Artist: Willing Four
Author: traditional/Johnson
Label: Manor/Regis
Year: 1944
Same tune as Tampa Red's You Got To Reap What You Saw ('29). See also: Sitting On Top Of The World. Reissued on Document cd Vocal Quartets Vol 7.
Covers:
Elder Charles Beck [as You've Got To Move]
Two Gospel Keys [idem; on Moses Asch's Disc label]
Five Blind Boys Of Alabama [along with their This May Be The Last Time (see there) reissued on Ace cd The Sermon]
Brother Joe May [as When The Lord Gets Ready]
Mississippi Fred McDowell [as You Gotta Move; blues legend from Como, MS who made his first recording in 1959 for Alan Lomax]
Rolling Stones [idem on Sticky Fingers; crediting Fred McDowell, a fine financial gesture towards Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie records, who held its publishing rights; McDowell was wined and dined by the Stones, they bought him a silver lamé suit which he wore dayly at home in Como and where he was buried in]
Robert Wilkins [idem]
Radiators [idem]
Blue Blot Band [with Beverly Jo Scott]
Townes Van Zandt [in pain]
R.L. Burnside [who jammed with McDowell as a youngster]
Charles & The White Trash European Blues Connection [alias Arno]
Aerosmith [also cover Fred McDowell's Back Back Train]
North Mississippi Allstars [with Kenny Brown]
Cedric Burnside [all as You Gotta Move]
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy cut a You Got To Move in 1934 with different lyrics. The Soul Stirrers version is also another one, cut by Rev. Gary Davis in 1954.
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)