How Blue Can You Get How Blue Can You Get "How Blue Can You Get" (alternatively "Downhearted") is a blues song first recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in 1949. It is a slow twelve-bar blues that jazz critic Leonard Feather and his wife, Jane Feather, are credited with writing. The song has been recorded by several blues and other artists. In 1964, it was a hit for B.B. King and became a staple of his live shows. In 1949, Johnny Moore with his brother, Oscar Moore, on guitars, Billy Valentine on piano and vocal, and Johnny Miller on bass recorded "How Blue Can You
Do You Wanna Get High? One" from "Pinkerton". Alex Young at Consequence of Sound compared the song's "bombastic guitar riffs and earworm hooks" to "Pinkerton". Genre-wise, it has been described as an "alt rock chugger" and a "power pop jam". Chris DeVille at Stereogum held the song in higher regards than the previous single, "Thank God for Girls", describing it as ""Pinkerton" style meets "Green Album" quality." Carolyn Menyes from Music Times stated ""Do You Wanna Get High?" is a hard-hitting song and reminds fans that for every goofy Weezer song, there's this sort of real rock gem. And, for bonus points, there's a soaring