Got My Mojo Working

by

Muddy Waters

Album: Got My Mojo Working      Released: 1957

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This was written by a little-known Blues musician named Preston Foster, and was first released by the Gospel singer Ann Cole in 1956. Muddy Waters toured with Cole and picked up the song from her, adding some lyrics to his version. Waters popularized the song and it became a Blues standard.

A "Mojo" is a kind of magic charm, and the term shows up in a lot of Blues songs. In this song, the singer is heartbroken because his trusty Mojo doesn't work on the girl he loves.

Some of the artists who recorded this include Chuck Berry, Canned Heat, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Manfred Mann, Carl Perkins and Jimmy Rogers. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band recorded it on their first album in 1966 as "I Got My Mojo Working." Elvin Bishop, who was a guitarist in the band and later had the solo hit "Fooled Around And Fell In Love," said: "If you were in Chicago in 1960, as I was, every blues band in Chicago played that tune. And here it is in the 2000s, and half the blues bands you go and see now play 'Got My Mojo Working.' If you've ever seen he first Paul Butterfield album, the album cover, the picture was taken in front of a store that sold that kind of stuff. It's magic charms and lucky oil, and different things, different kinds of powder you can sprinkle around the bed. It's voodoo magic stuff." (Thanks to Elvin for speaking with us about this song. Read his full interview in the Songfacts interviews section. Learn more on his page at Blind Pig Records.)

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