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The song commits to the structure of traditional 12-bar blues, a three-chord format in which the first line of each verse is repeated and then answered. [3] Dylan scholar Tony Attwood claims that the song's "point" is introduced in the first verse ("Well, today has been a sad ol’ lonesome day / Yeah, today has been a sad ol’ lonesome day / I'm just sittin’ here thinking / With my mind a ...
The twelve-bar blues (or blues changes) is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. The blues progression has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and duration. In its basic form, it is predominantly based on the I, IV, and V chords of a key.
"Sad and Lonely and Blue" was released as the Easybeats fourth single on 4 November 1965, backed by "Easy As Can Be", a song boasting influences from both rhythm and blues and folk rock. [11] Released through Albert Productions and distributed by Parlophone , the single was what Young described as "sort of a bomb for us". [ 12 ]
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
Baby Sittin' the Blues (co-written with Jimmy Fields) Baby, We're Really in Love; Bayou Pon Pon (co-written with Jimmie Davis) Between You and God And Me (co-written with Lawton Williams) Blue Is My Heart (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Holly Williams and Hank Williams, Jr. for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams) The Blues Come Around; Blues ...
No list of sad country songs would be complete without Hank Williams, who really outdid himself with this all-timer. Even if you’ve never heard a lonesome whip-poor-will, Hank will make you feel ...
The song has roots that pre-date blues. Two spiritual songs from the 1800s have been identified as antecedents: "I'm a-Trouble in De Mind", published in the Slave Songs of the United States (1867); [4] and "I'm Troubled in Mind", cited in The Story of the [Fisk University] Jubilee Singers and Their Songs (1880). [5]
All music guide to the blues : The experts' guide to the best blues recordings. All Music Guide to the Blues. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. ISBN 0-87930-424-3. Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). "Willie Dixon". Encyclopedia of the Blues. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-252-8. Shadwick, Keith (2007). "Willie Dixon ...