Blues Standards III

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1. What Big Joe Turner song contains these lyrics? "Come in this house, stop all that yackety yack. Come in this house, stop all that yackety yack. Come fix my supper, don't want no talkin' back." Shake, Rattle and Roll Honey Hush You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?) Yackety Yak

2. Big Mama Thornton had a big hit with this song that was also a hit for Elvis Presley. What song had these lyrics in Thornton's version? "You told me you was high class, but I can see through that. Yes, you told me you was high class, but I can see through that. And daddy I know you ain't no real cool cat." Ball 'n Chain Just Like a Dog, Barkin' Up the Wrong Tree Heartbreak Hotel Hound Dog

3. What Louisiana by way of Texas bluesman had a hit with "Okie Dokie Stomp?" Clarence "Frogman" Henry Clarence "Gulf Coast" Williams "Cripple" Clarence Lofton Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

4. What Big Bill Broonzy classic goes in the blank in these lyrics? "I got the _______, and I'm billed out and bound to go. I'm gonna leave here runnin', cause walkin' is most too slow." Key to the Highway Brown Skin Shuffle White Line Fever Bull Cow Blues

5. What Lowell Fulson song begins with these lines? "So long, oh how I hate to see you go. So long, oh how I hate to see you go. And the way that I will miss you, I guess you will never know." Reconsider Baby Check Yourself Trouble, Trouble When the Cows Come Home in the Evenin'

6. Whose big hit was "Mojo Hand?" Shuggie Otis Drink Small Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams Lightnin' Hopkins

7. Which of the following is NOT associated with Howlin' Wolf? Little Red Rooster Spoonful Two Hundred Pounds of Joy Moanin' at Midnight

8. Which Albert King song has these lyrics? "I been down since I began to crawl. If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all. Hard luck and trouble is my only friend. I been on my own ever since I was ten." Talking Hard Luck Blues I'll Play the Blues for You Born Under a Bad Sign C.O.D.

9. "If you ever go to Houston, you better walk right, you better not stagger, you better not fight. Sheriff Benson will arrest you, he'll carry you down. And if the jury finds you guilty, you're penitentiary bound" are from what Leadbelly song? Linin' Track Rock Island Line Midnight Special Folsom Prison

10. What goes in the blanks, which is also the title of a Robert Lockwood Jr. song, in these lyrics? "Come on, baby, ______________, to the same old place, where we long to be." You Got the Key Take a Walk With Me Go Away With Me Ride With Old Leelee

11. Who is the white harmonica player with some Native American ancestry who recorded the song "Help Me" with his Southside Blues Band? Mac Rebennack "Blue" Lou Marini Charlie Musselwhite Robert K. Weiss

12. "Well I'm sitting in la la, waiting for my __ ___, uh huh. I'm sitting in la la, waiting for my __ __, uh huh. It may sound funny but I don't believe she's coming, uh huh." Who or what was Sonny Terry waiting for? Ya Ya Na Na Ma Ma Bernice

13. Which Chicago blues guitarist had a hit with "Easy Baby" in the late 1950s? Louisiana Red Magic Sam Gitfiddle Jim Homesick James

14. What Jimmy Reed song are these lyrics from? "Going up, going down, got me up, down, down, up, anyway you want to let it roll." Baby What You Want Me to Do Elevator Blues You've Got Me Dizzy Ain't That Loving You Baby

15. Whose real name was Lizzie Douglas; she had a hit with "Bumble Bee" in 1929? Marcia Ball Koko Taylor Memphis Minnie "Ma" Rainey