BLUE GUITAR

Created on 03/04/2008
Latest update on 28/06/2023

Artist: Earl Hooker
Author: Earl Hooker
Label: Age
Year: 1961

Instrumental on Chicago subsidiary of Mel London's Chief label. His only (local) hit. Earl first cut a Blue Guitar in '53 for Sun (with Pinetop Perkins on piano), but that reording was shelved for a Sun Blues Archive comp and surely wasn't Muddy's example for You Shook Me, let alone for Led Zeppelin's. See also: You Need Love.

Covers:

1962:

Muddy Waters [vocal version as You Shook Me over same track as the original; just crediting Willie Dixon, who only wrote the words]

1968:

Jeff Beck Group [idem; with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Nicky Hopkins]

1969:

Led Zeppelin [idem]

1970:

Willie Dixon [on I Am The Blues]

1978:

Heart [as Mother Earth Blues]

1987:

Hubert Sumlin [on Hubert Sumlin's Blues Party]

1992:

Lucky Peterson [as You Shook Me]

1993:

B.B. King & John Lee Hooker [idem]

1994:

Ronnie Earl

2000:

Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes [as You Shook Me]

2001:

Big Time Sarah

2004:

Etta James [as You Shook Me]

2014:

Bryan Adams [idem]

Not to be confused with AC-DC's You Shook Me (All Night Long).

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