20 best "...blues" songs ever

2.International Small Arms Traffic Blues - Mountain Goats

3. "Stray Cat Blues"
4. Alex Chilton/Big Star demo of "Motel Blues"
5. Eddie Cochran, "Summer Time Blues"

I don't know why I made Summertime two words

Just Like Tom Thumb Blues

ELO, Birmingham Blues

4. Alex Chilton/Big Star demo of "Motel Blues"

there's a studio demo of this? i love love love the version on that live on the radio think ryko put out. his delivery on that is so right on it makes me tear up! great tune.

6. ida 'Late Blues'
7. Fatima Mansions 'Blues For Ceausescu'(have I spelt the dick's name right?)

10. "Yer Blues"

my "Motel Blues" demo says "Ardent Studio Sessions 1972-3," I'll upload it somewhere

sweet, milo. you should drop me a note when you do!

oh. "best"

http://rapidshare.com/files/109629979/13_Motel_Blues__Demo_.mp3.html

backtracking...

8. blue cheer, summertime blues

thx milo.

11. Original Dixieland Jass Band - Livery Stable Blues
12. WC Handy - St. Louis Blues
13. Foy Willing - Texas Blues
14. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

15. sir elton john, that's why they call it "the blues"

!!!

(15 still open)

15. basin st. blues

16. all blues

this should really be 100 best

(i guess if i'm gonna make joeks on song titles i should get them right.)

horace silver, senor blues

18. michael hurley "intersoulular blues"

19. Still Got The Blues - Gary Moore

(I usually hated his 90s blues material, but this song had something about it still).

mclusky - lightsabre cocksucking blues

21. Deacon Blues - Steely Dan
22. Statesboro Blues - Allman Bros
23. Louisiana Blues - Muddy
24. Piss and Moan Blues - the Gourds

25. andrew hockey - bunny boiler blues
26. black eyed susans - will's blues

NUMBER ONE: Geeshie Wiley: "Last Kind Word Blues"

someone just got their copy of the comp on mississippi....

but i guess, you know, this thread is kind of silly if we're going to talk about ACTUAL BLUES songs. then it's all just "Banty Rooster Blues" and "Sick Bed Blues" and "Country Blues" and so on.

I nominate Sandy Bull for "No Deposit, No Return Blues"

Oh I didn't even notice the quotes. Sorry.

someone just got their copy of the comp on mississippi....

(rolls eyes)

27. "no pussy blues" - grinderman

28. shark fin blues - the drones

29. Papa Gene's Blues - the Monkees

Tom Traubert's Blues
Talkin' Seattle Grunge Band Blues

Blues for You - John Coltrane

Has anyone ever done a 12-bar blues entitled "12 Bar Blues" with the protagonist spending a long, miserable night staggering from one pub to the next (12 in total) after his baby leaves him? And if not, why not?? Seems like it'd be a natural.

The Who - "Young Man Blues"

Has anyone ever done a 12-bar blues entitled "12 Bar Blues"

NRBQ recorded a song called "12 Bar Blues" by J. Butwell, but it doesn't follow your narrative.

I'll go by composer coz cover versions abound

Vampire Blues - Neil Young
Terraplane Blues - Robert Johnson
Hesitation Blues - Rev. Gary Davis
Uncle Sam Blues - Rev. Gary Davis
LA Blues - The Stooges
Cocksucker Blues - Jagger Richards
Ventilator Blues - Jagger Richards

Dupree's Diamond Blues

NUMBER ONE: Geeshie Wiley: "Last Kind Word Blues"

-- Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
YES!!!!!

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys - "Milk Cow Blues"

Well I woke up this morning and I looked outdoors
I could tell my milkcow -- I could tell by the way she lowed
If you seeeeeee my milkcow
Drive her on home
I ain't had no milk and butter
Since my cow's been gone

Well you gotta treat me right, day by day
Get out your little prayer book, get down upon your knees and pray
Cause you're gonna neeeeeeed
You're gonna need my help some day
And you're going to be sorry
Treatin me this-a-way

Well, good evenin
Don't that sun look good goin down
Well, good evenin
Don't that sun look good goin down
Don't your home look lonesome
When your loved one can't be found

Mal Waldron - "Blues for Lady Day"

Hank Williams, Lovesick Blues

(like most of the things on this thread, not a blues at all)

Well I tried everything baby, to get along with you
Now I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna stop tryin, gonna leave you alone
If you don't think I'm leavin -- you can count the days I'm gone
Cause you won't seeeeeeeee
You won't see my sweet face no more
And you're gonna be sorry, when I walk out that door

yeah lovesick blues actually written as a showtune by some other guy

it is a great, great song though

milk cow mania:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF-owoqjRQM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYGZS3HbXPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5OZ9tOvhg0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqWittPv4Q

i like how every one of these singers just kills on the "don't that sun look goooooooood goin' down" line

HOLY CRAP AWESOME

xpost haha yeah, it is maybe the greatest line in any blues song ever (and provides a nice counterpoint to the canonical "woke up this mornin")

i think dylan used the "sun goin down" line somewhere in new morning but i can't remember which song

Merle Haggard - "Workin' Man Blues"
Bob Dylan - "Workingman's Blues #2"

"Waymore's Blues" - Waylon Jennings

i think dylan used the "sun goin down" line somewhere in new morning but i can't remember which song

i know he rocks it in "it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry"

"don't the sun look good
goin' down over the sea"

lost time blues - chrome cranks

"Waymore's Blues" - Waylon Jennings

-- will, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:54 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^looks like a place i came in

Ohh my.
Time for me to go to b-e-d.

Z. Z. Hill, "Down Home Blues"
Moby Grape, "Mr. Blues"
The Band, "Orange Juice Blues"
Howard Tate, "Everyday I Have the Blues"
Bobby Bland, "Bobby's Blues," "Wise Man's Blues," and "Army Blues"

the Big Star demo of "Motel Blues" is on a boot, What's Goin' Ahn

Dead Moon, "God Damn I Hate The Blues"

'Flipper Blues', by the masters of all art, Flipper

Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues - The Kinks

Just Like Tom Thumb Blues
More Dylan:
Outlaw Blues
Tombstone Blues

Honorable Mention:
Afro Blue- Mongo Santamaria, John Coltrane Quarter, Abbey Lincoln (from Abbey is Blue)

"self-destruction blues" - hanoi rocks

Eisenhower Blues--Elvis Costello

Robert Johnson was the king of this:
32-20 Blues
Dead Shrimp Blues
Cross Road Blues

and, as, noted upthread
Terraplane Blues

"Tokyo Blues" -- Cal Tjader

Travelling Riverside Blues - Led Zeppelin