Emmett Miller with the Georgia Crackers – 1928. It’s impossible to listen to this and not hear the influence, particulary in the yodeled parts, on Hank Williams’ version. The recording precedes Williams’ huge hit by twenty years. It is said that Hank learned it after hearing Emmett Miller perform it with a traveling medicine show. I don’t remember where I read that. The Country Music Hall of Fame bio says he learned it “from either Rex Griffin or Emmett Miller.”*
Lovesick Blues is a country and pop standard credited to Cliff Friend and Irving Mills. Published in 1922, the song was first recorded by Jack Shea on Vocalion 14333. This recording contains a verses that no later version include. Emmett Miller recorded it on Okeh 40465, September 1, 1925. He re-recorded it on June 12 1928, accompanied by his Georgia Crackers (which included Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, and Leo McConville). – adapted from wikipedia
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