Georgia White - Trouble in Mind Swing
Published 2024-03-25
Rust claims that the guitarist is Ikey Robinson. Dixon, Godrich and Rye say the guitarist is unknown. I trust the latter source more for blues records.
Decca 7521
Originally recorded on January 28, 1937
Georgia White was born on March 9, 1903 in Sandersville, Georgia. Her real name may have been Georgia Lawson. She moved to Chicago in the twenties, where she worked at the Apex Club. She made one jazz record with Jimmie Noone in 1930. She continued to work in Chicago in the thirties, and made the first record under her own name for Decca in 1935. She made dozens of records for Decca for the next several years, performing as a singer and sometimes as a pianist. She specialized in racy material, recording such songs as "Get 'Em From the Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)," "I'll Keep Sittin' on It (If I Can't Sell It)," "Was I Drunk?," "Dan the Back Door Man," and "Mama Knows What Papa Wants When Papa's Feeling Blue." She formed an all-woman band in the forties, and played at clubs and dances. In the late forties and early fifties she worked with Bill Broonzy's Laughing Trio and at The Bee Hive. She continued to perform in Chicago and Downer's Grove, Illinois through the late fifties, when she retired from music.
Trouble in Mind Swing is a variation of Trouble in Mind, which Richard M. Jones wrote in 1926. He also wrote "Little Red Wagon," "Jazzin' Babies Blues," "Riverside Blues," "29th & Dearborn," "Dark Alley," "Hollywood Shuffle," "Mush Mouth Blues." and "Bring It on Home to Grandma."
"Trouble in Mind" was also recorded by Richard M. Jones himself, as well as by the Four Southerners, Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Victoria Spivey, Lucky Millinder with Rosetta Tharpe, Jay McShann, Woody Herman, Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin. Georgia White also recorded two versions of the song other than this one, titled Trouble in Mind and New Trouble in Mind.