# Blues-iest blues song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-iest-blues-song/422946>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 16, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-iest-blues-song/422946 "2007-10-16T20:41:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-iest-blues-song/422946/41 "2007-10-18T14:47:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl re “Strange Fruit”]  
Seconded, without regard for the distinctions between jazz and blues.  
[/QUOTE]  
…or left protest songs (the lyric was by a NYC schoolteacher who was a close friend of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg).

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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-iest-blues-song/422946/42 "2007-10-18T14:54:27Z")

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Another vote for “Death Letter” and “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues”. Those were the first two I thought of.

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**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-iest-blues-song/422946/43 "2007-10-18T15:12:04Z")

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For me, the blues-iest of the blue, the saddest of the sad, the knife-in-the-heart, just-caught-the-wife-cheatin’, lost-your-job, kid-died-in-the-gears-of-a-combine, Neighbor-kicked-your-dog-so-hard-he-now-has-to-shit-sideways, so blue 'til it’s black song ever is [Little Wing](http://youtube.com/watch?v=UdYRzH10L2M), the version covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

And all of that torrential hurt and beautiful misery without a single damned lyric.

Click the link (then minimize it–because someone decided to make it some kind of half-assed tribute, and the effect is better just listening) and prepare to be miserable for the rest of the day.

God, I love that song.

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**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-iest-blues-song/422946/44 "2007-10-18T18:20:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Euthanasiast]  
[Little Wing](http://youtube.com/watch?v=UdYRzH10L2M), the version covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan.  
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I agree this is a great blues song. You can _feel_ the emotion in that song.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-iest-blues-song/422946/45 "2007-10-18T18:28:07Z")

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O Death - Ralph Stanley  
From the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.

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