Fav Blues Artists/Albums

[mjkoehler]

MJ, great album...& I'm sure a lot of serious Hendrix fans will argue that he was known for his blues  :)  

Probably right. Sadly, that is the only blues album I have. Not sure why or how. I need to rectify that problem. Thankfully, there is a radio station here that has a great blues hour during evening rush hour. I listen to it when I can.

[Love Dogg]

If you don't have this or haven't heard it, GET IT NOW!

MUDDY WATERS

[dragonboy]

I'm more into electric blues

Gary Moore & Albert King: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6oDdgrbmeE

[dragonboy]

Fender Telecaster :oWhat tone Not too many people that could create the sounds he did

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOptDDU3rOo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On5372UztI0

Absolutely brilliant  :'(

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I don't like this thread because it makes me not like myself for my utter lack of a blues collection.  

:-[

[dragonboy]

 ;D

Didn't you pick up some Robert Johnson & Stevie Ray Vaughan from the library the other day? How do you like those?

Like I said to Serg, my personal fav is Muddy Water's Folk Singer. Muddy & Buddy...you really can't go wrong with that one!

[dragonboy]

I'm more into electric blues

Are you a Rory Gallagher fan Capt? If not give Daughter Of The Everglades a listen: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=46850984  

EDIT: I f**king love this man!!!

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Didn't you pick up some Robert Johnson & Stevie Ray Vaughan from the library the other day? How do you like those?

Like I said to Serg, my personal fav is Muddy Water's Folk Singer. Muddy & Buddy...you really can't go wrong with that one!

Texas Flood is amazing!  I haven't listened to either of the Robert Johnson albums yet 'cause I'm so taken with Stevie.  

I'll add Folk Singer to my 'list'.   [smiley=beer.gif]

[TheBigChicken]

Roy Buchanan is special....If you get a chance read "An American Axe". Of course it's about Roy Buchanan....Great read. Fender Telecaster :oWhat tone Not too many people that could create the sounds he did.F.King -Burgular is good but Getting Ready is better. Lots of cats on that album including I believe Leon Russell 8-)

So I bought the wrong Freddie King album? Poo!

Pleased to see some love for Roy, you da man RC! Like you said, that tone!!! I truly love this album but it's the only one I have...any more essential Roy Buchanan albums RC?

Roy Buchanan-Sweet Dreams The Anthology ;)

[Chills]

So many artist listed here that I urgently need to check out.

It's a little overwhelming actually.

Do you have Muddy Water's Folk Singer? I highly recommend that one Serg  :)

Nope, I have a cheap compilation which is one side Muddy and one side Lightnin' Hopkins.

I think I'll add Folk Singer to the list, and some Buddy Guy, and Albert King and Skip James (Devil Got My Woman!!) etc. etc.

[dragonboy]

I've spent the evening listening to the late, great, fucking incredible Rory Gallagher!

Electric
Walk On Hot Coals (excellent clip from the Old Grey Whistle Test): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKaiHamPT54
A Million Mile Away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxiEMpcI83E

Acoustic
As The Crow Flies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znsZuirU3-c
Too Much Alcohol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1snoWhN-Pgs

I have a few of his CDs (Rory Gallagher, Blueprint, Tattoo, Irish Tour & Live In Europe) just ordered a few more!

[ItStillJaimoe]

I find albums and artists interchangable, so here's a few of my favourite blues artists and what I deem is their best album:


I met Buddy Guy during a live taping concert special for the arts TV channel Bravo! around the time when this album came out. I told Buddy that I thought this was his best album and he said: "I think it is too".




Although I really really love Chulahoma EP by The Black Keys, paying tribute to their hero Junior Kimbrough, the master's music is still best.




4 discs of Muddy recordings from his early to mid prime working with the famed Chess brothers. Blues rarely gets any any better does it?



Actually recorded live on the street, this is scary electric blues from a scary legend, Robert Nighthawk. "Goin' Down To Eli's" is as violent a blues song as I've ever heard.




I have few recordings of this legend (the man who invented guitar soloing and is still imitated today). I urge all blues (and jazz) fans to get some recordings of Lonnie Johnson immediately. You will be surprised and shocked at how ahead of his time he actually was... and remains to some extent:





I'd like to get on-board the Robert Johnson train too (the complete recordings is a must own for music fanatics).

I'd also like to include Delta legend Tommy Johnson (Robert Johnson ripped off his act) into the mix and Mr. John Lee Hooker. I concur with the praise of Roy Buchanan, but he's more of a hybrid; so too is Rory Gallagher (from his own mouth).

[MMJ_fanatic]

You all have listed guys I really dig--everyone of them.  On of my all time favorite Albert King tunes is "Cold Feet"--nobody punctuates a tune with the yell of HEY! quite like Albert.

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WHERE THE HELL'S the LOVE FOR THIS GUY:




GOOOOOOOOD STUFF!

[ItStillJaimoe]

I love Johnny Winter. Surely one of if not the greatest white bluesmen ever... and the co-whitest. I freaking love Stevie Ray Vaughan. He along with Robert Cray and to a smaller extent Bonnie Raitt, rescued blues from near-death in the 80's. And of course blues is dying once again and I don't know if it will survive another 50 years as is.

Jimi Hendrix is in my Top 3 favourite artists ever, but he's not really a full-on bluesman. He is/was however, the link between blues and rock & roll.

The Allman Brothers, Derek and the Dominos, The Jeff Beck Group (the first two albums), Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Stones and Eric Clapton - all of these noted bands are blues hybrids too even if some of their music is more honest and soulful than anything done by today's contemporary blues acts.

[.Walt]

Soledad Brothers  8-)

[The DARK]

There's a BIG one everyone is forgetting...

[dragonboy]

I have a couple of Ali Farka Toure albums, always listen to them more in the summer  :)

[dragonboy]

WHERE THE HELL'S the LOVE FOR THIS GUY:




GOOOOOOOOD STUFF!

I don't have anything by either of the Winter brothers...what can you recommend Fanatic?

[Jaimoe]

WHERE THE HELL'S the LOVE FOR THIS GUY:




GOOOOOOOOD STUFF!

I don't have anything by either of the Winter brothers...what can you recommend Fanatic?

I'm no Winter Brothers expert (although I'm old enough to have lived through and remember most of their musical legacy), but you really can't go wrong with Johnny's early albums (I know him far more than Edgar since I'm a blues guitarist). Get them all or just a couple. Once you do that, you can explore his mid-career and later work - his collaborations with his brother normally produced fireworks. He also had a creative renaissance in the 80's.

Johnny Winter (1969)  - a must-own.

Second Winter (1969) - his most famous album cover and one of his best albums period.

The Progressive Blues Experiment (1969) - you will freaking love this album: "Mean Town Blues" and his cover of "Rollin' and Tumblin'" sizzle like a mofo.

Johnny Winter And (1970) - collaborates with Rick Derringer.


All Music Guide has an excellent bio and the CD Discovery section will steer you in the right direction: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:giftxqr5ldfe

[TheBigChicken]

WHERE THE HELL'S the LOVE FOR THIS GUY:




GOOOOOOOOD STUFF!

I don't have anything by either of the Winter brothers...what can you recommend Fanatic?

DB,do yourself a favor and get Johnny Winter-Still Alive And Well :o :oTo quote one of our forum brothers "it's SHIT HOT" ;D....damn this thread is SHIT HOT ;)