How Long Blues / Midnight Stomp

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Release Date: 1944

Label: Session

"How Long Blues" is a blues song originally recorded by the American blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell in 1928. The song became "an instant best-seller" and one of the first blues standards, inspiring many blues songs of the era. It has been recorded by many artists, not only in blues but also country and western, pop, and jazz.
"Midnight Stomp" was listed as one of the 500 "Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" and put the boogie-woogie in rock and roll.