Hoochie Coochie Man

For many bluesmen that found new fame in the 1960s, having originally recorded in the post war country blues boom, along with those who were discovered in the post war Chicago blues boom, the pinnacle of their career was the American Folk Blues Festivals that toured in Eurpoe. Bass player and composer Willie Dixon was the man who acted as unofficial agent for the German promoters who put these tours together. Willie had a little black book in which were the phone numbers of every player on the Chicago scene, it also had the numbers of their girlfriends so he could always track them down. When asked what was his favourite gig that he had played it was not one of the European shows. According to Willie it was a nudist camp just outside Colorado Springs in 1949. Maybe it was what inspired him to write You Can’t Judge a book By Its Cover for Bo Diddley.