Artist: Sidney Bailey
Author: Sidney Bailey
Label: Dot
Year: 1966
Memphis cab driver who cut his own version with Chips Moman producing. Bailey used to be a staff writer for Stax, wrote The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) from Cooder's Bop Till You Drop album and co-wrote with George Jackson.
Covers:
Bobby Ray Watson [as Fool For A Cigarette; one of Jim Dickinson's buddies, coproducer of Ry Cooder's Into The Purple Valley album; Cooder plays guitar on this unissued demo; Dickinson had plans with the Watson version, barred when Cooder cut his own; there's a Bobby Ray track (along with Johnny Woods) on Birdman comp It Came From Memphis Vol 2]
Ry Cooder [idem, in medley with J.B. Lenoir's Feelin' Good]
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)