the whole couplet repeated: :''Well got up this morning, feeling 'round for my shoes'' :''Know about that, I got the walkin' blues'' :''I said I got up this morning, I was feeling 'round for my shoes'' :''I said you know about that now, I got the walkin' blues.''〔AFS 4780-B-2. Available on CD e.g. ''Legends of Country Blues''〕 A year later, Lomax returned and recorded a solo song from House with the title "Walking Blues" which was different from both previous songs.〔AFS 6607-B-3a. Available on CD e.g. ''Legends of Country Blues''〕 It consisted of the sequence of verses House later called "Death Letter Blues". House had recorded this sequence at the Paramount session as part of "My Black Mama", the song which best displays the melody, the structure, the guitar figures and the declaiming style that Johnson used on "Walking Blues". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walkin' Blues」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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