This song takes me back to 1954,we white guys in our teens would cruise north Tulsa's colored town,the smoke filled bars and joints were jumpin with live rhythm and blues music,huge black dudes lighting up outside keeping watch.Muddy might have slipped into town,largely un-noticed by the white media,unless you heard he was coming in or got your hands on the Greenwood Eagle, the black newspaper.
I got a axe handle pistol on a graveyard frame
That shoots tombstone bullets, wearing balls and chain
I'm drinking TNT
I'm smoking dynamite
I hope some screwball start a fight
Because I'm ready
Ready as anybody can be
I'm ready for you
I hope you ready for me
Those have to be the best lines in a blues tune EVA!!!
Muddy and Willie Dixon were definitely masters. rip to the both of them
One of the most badass songs of all time.
If this song doesn't put you in the mood to light one up and go strolling the city streets at night, then NOTHING will.
I close my eyes and I picture a dive bar, cigar smoke belching out of the doors, big mean dudes, and the smell of whisky & beer everywhere. Muddy was the king of aural cinema.