Joe McCoy
About the artist
Kansas Joe McCoy (May 11, 1905 – January 28, 1950) was a Delta blues musician and songwriter. McCoy played music under a variety of stage names but is best known as "Kansas Joe McCoy". Born in Raymond, Mississippi, he was the older brother of the blues accompanist Papa Charlie McCoy. As a young man, McCoy was drawn to the music scene in Memphis, Tennessee where he played guitar and sang vocals during the 1920s. He teamed up with future wife Lizzie Douglas
Top songs
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Evil Devil Woman Blues
- Hey Hey Loretta
- Why Don't You Do Right (feat. Peggy Lee)
- When The Levee Breaks
- Pile Driver Blues
- You Know You Done Me Wrong
- Look Who's Coming Down The Road
- Please Baby
- Hey Loretta
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- Meat Cutter Blues
- Too much going on
- Weed Smoker's Dream
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- If You Take Me Back
- What's The Matter With You?
- Let's Try It Again
- Dry Bones in the Valley
- Meat Cutter Blues (Alternate Take)
- Going Back Home Blues
- The World Is a Hard Place to Live In
- I'm Through With You
- One in a Hundred
- One More Greasing
- Joliet Bound
- Well, Well
- Highway 61
- Don't Need No Doctor When I Come To Die
- Your Money Can't Buy Me
- When I Said Goodbye
- Dizzy Little Girl
- I'm Going Back Home
- The Prodigal's Return
- Something Gonna Happen to You
- Oh Red's Twin Brother
- Twenty Minutes to Hell
- I'll Get You Off My Mind
- I Love You Baby
- If I Be Lifted Up
- Too Much Goin' On
- Let's Go to Town
- We Can't Agree
- Hey, Hey Loretta
- I'm Alright Now
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Why Don't You Do Right (3:06)
- Main Key to Heaven
- That Great Love
- It Ain't No Lie
- That Will Be Alright
- What Will I Do?
- Strangers Blues
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Why Don't You Do Right (perf. by Amy Irving) (3:06)
- Pile Drivin' Blues
- It Ain't o Lie
- When you said goodbye
- I Called You This Morning
- Baltimore Blues
- I'm Wild About Stuff
- When The Levee Breads
- I Got To Have A Little More
- Come over and see me
- Got To Go Blues
- Greyhound Blues
- Well Well
- Well Well (J. McCoy)
- pile_driver_blues
- Weed Smokers Dream
- Sleeping By Myself
- My Wash Woman's Gone
- She put me outdoors
- Evil Devil Woman
- Going Back Home Blues 1934
- My Babe My Babe
- Don't want no woman
- Shake Mattie
- Why Don't You Do Alright
- When The Levee Breaks - Big Joe Williams
- What's the Matter With You
- give It to Me In My Hand
- She Wouldn't Give Me None
- Pile drivin' blues (feat. Memphis Minnie)
- be bop baby
- Joe McCoy / Weed Smoker's Dream
- What Will I Do
- Look Who's Coming Down On The Road
- Irish Blessing
- Going Back Home Blues - 1934
- You Got To Move
- The Weed Smoker's Dream (Why Don't You Do Right)
- Too Nuch Goin' On
- Why Don't You Do Right (arr. B. Cunliffe)
- I'm Alright
- The Prodigal's Return - The Things I Usta Do I Don't Do No More
- Let`s Go to Town
- Why Don't You Do Right (perf. by Amy Irving)
- Evil Woman Blues
- Something's gonna Happen to You
- I never told a lie
- Sleeping By Myself (Harmon Ray, vcl.)
- Bessie Lee Blues
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