Terraplane Blues
| "Terraplane Blues" | |
|---|---|
Vocalion | |
| Songwriter(s) | Robert Johnson |
| Producer(s) | Don Law |
"Terraplane Blues" is a
78 rpm record, backed with "Kind Hearted Woman Blues", in March 1937. The song became a moderate regional hit, selling up to 10,000 copies.[1]
Johnson used the car model Terraplane as a metaphor for sex. In the lyrical narrative, the car will not start and Johnson suspects that his girlfriend let another man drive it when he was gone. In describing the various mechanical problems with his Terraplane, Johnson creates a setting of thinly veiled sexual innuendo.[2] The guitar parts in "Terraplane Blues" are similar to those in Johnson's "Stones in My Passway".[citation needed]
References
- ISBN 978-1-64160-094-1.
- ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.
