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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 ...
"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 ]
The song was recorded by many artists through the years. The first known recording is from 1923 by Henry Whitter, an Appalachian singer, [2] [3] as "Lonesome Road Blues". The earliest versions of the lyrics are from the perspective of an inmate in prison with the refrain, "I'm down in that jail on my knees" and a reference to eating "corn bread and beans."
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.
The song, which was released on a double A-side single in the UK (c/w "Wild in the Country"), reached No.4 on the UK singles chart, also in 1961. As of August 2017, the single "Wild in the Country" / "I Feel So Bad" is Presley's 38th best selling single in the UK.
A list of sad songs for the next time you're feeling blue and depressed, including "hope ur ok" by Olivia Rodrigo, "Un-Break My Heart by Toni Braxton" and more. Found: The Ultimate Sad Girl ...
Koko Taylor, Marc Cohn, The Blues Band "As Long as I Have You" Little Walter: 1960 The Ford Blues Band, John P. Hammond, George Thorogood "Back Door Man" Howlin' Wolf: 1960 The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir, The Blues Project, The Blues Band "The Big Boat" a.k.a. "Somebody Tell that Woman" Big Three Trio: 1955 Peter, Paul ...
As the chords of a 12-bar blues follow a form, so does the melodic line. The melodic line might just be the melody of the piece or it might also include lyrics. The melody and lyrics frequently follow an AA'B form, meaning one phrase is played then repeated (perhaps with a slight alteration), then something new is played. [14]