Was this Grohl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAXPUN2z2CE
QOTSA owned the industry in the late noughties; what an anthem we have here!!!
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Strangely, the next track on my YT favorites list is also a Mississippi Fred McDowell track without which the Rolling Stones would not be approaching their 60th anniversary. Of course, these days it would, rightly, be seen as very inappropriate.
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Originally recorded by Sonny Boy Williamson in 1937:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj293l5w2MU
I don’t recall the Stones recording a version of it; which album is it on?
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I didn’t mean that they recorded that particular song, although they may have played it live, but in their early days they basically copied the blues genre wholesale. As did many others, of course.
Back then nobody cared about that, but these days days they’d probably get lambasted for cultural appropriation.
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I could hear influences in the Fred McDowell stuff you posted, especially in between the vocals when the two guitars are weaving gave a clear resemblance of a Stones vibe.
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Thanks for the clarification.
The Rolling Stones (Jagger/Richards) list their musical influences as Muddy_Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin’ Wolf and Bo Diddley. And Keith Richards lists his favourite bluesman as Robert Johnson.
So without doubt a very strong blues oriented grounding for the group.
Whether they were directly influenced by McDowell, however, is debatable. The Stones formed in 1962 and released their first singles in 1963. McDowell didn’t start recording until 1960 when he appeared on a number of obscure Folk/Blues/Gospel compilation albums; his first solo album wasn’t released until 1964, the same year the Stones released their first album.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwsl-SuOEXc
I dedicate this to @Lowton_Red. One of my absolute favorites. When it all became The Rolling Stones Blues.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=humDgJ-SmHI
This one I’ll dedicate to @legalalien
Did you all know that after reaching the age of 16, @Alright_Now did not buy any LPs until he had bought all the Stones LPs? It’s a good trivial pursuit question if you need one.
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I’m not sure that there was a rock band of that era that wasn’t influenced by the Blues to some degree or another. The early Stones stuff oozes it and you can still hear it today to a degree, especially in Keef’s playing. All those open tunings and the like.
What still astounds me to this day, particularly in the rock genre. You basically have a long list of people that were absolute animals at one point or another or even still. And yet when you drill down they really know their stuff. They have a pretty deep understanding of music despite giving the impression that they are basically dumb as f***, off their heads or both.
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Thank you @Alright_Now, an excellent choice.
When your spine is cracking and your hands they shake;
Heart is bursting and your butt’s going to break;
Woman’s cussing, you can hear her scream;
Feel like murder in the first degree
Ain’t nobody slowing down no way;
Everybody’s stepping on their accelerator;
Don’t matter where you are;
Everybody’s going to need a ventilator
…reads a bit like my life 
And, Mick Taylor is, in my opinion, the most technically gifted guitarist to have ever played with the Stones.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFk75wQ7zcI
Got bit by Neil today, again again and again. A truly genuine and admirable rocker, truth be known!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVtTdajcJac
Eh, Pearl Jam backing band!!! Who else could pull that off. This one is a real blinder.
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The greatest 19th birthday present ever. Young Maxim Shostakovich was given this by his Dad Dmitri. Maxim was allowed to give his present’s debut performance in 1957 but this is Dmitri playing a year later with André Cluytens conducting.
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Funny. I’ve been caught up in Leonard Cohen, but found myself singing After the Gold Rush this morning for some reason.
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Oh my GGGGOD me and Dad were on it about it the other day - look at mother nature on the run in the 1970s!!! Its huge, perhaps his greatest moment.
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You’re making my heart race. I may have to pull out the old acoustic and strike that G. At least until Mrs @Alright_Now yells, “What is that? You sound terrible.”
And yes, it may be his greatest. But there are moments on Powderfinger…
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