Suggest some blues tunes for us...

[Crowder]

I'm in a band that is playing some blues. I've always appreciated blues but never really been a student of the real source material. I've gotten my blues second hand through SRV, Hendrix, Anson Funderburgh, etc.

I want to make a list of 15-20 mid- to up-tempo blues songs that people can dance to, the kind of stuff you'd hear in a blues club in Chicago or Austin or Memphis or New Orleans. I love that stuff when I'm there, but I forget the names of the tunes in the fog that follows.

Examples would be "Let Me Love You Baby" or "Don't Start Me Talkin'." I need a bunch more like that. What do you have for me?

 

[dumbell78]

If its dance type blues: maybe Roy Buchanan's "Im a Ram", Freddie King's "Big Legged Woman". Those two off the top of my head really get ppl moving.

 

[JSeth]

Nice thing about the blues, especially old standards, is that you can arrange 'em anyway you want! That opens up the field considerably...

"You Can't Judge a Book (by looking at the cover)" - Big Bill Broonzy (although frequently credited to Willie Dixon, but I understand he "bought" a bunch of tunes that he gets credit for...?)

"I Just Want to Make Love to You" - Willie Dixon

"Killing Floor" - Howlin' Wolf (both Hendrix and Bloomfield's Electric Flag did nice versions of this one...)

If you're like me, a basically middle-class white man, it may be difficult to find tunes you can really sing and OWN as yours... because, frankly, when I woke up this mornin' - things didn't look so bad... LOL!

 

[gstan]

Born Under A Bad Sign
Tore Down
Rendevous With The Blues
Sweet Home Chicago
She's A Burglar
Hold On I'm Coming
Riding With The King
Mustang Sally
Crosscut Saw
Personal Manager

 

[elicious]

"I feel so good (I want to boogie)" - Magic Sam

"Sen-sa-shun" - Freddie King

"Snatch it back and hold it" - Junior Wells

"Cissy Strut" - The Meters

...man, there are soooooo many but these are some of my favs

 

[teleman1]

Mustang Sally
A Bo Diddly tune, there's a few.
Some of the stuff from Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac is very good for your needs
The Blues Brothers first Album has all Blues & R&B drenched tunes. "Hey Bartender" for instance.

 

[Twangmaster]

type in "Blues Rock" on Pandora.. take notes.

I've been getting lots of good ideas on tunes to cover doing that... I'll just type in a song title, and see what the great cyber-brain comes up with.

 

[musicofanatic5]

The singer needs to pick songs he can put across with conviction, or forget it. That's how it goes with blues music. When some suburban, caucasian-type who just got outta his three-piece Brooks Bros (f'rinstance; I'm not saying that's you) minutes before getting on stage is up there trying to emote "I'm your backdoor man", he'd better believe it, or no one else will.

 

[ethandt]

B.B. King
Never Make Your Move Too Soon
Sell My monkey

Son Seals
Buzzard Luck

 

[BarneyFife]

If you love me like you say
Got my mojo workin
Walkin to my baby

 

[seantk]

Messin With the Kid by Junior Wells is a great song to play

Tramp By Lowell Fulson is a great one too

 

[Crowder]

Great guys, keep em coming.

 

[small axe]

stormy monday,
the thrill is gone
one bourbon one scotch one beer
the sky is crying
worried life blues

 

[sundaypunch]

Mercury Blues.


Great uptempo jam song that will fill the dance floor.

 

[Jollyb]

SRV:

Pride & Joy
Love struck baby
Crossfire

Tommy castro:
Can't keep a good man Down
Exception to the rule

Jimmy Vaughn:
boom bapa boom

Storyville:
Good day for the blues

Jimmy and Stevie:
Hard to be

Jimmy Thackary:
cool guitars
honey Hush

Jeff Healy:
Thats what they say
confidence man

Johnny Winter :
Johnny Guitar

Robin trower:
Too rolling stoned

Los Lonely Boys :
Heaven
Heart won't tell a Lie