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Enjoy the best of acoustic blues music with this playlist of amazing songs. Relax, groove, and feel the blues vibes.
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We compile for you the best acoustic blues songs performed by incredible artists.
- Nobody Knows You When You’Re Down and Out – Eric Clapton.
- Don’T Ease Me in – Grateful Dead.
- How Long Blues – Eric Clapton.
- Cross Road Blues – Robert Johnson.
- Deep River Blues – Doc Watson.
- Hey Hey – Eric Clapton.
- Make Me A Pallet on Your Floor – Mississippi John hurt.
- Freight Train – Elizabeth Cotten.
- Slidin’ Delta – Doc & Merle Watson.
- Going Down The Road Feeling Bad – Woody Guthrie.
A stand-out track in an album that itself stands out, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out is not an original song penned by Eric Clapton. It is, instead, a Vaudeville-blues classic written and composed for piano by Jimmie Cox back in 1923. Before Clapton, the song enjoyed enormous success with the recording of Bessie Smith, who popularized it...
Released as a single in 1966 and re-recorded for the 1980 album Go To Heaven, Don’t Ease Me Inis a quintessential blues rock song often overlooked amongst the impressive discography Grateful Dead has pumped out. In my opinion, it is a song that has it all. The somewhat raunchy lyrics are sung with exceptional charm and energy, the characteristic ha...
How Long Bluesis yet another blues standard masterpiece that appears on this list at the talented hands and vocals of Eric Clapton. Titled initially How Long, How Long Blues, the song was written and performed by the exceptionally talented Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell back in 1928, featuring aptly melancholic lyrics that compare a lover’s depa...
Written and recorded by the unparalleled Robert Johnson in 1936, this song is the quintessential display of his characteristic Delta blues style and the profound influence he would go on to have over the genre as a whole. Sadly, he saw little success during his life. Still, the recognition of his music extended well beyond—including some mythology ...
Deep River Blues is undoubtedly one of Doc Watson’s most emblematic songs and a masterpiece of the acoustic blues genre since its release in 1976. However, many are unaware that despite his extraordinary performance, the song is not his own. It is credited as a traditional song, and in fact, it derives from The Delmore Brothers’ I’ve Got The Big Ri...
It should be no surprise to anyone that Eric Clapton has a third mention in this article. This time I went back to his legendary Unplugged album and chose another cover of a classic blues track. Hey Hey—sometimes called Hey Hey Baby—is a song initially penned and popularized by Big Bill Broonzy, one of the pioneers of the American folk music reviva...
Make Me a Pallet on your Floor is a composition that goes by many names and has had many different versions. It is a traditional tune with uncertain origins, probably dating back to the 19thcentury. Each interpretation of this standard is worth listening to, but I want to highlight the one released by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928. Perhaps due to t...
The self-taught Cotten penned this now-ubiquitous tune as a very young teenager in the early 1900s and sang it to eventual folk singer Peggy Seeger as she babysitted the child. Seeger took the song with herself to England, and it gained widespread popularity, upon which Paul James and Fred Williams tried to register the song as their personal compo...
Originally recorded by Mississippi John in 1928, Sliding Delta did not see the light of day after being discarded by his record label. Only decades later, in the 1960s, Mississippi John’s newfound success allowed him to record the song once again. However, the version featured in this list is the 1984 cover performed by the also-legendary Doc & Mer...
Like many other entries in the list, Going Down The Road Feeling Bad—also known as Lonesome Road Blues—is a traditional American folk song with muddy origins shrouded in mystery. The first known recording dates back to 1923, but its true composition is much older than that. The tune’s simple E-A chord progression is straightforward yet catchy and i...
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- Robert Johnson - The Centennial Collection. “At the moment, this is the best re-master of the whole catalogue. When it comes to acoustic blues that’s related to rock ’n’ roll – because there are so many strains – Johnson has to be the greatest.
- Son House - Father Of The Delta Blues - The Complete 1965 Sessions. "It’s the classic sound of a National guitar used in a solo recording" “Son House probably made his greatest recordings in the '30s.
- Muddy Waters - Sings Big Bill Broonzy/ Folk Singer. “The reason I’ve picked it is that, as an introduction to acoustic blues, you’ve got two albums in one here.
- Blind Willie McTell – 1927-33 The Early Years. “There are so many compilations out there, but I would go for the early catalogue. Incredible 12-string player, played in all styles from deepdown blues to ragtime novelty.
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