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Twenty inches of snow.

Fifty-mile-an-hour winds.

Thunder, lightning.

When the weather’s this bitter, shouldn’t the songs be too?

She wait till it got nine below zero . . .

Sonny Boy Williamson II (AKA Aleck “Rice” Miller), “Nine Below Zero”

Live (introduced by Memphis Slim; with Otis Spann, piano; Matt Murphy, guitar; Willie Dixon, bass; Billy Stepney, drums), Europe (Germany), 1963

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Recording (with Otis Spann, piano; Robert Jr. Lockwood & Luther Tucker, guitars; Willie Dixon, bass; Odie Payne, drums), Chess Records, Chicago, 12/14/60

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Recording (with Elmore James, guitar; Willie Love, piano; Cliff Givens, bass; Joe Dyson, drums), Trumpet Records, Jackson, Mississippi, 12/4/51

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Three Below Zero?

Seven Below Zero?

Ten Below Zero?

Sonny Boy nailed it with nine.