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"I Got the Blues" is a song recorded by the Rolling Stones. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , it appears on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers . It is a slow-paced, bluesy song featuring languid guitars with heavy blues and soul influences.
Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.
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.
"Mean Old World" is a blues song recorded by American blues electric guitar musician T-Bone Walker in 1942. [1] It has been described (along with the single's B-side) as "the first important blues recordings on the electric guitar". [2] Over the years it has been interpreted and recorded by numerous blues, jazz and rock and roll artists.
Little is known about the exact origin of the music now known as the blues. [1] No specific year can be cited as its origin, largely because the style evolved over a long period but blues is inarguably a Black American art form as it is noted "it is impossible to say exactly how old blues is - certainly no older than the presence of Negroes in the United States.
"Got My Mojo Working" is a blues song written by Preston "Red" Foster and first recorded by R&B singer Ann Cole in 1956. Foster's lyrics describe several amulets or talismans , called mojo , which are associated with hoodoo , an early African-American folk-magic belief system.
"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, published in 1932 for the Broadway show Earl Carroll's Vanities (1932). [1] The song has become a jazz and blues standard. Popular recordings in 1933 and 1934 were those by Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman. [2]
Record of the band that plays the blues [26] In The History of Rock & Roll, Ed Ward called the song "a masterpiece of double entendre and timing". [27] Although the song's lyrics are written in the form of an "extended sexual metaphor", they have been cited as part of a trend toward more "open sexuality" in rhythm and blues music of the early ...