Today’s Music: Four Versions of “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”

Posted on May 22, 2012 by admin

From 1929, a traditional version as performed by one of the ‘Queens of the Blues’ Bessie Smith:

B.B. King (with little guitar but great piano) fries it up:

Derek and the Dominos featuring Eric Clapton and Duane Allman take it on:

Soul king Otis Redding doing the same tune:

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