Saint Louis Blues : 2024

Guitar Bob Fetherolf releases the jazz-blues classic, "Saint Louis Blues" from his Jazz-Blues Live Set. An amazing up-tempo performance with acoustic and electric guitar solos in addition to the classic boogie woogie style piano playing and a funky, smoking horn arrangement. "Saint Louis Blues" is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Eartha Kitt, Count Basie, Glenn Miller,and many contemporary artists, including, “Guitar Bob Fetherolf”. The 1925 version sung by Bessie Smith, with Louis Armstrong on cornet, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993. The 1929 version by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra (with Red Allen) was inducted in 2008. The 1922 version by W.C. Handy and his Memphis Blues Band was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2023.