Behind the sun

[Wilson Gray]

Oh! My! God! Jon! Are you really saying <choke!> that you're not even
familiar with Clapton's <gasp!> 1985 seminal masterwork album of
blue-eyed blues, Behind The Sun, featuring a vocal version of the
title instrumental sung by Eric as an hommage to Sonny Thompson, to
whom Eric assigns co-composer credit?!

Well, you're in good company. I found all that out only as a
consequence of my ongoing search to find a date for the original
recording more definitive than ca.1957(?). :-)

-Wilson

On 7/7/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Not to disillusion you, Wilson, but I've never encountered this idiom before - or never noticed it if I did. Thanks.
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>   It unreasonably reminds me of the Scandinavian folk tale called (by the great Andrew Lang?) "East o' Sun and West o' Moon."
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Jon,
> It finally occurred to me where I could find a cite for this, a
> traditional (i.e. Wilsonic for "probably predates 1914, the year that
> my mother was born") BE slang term for "in the South, down South, down
> home, over home," etc. So, ay wa-la:
>
> Louisiana Blues
> by
> McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield
>
> Chess Records, Inc.
> Chicago, IL
> October 23, 1950
>
> I'm goin' to Louisiana
> Baby, behind the sun
>
> There exists an instrumental with the title, "Behind The Sun," that
> may date back to 1947, but, unfortunately, I haven't yet found a cite
> for it with a specific date, just stuff like, "between 1945 and 1953,
> he recorded," etc.
>
> By coincidence, Sonny "Long Gone" Thompson, the man who wrote and
> originally recorded "Behind The Sun" was - he died in 1983 - an old
> family friend.
>
> -Wilson, still unable to resist dropping a name
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