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Artist: Champion Jack Dupree
Author: Willie Hall
Label: Okeh
Year: 1941
The original label mentions Junker Blues (Dupree), but Jack later confessed he learned it from his mentor Willie Hall, legendary N.O. boogie woogie pianist better known as Drive 'Em Down, who was never recorded. Gave its melody subsequently to The Fat Man, Lawdy Miss Clawdy and Tipitina and shares some lyric lines with Junco Partner (see there).
Covers:
Fats Domino [as The Fat Man, bypassing the drug allusions]
Otis Spann [as I'm Leaving You]
Chuck Berry [as The Man And The Donkey]
Canned Heat [as Big Fat (The Fat Man)]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)