Ain't Nobody's Business
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Some genealogical roots are pretty easy to trace. “The blues had a baby, and they named it rock and roll,” sang Muddy Waters, who was tight with both parent and child. The first rock record, many claim, was Sticks McGhee's raucous “Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee,” and the second song a certain sideburned Memphis cat cut (in 1954) was Arthur ‘Big Boy' Crudup's “That's All Right.” Ever watchful, the blues never lets its offspring stray too far from home. Robert Johnson's desolate “Love in Vain” was covered by the Rolling Stones in 1969, and recovered by Keb' Mo' decades years later.