You Gotta Move (song)

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“You Gotta Move”
Song by The Rolling Stones
Album	Sticky Fingers
Released	May 12, 1972
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" is a song written by Fred McDowell and Rev. Gary Davis. Being a well-known song of McDowell's, 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 vocals, and ends with an almost falsetto note, in a tradition of many gospel songs.

The song also appears of Sam Cooke's 1963 classic Night Beat.

[edit] Aerosmith version

Aerosmith covered this song, on their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo in 2004. They also named the co-inciding DVD, You Gotta Move after the song.