Blues songs at 116 BPM
TempoTunes has 321 blues songs with a verified tempo of 116 BPM: twelve-bar feeling and guitar bends. Here are some of the best known.
116 BPM is the heart of dance music: house, disco, and most of the pop charts live within a couple of clicks of it. It keeps spin warmups and gym floors moving without redlining anyone.
Popular 116 BPM blues songs
A New Leaf
John Lee Hooker (1962)
Come Back Baby
Etta James (1999)
Performance
Joe Cocker (1974)
I Need Your Love So Bad
Buddy Guy (1999)
Rockin' Daddy
Howlin' Wolf (1971)
House of the Rising Sun
The Animals
Stop Breakin' Down Blues
Robert Johnson (1970)
Come On
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1994)
Crossfire
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Street Walking Woman
T‐Bone Walker (1975)
Pride and Joy
Albert King (1999)
Tell Me, Baby
Lightnin' Hopkins (1959)
Bad Trouble
Canned Heat (2003)
Dancing the Blues Away
Chris Rea (2002)
Gimme Gimme
Bo Diddley (1962)
Don't Need No Horse
Little Walter (1993)
Sorry My Jesus
Seasick Steve (2007)
Mojo Hand
Johnny Winter (2014)
I Go Ka
Ali Farka Touré (1992)
Brumwell’s Beat
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers (2005)
A Sad Song
Ten Years After (1969)
I Am Your Mother Too
Keb’ Mo’ (2001)
That's What Love Does
Popa Chubby (2002)
Conversation
Eric Bibb (2008)
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