25 Best Blues Classics

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Tracklist

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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1House Rent Boogie
recording of:
House Rent Boogie
lyricist and composer:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
John Lee Hooker3:59
2I Think You’re Cheating on Me Baby
B.B. King3:36
3RX for the Blues
Mike Bloomfield2:15
4Trouble Blues
Charles Brown2:41
5Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
cover recording of:
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
writer:
Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams (US jazz pianist, composer, singer and bandleader)
publisher:
Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin), Universal‐MCA Music Publishing (US) and Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (not for release label use!)
Ray Charles2:49
6Lonesome Dog
recorded in:
Houston, Texas, United States (from 1949 until 1950)
guitar:
Lightning Hopkins (from 1949 until 1950)
vocals:
Lightning Hopkins (from 1949 until 1950)
recording of:
Lonesome Dog Blues
lyricist and composer:
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Lightnin’ Hopkins2:39
7Blues in the Ghetto
Pee Wee Crayton3:07
8First Time I Met the Blues
Buddy Guy2:11
9The Bourgeois Blues
recording of:
The Bourgeois Blues
lyricist and composer:
Lead Belly
arranger:
Alan Lomax (US ethnomusicologist) and John A. Lomax
Lead Belly3:03
10The Same Old Story
Big Maybelle2:09
11Let the Good Times Roll Creole
Memphis Slim2:35
12Good Morning Little School Girl
Mississippi Fred McDowell3:28
13Boogie Woogie Papa
Arnold “Gatemouth” Moore3:56
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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Dead Man Blues
recording of:
Dead Man Blues
composer:
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
Jelly Roll Morton4:16
2Stormy Monday Blues
Big Joe Turner6:23
3Baby Please Don’t Go
Big Joe Williams1:52
4Begging Mama Blues
alto saxophone:
Jewell Grant (US saxophonist) (in 1945-12)
double bass:
Charles Mingus (in 1945-12)
drums (drum set):
Lee Young (40s-60s US jazz drummer, then producer/A&R) (in 1945-12)
piano:
Wilbert Baranco (40s west coast jazz bandleader and producer) (in 1945-12)
tenor saxophone:
Lucky Thompson (in 1945-12)
trumpet:
Karl George (US jazz trumpeter) (in 1945-12)
vibraphone:
Milt Jackson (in 1945-12)
recording of:
Beggin' Mama Blues
writer:
Wilbert Baranco (40s west coast jazz bandleader and producer) and Charles Mingus
Dinah Washington2:55
5Information Blues
Roy Milton2:25
6Chicken Shack Boogie
recording of:
Chicken Shack Boogie
writer:
Lola Ann Cullum and Amos Milburn
publisher:
EMI Partnership MV GmbH and EMI Unart Catalog Inc.
Amos Milburn2:46
7The Blues Are Brewin’
recording of:
The Blues Are Brewin’
lyricist:
Eddie DeLange
composer:
Louis Alter
Billie Holiday3:02
8Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker2:31
9John Lee Boogie
recording of:
John Lee Boogie
writer:
John Mayall
John Mayall4:13
10Why I Sing the Blues
recording of:
Why I Sing the Blues
writer:
Dave Clark (record promoter and musical consultant who worked with B.B. King) and B.B. King
publisher:
ABC/Dunhill Music, Inc., Duchess Music Corporation (BMI-affiliated), Pamco Music Inc. and Sounds Of Lucille, Inc.
B.B. King2:20
11Every Day I Have the Blues
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells4:31
12Big Legged Woman
Charles Brown2:51

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ASIN:CA: B0017LFKSS [info]