Editing Mojo (African-American culture) (section)

== Mojo bags in blues music ==
[[Blues]] is a genre of music created in the United States by [[African-American music|African Americans]] in the mid-nineteenth century that incorporates spirituals, African American work songs, slave shout songs, [[field holler]]s and [[Call and response|call-and-response]]. Several blues singers created songs about mojo bags. For example, the Preston “Red” Foster song ''[[Got My Mojo Working]]'', recorded by [[Ann Cole]] in 1956 and by [[Muddy Waters]] the following year, spoke about the spiritual power of the mojo bag.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kail |first1=Tony |title=A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals |date=2017 |publisher=History Press |location=Charleston, South Carolina |pages=84–85 |isbn=9781439659571 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xaPHDQAAQBAJ&q=Muddy%20waters}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Perone |first1=James |title=Listen to the Blues! Exploring a Musical Genre |date=2019 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |page=185 |isbn=9781440866159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvyFDwAAQBAJ&dq=Hoodoo+Blues+Music&pg=PA185}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |title=Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure |date=August 2008 |publisher=LSU Press |isbn=9780807135280 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwsPJzl4A9cC&dq=Bessie+Brown+Hoodoo+Blues&pg=PA14}}</ref> [[Junior Wells]] released an album in 1965 called ''[[Hoodoo Man Blues]]''. In the title song, Wells explained that he traveled to Louisiana and saw a Hoodoo practitioner to make him a mojo bag to get back his girlfriend who had left him for another man.<ref>{{cite web |title=Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues Lyrics |url=http://www.songlyrics.com/junior-wells/hoodoo-man-blues-lyrics/ |website=Song Lyrics |access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hart |title=Hoodoo Man Blues--Junior Wells (1965) |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/HoodooManBlues.pdf |website=Library of Congress |access-date=31 March 2022}}</ref>