Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Salty Dog Blues - Flat & Scruggs

Salty Dog Blues - Flat & Scruggs
2:27
single, 1950
traditional

I know this song from Blind Willie McTell's version.  Apparently someone named Zeke Morris claimed he wrote it; it had been recorded before the Morris Brothers, but perhaps he wrote the specific lyrics that Flatt & Scruggs sing here.  "Standing on the corner with the lowdown blues / A great big hole in the bottom of my shoes."  The hillbilly lyric and rapid-fire fingerpicking make this a catchy, light romp worth revisiting.

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