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01 Sep 08 - 05:01 PM (#2427991) Subject: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Since I have been on Mudcat I have not seen many blues songs with the word "blues" in the title, e.g. "the Statesboro Blues", "Deep River Blues", etc. etc. Perhaps I have merely missed them.Talking blues would be included in these as well.I am sure there are many out there that I have not heard and I would love to get a number of them.For starters I would mention an old Carter family classic, Bear Creek Blues as sung by John Prine. |
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01 Sep 08 - 05:05 PM (#2427999) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: alex s Singing the Blues! Good old Tommy Steele, |
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01 Sep 08 - 05:07 PM (#2428002) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: alex s Oh, and Sick Man Blues - the Goodies. Yeah. |
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01 Sep 08 - 05:24 PM (#2428019) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: greg stephens Well, here is the lovely and fragrant Boat Band performing the "Bosco Blues" . Try it, you might like it! That's me playing guitar on the right. |
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01 Sep 08 - 05:26 PM (#2428020) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: mg My only blues song..San Francisco Bay Blues. mg |
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01 Sep 08 - 05:27 PM (#2428023) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Tattie Bogle One I wrote myself, after they started digging up Edinburgh to put trams back in (after getting rid of them about 40-50 years ago!) A WHOLE LOTTA HOLES BLUES Well I ain't much given to singing the blues, I'm a cheery person really, whatever the news, So why should I be writing in a minor key? It's 'cos right now Embro's no place to be. Chorus There's a hole in the road, a hole in the road, A socking great, muckle big hole in the road, Wherever I look and wherever I go, There's a hole in the road, which makes me full of woe. Well I've lived in this city twenty years, no less, But I swear I've never seen it looking such a mess, We've had controversial holes in the ground before, But now there's so many that I've lost the score. In bygone days it was the choking smoke Of Auld Reekie's chimneys that would make you boke, But now it's the hammering of pneumatic drill That's doing my head in, and makes me feel ill. They say that we need to bring back the trams To cure the traffic problems, have you see the jams? They've barricaded off our streets, I think it's all wrong, There's hard hats, and trenches more than half a mile long. From home to the city used to take me half an hour, But these days it could easily last for three or four, There's seven sets of traffic lights have popped up on the way, And more holes in the road are causing the delay. And down in the Grassmarket, it's not a lovely sight, It needs to be landscaped, aye, that would be right, A new fountain here, and a flower-bed there, But try to find a parking place, exceedingly rare. So I'll give up the car in favour of the bus, And succumb to their policy, stop making such a fuss, Oh I would if I could, but please tell me, pray, Why you've shifted all the bus stops to at least a mile away? Should be business as usual, believe that if you may, We'll see how many shops live to fight another day, But I'll go and stay at home, turn my back on the city, And I won't come back until it's looking far more pretty. And one day well into the future – when? They'll have filled in all the holes, and we'll be moving again, I'll be gliding round on trams just like Lady Muck, I'll be smiling again, couldn't give a f###. Final chorus No more holes in the road, holes in the road, No socking great, muckle big holes in the road, No more blues, and no more woe, I'll be happier then than you'll ever know. |
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01 Sep 08 - 05:34 PM (#2428027) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,leeneia the Chicken Cordon Bleus about a meat&potatoes guy in love with a vegetarian |
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01 Sep 08 - 05:56 PM (#2428049) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Uncle_DaveO Talking Blues Talking Union Blues Talking Atomic Blues Worried Man Blues Deep River Blues Hesitation Blues Just a few that come to mind. Maybe more later. Dave Oesterreich |
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01 Sep 08 - 06:01 PM (#2428056) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Big Al Whittle threatens to be the longest thread in mudcat history...... |
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01 Sep 08 - 06:05 PM (#2428063) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Terry McDonald Someone has to say it.....Rout of the Blues! |
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01 Sep 08 - 07:22 PM (#2428149) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Tattie Bogle: Great song, and with minor changes it could well relate to parts of Montreal today! |
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01 Sep 08 - 07:31 PM (#2428152) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Leadfingers Dandelion Blues - Incredible String Band - NOT a blues and nothing to do with flowers either . |
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01 Sep 08 - 07:55 PM (#2428163) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Bobert As a blues player I am amazed that someone would be lookin' fir songs with "blues" in the title... There are so many that I'd hurt my head going thru the list... Okay, just fir starters: "Everybody's Blues"... Furry Lewis "Crossroads Blues" ... Robert Johnson "Preachin' Blues"... Son House "Rock Island Blues"... Furry Lewis "Downtown Blues"... Frank Stokes "Jail House Blues"... Robert Wilkins "Slick Capers Blues"... Little Buddy Doyle "Rockin' on the Hill Blues"... Beale Street Shieks "Maonin' the Blues"... Allen Shaw "Blues with a Feeling"... Little Walter (Jacobs) "Country Farm Blues"... William Stewart "Grwyhound Blues"... Jimmy and Walter "Registartion Day Blues"... Sleepy John Estes "Prison Bound Blues"... Willie Nix "Detroit Arrow Blues"... Shy Guy Douglas "Blues, Leave Me Alone"... Billy Red Love "Dead Letter Blues"... Johnny O'neil "Death Letter Blues"... Son House "Cotton Crop Blues"... James Cotton "Midnight Hour Blues"... Leroy Carr "Denver Blues"... Tampa Red "Gamblin' Man Blues"... Champion Jack Dupree "Red Bird's Blues"... Sonny Boy Williamson "Black Train Blues"... Bukka White "Sun Risin' Blues"... Big Joe Turner "Mean Old Bed Bug Blues"... Lonnie Johnson "Mean Old Frisco Blues"... Arthur Crudup That's without workin' up no sweat... Oh yeah, "Buttermilk Blues"... me "Iced In Blues" ... me "Thirty Day Blues"... me B~ |
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01 Sep 08 - 08:12 PM (#2428170) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: SPB-Cooperator First of May Blues |
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01 Sep 08 - 08:19 PM (#2428172) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: bobad "Blues Stay Away From Me" - ?Doc Watson |
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01 Sep 08 - 08:19 PM (#2428173) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: ClaireBear Four more: Deep Elm Blues Blues in the Bottle Lovesick Blues The Upper Middle Class Blues (which starts, "Woke up this afternoon...") by Martin Mull |
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01 Sep 08 - 08:46 PM (#2428198) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Joe_F Rabbit Blues St James Infirmary Blues St Louis Blues |
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01 Sep 08 - 09:03 PM (#2428210) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Bobert: LOL! Geez, little did I know what I started! What a list! |
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01 Sep 08 - 09:38 PM (#2428238) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Charley Noble Old Dog Blue Deep Blue Sea Gentrification Blues House Rent Blues Down Payment Blues Cockroach Blues Bad Housing Blues Cheerily, Charley Blues Noble |
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01 Sep 08 - 09:40 PM (#2428240) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: wysiwyg Blues Jumped a Rabbit ~S~ |
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01 Sep 08 - 10:13 PM (#2428256) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST Early Morning Blues ... two versions with the same name, if memory serves. |
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01 Sep 08 - 10:57 PM (#2428285) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Cap't Bob Bye bye Blues Log Cabin Blues Fifty Fifty Blues Basin Street Blues Memphis Blues Got No Blues Gut Bucket Blues Lonesome Blues Savoy Blues West End Blues Gully Low Blues Keyhole Blues Melancholy Blues Potato Head Blues S.O.L. BLUES Weary Blues Wild Man Blues Mamies Blues Coal Cart Blues Dallas Blues I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues Perdido Street Blues Wolverine Blues AND THE LIST GOES ON Cap't Bob |
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01 Sep 08 - 11:19 PM (#2428297) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Amazing how many there are!However, I have to nit-pick.The word is "blues";it must be plural. Tsk tsk! LOL! |
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01 Sep 08 - 11:23 PM (#2428298) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,Mike in DC Blues My Naughtie Sweety Gave to Me Mike |
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02 Sep 08 - 06:14 AM (#2428482) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,Rob the Roadie "Blues run the Game" by J.C. Franks Great version of it sung by Angie Wright. |
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02 Sep 08 - 06:30 AM (#2428493) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Banjiman Work Tomorrow Blues by Blind Summat (sadly the fiddler was missing on this video but should be a full band version on You Tube soon!). Paul |
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02 Sep 08 - 08:27 AM (#2428600) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: greg stephens Much like asking if anybody knows any fiddle tunes with the word "reel" in the title. This one could run and run. |
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02 Sep 08 - 08:35 AM (#2428611) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Bobert And this being the top of the day... ...Leadbelly's "Good Morning, Blues"... Now I gotta go to work... B~ |
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02 Sep 08 - 12:36 PM (#2428876) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Refresh. |
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02 Sep 08 - 01:19 PM (#2428929) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Melissa Milk cow blues |
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02 Sep 08 - 01:52 PM (#2428964) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,Warwick Slade Woke up this mornin' and nobody has mentioned 'The Wimborne Legion Blues' |
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02 Sep 08 - 01:58 PM (#2428972) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Leadbelly GUEST,leeneia: Do you know the version of "Chicken Cordon Blues" by Howard Stith? It's great! topical tom: There are thousands of songs with the word "blues" in the title. That's because artists singing the blues sometimes would like to give a hint to the people that this is a blues and not a polka, for example. On the other hand, a nice question. Therefore, some other mentions: Mr. Johnson's Blues - Lonnie Johnson Falling Rain Blues - same St. Louis Cyclone Blues - same Live Saver Blues - same Crowing Rooster Blues - same Racketeer's Blues - same East Coast Blues - Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Traveler's Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins Penitentiary Blues - same Racetrap Blues - same Jackstropper Blues - same Unsuccessful Blues -same Jailhouse Blues - same But: Lightnin' Boogie! - same Something from a lady with a Band: Old Time Blues - Edith Wilson with Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds Nervous Blues - same I don't want nobody Blues - same Wicked Blues - same The West Texas Blues - same Birmingham Blues - same Lonesome Mama Blues - same Evil Blues - same Pensacola Blues - same Dixie Blues - same And so on. Would take the whole night to go on, haha... Manfred |
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02 Sep 08 - 01:58 PM (#2428973) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Michael S Talkin' Folkie Blues by Lisa Bastoni, on the CD Gather Round |
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02 Sep 08 - 02:07 PM (#2428989) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Thanks for the list, Leadbelly.I can see now where I probably should have asked for one's FAVOURITE blues song with the word "blues" in it.However, it's fun to get all these titles and songs.I should have finished checking them all out by my 100th birthday! |
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02 Sep 08 - 02:11 PM (#2428992) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Terry McDonald Even Noel Coward got into the act with 'Twentieth Century Blues.' |
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02 Sep 08 - 03:03 PM (#2429052) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Gene In addition to writing "A Girl Named Johnny Cash" and adapting "Dueling Tubas" Martin Mull wrote "The Blacks Are Giving Me The Blues" G |
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02 Sep 08 - 03:32 PM (#2429086) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Leadbelly Dear topical tom, I think it will take much more than 100 years of lifetime to listen to all of these songs if you include all versions of artists singing the same song/blues. So possibly you will need 140 years or above in total. (Don't know your actual age). That's a lot of brandy, beer, cigarettes,electric energy and-above all-records and cd's. Think of your wife; she is going to leave home after 2 month (?), 6 month (?) or-when she's really in love with you- after 12 month with a boy who owns a small selection of polkas. I'm sure about this scenario. |
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02 Sep 08 - 04:17 PM (#2429130) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Omigawd, thanks for the warning, Leadbelly! I never was too good in math.Except for the cigarettes (non-smoker) the rest sounds good, though.I worry about the wife part, though.I really don't care much for polkas. |
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02 Sep 08 - 04:35 PM (#2429159) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Leadbelly By listening to all these blues you will become a smoker, topical tom! Apart from loads of gin which I forgot to mention. Therefore, in order to prevent a young/er person from becoming a smoker and to loose his wife/woman it might be a better proposal to initiate a thread which you have had in mind: the most preferred blues song (and it's singer). Just do it! By the way, it was not my intention to disturbe your actual thread. So let's go on, folks. |
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02 Sep 08 - 04:55 PM (#2429183) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Gene 01 B & O Blues, No. 2 [#1] 02 B & O Blues, No. 2 [#2] 03 Weary Hearted Blues 07 East St. Louis Blues 15 Bell Street Blues 18 Ticket Agent Blues 21 Cooling Board Blues 22 Hillbilly Willie's Blues |
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02 Sep 08 - 04:56 PM (#2429184) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Leadbelly "Apart from loads of gin which I forgot to mention". This mention was because of the serious attempt to really feel the grief of early blues musicians. |
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02 Sep 08 - 05:16 PM (#2429203) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,Joe G Beerbelly Blues from the great Roger Davies deep in the Calder Delta http://www.myspace.com/rogerdaviesmusic |
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02 Sep 08 - 05:48 PM (#2429229) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,Meadowmuskrat Blues for the Muse-another Incredble String Band song. |
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02 Sep 08 - 07:37 PM (#2429319) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Charley Noble West Indies Blues Shipwreck Blues Catshit Blues Duct Tape Blues Peace Corps Training Blues That's about the bottom of my barrel. Charley Noble |
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02 Sep 08 - 08:42 PM (#2429392) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Joe_F Bourgeois Blues |
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03 Sep 08 - 06:31 AM (#2429659) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Thanks to all! So many songs to check!Yet more are welcome. |
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03 Sep 08 - 08:11 AM (#2429710) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Charley Noble There were the Blue Sky Boys but I don't think they sang any blues. There was also the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys but with the same admission. There are a number of Australian songs with the word "Bluey" in them... And there is "The Blue Tail Fly" which was the nickname of my motorscooter long ago. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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03 Sep 08 - 08:24 AM (#2429725) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: SINSULL Hydrogen Peroxide Blues Gordon Bok |
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03 Sep 08 - 12:43 PM (#2429967) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Leadbelly What about "Summertime Blues" by gone Eddie Cochran? |
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03 Sep 08 - 01:26 PM (#2430006) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: fat B****rd Blues In The Night Brickyard Blues The Blues Had a Baby |
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03 Sep 08 - 10:19 PM (#2430458) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,leeneia Hi, Leadbelly. No, I've never heard of Howard Stith. I came to know 'Chicken Cordon Bleus' from a Steve Goodman LP. Dear Steve! I'll look into Howard Stith. Thought of another song: Birth of the blues. Has anybody mentioned 'Rhapsody in Blue'? |
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05 Sep 08 - 09:38 AM (#2431775) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Thanks again, everyone, for all the great songs! |
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05 Sep 08 - 10:23 AM (#2431822) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,Neil D "I've Got Them Steadilly Depressin Low-down Mind-messin Workin at the Car Wash Blues" by Jim Croce |
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05 Sep 08 - 06:13 PM (#2432232) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Ythanside 'East Neukie Blues'. |
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05 Sep 08 - 06:41 PM (#2432257) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Lonesome EJ Good grief. What's next, a thread about songs with the word "I" in the title? |
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05 Sep 08 - 06:59 PM (#2432261) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: olddude Invitation to the Blues by the great tom waits |
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07 Sep 08 - 06:36 AM (#2433149) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Leadbelly "Good grief. What's next, a thread about songs with the word "I" in the title?" topical tom: This remark made by Lonesome EJ is exactly what can be characterized by "disturbing/destroying" a thread. Obviously, this thread doesn't come up to his intellectual level so he decided to become destructive instead of ignoring your thread. Don't be disappointed about EJ's comment which lacks of any humour.The majority of Mudcatters are highly constructive people. |
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07 Sep 08 - 10:24 AM (#2433245) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: topical tom Thanks for the support, Leadbelly. I usually ignore such comments. |
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02 Jun 09 - 05:32 AM (#2646254) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: GUEST,ELLARUSSELL Just found this thread and I LOVE it. Is there any more? Is there really an Upper-middle Class Blues (which begins 'woke up this afternoon')? Didn't see Gulf Cost Blues (Mildred Bailey) or Match Box Blues (Blind Lemon J) cheers, Ella |
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02 Jun 09 - 02:57 PM (#2646727) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: PHJim Has anyone mentioned MY UKULELE HELPS ME BEAT THE BLUES? It can be heard on the Highwater Jug Band's myspace page. |
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02 Jun 09 - 10:52 PM (#2647078) Subject: RE: Songs With The Word 'Blues' in the Title From: Neil D "Pony Blues", "Banty Rooster Blues", "Spoonful Blues", "High Sheriff Blues" Lest we ever forget the great Charlie Patton. |