The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Howlin' Wolf
Author: Willie Dixon
Label: Chess
Year: 1961

Covers:

1963:: Sam Cooke [as Little Red Rooster]
1964:: Rolling Stones [idem; n°1 UK, unique for a blues song]
1966:: Irma Thomas
1967:: Cuby & The Blizzards [with Eddy Boyd]
1968:: Doors
1969:: Luther Allison
1970:: Willie Dixon [author on lp I Am The Blues]
1970:: Big Mama Thornton
1970:: Ronnie Hawkins [with Duane Allman]
1976:: Tjens Couter
1980:: Grateful Dead
1986:: Finsbury Park Empire [with Mark Thijs]
1991:: Charles Et Les Lulus
1993:: Jesus & Mary Chain
1993:: Bryan Lee
1993:: Smokin' Joe Kubek
1994:: Persuasions
1999:: Savoy Brown
2000:: Elliott Murphy
2001:: James Blood Ulmer
2001:: Peter Green
2010:: T-Model Ford & GravelRoad
2013:: Omar Dykes
2020:: Albert Cummings [all as Little Red Rooster]
2021:: Lucinda Williams [as Little Red Rooster on her christmas album]

More versions: Big Mama Thornton, José Feliciano, ZZ Hill, Eddie C. Campbell and Hubert Sumlin. Memphis Minnie's If You See My Rooster sounds somewhat related. The Little Red Rooster by Margie Day with The Griffin Brothers (Dot - '50) is another song, covered by Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks ('65).

RED ROOSTER, THE

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