Grateful Dead Family Discography: Tupelo Blues

Tupelo Blues (aka The Mighty Flood)

Composer: John Lee Hooker

This song was played by Pigpen at a show on April 18, 1970 at the Family Dog show that was billed as by Mickey Hart and His Heartbeats and Bobby Ace and His Cards from the Bottom of the Deck. For many years the song was referred to as The Flood. The show was released in 2013 on the Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70 album. On this release the song was credited as Traditional arr McKernan and given the title The Mighty Flood. However the song is mainly a version of the John Lee Hooker song Tupelo Blues with some lyrics from another John Lee Hooker song added to the end.

John Lee Hooker first recorded the song in the late 1950s and it was first released on the album The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker. Versions of the song with the title Tupelo were also released on John Lee Hooker albums.

Grateful Dead recordings

Family Dog at the Great Highway, 4/18/70, 2013

John Lee Hooker recordings

This list is not intended to be comprehensive

no info The Country Blues of, John Lee Hooker, 1959
no info The Folk Blues Of John Lee Hooker, 1959 (same as The Country Blues)
no info Single (Dusty Road / Tupelo), John Lee Hooker, 1960
no info The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker, 1961
no info The Best Of John Lee Hooker, 1962
no info How Long Blues, John Lee Hooker, 1963 (same as The Country Blues)
no info John Lee Hooker At Newport, John Lee Hooker, 1964
no info The Very Best Of John Lee Hooker, 1969
no info Tupelo Blues, John Lee Hooker, 1969 (Europe) (same as The Country Blues)
no info Whiskey & Wimmen, John Lee Hooker, 1973
Great Bluesmen: Newport, Various Artists, 1976
no info Black Snake, John Lee Hooker, 1977
no info Gold, John Lee Hooker, 1977
no info The Cream, John Lee Hooker, 1978
no info Hooked On The Blues, John Lee Hooker, 1979
no info 20 Greatest Hits, John Lee Hooker, 1988
no info Boom Boom!, John Lee Hooker, 1989
no info The Great Tomato Blues Package, Various Artists, 1989
no info That's My Story / The Folk Blues Of John Lee Hooker, 1990
no info Masters of the Blues The Best of John Lee Hooker, 1990
no info The Vee-Jay Story: Celebrating 40 Years Of Classic Hits, 1953-1993, Various Artists, 1993
no info Chill Out, John Lee Hooker, 1995
no info The Best Of Friends, John Lee Hooker, 1998
Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-68, Various Artists, 2001
no info Live At Newport, John Lee Hooker, 2002
no info Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Feel Like Going Home, Various Artists, 2003
no info Come And See About Me (DVD), John Lee Hooker, 2004
no info Gold, John Lee Hooker, 2007
no info Bad Seeds: Nick Cave: Roots & Collaborations, Various Artists, 2009
no info The Essential John Lee Hooker, 2010
no info Blues In Transition 1955-1959, John Lee Hooker, 2010
no info Boom Boom: The Best Of John Lee Hooker, 2013
no info The Vee-Jay Singles Collection, John Lee Hooker, 2013
no info Two Sides Of John Lee Hooker, 2015

Other Recordings

This list is not intended to be comprehensive

no info Jammed Together, Albert King / Steve Cropper / Pop Staples, 1969
no info Single (Tupelo Pt I / Tupelo Pt II), Albert King / Steve Cropper / Pop Staples, 1969
no info The Stax Blues Brothers, Various Artists (Albert King / Steve Cropper / Pop Staples), 1988
no info The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 2: 1968-1971, Various Artists (Albert King / Steve Cropper / Pop Staples), 1993
no info A New Perspective On The Blues, Pig In A Can, 2001
no info The Very Best Of Albert King, 2007
no info Stax 50th Anniversary Collection, Various Artists (Albert King / Steve Cropper / Pop Staples), 2008
no info The Definitive Albert King On Stax, Albert King, 2011
no info The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, Bob Dylan And The Band, 2014
no info Hillside Album Hour 2019: Stairway To Hillside, The Waybacks And Friends, 2020