Top Piano Blues Songs
Rank
All Time
Artist
Song
Subgenre(s)
Other Genre(s)
Year
1
782
Bob Dylan
Ballad of a Thin Man
Blues Rock
,
Singer/Songwriter
1965
2
1427
Tom Waits
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Singer/Songwriter
1976
3
1764
Bessie Smith
Downhearted Blues
Vaudeville Blues
1923
4
1840
Bessie Smith
Empty Bed Blues
Vaudeville Blues
1928
5
1842
Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Driftin' Blues
1945
6
2074
Leroy Carr
How Long, How Long Blues
1928
7
2719
Randy Newman
God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
Singer/Songwriter
1972
8
2797
Meade Lux Lewis
Honky Tonk Train Blues
Boogie Woogie
1929
9
3378
Big Maceo
Worried Life Blues
Acoustic Chicago Blues
1941
10
4666
Charles Brown
Black Night
Electric Blues
1951
11
4888
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Merry Christmas, Baby
Christmas Music
1947
12
6223
Bessie Smith
T Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
Vaudeville Blues
1923
13
6457
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell
Blues Before Sunrise
1934
14
6490
St. Louis Jimmy Oden
Going Down Slow
1941
15
6757
Tom Waits
Martha
Singer/Songwriter
1973
16
7541
Bessie Smith
Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Vaudeville Blues
1931
17
8255
Eddie Boyd
Five Long Years
Chicago Blues
1952
18
9329
Mose Allison
Parchman Farm
Rhythm & Blues
,
Vocal Jazz
1957
19
9441
Tom Waits
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)
Singer/Songwriter
1976
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Bob Dylan
Dear Landlord
Singer/Songwriter
1967
Bob Dylan
Dirge
Singer/Songwriter
1974
Cecil Gant
I Wonder
Boogie Woogie
,
Stride
1944
Rosco Gordon
No More Doggin'
Jump-Blues
,
Rhythm & Blues
1952
Tom Waits
Soldier’s Things
Singer/Songwriter
,
Vocal Jazz
1983
Ray Charles
Losing Hand
Rhythm & Blues
1954
Ray Charles
Sinner’s Prayer
Rhythm & Blues
1954