You Gotta Move

Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records recorded Fred McDowell, a farmer from near Como, Mississippi, who played the most intense bottleneck guitar in the hill country. "You Gotta Move" is a traditional spiritual, but McDowell played it with a fierce, uncompromising rhythmic drive, utilizing an open tuning and a glass slide. McDowell famously declared, "I do not play no rock and roll," but his heavy, droning riff proved irresistible to rockers. The Rolling Stones faithfully covered the track on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers, permanently linking McDowell's rural brilliance to the British stadium rock era.