![]() ![]() ![]() Īfter Sykes recording, Green and Montgomery recorded their versions of "The Forty-Fours". 44 caliber revolver and the 'little cabin' on which was the number 44, presumably a prison cell". According to blues historian Paul Oliver, Sykes' lyrics "played on the differing interpretations of the phrase 'forty-fours'-the train number 44, the. Sykes added lyrics to the tune and recorded it as "44 Blues" on June 14, 1929, for Okeh Records. So Lee Green, he took a lot of time out to teach me how to play it. Several people had been playing it through the country of course-Little Brother Montgomery and several others, but nobody had ever recorded it and there was no words to it, no words or lyrics at all. He was the first guy I ever heard play the "44" Blues. He taught it to another blues pianist, Lee Green, who taught it to Roosevelt Sykes. Little Brother Montgomery, who is usually credited with early performances of the song, described it as a "barrelhouse, honky-tonk blues" without any lyrics. "Four-Four" was developed from an earlier piano-based blues theme titled "The Forty-Fours". "Forty-Four," through numerous adaptations and recordings, remains in the blues lexicon eighty years later. However, it was Roosevelt Sykes, who provided the lyrics and first recorded it in 1929, that helped popularize the song. ![]() " Forty-Four" or " 44 Blues" is a blues standard whose origins have been traced back to early 1920s Louisiana. For the community in the United States, see Forty Four, Arkansas. ![]()
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