It became one of Waters' most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon's role as Chess Records' chief songwriter. [28] Jimmy Rogers, who was Waters' second guitarist, remembered that it took a little longer: Dixon came to the club and he would hum it to Muddy and write the lyrics out. Muddy Waters hoochie coochie man Newport 1960 According to Waters, Dixon followed him into the restroom to pitch him the song. Appearing in the late 19th century, the hoochie coochie was a sexually provocative dance. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a stop-time musical arrangement. Learn to play guitar by chord / tabs using chord diagrams, transpose the key, watch video lessons and much more. [12][c] Although Waters was ambivalent about hoodoo,[d] he saw the music as having its own power:[11], When you're writin' them songs that are coming from down that way [Mississippi Delta], you can't leave out somethin' about that mojo thing. [35] Although there are some moments in the alternate take when a player's timing rushes or drags perceptibly, because the band is so tight, the difference with the master is only six seconds (for a nearly three-minute song). [63] Record producer Marshall Chess took a simpler view: "It was sex. [60] The chorus, "But you know I'm here, everybody knows I'm here, Well you know I'm the hoochie coochie man, everybody knows I'm here",[52] confirms the narrator's identity as both the subject of the gypsy's prophecy as well as an omnipotent seer himself. So, hoochie coochie is definitely something sexy and female: What does that make a "hoochie coochie man"? [5], The term "hoochie coochie", with variations in the spelling, is used in different contexts. Between 1947 and 1954, Muddy Waters charted a number of hits recording for Chess Records and its Artistocrat predecessor. A couple songs, particularly "Hoochie Coochie Man", have absolutely been done to death, both by Muddy's own endless re-recordings, not to mention all the other artists' covers, but that's a minor gripe. [2] (Fred Below, who replaced Evans during 1954, is sometimes listed as the drummer. Save with Used - Good. [49] According to Palmer, Dixon upped the ante with more "flamboyance, macho posturing, and extra-generous helping of hoodoo sensationalism". Dixon's lyrics build on Waters' earlier use of braggadocio and themes of fortune and sex appeal. [6] The song shows Delta blues guitar-style roots, but the lyrics place "emphasis on supernatural elements—gypsies, fortune telling, [and] luck", according to musicologist Robert Palmer. [5] It remained on the charts for 13 weeks, making it Waters' longest charting record up to that time (two more Waters-Dixon songs, "Just Make Love to Me (I Just Want to Make Love to You") and "Close to You", both later also lasted 13 weeks). Internet Explorer is no longer supported on Last.fm. Muddy Waters. 0. I [sic][h] got a boy child's comin', gonna be a son of a gun [75] He reworked it as a four-note figure, which is repeated for the entire song without a progression to other chords. [46] He adds that this type of heavy sound was rarely heard in small music combos before rock. [78], According to Palmer, songwriters adapted the phrase for other artists and it was "soon absorbed into the lingua franca of blues, jazz, and rock and roll". Do you know any background info about this album? level: EZ. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal Listen to Hoochie Cooche Man by Jimmy Smith on Apple Music. [17] At the time, Waters was performing at the Club Zanzibar in Chicago. Waters elaborated, "If such a thing as a mojo had've been good, you'd've had to go down to Louisiana to find one. Complete your Muddy Waters collection. The Foundation noted that "In addition to countless versions by Chicago blues artists, the song has been recorded by performers as diverse as Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, and jazz organist Jimmy Smith"[79] to which Grove adds B.B. Because the blues, you know, has always been a women's market". [82] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" recognizes the song's influence on rock. [2] Two takes of the song were recorded. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, Issaquena County, Mississippi, April … Sold by: Goodwill Minnesota. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. I’m that old hoochie coochie man, a bad son of a gun. SKU: MN0096740 Hoochie coochie man (ver. Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, Issaquena County, Mississippi, April 4, 1913 - Westmont, Illinois, April 30, 1983) was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the father of, Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, Issaquena County, Mississippi, April 4, 1913 - Westmont, Illinois, April 30, 1983) was an American blues musician and is generally considered "the …, Poet Of the Blues (Mojo Workin'- Blues For The Next Generation), Facebook (pages/Muddy-Waters/103746382997288), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. [37] The players' use of amplification, pushed to the point of distortion, is a key feature of Chicago blues and another rock precedent. [67] In 1972, Waters recorded an "unplugged" rendition of the song, with Louis Myers on acoustic guitar and George "Mojo" Buford on unamplified harmonica. Well, I'm the hoochie coochie man. [19] "Third Degree" became Dixon's first composition to enter the record charts. American composer Elmer Bernstein quoted the figure in another film, The Man with the Golden Arm,[32] which received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1955. [24] The dance is associated with entertainers Little Egypt[25] and Sophie Tucker,[26] but by the 1910s it declined in popularity. After the song's initial success in 1954, Waters recorded several live and new studio versions. If you have ever seen Muddy then, the effect he had on women [was clear]. 2) Chords by Muddy Waters. The gypsy woman told my mother / Before I was born / You got a boy child's comin' / He's gonna be a son of a gun / Gonna make pretty womens / Jump and shout / Then the world Just buy it, it's beyond essential. [71] The song was important to Dixon's career and signaled a change as well – Chess became convinced of Dixon's value as a songwriter and secured his relationship as such with the label. [45] The whole band plays it as a shuffle with a triplet rhythm, which Campbell describes as a "free-for-all [with] harmonica trills, guitar riffs, piano chords, thumping bass, [and] shuffle pattern on the drums". View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "Hoochie Coochie Man" on Discogs. [33] The narrator boasts of his good fortune and his effect on women as aided by hoodoo. [33] Rock musicians are among the many who have interpreted it. [69] They re-recorded it for I'm Ready, the Grammy Award-winning album produced by Johnny Winter. [62] He sees it as challenge to the fear of miscegenation in the dying days of racial segregation in the United States. [39][21] The different textures provides the tune with a strong contrast,[34] which helps underscore the lyrics. slide. [75] Waters, not to be outdone, responded two months later with an answer song to "I'm a Man", titled "Mannish Boy". [44] Although Palmer comments that the entire group phrases the riff in unison,[32] Boone describes it as a "heavy, unhurried counterpoint by all the instruments together". [34], For the second eight-bars of the progression, the song follows the standard I–IV–V7 structure, which maintains its connection to traditional blues. Where we were, in the Delta, they couldn't do no nothin'. [50] The opening verse starts before the narrator is born[51] and references Waters' 1947 song "Gypsy Woman": The gypsy woman told my mother, before I was born "Hoochie Coochie Man" was Waters' 10th hit and best-selling single ever. Mick Abrahams (of Jethro Tull) covered it on his 2013 album Hoochie Coochie Man. [68] Chess released it in 1994 on the Waters rarities collection One More Mile. King, Buddy Guy, John P. Hammond, the Allman Brothers Band, and Eric Clapton. "Hoochie Coochie Man" (originally titled "I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man")[b] is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. I got the black cat bone and I got a mojo, too. [54] These include a black cat bone, a John the conqueror root, and a mojo,[55] the last of which figured in "Louisiana Blues". [45] In 1984, Waters' original "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame. [66] Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Coochie '', `` Hoochie Coochie Man Tab by Eric Clapton with free online Tab player Zanzibar Chicago. Which projects the good fortune and sex appeal ; McKinley Morganfield a.k.a originated at the Philadelphia Exhibition... King, Buddy Guy, John P. Hammond, the term `` Coochie! To record the song 's initial success in nearly two years variety of styles, `` Hoochie Coochie has... 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