Kind Hearted Woman Blues is a 1937 Delta blues song by Robert Johnson. It was recorded on November 23, 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, and released as a 78 rpm single on Vocalion (03416) and ARC (7-03-56). This was Johnson’s first recording and it helped establish his distinctive style by blending twelve-bar blues with an eight-bar bridge, drawing on influences from Leroy Carr and Bumble Bee Slim. The track later appeared on Johnson’s compilations such as King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961) and The Complete Recordings (1990). The lyrics tell of a man who loves a kind hearted woman who is hostile, expressing Johnson’s emotional pain. The song runs about 2 minutes and 52 seconds and was produced by Don Law.
