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But in the sea of new releases and curated playlists, we know it can be hard to find the right track to choose. To make the selection process easier, Esquire is rounding up the best sad songs of 2023.
My 21st Century Blues is the debut studio album by the British singer-songwriter Raye, released independently by Human Re Sources on 3 February 2023.It marked her first project following her departure from the record label Polydor Records in 2021, which denied her the release of an album for several years.
Sad Street is an album by the American musician Bobby "Blue" Bland. [2] It was released in 1995. [3] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Blues Album". [4] It peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Blues Albums chart. [5]
American Epic: The Best of Blues is a compilation of early blues songs recorded between 1927 and 1936 and released to accompany the American Epic films in 2017. [1] The album was released as a 17-track download and a 13-track vinyl LP. [1] The album was praised by critics as the definitive pre-war blues compilation. [2] [3] [4]
D4vd, "2016" D4vd is an indie wunderkind, whose music manages to infuse banal experiences with new meaning. His latest offering, “2016,” expresses a desire to go back in time.
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.
"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 ]
In America a distinction is drawn between ballads that are versions of European, particularly British and Irish songs, and 'Native American ballads', developed without reference to earlier songs. A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad , which mixed the genre with Afro-American music .