Louise Phelan - I’d Rather Go Blind

► Red Grey Matter ’’Enjoy Your Day’’ Find more quality Blues on YouTube here: ►@RedGreyMatter/playlists ► Subscribe for more videos: @RedGreyMatter ’’Azules’’ “I’d Rather Go Blind“ is a blues song written by Ellington Jordan with co-writing credits to Billy Foster and Etta James. It was first recorded by Etta James in 1967, released the same year, and has subsequently become regarded as a blues and soul classic. Original version by Etta James Etta James wrote in her autobiography Rage To Survive that she heard the song outlined by her friend Ellington “Fugi“ Jordan when she visited him in prison. She then wrote the rest of the song with Jordan, but for tax reasons gave her songwriting credit to her partner at the time, Billy Foster, singer with doo-wop group The Medallions. Etta James recorded th