The Mississippi Sheiks’ extremely influential 1930 song “Sitting on Top of the World” has been covered hundreds of times in many genres, including by Bob Willis and his Texas Playboys, Jack White, Grateful Dead, Cream, B.B. King, Doc Watson, Don McLean, et al.Read more
When 1930s’ era band The Mississippi Sheiks weren’t playing music that would eventually change the world, they would return to work the Mississippi Delta farm fields.Read more
The Mississippi Sheiks’ 1930 blues song “Sitting on Top of the World” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.Read more
