Sugar Mama (song)

"Sugar Mama Blues No. 1"
Single by Tampa Red
Released1934 (1934)
RecordedChicago, May 12, 1934
GenreBlues
Length3:26
LabelVocalion
Songwriter(s)Unknown

"Sugar Mama" or "Sugar Mama Blues" is a blues standard.[1] Called a "tautly powerful slow blues" by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray,[2] it has been recorded by numerous artists, including early Chicago bluesmen Tampa Red, Sonny Boy Williamson I, and Tommy McClennan. John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf later adapted "Sugar Mama" for electric blues[1] and rock group Led Zeppelin reworked it during early recording sessions.

  1. ^ a b Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). "Sugar Mama Blues". Encyclopedia of the Blues. University of Arkansas Press. p. 473. ISBN 1-55728-252-8.
  2. ^ Murray, Charles Shaar (2002). Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century. Macmillan. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-312-27006-3.