Artist: Lightnin' Hopkins
Author: Sam Lightnin' Hopkins
Label: Crown
Year: 1951
First released on budget album Sings The Blues ('61). Also cut a version as Bald Headed Woman on the Sittin' In With label in '52.
Covers:
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers [as Give Me Back My Wig on the first Alligator album ever; Bruce Iglauer launched that label just to launch this Chicago bluesman]
William Clarke [idem]
Stevie Ray Vaughan [idem, live at Montreux]
Magic Slim [idem]
Omar [Omar Dykes from Omar & The Howlers solo]
Ike Turner [as Gimme Back My Wig]
Lightnin' Guy [on his Hound Dog Taylor tribute album]
Most if not all cover versions give Hound Dog Taylor the credits. Not to be confused with Lightnin' Hopkins's Short Haired Woman ('47), recut in '65 as Wig Wearing Woman (see there).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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