the folk tradition, there are many traditional blues verses that have been sung over and over by many artists. Blues singers, who include many country...

characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in...

African blues Blues rock British blues Canadian blues Chicago blues Classic female blues Contemporary R&B Country blues Delta blues Desert blues Detroit...

Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. They come from different eras and include...

September 6, 1946, as "That's All Right". Some of the lyrics are traditional blues verses first recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson in 1926. Crudup's recording...

form, verse–chorus form, ternary form, strophic form, and the 12-bar blues. Popular music songs traditionally use the same music for each verse or stanza...

"Cocaine Blues" is a Western swing song written by Troy Junius Arnall, a reworking of the traditional song "Little Sadie." Roy Hogsed recorded a well known...

measures with verses one to four repeating, followed by the final two verses and a coda. Lead Belly first recorded "The Bourgeois Blues" in December 1938...

independent record label based in Tokyo, Japan. It was started in 1976 by Blues Interactions, a firm founded in 1975 by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi...

transition from big bands to jump blues to rhythm and blues to rock and roll. He was a master of traditional blues verses, and at Kansas City jam sessions...

Fisherman's Blues is the fourth studio album by the Waterboys, released by Ensign Records in October 1988. The album marked a change in the band's sound...

verses 1 & 2] You know Christ had twelve apostles And three he led away He said, "Watch with me one hour, 'till I go yonder and pray." [Repeat verses...

"Hesitation Blues" is a popular song adapted from a traditional tune. One version was published by Billy Smythe, Scott Middleton, and Art Gillham. Another...

The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964. The band initially consisted of Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals)...

the song is largely adlibbed traditional blues verses with various incongruous lines thrown in, to a standard 12-bar blues. It opens with the bold statement...

echo some verses characteristic of The Unfortunate Rake song cycle. Blind Willie McTell's Dying Crapshooter's Blues contains parallel verses as well. Bob...

Hearted Woman Blues" is a staple in the repertoires of many blues musicians and has been recorded by dozens of traditional and contemporary blues figures,...

of "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording (including Traditional Blues)", while 1987 brought a distinction between "Best Traditional Folk Recording" and...

"The House of the Rising Sun" is an American traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the...

traditional title using only the traditional lyrics. Sam Collins recorded the song commercially in 1927 under the title "The Midnight Special Blues"...

"I Know You Rider" (also "Woman Blues" and "I Know My Rider") is a traditional blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. It has appeared in...

Contemporary Blues Album for Maestro 2018 (Grammy Award) Best Contemporary Blues Album for TajMo 2022 (Grammy Award) Best Traditional Blues Album for Get...

Verses may be alternated with choruses, or put in the third of four repetitions to create an AABA form with the verse as the bridge. Some traditional...

"Motherless Child Blues" (or, in dialect, "Motherless Chile Blues") is the name of two distinct traditional blues songs. They are different melodically...

"Baby, Please Don't Go" is a traditional blues song that was popularized by Delta blues musician Big Joe Williams in 1935. Many cover versions followed...

songs was the call-and-response format, where a leader would sing a verse or verses and the others would respond with a chorus. This came from African...

industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller...

form – also called verse-repeating form, chorus form, AAA song form, or one-part song form – is a song structure in which all verses or stanzas of the...

Got to Move" or "You've Got to Move". It was later popularized with blues and blues rock secular adaptations by Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Rolling...

become a standard of traditional American music. The song has been widely recorded in a variety of different styles – folk, blues, country, bluegrass,...