I was wondering if you could post “Southern Can is Mine”? I have only heard the White Stripes’ cover, and I feel like that is a great failing on my part. If you could help remedy this sad situation, I’d greatly appreciate it.

Why do you say it’s a riff on Southern Can? It’s just the canonical ragtime guitar progression, which in recording terms only, pretty much goes back to West Coast Blues by Blind Blake. However there are thousands of tracks with this progression : it’s as ubiquitous as the twelve bar blues.

i was refering to the lyrical tone and phrasing of fuller’s track, rather than the guitar progression.

Ah OK, it is similar, but it does sound like a lot of other Fuller tracks.

Mind you Southern Can is one of my all time favourite tracks - I often find myself singing it for some reason. As I recall I first came across it in a boxed set of LPs called something like “The Rural Blues”. The box was red. I still have it of course.

Good picks, in any case. :-)