Sweet Home Chicago

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"Sweet Home Chicago" is a classic blues standard, widely popularized in modern culture by its energetic performance in the film *The Blues Brothers*.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sweet Home Chicago canonical 2
"Sweet Home Chicago" 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf blues standard
song
associatedWithCity Chicago
composer Robert Johnson
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalStatus American popular music standard
blues standard
featuredInFilm The Blues Brothers
featuredInWork The Blues Brothers
surface form: The Blues Brothers (1980 film)
firstRecordingArtist Robert Johnson
genre Chicago blues
blues
hasChorusLine Back to that same old place, sweet home Chicago
Come on, baby, don't you want to go
hasInstrumentation bass
drums
guitar
harmonica
piano
voice
hasKey E major
hasNotablePerformanceBy The Blues Brothers Band
surface form: Blues Brothers Band

Eric Clapton
Junior Parker
Magic Sam
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Blues Brothers
hasPlaceInTitle Chicago
hasVersion Blues Brothers film soundtrack version of Sweet Home Chicago
Eric Clapton version of Sweet Home Chicago
The Blues Brothers version of Sweet Home Chicago
influencedGenre electric blues
rock and roll
inspiredBy Kokomo Blues
isStandardIn Chicago blues repertoire
blues repertoire
language English
lyricist Robert Johnson
notableFor association with Chicago blues scene
prominent appearance in The Blues Brothers film
originalPerformer Robert Johnson
partOf The Blues Brothers: Original Soundtrack Recording
recordLabel Vocalion Records
relatedWork Kokomo Blues
tempo medium-up
theme longing for home
travel
urban life
usesForm twelve-bar blues

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Blues Brothers notableSongPerformance Sweet Home Chicago
Robert Johnson notableWork Sweet Home Chicago
The Blues Brothers Band performerOf Sweet Home Chicago
this entity surface form: "Sweet Home Chicago"