Best Blues Songs Of All Time

Find album reviews stream songs credits and award information for all time greatest blues songs various artists on allmusic 2012.

Best blues songs of all time. Many of johnson s songs have become blues standards and as it is engraved on his tombstone he influenced millions beyond his time. 20 best blues songs of all time. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as having permanent value. The most influential blues songs of all time the blues artists talked the rockers listened.

The crossroad blues or simply known as crossroads is a legendary mississippi delta blues classic song by one of the greatest blues artists of all time robert johnson. It captures an assortment of the bluesier offerings from soul r b and even rock. All influenced by the blues but the songs are not all able to be pigeonholed in the blues genre. Whether you like muddy waters robert johnson or that bluesy broad etta james there s now denying they re all some of the most famous blues musicians of all time.

This list of blues singers ranks the best blues music artists singers and musicians and has been voted on and ranked by blues fans worldwide. After five years i am on a project reworking the list. For a blues purist such as yourself this is not your list. There are some duds in there.

As voted by ug community. Without the blues there d be no rock n roll but these influential blues songs were especially. 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.