Barbed Wire Blues by Wilko Johnson Song Details

On February 3, 2017, the song "Barbed Wire Blues" was released by Wilko Johnson. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:28, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The track order of this song in Wilko Johnson's "I Keep It To Myself - The Best Of Wilko Johnson" album is number 8 out of 25. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Barbed Wire Blues's popularity is not that popular right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Barbed Wire Blues by Wilko Johnson to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 130 BPM, a half-time of 65BPM, and a double-time of 260 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

The music key of this track is F Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-5.791 dB
Acousticness
16%
Danceability
66%
Energy
88%
Instrumentalness
78%
Liveness
6%
Loudness
90%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
96%

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ISRC
GBKYA1003014
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records