2:54
single, 1954
Written by Guitar Slim?
Guitar Slim died at age 32 of pneumonia, which is a musical tragedy, because he could have been a legend. He experimented with guitar distortion and when playing live, showed off such musical tricks and playing while perched on the shoulders of his assistant, with his guitar behind his back, or (as Hendrix would a decade later) plucking the strings with his teeth. This is a slow electric Mississippi blues. Slim bellows the lyrics with the gravitas that only those who shared his rough upbringing can muster. Lyrically, it's standard blues phraseology: "My woman, she have quit me, baby / And all my womens have put me down / Yes, I’ve got no money in my pocket, baby / And my friends don't come around."
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