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TIL the song 'That's All Right', Elvis Presley's 1954 break out song, was a song written and originally recorded in 1947 by Arthur Crudup, a Mississippi Delta blues musician, who based the song largely around a verse in a Blind Lemon Jefferson song from 21 years earlier, called 'Black Snake Moan'

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