[2] "Goin' Down Slow" has been recorded by many blues and other artists, including a noteworthy version by Howlin' Wolf with narration by Willie Dixon.

[3] "Goin' Down Slow" "is the lament of a high-roller who is dying":[1] I have had my fun, if I don't get well no more (2×) My health is failing me, and now I'm going down slow Please write my mother, tell her the shape I'm in (2×) Tell her to pray for me, forgive me for my sin The song is a moderately slow-tempo twelve-bar blues, notated in 44 or common time in the key of B.

It was released as a single by Bluebird Records and featured Oden's vocal with accompaniment by Roosevelt Sykes on piano and Alfred Elkins on "imitation" bass.

Wolf re-recorded the song in 1970 during The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions with Eric Clapton (guitar), Klaus Voormann (bass), Ringo Starr (drums), and Jeffery Carp (harmonica), which released as a bonus track in 2003.

[8] Writing for AllMusic, critic Bill Dahl notes "Few blues songs have stood the test of time as enduringly as 'Goin' Down Slow'.