"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" is a Chicago blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The Chess single, released in January 1954 with "She's So Pretty" on the B-side, features Waters with a full backing band and a distinctive stop-time, sixteen-bar blues groove that expanded the traditional twelve-bar form. The lyrics mix hoodoo imagery with swagger and sexual bravado, making it one of Waters' signature hits and helping establish Dixon as Chess Records' chief songwriter. The track later appeared on the 1958 compilation The Best of Muddy Waters (retitled Hoochie Coochie) and has been widely covered and influential, earning the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame induction in 1984, a Grammy Hall of Fame honor in 1998, and preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2004; Bo Diddley also adapted the riff for I'm a Man, underscoring its lasting impact.
