Come On in My Kitchen
[2]Blues scholars have identified a body of previously recorded songs with direct and indirect melodic similarities.Komara suggests that Johnson's thumbed bass lines in "Come On in My Kitchen" were directly inspired by Carr's piano in "How Long" and that part of humming and slide guitar playing copied the violin of Lonnie Chatman of the Sheiks on "Sitting on Top of the World".[3] Elijah Wald suggests that Johnson's main inspiration was Tampa Red's 1934 "Things 'Bout Coming My Way".The repeated refrain gives textual unity to the song, and generally sets an emotional tone to which the couplet verses conform.In his two takes, Johnson created two texts based on the refrain and on a consistent emotional projection.