Top Blues Songs
This is a work in progress and it has a lot of big gaps. It should also be noted that it does not include much early acoustic blues, an important area that almost requires a chart of its own.
These songs are not in any order of priority, rather, they are listed alphabnetically:
(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
10 A.M. Automatic - The Black Keys
Ain’t No Sunshine Buddy Guy & Tracy Chapman
Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone - Bobby "Blue" Bland
Albert’s Shuffle - Michael Bloomfield
All Your Love - Magic Sam
As The Crow Flies - Rory Gallagher
As The Years Go Passing By - Gary Moore
At Last - Etta James
Baby Please Don’t Go - Big Joe Williams
Baby Scratch My Back - Slim Harpo
Back Door Man - Willie Dixon
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Ball and Chain - Big Mama Thornton
Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang - John Lee Hooker
Beaver Slide Rag - Peg Leg Howell
Black Cat Bone - Albert Collins
Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac
Black Snake Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton
Blues Before Sunrise - Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago (1980)
Boogie Chillun - John Lee Hooker
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
Boom Boom Out Go The Lights - Little Walter
Boot Hill - Johhny Winter
Born in Chicago - Michael Bloomfield
Born In Chicago - Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King
Born Under a Bad Sign Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan
Bumble Bee - Memphis Minnie
Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
CC Rider - Ma Rainey
Cherry Red - Luther Allison
Cold Shot Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Come In My Kitchen - Robert Johnson
Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
Crossfire - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Crossroads - Robert Johnson
Cryin’ Shame - Lightnin’ Hopkins
Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) - Blind Willie Johnson
Déjà Voodoo Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Dust My Broom - Elmore James
Every Morning - Keb’Mo
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - The Blues Brothers
Everyday I Have The Blues - B.B. King
Evil - Willie Dixon
Eyesight To The Blind - Sonny Boy Williamson II
Feels Like Rain Buddy Guy
Five Long Years - B.B. King
Forty Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
Further On Up The Road - Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland
Georgia Blues - Jimi Hendrix
Girl Is On My Mind The Black Keys
Give Me Back My Wig - Hound Dog Taylor
Givin’ It Up for Your Love - Delbert McClinton
God Moves on the Water - Blind Willie Johnson
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Sonny Boy Williamson I
Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
Graveyard Dream Blues - Ida Cox
Grinning In Your Face - Son House
Groove Me - King Floyd
Grown So Ugly The Black Keys
Hard Luck Blues - Roy Brown
Harvey’s Tune - Michael Bloomfield
Have You Ever Loved a Woman - Eric Clapton
Heatwave - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Hellhound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
Hideaway - Freddie King
Highway 49 - Big Joe Williams
Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
How Blue Can You Get? - B.B. King
How Long, How Long Blues - Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
How Many More Years - Howlin’ Wolf
Howling Wolf - Killing Floor
Hummingbird - B.B. King
I Ain’t Superstitious - Willie Dixon
I Can’t Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
I Can’t Make You Love - Bonnie Raitt
I Can’t Quit You Baby - Otis Rush
I Could’ve Had Religion - Rory Gallager
I Got My Mojo Working Morganfield - Michael Bloomfield
I Just Want to Make Love to You - Etta James
I Know What You’re Putting Down - Louis Jordan
I’d Love to Change the World - Ten Years After
I’d Rather Go Blind Etta James Etta James
If I Had My Way I’d Tear the Building Down Blind - Blind Willie Johnson
If Trouble Was Money - Albert Collins
If Trouble Was Money - Albert Collins
ife Is Beautiful - Keb’ Mo’
I’m a King Bee - Slim Harpo
I’m In The Mood - John Lee Hooker
I’m Ready - Muddy Waters
I’m Tired - Savoy Brown
I’m Tore Down - Freddie King
It Hurts Me Too - Elmore James
It’s Bad You Know - R.L. Burnside
It’s My Own Fault - B.B. King
It’s Tight Like That - Tampa Red
John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson
Key To The Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
Key To The Highway - Freddie King
Killing Floor - Michael Bloomfield
Let The Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan
Let Your Light Shine on Me - Blind Willie Johnson
Lie to Me - Jonny Lang
Little Red Rooster - Luther Allison
Juke - Little Walter
Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Look over Yonders Wall - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Lord, I Just Can’t Keep from Crying - Blind Willie Johnson
Love In Vain - Robert Johnson
Love Me Like A Man - Bonnie Raitt
Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
Mary Ann R- Michael Bloomfield
Mary Had a Little Lamb Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Matchbox Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Me and The Devil Blues - Robert Johnson
Memphis Blues - W.C. Handy
Messin Around - Memphis Slim
Messin’ With The Kid - Junior Wells
Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time - Blind Willie Johnson
Mustang - Sally Buddy Guy
My Head’s In Mississippi - ZZ Top
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out - Bessie Smith
Nobody’s Fault But Mine - Blind Willie Johnson
On The Road Again - Canned Heat
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker
One Hundred And Ten In The Shade - Hans Theessink
Paying The Cost To Be The Boss - B. B. King
Pine Top Boogie - Pine Top Smith
Pockets - Eric Bibb
Pony Blues - Charley Patton
Praise God I’m Satisfied - Blind Willie Johnson
Preaching The Blues - Son House
Pride and Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson
Red Devils - Devil Woman
Red House - Jimi Hendrix
Red Light - Jonny Lang
Riding with the King B.B. King & Eric Clapton
Rock Me Mama - Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup
Rollin & Tumblin - Elmore James
Room To Move - John Mayall
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Shake Your Moneymaker - Elmore James
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Joe Turner
Sleepy Time, Time (Live version) - Cream
Smokestack Lightnin - Howlin’ Wolf
Smoking Gun - Robert Cray
Something to Talk - Bonnie Raitt
Soul Man - The Blues Brothers
Spoonful - Willie Dixon
Statesboro Blues - Blind willie McTell
Statesboro Blues - Taj Mahal
Still Got The Blues (1990) Gary Moore
Stone Crazy - Buddy Guy
Stop - Michael Bloomfield
Stop - Lonnie Mack
Stop Breakin’ Down - Robert Johnson
Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
Stormy Weather - Etta James
Superstition Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Sweet Black Angel - Robert Nighthawk
Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson
Sweet Sixteen - B.B. King
Taint Nobody’s Bizness If I Do - Bessie Smith
T-Bone Blues - T-Bone Walker
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
The Little Red Rooster - Willie Dixon
The Messiah Will Come Again - Roy Buchanan
The Messiah Will Come Again - Gary Moore
The Same Thing - Willie Dixon
The Seventh Son - Willie Dixon
The Sky Is Crying - Elmore James
The Sky Is Crying Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
The Things That I Used To Do - Guitar Slim
The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King
The Walkin’ Blues - Taj Mahal
Third Degree - Eric Clapton
Three O’Clock Blues - B.B. King
Tight Like That - Tampa Red & Georgia Tom
Tomorrow Night - Lonnie Johnson
Too Much Alcohol - Rory Gallagher
Up All Night Thinking - Dave Hole
Walking By Myself - Gary Moore
Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
We’re Gonna Make It - Little Milton
West Coast Blues - Blind Blake
When Love Comes to Town B.B. King & U2
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Leadbelly
Whole ‘Nutha Thang - Keb’ Mo’
Worried Life Blues - Sleepy John Estes
You Don’t Love Me - Michael Bloomfield
