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Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.
The songwriting for "Farther Up the Road" is credited to Joe Medwick Veasey, a Houston-area independent songwriter/broker, and Duke Records owner Don Robey.In an interview, blues singer Johnny Copeland claimed he and Medwick wrote the song in one night; Medwick then sold it the next day to Robey, with Robey taking Copeland's songwriting credit. [3]
"Harlem Shuffle" is an R&B song written and originally recorded by the duo Bob & Earl in 1963. The song describes a dance called the “Harlem Shuffle”, and mentions several other contemporary dances of the early 1960s, including the Monkey Shine , the Limbo , the Hitch hike , the Slide, and the Pony .
Showdown! is a collaborative blues album by guitarists Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland, [1] released in 1985 through Alligator Records. [4] The album is mostly original material, with cover versions of songs like T-Bone Walker's "T-Bone Shuffle", Muddy Waters' "She's into Something" and Ray Charles' "Blackjack".
The album rose to number 1 on the Billboard Blues Album chart and number 54 on the Billboard 200. [22] In 2018, he released Out of the Blues, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart. In February 2024, he made his first post-pandemic visit to Japan, touring for seven shows in five locations throughout the country.
"All Your Love" is a moderate-tempo minor-key twelve-bar blues with Afro-Cuban rhythmic influences. An impromptu song "apparently dashed off ... in the car en route to Cobra's West Roosevelt Road studios", [2] it borrows guitar lines and the arrangement from "Lucky Lou", a 1957 instrumental single by blues guitarist Jody Williams. [3]
In 1945, Sonny Boy Williamson I adapted the tune as an early Chicago blues with Big Maceo (piano), Tampa Red (guitar), and Charles Sanders (drums). [9] Titled "Stop Breaking Down", the song featured somewhat different lyrics, including the refrain "I don't believe you really really love me, I think you just like the way my music sounds" in place of Johnson's "The stuff I got it gon' bust your ...
Producer – Boz Scaggs; Executive Producer – Harry Duncan; Recorded by Michael Rodriguez and Elliot Scheiner; Assistant Engineers – Skip Curley and Bob Levy; Recorded at Meac Studio, Skywalker Sound (Marin County, CA) and Royal Recording Studio (Memphis, TN).