Blues songs at 66 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 405 blues songs with a verified tempo of 66 BPM: twelve-bar feeling and guitar bends. Here are some of the best known.
At 66 BPM you are in slow-ballad territory: wind-downs, stretching, and end-of-day listening. Many of these songs carry a half-time feel, so they can also read as 132 BPM when you count the backbeat.
Popular 66 BPM blues songs
All Night Long
Muddy Waters (1985)
The Waterfront
John Lee Hooker (1966)
Crawlin' King Snake
Etta James (2004)
Isolation
Joe Cocker (1987)
Hoodoo Man
Buddy Guy (1993)
Doin’ Time
T‐Bone Walker (1990)
Found My Baby Crying
Lightnin' Hopkins (1973)
What Kind of Love Is This
Chris Rea (2004)
Jo-Ann
Bo Diddley (1966)
Story #2
Seasick Steve (2004)
I Had to Cry
Johnny Winter (1998)
Slow Blues in ‘C’
Ten Years After (1995)
Low Down Ways
Popa Chubby (2003)
Far Away Blues
Bessie Smith (1991)
Sittin' and Cryin' the Blues
Willie Dixon (1960)
The Man Next Door
Koko Taylor (2000)
Give Love Another Chance
Jimmy Rogers (1993)
Hoodoo Man
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells (1999)
Skip Talking
Skip James (1999)
Two Trains Running
George Thorogood & the Destroyers (2011)
Baby, What You Want Me to Do?
Albert Collins (1989)
Brother to Brother
Gregg Allman (2002)
Gambler’s Blues
B.B. King (1971)
Do the Walkin'
Joe Louis Walker (1999)
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