Roadhouse Blues
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| Single by The Doors | |||||||||
| from the album Morrison Hotel | |||||||||
| A-side | "You Make Me Real" | ||||||||
| B-side | "Roadhouse Blues" | ||||||||
| Released | February 1970 | ||||||||
| Recorded | November 4–5, 1969 | ||||||||
| Genre | Blues rock, boogie rock, hard rock | ||||||||
| Length | 4:04 | ||||||||
| Label | Elektra | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Paul A. Rothchild | ||||||||
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"Roadhouse Blues" is a rock song written by Jim Morrison and recorded by the American rock band The Doors. The song, which appeared on the B-side of "You Make Me Real", was first released as a single from the album Morrison Hotel in March 1970 and peaked at #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song quickly became a concert staple for the group.
It took two days to record the song (November 4–5, 1969) with producer Paul A. Rothchild striving for perfection. Several takes from these sessions were included on the new 2006 remastered album. Surprisingly, he does not comment on Morrison, who is apparently intoxicated, "going into full blues singer mode" in the words of engineer Bruce Botnick, improvising and simultaneously flubbing several lyrics and repeating the blues phrase "Money beats soul every time". The phrase can be found on the When You're Strange: Music from the Motion Picture soundtrack, with the next track being a live version of "Roadhouse Blues".
The sessions only took off on the second day, when resident Elektra guitarist Lonnie Mack joined in on bass and ex-Lovin' Spoonful frontman John Sebastian contributing harmonica (appearing under the pseudonym G. Puglese either out of loyalty to his recording contract or to avoid affiliation with The Doors after the infamous Miami controversy) joined in on the sessions and Manzarek switched from his Wurlitzer electric piano to a tack piano (the same used on The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"). A studio version of the song with John Lee Hooker sharing vocals with Jim can be found on the Stoned Immaculate: The Music of The Doors album.
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