" Baby, Please Don't Go " is a traditional blues song that was popularized by Delta blues musician Big Joe Williams in 1935. Many cover versions followed, leading to its description as "one of the most …

Oct 31, 2025 · Few blues songs have been as frequently covered as ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’; originated by Joe Williams’s Washboard Blues Singers.

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Lyrically, this song works up a well-worn blues cliché: His baby is leaving, and he's desperately trying to get her to stay. She's planning to leave on the midnight train, but this one is going to New Orleans, …

The song Baby, Please Don't Go was written by Big Joe Williams and was first recorded and released by Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers in 1935. It was covered by Mason Rack Band, Sonny …

Original song Big Joe Williams used an imprisonment theme for his October 31, 1935, recording of "Baby, Please Don't Go". He recorded it during his first session for Lester Melrose and Bluebird …

Baby Please Don't Go Lyrics: Baby, please don't go / Baby, please don't go / Baby, please don't go / Down to New Orleans / You know I love you so / Baby please...

Oct 2, 2002 · In an interview Big Joe Williams credited Mary 'Signifying' Johnson as the author. This singer born in 1900, once married to Lonnie Johnson, recorded a Baby Will You Please Come Home …

Aug 24, 2025 · The singer adored that 1949 John Lee Hooker recording, retitled “Don’t Go Baby”, an acoustic take of almost ferocious elementalism.

" Baby, Please Don't Go " is a traditional blues song that was popularized by Delta blues musician Big Joe Williams in 1935. Many cover versions followed, leading to its description as "one of the most …