I can't quit you baby

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I can't quit you baby
Otis Rush
publication 1956
length 2:56
Genre (s) blues
Author (s) Willie Dixon
Label Cobra
Cover versions
1966 John Lee Hooker
1967 John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
1969 Led Zeppelin
1969 Little Milton
1969 Willie Dixon
1989 Nine Below Zero
1990 Dread Zeppelin
2004 Gary Moore
2017 The Rolling Stones

I Can't Quit You Baby is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon that was first recorded by Chicago blues musician Otis Rush in 1956. The twelve-measure blues has been recorded by various musicians, including Led Zeppelin , who added it to their debut album, Led Zeppelin .

Version by Otis Rush

I Can't Quit You Baby was a means for arranger and producer Willie Dixon to bring Otis Rush and Cobra Records to market, as the song was the first single for both. In his view, this was a success as the song reached number six on the Billboard R&B charts in 1956 . In his autobiography, Dixon stated that I Can't Quit You Baby was about a relationship that distracted Rush at the time. Dixon used that to make a passionate entrance.

Otis Rush revisited I Can't Quit You Baby several times over the years. Best known is the recording for the blues collection Chicago | The Blues | Today! Vol. 2 from 1966. This version contains a different arrangement with an unusual turnaround (the tonic followed by a chord a semitone above the tonic) and staccato guitar interjections. This is the version most cover versions are based on.

Version of Led Zeppelin

The British rock band Led Zeppelin took I Can not Quit You Baby 1968 for her debut album Led Zeppelin on. Their version basically follows Otis Rush's recording from 1966, but the instrumentation and dynamics have been changed. This version also includes a pause at the beginning of the guitar solo, with Jimmy Page playing four bars unaccompanied before starting the solo. Although the turnaround is missed at the end of the solo, I Can't Quit You Baby is one of the most successful pieces of the first album after Keith Shadwick, with no lackluster passages and in a perfectly symmetrical form, all in the classic blues tradition.

Led Zeppelin played I Can't Quit You Baby regularly at concerts from 1968 to early 1970. Two live versions from 1969 are part of the 1997 Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions . A performance of the song on January 9, 1970 at the Royal Albert Hall can be seen on the 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD (an edited version of this performance was released on the 1982 album Coda ). In 1970, the song was set list of deleted Led Zeppelin concerts, as the band also material from III Led Zeppelin wanted to play at the concerts; I Can't Quit You Baby has basically been replaced with Since I've Been Loving You . However, the song was played as part of a Whole Lotta Love medley during several Led Zeppelin concerts in 1972 and 1973. The song was rehearsed by the members of Led Zeppelin for the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary Celebration, but was not played during the concert.

Other versions

A variety of musicians have recorded I Can't Quit You Baby , including John Lee Hooker for his album More Real Folk Blues (produced 1966, released 1991), John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers for Crusade (1967), Little Milton single with Checker Records (1969), Nine Below Zero for Live at the Venue (1989), Willie Dixon for I Am the Blues (1969), Dread Zeppelin for Un-Led-Ed (1990) and Gary Moore for Power of the Blues (2004 ) The Rolling Stones for Blue & Lonesome 2017.

Award

Otis Rush's single, I Can't Quit You Baby on Cobra Records, was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1994 .

literature

  • Dave Lewis: The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin . Omnibus Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9
  • Chris Welch: Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused: The Stories Behind Every Song . Carlton, 1998, ISBN 1-56025-818-7

Individual evidence

  1. Gerard Herzhaft; Paul Harris; Jerry Hanssler; Anton J. Mikofsky: Encyclopedia of The Blues . 2nd Edition. University of Arkansas Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-55728-452-5 .
  2. a b Willie Dixon; Don Snowden: I Am The Blues . Da Capo Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-306-80415-1 .
  3. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top R&B Singles 1942–1988 . Records Research, Inc., 1988, ISBN 978-0-89820-069-0 .
  4. ^ A b Keith Shadwick: Led Zeppelin: The Story of a Band and Their Music 1968-1980 . Backbeat Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-87930-871-1 .
  5. ^ A b c Dave Lewis: The Complete Guide to the Music of Led Zeppelin . Omnibus Press, 1994, ISBN 0-7119-3528-9 .
  6. ^ Blues Hall of Fame Inductees. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; accessed on February 4, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blues.org