Down And Out Blues
by Sonny Boy Williamson
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Down And Out Blues is ranked as the best album by Sonny Boy Williamson.
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Down And Out Blues track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Down And Out Blues rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/21/2025 22:36 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,714 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/14/2025 14:45 | TonySayers61 | 24,981 | 64/100 |
| ! | 11/06/2025 03:35 |  Larcx13 | 2,850 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/13/2025 19:48 | matterhornrider | 5,104 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/10/2025 22:18 | Rivera | 2,045 | 82/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.0/100, a mean average of 70.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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Jboy56 07/29/2022 08:35 | #287926 | TOP COMMENT
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Despite the cover, this album is so cool, so deep and so bluesy. I think that the harp is one of the coolest and roughest instruments of all time...
Kingturtle 03/11/2016 21:21 | #161752 | TOP COMMENT
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Certainly one of the most terribly LP covers of its day.
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