About This Song
About "W.C. Handy: St. Louis Blues March" by Boston Pops Orchestra
A funeral march swaggers into a bluesy strut. Handy's 'St. Louis Blues March' gets the Pops treatment: muted horns, a slow-drag rhythm, and a melancholy that refuses to sit still. It's grief with a grin, the tension between sorrow and swing palpable in every brass swell.