King Solomon Hill

[5] In his later work The Bluesmen, Charters dismissed Williams's story and commented on the strong resemblance between King Solomon Hill and Sam Collins, which led some blues enthusiasts to believe that they were the same man.

Wardlow eventually found four informants who had known Joe Holmes and identified his voice on the records of King Solomon Hill.

When interviewed by Wardlow, Roberta recalled seeing her husband playing with Collins, whom she recognized from a publicity image for Black Patti Records.

In 1928 Blind Lemon Jefferson passed through Minden, and Holmes and Young left with him for Wichita Falls, Texas.

Wardlow speculated that the Paramount sales manager Henry Stephany stopped at Minden en route from Birmingham, Alabama, to Dallas on the recommendation of Ben Curry (possibly the same man as Bogus Ben Covington), a friend and fellow musician who had moved from Arcadia, Louisiana, to Birmingham.

One of the three, Paramount 13125, with "My Buddy Papa Lemon" and "Times Has Done Got Hard", was long believed to be lost, until a copy was discovered in 2002.

[14] As of 2022[update], there are eight known recordings by King Solomon Hill: "The Gone Dead Train" was the title of an episode in the ninth season of the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

It is a rewrite by Jack Nitzsche and Russ Titelman and bears only a passing resemblance to "The Gone Dead Train" as performed by King Solomon Hill.

As noted by the cultural historian Greil Marcus, the "dead train" in the Newman version is a metaphor for impotence.