“Lonesome Wind Blues” is a song written and first recorded by Wayne Raney, the Arkansas-born country singer and harmonica player who made his name on King Records in the late 1940s. Raney cut the song in the late 1940s.
The lyric is a blues-tinged lament of loneliness — the lonesome wind of the title carrying the singer’s heartache and his longing for a love that has gone. That bluesy, hard-luck feeling, common in the country music of Raney’s era, translated easily into bluegrass.
The song was taken up by bluegrass acts including Reno and Smiley, and it became a standard.
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