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Ma Rainey sings it in Bb but I have transposed the blues to Eb for my (slightly simplified) version.
It is a conventional 12-bar blues, except for the way it uses the mediant where we might expect the tonic. Note, for example, how the melody ends on G, and not on Eb, as we might expect.
Ma Rainey - sometimes known as The Mother of the Blues - was one of the first great blues recording artists. She came from Georgia in the USA and she died in 1959.
