You guys are so freaked - it doesn't matter who did who's tune. So many artists cover others' music - it is an honor and a compliment to the original artist IMO. Case in point: Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter". One of the most beautiful songs of our era - but how many would have heard it if no one but Tim had done it? Hell, I didn't know who Tim was until I heard Bobby Darin's version. Now it has been covered by artists from every genre and millions have been able to share and enjoy it.
I grew up in the 50's and was alway drawn to Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Bill Haley. But none of them blew me away as much as Bo. As I grew older, I'd get away from the core of rock and roll, but then someone would cover a Bo song, and BAM! I'd get pulled right back to Bo's sound. So many great bands have covered Chess [and New Orleans] artists over the years - But Bo Diddley is one of the master creators of Rock 'n' Roll. RIP Bo - you were the best!
I don't think Jimi Hendrix ever toured with Muddy's band, but he did tour with Little Richard, Curtis Mayfield (the Impressions), and the Isley Brothers along with some others. As for Elvis, his first release was a year before Chuck's first release. They were contemporaries if anything, and there are a lot of social reasons for Elvis become the biggest RnR star, more than just the music. Black artists like Chuck and Bo Diddley were swimming against the current in 1950's America.
Yeah, it's a great album. A friend had it when I was in HS it helped me to become a life-long blues fan. Rockin' blues for sure. I hope somebody does post the whole album... I don't have a copy and it should be more widely heard. Good drummer!
Doesn't matter what anyone thinks, it was high on the charts in it's time. And you can't compare the sound of the past with today, as time went on, technology did too. That's why when Ray Charles redid some of his songs for the movie, it was soooo much better than his original and he said he enjoyed it so much because of the modern techology and sound systems, etc.
Fantastic version but I can´t believe that with all this Elvis discussion, none of the posters has realized that the reason he was the most innovative singer of the blues was his capacity to g beyond what the writer of the song intented. "Talk about my baby,! repeated and sang differently than the rest of the song, in his version, and in every other version, is what makes HIS version the best. And he ends it with a huge shout, at the end, that is no one but HIS. Listen to Presley...
Rock and Roll was born from the meeting of black Rhythm and blues and white rock solid country lyrical . Before that there was the Swing by the likes of Duke Ellington, The Dorsey Brothers. Before that there was Dixie Land and Ragtime, before that, African chants and English/Irish reels. All these forms gave something to the other and in the early 50's it came out Rock n Roll.
@pulmon66 They loved it when he recorded their songs and moreso when he got them more recognized. Elvis loved those guys,,he was a fan. I wish I could find the article that told the story that Elvis saw Bo Diddley do all that moving & grooving he did and Elvis adapted it his way. After all they were both from the very same part of Northern Miss. near Memphis. Bo was born in McComb,Miss.
Another case in point: George Thorogood. My kids LOVED his stuff (as well as some song I never heard called "I Want Candy") but had never heard of Bo Diddley - until I showed them where good ol' George had gotten alot of his stuff. Now they love Bo as well. It wasn't about color - It was all about the quality of the music; which I've tried very hard to raise my kids to appreciate.
@Odin029 Absolutely - Chuck and Elvis knew a good tune, white or black. No coincidence that on their first single, they each had a "hillbilly tune" on one side and a "negro tune" on the flip side if you were to look at color instead of music.
his name is columbus short from stomp the yard he was good and from what i read he played it to a fault the movie was nice i like the way they brought these guys to life and give an ideal of how it started nice very nice indeed
Muddy had hits before he ever met Willie Dixon. He changed his style and wrote a string of hits for him in the mid to late 50's but Muddy was already the man. If anything he made Willie Dixon.
Starts out with Little Walter... he had a collapsed lung during this session. His voice isn't as strong and he's playin his harp w/o an amp. Then Bo Diddley gets a verse in while Walter blows and Muddy adds in a slide lick that I really like Finally Muddy gets in a verse.. I think he sings the rest of the song after this.
Not many blues men left... but some specialists are left. Leslie West does an outstanding tribute to Muddy here (cut/paste into search with quotes): "Leslie West's Muddy Waters Tribute - Standing Around Crying"
@MdCitizen I certainly wouldn't blame Elvis for getting rich. He found something that people wanted, and he did it better than anybody else. Or at least he was more commercially viable than anybody else. Elvis was an entertainer first and foremost. He wasn't a songwriter, he didn't design album jackets or write the credits. He was paid to perform, and that's what he did. I think Elvis really admired those that came before him, and would gladly give credit where it was due.
@capedcrusader730 First of all dude it was Big Mama Thornton not Thompson. Step back and Take a deep breath.When the settlers came to America,there were a lot of Scots-Irish that settled in the mountains of Appalachia. They brought their tunes and songs with them,when they finally came down from the mountains.They heard the African Americans singing their songs. Someone decided to take these rythyms and mix them Voila what we now know as country western was born.
Awesome version, I suppose the weird guitar sound comes out of bo Diddley guitar... I love this sound so much, hypnotic!!! Like all the true african inspired music. Guess what? Since black american people do white music... that’s cheat! That was great music, back then! Wow!
Hey Cmon lets not be a bad ass to the King he opened many doors for exposure to these guys who were always mistreated and ignored by the establishment.. these guys loved Elvis themselves, besides elvis did the Killer slammer version of this track live in 1969....
@Actionjax5 That may be so on the first part, but consider this, how cool would it have been if Elvis got together w/ these guys often! The vocals just like this tune are so distinct, I can hear Elvis singing w/ these guys. Damn shame that didnt happen.
Willie Dixon wrote this song especially for Little Walter. LW didn't like it. It took Willie almost two years to talk LW into recording it. It was, of course, LW's biggest- selling hit.
all of yall people puttin down elvis,everyone is showed something, some showed bo diddley,who is dead and still making millions, elvis that is ,its not bo diddley,so elvis is king forever,bo is great,but dont put elvis down,he has so many songs and his music will always be heard around the world
@justmusicandme Bo only used the guitar that he built (by taking the neck and electrics off a Gretsch and placing them on a square body he built) for less than a year. After that he commissioned Gretsch to build him another which he used for about 20 years. After that he had a custom builder in Australia design him a new one. So the one he is using here is NOT a "handmade box guitar". It is a professionally built custom guitar based on his original cannibalized design.
@Odin029 RIGHT ON !!! I was never a big Elvis fan but I know he Loved these guys and he made a lot of them more famous and created a lot of royalty money for their music. Elvis brought their music through THE FRONT DOOR instead of THE BACK DOOR. I was right in the middle of ALL THAT being a DJ for many years and a record promotion man for another many years. Sometimes I wonder W.I.T.H. people get some of the crap they believe. No wonder oBozo got elected.
Listened to a bunch of versions, and this one is the best, despite all the staged hokum between Muddy, Bo and Walter. Can't tell if there's an organ on this, or it's just Didley's organ-sounding guitar. But this is a great gospel-like approach to this tune. No offense to Walter intended but I greatly prefer this version to Walter's original "swing" rendition. Great stuff!
@MdCitizen Many of those early artist made many ROYALTY CHECKS off Elvis using there songs. I think he did it sometimes as "pay back" just to help them. All those artists loved what Elvis did to further Rock & Roll.
White kids had familiarity with and access to black music in the 1950's; it was just not mentioned by those people-in-suits. Radio WLAC out of Nashville played righteous music by Bo Diddley, Hank Ballard & Midnighters, (early) Drifters, Little Walter, (early)Ray Charles, Otis Williams, etc etc. As evening progressed and other stations went off the air, people from farther and farther away could tune in. The sponsors were two record shops who mailordered the music. People who served (cont)
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Yeah, the thing is that Little Richard was pissed off in the 50's because he didn't realize how much Boone was helping him, that artists get pissed off is more of an urban legend.
Hey can you post more tunes from this album? It's one of my all time favorite especially "I'M a Man" I love the banter that's going on. - classic Chess Blues
@thestoryplease Right On. I never heard it explained better. You can't tell some people that. When they get on me about white's stealing R&R I remind them that the GUITAR wasn't invented in Africa.
@Odin029 Your right, you don't have to bash Elvis, however homage should be paid to those artist that laid the foundation in which Elvis' legacy/empire is built upon, let alone Rock music. All the artist you mentioned didn't remotely reap the finances that Elvis achieved using 'their' music. They didn't receive royalties & a good portion of them died penniless. While someone else recorded their music & receives milions of dollars.
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Now this is the good stuff minus special effects, just pure, unadultered talent
You guys are so freaked - it doesn't matter who did who's tune. So many artists cover others' music - it is an honor and a compliment to the original artist IMO. Case in point: Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter". One of the most beautiful songs of our era - but how many would have heard it if no one but Tim had done it? Hell, I didn't know who Tim was until I heard Bobby Darin's version. Now it has been covered by artists from every genre and millions have been able to share and enjoy it.
I grew up in the 50's and was alway drawn to Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Bill Haley. But none of them blew me away as much as Bo. As I grew older, I'd get away from the core of rock and roll, but then someone would cover a Bo song, and BAM! I'd get pulled right back to Bo's sound. So many great bands have covered Chess [and New Orleans] artists over the years -
But Bo Diddley is one of the master creators of Rock 'n' Roll.
RIP Bo - you were the best!
I don't think Jimi Hendrix ever toured with Muddy's band, but he did tour with Little Richard, Curtis Mayfield (the Impressions), and the Isley Brothers along with some others.
As for Elvis, his first release was a year before Chuck's first release. They were contemporaries if anything, and there are a lot of social reasons for Elvis become the biggest RnR star, more than just the music. Black artists like Chuck and Bo Diddley were swimming against the current in 1950's America.
Yeah, it's a great album. A friend had it when I was in HS it helped me to become a life-long blues fan. Rockin' blues for sure. I hope somebody does post the whole album... I don't have a copy and it should be more widely heard. Good drummer!
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Doesn't matter what anyone thinks, it was high on the charts in it's time. And you can't compare the sound of the past with today, as time went on, technology did too. That's why when Ray Charles redid some of his songs for the movie, it was soooo much better than his original and he said he enjoyed it so much because of the modern techology and sound systems, etc.
Now that's just great. After a rough day it relaxes me so much and eases me soul:).
There's also a banjo in the music, great version thanks for share
Fantastic version but I can´t believe that with all this Elvis discussion, none of the posters has realized that the reason he was the most innovative singer of the blues was his capacity to g beyond what the writer of the song intented. "Talk about my baby,! repeated and sang differently than the rest of the song, in his version, and in every other version, is what makes HIS version the best. And he ends it with a huge shout, at the end, that is no one but HIS. Listen to Presley...
One awesome song by some magnificent talent. Thanks for the post & God Bless.
Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Little Walter kings of blues
Rock and Roll was born from the meeting of black Rhythm and blues and white rock solid country lyrical . Before that there was the Swing by the likes of Duke Ellington, The Dorsey Brothers. Before that there was Dixie Land and Ragtime, before that, African chants and English/Irish reels. All these forms gave something to the other and in the early 50's it came out Rock n Roll.
Awesome!
Love Little Walter.
I love this song, I just got put on from Cadillac Records but I love it! And the man who played Little Walter in the movie is a fool!
That opening guitar sound...omg
I love this yah my babeee.
GREAT!!!!!! Thanks!
Smokin song..can't listen to it enough!
This is crazy stuff man! What kind of magic is this that takes control of my body???
hey! cmon buddy holly should get a mention as well! and eddie cochran! without those guys we would have nothing! I'm with you 100% on everything else!
so old, and so fresh :)
i remember this song---sooo good
@pulmon66 They loved it when he recorded their songs and moreso when he got them more recognized.
Elvis loved those guys,,he was a fan. I wish I could find the article that told the story that Elvis saw Bo Diddley do all that moving & grooving he did and Elvis adapted it his way. After all they were both from the very same part of Northern Miss. near Memphis. Bo was born in McComb,Miss.
hows that possible, music like this to have a dislike button?
This is ultimate!!!! What a fantastic upload!!! Regards, Vinoo.
Another case in point: George Thorogood. My kids LOVED his stuff (as well as some song I never heard called "I Want Candy") but had never heard of Bo Diddley - until I showed them where good ol' George had gotten alot of his stuff. Now they love Bo as well. It wasn't about color - It was all about the quality of the music; which I've tried very hard to raise my kids to appreciate.
this is cool, never heard it before.
Elvis also does a great version of it.
I love Bo, Elvis etc - there's room for all of them
cheers mate thanks for the upload!! fantastic!!
I added this to my blues playlist
god listens to this every day
never heard this version before. pretty dope.
Sweet, keep making that noise!
whoa - yeah !!! [thank you]
@Odin029 Absolutely - Chuck and Elvis knew a good tune, white or black. No coincidence that on their first single, they each had a "hillbilly tune" on one side and a "negro tune" on the flip side if you were to look at color instead of music.
Original composition by Willie Dixon, double bass player at Chess studio.
pure greatness
This recording sounds sooo good!
his name is columbus short from stomp the yard he was good and from what i read he played it to a fault the movie was nice i like the way they brought these guys to life and give an ideal of how it started nice very nice indeed
muddy ,little walter che musica!!!!!!
Muddy had hits before he ever met Willie Dixon. He changed his style and wrote a string of hits for him in the mid to late 50's but Muddy was already the man. If anything he made Willie Dixon.
They'd have made it anyway as both are top notch artists, but Willie paved the way for them with the great material he wrote.
that riff at the start is awesome
Starts out with Little Walter... he had a collapsed lung during this session. His voice isn't as strong and he's playin his harp w/o an amp.
Then Bo Diddley gets a verse in while Walter blows and Muddy adds in a slide lick that I really like
Finally Muddy gets in a verse.. I think he sings the rest of the song after this.
Not many blues men left... but some specialists are left. Leslie West does an outstanding tribute to Muddy here (cut/paste into search with quotes):
"Leslie West's Muddy Waters Tribute - Standing Around Crying"
A truly disgraceful hateful thing to say. shame on you. This is fantastic music from some great human beings.
Great stuff
Classic!!!!!!!!!
yaaa saaalaaaam ! perfect blues... i can play guitar a litlle bit but i wish i could learn harmonica !
@MdCitizen I certainly wouldn't blame Elvis for getting rich. He found something that people wanted, and he did it better than anybody else. Or at least he was more commercially viable than anybody else. Elvis was an entertainer first and foremost. He wasn't a songwriter, he didn't design album jackets or write the credits. He was paid to perform, and that's what he did. I think Elvis really admired those that came before him, and would gladly give credit where it was due.
@capedcrusader730
First of all dude it was Big Mama Thornton not Thompson. Step back and Take a deep breath.When the settlers came to America,there were a lot of Scots-Irish that settled in the mountains of Appalachia. They brought their tunes and songs with them,when they finally came down from the mountains.They heard the African Americans singing their songs. Someone decided to take these rythyms and mix them Voila what we now know as country western was born.
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a great song baby!!!!
Awesome version, I suppose the weird guitar sound comes out of bo Diddley guitar... I love this sound so much, hypnotic!!! Like all the true african inspired music. Guess what? Since black american people do white music... that’s cheat!
That was great music, back then! Wow!
Awesome
I know it's live and they are just having fun.
I just like the original version so much better.
It's about the cleanest record I've heard.
3:49 Pure Genius
Hey Cmon lets not be a bad ass to the King he opened many doors for exposure to these guys who were always mistreated and ignored by the establishment.. these guys loved Elvis themselves, besides elvis did the Killer slammer version of this track live in 1969....
@Actionjax5 That may be so on the first part, but consider this, how cool would it have been if Elvis got together w/ these guys often! The vocals just like this tune are so distinct, I can hear Elvis singing w/ these guys. Damn shame that didnt happen.
Wow .
the four people that dislike this are big duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmiiiiiiieeeeessssssssssssssssss!
ugh!!!!!!! make that 9
So sad you don't like that beat. More of a jam than a production. i would have loved to have been their.
Willie Dixon wrote this song especially for Little Walter. LW didn't like it. It took Willie almost two years to talk LW into recording it. It was, of course, LW's biggest- selling hit.
all of yall people puttin down elvis,everyone is showed something, some showed bo diddley,who is dead and still making millions, elvis that is ,its not bo diddley,so elvis is king forever,bo is great,but dont put elvis down,he has so many songs and his music will always be heard around the world
@cbtole1 This album is an American Blues Classic - I have it on vinyl, but it's very tough to find on cd or in the old record store bins.
@justmusicandme Bo only used the guitar that he built (by taking the neck and electrics off a Gretsch and placing them on a square body he built) for less than a year. After that he commissioned Gretsch to build him another which he used for about 20 years. After that he had a custom builder in Australia design him a new one. So the one he is using here is NOT a "handmade box guitar". It is a professionally built custom guitar based on his original cannibalized design.
@Odin029 RIGHT ON !!! I was never a big Elvis fan but I know he Loved these guys and he made a lot of them more famous and created a lot of royalty money for their music. Elvis brought their music through THE FRONT DOOR instead of THE BACK DOOR. I was right in the middle of ALL THAT being a DJ for many years and a record promotion man for another many years. Sometimes I wonder W.I.T.H. people get some of the crap they believe. No wonder oBozo got elected.
Listened to a bunch of versions, and this one is the best, despite all the staged hokum between Muddy, Bo and Walter. Can't tell if there's an organ on this, or it's just Didley's organ-sounding guitar. But this is a great gospel-like approach to this tune. No offense to Walter intended but I greatly prefer this version to Walter's original "swing" rendition. Great stuff!
Cool
@WILDAIR Yeah, I love that organ-like guitar sound of his. Another who has that sound was the white guitarist Lonnie Mack.
Hahahahahahaahahaha! nothing is better than little walter!!!
@MdCitizen Many of those early artist made many ROYALTY CHECKS off Elvis using there songs. I think he did it sometimes as "pay back" just to help them. All those artists loved what Elvis did to further Rock & Roll.
@jackofalltrades156 - Clapton was legendary in the '60s and '70's way before he started to cover J.J Cale. Bluebreakers, Cream, Derek and the Dominos
White kids had familiarity with and access to black music in the 1950's; it was just not mentioned by those people-in-suits. Radio WLAC out of Nashville played righteous music by Bo Diddley, Hank Ballard & Midnighters, (early) Drifters, Little Walter, (early)Ray Charles, Otis Williams, etc etc. As evening progressed and other stations went off the air, people from farther and farther away could tune in. The sponsors were two record shops who mailordered the music. People who served (cont)
Damm Right .
Love the gueeetar ! Bo Diddly we want some candy!
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Little Richard from the move Jimi Hendrix. I love when he said that. right on!
I like it......"Hi 5"...Borat
@DeutschensindLoser Correct - Elvis really put these guys on the map.
Can't find Super Blues on Google Play, where can I find this gem? ...such an upgrade from the original (no offense to Little Walter) x
@MWFrontier Elvis LOVED THESE GUYS,,JUST LIKE WE DO.
@48perkins - I agree. Elvis Costello will definitely stand the test of time, and those who don't know that will never understand! ;-)
hes got a roland gk2 on that cigar box, am i the only one that invisions him playin' groovy synth or vg!
muitooooooooooo lokoooooooooooo
Pure fucking eargasm.
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Yeah, the thing is that Little Richard was pissed off in the 50's because he didn't realize how much Boone was helping him, that artists get pissed off is more of an urban legend.
This shit makes my big toe jump up in my boot!!
Hey can you post more tunes from this album? It's one of my all time favorite especially "I'M a Man" I love the banter that's going on. - classic Chess Blues
Beautiful...even Elvis covered this.
This is the first of two super session albums that Chess produced in the late '60s
@sunb1ind this is Willie Dixons song, written for little walter...
Little Walter then Bo Diddley and then Muddy Waters
...that would be HALF
I don't think anybody's disagreeing!
As it was said "the blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll."
Shame about commercial rap though.
Are muddy and bo on guitar?
"When she's hot there ain't no collin' "
@thestoryplease Right On. I never heard it explained better. You can't tell some people that. When they get on me about white's stealing R&R I remind them that the GUITAR wasn't invented in Africa.
@Odin029 Your right, you don't have to bash Elvis, however homage should be paid to those artist that laid the foundation in which Elvis' legacy/empire is built upon, let alone Rock music. All the artist you mentioned didn't remotely reap the finances that Elvis achieved using 'their' music. They didn't receive royalties & a good portion of them died penniless. While someone else recorded their music & receives milions of dollars.