Only The Blues

Blues

Blues is about tradition and personal expression. At its core, the blues has remained the same since its inception. Most blues feature simple, usually three-chord, progressions and have simple structures that are open to endless improvisations, both lyrical and musical. 
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00:00:00 Larry Adler - Blues in the Night 00:03:11 Big Bill Broonzy - See See Rider 00:06:08 Wild Bill Davidson and His Orchestra - Memphis Blues 00:09:57 Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson Swing 00:12:42 Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon - Rub My Root 00:16:55 Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry - Let Me Be Your Big Dog 00:20:11 Louis Armstrong - Saint-Louis Blues 00:29:07 Jelly Roll Morton - Mamie's Blues 00:31:54 Billy Mo, Werner Gutterer - Mitternachts-Blues 00:34:42 Sam Hopkins - Penitentiary Blues 00:37:15 John Lee Hooker - Wednesday Evenin' Blues 00:40:47 Sam Hopkins - Tim Moore's Farm 00:43:27 Lonnie Johnson - Laplegged Drunk Again 00:46:10 Jack Kerouac - Hard Hearted Old Farmer 00:47:42 John Lee Hooker - Black Snake 00:51:15 Jack Kerouac - Poems from the Unpublished "Books of Blues"' 01:05:00 Peetie Wheatsraw - Love Bug Blues 01:07:44 Big Bill Broonzy - Joe Turner Blues 01:13:08 Lightnin Hopkins - Last Night Blues 01:18:26 Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon - Home to Mamma 01:23:24 Jack Dupree - Seafood Blues 01:26:43 Sonny Thompson - Blues for the Night Owls 01:29:22 Lightnin Hopkins - Hard to Love a Woman 01:33:27 Cow Cow Davenport - Railroad Blues 01:36:13 Jack Dupree - Death of Big Bill Broonzy 01:40:08 Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry - Stranger Here 01:43:45 Jelly Roll Morton - Winin' Boy Blues 01:46:40 Joe Turner - Cherry Red 01:50:07 Cousin Joe - Box Car Shorty 01:52:55 John Lee Hooker - I'm Wanderin' 01:58:10 Jesse James - Southern Casey Jones 02:01:04 Louis Armstrong, Russell Garcia and His Orchestra - I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues 02:04:59 T. Bone Walker - Stormy Monday Blues 02:08:05 Peetie Wheatsraw - Gangsters Blues 02:10:56 Ollie Shepard - No One to Call You Dear 02:13:59 Jimmie Gordon - Lookin' for the Blues 02:16:51 Lightnin Hopkins - Got to Move Your Baby 02:20:55 Sammy Price and His Orchestra - Blues des chaussures neuves 02:28:01 Sonny Criss - Blue Prelude 02:30:38 T. Bone Walker - T. Bone Blues 02:34:24 Dizzie Gillespie et son orchestre - Cripple, Crapple Cruth 02:38:28 Johnny Temple - Evil Bad Woman 02:41:23 John Lee Hooker - She's Long, She's Tall, She Weeps Like a Willow Tree 02:44:12 Jack Kerouac - American Haikus 02:54:11 Jimmie Gordon - Beer Drinking Woman 02:56:55 Ollie Shepard - She Walks Like a Kangaroo 02:59:28 Louis Armstrong - Beale Street Blues 03:04:29 Roosevelt Sykes - Love Will Wear You Down 03:07:24 Cousin Joe - Box Car Shorty's Confession 03:10:11 Lightnin' Hopkins - Cemetery Blues 03:13:18 Peetie Wheatsraw - Chicago Mill Blues 03:16:10 Rosetta Howard - Worried Mind Blues JazzAndBluesExperience