Blues Song Name Generator

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Titles for blues songs in the styles the music comes in: Delta laments like Kerosene Lamp Burnin' Low, Chicago numbers like Halsted Street Overcoat Blues, Texas dance tunes like Brazos Bottom Shuffle, plus railroad songs, flood songs, clean hokum and instrumentals such as Loose Floorboard Stomp.

About blues song names

A blues title usually names the trouble and stops. The standard lyric runs three lines over twelve bars: a line, the same line again, then an answer that rhymes. The title tends to come straight out of that first line, or it names the cause plainly and adds the word Blues. W.C. Handy's The Memphis Blues (1912) and St. Louis Blues (1914) helped fix the habit in print, and the blues records of the 1920s and 1930s ran with it. Instrumentals often carry a different last word that names the feel: a stomp, a shuffle, a rag or a boogie for dancing, a moan or a holler for something slow.

The 1,000 titles here follow those habits across the main styles: Delta country blues (Kerosene Lamp Burnin' Low), Chicago electric blues (Halsted Street Overcoat Blues), Texas shuffles (Brazos Bottom Shuffle), jump blues (Friday Paycheck Jump), slow laments (I Still Set Two Plates), Piedmont rags (Tobacco Warehouse Rag), hill country drones (One Chord Till Sunrise), clean hokum (The Goat Ate the Train Tickets) and gospel blues (Paper Fan and a Heavy Heart). Railroad, flood, money and lover-gone songs have groups too, as do present-day troubles in the old form (Cracked Phone Screen Blues).

About one title in five ends in Blues, and most pair two concrete things.

How to choose blues song names

  • Name the trouble plainly. The blues works by understatement, so Light Bill on the Kitchen Table says more than a title about despair in general.
  • Put two concrete things in the title. A place and an object, or a person and a debt, make a title yours, as in Ticket to Memphis, Pocket Full of Lint.
  • Let the last word tell the band the feel. Shuffle, boogie and stomp promise a dance tempo, while moan and holler promise something slow and close to the bone.
  • Swap in your own geography. Change the street, river or rail line in a title to one you know, and the first verse is half written.
  • Write the first line to match. If the title is She Left on the Eight-Fifteen, sing it, sing it again, then answer it with a rhyme, and you have a twelve-bar verse.

Frequently asked questions

How do blues songs get their titles?

Most often from the first line of the lyric or from the trouble the song is about, with the word Blues added. Rail lines, rivers, streets and bills turn up constantly because the songs are about ordinary life. That is the pattern behind titles such as Rent Man Knockin', Two Trains Late and High Water on Front Street.

Are these real blues songs?

Not on purpose. The titles are written in the style of blues songs and were not taken from a list of existing recordings. Blues has been recorded for more than a century and nobody has compared this list with that catalog, so some titles may match a song that already exists. Search a title before you put it on a release.

What should I call a blues instrumental?

The usual way is to name the feel in the last word. From this list, Loose Floorboard Stomp and Rusty Hinge Shuffle suit an up-tempo number, Kitchen Match Rag suits a fingerpicked piece, and Freight Yard Midnight Moan suits a slow one.

Can a blues title be funny?

Yes. Comic blues, often called hokum, has been part of the music since the 1920s. The humorous titles here stay clean and domestic, such as The Rooster Next Door Can't Tell Time, She Starched My Socks and My Dog Likes the Mailman Better.

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A: 13 names

  • Abilene Bus Bench Blues
  • Alley Cat on Indiana Avenue
  • Alternating Thumb Blues
  • Amplifier Hum and a Cracked Harp
  • Angel at the Bus Station
  • Another Sunrise I Didn't Ask For
  • Armadillo Crossing Boogie
  • Ashtray Full of Sunday
  • Asleep Past My Stop
  • Athens Depot Platform Blues
  • August Drought, Cracked Ground
  • Auntie Hid the Pie Blues
  • Autopay Got Me Again

B: 89 names

  • Baby Bought a Ticket and Didn't Buy Two
  • Back Alley Ash Can Stomp
  • Back Pew Prayer Blues
  • Back Room Card Table Blues
  • Backwater in the Bean Field
  • Bandstand Collapsed at Midnight
  • Bandstand Too Small for the Drums
  • Baptizing Creek Runnin' Cold
  • Barbecue Rib Hop
  • Barbed Wire and Torn Britches Blues
  • Barbershop Closed Monday Blues
  • Barbershop Guitar on a Nail
  • Barefoot on Hot Gravel Blues
  • Baritone Sax Belly Laugh

B, continued

  • Barn Dance Never Stopped
  • Barn Loft Stomp
  • Barrelhouse Back Door Boogie
  • Barstool Philosopher Blues
  • Bass Drum in the Pasture
  • Bass Fiddle Spin
  • Bayou Bridge Washed Away
  • Bayou City Boogie
  • Beans Again Tonight Blues
  • Beaumont Boardinghouse Boogie
  • Bent Harmonica Reed Rag
  • Bent Key, Locked Door Blues
  • Bent Plow Point Blues
  • Big Hat, Little Money
  • Big Thicket Mosquito Stomp

B, continued

  • Bill Collector Knows My Walk
  • Blocked My Number Blues
  • Blow, Mister Tenor Man
  • Blue Light Under the Door
  • Blue Norther Comin' Down
  • Blue Ridge Bus Fare Blues
  • Blue Smoke on Madison Street
  • Blues Asleep on the Doorstep
  • Blues Came In with the Milk Wagon
  • Blues Caught the Same Train I Did
  • Blues Followed Me to Memphis
  • Blues Got the Front Seat
  • Blues Hanging on the Clothesline
  • Blues in a Coffee Can
  • Blues in the Bottom of the Flour Barrel

B, continued

  • Blues on a Borrowed Guitar
  • Blues Riding the Baggage Car
  • Blues Sat Down at the Supper Table
  • Blues Standing at the Pay Window
  • Blues Tapping on the Windowpane
  • Blues Took the Rocking Chair
  • Blues Under a Tin Awning
  • Boarding House Stairs Blues
  • Boardwalk Banjo Blues
  • Boiler Room Night Watch Blues
  • Boll Weevil in the Dinner Pail
  • Bolo Tie and a Borrowed Amp
  • Bootheel on a Pine Board
  • Boots Full of Bayou
  • Borrowed Five, Owe Six

B, continued

  • Borrowed Mule Blues
  • Boss Man's Pocket Watch
  • Boss on the Platform, Me in the Pit
  • Bottle Tree in the Yard
  • Bottleneck Benediction
  • Bottleneck on a Rusty String
  • Bottleneck Sunrise
  • Bottomland Dinner Holler
  • Bought a Car with No Reverse
  • Boxcar Door Wide Open Blues
  • Brakeman Waved Me Off
  • Brand New Shoes, Same Old Road Blues
  • Brazos Bottom Shuffle
  • Bread on the Water Blues
  • Break Room Coffee Blues

B, continued

  • Bridge Out at Big Black River
  • Brisket Smoke Shuffle
  • Brogan Shoe Stomp
  • Broke String on a Saturday Night
  • Broken Fan Belt, Lonesome Highway Blues
  • Broken Porch Step Blues
  • Broom Handle Bass Rag
  • Brother-in-Law Borrowed My Ladder
  • Buck and Wing on a Biscuit Tin
  • Bucket Under Every Beam
  • Burnt Cornbread Again Blues
  • Bus Pulled Off with My Baby's Hat in the Window
  • Bus Station Sandwich Blues
  • Buttermilk in the Coffee by Mistake
  • Buzzard on the Fence Post

C: 96 names

  • Caboose Light Gettin' Small
  • Cakewalk at the County Fair
  • Caliche Road Washboard Blues
  • Call the Band Back Jump
  • Callused Hands, Clean Pockets
  • Came Home to a Swept-Out House
  • Came Up on the Illinois Central
  • Candle Burned to the Saucer
  • Cane Fife at the Picnic
  • Cane Pole and No Luck Blues
  • Cape Fear River Rag
  • Car Alarm at Four A.M.
  • Cardboard Grip and a Guitar

C, continued

  • Carolina Porch Picker's Rag
  • Carried Mama's Trunk to the Loft
  • Carry My Burden to the Depot
  • Catawba Creek Rag
  • Catfish Sandwich Shout
  • Catfish Won't Bite Blues
  • Cedar Chopper Stomp
  • Cellar Stair Moan
  • Central Avenue Strut
  • Chariot Wheel Hummin'
  • Charleston Rooftop Rag
  • Chattahoochee Ferry Two-Step
  • Check Engine Light Shuffle
  • Chicken Yard Stomp

C, continued

  • Chickens on the Rooftop Blues
  • Chili Parlor Boogie
  • Choir Robe on a Nail
  • Chrome Mic and Cigarette Smoke
  • Church Bell Over the Cotton Field
  • Cigar Box Fiddle Rag
  • Cinders in My Eye Blues
  • Circle the Fire Stomp
  • Clabber Milk and Day-Old Pone Blues
  • Clock Struck Three and Kept On
  • Clocked Out, Still on Call
  • Closet Full of Hangers Blues
  • Cloudburst Caught Me Courtin'
  • Clouds Stacked Up Like Bills

C, continued

  • Coach Seat by the Coal Stove
  • Coal Bin Empty Blues
  • Coal Chute Wages
  • Coal Scuttle Stomp
  • Cold Biscuit Stomp
  • Cold Cornbread Breakfast Blues
  • Cold Feet on a Pine Floor Blues
  • Cold Grits and Gone Woman Blues
  • Cold Pizza Sunrise
  • Cold Snap Caught Me Barefoot
  • Cold Water Flat on 43rd
  • Collard Patch Rag
  • Collection Plate and Two Thin Dimes

C, continued

  • Come Back, Bring the Skillet
  • Come Sunday, I'll Be Clean
  • Commissary Credit Blues
  • Commuter Train Signal Delay
  • Company Came to Dinner, Stayed Till Thursday
  • Company Store Tab Blues
  • Conductor Punched the Last Ticket
  • Corn Shucking Holler
  • Cornbread Conga Line
  • Corner Barbershop Bounce
  • Corner Booth Under the Clock
  • Corner Tavern Telephone
  • Corsicana Oil Lease Blues
  • Cottage Grove Streetcar Blues

C, continued

  • Cotton Belt Local Runnin' Slow
  • Cotton Compress Night Crew
  • Cotton Mill Lint Blues
  • Cotton Sack and Empty Pocket Blues
  • Cotton Scale Reads Light Blues
  • Cotton Under Water Blues
  • Couch Surfin' Shuffle
  • Couldn't Finish the Letter
  • Counted It Twice, Still Short
  • Counting Cracks in the Ceiling
  • County Line Dust Devil
  • Cousin Moved In on a Tuesday
  • Cracked Linoleum Kitchen Blues
  • Cracked Mirror, New Gray Hair Blues

C, continued

  • Cracked Phone Screen Blues
  • Cracker Box Guitar Blues
  • Credit Cut Off at the Grocery
  • Creek in the Cornfield Blues
  • Creek Rock Rhythm
  • Creek Rose While I Slept
  • Cricket Behind the Cookstove Rag
  • Crooked Fence Post Shuffle
  • Crop Lien and Cold Supper Blues
  • Crossing Bell Keeps Ringing
  • Crossties Under Both Feet
  • Cubicle Window Facing a Wall
  • Curtains Drawn at Noon
  • Cypress Stump and Stagnant Water Blues

D: 48 names

  • Daddy's Got the Car Tonight
  • Daddy, Where'd You Park the Truck?
  • Dance Floor Traffic Jam
  • Dance Hall Sawdust Shuffle
  • Dance Till the Landlord Knocks
  • Danville Depot Rag
  • Day Labor Corner at Dawn
  • Dead Battery at the County Line Blues
  • Dead Wi-Fi in a Rented Room
  • Decatur Street Shoeshine Rag
  • Deep Ellum After Dark
  • Deep Water Baptism Blues

D, continued

  • Delivery Driver's Double Shift
  • Depot Bench Overnight Blues
  • Depot Clock Runnin' Slow Blues
  • Derrick Hand Shuffle
  • Diddley Bow on the Barn Wall
  • Dime Store Diamond Ring
  • Dime Store Harmonica Rag
  • Dishwater Hands on Payday Blues
  • Ditch Bank Cottonmouth Blues
  • Ditch Digger's Daybreak
  • Dock Whistle Before Daylight
  • Dog Days Drone

D, continued

  • Dogwood Blossom in a Cold Rain Blues
  • Double-Parked and Blocked In
  • Dowling Street Saturday
  • Downstairs Neighbor Poundin' the Ceiling
  • Dresser Drawers Standing Open
  • Dripping Faucet Boogie
  • Drive-Thru Got the Order Wrong
  • Droning Like a Dirt Dauber
  • Dropped a Sandwich in the Bass Drum
  • Drought Year Shuffle
  • Drummer Lost His Sticks
  • Dry County Line Boogie

D, continued

  • Dry Creek Baptizing Blues
  • Dry Thunder, No Relief
  • Dry Well Bucket Blues
  • Drying Out the Family Photographs
  • Durham Auction Day Blues
  • Dust in the Sugar Bowl
  • Dust Off the Family Bible
  • Dust on Her Dresser Blues
  • Dust Pan and Broom Morning Blues
  • Dust Rises When We Dance
  • Dust Storm at the Dinner Hour
  • Dusty Bandstand Shuffle

E: 14 names

  • East Austin Porch Light
  • Echo in the Front Hall
  • Eighteenth and Vine Bounce
  • Eighty-Eight Keys Boogie
  • Elevated Train Shakin' the Bed
  • Email at Midnight from the Boss
  • Empty Coat Hook Blues
  • Empty Icebox Blues
  • Empty Rocking Chair Blues
  • Empty Smokehouse Moan
  • Empty Water Tower Moan
  • Engine Smoke over the Cane Field
  • Every Clock Says Gone
  • Eviction Notice on a Nail

F: 42 names

  • Faded Dress on the Line
  • Fare to St. Louis, Fifty Cents Short
  • Farm-to-Market Road Flat Tire Blues
  • Fell Asleep in the Deacon's Pew
  • Ferry Fare and Fog Blues
  • Ferry Landing Holler
  • Fiddle Tune I Stole for Guitar
  • Field Gate Evening Holler
  • Field Hat Full of Rain
  • Fife Call Over the Field
  • Fifth Ward Friday Night
  • Fish Camp Friday Rag
  • Fish Fry on Vine Street
  • Fish Market Morning Holler

F, continued

  • Flag Stop at Midnight
  • Flat Tire on the Overpass
  • Flatbed Full of Amplifiers
  • Flatcar in the Moonlight
  • Floorboards Bouncin' Boogie
  • Flour Sack Curtain Blues
  • Fog So Thick I Lost the Mule
  • Foghorn Morning Moan
  • Foot on the Floorboard
  • Foreman Don't Know My Name
  • Fort Worth Stockyard Stomp
  • Four Flights and No Elevator
  • Four in the Morning Kitchen Light
  • Fox Hounds in the Bottom

F, continued

  • Freight Yard Midnight Moan
  • Friars Point Ferry Blues
  • Friday Paycheck Jump
  • Frisco Yard at Daybreak
  • Front Parlor Player Piano Rag
  • Front Porch, One Chair Blues
  • Front Stoop Fingerpick
  • Front Tooth and a Rent Receipt Blues
  • Frost on the Collards
  • Frozen Pipes on Christmas Eve Blues
  • Furnish Came Late This Year
  • Furniture Floatin' Blues
  • Furniture Wagon at the Door
  • Fuse Box in the Dark Blues

G: 32 names

  • Galveston Seawall Shuffle
  • Garfield Park Bench Blues
  • Gary Furnace Blues
  • Gas Gauge Sittin' on Empty
  • Gas Meter Quarter Blues
  • Georgia Peach Shed Blues
  • Gin Whistle at Daybreak
  • Glory Train at the Water Tank
  • Goat Roast Saturday Stomp
  • Gone as Far as the Fare Goes

G, continued

  • Gone Before the Biscuits Rose
  • Good Suit Out of Hock
  • Goodbye Written in Flour
  • Gospel Plow, Rocky Ground
  • Got Them Slow Freight Blues
  • Got Them Thin Blanket Blues
  • Got Them Ticket Stub Blues
  • Grace Came on the Morning Mail
  • Grandma Outdanced Me Again
  • Graveside Hymn in the Wind
  • Graveyard Flowers in the Rain

G, continued

  • Graveyard Shift Shuffle
  • Greasy Skillet Shuffle
  • Greenville Avenue Strut
  • Greenville Bridge at Sunrise
  • Greenville Gauge Still Risin'
  • Greenville Sidewalk Serenade
  • Greenwood Gravel Road Blues
  • Grip Packed by the Door
  • Group Text Without Me
  • Gulf Freeway Breakdown Blues
  • Gulf Wind Rattlin' the Shutters

H: 59 names

  • Hail the Size of Hen Eggs
  • Half a Pot of Coffee Blues
  • Half-Soled Shoes on a Gravel Road Blues
  • Hallelujah on a Hard Road
  • Halsted Street Overcoat Blues
  • Hambone and Harmonica Rag
  • Hand-Me-Down Overcoat Blues
  • Handcar on a Weedy Siding
  • Handclap Hurricane
  • Handkerchief in My Coat Pocket
  • Hard Hat, Soft Shoes Blues
  • Harp in a Paper Cup
  • Harp Man at the Bus Stop
  • Harp Mic and a Busted Speaker

H, continued

  • Hawk Wind off the Lake
  • Hay Wagon Holler
  • He Kissed Me at the Depot and Kept Going
  • He Left His Razor and His Debts
  • He Loved the Road More Than Me
  • He Packed the Radio and the Dog
  • He Promised Spring, It's Nearly Fall
  • He Said Memphis, Went to Mobile
  • He Took the Fishing Poles Too
  • Heat Lightning over the Levee
  • Heaven's Depot, No Baggage
  • Helena Ferry Landing Blues
  • Her Key on the Windowsill
  • Her Mama Never Liked My Hat
  • Her Perfume on the Pillow Slip

H, continued

  • Her Train Was on Time for Once
  • Hiccups at the Wrong Moment Blues
  • Hickory Fire Holler
  • High Ground Camp Blues
  • High Water on Front Street
  • Highway 61 Dust Cloud
  • Hill Country Peach Stand Blues
  • Hiring Line Around the Block
  • His Side of the Closet Blues
  • Hitched a Ride on a Melon Truck
  • Hobnail Boot Stomp
  • Hod Carrier's Shoulder
  • Hoe Handle Blister Blues
  • Hold Music Holler
  • Holes in Both Pockets Blues

H, continued

  • Hollow Sound in the Stairwell
  • Holly Springs Gravel Groove
  • Homegoing on a Gray Day
  • Honkin' Tenor at Half Past Ten
  • Hop the Curb, Clementine
  • Hot Boiled Peanut Rag
  • Hot Griddle Hop
  • Hot Sauce and a Cold Shoulder
  • Hound Dog Howls Flat
  • Hound Under the Porch Blues
  • Houston Ship Channel Fog
  • Humming Wire over the Pasture Blues
  • Hundred and Five in the Shade
  • Hundred Degrees and the Fan Broke
  • Hymnal with the Cover Gone

I: 14 names

  • I Locked the Key in the Smokehouse
  • I Married a Morning Person
  • I Painted the Porch and Sat Down
  • I Still Set Two Plates
  • I Waved at a Scarecrow All Summer
  • I'll Lay My Hammer Down Sunday
  • Ice Man Brought Coal, Coal Man Brought Ice
  • Ice on Lake Shore Drive
  • Ice on the Pump Handle
  • Illinois Central Left Without Me
  • Indianola Icehouse Blues
  • Insurance Claim Denied Blues
  • Interest Due on Friday
  • Iron Skillet and an Empty Cupboard

J: 8 names

  • Jackrabbit Boogie
  • Jitterbug in the Kitchen
  • Johnboat Leakin' Slow
  • Jug and Kazoo Rag
  • Juke House in the Holler
  • Juke Joint Ceiling Fan Jump
  • Jukebox Skipped My Favorite Side
  • Jump Back, Josephine

K: 12 names

  • Kansas City Layover Blues
  • Katy Line Coal Smoke
  • Kerosene Lamp Burnin' Low
  • Kettle Whistlin' for No One
  • Kick Drum Made of a Suitcase
  • Kitchen Chair Vigil
  • Kitchen Match Rag
  • Kitchenette Radiator Knock
  • Kneeling on a Kitchen Floor
  • Knocked on Every Door in Town Blues
  • Kudzu Got the Chimney
  • Kudzu on the Fence Rag

L: 67 names

  • L and N Smoke on the Ridge
  • Lafayette County Lightning
  • Laid Off the Day After Payday
  • Lake Street Trestle Rumble
  • Lake Wind Cut Me Like a Razor Strop
  • Lamp in the Valley
  • Lamp Left On for Nobody
  • Landlady on the Landing
  • Landlord Changed the Lock
  • Landlord Raised It Again Blues
  • Lantern at the Levee Camp
  • Lantern Light Round Dance
  • Last Call, Long Walk Blues

L, continued

  • Last Coach to Cairo
  • Last Lump of Coal Blues
  • Last Match in the Box Blues
  • Last Nickel in the Jukebox Jump
  • Last Quarter in the Sugar Bowl
  • Late Rent Shuffle
  • Late Train, Early Frost Blues
  • Laundry Wages and Lye Soap Blues
  • Lay My Troubles on the Altar Rail
  • Layover in a Plastic Chair
  • Leak Over My Pillow Blues
  • Leaving on the Mail Boat Blues
  • Left Hand Rolling Boogie

L, continued

  • Left Her Slippers by the Door
  • Left Me the Cat and the Light Bill
  • Left My Hat in Vicksburg
  • Left the Porch Light and Nothing Else
  • Leland Crossing Blues
  • Letter Under the Lamp
  • Levee Lantern Watch
  • Light Bill on the Kitchen Table
  • Lightning Hit the Pecan Tree
  • Lindy at the Bus Depot
  • Lipstick on a Stranger's Cup
  • Llano River Flat Rock Shuffle
  • Lonesome Flag Stop Holler
  • Lonesome Since the Screen Door Shut

L, continued

  • Lonesome Sound of the Icebox Hum
  • Lonesome Water Tank Moan
  • Long Bridge Wind Moan
  • Long Distance Operator Hung Up Blues
  • Long Hallway, Short Goodbye
  • Long Night, One Riff
  • Long Row, Short Shade
  • Long-Neck Bottle Slide
  • Loom Fixer's Lament
  • Loose Change Jive
  • Loose Floorboard Stomp
  • Lord, Hold the Levee Tonight
  • Lord, I'm Too Tired to Lie

L, continued

  • Lord, Mend My Sunday Shoes
  • Lord, Mind My Children While I Work
  • Lord, Read My Letter First
  • Lord, Send a Little Shade
  • Lost Hat on the Levee Blues
  • Lost Luggage in Memphis
  • Lost My Harp in the Creek Blues
  • Lost My Job to a Machine Blues
  • Loud Guitar, Thin Walls
  • Louder Than the Neighbors
  • Low Battery, Long Bus Ride
  • Low Lamp Wick Moan
  • Lubbock Dust Storm Blues
  • Lunch Bucket Half Empty

M: 43 names

  • Macon Morning Market
  • Mail Hook Snatched the Letter
  • Mailbox Full of Bills Blues
  • Mama's Bible on the Mantel
  • Marshall County Moonrise
  • Mattress on the Kitchen Table
  • Maxwell Street Sunday Morning
  • Medicine Show Wagon Rag
  • Memphis Bound with a Borrowed Dollar
  • Mended Screen Door Blues
  • Mercy Seat Made of Pine
  • Midnight at the Hill Juke
  • Midnight Icehouse Boogie
  • Midnight Train I Didn't Take

M, continued

  • Milk Money Spent Blues
  • Milk Train to Jackson
  • Mill Village Saturday Rag
  • Minimum Payment, Maximum Worry Blues
  • Missed the Ferry by a Minute Blues
  • Mississippi Suitcase, Chicago Snow
  • Molasses Mill Go-Round
  • Monday Meeting Could've Been a Letter
  • Moon in the Empty Wash Tub
  • Moon Lake Mosquito Blues
  • Moorhead Crossing at Noon
  • Morning Came Anyway
  • Mother-in-Law in the Spare Room
  • Mourner's Bench at Daybreak

M, continued

  • Mud on the Depot Floor
  • Mud Puddle Stomp
  • Muddy Boots at the Church Door Blues
  • Muddy Line on the Wallpaper
  • Mule Knows the Way Home
  • Mule on the Levee Top
  • Mule Skinner's Sunrise Holler
  • My Baby Took the Good Umbrella
  • My Banjo Player Owes Me Money
  • My Barber Talks Too Much Blues
  • My Charger's at Your Place
  • My Dog Likes the Mailman Better
  • My Mule Won't Mind Me Blues
  • My Sugar Caught the Southbound
  • My Umbrella Only Works Indoors

N: 16 names

  • Narrow Road, Wide Water
  • Neighbors Brought the Chairs
  • Neon Sign Buzzin' Blues
  • New Shoes for the Other Shore
  • New Town, Same Old Suitcase
  • Night Bus Dropped Me Downtown
  • Night Bus to Natchez
  • Night Shift at the Warehouse

N, continued

  • No Forwarding Address on the Envelope Blues
  • No Note, No Supper, No Shoes
  • No Work Past Christmas
  • Nobody to Tell Good Night
  • Northbound and Never Went Back
  • Northbound Whistle, Southbound Heart
  • Note on the Icebox Door
  • Nothing in the Mailbox but Wind Blues

O: 22 names

  • Ohio River in the Parlor
  • Oil Patch Payday Shuffle
  • Old Guitar, One String Gone
  • Old Photograph Face Down
  • Old Plank Road Rag
  • Old Tractor Idle Groove
  • One Chord Till Sunrise
  • One Cup on the Table Blues
  • One Good Shirt Blues
  • One Lamp in the Window Blues
  • One More River, One More Mile

O, continued

  • One Pillow Too Many
  • One Speaker Blown Shuffle
  • Open G on a Rusty Slide
  • Open Tuning, Open Door
  • Out of Kerosene by Thursday Blues
  • Overdraft Fee on a Friday
  • Overtime and Underpaid Blues
  • Owe My Whole Week to the Icehouse
  • Owl on the Gatepost Moan
  • Oxford Square to the County Line
  • Oyster Skiff Shuffle

P: 55 names

  • Packinghouse Payday
  • Paid in Promises
  • Paid the Cover, Missed the Band
  • Panhandle Wind in the Wheat Blues
  • Pants Too Short for Courtin'
  • Papa Bought a Loud Tie
  • Paper and Comb Rag
  • Paper Fan and a Heavy Heart
  • Parking Ticket on a Rainy Windshield
  • Party Line Jive
  • Pass the Hot Sauce, Pearl
  • Password Reset on a Deadline Blues
  • Patch on a Patch Blues

P, continued

  • Pawn Ticket for My Guitar
  • Pawned My Sunday Suit Blues
  • Pay Envelope Feels Light
  • Pay Window Shut at Noon
  • Paycheck Gone by the Fifteenth
  • Paymaster Counted Slow Blues
  • Peach Cobbler Jubilee
  • Peach Crate Buck Dance
  • Pearl River Past the Marker
  • Pecan Tree Shade Moan
  • Pecos Wind and a Flat Tire
  • Pedernales Low Water Blues
  • Pee Dee River Ferry Blues
  • Penny in the Gas Stove

P, continued

  • Persimmon Tree Possum Blues
  • Phone Don't Ring Past Midnight
  • Pickin' for Nickels on Main
  • Pickup Bed Boogie
  • Picnic Ground at Dusk
  • Pilgrim with a Pawned Guitar
  • Pillow Wet Till Daylight
  • Pine Floor Splinter Stomp
  • Pine Knot Fire Moan
  • Pine Straw Path Blues
  • Pink Slip in My Lunch Pail
  • Plow Line Guitar Strap
  • Pocket Change Shuffle
  • Pocketknife Slide Blues

P, continued

  • Polka Dot Dress Parade
  • Porch Board Stomp
  • Porch Full of Cousins Stomp
  • Porch Swing Hangin' Still
  • Pork Chop Promenade
  • Port Arthur Refinery Glow
  • Porter Knows My Name
  • Pothole on Poplar Avenue
  • Prayer Cloth in My Pocket
  • Praying Ground Behind the Barn
  • Prickly Pear in My Boot Blues
  • Printer Jam Boogie
  • Promise in a Tin Cup
  • Pullman Blanket Blues

Q: 1 name

  • Quiet as a Shut Piano

R: 53 names

  • Radio Playin' to an Empty Room
  • Raft Made of a Barn Door
  • Railroad Bridge Toll Blues
  • Railroad Tie Tamper's Wages
  • Rails Hummin' Before the Train
  • Rain Barrel Runnin' Dry
  • Rain Came Sideways Blues
  • Rain Crow Callin' at Noon
  • Rain Gutter Moan
  • Rain on the Window, Nobody Home
  • Rambling Shoes, Thin Soles
  • Rattle of a Loose Fret
  • Rattlesnake Road Shuffle

R, continued

  • Read My Message, Never Wrote Back
  • Red Bandana, Empty Wallet Blues
  • Red Clay on My Sunday Shoes
  • Red Dirt on White Boots
  • Red Hill Road Drone
  • Red Light Camera Got Me
  • Red River Risin' Red
  • Rent Man Knockin'
  • Rent Party Bounce
  • Rent Went Up, Roof Still Leaks
  • Revival Tent in a Thunderstorm
  • Rib Tips and Red Soda
  • Rich Man's Dog Eats Better

R, continued

  • Richmond Tobacco Row
  • Ride the E String Home
  • Rideshare Surge Price Blues
  • Ridge Road Runnin' Out
  • Riding the Blinds in the Rain
  • Rise Up Early, Kneel Down Late
  • River at the Second Step
  • River Took the Fence and the Gate
  • Riverboat Leadline Holler
  • Roadhouse on the Navasota Road
  • Roanoke Roundhouse Rag
  • Robe on the Bathroom Door Blues
  • Rocking Chair Got Me by the Coattail

R, continued

  • Rode the Rods to Texarkana
  • Roll Back the Rug, Ruby
  • Rolling Fork Sundown
  • Roof Gone, Stars Showin'
  • Rooftop Rhumba Blues
  • Rooming House Radiator Blues
  • Roommate Ate the Leftovers
  • Roosevelt Road Rain
  • Rooster Crowed at Midnight
  • Round and Round the Woodstove
  • Roundhouse Lantern Blues
  • Rowboat Tied to the Porch Post
  • Rusty Hinge Shuffle
  • Rusty Pump and a Dry Throat Blues

S: 147 names

  • Sabine River Crossing
  • Same Lick Till the Cows Come Home
  • San Antonio Streetcar Shuffle
  • Sandbag Line at Midnight
  • Santa Fe Dust on a White Collar
  • Sardis Dam Road
  • Sat on a Wet Paint Bench Blues
  • Sat Up with the Streetlight
  • Savannah Cobblestone Rag
  • Savings in a Baking Powder Can
  • Sawdust Floor Saturday Blues
  • Sawmill Blade Moan
  • Sawmill Closed on Monday
  • Saxophone Fell Down the Stairs

S, continued

  • Scratch Ticket and Gas Money Blues
  • Screen Door Slammin' Blues
  • Scuppernong Arbor Blues
  • Seaboard Coach Window Blues
  • Second Notice, Third Excuse
  • Section Gang Dinner Bell
  • Security Deposit Never Came Back
  • Seed Washed Out of the Row
  • Self-Checkout Line Moan
  • Senatobia Back Road Trance
  • Settle Day Came Up Short
  • Seven Days of Rain on Six Days' Pay
  • Shad Boat Shuffle
  • Shadow on the Wallpaper
  • Shake the Rafters Loose

S, continued

  • She Caught the Bus I Paid For
  • She Changed Trains in Birmingham
  • She Hid My Hat So I'd Stay Home
  • She Left Her Apron on the Gate
  • She Left on the Eight-Fifteen
  • She Likes the Drummer Now
  • She Rode the Day Coach, I Walked the Ties
  • She Says I Snore in Twelve Bars
  • She Sold My Guitar for Train Fare
  • She Starched My Socks
  • She Took the Lamp, I Kept the Dark
  • She Took the Quilt in January
  • She Took the Skillet and Left the Grease
  • She Waved from a Yellow Taxi
  • She Went to See Her Sister in Detroit

S, continued

  • She Wrote It on the Calendar
  • She's Got a New Address in Gary
  • Shift Whistle on the South Shore
  • Shine My Shoes, I'm Goin' Out
  • Shoe Polish on the Toothbrush
  • Shoe Shine Box Blues
  • Shopping Buggy with a Stuck Wheel
  • Short Crop and Long Winter Blues
  • Short Week at the Stave Mill
  • Shotgun House, Shotgun Hallway
  • Shout Band on the Church Steps
  • Shout It Down the Hallway
  • Shuffle for a Slow Monday
  • Silence Where Her Humming Was

S, continued

  • Since You Went Up North
  • Sing It Low for the Sick and Shut-In
  • Sinner at the Screen Door
  • Sister's Hum Through the Wall
  • Six Cousins in a Sedan
  • Six Strings, Five Left Blues
  • Sixty-Third Street Transfer
  • Skiff Down Main Street
  • Skillet Lid Cymbal Crash
  • Sleep Won't Come to This Address
  • Sleeping in the Waiting Room
  • Sleet on the Stovepipe
  • Slide Guitar in a Snowstorm
  • Slide Guitar Sanctified
  • Slide Steel and Supper Smoke

S, continued

  • Slide Trombone Saturday
  • Slow Ceiling Fan Shuffle
  • Slow Clock on the Mantel
  • Slow Drag at the Schoolhouse
  • Slow Drip in the Sink Blues
  • Slow Leak, Fast Rain
  • Slow Mule on a Steep Road
  • Slow Rain on a Tin Awning
  • Smoke Detector Chirpin' All Night
  • Smoke Rising off the Pit
  • Smokestack Whistle Moan
  • Snare Drum Under the Oak
  • Snooze Button and a Missed Bus Blues
  • Snow on the Fire Escape Blues
  • Snowed In with One Stick of Wood

S, continued

  • Soaked Bedroll Under the Trestle Blues
  • Sock Hop at the Icehouse
  • Soda Fountain Slow Drag
  • Sold My Watch to Wind My Week
  • Sold the Mule to Pay the Doctor
  • Sold the Radio for Groceries Blues
  • Somebody Else's Hat in the Hall
  • Somebody Sat on the Harmonica
  • Somebody Tuned the Guitar to the Piano
  • Sorghum Bucket Blues
  • Sorghum Stir-Off Stomp
  • Soup Bone Supper Blues
  • South Side Steam Heat
  • Southern Local Don't Stop Here

S, continued

  • Spam Call at Suppertime
  • Spartanburg Mill Whistle Blues
  • Spinning Wheel on the Screen
  • Split Shift, Split Check
  • Spoons on the Knee Rag
  • Stale Bread and Sorghum Blues
  • State Street Pawn Ticket
  • Steam Whistle at the Trestle
  • Steel Mill Second Shift Blues
  • Stepped on a Rake Blues
  • Stevedore's Sore Back Shuffle
  • Stockyard Whistle Blues
  • Storage Unit Full of Us
  • Storefront Amp Rattle
  • Storefront Church on a Rainy Night

S, continued

  • Storm Cellar Door Blues
  • Stovepipe and Soot Blues
  • Stranger in Every Depot
  • Street Corner Tin Cup Blues
  • Streetcar Bell Boogie
  • Stretched the Stew with Water
  • Student Loan Statement Blues
  • Stump Fire Burnin' All Week
  • Subscription I Forgot to Cancel
  • Sugar Hill Shout
  • Suitcase Gone from Under the Bed
  • Suitcase Tied with Twine
  • Sun Came Out on the Wrong Day
  • Sunday Dinner for One Blues
  • Sunday Suit Soaked Through

S, continued

  • Sundown Don't Stop the Drum
  • Sundown on the Turnrow
  • Sunflower River Mud on My Shoes
  • Sunrise Service, Borrowed Suit
  • Sweat on the Guitar Neck
  • Sweet By-and-By, Bitter Right Now
  • Sweet Mama Moved to Kansas City
  • Sweet Potato Bank Blues
  • Sweet Talk and a One-Way Ticket
  • Sweet Tea and Sidewalk Change
  • Sweetwater Truck Stop Blues
  • Swept the Whole Mill for Supper
  • Swing Shift at the Cotton Compress
  • Swinging Gate Shuffle
  • Switch Engine Shuffle

T: 98 names

  • Tack Piano Parlor Rag
  • Tailor Made and Paid For
  • Tallahatchie Bridge Fog
  • Tallahatchie Hills at Dusk
  • Tambourine in the Amen Corner
  • Tambourine Tornado
  • Tank Farm Night Shift
  • Tar Heel Tobacco Barn Blues
  • Tar Paper Roof Stomp
  • Tate County Tin Roof Rain
  • Tavern Stool Number Nine
  • Tear-Stained Train Schedule
  • Tears in My Coffee Cup
  • Telegraph Wire Moan

T, continued

  • Tell the Pilot I'm Ready
  • Ten Hours for a Sack of Flour
  • Ten Miles to the Juke
  • Tent Show Leavin' Town
  • Texarkana Two-Lane
  • The Blues Knows My House Number
  • The Blues Paid My Rent in Tears
  • The Cat Sat on My Sunday Hat
  • The Catfish Was This Big Blues
  • The Clock Runs Backward on Mondays
  • The Deacon Kept the Lamp Lit
  • The Dog Buried the Capo
  • The Dog Still Waits at the Window
  • The Goat Ate the Train Tickets

T, continued

  • The Good Shepherd Knows My Address
  • The Hen Laid One Egg and Quit
  • The House Remembers You
  • The Milk Cow Went Visiting
  • The Mirror Knows I'm Tired
  • The Mule Laughed First
  • The Neighbor's Trombone Lessons
  • The Parrot Told Her Everything
  • The Pie Was Gone When I Got Home
  • The Possum Has the Good Chair
  • The Rooster Next Door Can't Tell Time
  • Thelma Leads the Band
  • Thin Dime and a Long Week
  • Third Floor Walk-Up Blues

T, continued

  • Third Shift Coffee Blues
  • Third Sunday Dinner on the Ground
  • Third Ward Domino Table Boogie
  • Three A.M. Elevator Shuffle
  • Three Horns and a Washtub
  • Three Left Shoes and No Right One
  • Thumb and Two Fingers Rag
  • Thumb on the Low String
  • Thumb Out on Highway 49
  • Thunder Past the Ridge
  • Thunder Rolled the Bed Across the Floor
  • Ticket to Memphis, Pocket Full of Lint
  • Tight Shoes at a Long Wedding
  • Timber Camp Holler

T, continued

  • Time Clock Punched Me Back
  • Timesheet Due at Five
  • Timetable Lied Again
  • Tin Cup and Spoon Stomp
  • Tin Dipper on a Bent Nail
  • Tin Roof, Leaky Bucket Blues
  • Tin Tub Bass Thump
  • Tip Jar Overflowin' Jump
  • Tippah River Fog
  • Tobacco Warehouse Rag
  • Told Me Tuesday, Left on Monday
  • Too Many Cousins at the Table
  • Too Tired to Turn Out the Light
  • Too Wet to Plow, Too Broke to Go

T, continued

  • Tornado Sky Green as a Bottle
  • Tow Truck Took My Ride
  • Train Smoke Hangin' in the Pines
  • Trance at the Tin Shed
  • Trinity River Bridge Blues
  • Trumpet in a Paper Sack
  • Trumpet Sound Past the Treeline
  • Trunk Packed, Nowhere to Go Blues
  • Trunk Tracks in the Dust
  • Tube Amp Glowin' Red
  • Tumbleweed Beat Me to Amarillo
  • Turnrow Dust Blues
  • Turnrow Water Boy Holler
  • Tutwiler Depot at Dawn

T, continued

  • Twelfth Street Station, No Ride
  • Twelve Bars Before Breakfast
  • Twelve-String Trolley Ride
  • Two Bits and a Sack of Meal
  • Two Chairs, One Shadow
  • Two Coffee Cups, One Clean
  • Two Dollars Down on a Secondhand Stove
  • Two Jobs and Still Behind
  • Two Rooms and a Hot Plate
  • Two Trains Late
  • Two-Factor Code Went to My Old Number
  • Two-Room House, Ten Cousins Blues
  • Two-Tone Shoes and a New Haircut
  • Tyler Rose and a Thorny Goodbye

U: 7 names

  • Uncle's Teeth in the Water Glass
  • Unpaid Internship, Paid Parking Blues
  • Up Jumped Saturday
  • Up the Hill, Down the Holler
  • Upright Piano Mover's Boogie
  • Upright Piano on the Curb
  • Upstairs Neighbor's Treadmill

V: 1 name

  • Voicemail Full of Nothing

W: 48 names

  • Waco Water Tower Blues
  • Wagon Wheel in the Gumbo Mud
  • Wagon Yard Rag
  • Waiting on the Pay Car
  • Waiting Room Magazine Blues
  • Walk Me Through the Valley Slow
  • Walked the Trestle to Tupelo
  • Walking Bass Line Boogie
  • Wash Day in the Rain Blues
  • Washboard Thimble Rag
  • Wasp Nest in the Well House Blues
  • Water Tank Town Blues

W, continued

  • Waterline on the Church Door
  • Weary Bones and a Cold Stove
  • Weary Traveler at the Well
  • Wedding Ring in the Soap Dish
  • Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting Moan
  • Weeds in the Garden Row Blues
  • West Side Window Fan
  • Wet Clay Slide
  • Wet Load, Broken Dryer Blues
  • Wet Shoe Leather Boogie
  • Wet Wood Won't Burn Blues
  • Whippoorwill on the Fence Wire

W, continued

  • Whistle Blew and I Wasn't Ready Blues
  • Whistle Post Moan
  • White Dress by the Riverbank
  • Who Buttered the Banister?
  • Who Fed the Dog My Supper?
  • Who's Been Sittin' in My Porch Chair?
  • Whole Block Dancin'
  • Whole Night Long, Whole House Quiet
  • Whole Sky Fell on Tuesday
  • Whose Chicken Is on My Porch?
  • Wichita Falls Wind Shuffle
  • Wilmington Wharf Rag

W, continued

  • Wind in the Chimney Moan
  • Wind Took the Wash off the Line
  • Windmill Creakin' Shuffle
  • Windy Corner Harmonica
  • Winston Factory Gate Blues
  • Winter Came Through the Keyhole
  • Woodcutter's Echo Holler
  • Wore House Slippers to the Depot
  • Wore the Carpet Thin Walkin'
  • Wore the Same Shirt to Three Interviews
  • Worn-Out Brogan Blues
  • Wrong Side of the Tracks at Midnight Blues

Y: 14 names

  • Yazoo Backing Up Blues
  • Yazoo Bottomland Moan
  • Yocona Bottom Mud
  • You Can Keep the Cat, I'll Keep the Stove
  • You Kept the Ring and the Rent Money
  • You Left with the Almanac Salesman
  • You Left Your Shoes and Took Mine
  • You Mailed My Key Back Blues
  • You Only Call When It Rains
  • You Took the Car and the Coffee Pot
  • You Were Gone by Pay Day
  • Your Hat's Not on the Nail
  • Your Letter Came Postage Due
  • Your Side of the Bed Is Cold

Z: 1 name

  • Zoot Suit at the Laundry