Though the song has been featured in dozens of movies, it’s lyrics continue to be somewhat of a mystery. The song, like so many traditional folk songs, has a long and storied history, winding from rushed phonetic translation in New Orleans to a misheard title in Chess Records and far beyond and before.

We maintain focus at the guitar stage of the signal — In other words, on guitars that are usually seen in the hands of our favourite blues masters. This article will enter Gibson’s semi-hollow body territory, the ES-335.