List of blues standards

Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as having permanent value.[1] Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. Many are also performed in styles that differ from the originals and reflect various music trends, including rhythm and blues and rock.

"Sweet Home Chicago" performed at the White House with Barack Obama joining B.B. King on the chorus

Each song listed has been identified by five or more music writers as a blues standard. Nearly all have appeared on major music singles charts. Since many of the songs were developed in American folk music traditions,[1] spellings and titles may differ; the most common are used.

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Title	First recorded by	Year	Charting single(s) by[2]	Refs
"Ain't Nobody's Business"	Anna Meyers with the Original Memphis Five	1922	Jimmy Witherspoon (1944)	[3][4][5][6][7] [8]
"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)"	Otis Rush	1958		[9][6][10][11] [12]
"Baby What You Want Me to Do"	Jimmy Reed	1960	Etta James (1964)	[3][13][9][14] [15]
"Baby, Please Don't Go"	Big Joe Williams	1935	Orioles (1952) Them (1964) AC/DC (1975)	[3][16][17][18][9] [14][19][20]
"Blues with a Feeling"	Rabon Tarrant	1947	Little Walter (1953)	[3][9][21][22] [23]
"Boom Boom"	John Lee Hooker	1962	John Lee Hooker (1962) Animals (1965)	[24][3][25][26] [27]
"Born Under a Bad Sign"	Albert King	1967	Albert King (1967)	[28][29][30][31] [32]
"Caldonia"	Louis Jordan	1945	Louis Jordan (1945) Erskine Hawkins (1945) Sugar Chile Robinson (1949) James Brown (1964)	[3][29][33][34] [35]
"Catfish Blues"	Robert Petway	1941	Muddy Waters (1951 as "Still a Fool")	[36][37][33][38] [39]
"Crosscut Saw"	Tommy McClennan	1941	Albert King (1967)	[3][40][41][42] [30]
"Crossroads"	Robert Johnson	1936	Cream (1969)	[9][41][43][31] [44]
"Driftin' Blues"	Johnny Moore's Three Blazers	1945	Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (1945) Bobby Bland (1968)	[45][46][47][48] [49]
"Dust My Broom"	Robert Johnson	1936	Elmore James (1952)	[3][50][51][52] [53][54][39][55] [56]
"Every Day I Have the Blues"	Pinetop Sparks	1935	Lowell Fulson (1950) Joe Williams (1952 & 1955) B.B. King (1955) Billy Stewart (1966)	[3][57][29][58] [59][39]
"Farther Up the Road"	Bobby Bland	1957	Bobby Bland (1957)	[3][60][61][29] [62]
"Five Long Years"	Eddie Boyd	1952	Eddie Boyd (1952) Junior Parker (1959)	[63][64][9][65] [66][67][68]
"Forty-Four"	Roosevelt Sykes	1929		[69][70][65][71] [39]
"Goin' Down Slow"	St. Louis Jimmy Oden	1941	Bobby Bland (1974)	[72][9][73][74] [75][76]
"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"	Sonny Boy Williamson I	1937	Smokey Hogg (1950 as "Little School Girl")	[3][77][78][9] [73][79][80]
"Got My Mojo Working"	Muddy Waters	1956	Jimmy Smith (1966)	[3][81][82][73] [83][39]
"Help Me"	Sonny Boy Williamson II	1963	Sonny Boy Williamson II (1963)	[3][9][84][85] [86]
"Hide Away"	Freddie King	1961	Freddie King (1961)	[87][88][89][90] [91]
"Hoochie Coochie Man"	Muddy Waters	1954	Muddy Waters (1954) Jimmy Smith (1966)	[3][92][29][93] [94][39][95]
"How Long Blues"	Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell	1928		[96][29][97][98] [39][99]
"I Can't Quit You Baby"	Otis Rush	1956	Otis Rush (1956)	[3][100][9][97] [98]
"I'm a Man"	Bo Diddley	1955	Muddy Waters (1955 as "Mannish Boy") Yardbirds (1965)	[81][9][101] [102][103]
"I'm Ready"	Muddy Waters	1954	Muddy Waters (1954)	[3][104][9][101] [98]
"It Hurts Me Too"	Tampa Red	1940	Tampa Red (1949 as "When Things Go Wrong") Elmore James (1965)	[3][105][29][106] [107][108][109]
"Kansas City"	Little Willie Littlefield	1952	Wilbert Harrison (1959) Hank Ballard & the Midnighters (1959) James Brown (1967)	[3][110][5][111] [112]
"Key to the Highway"	Charlie Segar	1940	Little Walter (1958)	[113][114][92][5] [115][116][117]
"Killing Floor"	Howlin' Wolf	1964	Howlin' Wolf (1964)	[3][118][9][115] [119][120][103] [121]
"Little Red Rooster"	Howlin' Wolf	1961	Sam Cooke (1963) Rolling Stones (1964)	[100][9][122][98] [50][123][95]
"Mean Old World"	T-Bone Walker	1942	Little Walter (1953)	[3][9][124][66] [54]
"My Babe"	Little Walter	1955	Little Walter (1955) Willie Mitchell (1969)	[104][29][125] [126][95]
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"	Bessie Smith	1929	Nina Simone (1960) Bobby Womack (1973 as "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out")	[29][127][128] [129][130]
"Reconsider Baby"	Lowell Fulson	1954	Lowell Fulson (1954)	[3][131][9] [122][132]
"Rock Me Baby"	Lil' Son Jackson	1950	B.B. King (1964)	[3][29][133][50] [134]
"Rollin' and Tumblin'"	Hambone Willie Newbern	1929	Canned Heat (1967)	[135][136][9] [137][138][53] [31][39]
"See See Rider"	Ma Rainey	1924	Bea Booze (1942) Chuck Willis (1957 as "C.C. Rider") LaVern Baker (1962) Animals (1966)	[96][139][5] [140][141][142] [143][7][144] [145]
"Sitting on Top of the World"	Mississippi Sheiks	1930		[9][146][147] [148][149]
"The Sky Is Crying"	Elmore James	1960	Elmore James (1960)	[3][9][150] [151][152]
"Spoonful"	Howlin' Wolf	1960	Etta James & Harvey Fuqua (1961)	[3][114][100][9] [153][31]
"Stormy Monday"	T-Bone Walker	1948	T-Bone Walker (1948) Bobby Bland (1962) Latimore (1973)	[3][45][81][5] [154][134][39] [155][156]
"Sweet Home Chicago"	Robert Johnson	1936	Junior Parker (1958)	[3][157][29] [158][52]
"Sweet Little Angel"	Lucille Bogan	1930	B.B. King (1956)	[159][105][158] [160][109]
"That's All Right"	Jimmy Rogers	1950		[3][161][162] [163][164][165]
"The Things That I Used to Do"	Guitar Slim	1953	Guitar Slim (1953) James Brown (1964)	[166][3][167] [168][74][161] [169][170]
"The Thrill Is Gone"	Roy Hawkins	1951	Roy Hawkins (1951) B.B. King (1970) Aretha Franklin (1970)	[3][171][172] [9][173][174]
"Trouble in Mind"	Bertha "Chippie" Hill	1926	Dinah Washington (1952) Nina Simone (1961)	[175][9][176] [128][177][178]
"Walkin' Blues"	Robert Johnson	1936	Muddy Waters (1948 as "I Feel Like Going Home")	[3][179][9] [180][181]
"Worried Life Blues"	Big Maceo	1941	Big Maceo (1945 as "Things Have Changed") B.B. King (1970) Junior Parker (1970)	[182][183][184] [185][186]
"You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling"	Tampa Red	1938	Freddie King (1961)	[105][187][108] [107][109]

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