My Baby Don't Wear No Panties

Written while performing at a biker bar in Bacliff, Texas in 1988. I was in the middle of a grinding, gut-bucket blues song by Muddy Waters called "Mean Mistreater". A biker chick jumped up on a table, started doin' the bump and grind, and took her t-shirt off, swinging it around her head. It was like a scene out of" Roadhouse". The crowd went wild.

Then this other biker stood up and yelled "That ain't nothin' - my baby don't wear no panties - ask me how I know!" At this point his woman proceeded to prove to the audience that he was right. I began singing the words to his announcement, ad-libbing to the rhythm I was already playing.

The immediate reaction to those lyrics was overwhelming to the point that I decided to write a real song. The rest is history. The part of the song where the audience yells back "how do you know?" was added by the general public as the song evolved through the years.