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"Rollin' Stone" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1950. It is his interpretation of "Catfish Blues", a Delta blues that dates back to 1920s Mississippi. [3] " Still a Fool", recorded by Muddy Waters a year later using the same arrangement and melody, reached number nine on the Billboard R&B chart.
Catfish Blues may refer to: "Catfish Blues" (song), a blues song first recorded by American musician Robert Petway; Catfish Blues, a 2016 American film
Robert Petway (born c. 1903, date of death unknown) [1] [2] was an American blues singer and guitarist. He recorded only 16 songs, but it has been said that he was an influence on many notable blues and rock musicians, including John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix.
It used elements of "Catfish Blues" with new lyrics by Hendrix and included a vocal and guitar unison line. Music critic Charles Shaar Murray describes "Voodoo Chile" as "virtually a chronological guided tour of blues styles" ranging from early Delta blues, through the electric blues of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , to the more ...
Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) [1] was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", [2] he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker and fronted his own bands.
Down and Out Blues (Agram, 1990) Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order 1930–1938, vols. 1–4 (Document, 1991) King of the Bottleneck Guitar 1934–1937 (Black & Blue, 1991) Blues Classics, vol. 1 (Wolf, 1997) Old Original Kokomo Blues (P-Vine, 1997) Old Original Kokomo Blues 1934–1938 (EPM, 1998) Old Original Kokomo Blues (Catfish ...
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 [1] or 1917 [4] [5] – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit.
The three had been playing together irregularly from 1962 and into the 1970s under the name The Nighthawks. [4] In 1979, they were invited by Michael Frank to record now as The Jelly Roll Kings; their debut album, Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, was the debut release of the Earwig Music Company.