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Born in New Jersey in 1926, Allen Ginsberg was educated at Columbia University in New York City, where he met fellow writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, with whom he formed a creative triad that gave birth to the Beat Movement of the 1950s. Ginsberg’s most famous work, Howl and Other Poems, was published in 1955, and its graphic, excoriating vision of the failure of the American Dream resulted in both literary acclaim and obscenity charges. Other books by Ginsberg include Kaddish (1961), Reality Sandwiches (1965), and First Blues: Songs (1982). Allen Ginsberg died in 1997. He contributed this list to The Book of Lists in 1993.

1 ‘James Alley Blues’, Richard ‘Rabbit’ Brown

2 ‘Washington DC Hospital Centre Blues’, Skip James

3 ‘Jelly Bean Blues’, Ma Rainey

4 ‘See See Rider Blues’, Ma Rainey

5 ‘Young Woman’s Blues’, Bessie Smith

6 ‘Poor Me’, Charles Patton

7 ‘Black Girl’, Leadbelly

8 ‘Levee Camp Moan Blues’, Texas Alexander

9 ‘Last Fair Deal Gone Down’, Robert Johnson

10 ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’, Hank Williams, Sr

11 ‘Idiot Wind’, Bob Dylan