Nuggets: Who Do You Love by The Woolies

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1. Michigan boys! So cool to know that. Doesn’t Ronnie Hawkins do this one on The Last Waltz? I need to look up the Townes cover 🙂

2. Not bad! https://youtu.be/0DpHmhWb6Rw

   • I like it – it’s very dry humour, very Townes Van Zandt.

     • I just listened to the Townes Van Zant Who Do You Love, and I never knew he could be that lively. I think I’ve only heard that one album and it was nothing like this song. I just remember it being real folky or maybe countryish. I should listen to his other stuff.

       • That Flying Shoes album has more professional mainstream production than before and it works for him. Maybe it’s good that not every Van Zandt album is like that though.

         • The other one I heard by him is the one where he’s sitting at a table in some kind of crazy room. I was looking for Poncho and Lefty but it wasn’t on that album like somebody told me it was.

         • It is hard to remember which albums his songs are from – they came thick and fast in the early 1970s.

3. This is probably like a 6/10 or 7/10 for me. I never really thought it was that great of a song, and I’ve heard a whole fuck-ton of versions of it. Probably my favorite one is by George Thorogood and the Destroyers, which is a lot of fun. Like every cover song he does actually.

   • I think it’s a pretty fun song. I like the Last Waltz version with Hawkins’ ridiculously high screams.

4. Especially this awesome one. This one wasn’t actually an old blues song like he usually does, it was an old Hank Williams country song originally from the 40s or 50s. It’s one of my favorite ’70s records cuz it’s so awesome. And the Hank Williams one was awesome too.
   https://youtu.be/r8NCjZ4bNtQ

5. Wow, they really ‘British Invasion’ed it up. I’ll go with Thorogood’s version every time.

   • You got that right, I’ll tell ya that.

   • I like Hawkins with Robertson best I think. I listened to the Thorogood one and it was pretty good – I mainly know him for the 1980s stuff like ‘Bad to the Bone’ and ‘Get A Haircut’. He’s a bit less commercial on ‘Who Do You Love’.

6. Within the next couple months your posts will have covered 5 of my Top 10 Nuggets, including my Number One, Two and Three!!!

   • I normally do one a fortnight, although sometimes more if I don’t have time to write something longer.

     • Oh yeah, I forgot about that. So I guess it’ll take you twice as long to finish CD2. Probably like five months actually.

       • Yeah, I’m doing about a disc a year.

7. I love their name…a very cool garage band name. I like this version…the riff is not as defined in this one but it’s a cool way to do this.
   That riff is one of my favorites of all time. EEE A E…. When I pick up a new guitar…it’s the first one I play.

   • Must be fun to play. Do you have a favourite version?

     • Well its by someone that I’m not a huge fan of… George Thorogood
       He defines the lick well and his voice fits that song…

8. I think I agree with you, it’s not best rendition of “Who Do You Love” but still a pretty enjoyable cover.

   • That’s good commitment, checking after your holiday. Hope you had a good time!