Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Deep River Blues - Doc Watson

Deep River Blues - Doc Watson
3:12
Doc Watson, 1964
traditional

A fatalistic low and slow folk gospel.  The narrator doesn't care how much it rains.  There's a hit of absurd humor when he says his gal reminds him of a water fowl when it rains, but mostly the song seems bleak.  "Now I'm gonna say goodbye, and if I sink, just let me die / 'Cause I got them deep river blues."  This song is a little-changed update of a 1933 song sung by the Delmore Brothers called "Big River Blues."

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