The Blues a brief History of the Blues by Robert M. Baker



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Essential Songs


(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man, by Muddy Waters
Spoonful, by Howlin’ Wolf
Wang Dang Doodle, by Koko Taylor
Back Door Man, by Howlin’ Wolf
I Just Want to Make Love to You, by Muddy Waters
My Babe, by Little Walter
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, by Bo Diddley
Little Red Rooster, by Howlin’ Wolf
Pain in My Heart, by Willie Dixon
Signifying Monkey, by the Big Three Trio

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Songs

Notable Dixon songs and covers include:



  • "29 Ways" – Marc Cohn, Willie Dixon, The Blues Band

  • "300 Pounds Of Joy" – Howlin' Wolf, Tom Jones & Jools Holland

  • "After Five Long Years" – Willie Dixon

  • "As Long as I Have You" – Led Zeppelin

  • "Back Door Man" – Howlin' Wolf, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir

  • "Big Boss Man" – Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley, The Animals, The Grateful Dead, Jerry Lee Lewis

  • "Bring It on Home" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Dread Zeppelin, Johnny Thunders

  • "Built for Comfort" – Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO

  • "Crazy For My Baby" – Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Willie Dixon

  • "Crazy Love" – Buddy Guy

  • "Crazy Mixed Up World" – Little Walter

  • "Close to You" – Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors

  • "Dead Presidents" – Little Walter, The J. Geils Band

  • "Diddy Wah Diddy" – Bo Diddley, Captain Beefheart, The Blues Band, Bruce Springsteen (live)

  • "Do Me Right" – Lowell Fulson

  • "Do the Do" – Howlin' Wolf

  • "Don't Go No Farther" – Muddy Waters, The Doors

  • "Don't Tell Me Nothin´" – Willie Dixon – used in the movie The Color of Money

  • "Down in the Bottom" – Howlin' Wolf, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings

  • "Earthquake and Hurricane" – Willie Dixon

  • "Eternity" – Grateful Dead

  • "Everybody Needs Something" – Little Walter

  • "Everything But You" – Jimmy Witherspoon

  • "Everything's Got a Time" – Willie Dixon

  • "Evil" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Monster Magnet, Derek and the Dominos, Gary Moore, Cactus, The Faces, Steve Miller, Koko Taylor

  • "Flamin' Mamie" – Willie Dixon

  • "Help Me" – Sonny Boy Williamson II

  • "Gone Daddy Gone" - the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano incorporated elements of "I Just Want To Make Love To You" into his track; the former was later covered by Gnarls Barkley

  • "Grave Digger Blues" – Willie Dixon

  • "Groanin' the Blues" – Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton

  • "Hidden Charms" – Howlin' Wolf, Link Wray, Elvis Costello

  • "Hoochie Coochie Man"[6] – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Shadows of Knight, Eric Burdon, The Nashville Teens, Dion, The Allman Brothers Band, Alexis Korner, Steppenwolf, Chuck Berry, Motörhead, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey, Manfred Mann

  • "Howlin' For My Baby" – Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood

  • "I Ain't Superstitious" – Howlin' Wolf, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, Megadeth, The Jeff Beck Group, Chris Spedding

  • "I Can't Quit You Baby" – Little Milton, Otis Rush, Willie Dixon, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore, Dread Zeppelin, Nine Below Zero

  • "I Can't Understand" – Los Lobos (co-written with Cesar Rojas)

  • "I Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" – Willie Dixon

  • "If the Sea Was Whiskey" – Chris Thile

  • "I Got What It Takes" – Koko Taylor

  • "I Just Want To Make Love To You" – Muddy Waters, The Animals, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Shadows of Knight, Mungo Jerry, Grateful Dead, Foghat, The Rolling Stones, Etta James, Van Morrison, Paul Rodgers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, April Wine, Robben Ford, Meat Puppets, Cold Blood, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Righteous Brothers

  • "I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love" – Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson

  • "I'm Ready" – Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Long John Baldry, Eric Burdon, George Thorogood, Albert King

  • "Insane Asylum" – Koko Taylor, Kathy McDonald and Sly Stone, Diamanda Galás, Asylum Street Spankers, The Detroit Cobras, Oxbow feat. Marianne Faithful

  • "I Don't Play" – Robben Ford

  • "I Got My Brand on You" – Muddy Waters

  • "It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" – Styx

  • "I Want To Be Loved" – Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones

  • "Let Me Love You Baby" – Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, B. B. King

  • "Little Baby" – Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones

  • "Little Red Rooster" – Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Luther Allison, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Mama Thornton, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

  • "Love, Life & Money" – Johnny Winter

  • "Mellow Down Easy" – Little Walter & His Jukes, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Black Crowes, Carey Bell, ZZ Top, Jimmy Reed, Holly Golightly

  • "Million Dollar Baby" – Dizzy Gillespie

  • "My Babe" – Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Spencer Davis Group, John P. Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fire and Drum Band

  • "My Baby's Sweeter" – Little Walter, Fleetwood Mac

  • "My Captain" – Muddy Waters

  • "My John the Conqueror Root" – Muddy Waters

  • "Nervous" – Willie Dixon

  • "Oh Baby" – Little Walter

  • "One More Chance With You" – Little Walter

  • "Pain In My Heart" – Willie Dixon, The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead

  • "Pie in the Sky" – Willie Dixon

  • "Pretty Thing" – Bo Diddley, Pretty Things, Canned Heat

  • "Seventh Son" – Willie Mabon, Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Johnny Rivers, Sting, Climax Blues Band, Long John Baldry

  • "Same Thing" – The Band

  • "Sin And City" – Buddy Guy

  • "Shake For Me" – Stevie Ray Vaughan

  • "Sit and Cry (The Blues)" – Buddy Guy (co-written with Buddy Guy)

  • "Spoonful" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Dion, Paul Butterfield, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, The Who, Etta James Salty Dog

  • "Study War No More" – Willie Dixon

  • "The Same Thing" – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers Band, Sue Foley, Marc Ford, Grateful Dead

  • "The Seventh Son" – Willie Dixon

  • "Study No More" – Willie Dixon

  • "Third Degree" – Eddie Boyd, Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton, Leslie West

  • "Tollin' Bells" – Lowell Fulson, Savoy Brown Blues Band, Robert Cray

  • "Too Late" – Little Milton, Little Walter

  • "Too Many Cooks" – Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Mick Jagger

  • "Violent Love" – Otis Rush, The Big Three, Oingo Boingo, Dr. Feelgood, Skankin' Pickle

  • "Walkin' The Blues" – Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Kay

  • "Wang Dang Doodle" – Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, Box Tops, PJ Harvey, Rufus Thomas, The Pointer Sisters, The Blues Band, Widespread Panic

  • "Weak Brain, Narrow Mind" – Willie Dixon, Widespread Panic

  • "When My Left Eye Jumps" – Buddy Guy

  • "When The Lights Go Out" – Jimmy Witherspoon, Kim Wilson

  • "Who" – Little Walter

  • "Wigglin' Worm" – Willie Dixon

  • "You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At Its Cover" – Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Cactus, The Yardbirds, Beat Farmers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tim Hardin, The Merseybeats, Elliott Murphy, Long John Baldry, The Monkees, Eric Clapton, Roy Buchanan.

  • "You Don't Love Me" – Booker T. & the M.G.s, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills

  • "You Know My Love" – Otis Rush, Gary Moore

  • "You'll Be Mine" – Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. Feelgood

  • "You Need Love" – Muddy Waters

"Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" was appropriated, without credit, from Dixon's "You Need Love". Although the main guitar riff was composed by Jimmy Page himself, Robert Plant based the lyrics on Dixon's song. Dixon and his music publisher received credit and royalties, after a 1985 lawsuit was settled out of court.

"You Need Loving" recorded by The Small Faces in 1965, is another uncredited loose version of the song



  • "You Shook Me" – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin

  • "Young Fashioned Ways" – Muddy Waters


Hoochie Coochie Man

by Willie Dixon


Gypsy woman told my momma, before I was born
You got a boy-child comin', gonna be a son-of-a-gun
Gonna make these pretty women, jump and shout
And the world will only know, a-what it's all about

Y'know I'm here


Everybody knows I'm here
And I'm the hoochie-coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here

On the seventh hour, of the seventh day,


on the seventh month, the seventh doctor said:
"He's born for good luck, and I know you see;
Got seven hundred dollars, and don't you mess with me

Y'know I'm here


Everybody knows I'm here
And I'm the hoochie-coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here

Gypsy woman told my momma


Said "Ooh, what a boy,
he gonna make so many women,
jump and shout for joy"

Y'know I'm here


Everybody knows I'm here
And I'm the hoochie-coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here

Gypsy woman told my momma, before I was born


You got a boy-child comin', gonna be a son-of-a-gun
Gonna make these pretty women, jump and shout
And the world will only know, a-what it's all about

Y'know I'm here


Everybody knows I'm here
And I'm the hoochie-coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here

Additional 2nd verse from original 1954 Muddy Waters take:

I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too
I got John the Conqueror, I'm gonna mess with you
I'm gonna make you, pretty girl, lead me by the hand
Then the world will know, the Hoochie-Coochie Man
Spoonful

by Willie Dixon


It could be a spoonful of coffee
It could be a spoonful of tea
But one little spoon of your precious love
Is good enough for me

Men lie about that spoonful


Some cry about that spoonful
Some die about that spoonful
Everybody fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

It could be a spoonful of water


To save you from the desert sand
But one spoon of lead from my forty-five
Will save you from another man

Men lie about that spoonful


Some cry about that spoonful
Some die about that spoonful
Everybody fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

It could be a spoonful of sugar


It could be a spoonful of tea
But one little spoon of your precious love
Is good enough for me

Men lie about that spoonful


Some cry about that spoonful
Some die about that spoonful
Everybody fight about a spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful
That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful

It could be a spoonful of sugar


It could be a spoonful of tea
But one little spoon of your precious love
Is good enough for me
Wang Dang Doodle

by Willie Dixon

 Tell Automatic Slim , tell Razor Totin' Jim
Tell Butcher Knife Totin' Annie, tell Fast Talking Fanny
A we gonna pitch a ball, a down to that union hall
We gonna romp and tromp till midnight
We gonna fuss and fight till daylight
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long

Tell Kudu-Crawlin' Red, tell Abyssinian Ned


Tell ol' Pistol Pete, everybody gonna meet
Tonight we need no rest, we really gonna throw a mess
We gonna to break out all of the windows,
we gonna kick down all the doors
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long

Tell Fats and Washboard Sam, that everybody gonna to jam


Tell Shaky and Boxcar Joe, we got sawdust on the floor
Tell Peg and Caroline Dye, we gonna have a time
When the fish scent fill the air, there'll be snuff juice everywhere
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long

Back Door Man

by Willie Dixon


I am the back door man
I am the back door man
Well, the men don't know
But the little girls they understand

When ev'rybody is-a tryin' to sleep


I'm-a somewhere makin' my midnight creep
An ev'ry mo'nin when the rooster crows
He's tellin' me that it's the time to go

I am the backdo' man


I am the backdo' man
Well, the men don't know
But the little girls they understand
Well, they took me to the doctor
Shot full of holes
The nurse she cried, 'Save his soul!'
I was 'cussed of murder in first degree
The judge wife cried, 'Let the man go free!'

I am the backdo' man


I am the backdo' man
Well, the men don't know
But the little girls they understand

I was accussed a-murder in the first degree


The judge wife cried, 'Let the man go free!'
The cop's wife cried, 'Don't take him down
I'd-a rather be in six feet of ground!'

I am the backdo' man


I am the backdo' man
Well, the men don't know
But the little girls they understand

I am the backdo' man


I am the backdo' man
Well, the men don't know
But the little girls they understand

'Ooh!'


I am the backdo' man
I am the backdo' man
Well, the men don't know
But the little girls they understand

'Ooh!'


I am
I am
I am
The backdo' man.


I Just Want to Make Love to You

by Willie Dixon


I don't want you to be no slave
I don't want you to work all day
I don't want you to be true
I just want to make love to you

I don't want you to wash my clothes


I don't want you to keep my home
I don't want your money too
I just want to make love to you

Well I can see by the way that you switch and walk


And I can tell by the way that you baby talk
And I know by the way that you treat your man
I wanna love you baby, it's a cryin' shame

I don't want you to bake my bread


I don't want you to make my bed
I don't want you cause I'm sad and blue
I just want to make love to you

My Babe

by Willie Dixon


My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh yeah she don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh yeah she don't stand no cheatin', 
She don't stand none of that midnight creepin'
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My babe, I know she love me, my babe


Oh yes, I know she love me, my babe
Oh yes, I know she love me,
She don't do nothin' but kiss and hug me
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe


Oh no, she don't stand no cheatin', my babe
Oh no, she don't stand no cheatin',
Ev'rything she do she do so pleasin'
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My baby don't stand no foolin', my babe


Oh yeah, she don't stand no foolin', my babe
Oh yeah, she don't stand no foolin',
When she's hot there ain't no coolin'
My babe, true little baby, my babe
She's my baby (true little baby)

You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover

by Willie Dixon


You can't judge an apple by looking at a tree,

You can't judge honey by looking at the bee,

You can't judge a daughter by looking at the mother,

You can't judge a book by looking at the cover.


Oh can't you see,

Oh you misjudge me,

I look like a farmer,

But I'm a lover,

You can't judge a book by looking at the cover.
Oh come on in closer baby,

Hear what else I gotta say!

You got your radio turned down too low,

Turn it up!


You can't judge sugar by looking at the cane,

You can't judge a woman by looking at her man,

You can't judge a sister by looking at her brother,

You can't judge a book by looking at the cover.


Oh can't you see,

Oh you misjudge me,

I look like a farmer,

But I'm a Lover,

You can't judge a book by looking at the cover.
You can't judge a fish by lookin' in the pond,

You can't judge right from looking at the wrong,

You can't judge one by looking at the other,

You can't judge a book by looking at the cover.


Oh can't you see,

Oh you misjudge me,

I look like a farmer,

But I'm a lover,

You can't judge a book by looking at the cover.
Little Red Rooster

by Willie Dixon


I had a little red rooster
Too lazy to crow 'fore day
I had a little red rooster
Too lazy to crow 'fore day
He kept ev'rything in the barnyard
Eager settin' a-ready to lay

You know the dogs begin to bark


And the, the hounds
They begin to howl
You know the dogs they begin to bark
And the, the hounds
They begin to howl
You know my little red rooster's gone
Know the little red rooster's on the prowl

Now, if you see my little red rooster


Somebody, please drive him home
Now, if you seen my little red rooster
Somebody, ple-eee-ase run 'em home
There ain't been no peace in the barnyard
Since my little red rooster been gone.
Pain in My Heart

by Willie Dixon


This pain in my heart, sometimes it's true
It makes me happy; sometimes I act the fool
This pain in my heart, is only here for you

This pain in my heart, it makes me sigh


Sometimes I'm laughin', again it makes me cry
This pain in my heart, it makes you my desire

Oh, baby, you know it's true


Deep down in my heart dear,
there's only love for you

This pain in my heart, it drives me mad


Sometimes it's good, again I feel so bad
This pain in my heart, the worst I've ever had

Oh, baby, you know it's true


Deep down in my heart dear,
there's only love for you

This pain in my heart, it drives me mad


Sometimes it's good, again I feel so bad
This pain in my heart, the worst I've ever had
Evil

by Willie Dixon


If you're a long way from home, can't sleep at night
Grab your telephone, something just ain't right
That's evil, evil is goin' on wrong
I am warnin' ya brother, you better watch your happy home

Well, long way from home and can't sleep at all


You know another mule is kickin' in your stall
That's evil, evil is goin' on wrong
I am warnin' ya brother, you better watch your happy home

You better catch him, 'cause somethin's wrong, in your home

Well, if ya call her on the telephone, and she answers awful slow
Grab the first train smokin', if you have to hobo
That's evil, evil is goin' on wrong
I am warnin' ya brother, you better watch your happy home

If you make it to your house, knock on the front door


Run around to the back, you'll catch him, just before he go
That's evil, evil is goin' on
I am warnin' ya brother, you better watch your happy home

I Ain't Superstitious

by Willie Dixon


Well, I ain't superstitious, black cat just cross my trail
Well, I ain't superstitious, oh the black cat just cross my trail
Don't sweep me with no broom, I might get put in jail

When my right hand itches, I gets money for sure


When my right hand itches, I gets money for sure
But, when my left eye jumps, somebody's got to go

Well, I ain't superstitious, black cat just cross my trail


Well, I ain't superstitious, black cat just cross my trail
Don't sweep me with no broom, I just might get put in jail

Well, the dogs are howlin, all over the neighborhood


Whoa, the dogs are howlin, all over the neighborhood
That is true sign of death, baby, that ain't no good

Well, I'm not superstitious, but that black cat across my trail


Well, I'm not superstitious, a black cat across my trail
Don't sweep me with no broom, I just might get put in jail
Dead Presidents

by Willie Dixon


Them dead presidents
Them dead presidents
Well I ain't broke but I'm badly bent
Everybody loves them dead presidents

A little bit of Lincoln can't park the car


Washington he can't go too far
Jefferson is good, played the track
If you think you're gonna bring some big bitch back

Them dead presidents


Them dead presidents
Well I ain't broke but I'm badly bent
Everybody loves them dead presidents

Hamilton on a ten can get you straight


But Jackson on a twenty is really great
And if you're talkin' about a poor man's friend
Grant will get you out of whatever you're in

Them dead presidents


Them dead presidents
Them dead presidents
Well I ain't broke but I'm badly bent
Everybody loves them dead presidents

A hundred dollar Franklin is really sweet


A five hundred McKinley is the one for me
If I get a Cleveland, I'm really set
A thousand dollar Cleveland is hard to get

Them dead presidents


Them dead presidents
Well I ain't broke but I'm badly bent
Everybody loves them dead presidents
I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love

by Willie Dixon


See you watching me like a hawk
I don't mind the way you talk
But if you touch me somethin's got to give
I live the life I love and I love the life I live

So if you see me and think I'm wrong


Don't worry 'bout me just let me go
My sweet life ain't nothing but a thrill
I live the life I love and I love the life I live

My diamond ring and my money too


Tomorrow night could belong to you
The girls move me at their will
I live the life I love and I love the life I live

I may bet a thousand on a bet this time


One minute later I can't cover your dime
Tomorrow night I might be over the hill
I just want you to know baby the way I feel

You see me walkin' as I pass you by


Don't talk about me 'cause I could be high
Just forgive me if you will
I live the life I love and I love the life I live



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