Buddy Guy Performs Live Hoochie Coochie Man Live at Marciac 2002. Hoochie Coochie man was a commercial if not artistic success. Music critics hated it, but Robert Gordon says that adaptations of "Hoochie Coochie Man" show how close this blues standard, composed at the threshold of the rock 'n' roll era, is to both genres. "I would think that 'Hoochie Coochie Man' is a keystone in the architecture of rock 'n' roll," Gordon says, "because it was a song that could be covered by rock bands and sound