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2 unusual facts about Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues


It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

The version of the song on Highway 61 Revisited is an acoustic/electric blues song, one of three blues songs on the album (the others being "From a Buick 6" and "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues").

When Gravity Fails

The title is taken from "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", a song by Bob Dylan: "When your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through".


Joe's Blues

Joe's Blues is an album by American jazz guitarists Joe Pass and Herb Ellis, recorded in 1968 and released posthumously in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Johnny's Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash

#"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" - Mavis Staples

Magic City Jazz Orchestra

In 2003, the MCJO released a CD with "Blue Lou" Marini, titled Lou's Blues, which elicited favorable reviews.

Room to Roam

Room to Roam is an album by The Waterboys; it continued the folk rock sound of 1988's Fisherman's Blues, but was less of a commercial success, reaching #180 on the Billboard Top 200 after its release in September 1990.

Seymour Simons

A collaboration in 1926 with Richard A. Whiting produced “Hello, Baby,” recorded by Ruth Etting, and the popular “Breezin’ Along With the Breeze”, in conjunction with Haven Gillespie, which was first recorded by Josephine Baker, used in the film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), and sung by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in their 1954 film, The Long, Long Trailer.

Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues

#"Hard Hearted Hannah" (Milton Ager, Chas Bates, Bob Bigelow, Jack Yellen – 3:08

Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1955 (see 1955 in music) soundtrack album by Peggy Lee featuring tracks by Ella Fitzgerald, and several jazz instrumentals.

Sonny's Blues

Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker are mentioned during a conversation between Sonny and his brother.

Trane's Blues

Lee Morgan — trumpet on "Locomotion," "Blue Train," "Smoke Stack"

Kenny Drewpiano on "Trane's Blues," "Locomotion," "Blue Train"

It comprises recordings from sessions for Blue Note and United Artists Records as a sideman for Paul Chambers, Sonny Clark, Johnny Griffin, and Cecil Taylor that were issued respectively on their Whims of Chambers, Sonny's Crib, A Blowin' Session, and Hard Driving Jazz albums.


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