Bluesy “she left me songs”

A little help for my daughters homework please - after blues songs about relationship break ups, specifically the lady leaving the man.

A few suggestions would be helpful and then she has to compose one of her own!

Thanks

 

Ray Charles / Drown In My Own Tears...the title says it all, the ultimate in defeat & exactly what your daughter is seeking

There are many more but this song is definitive

My 2nd suggestion is Fleetwood Mac/ Love That Burns...Peter Greens performance is astounding, one of if not his best studio work

 

Yesterday
Why she had to go, I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday

 

Bluesy "she left me" songs.

 

Well, since my baby left me
Well, I found a new place to dwell
Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel
Where I'll be--where I get so lonely, baby
Well, I'm so lonely
I get so lonely, I could die

 

Not as bluesy as some, but a classic.

Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone

 

"My Baby Left Me" by CCR

 

Is that the Elvis' song? No need, I just checked I didn't know they had done it too

 

First one that came to mind was ‘Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell’ by ZZ Top - an absolutely beautiful song

 

I want you back again
I want your love again
I know you find it hard to reason with me
But this time it's different, darling you'll see
You gotta tell me you're coming back to me
You gotta tell me you're coming back to me
You gotta tell me you're coming back to me
You gotta tell me you're coming back to me
You said we're through before
You walked out on me before
I tried to tell you, but you didn't want to know
This time you're different and determined to go

 

Its originally a Bo Diddley song & his version is definitive, IMO

 

Didn't know that, will look it up, thanks!

 

My pleasure...

Actually Arthur Crudup recorded it 1st but Bo made it his own

 

A few more real Blues for your daughter to sample...

1.Robert Johnson / Love In Vain

2..Muddy Waters / Rollin & Tumblin

3.Elmore James / The Sky Is Crying

4.Bukka White / Baby Please Don't
Go

5.Ike Turners Kings Of Rhythm / Feelin Low Down

6.Otis Redding / You Don't Miss Your Water

7.Bob Dylan / Standing In The Doorway Crying

You forgot to specify whether your daughter was composing Country, Electric, Soul or Contemporary Blues so I have included some of it all

 

Bluesy like hell. Please read before you post.

 

Little Willie John - Suffering With The Blues

The most chillingly tragic performance i have ever heard.

 

John Lee Hooker - It serves me right to suffer:



"My doctor put me on...milk, cream, and alcohol"
Sounds a lot better than Zoloft.

 

Arthur Alexander -"If It's Really Got To Be This Way"

 

Solomon Burke -"Baby Come On Home"

 

Led Zeppelin -"Baby Come On Home"

 

James Carr - That's The Way Love Turned Out For Me'. Your daughter has more interesting homework assignments that I used to get

 

Sorry, missed the "bluesy" part. Must have been in a good broken heart mood.

'Whipping Post' by the Allman Bros describes a situation even worse.

She took all my money, wrecks my new car.
Now she's with one of my good time buddies,
They're drinkin' in some cross-town bar.

 

"I Got the Blues" - Albert King.
♫ She poured the salt out of the shaker, she didn't leave me with a doggone thing ♫
That... that is cold.

 

I got a mind to give up living
Love in vain
Early in the morning
No Expectations
Red House

 

Please remind me which lp this was from.