About This Song
About "Don't Start Me to Talkin'" by The Doobie Brothers
A Sonny Boy Williamson cover, 'Don't Start Me to Talkin'' finds the Doobies lean and hungry, trading bar-band grit for a locomotive harmonica. The tension is in the restraint: you can hear the band itching to explode, but they hold back, letting the blues simmer like a threat.
