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Topic: Mick Jagger´s favorite classic blues songs

According to Rolling Stones (magazine):

1. "I Got to Go" Little Walter, 1955
2. "First Time I Met the Blues" Buddy Guy, 1960
3. "40 Days and 40 Nights" Muddy Waters, 1956
4. "Stones in My Passway" Robert Johnson, 1937
5. "Lonely Avenue" Ray Charles, 1956
6. "Cold Shot" Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1984
7. "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" Z.Z. Hill, 1982
8. "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" Blind Willie Johnson, 1927
9. "Forty Four" Howlin' Wolf, 1954
10. "Going Down" Freddie King, 1971

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Re: Mick Jagger´s favorite classic blues songs

I'll be checking out that list.  The Stones were my introduction to modern blues.  The genre owes them plenty.

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Re: Mick Jagger´s favorite classic blues songs

Very nice list Mick and as Keith indicates in his book, wish you had remained true to this style with your voice/attitude and harp..... sad

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Re: Mick Jagger´s favorite classic blues songs

People change over time. People evolve. Sometimes it's not as we wish. But the thing about life, it goes on.  smile

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Re: Mick Jagger´s favorite classic blues songs

Mick made a ton of money and left us his list. Those tunes sound great to me!
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Re: Mick Jagger´s favorite classic blues songs

Love #10, Freddie & Leon, nice pick Mick.

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