St Louis Blues on sax and clarinet

This is one of the best-known blues tunes of all time. Attributed to WC Handy. I’m playing it on tenor sax and clarinet. According to Wikipedia, Handy said he had been inspired by a chance meeting with a woman on the streets of St. Louis distraught over her husband’s absence, who lamented, “Ma man’s got a heart like a rock cast in de sea“, a key line of the song. Details of the story vary. Robert Palmer states that Handy encountered the melody in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1892, when he was out of work. It