Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson
Author: Elmore James/Marshall Sehorn
Label: Checker
Year: 1961
First released version, cut in August '61 and right in the groove of Bobby Parker's Watch Your Step (see there). Author and buddy Elmore James' tamer version, cut for Bobby Robinson's Fury label early '61, was shelved until '65 (Sphere Sound).
Covers:
G.L. Crockett [as It's A Man Down There, adding a few new words and some Jimmy Reed licks]
Jimmy Reed [clever answer song as I'm The Man Down There]
Sir Douglas Quintet [as Man Down There]
Junior Wells [idem]
Duster Bennett [idem]
Billy C & The Sunshine [Billy C. Farlow, pre Commander Cody]
John Mayall [as Room To Move, copying Sonny Boy's rhythm and harmonca playing; few Europeans had an earlier example than John's]
Allman Brothers Band [rightly announced as an old Elmore James song, but lyrically more inclined towards Sonny Boy's]
Debbie Davies [as Room To Move]
John Hiatt [on a Gregg Allman tribute]
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)