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Best Blues Songs Of All Time

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'Sweet Home Chicago' performed at the White House with Barack Obama joining B.B. King on the chorus

Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as having permanent value.[1] Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. Many are also performed in styles that differ from the originals and reflect various music trends, including rhythm and blues and rock.

Best

Each song listed has been identified by five or more music writers as a blues standard. Nearly all have appeared on major music singles charts. Since many of the songs were developed in American folk music traditions,[1] spellings and titles may differ; the most common are used.

List[edit]

TitleFirst recorded byYearCharting single(s) by[2]Refs
'Ain't Nobody's Business'Anna Meyers with the Original Memphis Five1922Jimmy Witherspoon (1944)[3][4][5][6][7]
[8]
'All Your Love (I Miss Loving)'Otis Rush1958[9][6][10][11]
[12]
'Baby What You Want Me to Do'Jimmy Reed1960Etta James (1964)[3][13][9][14]
[15]
'Baby, Please Don't Go'Big Joe Williams1935
  • Orioles (1952)
  • Them (1964)
  • AC/DC (1975)
[3][16][17][18][9]
[14][19][20]
'Blues with a Feeling'Rabon Tarrant1947Little Walter (1953)[3][9][21][22]
[23]
'Boom Boom'John Lee Hooker1962[24][3][25][26]
[27]
'Born Under a Bad Sign'Albert King1967Albert King (1967)[28][29][30][31]
[32]
'Caldonia'Louis Jordan1945
  • Louis Jordan (1945)
  • Erskine Hawkins (1945)
  • Sugar Chile Robinson (1949)
  • James Brown (1964)
[3][29][33][34]
[35]
'Catfish Blues'Robert Petway1941Muddy Waters (1951 as 'Still a Fool')[36][37][33][38]
[39]
'Crosscut Saw'Tommy McClennan1941Albert King (1967)[3][40][41][42]
[30]
'Crossroads'Robert Johnson1936Cream (1969)[9][41][43][31]
[44]
'Driftin' Blues'Johnny Moore's Three Blazers1945
  • Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (1945)
  • Bobby Bland (1968)
[45][46][47][48]
[49]
'Dust My Broom'Robert Johnson1936Elmore James (1952)[3][50][51][52]
[53][54][39][55]
[56]
'Every Day I Have the Blues'Pinetop Sparks1935
  • Lowell Fulson (1950)
  • Joe Williams (1952 & 1955)
  • B.B. King (1955)
  • Billy Stewart (1966)
[3][57][29][58]
[59][39]
'Farther Up the Road'Bobby Bland1957Bobby Bland (1957)[3][60][61][29]
[62]
'Five Long Years'Eddie Boyd1952[63][64][9][65]
[66][67][68]
'Forty-Four'Roosevelt Sykes1929[69][70][65][71]
[39]
'Goin' Down Slow'St. Louis Jimmy Oden1941Bobby Bland (1974)[72][9][73][74]
[75][76]
'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl'Sonny Boy Williamson I1937Smokey Hogg (1950 as 'Little School Girl')[3][77][78][9]
[73][79][80]
'Got My Mojo Working'Muddy Waters1956Jimmy Smith (1966)[3][81][82][73]
[83][39]
'Help Me'Sonny Boy Williamson II1963Sonny Boy Williamson II (1963)[3][9][84][85]
[86]
'Hide Away'Freddie King1961Freddie King (1961)[87][88][89][90]
[91]
'Hoochie Coochie Man'Muddy Waters1954
  • Muddy Waters (1954)
  • Jimmy Smith (1966)
[3][92][29][93]
[94][39][95]
'How Long Blues'Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell1928[96][29][97][98]
[39][99]
'I Can't Quit You Baby'Otis Rush1956Otis Rush (1956)[3][100][9][97]
[98]
'I'm a Man'Bo Diddley1955
  • Muddy Waters (1955 as 'Mannish Boy')
  • Yardbirds (1965)
[81][9][101]
[102][103]
'I'm Ready'Muddy Waters1954Muddy Waters (1954)[3][104][9][101]
[98]
'It Hurts Me Too'Tampa Red1940
  • Tampa Red (1949 as 'When Things Go Wrong')
  • Elmore James (1965)
[3][105][29][106]
[107][108][109]
'Kansas City'Little Willie Littlefield1952
  • Wilbert Harrison (1959)
  • Hank Ballard & the Midnighters (1959)
  • James Brown (1967)
[3][110][5][111]
[112]
'Key to the Highway'Charlie Segar1940Little Walter (1958)[113][114][92][5]
[115][116][117]
'Killing Floor'Howlin' Wolf1964Howlin' Wolf (1964)[3][118][9][115]
[119][120][103]
[121]
'Little Red Rooster'Howlin' Wolf1961[100][9][122][98]
[50][123][95]
'Mean Old World'T-Bone Walker1942Little Walter (1953)[3][9][124][66]
[54]
'My Babe'Little Walter1955
  • Little Walter (1955)
  • Willie Mitchell (1969)
[104][29][125]
[126][95]
'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out'Bessie Smith1929
  • Nina Simone (1960)
  • Bobby Womack (1973 as 'Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out')
[29][127][128]
[129][130]
'Reconsider Baby'Lowell Fulson1954Lowell Fulson (1954)[3][131][9]
[122][132]
'Rock Me Baby'Lil' Son Jackson1950B.B. King (1964)[3][29][133][50]
[134]
'Rollin' and Tumblin'Hambone Willie Newbern1929Canned Heat (1967)[135][136][9]
[137][138][53]
[31][39]
'See See Rider'Ma Rainey1924
  • Bea Booze (1942)
  • Chuck Willis (1957 as 'C.C. Rider')
  • LaVern Baker (1962)
  • Animals (1966)
[96][139][5]
[140][141][142]
[143][7][144]
[145]
'Sitting on Top of the World'Mississippi Sheiks1930[9][146][147]
[148][149]
'The Sky Is Crying'Elmore James1960Elmore James (1960)[3][9][150]
[151][152]
'Spoonful'Howlin' Wolf1960Etta James & Harvey Fuqua (1961)[3][114][100][9]
[153][31]
'Stormy Monday'T-Bone Walker1948
  • T-Bone Walker (1948)
  • Bobby Bland (1962)
  • Latimore (1973)
[3][45][81][5]
[154][134][39]
[155][156]
'Sweet Home Chicago'Robert Johnson1936Junior Parker (1958)[3][157][29]
[158][52]
'Sweet Little Angel'Lucille Bogan1930B.B. King (1956)[159][105][158]
[160][109]
'That's All Right'Jimmy Rogers1950[3][161][162]
[163][164][165]
'The Things That I Used to Do'Guitar Slim1953[166][3][167]
[168][74][161]
[169][170]
'The Thrill Is Gone'Roy Hawkins1951
  • Roy Hawkins (1951)
  • B.B. King (1970)
  • Aretha Franklin (1970)
[3][171][172]
[9][173][174]
'Trouble in Mind'Bertha 'Chippie' Hill1926[175][9][176]
[128][177][178]
'Walkin' Blues'Robert Johnson1936Muddy Waters (1948 as 'I Feel Like Going Home')[3][179][9]
[180][181]
'Worried Life Blues'Big Maceo1941
  • Big Maceo (1945 as 'Things Have Changed')
  • B.B. King (1970)
  • Junior Parker (1970)
[182][183][184]
[185][186]
'You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling'Tampa Red1938Freddie King (1961)[105][187][108]
[107][109]

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25 Best Blues Songs Of All Time

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Best Blues Songs Ever

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Appears On

YearArtist/AlbumLabelTimeAllMusic Rating
1970 Bell
1978 Festival Records
1993 Prestige Elite Records
1995 Virgin
1996
Various Artists
ZYX Music
1999 Time / Life Music
2001
Various Artists
M&M 2:44
2002 Time Music
2002
Various Artists
Repertoire
2002 EMI 3:01
2003 Indigo 0:00
2004 Frémeaux & Associés 2:47
2004 Pony Canyon Records
2005
Various Artists
Tomato 2:55
2005 Pazzazz 2:52
2005 Saga Blues
2006 JSP 2:46
2006
Various Artists
Document 2:43
2006 Fuel 2:55
2006
Various Artists
Cafe Con / Horizon
2006 Primo Records
2007
Various Artists
JSP 2:47
2007 Chrome Dreams / United States of Distribution 2:47
2007
Various Artists
Solid Gold Music / Union Square Music 3:11
2007 St. Clair 2:57
2007
Various Artists
St. Clair 2:57
2007 Reader's Digest Music 2:55
2008
Various Artists
Hear Music 2:57
2008
Various Artists
Not Now Music 3:10
2008 Greatest Collection 3:03
2009 Collectables 3:42
2009 Not Now Music
2010
Various Artists
Floating World 3:12
2010 Fuel 2000 2:56
2010 The Great American Music Company 2:59
2010 Proper Records / Proper Uk 2:47
2011 Fuel 2000 / GCM 2:46
2011 Simply
2011 Roslin Records
2012 The Great American Music Company
2012
Various Artists
Simply / Union Square Music 3:10
2012 AAO Music / United Audio Entertainment 2:49
2013
Various Artists
4:Squared 2:54
2013 AAO Music / United Audio Entertainment 2:49
2014
Various Artists
Enlightenment 2:47
2014 One & Only Blues
2014 Airline Records / Fuel 2000 2:50
2017 Sunset Blvd Records 2:53
2018
Original Sountrack
Sony Music
Wagram
Various Artists
DM Digital
Tring
Various Artists
Forever Classic Hits
Cherished Records
Various Artists
Backtracks Records
Dino Records
Cherished Records
Excalibur
Various Artists
TMC Entertainment 2:45
Sound and Vision
Various Artists
Reloaded
ZYX / ZYX Music 2:56
Various Artists
Ichiban
V & H Holdings 3:01
Various Artists
JSP / JSP Records 2:47
Rhino
Various Artists
One & Only Blues
V & H Holdings
Various Artists
Forever Classic Hits
Universal 4:01
Recordings Of Substance
AAO Music 2:57
Various Artists
Music Digital 2:46
Music Digital 2:45
Various Artists
Tring
Various Artists
Music Digital 2:45
Fourmatt
Various Artists
AP Music
V & H Holdings 3:01
Various Artists
X5
X5
Various Artists
My Kind of Music
One & Only Blues
Various Artists
AMC
Various Artists
Sound and Vision
Sound and Vision
V & H Holdings 3:01
Play 24-7 2:49
Various Artists
Ideal Music Group
Reloaded
Various Artists
Demon Records / Edsel
Rhythm & Blues 2:49
Various Artists
Rhythm & Blues 2:49
Reloaded
Music Melon 2:46
Not Now Music
Various Artists
Phantom Import Distribution
Wesgram