Lockdown Licks no. 297 “Sitting On Top Of The World” by The Mississippi Sheiks.

Country blues melody played on a “Vintage Slider 2” lap steel guitar in open D tuning into a NUX M8 amp set to clean with reverb.

“Sitting on Top of the World” is a country blues song written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon. They were core members of the Mississippi Sheiks, who first recorded it in 1930. Vinson claimed to have composed the song one morning after playing at a white dance in Greenwood, Mississippi. It became a popular crossover hit, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.