Little Red Rooster

The Rolling Stones

Little Red Rooster ~ The Rolling Stones

I bought this album for my first serious adult party — Mateus for sipping, some mousaka dolled out on melmac plates by first gal pal, Tina Van Van and Stevie Turbo, loads of cool lighting and just a house full of wonderful folks — we played this album over and over!  Yeah we thought the Mateus was pretty cool and some wound up in the hooka too!  So It’s the Monday Got The Blues selection from the Flimwell Papers because I got a hankerin’ for that party night and that time today…..

I Can't Quit You, Baby

Willie Dixon

Willie Dixon – I Can’t Quit You, Baby

You Can't Judge a Book By It's Cover

Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley - You Can’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover

“I look like a farmer, but, I’m a lover!”

Hootchie Cootchie Man

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - Hootchie Cootchie Man
Live in Santa Cruz, March 15th, 2000

One of the very few performances Bob has ever done of this song. You can clearly hear how happy he is when he is singing it. 

Wang Dang Doodle (Single Version)

Koko Taylor

“Wang Dang Doodle” by Koko Taylor

Willie Dixon wrote this song for Howlin’ Wolf—and both of them hated it.  But a few years later, Dixon—who was always very particular about pairing the right artist with the right song—called Koko Taylor in the middle of the night and told her he had a song that was just perfect for her.  He was right.

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