The blues fake book : 400 songs : melody line, lyrics & chords for all "C" instruments

Summary: 400 songs, spanning the entire history of the genre. Every major blues artist is represented, including Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Billie Holiday, Leadbelly, Alberta Hunter, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Bessie Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, and scores of others.

Record details

ISBN: 0793558557
Physical Description: print
407 p. of music ; 31 cm.
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corp., [1999]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Melodies with chord symbols.

Cover title.

Includes Alphabetical Listing of titles (p.2-4) and an Artist Index (p.5-7)

Formatted Contents Note:

Ah'w baby / Little Walter -- Ain't gonna worry my life anymore / B.B. King -- Ain't misbehavin' / Fats Waller -- Ain't that loving you baby / Elvis Presley/Jimmy Reed -- Alabama bound / Leadbelly -- Alimonia blues / John Lee Hooker -- All aboard / Muddy Waters -- All blues / Miles Davis -- All my love in vain / Sonny Boy Williamson -- All your love / Eric Clapton/John Mayall/Otis Rush -- Alright, okay, you win / Count Basie/Joe Williams -- Angel eyes / Frank Sinatra -- Apologize / John Lee Hooker -- As the years go passing by / Gary Moore -- Ask me no questions / B.B. King -- At my front door / The El Dorados -- Aw shucks, hush your mouth / Jimmy Reed -- Babe, I'm gonna leave you / Led Zeppelin -- Baby doll / Bessie Smith -- Baby how long / Howlin' Wolf -- Baby, let's play house / Elvis Presley -- Baby please don't go / Big Bill Broonzy/John Lee Hooker/Muddy Waters -- Baby, scratch my back / Slim Harpo -- Baby, what you want me to do / Etta James/Jimmy Reed -- Baby what's wrong / Eric Clapton/Lonnie Mack -- Baby, won't you please come home / Louis Armstrong/Bessie Smith -- Back door man / Willie Dixon/The Doors/Howlin' Wolf -- Backwater blues / Leadbelly/Bessie Smith -- Basin Street blues / Louis Armstrong -- Beale Street blues / Jelly Roll Morton -- Bell bottom blues / Eric Clapton -- A big hunk o'love / Elvis Presley -- Big road blues / Tommy Johnson -- Billie's blues / Billie Holiday -- (What did I do to be so) black and blue / Louis Armstrong/Jack Teagarden -- Black coffee / Ella Fitzgerald/Peggy Lee/Sarah Vaughan -- Blow, wind, blow / Muddy Waters -- Blue prelude / Woody Herman -- Blue train / John Coltrane -- Blue turning grey over you / Billie Holiday/Fats Waller -- Blueberry Hill / Fats Domino -- Bluebird / John Lee Hooker/Howlin' Wolf -- The blues ain't nothin' but a woman cryin' for her man / Cow Cow Davenport -- Blues before sunrise / Leroy Carr/Eric Clapton -- Blues for Alice / Charlie Parker -- The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll / Muddy Waters -- Blues on the ceiling / Fred Neil -- Blues with a feeling / Little Walter -- Bo Diddley / Bo Diddley -- Boogie chillen No. 2 / John Lee Hooker -- Boom boom / John Lee Hooker -- Born in Mississippi, raised up in Tennessee / John Lee Hooker -- Born to be blue / Mel Torme -- Bottle it up and go / Leadbelly -- Bright lights, big city / Jimmy Reed -- Bring it on home / Willie Dixon -- Broke and hungry / Traditional Blues Standard -- Broken hearted blues / Willie Dixon/Buddy Guy -- Built for comfort / Willie Dixon/Howlin' Wolf -- Caldonia / Woody Herman -- Can't hold out much longer / Little Walter -- Can't you hear me talking to you / B.B. King -- Canal Street blues / John Lee Hooker -- Candy man blues / Mississippi John Hurt -- Careless love / Leadbelly -- Catfish blues / Muddy Waters -- Check yourself / Gene Chandler/Lowell Fulson -- Checkin' up on my baby / Sonny Boy Williamson -- Chicago blues / Arthur Crudup/Lonnie Johnson -- Chicago bound / Jimmy Rodgers -- Close to you / Willie Dixon -- Clouds in my heart / Muddy Waters -- Cold weather blues / Muddy Waters -- Come back baby / Ray Charles/Aretha Franklin -- Come on in my kitchen / Robert Johnson/The Steve Miller Band -- Confessin' the blues / Chuck Berry/B.B. King/Jay McShann -- Continental blues / Ernie Watts -- Cool drink of water blues / Tommy Johnson -- Country boy blues / Lil Green -- Country girl / B.B. King -- Cow cow blues / Cow Cow Davenport/Memphis Slim -- Crackin' up / Bo Diddley/The Rolling Stones -- Crazy blues / Mamie Smith -- Crossroads (Cross road blues) / Eric Clapton/Robert Johnson -- Cryin' in my sleep / Jimmy Yancey -- Custard pie / Sonny Terry -- Dallas blues / Woody Herman -- De Kalb blues / Leadbelly -- Dead presidents / Willie Dixon -- Decoration day / Sonny Boy Williamson -- Devil got my woman / Skip James -- Did you ever / Jimmy Rushing/Jimmy Witherspoon -- Diddie wa diddie / Blind Blake -- Dippermouth blues / Louis Armstrong -- Dirty no-gooders's blues / Bessie Smith -- Dissatisfied / Sonny Boy Williamson -- Diving duck / Muddy Waters and Otis Spann -- Do me right / Willie Dixon -- Do you know what it means to Miss New Orleans / Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden -- Don't go no further / Willie Dixon/The Doors -- Don't smoke in bed / Peggy Lee -- Don't you lie to me / B.B. King -- Double trouble / Eric Clapton/Otis Rush -- Down hearted blues / Alberta Hunter/Bessie Smith -- Down in the bottom / Willie Dixon -- Down in the dumps / Bessie Smith -- Drunken hearted man / Robert Johnson -- Dust pneumonia blues / Woody Guthrie -- Easy rider / Leadbelly -- Empty bed blues / Bessie Smith -- End of the blues / Earl Hooker -- Everyday (I have the blues) / B.B. King -- Evil / Eric Clapton/Willie Dixon/Howlin' Wolf -- Eyesight to the blind / Sonny Boy Williamson -- Fattening frogs for snakes / Sonny Boy Williamson -- Feel like going home / Muddy Waters -- Fever / Peggy Lee -- Fine and mellow / Billie Holiday -- Five long years / Buddy Guy -- Flip, flop and fly / Joe Turner -- Folsom prison blues / Johnny Cash -- Foolish man blues / Bessie Smith -- Forty days and forty nights / Muddy Waters -- Forty-four / Howlin' Wolf -- From four till late / Eric Clapton with Cream/Robert Johnson -- Further on up the road / Eric Clapton -- Gee baby, ain't I good to you / Nat "King" Cole/Billie Holiday -- Georgia on my mind / Ray Charles -- God bless' the child / Billie Holiday -- Going down slow / Eric Clapton/Howlin' Wolf/B.B. King -- A good man is hard to find / Alberta Hunter/Bessie Smith/Sophie Tucker -- Good mornin' blues / Leadbelly -- Good morning heartache / Billie Holiday -- Good morning little schoolgirl / Muddy Waters/Sonny Boy Williamson -- Good rockin' tonight / Elvis Presley -- Goodbye baby / Elmore James -- Got the blues, can't be satisfied / Mississippi John Hurt -- Got to hurry / Eric Clapton -- Gulf Coast blues / Ella Fitzgerald/Bessie Smith -- Happy with the blues / Peggy Lee -- Have you ever loved a woman / Eric Clapton -- Heartbreak Hotel / Elvis Presley -- Hellhound on my trail / Robert Johnson -- Help me / Sonny Boy Williamson -- Hesitation blues / Traditional Blues Standard -- Hey Hey / Big Bill Broonzy -- Hey lawdy mama / Louis Armstrong/Count Basie -- Hey, pretty mama / Willie Dixon -- Hidden charms / Willie Dixon/Howlin' Wolf -- Highway 40 blues / Ricky Skaggs -- Highway 51 blues / Curtis Jones -- Home to mamma / Willie Dixon -- Honest I do / Jimmy Reed -- Honey bee / Muddy Waters -- Hootie blues / Charlie Parker -- Hound dog / Elvis Presley -- How many more years / Howlin' Wolf -- Howlin' for my darling / Willie Dixon -- Hush hush / Jimmy Reed -- I ain't for it / Tampa Red -- I ain't got nobody / Bessie Smith -- I ain't got nothin' but the blues / Duke Ellington/Lena Horne -- I ain't superstitious / Jeff Beck/Willie Dixon/Howlin' Wolf -- I almost lost my mind / Ivory Joe Hunter -- I believe I'll make a change / Washboard Sam -- I believe I've been blue too long / B.B. King -- I can make love / Willie Dixon -- (I) can't afford to do it / Fleetwood Mac/Homesick James Williamson -- I can't be satisfied / Muddy Waters -- I can't quit you baby / Willie Dixon/Led Zeppelin/Otis Rush -- I can't stop, baby / Willie Dixon -- I don't know / Sonny Boy Williamson -- I got it bad and that ain't good / Duke Ellington/Benny Goodman -- I got my brand on you / Muddy Waters -- I got to find my baby / Willie Dixon -- I got what it takes / Willie Dixon -- I gotta right to sing the blues / Louis Armstrong/Lena Horne/Jack Teagarden -- I just want to make love to you / Willie Dixon/Led Zeppelin/Muddy Waters -- I keep going back to Joe's / Bobby Scott -- I know your wig is gone / T-Bone Walker -- I need love / Willie Dixon -- I wanna put a tiger in your tank / Willie Dixon -- I want to be loved / Willie Dixon -- I want you close to me / Willie Dixon -- I'd rather drink muddy water / The Cats and the Fiddle/Jimmy Witherspoon -- I'm a man / Bo Diddley/The Yardbirds -- I'm a natural born lover / Willie Dixon -- I'm a steady rollin' man / Eric Clapton/Robert Johnson -- I'm a woman / Peggy Lee -- I'm ready / Willie Dixon/Muddy Waters -- I'm so glad / Skip James -- I'm tore down / Eric Clapton -- I'm your hoochie coochie man / Willie Dixon/Jimi Hendrix/Muddy Waters -- I've been dealin' with the devil / Sonny Boy Williamson -- I've been treated wrong / Washboard Sam -- Ice cream man / John Brim/Elmore James/Van Halen -- In the evening / Count Basie/Leroy Carr/Ella Fitzgerald -- In the house blues / Bessie Smith -- It do me so good / Willie Dixon -- It hurts me too / Eric Clapton/Elmore James -- It makes my love come down / Bessie Smith -- It seem like a dream / Yank Rachell -- It serves me right to suffer / John Lee Hooker -- It's a low down dirty deal / T-Bone Walker -- It's a low dow