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"Home of the Blues" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Cash. The song was recorded on July 1, 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee, and was released as a single in August the same year. It was also included as the eleventh track of his second album, Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous.
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings said "Riverside required Hooker to play only acoustic guitar. What motivated this redirection, and in particular the 'classic blues' repertoire on the first album was a view of the blues - you might say a politics of the blues - very much of its time ... though, as always with Hooker the result is not exact commemoration so much as highly personalised ...
The Real Folk Blues is an album by blues musician Sonny Boy Williamson II compiling songs recorded in Chicago between 1957 and 1964. Released by Chess Records in 1966, the album contains mostly previously unissued material, including "Checkin' Up on My Baby" and "Bring It On Home", which have been called "some of the most accomplished masterpieces of postwar blues".
In 2017, 60 years after the original release, the album was remastered under the title Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (Definitive Expanded Remastered Edition). In 2022, Sun released a remastered edition of the original studio album, with only the original track listing.
"Home of the Blues" Released: August 10, 1957 "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" Released: December 1, 1957 "Guess Things Happen That Way" Released: May 20, 1958 "The Ways of a Woman in Love" Released: August 11, 1958
B. B. King (1925–2015) was an American blues musician whose recording career spanned 1949–2008. As with other blues contemporaries, King's material was primarily released on singles until the late 1950s–early 1960s, when long playing record albums became more popular.
Label of Johnson's "Terraplane Blues" on Vocalion Records, his first and most successful single. American blues musician Robert Johnson (1911–1938) recorded 29 songs during his brief career. A total of 59 performances, including alternate takes, were recorded over a period of five days at two makeshift recording studios in Texas.
A new remastered edition of the album was released in 2011 in commemoration of Johnson's 100th birthday. The Centennial Collection was released in both standard and deluxe editions. [ 24 ] The track order was changed so that all of the alternate takes were placed at the end of the discs, rather than side by side with the master tracks—as the ...