FEELIN' GOOD

Created on 10/12/2001
Latest update on 25/10/2023

Artist: Little Junior's Blue Flames
Author: Junior Parker
Label: Sun
Year: 1953

Top 5 R&B. Guitar: Matt Murphy's younger brother Floyd. With a riff and some lyric lines from John Lee Hooker's Boogie Chillun (see there), while doubling as an answer song to Feel So Bad (Dr. Ross - '52). See also: Mystery Train.

Covers:

1954:

Lightnin' Hopkins [as Hear Me Talkin']

1958:

Sonny Burgess [as Feel So Good (for Sun); according to Bob Dylan this song would reign supremer and unrivaled in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, if it was only in there (The Philosophy of Modern Song - '22)]

1964:

Otis Spann [with James Cotton and credited to him]

1967:

James Cotton

1967:

Magic Sam

1980:

Inmates

1984:

Clifton Chenier [as Mama Told Papa]

1985:

Zoots

1991:

Fabulous Thunderbirds

1998:

Eddie Cusic

2001:

Ronnie Earl

2004:

Paul Rishell & Annie Raines

Junior Parker's I Wanna Ramble, Eddie Taylor's I'm Gonna Love You Too and the Sammy Lewis & Willie Johnson Combo's I Feel So Worried also rely on this one. See also Boogie (Otha Turner) and I Wanna Ramble.

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