Cleared Blues Samples for Commercial Use
Public domain, CC0 & CC-BY — with a license certificate per download
The blues is the root of nearly everything that followed — and it's one of the richest seams of genuinely free source material there is. A large share of early blues recordings, published before 1926, are in the public domain: raw guitar, harmonica, and weathered vocals you can sample with no clearance at all.
What “cleared” means here
Every blues sample in the Selekt catalog comes from a named, verified source — public domain, CC0, or CC-BY — not an anonymous “royalty-free” upload. Each download ships with a license certificate naming the source, the exact license, and any attribution required, and samples from less-authoritative sources are fingerprint-screened against 150M+ commercial recordings. So you can pull from some of the most usable public-domain audio for producers — old enough to be free, expressive enough to anchor a record — with documentation you can keep, not just a label that says “cleared.”
Built to flip, not just to browse
Cleared source is only half of it. Every track is analyzed for BPM, key, and mood, separated into stems (vocals, drums, bass, and more), and ready for the free browser tools — chop it, re-pitch it, build a beat in the Drum Kit, or re-voice a melody in Stem Lab. And modifying melodic loops is good practice anyway — it lowers the odds of an automated Content ID match (more in our guide to avoiding Content ID claims).
Browse cleared blues samples
Listen, filter by BPM and key, and download with a certificate.
Open the blues catalog → or explore the full cleared library →
Before you release
A few minutes of due diligence saves headaches later: how to verify a sample is really cleared, royalty-free vs public domain vs CC0, and screen your finished mix against 150M+ commercial recordings for a signed audit log.
