About blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale, and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes, usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove.
| # |
Title |
Artist |
Year |
Spotify |
| 1 |
After Midnight
|
Eric Clapton |
1970 |
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| 2 |
After Midnight
|
J.J. Cale |
1972 |
|
| 3 |
Albatross
|
Peter Green |
2005 |
|
| 4 |
All Around The World
|
Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo' |
2017 |
|
| 5 |
Angel from Montgomery - 2008 Remaster
|
Bonnie Raitt |
1974 |
|
| 6 |
Cajun Moon
|
J.J. Cale |
1974 |
|
| 7 |
Cakewalk into Town
|
Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo' |
1972 |
|
| 8 |
Call Me The Breeze
|
J.J. Cale |
1972 |
|
| 9 |
Carry On
|
J.J. Cale |
1981 |
|
| 10 |
Change the World
|
Eric Clapton |
1999 |
|
| 11 |
Cocaine
|
Eric Clapton |
1977 |
|
| 12 |
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
|
The Blues Brothers |
1980 |
|
| 13 |
Feels Like Rain (feat. Bonnie Raitt)
|
Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt |
1993 |
|
| 14 |
Get Your Shit Together
|
Beth Hart |
1999 |
|
| 15 |
Gimme Some Lovin'
|
The Blues Brothers |
1980 |
|
| 16 |
Got My Mojo Working - Live
|
Eric Clapton |
2021 |
|
| 17 |
I Can't Make You Love Me
|
Bonnie Raitt |
1991 |
|
| 18 |
I Shot The Sheriff
|
Eric Clapton |
1974 |
|
| 19 |
I'd Rather Go Blind
|
Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa |
2011 |
|
| 20 |
Lay Down Sally
|
Eric Clapton |
1977 |
|
| 21 |
Layla
|
Eric Clapton |
2011 |
|
| 22 |
Layla - Acoustic Live
|
Eric Clapton |
1992 |
|
| 23 |
Layla - Acoustic; Live at MTV Unplugged, Bray Film Studios, Windsor, England, UK, 1/16/1992; 2013 Remaster
|
Eric Clapton |
1992 |
|
| 24 |
Layla - Live
|
Eric Clapton |
2021 |
|
| 25 |
Leave The Light On
|
Beth Hart |
2003 |
|
| 26 |
Lovin' Whiskey
|
Rory Block |
1986 |
|
| 27 |
More Than One Way Home
|
Keb' Mo' |
1996 |
|
| 28 |
Opening: I Can't Turn You Loose - Live
|
The Blues Brothers |
1978 |
|
| 29 |
Over The Hills And Far Away
|
Gary Moore |
1987 |
|
| 30 |
Peter Gunn Theme
|
The Blues Brothers |
1980 |
|
| 31 |
River of Tears
|
Eric Clapton |
1998 |
|
| 32 |
Rock Me Baby
|
B.B. King, Eric Clapton |
1997 |
|
| 33 |
Room To Move
|
John Mayall |
1969 |
|
| 34 |
Same Kind of Crazy
|
Delbert McClinton |
2002 |
|
| 35 |
Sensitive Kind
|
J.J. Cale |
1979 |
|
| 36 |
Something To Talk About
|
Bonnie Raitt |
1991 |
|
| 37 |
Soul Man - Live
|
The Blues Brothers |
1978 |
|
| 38 |
Still Got The Blues
|
Gary Moore |
1990 |
|
| 39 |
Sweet Home Chicago
|
The Blues Brothers |
1980 |
|
| 40 |
Tears in Heaven
|
Eric Clapton |
1992 |
|
| 41 |
Tears in Heaven - Acoustic Live
|
Eric Clapton |
1992 |
|
| 42 |
They Call Me The Breeze
|
Eric Clapton |
2014 |
|
| 43 |
Think
|
The Blues Brothers |
1980 |
|
| 44 |
Walking By Myself
|
Gary Moore |
1990 |
|
| 45 |
Wonderful Tonight
|
Eric Clapton |
1977 |
|
| 46 |
You Can Have My Husband
|
Koko Taylor |
1978 |
|
| 47 |
You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
|
Seasick Steve |
2015 |
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