Water Coast Blues

Water Coast Blues 5:51

(Walter Davis, published by Wabash Music Co.)

David Honeyboy Edwards - vocal and guitar

Recorded at a Rosenwald School on the outskirts of Clarksdale, MS July 20 and July 22, 1942 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Songs

This was a song in Honeyboy's regular repertoire at the time. By the time he recorded this, he had been out touring with Big Joe Williams and on his own on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.