IT HURTS ME TOO

Created on 20/03/2002
Latest update on 05/04/2024

Artist: Tampa Red
Author: Hudson Whittaker
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1940

Redheaded bluesman from Tampa, Florida; hurrah for the functional moniker! Real name: Hudson Whittaker, after his grandmother who brought him up. Re-recorded in '49 as When Things Go Wrong With You (top 10 R&B) and the same melody was re-used in '29 for instrumental You Got To Reap What You Sow.

Covers:

1952:

Ike Turner [with Ben Burton as You're Drivin' Me Insane]

1957:

Big Bill Broonzy

1957:

Elmore James [for Chief and for Vee-Jay; a second version from '63 became an R&B hit in '65]

1960:

Junior Wells

1964:

Paul Butterfield Blues Band

1967:

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers [B-side of Double Trouble]

1968:

Paul Geremia [as When Things Go Wrong]

1969:

Karen Dalton

1970:

Bob Dylan

1971:

John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat

1971:

Grateful Dead [with Duane Allman]

1972:

The Edward [Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman & Charlie Watts]

1973:

John Hammond Jr. & Dr. John

1974:

Eric Clapton [and again in '94]

1976:

Joe Carter

1977:

Mike Bloomfield

1979:

John Hammond Jr.

1985:

Sonny Rhodes

1987:

Angela Strehli

1994:

Barefoot Servants

1994:

Kenny Neal

1995:

Corey Harris

1997:

Luther Allison

1998:

Johnny Farmer [as It Hurts Me]

2000:

Keb' Mo'

2003:

Robert Palmer

2010:

Gov't Mule [with Little Milton]

2012:

Hans Theessink & Terry Evans

2015:

Sonny Landreth

2017:

Jamey Johnson

Things 'Bout Coming My Way (Tampa Red with Georgia Tom) from 1931 is like a prequel to It Hurts Me Too. See also: It's Tight Like That.

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

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