Willie Hall
Willie Hall
, best known by his colorful
nickname
Drive'em Down
was a
New Orleans blues
and
boogie woogie
piano player
. He never recorded, but has had a great influence on
blues
and
rock and roll
. His earthy song, "Junker's Blues", with its stories about needles and reefer and the Angola prison farm was recorded in 1940 by
Champion Jack Dupree
, who called Drive'em Down his "father". In 1949
Fats Domino
reworked the song as "The Fat Man", the first of his 35
Top 40
hits. The melody was used by
Professor Longhair
for "Tipitina" and by
Lloyd Price
for "Lawdy Miss Clawdy". Hall Hall Hall Hall
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