50+ Music<p>"Mannish Boy" (or "Manish Boy" as it was first labeled) is a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bluesStandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bluesStandard</span></a> written by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MuddyWaters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuddyWaters</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MelLondon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MelLondon</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BoDiddley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoDiddley</span></a> (with Waters and Diddley being credited under their birth names). First recorded in 1955 by Waters, it serves as an "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/answerSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>answerSong</span></a>" to Bo Diddley's "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ImAMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImAMan</span></a>", which was in turn inspired by Waters' and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WillieDixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillieDixon</span></a>'s "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HoochieCoochieMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HoochieCoochieMan</span></a>". <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MannishBoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MannishBoy</span></a> features a repeating <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/stoptime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stoptime</span></a> figure on one chord throughout the song. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0hfiUa0NHA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=j0hfiUa0NHA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>