Blues You Can Use

A few months ago I posted criteria for a mix tape. One of the song selections was "A blues: not a necessarily a blues record but a song that is labelled (something)blues," or, to clean up that filthy disaster of a sentence, a non-blues song with "blues" suspiciously added as a suffix.

Remembering that post and my previously mentioned love for "old things," I spent a weekend looking for "vintage blues sheet music" on eBay, thinking I'd find some Skip James, Big Bill Broonzey or Howlin' Wolf. Instead, I found some these awesome examples of the treasure hunt above:

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"I'm Sorry I Ain't Got It You Could Have It If I Had It Blues"

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"Take 'Em to the Door (That's All There Is, There Ain't No More)"

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"Dangerous Blues"

Fun, fun stuff currently falling off my apartment walls on a regular basis. I'm eyeing up a couple more, but these take the cake for silliness out of everything I've seen.
And this posts question: what's your favorite non-blues "blues" song? I'll make a preliminary list of my own:

  1. "Bell Bottom Blues" -- Derek & the Dominoes
    Overwrought, or overwrawesome? I have a love/hate relationship with Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, but this tune is one its most redeeming moments.

  2. "Come and Go Blues" -- The Allman Brothers Band
    A gem of a song from a gem of a record. If I were king of the world and could decree that Chuck Leavell play piano in every band, I would.

  3. "Elvis Presley Blues" -- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
    The melody will get stuck in your head for days on end, and the harmonies will make you wish you had someone to obsess along with.

  4. "Strong Man Holler" -- Big Bill Morganfield w/ Taj Mahal
    This one is a total cheat since it's actually a blues song with the word "blues" stripped from it, but it's an amazing tune that used to kick off the Blues Show on my campus radio station. The stabbing, unnerving guitar riff was a better way to start my day than Raisin Bran.

I'm not even touching Dylan's output of "blues" songs, because that's a list unto itself.
So everybody else pony up (but please, don't cowboy up...I've had it up to here with people cowboying up). I want at least two songs from each of you, por favor.

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