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I saw Barbara Mandrell do this song on The Mall in DC in 1991.

I consider Chuck Berry and Henry Townsend to play in the same St. Louis tradition. Henry was active until the end of his life. I believe that he was scheduled to play a gig the day he died, at age 96. I met Henry Townsend in 1991.

It should have been labeled "Ride Away".

Hawaiian Boogie is Elmore James's version of a song recorded as Guitar Rag by Sylvester Weaver in 1923 and 1927.

Although different enough to be a song in its own right, I have considered this to be a deriviative of a song known by the names Guitar Rag, Steel Guitar Rag, and Hawaiian Boogie, originally recorded by Sylvester Weaver in 1923. I have suspected that it was derived from a forgotten 19th century ...

One day in the late 1970s, I was walking at Washington Square when I saw a great musician playing a dobro. I listened for a while, and wanted to ask if he did Guitar Rag, but I stayed at a distance since I had little money in my pocket. Not long after that Yazoo records released a compilation o...

I think that I have heard this and Sitting On Top of the World each many times, and would not say that they share a melody. Eric Clapton should be scolded for attributing the song to Elmore James. Tampa Red recorded it at least twice before Elmore James, of whom I am a devoted fan, first record...

Someone with a formal knowledge of music, which I don't have, could probably demonstrate a formulaic relationship between the melody of this song and that of Dylan's song. The syllabic patterns are virtually identical, so that the lyrics of one could be sung to the melody of the other. I think ...

Slow it down and change the lyrics and you get Jingle Bell Rock.