Blues to Rock Crossover Covers

[rtbuck]

Boom Boom Out Go the Lights

Little Walter


Pat Travers

 

[electric funeral]

Wang Dang Doodle. Willie Dixon wrote this song in 1951/52. He gave it to Howlin' Wolf. The Wolf recorded it in 1960.

Livin' Blues recorded/covered the song:

PJ Harvey in 1993:

 

[Vehicle]

Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go

Here's another

 

[Vehicle]

Good, I'm glad I got this thread, because I've got a good one.



The original isn't straight blues, or straight jazz, but there's a bit of both in there.


Tiny Bradshaw, 1951

Johnny Burnette & The Rock And Roll Trio, 1956

The Yardbirds, 1965. The first clear sign of 'the crossover'

Zep, 1969. Rough sound, but what do ya expect with a bootleg from the 60s?

Aero, 1974

This cut by Foghat, called Honey Hush (1977), has different lyrics, but there's no doubt what song it is.

Honey Hush

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I hope people will listen to all these cuts, because they're all great.

 

[Big Ears]

Budgie's version of Baby, Please Don't Go is one of their best tracks from one of their best albums (Never Turn Your Back On a Friend):

I've always assumed Budgie were influenced by Them:

original

 

[JimJam]

Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor.




Hendrix, a killer, at Monterey.




I don't think the Stones' raucous cover of Muddy Waters' I Just Want to Make Love to You has been mentioned.

 

[recgord27]

Leadbelly - The House of the rising sun


Animals - House of the Rising Sun

Frijid Pink - The House of the Rising Sun

 

[gguerra]

"The House of the Rising Sun" is an interesting song because the origins of it are uncertain. Many artists have recorded over the years and I don't think it started as a blues or rock song for that matter although it obviously became that over the years.

The House of the Rising Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[JimJam]

I think the first recording of House of the Rising Sun was a field recording by Alan Lomax of a teenager whose name escapes me, ahead of recordings by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Dylan and others - all prior to the classic by The Animals.

 

[analoggal]

Roll and Tumble Blues (1929)... Hambone Wille Newbern


Rollin' & Tumblin' (1950)...Muddy Waters


Rollin' & Tumblin' (1967)... Canned Heat


Rollin' & Tumblin'... Eric Clapton