EastSide Blues Band

EastSide Blues Band Song List

These are the songs that we are currently playing

Everybody's Blue - originally recorded by Brownie McGee and Sony Terry, with Lightning Hopkins on guitar

Don't Fool with Me - Screaming Jay Hawkins...Jay was the first blues musician to be banned from the radio...good credentials for a Bluesman!

Dancing With the Devil - a Jazz Gillum song

I'm Ready - written by Willie Dixon, this is a classic Muddy Waters macho number

Police Dog Blues - originally by Blind Blake, Lorry has put a raw bottle-neck arrangement on this one

Stormy Monday - Howlin' Wolf was the first to record this song

Willie Brown Blues - a Ry Cooder classic, written for the Blues film "Crossroads". Not to be confused with "Gordon Brown Blues".....

Key to the Highway - originally recorded by Jazz Gillum, we stick pretty close to the original

Stone Fox Chase - by Area Code 615...maybe better known as the theme tune for the BBC programme "The Old Grey Whistle Test"

Mojo Hand - by Lightning Hopkins - we do it a bit more up-tempo than the original, but still the same song

Mississippi Blues - a classic slow boogie blues by the legendary Willie Brown

Hoochie Coochie Man - probably the best known Muddy Waters song

My Bucket's Got a Hole in it - no, not "Dear Liza"...a song from the early 1900s recorded by Washboard Sam...a blues with a bit of a ragtime feel

Think it was the Wine - a good old drinking song by the Seagall/Schwarl band

Gambling Bar-room Blues - originally recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, this was sung around the bars and bordellos from around the 1900s

Dust my Broom - by Robert Johnson, although we play it in a style closer to Elmore James

Good Morning Blues - the best known song by the great Leadbelly

House of the Rising Sun - this classic hobo song was first recorded by Woodie Guthrie, but our version is closer to Eric Burdon and the Animals

Moving on - by Gary Moore...this one trucks along

Badge - needs no introduction - the classic Clapton/Cream song

Evening - originally a poem set to music by Jimmie Witherspoon, Lorry has added a third verse and a 32 bar harp lead, giving this one a very soulful sound....

Pretty Woman - no, not Roy Orbison, but the great John Mayall

Sporting Life - looked everywhere and still can't find who wrote this - a prize for anyone who can!

Crossroads - by the legendary Robert Johnson - no blues gig complete without it!

Spoonful - a classic Howlin' Wolf piece

Rollin' an' Tumblin' - recorded origianlly by Muddy Waters and Little Walter

On the Road Again - probably the best known song by Canned Heat

Unsquare Dance - by Dave Brubeck - our first foray into 7/4 time...we get a sadistic buzz seeing the confusion when people try and dance to this one!!

Little Red Rooster - by Howlin' Wolf

Boom,Boom,Boom,Boom - by John Lee Hooker as seen in the great film The Blues Brothers

Honky Tonk Woman - by Willy Dixson & The Rolling Stones, made better by Lorry's awesome slide Licks on his Line Six

Vestapol - It's said the earlist recording was in 1928 with Gus Cannon (banjo joe) playing the knife slide and Blind Blake on vocals.Song dates back to 1911. This recording performed by Lorry and Melvyn April 2009.

Valerie - Recorded by the Zutons/ Amy Winehouse, one of our best moody numbers with Lorry's voice full of feeling an killer harp of Mel.

Road House Blues - a 60s R&B Number by the Doors. Great foot stomping number, we do it proud

Songs that are in the pipeline/work in progress

Still got the Blues for You - by Gary Moore

San Francisco Bay Blues - by Jessie Fuller

I Should be so Lucky - (by Kylie Minogue - an uptempo blues take on the little Aussie starlet's classic, with a didgeridoo and wobble board solo.....nah, only kidding!!

Have to give this one a miss as Melvyn needs his balls cut off to reach the high notes.......lol)

You Can Keep your Hat on - Great number by Joe Cooker

Johnny be Goode - Great R/B number, we'll do it Proud

Born under a bad sign - John lee Hooker/ B.B King

List produced, and comments, by Lorry the Hat