Stormy Monday (disambiguation)

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"Stormy Monday" is the common shortened form of "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)", a blues standard by T-Bone Walker.

Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) Blues standard written by T-Bone Walker

"Call It Stormy Monday " is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker. It is a slow twelve-bar blues performed in the West Coast blues-style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal and distinctive guitar work. As well as becoming a record chart hit in 1948, it inspired B.B. King and others to take up the electric guitar. "Stormy Monday" became Walker's best-known and most-recorded song.

Stormy Monday may also refer to:

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<i>Stormy Monday</i> (Lou Rawls album) 1962 studio album by Lou Rawls

Stormy Monday, also known as I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water, is the debut album of R&B singer Lou Rawls, released in 1962 on Capitol Records. Recorded in two sessions in February 1962, the album features a number of blues and jazz standards chosen by Rawls and backed by the Les McCann Trio. Stormy Monday was reissued in 1990 by Blue Note records.

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