Monday, April 13, 2026

Mother-In-Law Blues - Junior Parker

Mother-In-Law Blues - Junior Parker
2:35
single, 1956
Written by Don Robey

This is a straightforward, midtempo Mississippi blues about losing your baby.  Despite the title, the lady in question doesn't seem to be the source of the narrator's leaving; she seems to have made up her mind on her own, based on his drinking.  "I could hear her tell her mother, 'That's one no good man!' / Well, I watched my baby leave, her mother had her by the hand."  Parker himself provides the wailing, pleading harmonica lines that meld with his plaintive voice in bewailing his loss.

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