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"That's All Right"or "That's Alright" [1] is a blues song adapted by Chicago blues singer and guitarist Jimmy Rogers. He recorded it in 1950 with Little Walter on harmonica. . Although based on earlier blues songs, music writer John Collis calls Rogers' rendition "one of the most tuneful and instantly memorable of all variations on the basic blues format
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”.
"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.
Highway 51 Blues" is a song composed by American blues pianist Curtis Jones (1906–1971), whose song "Lonesome Bedroom Blues", released in 1937, had been popular. On January 25, 1938, "Highway 51 Blues", from his fourth recording session, was released on a 78 record. [ 1 ]
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 No. 1 (T for ...
The song became popular in the American folk music revival. Bob Gibson recorded it for his Carnegie Concert (1957), and it was included on Sing Out!, vol. 8, no. 3 (1959). Jerry Silverman, Folk Blues, vol. 1 (c. 1959) Burl Ives, with the title "Lenora, Let Your Hair Hang Down, The Versatile Burl Ives! (1961) Chad Mitchell Trio, At the Bitter ...
"All Your Love" is a moderate-tempo minor-key twelve-bar blues with Afro-Cuban rhythmic influences. An impromptu song "apparently dashed off ... in the car en route to Cobra's West Roosevelt Road studios", [2] it borrows guitar lines and the arrangement from "Lucky Lou", a 1957 instrumental single by blues guitarist Jody Williams. [3]
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.