FLOYD'S GUITAR BLUES

Created on 19/12/2017
Latest update on 13/12/2023

Artist: Andy Kirk & his Clouds Of Joy
Author: Floyd Smith
Label: Decca
Year: 1938

Oldest blues solo on electric guitar, performed by the author who was from St. Louis, just like Chuck Berry who adapted it his way.

Covers:

1948:

Floyd Smith's Combo [for Hy-Tone on lap-steel guitar]

1950s:

Gene Phillips [for Modern as Geno's Guitar Blues]

1959:

Chuck Berry [as Blues For Hawaiians on Berry On Top, to mark Hawaii becoming the 50th state of the union]

1976:

Muddy Waters [with Bob Margolin on guitar]

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