OUT OF CONTROL DISTRACTO NIGHT

I stuck my hands in my records and without looking came up with Rory Gallagher Live, an LP on hand since my teens. Halfway through the first song, "Messin' With the Kid" it occurred to me that I might not have ever heard the original by Junior Wells. I hadn't even made it through one song and I was already running out. After hearing Wells's original, and digging it, I went looking for other stuff. I ran into a later Wells cover of Bill Withers's "Use Me". This I gotta hear. That's what I thought. Yikes. Bill Withers's "Use Me" Lesson # 1: You cannot out funk the funk. Holly Golightly knew that. She managed a cover that's completely different.

I went looking for a new link for Withers's original (the one posted a while back was dead) and only managed a YouTube link, but in the hunt ran into Har Mar Superstar who I'd totally forgotten about. That's when the wheels totally came off. It's one of those nights.

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Listen:
Rory Gallagher - Messin' With the Kid mp3 at Internet Archive
Junior Wells - Messin' With the Kid (streaming) at YouTube
Junior Wells - Use Me mp3 at Internet Archive
Holly Golightly - Use Me (streaming) at YouTube
Bill Withers - Use Me (streaming) at YouTube
Har Mar Superstar - Let Me Use Your Ride mp3 at Har Marchives
Har Mar Superstar - Never My Love mp3 at ATumblr