Mojo Hand — Lightnin’ Hopkins (Fire, 1960)
Lightnin’ Hopkins, who never had a problem with coming up with songs for cash on the spot, recorded more than 40 songs in the month of November 1960 for three different companies in New York and New Jersey. As usual, there were gems in the cache, and “Mojo Hand,” a rolling boogie waxed for Harlem record man Bobby Robinson, became Hopkins’ most recognizable standard. Hopkins’ goal in the song was to buy a “mojo hand”—a small cloth bag filled with secret spell-casting ingredients—to “fix my woman so she can’t have no other man.”