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Gritty
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Superstition
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Lloyd Price
Lloyd Price
Got the Blues for Murder Only
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
It Is Well With My Soul
James Cleveland
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Rev Charles Craig Jr.
Try a Little Tenderness
Jimmy Campbell
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Reginald Connelly
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Harry Woods
Otis Redding
Jesse James
Woody Guthrie
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Huddie Ledbetter
Woody Guthrie
Dust My Broom
Elmore James
Elmore James
War Pigs
Geezer Butler
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Tony Iommi
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Ozzy Osbourne
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Bill Ward
Black Sabbath
Tell Me What's the Reason
Florence Cadrez
T-Bone Walker
I Walk the Line
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Sinner Man
Traditional
Nina Simone
Made a Date with an Angel (Got No Walking Shoes)
Big Bill Broonzy
Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass
Buck Owens
Buck Owens
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Bemsha Swing
Denzil Best
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
St. Thomas
Sonny Rollins
Tommy Flanagan
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Max Roach
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Sonny Rollins
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Doug Watkins
Bop Gun (Endangered Species)
George Clinton
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Bootsy Collins
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Garry Shider
Parliament
Keep on the Sunny Side
A.P. Carter
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Gary Garett
The Carter Family
Something's Got a Hold on Me
Etta James
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Leroy Kirkland
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Pearl Woods
Etta James
I Can't Be Satisfied
McKinley Morganfield
Muddy Waters
The Red Rooster
Willie Dixon
Howlin' Wolf
Hallelujah, I Love Her So
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Chan Chan
Compay Segundo
Buena Vista Social Club
Poor Me
Charley Patton
Charley Patton
Over, Under, Sideways, Down
Jeff Beck
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Chris Dreja
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Jim McCarty
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Keith Relf
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Paul Samwell-Smith
The Yardbirds
Rebel Without a Pause
Carlton Ridenhour
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Norman Rogers
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Eric "Vietnam" Sadler
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Hank Shocklee
Public Enemy
I Feel So Bad
Chuck Willis
Little Milton
Old Five and Dimers Like Me
Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver
Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
Traditional
Jimmy Yancey
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Mama Yancey
I'm a King Bee
Slim Harpo
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James Moore
Slim Harpo
Let the Four Winds Blow
Dave Bartholomew
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Fats Domino
Roy Brown
Big Four Blues
Leroy Carr
Leroy Carr
Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
Sweet Little Angel
B.B. King
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Jules Taub
B.B. King
All Your Love
Willie Dixon
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Otis Rush
John Mayall
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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
Way Out West
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Ballad of a Teenage Queen
Jack Clement
Johnny Cash
Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)
Jerome Brailey
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George Clinton
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Bootsy Collins
Parliament
Ain't Nobody's Business
Porter Grainger
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Everett Robbins
Jimmy Witherspoon
Tom Joad, Pt. 1
Woody Guthrie
Long Tall Mama
Big Bill Broonzy
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Arletta May
Big Bill Broonzy
A Night in Tunisia
Dizzy Gillespie
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Frank Paparelli
Dizzy Gillespie
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Charles Mingus
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Charlie Parker
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Bud Powell
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The Quintet
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Max Roach
Three Little Words
Bert Kalmar
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Harry Ruby
John Coltrane
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Milt Jackson
Walking Blues
Son House
Battery
James Hetfield
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Lars Ulrich
Metallica
Totem Pole
Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan
Gut Bucket Blues
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Three Hours Past Midnight
Sam Ling
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Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Purple Haze
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Eddie Holland
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Norman Whitfield
The Temptations
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