List of blues standards
Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as having permanent value. Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. Many are also performed in styles that differ from the originals and reflect various music trends, including rhythm and blues and rock.
Each song listed has been identified by five or more music writers as a blues standard. Nearly all have appeared on major music singles charts. Since many of the songs were developed in American folk music traditions, spellings and titles may differ; the most common are used.
List
| Title | First recorded by | Year | Charting single by | Refs |
| "Ain't Nobody's Business" | Anna Meyers with the Original Memphis Five | 1922 | Jimmy Witherspoon | |
| "All Your Love " | Otis Rush | 1958 | ||
| "Baby What You Want Me to Do" | Jimmy Reed | 1960 | Etta James | |
| "Baby, Please Don't Go" | Big Joe Williams | 1935 | ||
| "Blues with a Feeling" | Rabon Tarrant | 1947 | Little Walter | |
| "Boom Boom" | John Lee Hooker | 1962 | ||
| "Born Under a Bad Sign" | Albert King | 1967 | Albert King | |
| "Caldonia" | Louis Jordan | 1945 | ||
| "Catfish Blues" | Robert Petway | 1941 | Muddy Waters | |
| "Crosscut Saw" | Tommy McClennan | 1941 | Albert King | |
| "Crossroads" | Robert Johnson | 1936 | Cream | |
| "Driftin' Blues" | Johnny Moore's Three Blazers | 1945 | ||
| "Dust My Broom" | Robert Johnson | 1936 | Elmore James | |
| "Every Day I Have the Blues" | Pinetop Sparks | 1935 | ||
| "Farther Up the Road" | Bobby Bland | 1957 | Bobby Bland | |
| "Five Long Years" | Eddie Boyd | 1952 | ||
| "Forty-Four" | Roosevelt Sykes | 1929 | ||
| "Goin' Down Slow" | St. Louis Jimmy Oden | 1941 | Bobby Bland | |
| "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" | Sonny Boy Williamson I | 1937 | Smokey Hogg | |
| "Got My Mojo Working" | Muddy Waters | 1956 | Jimmy Smith | |
| "Help Me" | Sonny Boy Williamson II | 1963 | Sonny Boy Williamson II | |
| "Hide Away" | Freddie King | 1961 | Freddie King | |
| "Hoochie Coochie Man" | Muddy Waters | 1954 | ||
| "How Long Blues" | Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell | 1928 | ||
| "I Can't Quit You Baby" | Otis Rush | 1956 | Otis Rush | |
| "I'm a Man" | Bo Diddley | 1955 | ||
| "I'm Ready" | Muddy Waters | 1954 | Muddy Waters | |
| "It Hurts Me Too" | Tampa Red | 1940 | ||
| "Kansas City" | Little Willie Littlefield | 1952 | ||
| "Key to the Highway" | Charlie Segar | 1940 | Little Walter | |
| "Killing Floor" | Howlin' Wolf | 1964 | Howlin' Wolf | |
| "Little Red Rooster" | Howlin' Wolf | 1961 | ||
| "Mean Old World" | T-Bone Walker | 1942 | Little Walter | |
| "My Babe" | Little Walter | 1955 | ||
| "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" | Bessie Smith | 1929 | ||
| "Reconsider Baby" | Lowell Fulson | 1954 | Lowell Fulson | |
| "Rock Me Baby" | Lil' Son Jackson | 1950 | B.B. King | |
| "Rollin' and Tumblin'" | Hambone Willie Newbern | 1929 | Canned Heat | |
| "See See Rider" | Ma Rainey | 1924 | ||
| "Sitting on Top of the World" | Mississippi Sheiks | 1930 | ||
| "" | Elmore James | 1960 | Elmore James | |
| "Spoonful" | Howlin' Wolf | 1960 | Etta James & Harvey Fuqua | |
| "Stormy Monday" | T-Bone Walker | 1948 | ||
| "Sweet Home Chicago" | Robert Johnson | 1936 | Junior Parker | |
| "Sweet Little Angel" | Lucille Bogan | 1930 | B.B. King | |
| "That's All Right" | Jimmy Rogers | 1950 | ||
| "" | Guitar Slim | 1953 | ||
| "" | Roy Hawkins | 1951 | ||
| "Trouble in Mind" | Bertha "Chippie" Hill | 1926 | ||
| "Walkin' Blues" | Robert Johnson | 1936 | Muddy Waters | |
| "Worried Life Blues" | Big Maceo | 1941 | ||
| "You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling" | Tampa Red | 1938 | Freddie King |