BIG BOSS MAN

Created on 20/01/2004
Latest update on 27/06/2023

Artist: Jimmy Reed
Author: Luther Dixon/Al Smith
Label: Vee-Jay
Year: 1959

First on his Found Love album, later on single.

Covers:

1962:

Frank Frost [Sam Phillips producing]

1963:

Charlie Rich

1963:

Conway Twitty

1963:

Alan Price

1964:

Pretty Things

1964:

Gene Chandler [as Soul Hootenanny]

1964:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1964:

P.J. Proby

1964:

Eddie Bond [on TAG; an earlier versions on Phillips Int. was shelved]

1964:

Graham Bond Organisation

1964:

Willie Cobbs

1965:

John Hammond

1965:

Mance Lipscomb

1965:

Standells

1965:

Billy Lee Riley

1966:

Barry Goldberg

1967:

Elvis Presley

1968:

Bobbie Gentry

1969:

Nancy Sinatra

1971:

Grateful Dead

1971:

Eddy Mitchell

1973:

Koko Taylor

1975:

Jimmy Witherspoon

1976:

Freddy Fender

1976:

Nighthawks

1978:

Sleepy LaBeef

1983:

Blues Band

1986:

Steve Miller

1988:

B.B. King

1991:

Greg Piccolo

1991:

Holmes Brothers

1992:

Headcoatees

1993:

Joe 'Guitar' Hughes [Big Boss Man à la Billie Jean]

1998:

Eddie Cusic

1998:

Holly Golightly

1999:

Adrian Byron Burns

1999:

Alex Chilton

2002:

Big Jack Johnson [with Kim Wilson and Pinetop Perkins]

2003:

Climax Blues Band

2005:

Kentucky Headhunters

2007:

Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan

2014:

Yusuf Islam

2018:

Tony Joe White

2021:

Ronnie Wood

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