Sonny Boy Nelson
About the artist
Sonny Boy Nelson (December 23, 1908 – November 4, 1998) was an American blues musician. Nelson sang and played many instruments, including banjo, guitar, harmonica, horn, mandolin and violin. He was born Eugene Powell, in Utica, Mississippi, United States, the child of an interracial affair and his white father soon abandoned the family. His family soon moved to a plantation at Lombardy, near Shelby, Mississippi. Nelson learned to play the guitar by the age of seven.
Top songs
- Street Walkin'
- Pony Blues
- Long Tall Woman
- Low Down
- Lovin' Blues
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, Baby
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving Baby
- How You Want Your Rolling Done?
- Street Walkin
- Hard Working Woman
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- Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues
- Sonny Boy Nelson - Low Down
- Sonny Boy Nelson - Street Walkin'
- Sonny Boy Nelson - Long Tall Woman
- Fourty Four Blues
- Police in Mississippi blues
- Lovin Blues
- Sonny Boy Nelson - Lovin' Blues
- Blues Leaping from Texas
- Meet Me in the Bottom
- Dark Road Blues
- Sonny Boy Nelson - If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, Baby
- Blues Jumped a Rabbit
- Blues in G
- If You Don't Beleive I'm Leaving Baby
- Reminiscences
- Street Walkin' (Alternate Take)
- If You Dont Believe Im Leaving Baby
- Pony Blues (Remastered)
- "On Women"
- Old Home Blues
- Tall Woman
- Matchbox Blues
- Low Down - Sonny Boy Nelson
- Old Home Blues (Instrumental)
- Mississippi Matilda - Happy Home Blues
- Robert Hill - Just Smilin'
- Robert Hill - I'm Going To Write And Tell Mother
- Mississippi Matilda - Hard Working Woman
- Robert Hill - Pal, How I Miss You Tonight
- Robert Hill - You Gonna Look Like A Monkey When YouGet Old
- Robert Hill - Hill's Hot Sauce
- Robert Hill - It's So Good
- Robert Hill - Lumber-Yard Blues
- Robert Hill - G. Blues
- Robert Hill - Tell Me What's Wrong With You
- Robert Hill - I Had A Gal For The Last Fifteen Years
- Lovin' Blues - Sonny Boy Nelson
- Lovin Blues - Original Mix
- Pony Blues - Sonny Boy Nelson
- Street Walkin' (1930)
- Matchbox Blues (1978)
- Long Tall Woman - Original Mix
- Street Walkin - Original Mix
- If You Don t Believe I m Leaving Baby
- Tall Woman - Sonny Boy Nelson
- If You Don T Believe I M Leaving Baby - Original Mix
- Low Down - Original Mix
- Pony Blues - Original Mix
- Long Tall Woman 2
- Happy Home Blues
- I Had a Gal for the Last Fifteen Years
- Tell Me What's Wrong With You
- You Gonna Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old
- Juke Joint Women
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leavin,Baby
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- 06 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Lovin' Blues
- 07 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Street Walkin'
- 08 - Sonny Boy Nelson - If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, Baby
- 09 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues
- Street Walkin' - Sonny Boy Nelso...
- 21 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Street Walkin'
- Street Walkin’
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leavin Baby
- Sonny Boy Nelson - 19 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Low Down
- Sonny Boy Nelson - 20 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Lovin' Blues
- Sonny Boy Nelson - 22 - Sonny Boy Nelson - If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, Baby
- 01 - Mississippi Matilda - A. & V. Blues
- 18 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Long Tall Woman
- 19 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Low Down
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving...
- Street Walkin' - Sonny Boy Nelson
- If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, Baby - Sonny Boy Nelson
- 23 - Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues
- 03 Street Walkin'
- If You don't believe, I'm leaving
- G Blues
- You Gonna Look Like A Monkey
- Mississippi Matilda - A. & V. Blues
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