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![Muddy Waters with [[James Cotton]], 1971](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Muddy Waters.jpg?width=200 "Muddy Waters with [[James Cotton]], 1971")
Did you see that Civic with the gold rims? What a hoochie-mobile.
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![A house within the [[De Tonti Square Historic District]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/250 St. Anthony Street Mobile AL 01.JPG?width=200 "A house within the [[De Tonti Square Historic District]]")
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![The [[Azalea Trail Maids]] on the campus of [[Spring Hill College]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Azalea Trail Maids.jpg?width=200 "The [[Azalea Trail Maids]] on the campus of [[Spring Hill College]]")
![The Business Technology Center and clock tower at [[Bishop State Community College]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bishop State clock tower May 2012 cropped.jpg?width=200 "The Business Technology Center and clock tower at [[Bishop State Community College]]")
![Archdiocese of Mobile]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile.jpg?width=200 "Archdiocese of Mobile]]")
![The [[Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge]] spanning the [[Mobile River]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cochran Bridge Mobile Alabama.jpg?width=200 "The [[Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge]] spanning the [[Mobile River]]")
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![Downtown in 2008, as seen from Cooper Riverside Park. Buildings include (L to R): The Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel, [[RSA–BankTrust Building]], Arthur C. Outlaw Convention Center, and the [[RSA Battle House Tower]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Downtown Mobile 2008 03.JPG?width=200 "Downtown in 2008, as seen from Cooper Riverside Park. Buildings include (L to R): The Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel, [[RSA–BankTrust Building]], Arthur C. Outlaw Convention Center, and the [[RSA Battle House Tower]].")
![Interior of the eastbound [[George Wallace Tunnel]] under the Mobile River](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George Wallace Tunnel 02.jpg?width=200 "Interior of the eastbound [[George Wallace Tunnel]] under the Mobile River")
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![The [[Hank Aaron Stadium]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hank Aaron Stadium.jpg?width=200 "The [[Hank Aaron Stadium]]")
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![Flooding at the federal courthouse on Saint Joseph Street, three blocks from the waterfront, during [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KatrinaMobileCourthouseSteps.jpg?width=200 "Flooding at the federal courthouse on Saint Joseph Street, three blocks from the waterfront, during [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005")
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![A [[Liberty ship]] of the type built at [[Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company]] during World War II. Twenty were completed in Mobile.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Liberty ship at sea.jpg?width=200 "A [[Liberty ship]] of the type built at [[Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company]] during World War II. Twenty were completed in Mobile.")
![Mobile and the pentagonal [[Fort Condé]] in 1725](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mobile1725.jpg?width=200 "Mobile and the pentagonal [[Fort Condé]] in 1725")
![[[Mobile Cotton Exchange]] and Chamber of Commerce building, completed in 1886](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mobile Cotton Exchange.jpg?width=200 "[[Mobile Cotton Exchange]] and Chamber of Commerce building, completed in 1886")
![United States Marine Hospital]], restored and adapted for reuse by the Mobile County Health Department](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mobile Marine Hospital 02.JPG?width=200 "United States Marine Hospital]], restored and adapted for reuse by the Mobile County Health Department")
![Murphy High School]] in Midtown, originally Mobile High School. It is one of the seventeen high schools run by the [[Mobile County Public School System]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Murphy High School.jpg?width=200 "Murphy High School]] in Midtown, originally Mobile High School. It is one of the seventeen high schools run by the [[Mobile County Public School System]].")
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![HABS]] photo of the Southern Hotel on Water Street in 1934. It was completed in 1837 and demolished soon after this photograph was taken.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Southern Hotel Water Street.jpg?width=200 "HABS]] photo of the Southern Hotel on Water Street in 1934. It was completed in 1837 and demolished soon after this photograph was taken.")
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![SS ''Hat Creek'']], a [[T2 tanker]] completed by Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company in 1943. The company built 102 of these oil tankers during WWII.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Type T2-SE-A1 tanker Hat Creek underway at sea on 16 August 1943.jpg?width=200 "SS ''Hat Creek'']], a [[T2 tanker]] completed by Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company in 1943. The company built 102 of these oil tankers during WWII.")
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Wikipedia
"Hoochie Coochie Man" (originally titled "I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man") is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a stop-time musical arrangement. It became one of Waters' most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon's role as Chess Records' chief songwriter.
The song is a classic of Chicago blues and one of Waters' first recordings with a full backing band. Dixon's lyrics build on Waters' earlier use of braggadocio and themes of fortune and sex appeal. The stop-time riff was "soon absorbed into the lingua franca of blues, R&B, jazz, and rock and roll", according to musicologist Robert Palmer, and is used in several popular songs. When Bo Diddley adapted it for "I'm a Man", it became one of the most recognizable musical phrases in blues.
After the song's initial success in 1954, Waters recorded several live and new studio versions. The original appears on the 1958 The Best of Muddy Waters album and many compilations. Numerous musicians have recorded "Hoochie Coochie Man" in a variety of styles, making it one of the most interpreted Waters and Dixon songs. The Blues Foundation and the Grammy Hall of Fame recognize the song for its influence in popular music and the US Library of Congress' National Recording Registry selected it for preservation in 2004.
