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Topic: Help me out (blues influence)

Hello,

I haven't posted anything in a long time because I'm working on my Master's degree in graphic design. I'm making blues website.
I am also creating an online classroom for blues music. One of the topics I'm going to be covering is old blues songs that were covered by other bands and sometimes misinterpreted as originals.  Here is an example of my list so far:

#  ORIGINAL - Robert Johnson - "Crossroad Blues" (1937)
# Eric Clapton - "Crossroads" (1968)
# ORGINAL - Ledbelly - "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" (1944)
# Nirvana - "Where Did You Sleep Night" (1994)
# ORIGINAL - Ledbelly - "House of the Rising Sun"
# The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun" (1964)

I'm going to add "Outside Woman Blues" covered by Cream and Covered by BackDoorSlam
and Ledbelly's Black Betty...

you'd be surprised to find out how many people i've shown this to never heard of ledbelly

But, since you are all blues scholars in your own rite, I could use some additional ones, just off the top of your head. You can leave out stereotypical ones like Hendrix's "Voodoo Child" covered by SRV, KWS, and everybody that's ever played a guitar. I'm going for more trivia-like ones..where people say "I didn't know that was a cover." Didn't Led Zeppelin cover some awkward blues tracks? Leave nothing to chance. If Johnny Cash or Elvis covered an old blues song and people recognize it as an original - reference the cover song and the original here! the years released would be helpful, but not required.

thanks everyone!

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

Baby please don´t go - Big Joe Williams
                                - Lightnin´ Hopkins
                                - Van Morrison/Them
                                - AC/DC

.... and probably many more ....

I´m sure there´s TONS more, but that one just came to my mind. Dont think that Zep´s "Nobody´s fault but mine" has something to do with Blind Willie Johnson´s "Nobody´s fault but mine"?!

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

zep also covered traveling riverside blues. megadeth covered I ain't supersticious by willie dixon. There are so many more, I'll come up with a bigger list when I get off work

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

Robert Johnson - They're Red Hot, covered by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love To You, covered by Foghat

John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, covered by George Thorogood

Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love, covered by George Thorogood

Buddy Guy - Mary Had A Little Lamb, covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan (I still know a number of people that don't know this was a cover)

Howlin' Wolf - Back Door Man, covered by The Doors

Ray Charles - I Got A Woman, sampled by Kanye West

One Way Out - Sonny Boy Williamson, covered by The Allman Brothers Band

Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell, covered by The Allman Brothers Band

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

eva wrote:

Baby please don´t go - Big Joe Williams
                                - Lightnin´ Hopkins
                                - Van Morrison/Them
                                - AC/DC

.... and probably many more ....

Muddy Waters
Aerosmith

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

Deezer wrote:

Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell, covered by The Allman Brothers Band

... and by Taj Mahal wink

Eva

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks
Elmo James - Musta did Somebody Wrong, The Sky is Crying

I got mo

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

Every song Willy Dixon ever wrote was covered by somebody else.

Nic, start there.  You'll be surprised.  Most Muddy & Wolf songs were Dixon's.

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

GREAT thread Nic....... I'm going to wait until Steve gets home to reply....... this is right up his alley........ but I agree with everything Jeff said for starters.......

Also, I've MISSED you and am glad you're posting again.  smile


smile  Libby   smile

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

bigjeffjones wrote:

Every song Willy Dixon ever wrote was covered by somebody else.

Nic, start there.  You'll be surprised.  Most Muddy & Wolf songs were Dixon's.

LOL!!!

That's funny. The "groomsman" of great songs. Writes it, someone else popularizes it. Kind of like the LEONARD COHEN of the blues!

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

led zepellin=muddy waters.


not really, but close.

check the lawsuit over "whole lotta love"

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

That´s Allright Mama, My Baby left me     both Arthur Crudup covered by Elvis
Lawdy Miss Clawdy   Lloyd Price, covered by Elvis, Joe Cocker, Beatles
Love in Vain   Robert Johnson, covered by Stones
Black Magic Woman   Peter Green covered by Santana
Wooden Heart   traditional German Blues song (Muß i denn......) covered by Elvis (LOL)
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Deezer wrote:

John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, covered by George Thorogood

Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love, covered by George Thorogood

Amos Milburn was the original writer and performer of One Burbon, One Scotch, One Beer, John Lee Hooker covered it, and Thorogood covered Hookers version,
Likewise Crawling King Snake was a Big Bill Williams song, covered by Hooker, later covered by the Doors.

Re Led Zep, there are many, Gallows Pole I believe was also a Led Belly song, Custard Pie is the Wolf's Killing Floor, How Many More Times is based on Wolf's No Place To Go, and Bring It On Home is a Sonny Boy Williamson song Zepped up.
Blues Deluxe by the Jeff Beck band (made famous by someone else we know) was basically a reworking of Buddy Guy's Stone Crazy.

I will return to this subject later when I've thought of some more...

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14 Reply by NPB_EST.1979 (edited by NPB_EST.1979 2008-11-13 14:40:34)

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Thanks for moving the topic, moderator. I was originally going to post it here, I don't know what I was thinking!?
smile big_smile

How many artists have done High Water Everywhere???

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

Thanks for moving the topic, moderator. I was originally going to post it here, I don't know what I was thinking!?
smile big_smile

How many artists have done High Water Everywhere???

Four, Charley Patton who wrote it, David Honeyboy Edwards, Rory Block and someone else who's name escapes me: smile See bellow. All Music is a good source as you can search by song name and also listen to most clips.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am … =17:641777

"The recently formed Edinburgh Blues Club has identified an appetite for the personal communication between musicians and audience that the blues long ago perfected." The Herald Newspaper (Scotland)
http://www.edinburgh-blues.uk

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

Dylan did "High Water (For Charley Patton)" live on his new album Tell Tale Signs.
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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

Ray Charles - I got a woman
redone by John Mayer Trio

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Re: Help me out (blues influence)

Almost everything Robert Johnson wrote was covered by Clapton and someone else.
Ditto Aaron Walker.  Billy Miles wrote "Have You Ever Loved a Woman?"  Freddy King did that and EC as well.
The LZ lawsuit was Willy Dixon...he won it.  Muddy did the tune.  Willy wrote it.

Dixon wrote Let me love you baby Buddy and Stevie did that.  Paul Butterfield did a bunch of JB Hutto tunes.  Let's go back and black if you wanna see where it started.

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