Best Slow Blues Songs

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Neil D
Date: 07 Dec 09 - 02:12 AM

"Sitting On Top of the World" by The Mississippi Sheiks

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 10:45 AM

"I Wonder" Robert Cray

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 02:02 PM

Peter Bellamy' - Devil got your man is one of my favourits

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 11:24 AM

How about It Hurts Me Too. Or Someone to Love. Or You Shook Me. These are all standards for my band Terraplane. We even do a VERY slow version of the Doors' Roadhouse Blues.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 11:47 AM

For slow, I am partial to "Come Back, Baby". Others that come to mind are "Which Way Does That Blood-Red River Run", and "How Long, Baby, How Long", and as mentioned, "WHen Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too)".


A.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:00 PM

These may not be blues, but they're bluesy, and I like to sing them.

Sentimental Journey
Since I met you Baby
When I Lost My baby, I almost lost my Mind
Old Devil Moon
Heartbreak Hotel.
Chicken Cordon Blues
Peace in the Valley - both tunes

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Arkie
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 06:49 PM

Fannin Street - particularly like John Hammond's version.
Spoonful - Willie Dixon, John Hammond, and others
Tell Old Bill - Dave Van Ronk, & others
Dink's Song

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: pdq
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:42 PM

"It Hurts Me Too" by lotsa people, from Tampa Red to Ron "Pigpen" McKiernan.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:34 AM

Sam Chatmon's Last Chance for Shakin' in Bed With Me.
Blind Blake's One Time Blues.

Are both nice slow tunes that really work for my band Snakehead Run.

JAB

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:27 AM

I like Elmor James version of "It Hurts Me Too" but then again, for post war bluesmen, I like Elmore James in general...

Whoever it was that mentioned Skip James' "Hard Time Killing Floor", yeah, that is one fine blues song... Kinda eerie, too... I do it in Double Dropped D tunin', BTW, which gives it that lonesome modal sound...

B~

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST,Alley
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:04 AM

I love it when I have something to contribute to the Mudcat Discussion Forum. My favorite Blues song is "Women Be Wise." Hope you like it too.

Alley

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 02:52 PM

Bob, I liked the version you did of "See that my Grave is Kept Clean" that Leadfingers and I accompanied you on at the Getaway back two years or so. Definitely slow, chilling, but effective.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:52 AM

Thanks, E-Jay...

Yeah, *we* did hit that one purdy good... I can't quite remember the entire story but I learned that version from Elenor Ellis ( a blueslady in DC) who learned it from ____________ who supposedly learned it from ______________.... You know, one of those stories that makes the blues so interestin'... That's one thing about alot of old blues songs... Ya' hang around enough old bluesplayers and they'll tell ya' these stories and lotta time you can trace the sonh thru 3 or 4 generations as to who learned it from whom...

BTW, as you know, E-Jay, I do it in Double Dropped D tunin'... That info is for others readin' this thread.... The DDD tunin' gives it that chillin' modal sound...

B~

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: autoharpbob
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:59 AM

John Mayall has several, my favourite being "Thoughts about Roxanne" from "Turning Point"

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 13 May 10 - 06:08 PM

how don't quote miss ida b ?

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST,kjayne2010
Date: 14 May 10 - 02:08 PM

Check the Soundtrack to the movie, "Rush". There are several outstanding slow blues instrumentals by Clapton. Love 'em.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 10 - 11:12 AM

jlg         
morphine and choclate - 4-non blondes
long cold winter - cinderella
ride on - acdc
hoochie coochie man - steppenwolf

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST,JohnnyBeezer
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 07:21 AM

'Blues on the ceiling' is an extremely slow Blues number.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 07:50 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVj9IYBNEvM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auDv6cf2PBM

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST,John Keane
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 07:19 AM

"Please Send Me Someone to Love" by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band off the "Better Days" album. The first verse starts out as nothing all that special but it keeps building almost like this 5 minute crescendo. Amos Garrett on guitar plays a really tasteful solo. And the horn arrangment is beautiful. One of my favorites. If you like slow blues you got to hear it.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Roberto
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 10:06 AM

Honky Tonky Blues by Johnny Copeland
River's Invitation by Percy Mayfield
Cold Cold Feeling by T-Bone Walker

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 10 - 12:47 PM

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Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST,jkl333
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 08:04 PM

magic sam "my love will never die"

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Smokey.
Date: 16 Feb 11 - 11:40 PM

The late Gary Moore.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: Max Johnson
Date: 17 Feb 11 - 06:06 AM

John Lee Hooker - Graveyard Blues.

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: GUEST,Piner
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 01:12 PM

An awsome slow blues is "Life without you" from SRV...

Subject: RE: Best Slow Blues Songs
From: PoppaGator
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:47 PM

Thanks for resurrecting this old discussion!

This time through, I noticed several mentions of Skip James, but not mention of one of his greatest slow numbers, "Devil Got My Woman" (in which the words "devil got may woman" do not appear):

I'd rather be the devil, than be that woman's man
I'd rather be the devil, than be that woman's man
Aw, nothin' but the devil, changed my baby's mind
Was nothin' but the devil, changed my baby's mind

I laid down last night, laid down last night
I laid down last night, tried to take my rest
My mind got to ramblin', like a wild geese
From the west, from the west

The woman I love, woman that I loved
Woman I loved, took her from my best friend
But he got lucky, stoled her back again
And he got lucky, stoled her back again

Verses 2 and 3 are "floating lyrics" found in a whole lot of "different" songs, but the first verse (repeated as the last verse as well) seems to be pure original Skip James.