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They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as standing the test of time. [2] Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and other early acoustic styles, and urban blues from Chicago and the West Coast. [3] Many blues songs were developed in American folk music ...
From November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965 there was no Billboard R&B singles chart. Some publications have used Cashbox magazine's stats in their place. No specific reason has ever been given as to why Billboard ceased releasing R&B charts, but the prevailing wisdom is that the chart methodology used was being questioned, since more and more white acts were reaching number-one on the R&B chart.
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 No. 1 (T for Texas) Blues After Hours; Blues Jumped the ...
The chart debut as the Top Blues Albums in the issue dated September 2, 1995, as a 15-position chart with its first number one being Eric Clapton's From the Cradle. [1] Its introduction was a culmination of commercial realities at the time and a recognition of the "enduring legacy and artistic force of this timeless genre". [1]
Blues legend B.B. King with his guitar, "Lucille" Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.
"Texas Flood" is a slow-tempo twelve-bar blues notated in 12/8 time in the key of A flat. Davis wrote it in California in 1955 and the song is credited to Davis and Duke Records arranger/trumpeter Joseph Scott. [2] Nominally about a flood in Texas, Davis used it as a metaphor for his relationship problems:
More recently, they have reached into the top ten, and in 2019, for only the second time ever on the Hot 100 (the first since 1958), made it to number one. This has led to all-time records for dropping off the Hot 100, including from number one, as the songs depart regardless of their final chart positions during the season.