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“Mannish Boy” is a blues standard first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1955. It is a arrangement of (and an “answer song” to) Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man” (which in turn was inspired by Waters’ and Willie Dixon’s “Hoochie Coochie Man”). “Mannish Boy” features a repeating stop-time figure on one chord throughout the song and is credited to Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley. Read on...