"Cayenne" is a 12-bar blues composition in the key of d-minor.
And as he has done on several recent albums, he includes an original blues composition, "H.S." The exploratory solo regularly changes musical color.
In 2005 Stoneking recorded an album of original blues compositions titled King Hokum.
"One O'Clock Jump" is an instrumental twelve-bar blues composition by Count Basie.
He was a talented composer, blending fragments of folk poetry and personalized lyrics into set guitar accompaniments to craft striking blues compositions such as "Maggie Campbell".
The basic 12-bar lyric framework of a blues composition is reflected by a standard harmonic progression of 12 bars in a 4/4 time signature.
"West End Blues" is a multi-strain twelve-bar blues composition by Joe "King" Oliver.
The album is best known for the title piece, a slow blues composition which lasts for nearly 15 minutes.
The core of the Clapton special is his recent "From the Cradle" recording of blues compositions.
The player can play slurs or bends around the minor/major third of the scale and around the tritone/fifth of the scale, both of which are vital to many blues compositions.