HOODOO HOODOO

Created on 12/02/2005
Latest update on 10/11/2016

Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson I
Author: John Lee Williamson
Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1946

Using the title of Louis Jordan's Somebody Done Hoodoo'd The Hoodoo Man (1940).

Covers:

1954:

Junior Wells [as Hoodoo Man, crediting himself]

1957:

Lightnin' Slim [as Hoodoo Blues with Lazy Lester; different lyrics]

1965:

Junior Wells & Buddy Guy [as Hoodoo Man Blues]

1970:

Silas Hogan [credited to J. Williamson]

1974:

Rory Gallagher [on Live In Europe; following Lightnin' Slim]

1991:

15-60-75 [as Hoodoo Man Blues]

1991:

Eric Clapton [idem]

1995:

Soul Drivers [idem but crediting J.L. Williamson]

2006:

Jimmy Thackery [idem]

2007:

Dion [idem]

2016:

Rolling Stones [as Hoo Doo Blues with Jim Keltner]

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