"Sweet Home Chicago"
performed by The White House Allstars at "In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues".
Buddy Guy gets President Obama to sing a verse of "Sweet Home Chicago".
Hosted by President and Mrs. Obama, the evening will pay homage to the great figures of the Blues and the songs they made famous by tracing the influence of the Blues on modern American music from soul to rock'n'roll. Taped on February 21, this concert honors the musical form that sprang from the Mississippi Delta and flourished in the Westside of Chicago. Airs on PBS Monday, February 27th at 9p.m. ET.
"Sweet Home Chicago" is a popular blues standard in the twelve bar form. It was first recorded and is credited to have been written by Robert Johnson.[1] Over the years the song has become one of the most popular anthems for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics.
The melody was previously used in a number of recorded blues songs, including "Honey Dripper Blues", "Red Cross Blues" and the immediate model for the song: "Kokomo Blues".[2] Some have lyrics of the typical AAB structure e.g.
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"Five Long Years"
performed by Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., and Mick Jagger at "In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues".
performed by The White House Allstars at "In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues".
Buddy Guy gets President Obama to sing a verse of "Sweet Home Chicago".
Hosted by President and Mrs. Obama, the evening will pay homage to the great figures of the Blues and the songs they made famous by tracing the influence of the Blues on modern American music from soul to rock'n'roll. Taped on February 21, this concert honors the musical form that sprang from the Mississippi Delta and flourished in the Westside of Chicago. Airs on PBS Monday, February 27th at 9p.m. ET.
"Sweet Home Chicago" is a popular blues standard in the twelve bar form. It was first recorded and is credited to have been written by Robert Johnson.[1] Over the years the song has become one of the most popular anthems for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics.
The melody was previously used in a number of recorded blues songs, including "Honey Dripper Blues", "Red Cross Blues" and the immediate model for the song: "Kokomo Blues".[2] Some have lyrics of the typical AAB structure e.g.
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"Five Long Years"
performed by Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., and Mick Jagger at "In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues".
"Five Long Years" is a song written and recorded by blues vocalist/pianist Eddie Boyd in 1952. Called one of the "few postwar blues standards [that has] retained universal appeal",[1] Boyd's "Five Long Years" reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart.[2] Numerous blues and other artists have recorded interpretations of the song.[3]
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"Catfish Blues"
performed by Gary Clark Jr. at "In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues".
"Catfish Blues" is one of Robert Petway most influential songs, which he recorded in 1941. Muddy Waters used the lyrics and style of "Catfish Blues" for his first single "Rollin' Stone", the song from which the rock group The Rolling Stones chose their band name. There is debate on whether Petway deserves any credit for the Muddy Waters song, mostly stemming from the fact that blues musicians often borrow lines and verses from each other and often use common symbols and phrases that can not be traced back to one source. There is even some speculation that Tommy McClennan wrote the version that Petway recorded. Max Haymes has written a well-researched article, "Catfish Blues (Origins of a Blues)" on the topic, available at earlyblues.com. When David "Honeyboy" Edwards, a follower of Petway, was asked if Petway wrote the song, he replied, "He just made that song up and used to play it at them old country dances. He just made it up and kept it in his head."[1]
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