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Show 2: The Amplified Blues Tradition

This is the blues after the current gets turned on. The set shows how amplification changed the feel, the attack, and the reach of the music without cutting it loose from its country roots.

34Tracks
23Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
SeriesRequired Listening
Tagselectric bluespostwarChicago bluesamplifiedblues guitar
Genrestraditional bluesblueschicago bluesdelta blueselectric blues
Tracklist
#TrackArtist
1LightAWALK
2Worried Life Blues 📖 StoryJimmy Reed
2Worried Life BluesLittle Walter
3Devil Got My Woman 📖 StorySkip James
4Standing At My WindowArthur Big Boy" Crudup"
5My Baby Left MeArthur Big Boy" Crudup"
6Open The Door, Richard!Jack McVea
7I Can't Quit You Baby 📖 StoryWillie Dixon
9Bring It On Home bridgeSonny Boy Williamson II
10T-Bone Blues bridge 📖 StoryT-Bone Walker
12Spoonful 📖 StoryHowlin' Wolf
13Smokestack Lightnin' 📖 StoryHowlin' Wolf
14Rollin' Stone 📖 StoryMuddy Waters
15Walking By MyselfJimmy Rogers
16Who Do You Love 📖 StoryBo Diddley
17Dust My Broom 📖 StoryElmore James
18All Your Love bridge 📖 StoryMagic Sam
19This Train bridge 📖 StorySister Rosetta Tharpe
20Ramblin' ManHank Williams,Drifting Cowboys
21How Blue Can You Get?B.B. King
22Southbound Train 📖 StoryMuddy Waters
25LouiseHowlin' Wolf
26Old Black Mattie bridgeJunior Kimbrough
27She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree) bridge 📖 StoryJohn Lee Hooker
28Trouble No MoreMuddy Waters
29Come OnChuck Berry
30Mary Had A Little LambBuddy Guy
31You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never HadMuddy Waters
32Sitting On Top Of The WorldHowlin' Wolf
33It Serves You Right To SufferJohn Lee Hooker
34My Own Version of You 📖 StoryBob Dylan
MoneyJohn Lee Hooker
Nine Below ZeroSonny Boy Williamson II
Rollin' And Tumblin' - Pt. 1Muddy Waters