I think, the inspiration for this song, must've come from a girlfriend who loved getting banged "dogie style".
For the kids out there, this is the furthest thing from the truth.
Wikipedia is the only source of truth ever, no questions asked:
Quote:
In Southern culture, the phrase "back-door man" refers to a man having an affair with a married woman, using the back door as an exit before the husband comes home.[2] "When everybody trying to sleep, I'm somewhere making my midnight creep / Every morning the rooster crow, something tell me I got to go / I am a back door man," Wolf sings. The promiscuous "back-door man" is a theme of many blues songs, including those by Charley Patton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Willie McTell and Sara Martin: "every sensible woman got a back-door man," Martin sang in "Strange Loving Blues" (1925).[3]
This is a cover as well (interesting that such an innovative album would have multiple covers). So Morrison wasn't inspired to write it at all. Although I'm not surprised they were inspired to cover it for many reasons.
Oddly enough, it could be argued The Doors and Beefheart stole their style from this track, and yet they get the credit for being the amazing artists, and Howlin' Wolf is rarely (if ever) in the white man's pitchfork. https://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/wolf.html (dunno if Scaruffi's site works differently and I just am missing something or if he hasn't rated anything yet/gave him credit as such).
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