Originally Performed By | Junior Wells |
Original Album | Single (1960) |
Music/Lyrics | Mel London |
Vocals | Sugar Blue |
Phish Debut | 1997-08-08 |
Last Played | 1999-10-03 |
Current Gap | 815 |
Recommended Versions | 1997-08-08, 1999-10-03 |
Historian | Mark Toscano |
Last Update | 2011-11-25 |
"Messin' With the Kid” is a quintessential blues number penned by Mel London in the late ‘50s, and originally showing up on a Junior Wells single in 1960. Phish has performed this tune with Chicago bluesman Sugar Blue twice, as an encore on 8/8/97 and 10/3/99, the latter performance also featuring Son Seals on guitar. Sugar lent his harmonica and vocals to both performances of the song, a standard that has been covered by everyone from the Blues Brothers to Johnny Winter to the World Saxophone Quartet.
"Messin' With the Kid" 8/8/97 Tinley Park, IL
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