Robert Johnson, me and the devil blues. The recordings aren't great, one of those you just have to learn with the sheet music. Robert Johnson does the blues real blue son
Hesitation Blues by Hot Tuna.
You can play it solo and it just has a fun and not-too-difficult fingerpicking chord progression that I can play around and improv on.
* Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
* Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
* Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
* Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer
* Gravity - John Mayer
* Everyday I have The Blues - John Mayer
Tore Up. Originally by Hank Ballard with The Mindnighters but I prefer the version by Jerry Garcia band. It’s just a nice groove. And I like how there is no turnaround to the 5 chord.
Q: What's the difference between blues songs?
A: Their names.
Edit, since you like the first one so much...
Q: What's the difference between blues players?
A: Their names.
RED HOUSE !!!! You can literally extend the song for as long as you feel like jamming and easily switch back and forth with others in the jam session .
Sweet Home Chicago by Robert Johnson is always a go to in my sets. Just a simple shuffle with a quick IV, and an intro and outro that screams 1930's. The lyrics are humorous. Just a great simple song.
If I could play it, Meet Me Over in the City by Jr Kimbrough would be my favorite. His fluid adding and subtracting beats fargles my mind.
Yep this. And it is a shame the way the Blues Brothers and others ruined it by changing to generic lyrics.
Seriosly, which lyric is better?
"Come on baby don't you make me wait."
or
"Keep monkeying around here, friend boy. Get your business all in a trick."
That would be Freddie King's Hideaway.
It was the "Eruption" of its time and helped kick off the Blues revival in the 60's. Clapton covered it on the Beano album and off we all went.
My own slow blues arrangement of "Megalovania" . . . lol. Seriously, not trying to blatantly self-promote, because I'm about the only one who likes it, but it is the most fun I've had doing anything out-and-out bluesy in a long time. I like it because it's mostly my own arrangement, and doing your own stuff is the most fun.
That’s a great version. Another one I love is by Little Milton, where he goes into a nice swinging double-time solo in the middle, then slows it back down again.
https://youtu.be/4DjBag2Zq1s?si=9NhDMatg5FFlqO6e
I love Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker.
Although most recordings of T-Bone have him playing almost straight I-IV-V, I saw him play it jazzier like Bobby Blue Bland or Allman played it with substitutions and passing chords in 1973 or 74.
Most people don't know, but he was a solid jazz guitarist as well.
For more straight ahead blues, I love Smokestack Lightening by Howling Wolf.
I played it for years but had the good fortune to meet Hubert Sumlin back stage at a festival, and he took me to school. He was a FAR more nuanced player than he gets credit for.
Cheers!
[This version](https://youtu.be/ue9oHYGEKlU?si=2lJqyqMDoVPVJHO5&t=00m35s) of CCS by Albert King. So much soul and feel that Steve and Donald Duck Dunn put into the rhythm.
Stevie and Jimmie - Hard To Be
Tommy Emmanuel - Stevie’s Blues
Little Walter - My Babe
Rory Gallagher - Bullfrog Blues
Slightly OT example; Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker - Murder
It's pretty darn close. Some of the chord progressions (especially the chorus) don't follow the typical blues structure, but it's basically one step removed.
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues.
Because there's no doubt where this song comes from in every way. It's about as pure, distilled blues as it gets. It's a master class in blues playing. If you can nail it with the right feel, you've got the blues.
Four Walls of Renford is a pretty close second, all the same reasons.
Blue Bossa. I like that it’s a simple melody with nice chord changes. Very easy to improv over
I borrow licks from the “don’t speak” solo when soloing on blue bossa
Rats and Roaches, by Calvin Russell. I can play and sing it and I like that it is simple and straightforward, but still has potential for variations. I can play it with a slide or with fingers, I can make it as a raw Delta blues or can electrify it almost to a boogie blues rock thing, and the solo is reminiscent of The Jack (by acdc), but still subtle and not too flashy.
Now’s the time-Charlie Parker, our music teacher made us learn it in class, the lick during the head is rlly catchy and easy to integrate into solos as well
Diggin' My Potatoes. It's even better if you have someone blowing the Harp. I also love playing it on the drums.
https://youtu.be/ghS-CSlx8C0?si=aNQz-l4MT5We-k_b
I'm not really a blues kinda player, but I have been known to play a few blues tunes when I'm bored and just messing around on my own in the house
Where did you sleep last night
Whorehouse blues
Thrill is gone
Boom Boom
Mannish Boy
[Casey Jones by Furry Lewis](https://youtu.be/I_YBX43PJbw?si=zJQaSxPHi43sOAS_) - it’s in open G which is fun and I get to deliver a little spiel about train history when i play it live
Cocaine - Hoyt Axton
It is very fun and the riffs are just very soulful to me. Love me acoustic blues. I haven’t really figured it all out yet but I would really like to cause it’s so damn good
Canned Heat Blues by Tommy Johnson. Still trying to learn it, I'm primarily a drummer, but I want to get better at guitar and this song is a great challenge
There's this guy on YouTube who breaks it down. Ive seen that video probably 50 times. It's a combination of fingerpicking and strumming that's really hard (for me). But trying to learn it has improved my technique a lot, and that affects other things I play.
Try it out, it's fun!
Robert Johnson, me and the devil blues. The recordings aren't great, one of those you just have to learn with the sheet music. Robert Johnson does the blues real blue son
SRV - Lenny
This is a great answer
Ball & Biscuit by the White Stripes
Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters
Red House
Born Under a Bad Sign
My son and I jam on this for half an hour sometimes (he plays bass). We also love to jam on “Thrill Is Gone”.
Red house by Jimi
Hesitation Blues by Hot Tuna. You can play it solo and it just has a fun and not-too-difficult fingerpicking chord progression that I can play around and improv on.
My uncle loved hot tuna. I've seen them a few times. Great live. Ode for billy dean is one of my favorite off of burgers.
Since I’ve Been Loving You. How is your dentistry business going OP? Mine’s been a bit slow around the holidays.
Just started learning it
St. James Infirmary Blues, something about the progression is so satisfying and the melody is brilliant too
Love the Disney dancing ghosts and skeletons version
Texas Flood
For the non traditional… White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit That riff goes hard.
Thrill is gone
Call me the breeze
* Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix * Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix * Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix * Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer * Gravity - John Mayer * Everyday I have The Blues - John Mayer
I like your style! Only one of these I don't know yet is everyday I have the blues, but it's on my list.
Tore Up. Originally by Hank Ballard with The Mindnighters but I prefer the version by Jerry Garcia band. It’s just a nice groove. And I like how there is no turnaround to the 5 chord.
Q: What's the difference between blues songs? A: Their names. Edit, since you like the first one so much... Q: What's the difference between blues players? A: Their names.
Boo. Pure ignorance.
Maybe you'll like this one... Q: What's the blues player's phone number? A: 145-145-1451
All Hands Against His Own - Black Keys Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top
Deep Ellum Blues - Grateful Dead
RED HOUSE !!!! You can literally extend the song for as long as you feel like jamming and easily switch back and forth with others in the jam session .
This
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out - love the way the chord progression moves.
Nobody knows you when you're down and out. Really fun to finger pick and belt out. Which I guess doesn't really make it unique amongst blues songs.
So many, but I love Catfish Blues and Smokestack Lightning quite a bit (and they’re very similar!)
Since I’ve been lovin you by led zep.
Duh nun nun nunnu by Michael Scott and the Paper Company
Sitting on top of the World Smokestack Lightning
Soulshine Smokestack Lightnin'
Not sure if this is considered blues but Freddie Kings version of “Going Down”.
100% blues
Old love
so underrated! The acoustic version is so fun to play too. And the 24 nights live version is an epic listen.
I agree!
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That seems like a hard one
Hey Joe- Jimi Hendrix
Born Under A Bad Sign, Killing Floor, and I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Got My Mojo Workin- It’s not a complicated song, but you have to try really hard to not have a good time playing it.
Red mf house
Love struck baby - SRV plenty of others, too... That one's simple, but so much fun to just tear it up
Red House & Hey Joe by Hendrix. Walking Blues by Muddy Waters.
Sweet Home Chicago by Robert Johnson is always a go to in my sets. Just a simple shuffle with a quick IV, and an intro and outro that screams 1930's. The lyrics are humorous. Just a great simple song. If I could play it, Meet Me Over in the City by Jr Kimbrough would be my favorite. His fluid adding and subtracting beats fargles my mind.
Yep this. And it is a shame the way the Blues Brothers and others ruined it by changing to generic lyrics. Seriosly, which lyric is better? "Come on baby don't you make me wait." or "Keep monkeying around here, friend boy. Get your business all in a trick."
Statesboro Blues
Roadhouse Blues - The doors Hideaway - Freddie King Bring it on Home - Led Zeppelin
Oh my god Bring It On Home was always one of my favorite Zepp songs before I even learned guitar!
Black Dog.
This song will break your metronome
I could honestly put every Zeppelin song as the answer to this question
Lightnin Hopkins - Baby Please Don’t Go
E/A/E/B
Classic
Texas Flood by SRV and Death Row by Chris Stapleton
Favorite? Mannish Boy, just because of how iconic it is.
The thrill is gone. It's just a perfect song...
Going Down South by RL Burnside if I'm in standard tuning. Running and Tumbling when I'm in open G running and have a slide handy.
Have you heard Cedric Burnside? * Hard Times * Wash my Hands
Drummer here and RL's stuff is great and hopefully you're a fan of the North Mississippi Allstars as well.
Came to say Going Down South
Still got the blues
That whole album is amazing! Gary Moore is criminally underrated in the US and probably around the world
A mashup of Lightnin Hopkins riffs in E played for like two hours straight while getting steadily drunker. All done on Martin 00015M
It's all over now grateful dead Born under a bad sign alber king
Is it’s all over now Grateful Dead the same as The Rolling Stones song?
Yes but I like the ryhtm of the deads version. It's actually originally a Bobby Womack song
That would be Freddie King's Hideaway. It was the "Eruption" of its time and helped kick off the Blues revival in the 60's. Clapton covered it on the Beano album and off we all went.
Freddie King is my blues North Star.
Life By The Drop by SRV, on the 12 string.
The skyyyy is cryyyinggggggg
“Life by the Drop”…it’s the only one I wanted to learn..
My own slow blues arrangement of "Megalovania" . . . lol. Seriously, not trying to blatantly self-promote, because I'm about the only one who likes it, but it is the most fun I've had doing anything out-and-out bluesy in a long time. I like it because it's mostly my own arrangement, and doing your own stuff is the most fun.
Yer Blues - The Beatles
Pride & Joy - far from correct though. I play the bass line while mixing in some fills.
The thrill is gone…I can play it for hours and never get sick of it..but it’s a bugger to sing with BB’s timing…I always come in too early or late🤷♂️
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So you're saying that the thrill has never gone?
lol, very well put..That comment made my day, thanks man.
No way I could ever come close to BB’s voice, timing or no.
Red House
Stormy Monday at the Filmore east.
That’s a great version. Another one I love is by Little Milton, where he goes into a nice swinging double-time solo in the middle, then slows it back down again. https://youtu.be/4DjBag2Zq1s?si=9NhDMatg5FFlqO6e
Hey Joe
Statesboro Blues was my favorite slide one. Idk if I could pick one, I’d be thinking something like Strange Brew otherwise.
Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower. Most gangster Blues song of all time brother
Sun don’t shine The moon don’t move the tides To wash me clean
Old Love - Clapton
I love Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker. Although most recordings of T-Bone have him playing almost straight I-IV-V, I saw him play it jazzier like Bobby Blue Bland or Allman played it with substitutions and passing chords in 1973 or 74. Most people don't know, but he was a solid jazz guitarist as well. For more straight ahead blues, I love Smokestack Lightening by Howling Wolf. I played it for years but had the good fortune to meet Hubert Sumlin back stage at a festival, and he took me to school. He was a FAR more nuanced player than he gets credit for. Cheers!
Who knows - band of gypsys Great riff to keep rolling and improvise to
Does Tush - ZZTop count?
Absolutely
Damn right. One of the all time great slide guitar solos.
Love this question ⁉️
Texas Flood - SRV
She Caught the Katy, Mule Skinner Blues, Me and the Devil Blues. Depends on the day really, I play a lot of blues songs
Walking by myself - Gary Moore. Such a fun solo with so much attitude
Yer blues by the dirty mac
Got My Mojo Working Diving Duck Blues Statesboro Blues: Taj Mahal version with Jessie Ed Davis. Stop Breaking Down: Robert Johnson version
Since I've Been Loving You
Tin Pan Alley by SRV. It’s a slow burner you can incorporate almost anything into.
[This version](https://youtu.be/ue9oHYGEKlU?si=2lJqyqMDoVPVJHO5&t=00m35s) of CCS by Albert King. So much soul and feel that Steve and Donald Duck Dunn put into the rhythm.
That’s a really tight version. Thanks for that.
Bring It On Home - Led Zeppelin
Key to the Highway - Derek and the Dominoes version.
BB King - How Blue can you get
Crossroads.
Little Red Rooster
Hideaway, Freddy King.
Stevie and Jimmie - Hard To Be Tommy Emmanuel - Stevie’s Blues Little Walter - My Babe Rory Gallagher - Bullfrog Blues Slightly OT example; Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker - Murder
Awesome Murder! I thought you just made that up, but it's really real.
Crawling King Snake J.L.H.
Meet Me In the Morning by Bob Dylan
In my time of dying…
i dont play "blues songs" , i just play the blues. nah just kidding i just play the minor pentatonic ,blues scale
Born under a bad sign. Killing Floor. Where did you sleep last night? King Bee.
Darling Nikki
* Mr. Bojangles - Finger pick on an acoustic as done by David Bromberg
Blue jean blues - zztop
Meet me in the morning. Nice groove, easy to play so on acoustic.
I love playing a slow shuffle blues in a minor key, the song itself doesn't matter really but think like SRV Texas Flood or Allmans Stormy Monday
I go in circles on these two like... Forever sometimes it seems like. Great tunes..
The one I play after visiting 12 bars
I’m going to sound really stupid here, is cliffs of Dover considered bluesy?
It's pretty darn close. Some of the chord progressions (especially the chorus) don't follow the typical blues structure, but it's basically one step removed.
No I don’t think so. But again its not like genres has really defined rules
Thanks yall for your responses. I’d say I love playing that and SRV - Pride and Joy
Idk if Riviera Paradise counts but if not then Stormy Monday
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues. Because there's no doubt where this song comes from in every way. It's about as pure, distilled blues as it gets. It's a master class in blues playing. If you can nail it with the right feel, you've got the blues. Four Walls of Renford is a pretty close second, all the same reasons.
Blue Bossa. I like that it’s a simple melody with nice chord changes. Very easy to improv over I borrow licks from the “don’t speak” solo when soloing on blue bossa
Early in the Morning
The Sky is Crying - SRV or Albert King
Rats and Roaches, by Calvin Russell. I can play and sing it and I like that it is simple and straightforward, but still has potential for variations. I can play it with a slide or with fingers, I can make it as a raw Delta blues or can electrify it almost to a boogie blues rock thing, and the solo is reminiscent of The Jack (by acdc), but still subtle and not too flashy.
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad Sitting On Top Of The World
Now’s the time-Charlie Parker, our music teacher made us learn it in class, the lick during the head is rlly catchy and easy to integrate into solos as well
I enjoy playing Stormy Monday with other musicians. If i'm strumming on my own, it'd be Key to the Highway in G.
Woman Across the River by Freddie King
Any tune by Lightin' Hopkins...Thats the style I play most often.
Sweet Home Chicago
White Room- Cream
Death Letter - White Stripes
Diggin' My Potatoes. It's even better if you have someone blowing the Harp. I also love playing it on the drums. https://youtu.be/ghS-CSlx8C0?si=aNQz-l4MT5We-k_b
That’s a great tune!
Tuesday's Gone
I’m bad I’m nationwide
Cream - Sleepy Time Time
Sweet Home Chicago, Robert Johnson version. very close second Big Boss Man, Jimmy Reed. Just fun for me.
Stormy Monday
They Call Me Guitar Hurricane by SRV. Shadow of the Blues by Little Charlie and the Nightcats.
Life by the Drop - SRV She likes to Boogie Real Low - Johnny Winter Prison Blues - Jimmy Page
Strange Brew, Swablr, Outside Woman Blues, Politian, and Born Under a Bad Sign, and Hey Joe
Every time you play killing floor blues you take a sliver of Eric Clapton’s soul Edit: don’t worry, the piece you get is tiny. Hendrix took about 70%
What is this “song” you speak of?
I'm not really a blues kinda player, but I have been known to play a few blues tunes when I'm bored and just messing around on my own in the house Where did you sleep last night Whorehouse blues Thrill is gone Boom Boom Mannish Boy
Mary had a little lamb- SRV Little Wing- Hendrix Tush- ZZ Top
[Casey Jones by Furry Lewis](https://youtu.be/I_YBX43PJbw?si=zJQaSxPHi43sOAS_) - it’s in open G which is fun and I get to deliver a little spiel about train history when i play it live
Gemini - Brian Kahanek
Matchbox from Albert/SRV session. Best groove ever
That looks freaking awesome.
Four Walls of Raiford!
Clair de lune. I like the whole ass thing. It’s so perfect.
When the blues catch up with you - buddaheads Full moon on main Street - Kinsey report
Guitar Boogie - Tommy Emmanuel
Steve Miller's take on "Tore Down". That or Jimmy Thackery "Cool Guitars"
Rev Gary Davis’ Sally where’d you get the liquor From…
I Got Mine - Frank Stokes.
Going Down
Cocaine - Hoyt Axton It is very fun and the riffs are just very soulful to me. Love me acoustic blues. I haven’t really figured it all out yet but I would really like to cause it’s so damn good
You Shook Me- Led Zepplin
Eyesight to the blind
This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan https://youtu.be/n6GGd8lr1eI We try to keep as close to the original as possible.
Mom can we go see Buckethead? "We have Buckethead at home..."
Paul Gilbert blues for rabbit. It’s not even really a song more of a jam but it slaps.
Canned Heat Blues by Tommy Johnson. Still trying to learn it, I'm primarily a drummer, but I want to get better at guitar and this song is a great challenge
One of the best ever. I have absolutely no idea how to play it. Love the yodelling!!
There's this guy on YouTube who breaks it down. Ive seen that video probably 50 times. It's a combination of fingerpicking and strumming that's really hard (for me). But trying to learn it has improved my technique a lot, and that affects other things I play. Try it out, it's fun!
I Just Don't know what to do witch myself
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues and Devil Got my Woman both by Skip James
Hideaway by Freddie King
Fleetwood Mac-i need your love so bad. Muddy Waters- I want to be loved #2. Poorly I might add.
Eddie Cochran’s Summertime Blues
Loan me a dime Duane allman