SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER

Created on 07/04/2006
Latest update on 15/04/2024

Artist: Elmore James
Author: Elmore James
Label: Fire
Year: 1961

Shakey Jake Harris cut a Roll Your Moneymaker for Cobra in '58 with his nephew Magic Sam on guitar. That's no original, merely inspiration, and so was Mississippi John Hurt's guitar in his Okeh recording of Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied.

Covers:

1965:

Paul Butterfield

1968:

Clarence 'Frogman' Henry

1968:

Fleetwood Mac

1968:

Chicken Shack

1968:

Shakey Jake [as Save Your Money Baby]

1969:

John Littlejohn

1970:

Homesick James

1974:

Hound Dog Taylor [as Roll Your Moneymaker]

1977:

Count Bishops

1980:

Lonnie Pitchford

1985:

Rattlers

1986:

Mud Boy & The Neutrons

1986:

Johnny Winter

1986:

Guana Batz

1986:

Lloyd Jones

1986:

Paul Lamb

1988:

George Thorogood [an Elmo regular (see: The Sky Is Crying, Can't Stop Loving, Hawaiian Boogie and Madison Blues)]

1994:

Hans Theessink & Blue Groove

1996:

Don Croissant

2000:

Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes [The Black Crowes' first album was named Shake Your Money Maker but the song was not on it]

2017:

Rodney Crowell [on Elmore James tribute]

Contact


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)

info@originals.be

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