And IMO the very best version even though Elmore James wrote and originally released it (and you got to give props to the artist that created it). But, I think the Paul Butterfield Blues Band nailed it. And I'm pretty sure that's the doomed Mike Bloomfield on the slide guitar.
I saw Johnny Winter at Painter's Mill Music Fair (it was a venue) in...oh, '71. His white hair was down to his utterly white ass. Man didn't have a bit of melanin in him.
Great concert. Everybody played Painter's Mill and it was this small, in the round, venue in the Baltimore suburbs. A good friend of mine's much older cousin owned Tree Frog Productions that brought most of the rock acts to that venue....but he never would give us free tickets! haha
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@bulllee - another thing about the Little Walter tune....listen to this gospel song and you will see the exact same rhythm, I believe. This is not criticism of Walter...all blues, R&B, Soul, and gospel share some very big roots and in particular rhythmic beats.
When I heard the Walter tune you posted I started racking my head for why I thought I knew that song...well, I didn't. I was thinking of this one, This Train i(s Bound for Glory). I'm still not sure who I had heard do this song in the far past...but perhaps it was the Weavers or similar that my mother used to play on the HiFi (that's right, one speaker haha) when she cleaned the house.
Just great...but I particularly love that little girl on bass...can she reach the tuning pegs? haha She's rocking back and forth with that big bass and I was waiting to see it just knock her little self over. Very cool.
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