Just curious what everyone would consider some of the greatest blues songs ever?


I would have to include

"Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters

"From Four till Late" by Robert Johnosn
Actually, ANYTHING by Johnson


ANYTHING by John Lee Hooker as well..........



"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

Some of them are...

Baby, Scratch My Back by Slimm Harpo
Checkin' On My Baby by Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Live
Shame, Shame, Shame by Jimy Reed
Steamline Woman (Live 1980) by Muddy Waters
and
damn near anything by T-Bone Walker

it'd have to be somethin by Howlin Wolf by me..probably Smokestack Lightnin' with Spoonful or Red Rooster being other favourites

Dust My Broom by Elmore James, I Cant Be Satisfied by Muddy Waters and BB King's "The thrill is gone" would be up there too

The thrill is gone is the most impressive one.

Nice thread.

Maybe BOMH.

Other suggestions:
Back Door Man (W. Dixon)
Cars Hiss By My Window - the Doors
Been Down So Long - the Doors
Så länge vattnet flyter i floden - Rolf Wikström
Den öde stranden - John Holm
You Shook Me - (W. Dixon)
Since I´ve Been Lovin´ You - Zepp´lin
Bring It On Home - Zepp´lin
Tea For Two - Zepp´lin
Lazy - Purple (jazzy, rocky but nevertheless a blues for me)
Mistreated - DP Mk III
Pain In my Heart (Neville); which I count as a blues
The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
I Had A Dream - Ray Charles
Boom Boom - J L Hooker [www.rosebudus.com]
Please Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood - Burdon
On The Road Again - Canned Heat [members3.boardhost.com] *
Közeuropai Blues - Hobo Blues band
Közeuropai Blues II - Bill Gyula Déak
Róssz Vér - Bill Gyula Déak
Tallerkenvaskerens Blues - Franz Beckerlee
Astronomine Domine - Floyd (blues?)
Meddle (Floyd)
I Put A spell On You (Screamin´ Jay Hawkins)

* Hey these blokes have a message board where the members actually answers questions from the fans!! Fito de la Parra, original member, for example, does.
Note that On The Road Again is sung by Alan Blind Owl Wilson.

Trad:
Red House
House Of The Risin Sun
Dust My Broom
Midnight Special
Stormy Monday

Meet Me In The Morning by Dylan is pretty bluesy...

great backing guitar too!



Hot Tuna have released some GREAT GREAT blues covers and originals!

"How Long Blues" & " "Don't You Leave Me Here"


The Doors " Woman Is The Devil" is AMAZING!


I've Always Loved The Dead's version of "It Hurts Me Too" sung by Pigpen


Cream's "Sitting on Top Of The World" !!! NO WORDS CAN EXPRESS THE POWER OF THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

Some great pre-war blues

Down The Dirt Road Blues- Charlie Patton
Scarey Day Blues - Blind Wilie McTell
Terraplane Blues - Robert Johnson
32-20 Blues - Robert Johnson
Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey
Steady Drivin Papa - Blind Blake
Turpentine Blues - Casey Bill Weldon
CottonField Blues - Garfield Akers
Devil Got My Woman - Skip James
I Had A Real Good Mother & Father - Washington Phillips
Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
I'm Goin' Away Blues - Frank Stokes
Come On In My Kitchen - Robert Johnson
My Black Mama Pt 1 - Son House
Tell Me Baby - King Solomon Hill
I'm On The Highway Man - Calvin Frazer
Fixin' To Die - Bukka White
The Soul Of A Man - Blind Willie Johnson
Matchbox Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
You Gonna Quit Me Blues - Blind Blake
Gang Of Brown Skin Women - Papa Harvey Hull
Poor Boy Long Way From Home - Gus Cannon

ROCKMAN

wow Rockman THANK YOU!

I'm going to download these from winmx......

how bout the saddest blues songs?



"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

Bloodstains On The Wall - Honeyboy

Deadly stuff...!!

Bloodstains On The Wall - Country Blues From Specialty ACE CDCHD 576

ROCKMAN

Dylan's "Meet Me In The Morning" is a terrific track.

Muddy's "Just To Be With You" features some of Little Walter's most amazing playing...also:

Little Walter: "Hate To See You Go," "Sad Hours"

Howlin' Wolf: "Shake For Me"

John Lee Hooker: "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" (check out Jagger fooling around with this tune in "Performance")

Alvin "Youngblood" Hart: "Moonlight Mile" Takes my breath...

and while we're at it, Jimmie Rodgers, the "Singing Brakeman," is as great a white bluesman as anyone. Dead from consumption at 35--"T.B. Blues," "Miss The Mississippi And You" (Dylan's "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry is a pretty bluesy and brilliant tribute to Rodgers)

As for sad, "The Thrill Is Gone" aches as much as any record I can think of...

Ever ear I Smell A Rat by Buddy Guy? In that one, both he and his guitar are posessed.

Rollin' and Tumblin' - Little Walter
The Sky is Crying - Sonnyboy Williamson
Hell Hound on my Trail - Robert Johnson
John the Revelator - Sunhouse
Cry to Me - Stones (even better than Burk's original)

I miss John Mayall here:
all of "The Turning Point"
some tracks from "The Blues ALone"

and what about Mississippi Fred McDowell: You Got To Move (live in NY, 71)

Boogie Chillen, John Lee Hooker

Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker







"....musical styles come and go, but the BLUES ain't going nowhere. IT's EVERYWHERE!!!..."

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Forgot these four:

Crossroads - Robert Johnsson
Little Girl Blue (Nina Simone) - with Janis Joplin
Summertime (G. Gerswin) - with Janis Joplin
House Rent Boogie - J L Hooker

inopeng Wrote:
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> Ever ear I Smell A Rat by Buddy Guy? In that one,
> both he and his guitar are posessed.

you talking about the Stone Crazy! version on the Alligator album? yeah - that one always blew me away. Buddy had trouble making great studio albums for many years - that one might have been his real success. He's had several good ones since.

StonesTod,

That's the one. I rememeber hearing it on the radio for the first time and the DJ cautioned "This one will tear your face clean off!"

On a more tender side, Buddy's version of It Feels Liek Rain is, I think, the best soul song of the 1990s.

Crossroads must be the ultimate blues song, but my all time favourite is Spoonful by Howlin Wolf. What a voice that man got...

Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> Forgot these four:
>
> Crossroads - Robert Johnsson
> Little Girl Blue (Nina Simone) - with Janis
> Joplin
> Summertime (G. Gerswin) - with Janis Joplin
> House Rent Boogie - J L Hooker


I know blues purists may cringe but you bringing up Janis got me thinking ... I go back to the live version of "Ball and Chain" more often than I do most of my old "authentic" blues material. So I'll go with that and expect some fall-out.

At the time a lot of people complained about the shoody musicianship of the Big Brother players but for me it was so raw and visceral that it tied in perfectly with Janis' vocals ... ah crap I gotta go dig that album out!

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Blues purists can @#$%& themselves imho.
Of course Ball & Chain must be mentioned here.
I´m certain I´ll find some more the day I go thru
Nina Simones musical treasure.
Forgot another: @#$%& Blues.

The boundaries between blues/gospel/boogie/r&b is hard to withhold I think:
Sister Morphine is by many definitions a blues song.

And thank you Rockman for the fine list: you are a living blues-(and reggae-, and rock n´roll-)dictionary.

Evil - Howlin' Wolf
Mannish Boy - Muddy (The HARD AGAIN Version!!!)
Tupelo - JL Hooker
Tell Me What's The Reason - T-Bone Walker
Traveling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson
Key To The Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
Peavine Blues - Charley Patton
Honest I Do - Jimmy Reed

Tomorrow this list will be completely different, but probably the same artists.

I can't even begin to summon up a short list of greatest blues songs. The blooze is more a "language" than it is a collection of songs anyway. They all borrow liberally from one another to form the language.

T-Bone Walker: Stormy Monday Blues but arangement and played by the Allmann Brothers

for example Howlin Wolf : Going Down Slow, Little Red Rooster

Everything by R. Johnson and M. Waters.

What is the John Mayell song that has a real haunting flute at the beginning..

something about being out in arizona?


I forget all the rest?

don't remember what cd it was on.bbut it was a bonus track......

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

What is the John Mayell song that has a haunting flute at the beginning....

something about being out in arizona?

and a girl?


don't know the albums name. but when released on cd. it was a bonus song?

live as well.............

HELP!!!!!

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

What is the John Mayell song that has a haunting flute at the beginning....

something about being out in arizona?

and a girl?


don't know the albums name. but when released on cd. it was a bonus song?

live as well.............

HELP!!!!!

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

i remember it....

"Sleeping by her side"

that is one heck of a killer track!!!!

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

rknuth Wrote:
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> T-Bone Walker: Stormy Monday Blues but arangement
> and played by the Allmann Brothers


I really enjoyed the Allmans version also ... I also really liked "Whipping Post" and "One Way Out" on the "Fillmore" album. Duanne was one of the very best blues slide players and I still listen to that album quite a bit.

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I'M GLAD I started this post...

This has been one of the most enthused, informed, & knowlwdgable posts I read from everyone in a long time!

I guess there are alot of blues overs here!

ROCK ON!

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Live in New Orleans 02 January 1969
"I Got a Good Mind to Give Up Living"

My goodness...

JR