“Limehouse Blues” is a British song from 1922, with music by Philip Braham and words by Douglas Furber. Written for a London revue, it took its name — and some of its musical color — from Limehouse, then the Chinatown of London.
The song became a jazz standard, recorded hundreds of times. As an instrumental its bright, swinging melody drew bluegrass players, and it became one of the swing numbers banjo and guitar pickers took up to stretch beyond fiddle tunes.
The tune is played in bluegrass as a showcase for fast, jazzy picking.
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