Feelin’ Good- Little Junior, Parker’s Blues Flames (Sun, 1953)
Little Junior’s Blue Flames’ “Feelin’ Good” was a wailing, electrified reinvention of John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillen.” Recorded at Sam Phillips’ Memphis Recording service on June 18, 1953, and issued n Phillips’ Sun label, the houserocking showpiece was highlighted by Junior Parker’s potent vocal delivery and the impressive fretwork of 18-year-old Floyd Murphy, who had replaced his brother, Blues Hall of Famer Matt “Guitar” Murphy, in the Blue Flames. Murphy claimed to have learned the riff from a guitarist in the Hill Country of North Mississippi. “Feelin’ Good” served as a model for rocking guitar boogies in the work of Magic Sam and others.