Blues Standards

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1. Consider these lyrics: "Let me tell you honey, we gonna move away from here, I don't need no iceman, I'm gonna get you a Frigidaire, When we move, way out on _____________________, Whoa, you see we won't need nobody, always hangin' 'round." Where is the singer going to move? Whitehouse Station way highway 49 the outskirts of town Redondo Beach

2. What song are these lyrics from? "There ain't nothing I can do, or nothing I can say, Some folks will criticize me, So I'm gonna do just what I want to anyway, And don't care if you all despise me." Everyday I Have the Blues Statesboro Blues Do What I Want Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do

3. In "Stormy Monday" what day does the singer say the eagle flies? Tuesday Thursday Saturday Friday

4. "Hey everybody, let's have some fun, You only live for once, And when you're dead you're done, so __________." So what? skip to my Lou let's have a wang dang doodle let the good times roll come on to my house

5. What song by T-Bone Walker starts this way? "Let your hair down baby, Let's have a natural ball. Let your hair down baby, Let's have a natural ball. Cause when you're not happy, It ain't no fun at all." T-Bone Swing T-Bone and Mashed Potatoes T-Bone Stomp T-Bone Shuffle

6. "Whoa, nobody loves me, nobody seems to care, Whoa, nobody loves me, nobody seems to care, Well worries and trouble darling, babe you know I've had my share." If you have ever had a real bad day, you might have sung this song. What song are these lyrics from? Low Down and Dirty Blues Nobody Loves Me But My Mother Poor Man's Blues Everyday I Have the Blues

7. Robert Johnson wrote a song about a "sweet home." What city completes this blues title: "Sweet Home _________?" Montgomery Poughkeepsie Chicago Yazoo

8. "Well my mama, she done told me, and my papa told me too. Mama told me and my papa told me too. A woman that gets in your face, Lord she ain't no friend for you." What Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup song with the name of a California city in it includes these lines? Dirty Rotten Stockton Gone to Ensenada L.A. Woman Mean Old Frisco

9. "You said you was hurting, almost lost your mind, And the man you love, he hurts you all the time. When things go wrong, go wrong with you, _________." What phrase completes the last line? it makes me blue don't steal my shoe I'll care for you it hurts me, too

10. "I'm gon' write a letter, Telephone every town I know. If I can't find her in West Helena, She must be in East Monroe, I know." What is the name of this standard that Elmore James immortalized? Sunny Land The Sky is Crying Please Find My Baby Dust My Broom

11. What song has these lyrics? "Well, I'm gonna buy me a shotgun Just as long as I am tall. Get me a shotgun Just as long as I am tall. Now I'll shoot my baby And then I'll catch that cannonball." Shotgun Blues See See Rider Jim Dandy You Are My Sunshine

12. "I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees Asked the Lord above, have mercy now, save poor Bob if you please." What is the name of this Robert Johnson song? Last Fair Deal Gone Down 32-20 Blues Hellhound on My Trail Crossroads Blues

13. "I'm going to send you back to your mother, baby Lord, and I'm going back to my family too 'Cause nothing I do that please you, baby Lord, I just can't get along with you." What song ends with these lyrics? Sufferin' Mind Well I Done Got Over It Quicksand The Things That I Used to Do

14. "Blind Lemon" Jefferson recorded a song in 1927 in which he asked if what item would hold all his clothes? a lunch box a steamer trunk a matchbox a bandanna

15. "One night I was layin' down, I heard mama 'n papa talkin' I heard papa tell mama, let that boy boogie-woogie, it's in him, and it got to come out And I felt so good, went on boogie'n just the same." What is the name of this John Lee Hooker song? Crawlin' King Snake Boogie Chillun Boom Boom Big Legs, Tight Skirt