Robert Petway . Catfish Blues . 1941

Muddy Waters . Catfish Blues 

John Lee Hooker . Catfish Blues

Jimi Hendrix . Catfish Blues

Now that what I call some Catfish Blues Jimi!

This video is my good friend Tad Walters playing Rolling Stone with Muddy's son, Big Bill Morganfield. 

Muddy Waters used this structure on a couple of different songs. Still a Fool is my favorite. The groove is so strong, but there is something unstable about it...sounds like it could fall apart at any minute. I THINK Little Walter played second guitar on Still a Fool, but I cannot substantiate with a quick google search. I know he played second guitar on Honey Bee, which has a similar about to fall apart groove in my opinion.

Eddie Taylor playing it way up the neck in Bb. 

I think the moral to the story is that this groove is in someway integral to the human psyche. Without getting too deep and New Age-y, playing this one feels almost like I think a meditation would feel to me.

This is my favorite version, mainly because of the harp.

Gary Clark Jr playing Catfish Blues at the White House.