Joe Turner Blues
Tune Title
Artist
Cliff Trisler
Key
Tuning
Year
1976
Composer
Media Source
Played By
Cliff Trisler - Jim Renner on guitar
Notes
One of the old classic blues
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Joe Turner Blues
Joe Turner Blues
Tune Title
Artist
Red Williams
Key
Tuning
Played By
Red Williams
Notes
This version is unlike the "Joe Turner . Blues" published in 1948 by Clayton F. Summy Co., Chicago, which mentions that Joe Turner was a policeman whose job it was to take prisoners from the I Memphis jail to the penitentiary in Nashville. W. C. Handy, famous blues composer, wrote a song "Joe Turner Blues," copyrighted in 1915. Recorded by Red Williams
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