The Muleskinners

One of umpteen British R&B groups to make a single or two in the mid-1960s, the Muleskinners' entry was a sole 45 in January 1965, "Back Door Man"/"Need Your Lovin'." "Back Door Man" was a raw cover of the <a href="spotify:artist:0Wxy5Qka8BN9crcFkiAxSR">Howlin' Wolf</a> classic, and "Need Your Lovin'" a competently energetic R&B-rock number that did not offer certain evidence of future greatness. The Muleskinners' one claim to fame is that <a href="spotify:artist:5HVDf6EAbKdW7Md5V3VL8I">Ian McLagan</a> played with them before joining <a href="spotify:artist:1YqGsKpdixxSVgpfaL2AEQ">the Small Faces</a>; also, singer Terry Brannan was in <a href="spotify:artist:2nEb45YrKiBs7vH0FVbaVQ">the Roosters</a>, the record-less band that included <a href="spotify:artist:6PAt558ZEZl0DmdXlnjMgD">Eric Clapton</a> and Manfred Mann men <a href="spotify:artist:1I41xgLiwTZvdFsOSgGMvs">Paul Jones</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5gM0neRqVvT7qnNM3Ud4pX">Tom McGuinness</a> before all of them went on to bigger and better things. Both "Back Door Man" and "Need Your Lovin'" are included on the compilation English Freakbeat Vol. 2. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi