Top 10 Greatest Blues Songs of All Time

[Merovius]

Was watching a Jimi doc last night on Netflix and listening to Killing Floor at Monterrey Pop and it got me thinking, although a breakthrough style, it has to be one of the best renditions of a classic American blues song. Cant find the actual version on YouTube but its a bit faster and punchier than this one.


Keith Richards has said the Stones just wanted to play good ol' toe tappin' American Rock and Blues.

What are your favorite blues songs?

 

[bakongzoop]

Favorite is probably Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Not an easy question though.

Also, the new Stones album, Blue and Lonesome is pretty solid!

 

[drjammer]

My all time favorite

 

[JR Kipling]

Great thread ! Thanks for posting it. It'll be very hard to choose the songs. Lots of great ones. Hmmm . . .
Here's one if my favorites -


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[jimmy_d]

Tough to choose a top ten... but I'm going waaay back for this one which most definitely cannot be left out!

 

[jimmy_d]

Can't leave out John Lee Hooker

 

[havana1]

Way too many to list but...., I'll start with Worried Life Blues written by big Maceo Merriweather but made famous by Eric Clapton and many others.
Red House, Crossroads, Things I used To Do, Damn Right I Got The Blues, I Can't Quit You.........................................

 

[JR Kipling]

This is tough. There are great blues songs, classic blues songs (which are great for that reason), and great performances. I love blues music !


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[Merovius]

My all time favorite

I feel like Howlin Wolf would have at least 2-3 songs on everyones list. Johnson, Hooker, Muddy....those are the greats. Making a top 10 of their best stuff is tough for sure.

 

[Wacco]

B.B. King, The Thrill Is Gone.
ZZ Top, Brown Sugar, Blue Jean Blues.
Lydia Warren, Nobody Likes You.

 

[JR Kipling]

I love this performance-



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[Jfire]

This one gets me going every time I hear it....
Big horns in back, BB and Bobby singing like it's their last days on earth.


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[havana1]

This one gets me going every time I hear it....
Big horns in back, BB and Bobby singing like it's their last days on earth.


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I have this album and it's definitely one of the all time great live albums, for sure!

 

[Mossome]

Muddy Waters- Baby Please Don't Go
Robert Johnson- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
Robert Johnson- All My Loves in Vain
(There was a documentary about Robert Johnson from the 90's where some guy went around where he was from. He found the still alive former girlfriend, Willie Mae, that All My Loves in Vain is about. The song is about him getting on a train and leaving her to go off and make his fame. Astoundingly, she had never heard the song before! He played it for her, and she started weeping. It was heartbreaking.)

 

[icehog3]

Many that have been mentioned here would be on my list. A couple more that weren't mentioned:
Caledonia - BB King
How Blue Can You Get - BB King

 

[Wacco]

B.B. King: Nobody Loves Me But My Mother, And She Could Be Jivin' Too

 

[tadpole]

robert johnson - ramblin' on my mind
but... as a tablist and hiphop head, im talking about this version in particular...

 

[BigSkySmoke]

Love the sound of Leadbelly and Bill Withers.

 

[tattootommy]

One of my personal favs


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[luckyace12]

Gets me goin everytime