Charley Patton-High Sheriff Blues

Charley Patton recorded this song about actual events that happened to him in Belzoni, Humphries County, Mississippi circa 1933.

It has the same tune as an earlier Charley Patton recording, Tom Rushen Blues, about events in Merigold, Bolivar County, Mississippi.

This track is taken from the JSP Records box set Charley Patton: Complete Recordings 1929-1934 and is used with permission from JSP Records: https://www.jsprecords.com/

Here is a Mississippi Blues Travellers post about High Sheriff Blues and Benzoni, Mississippi: http://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/charley-patton-high-sheriff-blues-belzoni-mississippi/