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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.
Bad Penny Blues; Ball and Chain (Big Mama Thornton song) Beale Street Blues; Beans and Corn Bread; Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar; Big Boss Man (song) Billie's Blues; Black and Blue (Chain song) Black Angel Blues; Black Night (Charles Brown song) Bleeding Heart (song) Blue Light Boogie (song) Blue on Black; Blue Shadows; Blue yodel; Blue Yodel ...
List of Pre-1940 blues musicians, showing name, birth and death year, origin, primary style, and references; Name Birth year Death year Origin Primary style Ref(s) Mozelle Alderson: 1904 1994 Ohio Country blues [4] Alger "Texas" Alexander: 1900 1954 Texas Country blues [5] Ora Alexander: c.1909: Unknown: Alabama Classic female blues [6] Albert ...
British singer, songwriter and pianist Elton John has recorded a total of 464 songs, most of which are written by him and Bernie Taupin. John formed the blues band Bluesology in 1962. After leaving Bluesology in 1967 to embark on a solo career, John met Taupin after they both answered an advert for songwriters, and he released his debut album ...
Year of release Album title Label 1956 Hot Songs My Mother Taught Me: Cook Records: 1956 Moans and Blues: Cook Records 1956 Torchy Lullabies My Mother Sang Me: Cook Records 1956 A Night In Old New Orleans: Capitol Records/Southland Records: 1957 Bourbon Street: Verve Records 1959 Lizzie Miles With Tony Almerico's Dixieland Band: Rondo Record ...
Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago.Agreeing to a request by jail warden Winston Moore, King and his band performed for an audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men.
"Worried Life Blues" is a blues standard and one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. Originally recorded by Big Maceo Merriweather in 1941, "Worried Life Blues" was an early blues hit and Maceo's most recognized song. The song was inspired by an earlier track and several artists have had record chart successes with their ...
Little Walter (1930–1968) was an American blues artist who is generally regarded as the most influential blues harmonica player of his era. [1] Most of his earliest recordings were as a sideman, when he contributed harmonica to songs by Chicago blues musicians such as Jimmy Rogers and Muddy Waters. [2]