Top songs by Big Maceo:
- Worried Life Blues
- Chicago breakdown
- County Jail Blues
- Detroit Jump
- Since You Been Gone
- Winter time blues
- Anytime for You
- I Got the Blues
- Texas Blues
- Tuff Luck Blues
- Big road blues
- Why Should I Hang Around
- Without You My Life Don't Mean a Thing
- Have You Heard About It
- Strange to Me
>> more songs..
Top albums by Big Maceo:
- Big Maceo Vol. 1 "Flying Boogie" (1941 - 1945)
- Big Maceo Vol. 2 "Big City Blues" (1945 - 1950)
- Got the Blues
- Famous Hits from 1941 - 1942
- Broke And Hungry Blues: Chicago Piano Volume 2
- Best of Big Maceo
- Chicago Blues Classics
- Texas Blues
- Worried Life Blues
- Blues In My Shoes
- Tampa red & big maceo
- Oh Brother, Best of Southern Blues
- Boogie Woogie Piano
- Blues greats
- The History of Rhythm and Blues 1925 - 1942
Similar songs as I Got the Blues:
- Big Maceo - Since You Been Gone
- Big Maceo - Anytime for You
- Big Joe Williams - Throw a Boogie Woogie
- Roosevelt Sykes - The Way I Feel Blues
- J.B. Lenoir - Low Down Dirty Shame
- Sonny Terry & Brownie Mcghee - Don't Dog Your Woman
- J.B. Lenoir - Man Watch Your Woman
- Frank Frost - Big Boss Man
- Frank Frost - So Tired Living By Myself
- Otis Spann - My Daily Wish
- Big Bill Broonzy - Good Boy
- Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don'T Go
- Jimmy Witherspoon - Good Rockin' Tonight
- Leroy Carr - Low Down Dog Blues
- Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues
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Lyrics by lyricwiki:
I Got The Blues 2:49 Trk 8
(M. Merriweather)
Big Maceo - vocals & piano
w/Tampa Red - guitar, Alfred Elkins - string bass.
Recorded Tues. Dec 15, 194[...]
About Big Maceo
"Big" Maceo Merriweather (March 31, 1905 - February 23, 1953) was a blues pianist and singer active in Chicago in the 1940s. Born Major Merriweather (or Merewether) in Atlanta, Georgia, he taught himself how to play piano. In the 1920s he moved to Detroit and began playing parties and clubs. In 1941, a desire to record led him to Chicago where he met and befriended Tampa Red. Red introduced him to Lester Melrose of Bluebird Records, who signed him to a recording contract. His first record was "Worried Life Blues" (1941), which promptly became a blues hit and remained his signature piece. Other classic piano blues recordings such as "Chicago Breakdown" followed. His piano style developed from players like Leroy Carr and Roosevelt Sykes, as well as from the boogie-woogie style of Meade "Lux" Lewis and Albert Ammons. His career was cut short in 1946 by a stroke. However, he was one of the most influential blues piano players of the 1940s and his style had an impact on practically every post-World War II blues pianist of note. His most famous song, "Worried Life Blues" is a staple of the blues repertoire, with artists such as Eric Clapton featuring it regularly in performances. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.