Blues Run the Game
{{Infobox song
| name = Blues Run the Game
| cover = Blues Run the Game.png
| type = single
| artist = Jackson C. Frank
| album = Jackson C. Frank
| B-side = "Can't Get Away From My Love"
| released = {{start date|1965}}
| recorded = July 1965
| studio = CBS Studios, London
| venue =
| genre = Folk{{cite book|first=Bob |last=Stanley|title=Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop|chapter= An English Pastoral: Folk Rock|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9emZAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-28198-5|page=297}}
| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=50}}
| label = Columbia (EMI)
| writer = Jackson C. Frank
| producer = Paul Simon
}}
"Blues Run the Game" is a 1965 song by the American singer-songwriter Jackson C. Frank.{{Cite news|url=https://people.com/music/this-is-us-jackson-c-frank-blues-run-the-game/|title=This Is Us Gives a Second Life to Tragic Forgotten '60s Folk Musician Jackson C. Frank|work=PEOPLE.com|access-date=2018-11-14|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/9ba997a4-46e5-11e7-8d27-59b4dd6296b8|title=The melancholic allure of Blues Run the Game|last=|first=|date=5 June 2017|website=Financial Times|language=en-GB|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-11-14 |last1=Einav |first1=Dan }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/jackson-c-frank-tragic-tale-forgotten-60s-legend|title=The tragic tale of Jackson C Frank, forgotten legend of the 60s|last=Stanley|first=Bob|date=2014-01-09|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-11-14}} It was the opening track on his self-titled debut album.
Cultural impact
Samples of the Jackson C. Frank original appear on the soundtrack of This Is Us, S01E03, "Kyle," and the full song is heard in the 2018 film, The Old Man and the Gun,{{Citation|last=FoxSearchlight|title=THE OLD MAN & THE GUN {{!}} Official Trailer [HD] {{!}} FOX Searchlight|date=2018-06-05|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rlUe-Thvk|access-date=2018-11-14}} as well as in the 7th episode of the second season of "Britannia". The version of this song recorded by Simon and Garfunkel appears in the PBS documentary The Vietnam War by Ken Burns, in season 1: episode 7.
= Other versions =
The song has been performed by various other artists, such as Simon and Garfunkel (on the CD box set Old Friends), Sandy Denny, Nick Drake (on Family Tree), John Renbourn and Eddi Reader, and later by Bert Jansch, Counting Crows, John Mayer, Colin Meloy, Robin Pecknold, Mark Lanegan, Laura Marling,{{Cite web|url=https://thirdmanstore.com/laura-marling-blues-run-the-game-7-vinyl|title="Blues Run The Game"|website=thirdmanstore.com|language=en|access-date=2018-11-14}} Jack Steadman from Bombay Bicycle Club, Martin Simpson, Alela Diane (with Headless Heroes).