The Most Influential Blues Songs Of All Time The blues artists talked, the rockers listened. Without the blues there’d be no rock’n’roll, but these influential blues songs were especially. Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as having permanent value.
Respect - Aretha Franklin 2. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 3. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding 4. What'd I Say - Ray Charles 5. Maybellene - Chuck Berry 6. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown 7. Money Honey - Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters 8.