Blues standard

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A blues standard, much like a jazz standard or pop standard, refers to a song that is widely known, performed, and recorded among blues musicians.

Live blues, especially Chicago-style blues, is often characterized by extended improvisation, often in the form of guitar jam sessions. Songs known to all musicians playing provide a common ground for such shows

[edit] Examples of blues standards

The following list has some of the most well known blues standards

• Leroy Carr
  • "How Long Blues"
• Bessie Smith
  • "Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (written by Percy Grainger, Robert Prince, & Clarence Williams)
• Eddie Boyd
  • "Five Long Years"
• Big Bill Broonzy
  • "Key to the Highway"
  • "Worried Life Blues" (written by Big Maceo Merriweather)
• Cab Calloway
  • "Minnie the Moocher"
• Guitar Slim
  • "Things That I Used to Do"
• Howlin' Wolf
  • "Killing Floor"
  • "Spoonful" (written by Willie Dixon)
  • "Little Red Rooster"
  • "Sittin' on Top of the World" (written by Sam Collins, 1927)
  • "Back Door Man" (written by Willie Dixon)
• W.C. Handy
  • "St. Louis Blues"
  • "Careless Love"
• John Lee Hooker
  • "Boom Boom"
  • "Boogie Chillen"
  • "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"
• Son House
  • "Death Letter"
• Robert Johnson
  • "Traveling Riverside Blues"
  • "I Believe I'll Dust my Broom", also known as "Dust My Broom"
  • "Sweet Home Chicago"
  • "Cross Road Blues" (Also known as "Crossroads")
  • "Walkin' Blues"
• Louis Jordan
  • "Let the Good Times Roll"
• Sonny Boy Williamson I
  • "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
• Elmore James
  • "The Sky Is Cryin'"
• Dinah Washington
  • "Evil Gal Blues" (written by Lionel Hampton & Leonard Feather)
• Muddy Waters
  • "Got My Mojo Workin'" also "We've Got Our Mojo Workin'"
  • "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" (written by Willie Dixon)
  • "Mannish Boy" aka "I'm A Man" (written by Bo Diddley)
  • "Rollin' Stone" also "Catfish Blues"(traditional)
  • "I Just Wanna Make Love to You"
  • "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (probably traditional)
• Lowell Fulson
  • "Reconsider Baby"
• Albert King
  • "Born Under a Bad Sign" (written by Booker T. Jones & William Bell)
• B.B. King
  • "Sweet Sixteen" (written by Joe Josea & B.B. King)
• Freddie King
  • "Hideaway" (written by F. King & S. Thompson)
• T-Bone Walker
  • "They Call It Stormy Monday"
  • "T-Bone Shuffle"
  • "Evenin'"
• Jimmy Rogers
  • "Walking By Myself"
• Little Walter
  • "Juke"
  • "My Babe"
  • "Boom Boom Out Goes the Light"
• Sonny Boy Williamson II
  • "Don't Start Me to Talkin'"
• Jimmy Reed
  • "Hush Hush"
• Willie Dixon
  • "I Can't Quit You Baby"

[edit] External links

• Blues lyrics