(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). From the "Mother of the Blues" Ma Rainey to the "Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith to the "Queen of the Blues" Koko Taylor, from Ethel Waters and Alberta Hunter, to Billie, Lena, Judy, Ella, Sarah, Carmen, Etta and Dinah right up through Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt, this book offers an overview of the great ladies who shaped and sang the blues from the early 1920s to today. Over 60 songs, including: After You've Gone * Baby, Won't You Please Come Home * A Good Man Is Hard To Find * I Ain't Got Nobody * Stormy Weather * and dozens more
They also list the singer who made it most famous. Songs: After You've Gone Baby, What You Want Baby, Won't You Please Come Home Basin Street Blues Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) Black Coffee Blue Turning Grey Over You Crazy Blues Don't Explain Don't Get Around Much Anymore Down Hearted Blues Everyday Fever Fine And Mellow Gloomy Sunday A Good Man Is Hard To Find Gulf Coast Blues Hear Me Talkin' To Ya Hold What You've Got I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me) I Almost Lost My Mind I Cried For You I Will Not Be Denied I'm A Woman Jailhouse Blues The Jealous Kind The Lady Sings The Blues Long Gone Blues Love Me Or Leave Me Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) Mad About Him, Sad Without Him, How Can I Be Glad Without Him Blues The Man That Got Away Mean To Me My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More My Man Blues Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Pink Bedroom Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind Riverside Blues San Francisco Bay Blues See See Rider Sentimental Journey Some Of These Days Some Other Spring Sorrowful Blues Spoonful St. Louis Blues Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time) Strange Fruit Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do This Bitter Earth Trouble Is A Man Trouble In Mind Two Cigarettes In The Dark Vision Of Love Wang Dang Doodle When The Sun Comes Out Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money, Too!) Why Was I Born? Woman Alone With The Blues Your Red Wagon Yellow Dog Blues
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