Old Blues Songs Lyrics
The great blues artists talked, the savviest rockers listened. Without the blues there’d be no rock’n’roll, but certain tracks were especially pivotal. Either they were famously covered, or the licks got borrowed, or they schooled the rockers in style and attitude.
10 Greatest Blues Song Intros Of All Time. 10 Greatest Blues Song Intros Of All Time. Ten blues songs that you instantly recognize, just from the intro. Several songs in the category of legend have lyrics that strike a chord with listeners of many generations. Sometimes, it’s the intro. That first few seconds of guitar, drums.
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Many of the most influential blues songs reverberate to this day, and a few were probably covered by a local band in your town last weekend. Suffice to say that if had never gone to the crossroads, or if BB King was still feeling a thrill, the world would be a poorer place. BB King: ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ Producer Bill Szymczyk – yes, the same one who’d make millions a few years later with The Eagles – caused a small revolution when he added a string section to this track, otherwise one of many smooth ballads that recorded in the 60s. The producer had no qualms about polishing King’s sound, recording him with top-flight studio players (instead of his road band) and, in this case, coaxing out one of his more heartfelt vocals. ‘Thrill Is Gone’ wasn’t the first record to fuse blues with pop, but it was the smoothest and most successful to date (hitting No.15 as a pop record) and setting the stage for many crossovers to come. Howlin’ Wolf: ‘Evil’ Don’t waste your breath arguing whether Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath invented, far as we’re concerned, was playing it in 1954.