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Musically, however, there are differences in the recorded versions. Charlie Segar's original "Key to the Highway" was performed as a mid-tempo twelve-bar blues. [3] When Jazz Gillum recorded it later that year with Broonzy on guitar, he used an eight-bar blues arrangement [1] (May 9, 1940 Bluebird B 8529).
Keys to the Highway is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Rodney Crowell, released in 1989 by Columbia Records (see 1989 in country music). It peaked at number 15 on the Top Country Albums chart.
Allman's slide guitar playing elevated the album's blues covers, [15] which included "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (by Jimmy Cox), "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (the Billy Myles song, originally recorded by Freddie King) and "Key to the Highway" (Big Bill Broonzy).
Charlie Segar was an American blues pianist and occasional singer, who is best known for being the first to record the blues standard, "Key to the Highway" (1940). Originally from Pensacola, Florida , Segar has been dubbed the "Keyboard Wizard Supreme". [ 1 ]
Riding with the King was the first collaborative album by Eric Clapton and B.B. King. [1] [2] They performed together for the first time at Cafe Au Go Go in New York City in 1967 when Clapton was 22 and a member of Cream, but did not record together until 1997 when King collaborated with Clapton on the song "Rock Me Baby" for his duets album, Deuces Wild.
Eight-bar blues progressions have more variations than the more rigidly defined twelve bar format. The move to the IV chord usually happens at bar 3 (as opposed to 5 in twelve bar); however, "the I chord moving to the V chord right away, in the second measure, is a characteristic of the eight-bar blues." [1]
The intro of the song as well as the verse are written in the key of A major, while the chorus is written in the key of D major. [ 6 ] In 2003, Whitlock recorded an acoustic version of "Anyday" for his studio album Other Assorted Love Songs which was released through his own independent record label Domino Records. [ 7 ]
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 [1] or 1917 [4] [5] – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit.