Sometimes you find a song that is so full of clear examples of music theory concepts that you want to build your whole syllabus around it. The Allman Brothers version of "Stormy Monday", which they adapted from Bobby Bland's arrangement of a T-Bone Walker song, is a case in point: it has extended chords, augmented chords, tritone substitutions, and modal interchange at a nice slow tempo. I love when I can get this much juice out of a single tune.
First, here's the T-Bone Walker original from 1947, with the unwieldy title "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad)".
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