BLUES

These are some of the pieces of blues music I have really loved (roughly in order of preference):

1. Tinsley Ellis - 'A Quitter Never Wins'

2. Albert Collins - 'Cold, Cold Feeling'

3. Janis Joplin - 'Ball and Chain'

4. Jimi Hendrix - 'Red House'

5. Bessie Smith - 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out'

6. B.B.King and Albert Collins - 'Stormy Monday'

7. Amos Milburn - 'Down the Road Apiece' (Boogie Woogie)

8. B.B.King, Manhatten Transfer, Ruth Brown - 'The Thrill is Gone'

9. Lucky Peterson - 'Beyond Cool'

10. Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Johnny Winters - 'Baby Please Don't Go'

11. Fleetwood Mac with Eddie Boyd - 'The Big Boat'

12. Bobby Blue Bland - 'Further On Up The Road'

13. Fleetwood Mac - 'Need Your Love So Bad'

14. Elmore James - 'It Hurts Me Too'

15. Fleetwood Mac - 'I Can't Hold Out'

16. Champion Jack Dupree - 'Louise Louise Blues'

17. Esther Phillips - 'Home Is Where The Hatred Is'

18. Dave Hole - 'You Got To Reap Everything You Sow'

19. Lucille Bogan - 'Alley Boogie'

20. Fleetwood Mac - 'Black Magic Woman'

21. Bernard Allison - 'I've Been Down'

22. Anson Funderburgh - 'Make a Little Love Tonight'

23. Big Maceo - 'Big Road Blues'

24. John Lee Hooker - 'Dimples'

25. Jimi Hendrix and Paul Butterfield - 'Blues in C'

26. Fleetwood Mac - 'Can't Believe You Want to Leave'

27. Elmore James - 'Dust My Broom'

28. Jimmy Dawkins - 'Lonesome Blues'

29. John Lee Hooker and Charlie Musselwhite - 'That's Alright'

30. Larry McCray - 'Witchin' Moon'

31. Muddy Waters with Johnny Winter - 'Streamline Woman'

32. Fleetwood Mac - 'Just the Blues'

33. Slim Harpo - 'Tee-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu' - and Lou Ann Barton version

34. Eva Cassidy - 'Wayfaring Stranger'

35. Debbie Davies - 'Picture This'

36. Pinetop Perkins - 'Pinetop's Boogie Woogie'

37. Larry Davis - 'Help the Poor'

38. Doors - 'Roadhouse Blues'

39. Fleetwood Mac - 'Stop Messin' Round'

40. Jimi Hendrix - 'Hear My Train A' Comin'

41. Pee Wee Crayton - 'Blues After Hours'

42. Fleetwood Mac - 'A Fool No More'

43. Madeleine Peyroux - 'Hey Sweet Man'

44. Sippie Thomas - 'I'm a Mighty Tight Woman'

45. Floyd Dixon - 'Hey Bartender'

46. John Lee Hooker and Ry Cooder - 'Big Legs Tight Skirt'

47. Helen Humes - 'Unlucky Blues'

48. John Hammond - 'Got Love If You Want It'

49. Robert Cray - 'Phone Booth'

50. Tinsley Ellis - 'Standing On The Edge Of Love'

51. Billy Branch - 'Boogie Man'

52. Tinsley Ellis - 'Sweet Pea'

53. Robert Johnson - 'Crossroads' - and Eric Clapton version

54. Sue Foley - 'This Time'

55. Kenny Neal - 'Blues Fallin' Down Like Rain'

56. Lucky Peterson - 'Ask Me Nothing About the Blues'

57. Rory Block - 'Since You Been Gone'

58. Sue Foley - 'Give It To Me'

59. Larry Garner - 'Slower Traffic Keep Right'

60. Washboard Sam and Big Bill Broonzy - 'Diggin' My Potatoes'

61. Piano Red - 'Rockin' with Red'

62. Willie Dixon - 'Hoochie Coochie Man' - and Muddy Waters singing it

63. Sue Foley - 'Same Thing'

64. James Taylor - 'Steamroller'

65. Rory Gallagher - 'Leaving Town Blues'

66. Sue Foley - 'The Wind'

67. Pee Wee Crayton - 'Texas Hop'

68. Leroy Carr - 'Stormy Night Blues'

69. Debbie Davies - 'Better Off With The Blues'

70. Sleepy John Estes - 'Milk Cow Blues'