Kokomo Arnold / Milk Cow Blues

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Kokomo Arnold ''Milk Cow Blues'' (1934)

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  • In 1938 Arnold left the music industry and began to work in a Chicago factory. Rediscovered by blues researchers in 1962, he showed no enthusiasm for returning to music to take advantage of the new explosion of interest in the blues among young white audiences.

    He died of a heart attack in Chicago at the age of sixty-seven in 1968, and was buried in the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.

  • Kokomo Arnold (February 15, 1901 November 8, 1968) was an American blues musician.

    Born James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, Arnold received his nickname in 1934 after releasing "Old Original Kokomo Blues" for the Decca label; it was a cover of the Scrapper Blackwell blues song about the Kokomo brand of coffee.[1] A left-handed slide guitarist, his intense slide style of playing and rapid-fire vocal style set him apart from his contemporaries.

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  • I love how he does those little syncopated licks.  It adds an air of sophistication, like something T-Bone Walker would play if he played slide.

  • Sounds a little like Robert Johnson on the guitar but voice is a little better. Too bad he never got any compensation for his creations.

  • absolute classic.

  • Beautiful!!!

  • lyrics please?

  • Respond to this video...  for the one reviewer both songs are milk cow blues side1 an 2 of the original 78

  • Introduced to this tune by the one and only Edward Raymond Cochran. I got the Summertime Blues Eddie.... :)

  • An original epitome of cool.

  • this is incredible!! nothing else to say.

  • This is some powerful music. Robert learned a great deal from this guy lyric-wise.

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