Best Blues Song??

OK I'm in contest just among friends for best blues song. Any suggestions?? Pleaseeeeeeeeeeee and Thank you. I really want to kick their @-- Ya know. lol. winks*

There are So Many!

Assuming you have some time to read these lists
people will give AND get to listen to them,
let me just toss out my opinion and faves
and of course, I'll leave off a thousand
that I'll wish I'd thought of...

Texas Flood ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan

She's Nineteen Years Old ~ Muddy Waters

Down In the Hole [and] Fancy Man Blues ~ The Rolling Stones

I Can't Quit You, Baby ~ Led Zeppelin <if you can, get their kick@ version from their BBC Sessions cd. One of them is particularly sizzling.

Red House ~ Jimi Hendrix

and of course, all things Robert Johnson!!!

...in No Way am I deliberately leaving off others, I'm just goin' for off top my head.

Also, I think BB King's Three O'Clock in the Morning is infinitely wondrous.

AND: Eric Clapton's Double Trouble, Worried Life Blues, and Rambling On My Mind, from his Just One Night
cd.

>>Sincerely hope I've helped.

Happydog and Kevin K gave pinpoint answers
At 2, 3, 4 yrs old, I heard from the next room Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, and Elvis. They stayed with me.

As a youth buying 45s and LPs, it was
ALWAYS the blues numbers that I obsessed over more.

Here's to a lifetime of passion. Report It

Ramblin' On My Mind - Robert Johnson

Stormy Monday Blues by T Bone Walker

"Cocaine" by Eric Clapton

I dig some Muddy Waters stuff too, but I don't know if I'd consider anything he did the best of blues. Although I really like "Louisiana Blues" and "I Can't Be Satisfied."

I don't know if Hendrix counts, because most consider him psycadelic rock, but he crossed over in blues all the time so I'll go for it.

"Bold as Love" and "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix

"Down on Me" and "Take Another Little Piece of My Heart" by Janis Joplin.

Overall though, "Cocaine" by Clapton is the best I've heard so far.

My grandma recorded a song called "Come Rain or Come Shine" you can find it in Karoake but not her version. You can pull her version if you search her name in yahoo: "Claire Austin". If you understand that this recording is half a century old and music is different now and just listen to the melody of the song it is amazing! It is such a great song, good luck in your contest!

Stormy monday blues, when its done by buddy guy and stevie ray vaughan, or come rain or come shine, when done by bb king and eric clapton


Dude. Im completely aware of the fact that Muddy Waters did that song. I prefer the one I mentioned.This isn't rocket science...

I can't believe that one of these joke answers knocked down Muddy Waters in favor of Eric Clapton. Muddy Waters is the Father. Go get his CD, "HIs Best: 1947-1955," and "His Best, 1956-1964." Every great song by Muddy is on those two CDs. You also need to get Howlin' Wolf's collection, "His Best," on Chess, as well as others in the same series by Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter. They're all on Chess and they're all entitled "His Best." Those are the stone solid roots and everybody (including all those white English boys) stole everything they knew from those guys.

"Boom, Boom, Boom" by John Lee Hooker
"Manish Boy" by Muddy Waters
"The Thrill Is Gone" by B.B. King

These three songs are the introduction to the blues for so many people. That and the fact that all three are great songs make me list them as the best. If I have to pick just one of them though, B.B. King gets my vote.

prde and joy by stavie ray vaughan

When a Man Loves a Woman by Perdy Sledge

Stevie Ray Vaughan----Little Wing (1991)
Elmore James---- Dust my Broom (1936)
John Lee Hooker--- Boogie Chillen' (1935)
Ian Parker--- It hurts a man (2006)

B B King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7t5QNt8...
Thrill is gone.

Baby Please Don't Go - THEM

"Crossroads" by Robert Johnson

Life By The Drop - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

The Thrill is Gone -BB King and just about anything done by Buddy Guy

LITTLE RED ROOSTER Bring It on Home, Spoonful, Hoochie Coochie Man, I Just Want to Make Love to You, Back Door Man, I Ain't Superstitious, Pain In My Heart, You Shook Me, Seventh Son, and much more too numerous to mention

(all) Willie Dixon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Dixo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkBFCj3t...

IT IS HARD TO NARROW DOWN THE COUNTLESS FAVORITES, BUT I'LL SAY OUTSIDE WOMAN BLUES.

~*Mannish Boy ~ Muddy Waters

Lot's of good songs mentioned..
I like" Loan Me A Dime"- Boz Scaggs
" Running Blue"- Boz Scaggs
" Stormy Monday"
" Statesboro Blues"

b.b. king's 'how blue can you get' live at the regal LP

back door man by the doors