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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.
"All Your Love" is a moderate-tempo minor-key twelve-bar blues with Afro-Cuban rhythmic influences. An impromptu song "apparently dashed off ... in the car en route to Cobra's West Roosevelt Road studios", [2] it borrows guitar lines and the arrangement from "Lucky Lou", a 1957 instrumental single by blues guitarist Jody Williams. [3]
Led Zeppelin was known to cover it live as part of a medley in "Whole Lotta Love". The song is performed in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers sung by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as The Blues Brothers. [4] [17] The song was also included on the soundtrack album. In 1989 it was released as a single in the UK, backed by "Think" but failed to chart.
"Love in Vain" (originally "Love in Vain Blues") is a blues song written by American musician Robert Johnson. Johnson's performance – vocal accompanied by his finger-style acoustic guitar playing – has been described as "devastatingly bleak".
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"Turn On Your Love Light" is a rhythm and blues song recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961. It was an important R&B and pop chart hit for Bland and has become one of his most identifiable songs. A variety of artists have recorded it, including Them and the Grateful Dead , who made it part of their concert repertoire.
Careless Love" is a traditional song, with several popular blues versions. It has been called a "nineteenth-century ballad and Dixieland standard". [1] The death referenced in an old version was the son of a Kentucky governor. [2]
Blues singer Bessie Smith recorded the song with piano accompaniment by Clarence Williams. [2] It was released as her first single (backed with "Gulf Coast Blues") and 780,000 copies were sold in the first six months. [3] One historian noted that "sales through the years plus the bootlegging of her discs must have made it a million seller". [4]