Midweek Music - Terraplane Blues

Terraplane Blues is a blues song recorded in 1936 in San Antonio, Texas by bluesman Robert Johnson. "Terraplane Blues" is among only a handful of songs that were released during Johnson's lifetime, and it became a moderate regional hit, selling 5,000 copies.

The guitar licks and riffs in Terraplane Blues are very similar to those used in Cross Road Blues. The Terraplane Blues song is also performed by: Eric Clapton, Foghat, John Lee Hooker
The car model Terraplane becomes a metaphor for sex. 

1934 Terraplane...




Last Photo edited from Black & White to more sephia by me,
Original Photo by Vincent Palangio: palangio_v's Bucket

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