Never Make A Move Too Soon

Album: Midnight Believer (1978)
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Songfacts®:

  • Stix Hooper, who was the drummer in The Crusaders, wrote this with lyricist Will Jennings. Says Jennings: "It's a story song. I think B.B. had been talking about his adventures on the road, and all the romantic difficulties that are involved in being on the road. The original title's Never Make A Move Too Soon, and some people put it out as Never Make Your Move Too Soon. Sticks just sent me a rhythm track, which is basically 12-bar blues. I was in California in '77, and I just started thinking about B.B. and what he'd been talking about, so I just basically sang over the rhythm track and more or less a talking/singing sort of a thing. Bonnie Raitt cut it on her Road Tested - her live album, with Charles Brown and Ruth Brown, and B.B.'s got it on his 80th Anniversary album, singing it with Roger Daltrey. Even people like Captain & Tennille, Toni Tennille sang it." (Check out our interview with Will Jennings.)

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