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The blues line: a collection of blues lyrics
Publisher
Ecco Press
Publication Date
1993.
Language
English
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Death is awful / Doc Read and Vera Hall
Ol' Hannah / Doc Reese
Diddie wa diddie / Blind Blake
Rolling log blues ; Going away blues
On the wall / Louise Johnson
Mind reader blues / Bertha Lee
Eagles on a half / Geechie Wiley
Motherless child blues / Elvie Thomas
Dead drunk blues / Lillian Miller
Jacksonville blues / Nellie Florence
Doggin' me around blues / Jenny Pope
Third alley blues / Iva Smith
Never let your left hand know ; You'll never miss your jelly / Lil Johnson
Tired as I can be ; Stew meat blues / Bessie Jackson (Lucille Bogan)
Don't fish in my sea ; Southern blues / Ma Rainey
Back water blues ; Black mountain blues ; Jailhouse blues / Bessie Smith
Frying pan skillet blues / Bessie Tucker
Death sting me blues / Sara Martin
Blood hound blues / Victoria Spivey
Nothing in rambling ; Me and my chauffeur blues ; Killer diller ; 'Frisco town ; Memphis Minnie-Jitis blues / Memphis Minnie
Three men / Alice Moore
Make me a pallet on your floor / Ma Yancey
Charleston blues / Chippie Hill
Fishing blues ; Bob McKinney / Henry Thomas
Pneumonia blues ; Rabbit foot blues ; Prison cell blues ; Rising high water blues ; Bad luck blues ; Big night blues ; Peach orchard mama ; Tin cup blues ; That black snake moan ; Stocking feet blues ; Chock house blues ; Broke and hungry ; Deceitful brownskin blues ; Long distance moan ; That crawling baby blues ; Piney woods money mama ; Wartime blues ; Black horse blues ; Easy rider blues / Blind Lemmon Jefferson
Awful fix / Buddy Boy Hawkins
Poor boy blues ; No job blues ; Back gnawing blues / Ramblin' (Willard) Thomas
I'm gonna run to the city of refuge ; God don't never change ; If I had my way ; Jesus make up my dying bed ; Jesus is coming soon ; Motherless children / Blind Willie Johnson
T.B. Blues ; Roberta (part 1) ; Roberta (part 2) ; Pigmeat ; Becky Deem ; Packin' trunk blues ; All out and down / Leadbelly
Kentucky blues / Little Hat Jones
Fool's blues / "Funny Paper" Smith
No more women blues ; 98 degree blues ; Levee camp moan / Texas Alexander
Robbing and stealing blues / Gene Campbell
You never miss the water / L.C. Williams
Katie May ; Highway blues ; Short haired woman ; She's mine ; Mister Charlie ; Death bells / Lightning Hopkins
Captain captain ; Alabama bound / Mance Lipscomb
Charlie cherry ; Homeless blues / Lil' Son Jackson
James alley / Rabbit Brown
The jailhouse blues ; Slow mama slow / Sam Collins
Whoopee blues ; The gone dead train / King Solomon Hill
Out on Santa-fe blues / Arthur Pettis (Petties)
Married man blues ; Nehi blues / Blind Willie (Joe) Reynolds
Maggie Campbell blues ; Canned heat blues ; Big road blues / Tommy Johnson
Leaving town blues ; Saturday blues / Ishman (Ishmon) Bracey
Dark road blues / Willie Lofton
Ham hound crave / Rube Lacy
That lonesome train took my baby away / Charlie McCoy
Evil devil woman / (Kansas) Joe McCoy
All around man ; Old devil / Bo Carter
Old Timbrook blues / John Byrd
Devil got my woman ; Hard time killin' floor blues ; Cypress grove blues / Skip James
Brown skin girl / Tommy McClennan
Death Valley blues / Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
Bullfrog blues / William Harris
You can't keep no brown / Bo Weavil Jackson
Bird nest bound ; High sheriff blues ; Moon going down ; High water everywhere (1) ; High water everywhere (2) ; Revenue man blues ; Hang it on the wall / Charlie Patton
Future blues ; M & O blues / Willie Brown
Tell me man blues / Henry Sims
My black mama ; The jinx blues ; The pony blues ; Preaching the blues / Son House
Nappy head blues / Bobby Grant
Come on in my kitchen ; Walking blues ; Terraplane blues ; Stones in my passway ; Traveling riverside blues ; I believe I'll dust my broom ; Milkcow's calf blues ; Hellhound on my trail ; Me and the devil blues ; Preachin' blues / Robert Johnson
Spike driver blues ; Candy man blues ; Got the blues, can't be satisfied ; Frankie ; Ain't no tellin' / Mississippi John Hurt
Dough roller blues / Garfield Akers
Fare thee well blues / Joe Calicott
Aberdeen, Mississippi blues ; Parchman Farm blues ; Sleepy man blues ; Sic 'em dogs on ; The Panama limited ; Fixing to die / Booker (Bukka) White
It's cold in China blues / Isaiah Nettles
Old dog blue / Jim Jackson
'Tain't nobody's business ; You shall / Frank Stokes
Big chief blues ; Judge Harsh blues ; Billy Lyons and Stak O'Lee ; Dry land blues ; Kassie Jones ; I will turn your money green / Furry Lewis
Nashville stonewall blues ; That's no way to get along ; I'll go with her blues / Robert (Tim) Wilkins
Stack o' dollars ; My black gal blues ; Milkcow blues ; Everybody ought to make a change ; Street car blues ; Brownsville blues ; Lawyer Clark blues ; Floating bridge ; Working man blues / Sleepy John Estes
T-bone steak blues ; Lake Michigan blues / (James) Yank Rachel
Oh ambulance man / Memphis Jub Band
New Minglewood blues / Noah Lewis's Jug Band
Going to Germany / Cannon's Jug Stompers
My babe my babe / Bill Wilber
Bad girl blues / Memphis Willie B. (Borum)
Frisco whistle blues ; Hambone blues / Ed Bell
Tooten out blues / "Slue Foot Joe" [Clifford Gibson]
From now on ; Squabbling blues ; My crime ; Big rock jail / Barefoot Bill
Seven sister blues / Edward Thompson
Keep your windows pinned / Clifford Gibson
France blues / Sunny Boy & His Pals
Two white horses in a line / Two Poor Boys
No more good water / Jaybird Coleman
If it looks like jelly, shakes like jelly ; Chain gang trouble ; Depot blues / Charlie Lincoln (Hicks)
Barbecue blues ; She's gone blues ; Cold wave blues ; Ease it to me blues / Barbecue Bob (Hicks)
Lowdown rounder's blues / Peg Leg Howell
No no blues / Willie Baker
No woman no nickel / Bumble Bee Slim
Savannah mama ; Three women blues ; Statesboro blues ; Searching the desert for the blues ; Talking to myself ; Drive away blues ; Travlin' blues / Blind Willie McTell (Blind Samuel)
Mojo hiding woman ; Pistol slapper blues ; Lost lover blues ; Bye bye baby blues / Blind Boy Fuller
You got to go down ; Blow Gabriel / Blind Gary Davis
One way gal / William Moore
Jersey Belle blues ; Careless love / Lonnie Johnson
Keep it clean ; Hunkie tunkie / Charlie Jordan
Skin man ; Titanic blues / Hi Henry Brown
Poor man blues / Henry Townsend
Telephone arguin' blues ; Snake doctor blues / J.D. (Jelly Jaw) Short
Someday baby ; Stepfather blues ; President Roosevelt / Big Joe Williams
Number 29 / Wesley Wallace
Oh oh blues / Bert Mays
Mean mistreater mama ; Take a walk around the corner / Leroy Carr
Pistol blues / Walter Roland
Flying crow / Black Ivory King
West Helena blues ; High price blues / Roosevelt Sykes
The first time I met you / Little Brother Montgomery
Y M & V blues / Lost John Hunter
Sweet Patuni / Jesse James
More good whiskey blues / Peetie Wheatstraw
I can tell by the way you smell / Walter Davis
The dirty dozens / Speckled Red
I don't know / Cripple Clarence Lofton
I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town ; Looking up at dawn / Big Bill Broonzy
Hip shakin' strut / Hokum Boys : Georgia Tom [Thomas Andrew Dorsey] (with Jane Lucas)
Big woman ; I been treated wrong / Washboard Sam
You got to love her with a feeling / Tampa Red
Go back to the country / Jazz Gillum
Big apple blues ; Moonshine ; Bad luck blues ; Welfare store / Sonny Boy Williamson
Mean old twister / Kokomo Arnold
Don't want no hungry woman / Floyd Council
Little boy blue / Robert Lockwood
Stamp blues / Tony Hollins
Alley blues / Wright Holmes
Six week old blues / John Henry Barbee
Remember way back / L.C. Green
Hoochie coochie / Muddy Waters
Smokestack lightning / Howlin' Wolf
Black snake / John Lee Hooker
Hottest brand goin' / Smoky Babe
Alabama bus / Brother Will Hairston
I got so old / Robert Pete Williams.
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Contributors
Akers, Garfield
Alexander, Texas,1900-1954
Arnold, Kokomo
Baker, Willie
Barbecue Bob,1902-1931
Alexander, Texas,1900-1954
Arnold, Kokomo
Baker, Willie
Barbecue Bob,1902-1931
Barbee, John Henry,1905-1964
Barefoot Bill
Beaman, Lottie
Bell, Ed,-1960
Black Ivory King
Bogan, Lucille
Borum, Willie
Bracey, Ishman,1901-1970
Broonzy, Big Bill,1893-1958
Brown, Henry(Guitarist)
Brown, Richard,-1937
Brown, Willie,1900-1952
Bumble Bee Slim
Byrd, John
Callicott, Joe,1901-1969
Campbell, Gene(Vocalist)
Cannon's Jug Stompers
Carr, Leroy,1905-1935
Carter, Bo,1893-1964
Coleman, Jaybird
Collins, Sam,1887-1949
Council, Dipper
Crudup, Arthur,1905-1974
Davis, Gary,1896-1972
Davis, Walter,1912-1963
Dorsey, Thomas Andrew
Edwards, Tenderfoot
Estes, Sleepy John,1899-1977
Florence, Nellie
Fuller, Blind Boy,1907-1941
Gibson, Clifford,1901-1963
Gillum, Jazz,1904-1966
Grant, Bobby
Green, L. C.,1921-1985
Hairston, Brother Will
Hall, Vera,1902-1964
Harris, William(Blues musician)
Hawkins, Walter(Guitarist)
Hill, Bertha Chippie
Hill, King Solomon,1897-1949
Hokum Boys
Hollins, Tony
Holmes, Wright
Hooker, John Lee
Hopkins, Lightnin',1912-1982
House, Son
Howell, Peg Leg,1888-1966
Howlin' Wolf,1910-1976
Hunter, Lost John
Hurt, Mississippi John,1892-1966
Jackson, Bo Weavil
Jackson, Jim,-1937
Jackson, Lil' Son,1915-1976
James, Jesse(Blues singer)
James, Skip,1902-1969
Jefferson, Blind Lemon,1897-1929
Johnson, Blind Willie
Johnson, Lil
Johnson, Lonnie,1894-1970
Johnson, Louise(Singer)
Johnson, Robert,1911-1938
Johnson, Tommy,approximately 1896-1956
Jones, Little Hat
Jordan, Charley,-1954
Kansas Joe,1905-1950
Lacy, Rube,1901-1969
Leadbelly,1885-1949
Lee, Bertha
Lewis, Furry,1893-1981
Lincoln, Charley
Lipscomb, Mance,1895-1976
Lockwood, Robert Jr.,1915-2006
Lofton, Cripple Clarence,1887-1957
Lofton, Willie
Lucas, Jane
Martin, Sara,1884-1955
Mays, Bert M
McClennan, Tommy
McCoy, Charlie,1909-1950
McTell, Blind Willie
Memphis Jug Band
Memphis Minnie,1897-1973
Miller, Lillian(Singer)
Montgomery, Little Brother,1906-1985
Moore, Alice
Moore, William,1893-1951
Muddy Waters,1915-1983
Nettles, Isaiah
Noah Lewis' Jug Band
Patton, Charley,1891-1934
Petties, Arthur
Pope, Jenny
Rachell, Yank
Rainey, Ma,1886-1939
Reed, Dock
Reynolds, Blind Willie
Roland, Walter
Sackheim, Eric
Short, J. D.,1902-1962
Sims, Henry,1890-1958
Smith, Bessie,1894-1937
Smith, Ivy(Vocalist)
Smoky Babe,1927-1973
Speckled Red,1892-1973
Spivey, Victoria
Stokes, Frank
Sykes, Roosevelt
Tampa Red,1904-1981
Terry, Sonny Boy
Thomas, Elvie
Thomas, Henry,1874
Thomas, Willard
Townsend, Henry
Tucker, Bessie
Two Poor Boys (Musical group)
Wallace, Wesley(Pianist)
Washboard Sam,1910-1966
Wheatstraw, Peetie
White, Bukka
Wilber, Bill
Wiley, Geechie
Wilkins, Robert,1896-1987
Williams, Big Joe,1903-1982
Williams, L. C.,1930-1960
Williams, Robert Pete,1914-1980
Williamson, Sonny Boy,1914-1948
Yancey, Estella
Barefoot Bill
Beaman, Lottie
Bell, Ed,-1960
Black Ivory King
Bogan, Lucille
Borum, Willie
Bracey, Ishman,1901-1970
Broonzy, Big Bill,1893-1958
Brown, Henry(Guitarist)
Brown, Richard,-1937
Brown, Willie,1900-1952
Bumble Bee Slim
Byrd, John
Callicott, Joe,1901-1969
Campbell, Gene(Vocalist)
Cannon's Jug Stompers
Carr, Leroy,1905-1935
Carter, Bo,1893-1964
Coleman, Jaybird
Collins, Sam,1887-1949
Council, Dipper
Crudup, Arthur,1905-1974
Davis, Gary,1896-1972
Davis, Walter,1912-1963
Dorsey, Thomas Andrew
Edwards, Tenderfoot
Estes, Sleepy John,1899-1977
Florence, Nellie
Fuller, Blind Boy,1907-1941
Gibson, Clifford,1901-1963
Gillum, Jazz,1904-1966
Grant, Bobby
Green, L. C.,1921-1985
Hairston, Brother Will
Hall, Vera,1902-1964
Harris, William(Blues musician)
Hawkins, Walter(Guitarist)
Hill, Bertha Chippie
Hill, King Solomon,1897-1949
Hokum Boys
Hollins, Tony
Holmes, Wright
Hooker, John Lee
Hopkins, Lightnin',1912-1982
House, Son
Howell, Peg Leg,1888-1966
Howlin' Wolf,1910-1976
Hunter, Lost John
Hurt, Mississippi John,1892-1966
Jackson, Bo Weavil
Jackson, Jim,-1937
Jackson, Lil' Son,1915-1976
James, Jesse(Blues singer)
James, Skip,1902-1969
Jefferson, Blind Lemon,1897-1929
Johnson, Blind Willie
Johnson, Lil
Johnson, Lonnie,1894-1970
Johnson, Louise(Singer)
Johnson, Robert,1911-1938
Johnson, Tommy,approximately 1896-1956
Jones, Little Hat
Jordan, Charley,-1954
Kansas Joe,1905-1950
Lacy, Rube,1901-1969
Leadbelly,1885-1949
Lee, Bertha
Lewis, Furry,1893-1981
Lincoln, Charley
Lipscomb, Mance,1895-1976
Lockwood, Robert Jr.,1915-2006
Lofton, Cripple Clarence,1887-1957
Lofton, Willie
Lucas, Jane
Martin, Sara,1884-1955
Mays, Bert M
McClennan, Tommy
McCoy, Charlie,1909-1950
McTell, Blind Willie
Memphis Jug Band
Memphis Minnie,1897-1973
Miller, Lillian(Singer)
Montgomery, Little Brother,1906-1985
Moore, Alice
Moore, William,1893-1951
Muddy Waters,1915-1983
Nettles, Isaiah
Noah Lewis' Jug Band
Patton, Charley,1891-1934
Petties, Arthur
Pope, Jenny
Rachell, Yank
Rainey, Ma,1886-1939
Reed, Dock
Reynolds, Blind Willie
Roland, Walter
Sackheim, Eric
Short, J. D.,1902-1962
Sims, Henry,1890-1958
Smith, Bessie,1894-1937
Smith, Ivy(Vocalist)
Smoky Babe,1927-1973
Speckled Red,1892-1973
Spivey, Victoria
Stokes, Frank
Sykes, Roosevelt
Tampa Red,1904-1981
Terry, Sonny Boy
Thomas, Elvie
Thomas, Henry,1874
Thomas, Willard
Townsend, Henry
Tucker, Bessie
Two Poor Boys (Musical group)
Wallace, Wesley(Pianist)
Washboard Sam,1910-1966
Wheatstraw, Peetie
White, Bukka
Wilber, Bill
Wiley, Geechie
Wilkins, Robert,1896-1987
Williams, Big Joe,1903-1982
Williams, L. C.,1930-1960
Williams, Robert Pete,1914-1980
Williamson, Sonny Boy,1914-1948
Yancey, Estella
ISBN
9780880013284
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