Top Ten Pure Blues Songs

When I say "Pure Blues" I mean just that: pure, stripped-back, classic, soulful, naked Blues. No fusions, no sub-genres, just... Blues. The ten I have included is by memory and some personal favourites. Feel free to add your own or vote for an existing favourite. No sub-genres or fusions please. Let's keep this list Pure Blues.
The Top Ten
1 Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson

Probably one of the earliest songs consisting of twelve bar.

2 Dust My Broom - Elmore James
3 Beer Drinkin' Woman - Memphis Slim
4 Dallas - Johnny Winter
5 Don't Owe You a Thang - Gary Clark Jr.
6 Livin' with the Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

The harmonica on this is mesmerising.

7 No More Woman Blues - Lonnie Johnson
8 Baby Don't You Think I Know - Johnny Shines
9 Motherless Children - Blind Willie Johnson
10 I'm Gonna Train My Baby - Robert Lockwood
The Contenders
11 Mean Old Frisco - Lightnin' Hopkins
12 Fort Worth and Dallas Blues - Leadbelly
13 Hoogie Boogie - John Lee Hooker

Gotta get the Boogie Man on this list.

14 Look on Yonder Wall - Elmore James
15 She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride - Taj Mahal
16 Poor Boy - Paul Butterfield's Better Days
17 Help Me - Charlie Musselwhite
18 Forty Days and Forty Nights - Muddy Waters & Paul Butterfield
19 Love Me Like a Man - Bonnie Raitt
20 Baby Bottle Blues - Martin Mull
21 Last Night - Little Walter
22 Nine Below Zero - Sonny Boy Williamson II
23 Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf
24 Pitiful - Big Maybelle
25 Rollin' and Tumblin' - Muddy Waters
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