Got My Mojo Working

Muddy Waters · 1960 · Live version recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1960

Context

Written by Preston "Red" Foster and first cut by Ann Cole in 1956, "Got My Mojo Working" was recorded by Muddy Waters for Chess in Chicago on December 1, 1956, with reworked lyrics and arrangement. His best-known version is the one captured at the Newport festival on July 3, 1960, as the set closer, released on At Newport 1960. It entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Blues, spirituals, work songs.

By the same artist

• My Home Is in the Delta (1963)

Sources

• EN: Got My Mojo Working
• alldylan.com

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