8-Bar Blues

Everyone’s second favorite blues progression.  Easy way to avoid 12-bar blues fatigue.  

Songs

Sittin' On Top Of The World - Jerry Reed - Jerry Reed Explores Guitar Country

Sittin' on Top OftThe World – Howelin’ Wolf - Blues Party 2.

Trouble in Mind - Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin'!

Trouble In Mind - Merle Haggard - Down Every Road 1962-1994

Ain't Nobody's Business - Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With The Blues

Ain't Nobody's Business What We Do - Freddie King - My Feeling For the Blues

Bessie Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 

Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out) - Otis Redding - The Soul Album

You Gotta Move - The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

You Gotta Move - Mississippi Fred McDowell- You Gotta Move

Key To the Highway (Live) 0- David Bromberg - My Own House / You Should See The Rest Of The Band

Key to Key to the Highway - Big Bill Broonzy - Trouble in Mind

Hurts Me Too - Elmore James - Pickin' The Blues: Greatest Hits Of Elmore James

Hurts Me Too – The Grateful Dead – Europe ‘72

Beds 

Slim Jenkin’s Place – Booker T & The MGs 

Blue Bash - Jimmy Smith & Kenny Burrell Everything I Play Gonna Be Funky from Now on Lou Donaldson 

Everything I Do Gonna be Funky - Your Donaldson

It’s Your Thing – Lou Donaldson