Stormy Monday

Story Behind The Song

"Stormy Monday" is a song written and recorded by Amercian blues electric guitar peioneer T-Bone Walker. it is a slow twelve-bar blues, performed in the West coast blues-style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal and distinctive guitar work. As well as becoming a record chart hit in 1948, it inspired B.B. King and other to take up the electric guitar.

Song Description

12-bar blues about how each day of the week (starting with Monday), gets worse.

Song Length 3:29 Genre Blues - Chicago, Blues - Traditional
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Gloomy, Poignant Subject Pain
Similar Artists BB King

Lyrics

"They call it Stormy Monday...But Tuesday's Just as Bad..."

Lyrics Aaron Walker a.k.a T-Bone Walker Music T-Bone Walker
Producer Ralph Bass Publisher Ralph Bass
Performance T-Bone Walker Label Black and White
This track is on 1 Member Playlists
Playlist Creator Playlist Name Date Added
Roy Elkins Madison 2022 2/24/2022

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