"You Gotta Move" is a traditional African-American spiritual song. The lyrics carry the Christian message that regardless of one's situation in life, it is God who determines one's ultimate fate. Beginning around the 1940s, the song has been recorded by a variety of gospel musicians, usually as "You Got to Move" or "You've Got to Move".
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Early gospel songs
The Two Gospel Keys recorded "You've Got to Move" in 1948. They performed it as an uptempo gospel song. Similar renditions followed by Elder Charles D. Beck (1949), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1950), the Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama (1953), and the Hightower Brothers (1956). The Reverend Gary Davis recorded the song in 1962. It includes a more ominous verse:
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Later renditions
In 1964, soul singer Sam Cooke recast the song with lyrics about a broken relationship for his 1963 album Night Beat. In 1965, Mississippi bluesman Fred McDowell recorded it as a slow, slide guitar Hill country blues solo piece. The song generally follows an eight-bar blues arrangement and has been compared to "Sitting on Top of the World". McDowell uses lyrics closer to Davis' 1962 rendition, but adds a haunting slide guitar line that doubles the vocal. A verse from the song is inscribed on his headstone:
In 1990, Glenn Kaiser and Darrell Mansfield included the song on the album Trimmed and Burnin'. Aerosmith covered the Rolling Stones' version for their blues cover album Honkin' on Bobo in 2004. They perform the song at a considerably faster rock tempo and also named the coinciding DVD, You Gotta Move, after the song. Alternative country artist Parker Millsap covered the song on his 2016 album The Very Last Day.
The Rolling Stones version
McDowell's rendition inspired many subsequent recordings, including a popular electric-combo version by English rock group the Rolling Stones. The Stones regularly performed "You Gotta Move" during their 1969 US tour. They recorded a version at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama in December 1969, with later recording in England in 1970. It was later included on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers, which credited McDowell as the songwriter.
Mick Jagger sings the song in a Southern black dialect with Mick Taylor's electric slide guitar accompaniment that follows McDowell's. Taylor commented in 2011: "'You Gotta Move' was this great Mississippi Fred McDowell song that we used to play all the time in the studio. I used a slide on that - on an old 1954 Fender Telecaster - and that was the beginning of that slide thing I tried to develop with the Stones." Two different concert versions are included as bonus tracks on the group's Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! (1970) and another on Love You Live (1977). The latter features Billy Preston, who plays on Sam Cooke's version.
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