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 jam sessions with guitar and often harp, bass and piano, among others. 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
  • "Ain't Nobody's Business" (written by Porter 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"
• Jimi Hendrix
  • Red House
• 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)
  • "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" (written by Billy Myles)
• 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"
• Big Joe Williams
  • "Baby, Please Don't Go"

[edit] External links

• Blues lyrics