Jimmy Reed - Baby What You Want Me To Do
Baby What You Want Me To Do / Caress Me Baby
Top Rank JAR 333 (1960)
Mathis James Reed (6/9/1925 - 29/8/1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His particular style of electric blues was popular with a wide variety of audiences and also influenced many other musicians, including Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Jr., Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and the Rolling Stones, who all recorded his songs.
Music critic Cub Koda describes him as "perhaps the most influential bluesman of all," due to his easily accessible style.
This 45, recorded in August 1959, is credited to Reed however as like most of the songs credited to him as sole composer they were in-fact written by his wife Mama Reed. The song was originally titled "Baby Why You Wanna Let Go." Nowhere in the song do the lyrics "Baby What You Want Me To Do" appear, although later cover versions often wrongly include the phrase in place of the original lyrics.
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