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Them Old Inevitable Links

More Blues lyrics on the Web

There may not be many, but if you look hard enough you will find other blues lyrics on the Web. Here are pointers to a couple of sites that I've found...

• Harry's Blues Lyrics Online
  A new colleague site, this seems to be growing into a great resource for blues lyrics and other blues stuff (11 June 1999).

• My next door neighbor
  ...actually I'm not sure how to call it, but this site is just down the alley here on GeoCities's Bourbon Street, and it's got a good selection of blues lyrics (4 August 1998).

• Chuckster's Folk Blues Page
  Concentrates on... well, folk blues of course, with lyrics by the likes of Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson. (24 July 1998).

• Doc Doc's Blues Lyrics
  A good assortment of various blues lyrics

• Techy Blues Lyrics
  for that "Internet" blues ditty (24 July 1998).

• Dust My Broom
  Bi-lingual (French / English) site with lyrics and/or tabs for some blues classics from Charley Patton, Skip James, Son House, Taj Mahal, B. B. King... (Yes, they're all male!). (24 July 1998)

• Bull Cow Moanin' At Midnight
  A site devoted to Howlin' Wolf with a spoonful of Wolf's lyrics (24 July 1998).

• Howlin' Wolf Lyrics Some more words from the Wolf's mouth (24 July 1998).

• London Calling's Robert Johnson lyrics
  Lyrics to four RJ songs: 32-20 Blues (with guitar chords), When You Got A Good Friend, Come On In My Kitchen, Me And The Devil Blues.
  But don't we all have the "complete Robert Johnson" CD box with all his lyrics??
  (24 July 1998)

• Stevie Ray Vaughan lyrics
  Section 8 of the Stevie Ray Vaughan FAQ - all you need to know about SRV, and then some... (25 July 1998)

• Jim Ligon's Rhythm & Blues Lyrics
  From Aaron Neville to Wilson Pickett, with some blues in between (e.g. B. B. King, Bo Diddley...) (24 July 1998).

• The Mudcat Cafe presents The Digital Traditions Folksong Database Search Page
  The Digital Traditions Folksong Database contains about 6500 (American) folk songs; there are some blues among them. You can search it on keywords (e.g. "blues"). (24 July 1998).

• Business Blues by Marketing Mike and the Suits
  Blues singers have always sung about (hard) work and (low) pay; this outfit keeps up the tradition and brings it bang up to date. Instead of singing about working on the levee or picking cotton, they give us songs like "I Survived the Reorg (But I Wish They'd Laid Me Off)", "Cubicle Blues", "His Computer Crashed", or "The Sales Force Wouldn't Push His New Product". All the lyrics are here, and I can imagine Dilbert might recognize himself in lines such as

  Got a big presentation tomorrow at nine
  Computer ate the file so I gotta do a pantomime

  (19 August 1998)

• Rabid Squirrel's Jazz Archive
  Enlarge your horizon... Here are lyrics to all kinds of jazzy tunes, not excluding the blues!

• Koala's List of Lyrical Links
  Enlarge your horizon even further... This list will direct you to lyrics for any kind of music (well, almost) (22 July 1998)

Other Blues sites

I will not attempt to list all the Blues sites that are out there, not even all the good ones... still, more will be forthcoming, these are just for starters...

• The Official Blues Ring
  should keep you busy for some time...

• Blues-Link's Blues Links
  A list of links, no kidding! And it's huge...

• BluesNet
  Has some serious blues information, including the Delta Snake Blues 'zine.

• The BluesWEB
  Lots of interesting stuff, soundbites, women in the blues... (24 July 1998).

• The FolkLib Index - Acoustic Blues Artists
  Links to more information for loads of acoustic blues artists (home pages, record label sites etc.) (24 July 1998).

• The Electric Blues
  Somewhat of a complement to the previous site, I guess. I especially recommend the review section - about twice monthly, new reviews of recent blues issues, including RealAudio so you can hear them for yourself. Has a RealAudio blues jukebox, too. (19 August 1998 - new URL).

• Blues OnlineŠ
  By Joel Snow, a site with general information about the blues: history, styles, soundbites, ... (24 July 1998).

• The Blue Highway
  All-purpose blues site, by Curtis Hewston (24 July 1998).

• It's A Girl Thang!
  Devoted to the women in the blues, with profiles of great female blues artists through the years, pointers to sites for contemporary blues women, etc. Look no further for "girl power!" Brought to us by Lea Gilmore. (24 July 1998)

• The Delta Snake Daily Blues
  News about what's happening on the blues scene: tours, festivals, new CD's, interviews... (19 August 1998). Sister site to the following one:

• The Delta Snake Blues News
  Online blueszine edited and published by Al Handa. (19 August 1998)

• The DJ.com
  "Web radio" site where you can listen to non-stop music in RealAudio on many different channels, including several blues-oriented ones. (24 July 1998)

• The IUMA Blues Pages
  The Internet Underground Music Archive has a healthy blues section, too. You'll find there the likes of 'No Busfare' Johnson, Marketing Mike and the Suits, Saints We Ain't, Whiplash Gumbo, and many other intriguing 'independent' artists. You can listen to their songs (often in various formats: WAV, RealAudio, or MPEG audio; lyrics too, in many cases) while reading their stories. (19 August 1998)

• All-Music Guide
  Huge information resource for all kinds of music. Great for browsing around. Don't believe everything it tells you, though; if you ask for a list of "modern acoustic blues" artists, it will give you people like Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki or Arthur Honegger which, in my book, feature in an entire different chapter... (24 July 1998)

Paper Stuff

To learn more about what those blues are all about, recommended required reading is the book Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues by Paul Oliver. (2nd edition: 1990. University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0 521 37437 5 for hard covers, 0 521 37793 5 for paperback). If you're seriously interested in the blues, you can't afford not to have read it (and it's got lyrics to many blues songs, too).

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