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Films dealing with blues history or prominently featuring blues music as a theme include: St. Louis Blues (1929): the only short movie with Bessie Smith; Blues in the Night (1941) Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) A Face in the Crowd (1957) Sounder (1972) Lady Sings The Blues (1972): about Billie Holiday; Leadbelly (1976): biographical film about ...
The song received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999 [14] and in 2007 was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame. [15] In a song review for AllMusic, Bill Dahl commented: "No respectable blues band would dare mount a stage without having 'Hide Away' in their arsenal as their principal instrumental break song. So rousingly recognizable ...
The songwriting for "Farther Up the Road" is credited to Joe Medwick Veasey, a Houston-area independent songwriter/broker, and Duke Records owner Don Robey.In an interview, blues singer Johnny Copeland claimed he and Medwick wrote the song in one night; Medwick then sold it the next day to Robey, with Robey taking Copeland's songwriting credit. [3]
"Harlem Shuffle" is an R&B song written and originally recorded by the duo Bob & Earl in 1963. The song describes a dance called the “Harlem Shuffle”, and mentions several other contemporary dances of the early 1960s, including the Monkey Shine , the Limbo , the Hitch hike , the Slide, and the Pony .
In addition to tracks by the Blues Brothers Band performed with guest artists such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Dr. John, Lonnie Brooks, Junior Wells, Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett, there are songs by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Blues Traveler as well as an all-star blues supergroup, the Louisiana Gator Boys, featuring B.B. King ...
Showdown! is a collaborative blues album by guitarists Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland, [1] released in 1985 through Alligator Records. [4] The album is mostly original material, with cover versions of songs like T-Bone Walker's "T-Bone Shuffle", Muddy Waters' "She's into Something" and Ray Charles' "Blackjack".
"Big Boss Man" is an uptempo twelve-bar blues shuffle that features "one of the most influential Reed grooves of all time". [1] It is credited to Jimmy Reed's manager, Al Smith, and Vee-Jay Records staff writer Luther Dixon. [1] The song is one of the few Reed hits that was written by someone other than Reed and his wife Mama Reed. [2]
Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.