Tacky Raccoons

[Found at Arbroath.]

Twilight Zone-ish.

Interesting documentary… Interviews of some of the patrons of the “Spin Cycle” laundromat somewhere in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Oh, yeah. “Ya ya ya aya…” Gotta post some music. Do not mock those who try.

[Also found at Arbroath.]

Howlin’ Wolf’s classic “Smokestack Lightning.”

[UPDATE: The bass player in this clip is Willie Dixon. THE Willie Dixon. Sorry I missed giving him credit. Dixon wrote a number of songs that later became rock standards. He recorded some albums himself, and didn’t stutter when he sang. More after the break below.]

“Theme to Peter Gunn.” Here’s Henry Mancini’s live version, introduced by Steve Allen. (The horn section rocks, whether you like it or not.)

Last Post on THIS Spin Cycle: The Late Great Roy Buchanan‘s explosive take on Mancini’s “Theme to Peter Gunn.” (This one’s for all you Aussies – Thanks for the hula-hoops, mates!)

More Willie Dixon: From Wikipedia:

• “29 Ways” – Marc Cohn, Willie Dixon, The Blues Band
• “300 Pounds Of Joy” – Howlin’ Wolf
• “After Five Long Years” – Willie Dixon
• “Back Door Man“^[9] – Howlin’ Wolf, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir
• “Big Boss Man” – Jimmy Reed
• “Bring It on Home” – Sonny Boy Williamson II, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Dread Zeppelin
• “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, J. Geils Band
• “Diddy Wah Diddy” – Bo Diddley, Captain Beefheart, The Blues Band
• “Do Me Right” – Lowell Fulson
• “Do the Do” – Howlin’ Wolf
• “Don’t Go No Farther” – Muddy Waters
• “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
• “Hidden Charms” – Howlin’ Wolf, Link Wray
• “Hoochie Coochie Man“^[6] – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Shadows of Knight, 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
• “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“^[6] – Muddy Waters, 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 Sweat
• “I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love” – Muddy Waters
• “I’m Ready”^[6] – Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Long John Baldry, 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
• “Little Red Rooster“^[6] – 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
• “Million Dollar Baby” – Dizzy Gillespie
• “My Babe“^[6] – Little Walter, 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, Otis Redding
• “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
• “Sin And City” – Buddy Guy
• “Shake For Me” – Stevie Ray Vaughan
• “Spoonful“^[6] – 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
• “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
• “Too Late” – Little Milton, Little Walter
• “Too Many Cooks” – Buddy Guy, Robert Cray
• “Violent Love” – Otis Rush, The Big Three, Oingo Boingo, Dr. Feelgood
• “Walkin’ The Blues” – Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Kay
• “Wang Dang Doodle“^[6] – 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
• “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“^[9] – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin
• “Young Fashioned Ways” – Muddy Waters

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