Contents

Introduction

1. Hellhound on My Trail

2. The Mojo Travels North

3. The Midnight Special Hops the Pond

4. Those Cotton Fields Back Home

5. I’m Gonna Leave Here Running

6. This Train Is Bound for Glory

7. I Hate to Leave You, Baby

8. I’ll Give You Everything and More

9. I’ll Give You Diamonds Bright

10. It Hurts So Bad for Us to Part

11. I Really Hate to Leave You, Baby

12. You Got a Boy-Child Coming

13. You Told Me You Was High Class

14. The Hoochie Coochie Man Arrives

15. I Finally Learned My Lesson

16. It’s Getting Near Dawn

17. Meet Me at the Crossroads

18. Worked All Summer, Worked All Fall

19. Another Spoonful

20. Vanish from This Place

21. I Know I Don’t Have Much to Give

22. What’ll You Do When You Get Lonely

23. When You Finally Get Back on Your Feet Again

24. I Tried to Give You Some Consolation

25. I Swear It Was Self Defense

26. How Many Bridges Have I Crossed

27. The Healing Rain Which Restores the Soul

28. You Give ’Em a Smile and They Melt

29. All Around My Home Town, They’re Trying to Track Me Down

30. Way-Out Willie and Rocking Millie

31. Drink Some Brew and Find a Safe Place

32. Oh Lordy Lord

33. I’ll Sleep in This Place with the Lonely Crowd

34. I’ll Really Sleep in This Place with the Lonely Crowd

35. Deep Down in the Dead of Night, I Call Out Your Name

36. Tell Me Who’s Been Fooling You

37. So There I Was in Hollywood

38. How Many Times Must We Tell the Tale

39. All Along, We Had to Talk About It

40. Guess There’s Nothing Left for Me to Explain

41. Then I Can Change the World

Selected Bibliography