I Be's Troubled 

• 1941 
• 78 AAFS 18 
• Morganfield, McKinley 
• 78 rpm record 

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I Be's Troubled

AAFS 18

1941

When he was a young adult, Waters ran a juke house. His big break came when Alan Lomax came to Stovall, Mississippi, in 1941 looking for various blues musicians to record for the Library of Congress. Two of the songs recorded-- "I Be's Troubled" and "Country Blues"- were released on a Library of Congress 78 rpm anthology album. Waters was so excited after his very first recording was made that he played his own copy of the record in the jukebox over and over again. He had a hard time comprehending that it was actually he himself doing that singing. A year later, Lomax returned and Waters did another recording for him.