Long Gone, chanté par Brownie McGhee, évoque Lost John, un héros populaire en cavale qui n’a jamais été retrouvé parce qu’il avait eu la bonne idée de placer un talon à l’avant de ses chaussures...
Blues des Canuts
Émission spéciale Héros Hors-la-loi... ! Lost John & Old Riley
1 – Old Riley – Leadbelly – Classic African-American Ballads
2 – Old the Riley – The Mannish Boys – Toulouse Street Blues – 2012
3 – Long Gone – Brownie McGhee – The Folkways Years 1945-1959
4 – Long John – Lightning & Group – Alan Lomax - Library of Congress Recordings - afro-american spirituals & work songs & ballads
5 – Lost John – Convicts at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms – Classic African-American Ballads
6 – Long gone last John – Papa Charlie Jackson – Full Spectrum Blues, Disk one, Rural Blues – 1928
7 – Long Gone – Jim Jackson – Complete Recorded Works - Vol. 2 – 1928
8 – Lost John – Peg Leg Sam – Medicine Show Man – 1911-1977 – 1993
9 – Lost John – Sonny Terry – The Wizard Of The Harmonica
10 – Old Lost John – Sonny Terry – Compilation de J.J.Milteau
11 – Lost John – Etta Baker with Taj Mahal – 1998
12 – Long Gone – Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry – Newport Folk Festival - Best Of The Blues 1959 - 68