Song: Forty Four Blues Forty-Four or 44 Blues is a blues standard whose origins have been traced back to early 1920s Louisiana. However, it was Roosevelt Sykes, who provided the lyrics and first recorded it in 1929, that helped popularize the song. Forty-Four, through numerous adaptations and recordings, remains in the blues lexicon eighty years later. The Forty-Fours, as its earlier form was sometimes referred to, was a piano-driven barrelhouse honky-tonk blues that was performed as an instrumental. Little Brother Montgomery, who is usually credited with the development of the song, taught it to another blues pianist along the way by the name of Lee Green; Green, in turn, taught it to Roosevelt Sykes. youtu.be/nnia4na291s
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