Mama Kin
A glam-flavored barn-burner from the debut that helped win the Columbia deal and stayed in the live set.
Aerosmith, from Aerosmith (1973)
- Written by
- Steven Tyler
- Released
- 1973
- Length
- 4:25
- Album
- Aerosmith
Tyler wrote it for the 1973 debut. A concert version of the song helped the band land its first recording contract with Columbia, and it has been a staple of their shows ever since. Live versions appear on Live! Bootleg, Classics Live, A Little South of Sanity and The Road Starts Hear. The biographer Richard Bienstock called it an uptempo barn-burner with a distinct glam flavor. The line about being bald as an egg at 18 refers to the band's road manager, Mark Lehman.
Tyler has a tattoo of Ma' Kin on his arm, which he got while the band was writing its first album because he had so much confidence in the song. In December 1994 the band opened a Boston club called the Mama Kin Music Hall and sold its interest in January 1999.
Covers and versions
- Guns N' Roses (1986) Released on the EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide and reissued on G N' R Lies in 1988.
- Buckcherry (2014) A bonus track on their EP.
More songs by Aerosmith
Dream On, Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way, Love in an Elevator, Janie's Got a Gun, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, Back in the Saddle, Dude (Looks Like a Lady), What It Takes, Cryin', Crazy, Amazing
Sources
- Mama Kin, Wikipedia
- Live! Bootleg, Wikipedia