Songs 12 March 2020 Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" is a blues standard written by Jimmy Cox in 1923. First popularized by Bessie Smith, the preeminent female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, it was also a big hit for Eric Clapton in 1970, and again in 1992.
Songs 30 October 2019 Walk Right In "Walk Right In" is the title of a country blues song written by musician Gus Cannon and originally recorded by Cannon's Jug Stompers in 1929. It was reissued on album in 1959 as a track on The Country Blues.
Songs 5 April 2018 Wayfaring Stranger "The Wayfaring Stranger" (also known as "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" or "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger"), is a well-known American folk and gospel song likely originating in the early 19th century about a plaintive soul on the journey through life.
Songs 25 October 2017 Cold Cold Ground Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.
Songs 22 April 2017 Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Dave Van Ronk just missed the boat—check out the Cohen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis to get my meaning.
Songs 7 October 2015 Don't Go Into That Barn This Tom Waits 2004 song seems to have been based on the 2003 NY Times account of a slave jail in Northern KY, just upriver from Cincinnati.
Songs 22 August 2015 Girl Crush "Girl Crush" is a song written by Lori McKenna, Hillary Lindsey and Liz Rose, and performed by American country music group Little Big Town.
Songs 22 December 2012 Stand By Me "Stand by Me" is a song originally performed in 1961 by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King and written by King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller.
Songs 29 April 2012 Folsom Prison Blues "Folsom Prison Blues" is a song written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955 by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career.
Songs 27 January 2012 Deep River Blues "Deep River Blues" is based on a song recorded in 1933 called “I’ve Got Them Big River Blues”, which was probably inspired by the cataclysmic flood of 1927 along the lower Mississippi River.
Songs 11 November 2011 They're Red Hot "They're Red Hot" is a song originally performed and written by blues musician Robert Johnson and released in July 1937.
Songs 4 June 2011 With A Little Help From My Friends "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and intended as the album's featured vocal for drummer Ringo Starr.
