The list is posted at: http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_bluesinst.html
1. Juke - Little Walter 2. Hide Away - Freddie King 3. Albatross - Fleetwood Mac/Peter Green 4. San-Ho-Zay - Freddie King 5. Phillip's Goes Banana's - Hound Dog Taylor 6. The Supernatural - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers 7. Wham - Lonnie Mack 8. Strollin' With Bones - T-Bone Walker 9. Hawaiian Boogie - Elmore James 10. Chitlin' Con Carne - Junior Wells 11. Thank You Mr. Poobah - Paul Butterfield Blues Band 12. Roller Coaster - Little Walter 13. Remembering Stevie - Buddy Guy 14. Okie Dokie Stomp - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown 15. Hookin' - Earl Hooker 16. Frankie & Johnny Boogie - Memphis Slim 17. Lookin Good - Magic Sam 18. Avalanche - Albert Collins 19. Albert's Shuffle - Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper 20. Rude Mood - Stevie Ray Vaughan 21. Cha Cha The Blues - Charlie Musselwhite 22. 12:15 Slow Goonbash Blues - Shuggie Otis 23. Blue Guitar - Earl Hooker 24. Blues For Shawn - Ronnie Earl 25. Ice Pick - Albert Collins 26. Easy Rider - Electric Flag 27. Chicago Breakdown - Big Maceo 28. Blues Boys Tune - B.B. King 29. Sweet Ginny - Jay Hawkins 30. Side Tracked - Freddie King 31. Unmilitary Two-Step - Rory Gallagher 32. Bill's Blues - Ronnie Earl 33. Blues Fore' Dawn - Jimmy Thackery 34. The Blues Walk - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown 35. Drivin' Wheel - Earl Hooker 36. Boogie Albert - John Mayall 37. You and Me - Snooks Eaglin 38. 4811 Wadsworth (Blues For George) - Rod Piazza 39. The Stumble - Freddie King 40. Wade In The Water - Dr John 41. Purple - Shuggie Otis 42. Sad Hours - Little Walter 43. Jam On a Monday Morning - Buddy Guy 44. Tribute To Elmore James - Roy Buchanan 45. The Messiah Will Come - Jimmy Thackery 46. Hey Jose - Ronnie Earl 47. Whammer Jammer - J. Geils Band 48. Blues We Like - B.B. King 49. Christo Redemptor - Charlie Musselwhite 50. Hot Fingers - Lonnie Johnson 51. The Screwdriver - Earl Hooker 52. Tribal Dance - Fleetwood Mac/Peter Green 53. Dirty Girl - Jimmie Vaughan 54. Really - Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper 55. Old Time Sake - Guitar Shorty 56. Scuttle Buttin' - Stevie Ray Vaughan 57. The Deacon's Hop - Big Jay McNeely 58. Z Rider - Sonny Landreth 59. Blues For Otis Rush - Ronnie Earl 60. Roy's Blues - Jimmy Thackery 61. Blues In D Natural - Earl Hooker 62. Harlem Nocturne - Charlie Musselwhite 63. Driven' Slow - Johnny London 64. Night Train - Jimmy Forrest 65. Apollo Jump - Lucky Millinder 66. Screamin' - Paul Butterfield Blues Band 67. Extra Jimmies - The Fabulous Thunderbirds 68. Torqueflite 727 - James Harman 69. Hot & Heavy - Earl Hooker 70. Sittin' On Top Of The World - Rod Price 71. Dockside Boogie - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown 72. T-Bone Shuffle - Duke Robilliard 73. Aint That Dandy - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown 74. Down at J.J's - Anson Funderburgh 75. Easy - Jimmy & Walter 76. Messin Round With The Blues - Earl Hooker 77. Little Johnny Lee - Ronnie Earl 78. A Handfull of Riffs - Lonnie Johnson 79. Blues For Nothing - Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper 80. Spann's Stomp - Otis Spann 81. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues - Fleetwood Mac 82. Cold Feet - Albert King 83. The Clock Strikes Twelve - Bo Diddley 84. Evan's Shuffle - Muddy Waters 85. Off The Wall - Little Walter 86. The Late Frieght Twist - Johnny Guitar Watson 87. Overall Junction - Albert King 88. Stop - Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper 89. Boogie In The Dark - Jimmy Reed 90. Cincinnati Flow Rag - Rev. Gary Davis 91. House Rent Stomp - Big Bill Broonzy 92. Homesick's Shuffle - Homesick James 93. The Creeper Returns - Little Sonny 94. Jukebox Shuffle - Lowell Fulsom 95. Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton 96. Cole Slaw - Frank Culley 97. Mellow Blues - Sonny Thompson 98. Blues For The Red Boy - Todd Rhodes 99. Long Gone - Sonny Thompson 100. Dark Was The Night - Blind Willie Johnson
What? No "Blowin The Family Jewels"? No "Jump For Jerry"? Being from the PNW I'd have to add "Shoes for Shirley" by Mel Brown. Great list Adam. I know most of the songs, but didn't realize who their authors were. Personally,Rollercoaster would be at the top of my list:)
Boogiein' with George George Smith Blues in My Sleep Cotton Blues Para Azul Musselwhite Steady McCain Going Steady Clarke Down At Antones Thunderbirds Cherry Blossom Pink Thunderbirds Don't Get Around Much Anymore Horton I Left My HEart in SF Smith I know some of these songs are not "Blues" but by being played so bluesily by blues artist they are blues to me!
If it was my list I would have to include Work Song and East-West, both by The Butterfield Blues Band as part of the top 100. Maybe they weren't included because they are not pure blues in a technical sense but blues-jazz fusion numbers.
I couldn't think of that many blues instrumental, kudos Kudzurunner! Thanks for the effort, now I need to go off and try to find and listen to all of them. Philips goes Bananas? I'll check it out.
Every time I see lists like these it costs me hundreds of sleep deprived hours trawling through youtube etc (when kids have gone to sleep)updating mental library! Thanx also..... ;~} ---------- One of Rubes's bands, DadsinSpace-MySpace
IMHO all of little walters instrumentals should be on this last and Juke is not even my favorite...he was the charlie parker or john coltrane of harp and was at the top of his game whilst doing instrumentals....
This is one that's always on my list of blues instrumentals. Bluegrass Special from 1946... it says a lot of things about black blues at the very core of the whitest of music and captures that moment that will very soon become rock n' roll.
No doubt at all. I figure this is why you mentioned Haley, but I'll fill in those who don't know, Haley is one of those direct links between bluegrass and rock n' roll. before he was Bill Haley and the Comets, he had a bluegrass band. ---------- David Elk River Harmonicas
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