Artist: Otis Rush
Author: Otis Rush
Label: Cobra
Year: 1958
Borrowing some guitar licks of Jody Williams' Lucky Lou (Argo '57, reissued on the Chess Rhythm & Roll box set), also inspiring Mickey Baker for some riffs in Love Is Strange (see there). Rush also copied Jody's You May (A-side of Lucky Lou) in Buddy Guy's debut Sit And Cry (The Blues) in '58. In the early fifties Jody led the bands of Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley respectively.
Covers:
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers [with Eric Clapton]
Stevie Vaughan & Double Trouble [released in '92]
Anson Funderburgh [with Sam Myers]
Steve Miller [and again in 2010]
Jimbo Mathus [as Love I Miss Loving]
Mick Fleetwood & Friends [as inspiration for Black Magic Woman]
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)