Hellhound on My Trail

1937

Hellhound on My Trail ( also Hellhound On My Trail ) is written and sung by guitarist Robert Johnson a Blue song. He was admitted on 20 June 1937 at the offices of Brunswick Records in Dallas, Texas and released on Vocalion 03623 ARC 7-09-56 and as a 78 rpm single. How many of his songs, two versions were recorded, however, the Take 1 has not yet been found. On the B - side, "From Four Until Late" is

According to the historian Samuel Charters Blue are the first and the last verse, the best thing you can find at Blue lyrics. The idea of ​​hell dogs that are going to bring the sinner, was then common in the southern United States, and so this idea may have influenced Johnson's text. The Hellhounds are also attached to the legend that Johnson had sold his soul to the devil. Musically, it is an ordinary 12 - bar blues, but the text does the song extraordinary.

Awards

The song was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame Blues Foundation in 1983 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he is one of the " 500 songs did shaped Rock and Roll ." As part of the complete works of Robert Johnson, the song came in 2003 in the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.

Cover versions

Alexis Korner, Big Joe Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Fleetwood Mac, James Cotton, Peter Green & Nigel Watson Splinter Group, Roger Hubbard, Rory Block, Paul Geremia, David Rea, John Nicholas & Friends, Roy Rogers, Guido Toffoletti, The Mountain Goats, Eric Clapton, Alvin Youngblood Hart