List of blues standards

Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as standing the test of time. Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and other early acoustic styles, and urban blues from Chicago and the West Coast.

"Sweet Home Chicago" performed at the White House with Barack Obama joining B.B. King on the chorus

Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted:

In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades. This was long before the first recording. The fact that such blues are attributed to Charlie Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Blake often means that they were the first to record them.

Compounding the problem is that, in the earlier days, many blues songs were not copyrighted. Later, the rights were claimed by those who recorded a subsequent version or were managers or record company owners.

Nearly one half of the blues standards listed were first recorded in the pre-World War II acoustic blues era, before music publications tracked the sales of blues records. Many popular renditions, as reflected in the record charts, are more modern versions featuring electric instruments. For example, Robert Johnson and Tampa Red, who were the first to record the most blues standards on the list at four each, performed them as solo or duo acoustic performances. B.B. King and Muddy Waters, with the most standards on the charts at five each, used electric blues-ensemble arrangements.

Music journalist Richie Unterberger commented on the adaptability of blues: "From its inception, the blues has always responded to developments in popular music as a whole: the use of guitar and piano in American folk and gospel, the percussive rhythms of jazz, the lyrics of Tin Pan Alley, and the widespread use of amplification and electric instruments all helped shape the evolution of the blues." Blues standards that appeared on the main charts in the 1960s and 1970s often had been recorded by rhythm and blues, soul, and rock musicians. Each song listed has been identified by five or more music writers as a blues standard. Spellings and titles may differ; the most common are used.

List

List of blues standards, with title, first recorded by, year, charting single(s), and references

Title	First recorded by	Year	Charting single(s) by	Refs
"Ain't Nobody's Business"	Anna Meyers with the Original Memphis Five	1922	Jimmy Witherspoon (1949) H2O featuring Billie (1996 as "Nobody's Business")
"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)"	Otis Rush	1958	—
"Baby, Please Don't Go"	Big Joe Williams	1935	The Orioles (1952) Them (1964) Amboy Dukes (1968) AC/DC (1975)
"Baby What You Want Me to Do"	Jimmy Reed	1960	Jimmy Reed (1960) Etta James (1964)
"Blues with a Feeling"	Rabon Tarrant	1947	Little Walter (1953)
"Boom Boom"	John Lee Hooker	1962	John Lee Hooker (1962) The Animals (1964)
"Born Under a Bad Sign"	Albert King	1967	Albert King (1967) William Bell (1969)
"Caldonia"	Louis Jordan	1945	Louis Jordan (1945) Erskine Hawkins (1945) Sugar Chile Robinson (1949) James Brown (1964)
"Catfish Blues"	Robert Petway	1941	Muddy Waters (1951 as "Still a Fool")
"Crosscut Saw"	Tommy McClennan	1941	Albert King (1967)
"Crossroads"	Robert Johnson	1936	Cream (1969)
"Don't You Lie to Me"	Tampa Red	1940	—
"Driftin' Blues"	Johnny Moore's Three Blazers	1945	Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (1945) Bobby Bland (1968)
"Dust My Broom"	Robert Johnson	1936	Elmore James (1952)
"Every Day I Have the Blues"	Pinetop Sparks	1935	Lowell Fulson (1950) Joe Williams (1952 & 1955) B.B. King (1955) Billy Stewart (1966)
"Farther Up the Road"	Bobby Bland	1957	Bobby Bland (1957)
"Five Long Years"	Eddie Boyd	1952	Eddie Boyd (1952) Junior Parker (1959)
"Forty-Four"	Roosevelt Sykes	1929	—
"Goin' Down Slow"	St. Louis Jimmy Oden	1941	Bobby Bland (1974)
"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"	Sonny Boy Williamson I	1937	Smokey Hogg (1950 as "Little School Girl")
"Got My Mojo Working"	Muddy Waters	1956	Jimmy Smith (1966)
"Help Me"	Sonny Boy Williamson II	1963	Sonny Boy Williamson II (1963)
"Hide Away"	Freddie King	1961	Freddie King (1961) King Curtis (1964)
"Hoochie Coochie Man"	Muddy Waters	1954	Muddy Waters (1954) Jimmy Smith (1966)
"How Long Blues"	Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell	1928	—
"I Can't Quit You Baby"	Otis Rush	1956	Otis Rush (1956)
"I'm a Man"	Bo Diddley	1955	Bo Diddley (1955) Muddy Waters (1955 as "Mannish Boy") The Yardbirds (1965)
"I'm Ready"	Muddy Waters	1954	Muddy Waters (1954)
"It Hurts Me Too"	Tampa Red	1940	Tampa Red (1949 as "When Things Go Wrong") Elmore James (1965)
"Kansas City"	Little Willie Littlefield	1952	Wilbert Harrison (1959) Little Richard (1959) Hank Ballard & the Midnighters (1959) Trini Lopez (1963) James Brown (1967)
"Key to the Highway"	Charlie Segar	1940	Little Walter (1958)
"Killing Floor"	Howlin' Wolf	1964	—
"Little Red Rooster"	Howlin' Wolf	1961	Sam Cooke (1963) The Rolling Stones (1964)
"Mean Old World"	T-Bone Walker	1942	Little Walter (1953)
"My Babe"	Little Walter	1955	Little Walter (1955) Roy Head (1966) Willie Mitchell (1969)
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"	Bessie Smith	1929	Nina Simone (1960) Bobby Womack (1973 as "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out")
"Reconsider Baby"	Lowell Fulson	1954	Lowell Fulson (1954)
"Rock Me Baby"	Lil' Son Jackson	1950	B.B. King (1964)
"Rollin' and Tumblin'"	Hambone Willie Newbern	1929	Canned Heat (1967) Johnny Winter (1969)
"See See Rider"	Ma Rainey	1924	Bea Booze (1942) Chuck Willis (1957 as "C.C. Rider") LaVern Baker (1962) Bobby Powell (1965) The Animals (1966)
"Sitting on Top of the World"	Mississippi Sheiks	1930	—
"The Sky Is Crying"	Elmore James	1960	Elmore James (1960)
"Spoonful"	Howlin' Wolf	1960	Etta James & Harvey Fuqua (1961)
"Stormy Monday"	T-Bone Walker	1948	T-Bone Walker (1948) Bobby Bland (1962) Latimore (1973)
"Sugar Mama"	Tampa Red	1934	—
"Sweet Home Chicago"	Robert Johnson	1936	Junior Parker (1958)
"Sweet Little Angel"	Lucille Bogan	1930	B.B. King (1956)
"That's All Right"	Jimmy Rogers	1950	—
"The Things That I Used to Do"	Guitar Slim	1953	Guitar Slim (1953) James Brown (1964)
"The Thrill Is Gone"	Roy Hawkins	1951	Roy Hawkins (1951) B.B. King (1970) Aretha Franklin (1970)
"Trouble in Mind"	Bertha "Chippie" Hill	1926	Dinah Washington (1952) Nina Simone (1961)
"Walkin' Blues"	Robert Johnson	1936	Muddy Waters (1948 as "I Feel Like Going Home")
"Worried Life Blues"	Big Maceo	1941	Big Maceo (1945 as "Things Have Changed") B.B. King (1970) Junior Parker (1970)
"You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling"	Tampa Red	1938	Freddie King (1961)
A dash ( — ) denotes a song that did not appear on a record chart.

See also

• Blues portal

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