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Mannish Boy

Name: Mannish Boy
Description: "Mannish Boy" is a blues standard created by Muddy Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley. Waters first recorded the song in 1955. The track functions as a response song to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man," which itself was derived from an earlier Waters and Willie Dixon composition called "Hoochie Coochie Man.

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"Mannish Boy" is a blues standard created by Muddy Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley. Waters first recorded the song in 1955. The track functions as a response song to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man," which itself was derived from an earlier Waters and Willie Dixon composition called "Hoochie Coochie Man." The song is characterized by a repeating rhythmic figure based on a single chord throughout its duration.

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