Artist: Rosco Gordon
Author: Rosco Gordon/Jules Taub
Label: RPM
Year: 1952

Cut in Memphis on the same day as B.B. King's 3 O'Clock Blues. Not with Sam Phillips but at Tuff Green's House, another local hole in the wall. Session fixed by Ike Turner. Clearly inspired by Buddy Johnson's No More Love (Decca - '51), sung by his sister Ella (re-issued on Ace cd Walk 'Em: The Decca Sessions).

Reggae also hails from Memphis! Rosco's piano shuffle inspired Fats Domino in songs as Be My Guest ('59) and It Keeps Rainin' ('61), before hopping over to Jamaica where this particular brand of off-beat R&B evolved into ska and rocksteady. Chris Blackwell (Island) considered Rosco Gordon as a first-line influence on Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.