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Wanna go with something different for your Valentine’s Day mash-up? Try the blues. Some of the sweetest, saddest and most soulful songs of all time — and plenty of them with stinging guitar — are from the blues cannon. Here are 10 classic examples guaranteed to fan the fires of love. Listen free to Various Artists – Blues Love Songs (Since I Met You Baby, Sweet Black Girl and more). 16 tracks (66:50). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm.

This strange collection should probably have been titled Bluesy Love Songs rather than, since half of what is here on this two-disc set (with a little editing this could have easily been a single disc) isn't blues by most definitions of the genre. Not that there aren't wonderful tracks, like the marvelous field recording of singing the slave-era lament 'Another Man Done Gone' that leads things off, 's powerful 'I'll Take Care of You,' or and 's delightful restructuring of 'Queen Bee.' But a great deal of the music here isn't the blues at all, so in the end this anthology plays like someone's personal mix tape -- which is fine, but most folks can make their own.

The have done more than most to keep the blues alive, whether that’s playing Chess classics to hordes of oblivious teenage girls in 1964 or making the genre their own with tracks like Midnight Rambler and Stray Cat Blues at the close of that decade. Crucially, the Stones,, always showed their workings, ensuring that heroes like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and BB King were given credit and exposure to new audiences at every opportunity. No bunch of white kids from London ever had more right to play the blues. Confessin’ The Blues (12 X 5, 1964) Confessin’ The Blues was first released on The Stones’ now legendary Five by Five EP, one of a quintet of tracks recorded at Chess Studios in Chicago June ‘64. Other cuts on the EP included soul man Wilson Pickett’s If You Need Me, Chuck Berry’s Around And Around and two tracks attributed to Nanker Phelge: Empty Heart and 2120 South Michigan Avenue, the latter the address of Chess Records. Nanker Phelge was the collective songwriting credit for all five Stones.

Little Red Rooster (The Rolling Stones Now, 1965) The Stones’ cut of one of Chess Records’ songwriter/bassist/resident genius Willie Dixon’s greatest songs echoes the 1961 version by Howlin’ Wolf. The Stones’ 45 is the only blues single ever to have topped the British charts. Said Mick Jagger: “The reason we recorded Little Red Rooster isn’t because we want to bring blues to the masses.

Download Best Blues Love Songs

We’ve been going on and on about blues, so we thought it was about time we stopped talking and did something about it.” Here’s the band performing the song live on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1965.