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"I Can't Quit You Baby" is blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Chicago blues artist Otis Rush in 1956. [1] It is a slow twelve-bar blues ensemble piece, with lyrics about the consequences of an adulterous relationship which is difficult to end. "I Can't Quit You Baby" was Rush's first recording and Cobra Records's debut
Atlantic counted the release as a studio album, as Swan Song had owed the label a final studio album from the band. According to Martin Popoff, "there's conjecture that Jimmy [Page] called 'We're Gonna Groove' a studio track and 'I Can't Quit You Baby' a rehearsal track because Swan Song owed Atlantic one more studio album specifically." [5]
"It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" Willie Dixon: 1984 Styx "Let Me Love You Baby" Buddy Guy: 1961 Koko Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Mike Farris "Little Baby" Howlin' Wolf: 1961 The Rolling Stones, The Blues Project, Ant Trip Ceremony "Little Red Rooster" Howlin' Wolf: 1961
"I Can't Quit You Baby" was another Willie Dixon-penned blues number. It was recorded live in the studio, and arranged in a slower and more laid-back style compared to some of the other material on the album. [20] "How Many More Times" was the group's closing live number in their early career.
In 2008, "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" on the album Bad for You Baby by Gary Moore; In 1973, "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" on the album Extension of a Man by Donny Hathaway; In 2007, "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" was recorded live in Paris in September 2007 by Amy Winehouse
The band covered Joan Baez's version of the song written by Anne Bredon; both guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant were fans of Baez. Baez's album Joan Baez in Concert, where Baez's version of the song appeared, had originally indicated no writing credit, and Led Zeppelin credited the song as "Trad. arr. Page".
His single "I Can't Quit You Baby" became a hit, spending six weeks in the Billboard R&B chart, where it reached number six in 1956. [5] Rush recorded another seven singles for Cobra, described as "defining moments of Chicago blues."
At eight and a half minutes, "How Many More Times" is the longest song on the album. It is one of three Led Zeppelin songs on which Page used bowed guitar. [5]In an interview he gave to Guitar World magazine in 1993, Page stated that the song "was made up of little pieces I developed when I was with the Yardbirds, as were other numbers such as 'Dazed and Confused'.