The Blues Hall of Fame, operated by the Blues Foundation, officially opened its doors in Memphis, Tennessee in 2015. However, they started in 1980 honoring performers, non-performers, literature, albums, and “Classics of Blues Recording: Singles or Album Tracks.” This page lists those songs which have been inducted since the first year in 1983 through the present.
Check other lists based on charts, sales, and airplay here.
Year of Induction: Performer “Song” (year released)
A
- 2016: Billy Boy Arnold “I Wish You Would” (1955)
- 2014: Kokomo Arnold “Milk Cow Blues” (1934)
B
- 2022: Baby Face Leroy Trio “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” (1950)
- 2022: Bobby "Blue" Bland “Further on Up the Road” (1957)
- 2018: Booker T. & the MG's “Green Onions” (1962)
- 2011: Eddie Boyd “Five Long Years” (1952)
- 1991: Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88” (1951)
- 2010: Big Bill Broonzy “Key to the Highway” (1941)
- 1989: Charles Brown “Driftin' Blues” (1945)
- 2005: Charles Brown “Black Night” (1951)
- 2016: Charles Brown with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers “Merry Christmas Baby” (1947)
- 2022: Roy Brown & His Orchestra “Good Rockin' Tonight” (1948)
- 2020: Ruth Brown “Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean” (1953)
- 2020: Willie Brown “Future Blues” (1930)
C
- 1988: Leroy Carr “How Long, How Long Blues” (1928)
- 2016: Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell “Blues Before Sunrise” (1934)
- 2019: Ray Charles “I Gotta Woman (aka "I've Got a Woman")” (1955)
- 2020: Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup “That’s All Right, Mama” (1946)
D-E
- 1994: Larry Davis “Texas Flood” (1958)
- 2017: Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” (1955)
- 2018: Bo Diddley “I’m a Man” (1955)
- 2006: Bill Doggett “Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2)” (1956)
F-G
- 1993: Lowell Fulson “Reconsider Baby” (1954)
- 2023: Lowell Fulson “Black Nights” (1965)
H-I
- 2017: W.C. Handy “Father of the Blues” (1941)
- 1997: Slim Harpo “Baby Scratch My Back” (1966)
- 2014: Erskine Hawkins “After Hours” (1940)
- 2020: Bertha “Chippie” Hill “Trouble in Mind” (1926)
- 2000: Z.Z. Hill “Down Home Blues” (1981)
- 1985: John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen” (1949)
- 2009: John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (1962)
- 2023: Lightnin' Hopkins “Mojo Hand” (1960)
- 2007: Son House “Death Letter Blues” (1965)
- 2017: Son House “Preachin’ Blues” (1930)
- 2023: Son House “My Black Mama” (1930)
- 1985: Howlin' Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” (1956)
- 1991: Howlin' Wolf “The Killing Floor” (1964)
- 2010: Howlin' Wolf “Spoonful” (1960)
- 2013: Howlin' Wolf “How Many More Years” (1951)
- 2017: Howlin' Wolf “I Ain’t Superstitious” (1962)
- 2023: Howlin' Wolf “Little Red Rooster” (1961)
J
- 1986: Little Walter Jacobs & His Night Cats “Juke” (1952)
- 2008: Little Walter Jacobs “My Babe” (1955)
- 1983: Elmore James “I Believe I'll Dust My Broom” (1952)
- 2019: Elmore James “Shake Your Moneymaker” (1961)
- 1991, 2019: Elmore James “The Sky Is Crying” (1960)
- 2006: Skip James “Devil Got My Woman” (1931)
- 2011: Skip James “Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues” (1931)
- 2010: Blind Lemon Jefferson “Matchbox Blues” (1927)
- 2010: Little Willie John “Fever” (1956)
- 1999: Blind Willie Johnson “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” (1928)
- 1983: Robert Johnson “Hell Hound on My Trail” (1937)
- 1983: Robert Johnson “Sweet Home Chicago” (1936)
- 1986: Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues (aka ‘Crossroads’)” (1936)
- 1989: Robert Johnson “Come on in My Kitchen” (1936)
- 1990: Robert Johnson “Terraplane Blues” (1936)
- 2011: Robert Johnson “A Love in Vain” (1937)
- 1987: Tommy Johnson “Big Road Blues” (1928)
- 2013: Tommy Johnson “Canned Heat Blues” (1928)
- 1984: Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones “The Things That I Used to Do” (1954)
- 2009: Louis Jordan “Caldonia Boogie” (1945)
- 2013: Louis Jordan “Let the Good Times Roll” (1946)
K-L
- 1988: Albert King “Born Under a Bad Sign” (1967)
- 2017: Albert King “I’ll Play the Blues for You” (1972)
- 2018: Albert King “Crosscut Saw” (1966)
- 1985: B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (1969)
- 2019: B.B. King “Every Day I Have the Blues” (1955)
- 2020: B.B. King “Three O’Clock Blues” (1951)
- 2022: B.B. King “Rock Me Baby” (1964)
- 2007: Freddie King “Hideaway” (1961)
- 2023: Freddie King “I’m Tore Down” (1961)
M-N
- 2012: Magic Sam “All Your Love” (1957)
- 1987: Percy Mayfield “Please Send Me Someone to Love” (1950)
- 1992: Blind Willie McTell “Statesboro Blues” (1928)
- 2013: Memphis Minnie “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” (1941)
- 1983: Big Maceo Merriweather “Worried Life Blues” (1941)
- 2009: The Mississippi Sheiks “Sitting on Top of the World” (1930)
- 2007: Robert Nighthawk “Black Angel Blues” (1949)
O-P
- 2002: St. Louis Jimmy Oden “Goin’ Down Slow” (1941)
- 2013: Little Junior Parker “Mystery Train” (1953)
- 1988: Charley Patton “Pony Blues” (1929)
- 2014: Charley Patton “High Water Everywhere” (1930)
- 2014: Robert Petway “Catfish Blues” (1941)
Q-R
- 2018: Ma Rainey “See See Rider Blues” (1925)
- 1990: Jimmy Reed “Big Boss Man” (1961)
- 2004: Jimmy Reed “Baby What You Want Me to Do” (1960)
- 2016: Jimmy Rogers “That's All Right” (1950)
- 1994: Otis Rush “I Can't Quit You Baby” (1956)
- 2008: Otis Rush “Double Trouble” (1958)
- 2010: Otis Rush “All Your Love (I Miss Loving)” (1958)
S
- 2008: Bessie Smith “Back Water Blues” (1927)
- 2019: Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
- 2012: Clarence "Pine Top" Smith “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” (1929)
- 2016: Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds “Crazy Blues” (1920)
T-U-V
- 2012: Tampa Red “It Hurts Me Too (When Things Go Wrong)” (1940)
- 2014: Tampa Red & Georgia Tom “It's Tight Like That” (1928)
- 1995: Koko Taylor “Wang Dang Doodle” (1966)
- 2003: Little Johnny Taylor “Part Time Love” (1963)
- 2006: Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton “Hound Dog” (1953)
- 2017: Tommy Tucker “Hi-Heel Sneakers” (1964)
- 2001: Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (1954)
- 2018: Joe Turner & Pete Johnson “Roll 'Em Pete” (1938)
W-X-Y-Z
- 1983: T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947)
- 1984: Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954)
- 1984: Muddy Waters “Got My Mojo Working” (1957)
- 1986: Muddy Waters “Mannish Boy” (1955)
- 1989: Muddy Waters “Long Distance Call” (1951)
- 2019: Muddy Waters “Rollin' Stone” (1950)
- 1998: Junior Wells “Messin' with the Kid” (1960)
- 1992: Big Joe Williams “Baby Please Don't Go” (1935)
- 1990: Sonny Boy Williamson (#1) “Good Morning Little School Girl” (1937)
- 1987: Sonny Boy Williamson (#2) “Help Me” (1963)
- 1991: Sonny Boy Williamson (#2) “Nine Below Zero” (1951)
- 1996: Sonny Boy Williamson (#2) “Don't Start Me Talkin'“ (1955)
- 2022: Sonny Boy Williamson (#2) “Eyesight to the Blind” (1951)
- 2011: Jimmy Witherspoon “Ain't Nobody's Business” (1949)
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First posted 5/10/2023; last updated 9/11/2023.
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