A short set I played at a cozy little Buenos Aires blues dance last week…

Too Tight Blues, The New Orleans Wanderers, 1926 (106bpm)
Mobile Blues, Duke Ellington, 1938 (80bpm)
Feeling Good, Nina Simone (78bpm)
Blues in the Dark, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing, 1938 (86bpm)
Blue Drag, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grapelli (114bpm)
I Heard the Marchin’ of the Drum, C.W. Stoneking, 2008 (104bpm)
Love Where Did You Go, Dayna Kurtz, 2004 (54bpm)
Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, Ernestine Anderson (71bpm)
Blues in C Sharp Minor, Roy Eldridge, 1936 (99bpm)
How Long Blues, Wingy Manone, 1939 (93bpm)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, Big Maybelle, 1968 (116bpm)
Roll On Katy, Jay McShann with Jimmy Witherspoon, 1946 (93bpm)
My Daddy Rocks Me, Trixie Smith (104bpm)
My Man Jumped Salty On Me, Mezz Mezzerow, 1936 (112bpm)
Sister Kate, Firehouse Five Plus Two, 2000 (99bpm)

“My Man Jumped Salty On Me”, the Mezz tune, has my all-time favourite blues lyric in it:

I’m gonna get me a razor, and a gun
Cut him if he stands still and shoot him if he runs
‘Cause that man’s done jumped salty on me

Oooh, bitter…