A collection of enka songs with “Blues” in the title: masterpieces that sing of sorrow

When you look through enka song titles, many of you may have noticed there are a lot of tracks called “___ Blues.”

Blues is a music genre born in America, where singers pour a range of emotions into songs built on a particular rhythm and chord progression.

In Japan’s enka scene, many songs began to be composed with the blues in mind, and a particularly large number of melancholy tunes were released.

In this article, we’ll introduce classic enka songs whose titles include the word “Blues.”

Listen to them while picturing the scenes and emotions woven into each track.