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Dusty Springfield - Just a Little Lovin'

Thanks to small blues record labels in the 1940s and 1950s such as Chess Records, blues records could be distributed around the world. Blues music was still not popular or well known to many white people in the USA. Some musicians such as Elvis and The Beach Boys started copying and imitating blues guitar riffs and progressions into their music. There were also some white people in Europe that loved the blues music from the USA

These musicians were pioneers in the late 1890’s to 1920s. Robert Johnson’s story of a blues musician became popular in a unique way. The story says that he was an average blues guitarist/singer and would get booed off stage. A short time later he returned and had an amazing talent to sing and play the blues. Other blues musicians were confused and jealous of his newly acquired talents. People believed that he went to the crossroads and sold his soul to the devil to become the best blues musician in the world. 

Currently in the year 2021, there has been a new generation of blues musicians and contemporary blues inspired musicians to continue to keep the blues flame burning. 

By the 1970’s, these blues influence evolved into more electric guitar tones, louder music, more rock and roll, which evolved into classic rock and blues rock genres.


Dusty Springfield - Just a Little Lovin'
  • Released in: 1968
  • Genre: Funk / Soul
  • Written by: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil

"Dusty Springfield was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue eyed soul, pop and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz in her repertoire."

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