I CANT BE SATISFIED
Artist
The Alternative Press
Artist
John Sinclair
Date1989
MediumLetterpress on paper
DimensionsPaper Size: 11 × 7 in. (27.9 × 17.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineGift of Gary Eleinko, 2023
Object numberUAC7453.03
DescriptionLetterpress printed poem by John Sinclair, titled "I CANT BE SATISFIED".I CANT BE SATISFIED
Early in 1948
Muddy Waters cut for Aristocrat
"I Can't Be Satisfied" b/w
"I Feel Like Going Home"
Released in April 1948
the initial pressing sold out
all over Chicago
just twelve hours later
"I had a hot blues out, man.
I'd be drivin' my truck,
and whenever I'd see a neon beer sign
I'd stop, go in,
look at the jukebox
and see my record on there.
I might buy me a beer
and play the record
and then leave. Don't tell nobody
nothin'. Before long,
every blues joint there was
that record was on the jukebox.
And if you come in and sat there
for a little while,
if anybody was in there,
they gonna punch it.
Pretty soon I'd hear it
driving along the street
I'd hear it
driving along the street.
About June or July
that record was getting really hot.
I would be driving home from playing,
two or three in the morning,
and I had a convertible,
with the top back
'cause it was warm.
I could hear people
all upstairs
playing that record. It would be
rolling up there, man.
I heard it all over. One time
I heard it coming
from way upstairs somewhere,
and it scared me. I thought
I had died."
Published by The Alternative Press, Packet Number Sixteen.
