With big thanks to Smokin' Joe, Hash Brown, and Dan Todd!!!

Slow Blues
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Nine Below Zero - Sonny Boy II
Lonesome Cabin - Sonny Boy II
Cool Disposition - Big Bill Crudup, Sonny Boy II
Sad to be Alone - Sonny Boy, Jr. Wells
Easy Baby - Magic Sam
All Your Love - Otis Rush
Everything will be Alright
Found a New Love - Johnny Taylor
Every Night About This Time - Magic Sam
Love Me or Leave Me - Jr. Parker
I Can't Quit You - Otis Rush
Right Place, Wrong Time - Otis Rush
Looking Back -
I Can't Stop -
Love That Woman -
Checking on My Baby - Sonny Boy, Jr. Wells
Things I Used to Do - Guitar Slim
Something to Remember You By - Guitar Slim
Trouble Don't Last -
I Smell Trouble - Bobby Blue Bland
Little Boy Blue - Robert Jr. Lockwood, Big Walter's sig.
Black Night - Charles Brown
Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd, Jr. Parker, Kim Wilson
Worried Life - Big Maceo Merriweather/Otis Span/Little Walter
Blue and Lonesome - Little Walter
Mean Old World - Little Walter
Last Night - Little Walter
Just a Feeling - Little Walter
Can't Hold Out Much Longer - Elmore James, Little Walter
That's Allright - Jimmy Rogers, Sam Myers
Twelve Year Old Boy - Eddie Taylor & Elmore James
My Home is a Prison - Lonesome Sundown
My Black Name -
Red Hot Kisses -
Outskirts of Town - Louis Jordan, T-Bone, Zuzu Bollin, Jimmy Witherspoon
Country Boy - Muddy
She Moves Me - Muddy
Nineteen Years Old - Muddy
Sad Sad Day - Muddy
Hard Hearted Woman - Big Walter
Cold Blooded Woman -
Key to Your Door- Sonny Boy II
Mother's Love -
My Own Fault - B.B., Otis Rush, Johnny Winter
Too Old to Think -
You're Killing Me - Sonny Boy

Medium Tempo
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My Little Machine - Big Joe Williams did it, Junior Parker
Left Me With a Broken Heart - Jimmy Rogers
Everybody Needs Somebody - Little Walter
Blues With a Feeling - Little Walter, Paul Butterfield
Everything's Gonna Be Allright - Little Walter
Going Down Slow - Little Walter, Howling Wolf, James Cotton
Hoodoo Man - Jr. Wells
Early in the Morning - Jr. Wells
So Mean to Me - Otis Rush (I Wonder Why), Albert King
You Don't Have to Go - Jimmy Reed
Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
Going Upside Your Head - Jimmy Reed
Driving Wheel - Jr. Parker
It Takes Time - Otis Rush
Hootchie Cootchie Man - W. Dixon, Muddy
Blue Shadows - Lowell Fulsom
Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulsom
Hung Down Head -
Don't Say That No More - Jimmy Reed
Take Out Some Insurance - Jimmy Reed, James Cotton
Baby What You Want Me to Do - Jimmy Reed
Honest I Do - Jimmy Reed
Tonight With a Fool - Little Walter

Shuffles/Marches
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I'm Ready - Willie Dixon, Muddy
I Don't Know Why -
Blow Wind Blow - Muddy
Walking Thru the Park - Muddy
Don't Go No Further - Little Walter
Oh Yeah - Muddy
She's so Pretty -
You're the One - Jimmy Rogers
That Ain't It - Big Walter
Act Like You Love Me - Jimmy Rogers
Walking By Myself - Jimmy Rogers
Sweet Home Chicago - Magic Sam, Jr. Parker
Take a Walk With Me - Written but never recorded by Robert Johnson; Rob Jr. L., Sam Myers
Wait Baby -
Talk to Me Baby - Elmore James (alt title = Can't Hold Out)
Coming Home -
Bad Boy - Eddie Taylor
Ice Cream Man - John Brim, Little Walter
You Got Me - Bobby Bland (alt = Hope You're Satisfied)
Before You Accuse Me - Bo Diddley
Riding in the Moonlight - Howlin' Wolf, Kim Wilson
Mother-In-Law Blues - Jr. Parker
Next Time You See Me - Jr. Parker
Judgment Day - Snooky Pryor
You Got Me Wrong - Billy Boy Arnold, Sugar Ray Norcia
Don't Stay Out All Night -
My Heart is Crying - Jr. Parker
Ain't That Loving You Baby - Jimmy Reed
My Love is Here to Stay - Sam Myers & Anson
Bad Luck and Trouble -
You Don't Love Me That Way -
You're an Old Lady - Big Joe Williams
Rock With Me - Kim Wilson
How Long - Lonnie Johnson, Jimmy Rushing
Stop Breaking Down - Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy, Eddie Taylor
Baker Shop Boogie -

Boogie and Swing
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Mojo - Muddy
Flip Flop Fly - Big Joe Turner
Cry For Me -
Worried About My Baby -
Just Keep Loving Her - Big Walter
Sloppy Drunk - Jimmy Rogers
Chicago Bound - Jimmy Rogers
Letter From Home - Guitar Slim
There's No Use -
Tell Me What's the Reason - T-Bone
That's My Life -
She's Murder -
I Got to Go - Little Walter
It Ain't Right - Little Walter
Boogie at Midnight - Billy Boy Arnold
You Got Money -
Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenson, James Cotton

Do It If You Wanna - Rice Miller (my favorite of all time - every blues musician, regardless the instrument, should be able to create this feel -MD)

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