Artist: Lowell Fulson
Author: Lowell Fulson/Jimmy McCracklin
Label: Kent
Year: 1966
Spelled Fulsom on the record sleeve. In the same groove as Jr. Walker's Shotgun ('65).
Covers:
Joe Tex [answer song as Papa Was Too]
Otis & Carla [Redding & Thomas in dialogue]
Albert King [Tramp beat in Cold Feet]
Johnny Otis Show [idem in Country Girl; feat. Shuggy Otis]
Slim Harpo [under Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu]
Mohawks [as The Champ, British instrumental; borrowed its groove from Otis & Carla's version, but see also: Here Comes That Sound Again]
Junior Kimbell [alias Junior Kimbrough, his first single; in '96 again under his own name]
De La Soul [in Let Let Me In]
Cypress Hill [in first hit How I Could Just Kill A Man]
EPMD [sample Joe Tex version in Rampage]
Stetsasonic [sample in No B.S. Allowed]
Wolfgang Press [as Birmingham]
Prince [foundation of Seven; hit US with proper credits]
Melissa Etheridge [as I'm A Lover]
See also: Three O'Clock Blues.
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