Fishing Blues

"Fishing Blues"
Single by Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas"
A-side "Texas Worried Blues"
Released 1928
Format 10" 78rpm single
Recorded June 13, 1928 in Chicago, IL
Genre Texas blues
Length 2:44
Label Vocalion 1249
Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" singles chronology
"Bull-Doze Blues" / "Old Country Stomp"
(1928)
"Texas Worried Blues" / "Fishing Blues"
(1928)
"Arkansas" (A-side only)
(1928)

"Fishing Blues" is a blues song first recorded in 1928 by Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" (vocals, guitar, and quills (a type of panpipe, which he played while also playing his guitar)).[1][2] Some later versions by other artists call it "Fishin' Blues".

The song ostensibly describes the pleasures of catching, cooking, and eating your own fish, particularly catfish. The refrain runs:

Here's a little somethin' I would like to relate,
Any fish bite, you've got good bait,
I'm a-goin' a-fishin', yes, I'm a-goin' a-fishin',
I'm a-goin' a-fishin' too.

In 1930, the Carter Brothers (Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon, perhaps with his brothers Lonnie and Sam Chatmon) recorded an unreleased track for Okeh Records titled "Any Fish Will Bite if You Got Good Bait".[3] This may have been the same song; suggesting that it may have been traditional rather than written by Thomas.

Thomas' recording was included on the 1952 compilation album Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Three: Songs (Blue Singing).

In 1964, the song was revived by American folk musician Mike Seeger. Over the next five years, it was recorded by artists including The Holy Modal Rounders, Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, The Lovin' Spoonful (on their debut album Do You Believe in Magic), John Martyn and Taj Mahal. It has since been recorded many times. The recording history as of 2015 suggests that it has attained the status of a folk and blues standard.

Recordings

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