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Got My Mojo Working is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Jay McShann. Those roots explain a lot about how Got My Mojo Working arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Elvis Presley and Jimmy Smith, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around Got My Mojo Working, reaching back through Jay McShann and forward to Elvis Presley. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Got My Mojo Working" is a blues song written by Preston "Red" Foster and first recorded by R&B singer Ann Cole in 1956. Foster's lyrics describe several amulets or talismans, called mojo, which are associated with hoodoo, an early African-American folk-magic belief system.
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Got My Mojo Working grew out of Jay McShann, went on to shape Elvis Presley and Jimmy Smith. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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