Story Behind The Song
"Stormy Monday" is a song written and recorded by Amercian blues electric guitar peioneer T-Bone Walker. it is a slow twelve-bar blues, performed in the West coast blues-style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal and distinctive guitar work. As well as becoming a record chart hit in 1948, it inspired B.B. King and other to take up the electric guitar.
Song Description
12-bar blues about how each day of the week (starting with Monday), gets worse.
| Song Length |
3:29 |
Genre |
Blues - Chicago, Blues - Traditional |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Gloomy, Poignant |
Subject |
Pain |
| Similar Artists |
BB King |
| |
Lyrics
"They call it Stormy Monday...But Tuesday's Just as Bad..."
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