Ramsey Lewis’s “Barefoot Sunday Blues” is a prime example of the tight, bluesy, and accessible trio interplay that made him a household name. The single showcases the organ-heavy sound that would soon define Lewis’s chart-topping work.
- The single reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966.
- The song reached number 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.
- The single was released on the Argo label, a subsidiary of Chess Records.
The Ramsey Lewis Trio was a jazz piano trio formed in Chicago in the late 1950s. They became one of the most commercially successful jazz groups of the 1960s.
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