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"Got My Mojo Working" is a blues song written by Preston "Red" Foster and first recorded by R&B singer Ann Cole in 1956. Foster's lyrics describe several amulets or talismans, called mojo, which are associated with hoodoo, an early African-American folk-magic belief system.
Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.
"Too Many Drivers" is a blues song recorded by Big Bill Broonzy in 1939. It is performed in an acoustic ensemble-style of early Chicago blues and the lyrics use double entendre often found in hokum-style blues songs. The song has been identified as one of Broonzy's more popular tunes and has been recorded over the years by a variety of artists ...
"Mean Old World" is a blues song recorded by American blues electric guitar musician T-Bone Walker in 1942. [1] It has been described (along with the single's B-side) as "the first important blues recordings on the electric guitar". [2] Over the years it has been interpreted and recorded by numerous blues, jazz and rock and roll artists.
The song became popular in the American folk music revival. Bob Gibson recorded it for his Carnegie Concert (1957), and it was included on Sing Out!, vol. 8, no. 3 (1959). Jerry Silverman, Folk Blues, vol. 1 (c. 1959) Burl Ives, with the title "Lenora, Let Your Hair Hang Down, The Versatile Burl Ives! (1961) Chad Mitchell Trio, At the Bitter ...
The song is a moderate-tempo eight-bar blues, with Maceo on vocal and piano, accompanied by frequent collaborator, guitarist and fellow recording artist, Tampa Red [1] and bassist Ransom Knowling. Music writer Keith Shadwick identifies it a major hit [ 4 ] and blues historian Jim O'Neal notes that it "eclipsed the song ['Someday Baby'] that ...
The book notes that "An eighteen-year-old black girl, in prison for murder, sang the song and the first stanza of these blues." The Lomaxes then added a number of verses from other sources and named it "Woman Blue". [2] The music and melody are similar to Lucille Bogan's "B.D. Woman Blues" (c. 1935), although the lyrics are completely different.
"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]