Baby Please Don't Go - Taj Mahal - LIVE in Topanga Canyon 2015 - musicUcansee.com

Taj Mahal LIVE in Topanga Canyon on the very spot where the Topanga Corral once stood. Thanks to the Topanga Historical Society, Taj Mahal and Deb Ryder for making this video possible.
Wikipedia says: "Baby, Please Don't Go" is a blues song which has been called "one of the most played, arranged, and rearranged pieces in blues history" by music historian Gerard Herzhaft.[1] It was likely an adaptation of "Long John", an old folk theme dating back to slavery in the United States. Delta blues musician Big Joe Williams popularized it with several versions beginning in 1935. The song's roots have been traced back to nineteenth-century American songs which deal with themes of bondage and imprisonment. "Baby, Please Don't Go" became an early blues standard with recordings by several blues musicians like Papa Charlie McCoy, Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker and Big Bill Broonzy.
"Baby, Please Don't Go" is likely an adaptation of "Long John", an old folk theme which dates back to the time of slavery in the United States.[1] It is also related to a group of early twentieth-century blues songs that include "I'm Alabama Bound", "Elder Green Blues", "Another Man Done Gone", "Don't Leave Me Here" and "Turn Your Lamp Down Low".[2][3] These songs have been traced back to late nineteenth-century work songs. Author Linda Dahl suggests a connection to a song with the same title by Mary Williams Johnson in the late 1920s and early 1930s.[4] However, Johnson, who was married to jazz-influenced blues guitarist Lonnie Johnson, never recorded it and her song is not discussed as influencing later performers.[1][3][5] Blues researcher Jim O'Neal notes that Williams "sometimes said that the song was written by his wife, singer Bessie Mae Smith (aka Blue Belle and St. Louis Bessie) [not the same as the popular Bessie Smith of the 1920s and 1930s]".[3]