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"Back Door Man" is a blues song written by American musician Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960. The lyrics draw on a Southern U.S. cultural term for an extramarital affair. The song is one of several Dixon-Wolf songs that became popular among rock musicians, including the Doors who recorded it for their 1967 self-titled debut album.
L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on April 19, 1971, by Elektra Records.It is the last to feature lead singer Jim Morrison during his lifetime, due to his death exactly two months and two weeks following the album's release, though he would posthumously appear on the 1978 album An American Prayer.
The album's title is a reference to blues musician Willie Dixon's song "Back Door Man", [1] which has the lyrics: "I'm a back door man. The men don't know, but the little girls understand." [5] Recording was done at MCA-Whitney Studios in Glendale, [6] where Mike Chapman—credited as "Commander" Chapman—produced the album.
Doors drummer John Densmore later explained the story of the line: After we recorded the song, he wrote "Mr. Mojo Rising" on a board and said, "Look at this." He moves the letters around and it was an anagram for his name. I knew that mojo was a sexual term from the blues, and that gave me the idea to go slow and dark with the tempo.
The Doors is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on January 4, 1967, by Elektra Records. It was recorded in August and September 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders , in Hollywood, California, under the production of Paul A. Rothchild .
"Riders on the Storm" has been classified as a psychedelic rock, [8] jazz rock, [9] [10] art rock song, [11] and a precursor of gothic music. [12] [13] According to guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek, it was inspired by the country song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend", written by Stan Jones and popularized by Vaughn Monroe. [14]
The L.A. band Dawes, whose members were seriously impacted by the Eaton fire, on what it meant to perform Newman's early-'80s classic.
on YouTube " When the Music's Over " is an epic song [ 3 ] [ 4 ] by the American rock band the Doors , which appears on their second album Strange Days , released in 1967. It is among the band's longer pieces, lasting 11 minutes.