-
Great Blues recordings by rock-n-rollers
There has been a lot of great blues music by artists who have focused on Rock-n-Roll.
Of course i am not referring to blues-masters like B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Albert King,
Robert Cray, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and founding father Robert Johnson.
Who wants to add to my top five ?
Here they are in David Letterman order … one URL per post … here we go.
#5 George Harrison/The Beatles For You Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHpWLVn1cCQ
-
40 Replies
-
-
Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs
-
Yea Blues Lennon, Clapton and Richards on Bass.
-
-
-
I just love the Blues David, and they don’t get much more bluesy than that one. That’s me most mornings, wake up and go back to bed!
Another great blues song, made famous by BB King. “How Blue Can You Get”.
“I gave you a brand new Ford
But you said: “I want a Cadillac”
I bought you a ten dollar dinner
And you said: “thanks for the snack”
I let you live in my penthouse
You said it just a shack
I gave you seven children
And now you wanna give them back”
-
-
-
Hey David broken glass in my underwear. Blues is Blues That had to hurt.
-
Yankovic lampooning the blues.
Is there nothing sacred?
That guy is a treasure. 🙂
Sounds like he had some musicians on that one.
-
I just looked it up, Tom. It was just his regular band, plus a harmonica player named Jimmy Zavala.
Weird Al did a similar song in 1983 called Buckingham Blues, about the “hard life” of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
-
-
Mona & John Sebastian have some serious competition from that blues harp. Thanks
-
This may not quite be a “pure” blues arrangement, but it leans pretty heavily in that direction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elAVL1myKFA
-
Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jeff Healey, David Wilcox, Bonnie Rait….etc
-
-
-
Or Crossroads, penned by Robert Johnson.
-
-
Log in to reply.