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Alabama 3

Woke Up This Morning

1996 · via Nas

Alabama 3’s earliest release of “Woke Up This Morning” on file came out in 1996. Jake Black, Simon Edwards, Howlin’ Wolf, Piers Marsh and Rob Spragg are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Howlin’ Wolf’s, from 1994. Also recorded by Gods and Monsters & Alabama 3 (released 2006), Twin Princess (released 2020) and Kal Marks (released 2021), among 29 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Nas’ “Got Ur Self a…” (2001) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Morning
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The credit on Nas's track hands five chairs to the writers of "Woke Up This Morning," Howlin' Wolf among them, so this one walks you out of Queensbridge and straight to Alabama 3. Play theirs first, then listen to what Nas built on top of it.

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Credited writers: Jake Black, Simon Edwards, Howlin’ Wolf, Piers Marsh and Rob Spragg.

Earliest release on file: Howlin’ Wolf, 1994.

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Nas’ “Got Ur Self a…” (2001) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

29 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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