"How Long, How Long Blues" became an early blues standard and "its lilting melody inspired hundreds of later compositions", including the Mississippi Sheiks' "Sitting on Top of the World" and Robert Johnson's "Come On in My Kitchen".
"How Long, How Long Blues" was an early blues standard whose lilting melody influenced hundreds of subsequent compositions, such as the Mississippi Sheiks' "Sitting on Top of the World" and Robert Johnson's "Come On in My Kitchen".