BOBBY'S ROCK

Created on 06/09/2006
Latest update on 04/07/2023

Artist: Elmore James
Author: Bobby Robinson/Elmore James
Label: Fire
Year: 1959

His first Fire single, seemingly ignoring The Sky Is Crying, cut during that same session.

Covers:

1961:

Ricky Allen [as You'd Better Be Sure; particularly Earl Hooker's guitar]

1962:

Freddie King [in his Bossa Nova Blues and in '64 in his King-A-Ling]

1963:

Elmore James [as Pickin' The Blues during his very last recording session]

1969:

Fleetwood Mac [with J.T. Brown, Honeyboy Edwards and Willie Dixon]

1969:

John Littlejohn [in Slidin' Home]

1975:

Grinderswitch [as Pickin' The Blues; became John Peel's radio show tune]

1990s:

Dr. Hector & The Groove Injectors [idem]

1993:

Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat [idem]

1994:

Lonnie Pitchford [as Don't You Do That No More; lyrics: Elmore James]

1998:

Vaan Shaw [as Pickin' The Blues]

2018:

Dave Hole

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