You Gotta Move (song)

"You Gotta Move"
Song by The Rolling Stones from the album Sticky Fingers
Released	23 April 1971
Recorded	December 1969
Genre	Delta blues
Length	2:34
Label	Rolling Stones/Virgin
Writer	Fred McDowell, Rev. Gary Davis
Producer	Jimmy Miller
Sticky Fingers track listing
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (4) "You Gotta Move" (5) "Bitch" (6)

"You Gotta Move"
Song by Aerosmith from the album Honkin' on Bobo
Released	2004
Genre	Blues rock, hard rock, blues
Length	5:30
Label	Columbia Records
Writer	Fred McDowell, Rev. Gary Davis
Producer	Jack Douglas, Marti Frederiksen, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Honkin' on Bobo track listing
"Back Back Train" (6) "You Gotta Move" (7) "The Grind" (8)

"You Gotta Move" is a song written by Fred McDowell and Rev. Gary Davis. Being a well-known song of McDowell's as "You Got to Move", it was most famously recorded by the British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones and is featured on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers.

The song has a haunting and raw acoustic blues-riff and the lyrics has a clear touch of gospel, as Mick Jagger sings as if he were imitating a Southern Black dialect. It's a rustic, Delta blues song that's led on by Charlie Watts' minimalistic drumming and cymbal smashing, Mick Taylor's fierce el-guitar and some ritualistic backup vocal by Keith Richards, and ends with an almost falsetto note, in a tradition of many gospel songs.

The Rolling Stones released a concert version on Love You Live in 1977, featuring Billy Preston, who played on Sam Cooke's version on the 1963 album Night Beat (which has different lyrics than the original).

Aerosmith version

Aerosmith covered this song, on their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo in 2004. It was performed at a considerably faster rock tempo, and is much rawer than both the original and the Stones cover. They also named the coinciding DVD, You Gotta Move after the song. The Aerosmith cover was featured in the film "Barnyard".