Dead Shrimp Blues

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Released April 1937 (1937-04) Genre Blues		Format 10-inch 78 rpm record Length 2:31
A-side I Believe I'll Dust My Broom Recorded San Antonio, Texas. Friday, November 27, 1936

"Dead Shrimp Blues" is a song written by Robert Johnson.

It is from the recording sessions of November 26 and 27, 1936, in San Antonio, Texas along with "32-20 Blues", "They're Red Hot", "Cross Road Blues", "Walkin' Blues", "Last Fair Deal Gone Down", "Preaching Blues" and "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day".

Use in popular culture

Dr. Al Robbins (Robert David Hall) is a fan of blues music and has much knowledge of it as does Prof. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) and is seen singing along to "Dead Shrimp Blues" as he is performing an autopsy in the CSI episode, "The Gone Dead Train".

References

Dead Shrimp Blues Wikipedia

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