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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.
Willie Dixon was a Chicago blues artist, perhaps best known for his songwriting. [1] He wrote or co-wrote over 500 songs [2] and his work has been recorded by some of the best-known blues musicians of his era, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.
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 ...
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 ...
Sad Songs (Say So Much) Saint-Tropez (song) Save Me (Gotye song) The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future; Si tu t'appelles Mélancolie; Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (song) Someday We'll All Be Free; Something I Can Never Have; Soundtrack 2 My Life; Spiegel (song)
To make the selection process easier, Esquire is rounding up the best sad songs of 2023. For what it's worth, these aren't the saddest songs of the year. That's a whole different list.
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.