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Goosebumps bitch....Now your talking. Got every ONE of those albums ....PLUS...If your a Magic Sam Maghett fan you HAVE to pick up the album Give Me Time. It will BLOW YOUR MIND :oIt is on the Delmark label. It might be hard to find. Damn you DB for starting this thread. I'm running late for work >:( :D :) The best thread EVER. As the boards BIGGEST blues fan,I will NEVER let this thread die.DB,if you can't find a copy PM me and I'll send you one. Maybe I'll even tell you about a meeting I had with a well known late great harmonica player Junior Wells 8-) and Robert Cray ;)
He's not know for his blues, but this album is bad ass.
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QuoteGoosebumps bitch....Now your talking. Got every ONE of those albums ....PLUS...If your a Magic Sam Maghett fan you HAVE to pick up the album Give Me Time. It will BLOW YOUR MIND :oIt is on the Delmark label. It might be hard to find. Damn you DB for starting this thread. I'm running late for work >:( :D :) The best thread EVER. As the boards BIGGEST blues fan,I will NEVER let this thread die.DB,if you can't find a copy PM me and I'll send you one. Maybe I'll even tell you about a meeting I had with a well known late great harmonica player Junior Wells 8-) and Robert Cray ;)
Haha Cheers RC, your enthusiasm makes me smile :)
I'll look out for Give Me Time & will def hit you up if I can't find it!
With regards to being the boards biggest blues fan (he's not been around for a few days but) you might have to duke it out with Jaimoe ;)
MJ, great album...& I'm sure a lot of serious Hendrix fans will argue that he
was known for his blues :)
Woah too many smileys!!!
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This and Born Under A Bad Sign are my 2 faves.
QuoteMaybe I'll even tell you about a meeting I had with a well known late great harmonica player Junior Wells 8-) and Robert Cray ;)
I just read your post again more carefully...you met Junior Wells?!! :o
BB King is my favorite. He can play awesome, but he also tells really good stories at his shows.
Just to name a quick few...
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I have Freddie King's Burglar on order, should arrive soon!
Here's one I forgot:
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Lots of love for Fat Possum too (RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough etc)
You See Me Laughin' & Deep Blues are essential DVDs:
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Elmore James!!! - Fire and Enjoy Sessions
Big Bill Broonzy - Trouble in Mind
John Mayall - Bluesbreakers
Lightnin' Hopkins
American Folk Blues Festival recordings (I have 1962 and 1963). Great collaborations.
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I have Freddie King's Burglar on order, should arrive soon!
Here's one I forgot:
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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 many artist listed here that I urgently need to check out.
It's a little overwhelming actually.
Oh, and my fav. blues song is Death Letter by Son House, thanks Jack White for introducing me to that one!
I'm more into electric blues, but i enjoy them all.
Albert King
Junior Wells
Ron McKernan
BB King
Buddy Guy
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Oh, and my fav. blues song is Death Letter by Son House, thanks Jack White for introducing me to that one!
that's my number song on my ipod... the white stripes one
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Nice one Bbill, that's the only John Lee Hooker album I have. I don't have any Bo Diddley, do I need a BD album in my blues collection?
QuoteRoy 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?
QuoteSo 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 :)
Lots of love for Buddy Guy here, no surprises there. I saw him live a few years ago...one of the best shows I've ever seen. Truly amazing!!!
Muddy Water's Electric Mud seems to upset a lot of the purists, I love it! Tom Cat baby!!!
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QuoteMJ, 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.
If you don't have this or haven't heard it, GET IT NOW!
MUDDY WATERS
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Gary Moore & Albert King: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6oDdgrbmeE
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QuoteFender Telecaster :oWhat tone Not too many people that could create the sounds he did
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Absolutely brilliant :'(
I don't like this thread because it makes me not like myself for my utter lack of a blues collection.
:-[
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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!
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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]
QuoteQuoteRoy 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 ;)
QuoteQuoteSo 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.
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!
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".
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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:
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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).
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:
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GOOOOOOOOD STUFF!
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.
Soledad Brothers 8-)
There's a BIG one everyone is forgetting...
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I have a couple of Ali Farka Toure albums, always listen to them more in the summer :)
QuoteWHERE THE HELL'S the LOVE FOR THIS GUY:
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GOOOOOOOOD STUFF!
I don't have anything by either of the Winter brothers...what can you recommend Fanatic?
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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
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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 ;)
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Thanks Jaimoe, RC!
Obviously the first thing I did was check allmusic. It's an essential resource that I use a few times a day but I also like to hear from fans + sometimes their star system & reviews don't relate (for example Rory Gallagher's ST debut gets 3 stars yet they describe it as a 'consistently superb album'...that & 3 stars for It Still Moves?!! WTF?!!)
QuoteObviously the first thing I did was check allmusic. It's an essential resource that I use a few times a day but I also like to hear from fans + sometimes their star system & reviews don't relate (for example Rory Gallagher's ST debut gets 3 stars yet they describe it as a 'consistently superb album'...that & 3 stars for It Still Moves?!! WTF?!!)
It's a great resource, however their reviews are odd sometimes. ISM is a perfect example. There are several others that the text give this just glowing review and it's like 2 stars. :-/
QuoteQuoteObviously the first thing I did was check allmusic. It's an essential resource that I use a few times a day but I also like to hear from fans + sometimes their star system & reviews don't relate (for example Rory Gallagher's ST debut gets 3 stars yet they describe it as a 'consistently superb album'...that & 3 stars for It Still Moves?!! WTF?!!)
It's a great resource, however their reviews are odd sometimes. ISM is a perfect example. There are several others that the text give this just glowing review and it's like 2 stars. :-/
It's true, but the general writing part of the reviews are mostly bang-on. I know that they gave It Still Moves an ordinary rating, but you know what, the album is flawed, so I can't hold it against them.
If you like SRV and electric blues check these guys out...they've broken up several years ago but they are re-releasing a special CD with some live footage. I really dig these guys and wish they were still doing their thang. Great name too, The Hoax!
http://www.thehoax.co.uk/
Also, some electric blues in the SRV style is Indigenous
http://www.indigenousmusic.net/indigenous_content.html
Also, here's a local and one of the most underrated bluesmen ever. I just saw him last night, and the amazing voice and guitar skills are still intact at age 75.
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QuoteAlso, here's a local and one of the most underrated bluesmen ever. I just saw him last night, and the amazing voice and guitar skills are still intact at age 75.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UZor2IJJWE nice call GP :o 8-) ;)
Cheers Rccola...I love this album!!! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
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Luther Allison Bad News Is Coming is in heavy rotation lately....Also a ton of Buddy Guy.
QuoteLots of love for Fat Possum too (RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough etc)
You See Me Laughin' & Deep Blues are essential DVDs:
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both great DVD's! Love em.
bo carter - cigarette blues from banana in your fruitbasket
all lightnin hopkins and leadbelly
R.L. Burnside's got some dirty Hill Country Blues
Multi award-winning Watermelon Slim on the Northern Blues label is excellent. Seek him out: http://www.watermelonslim.com/
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QuoteQuoteCheers Rccola...I love this album!!! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
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F.Robinson...sooooo underrated....died of brain cancer.....just like Mom :'(
Watching The Beatles Anthology last night made me thinks I needz some Big Bill Broonzy ASAP...what you gotz for me?!!
The much missed Chills/Serg got me thinking 'bout the blues!
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I was @ this show!
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That's very cool db. I'm not really a fan of post Thin Lizzy Gary Moore - he shreds too much - but anyone that's seen Albert King live is a king to me.
QuoteThat's very cool db. I'm not really a fan of post Thin Lizzy Gary Moore - he shreds too much - but anyone that's seen Albert King live is a king to me.
It was on the Still Got The Blues For You tour, which i think is his best solo album. I went 2 nights, Albert King joined him one night & Albert Collins joined him the other (both on the album)
You've seen Buddy Guy a few times, right? I seem to remember you saying you met him? I've only seen him once -
amazing live show! I wish he'd come back to Japan...
Great stuff on this thread! I scrolled through the whole thing to make sure the one I drafted in the Desert Island Draft was still out there.
Simply Masterful!
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Rock on! It's with ole Buddy
QuoteI was @ this show!
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You don't have to rub it in! :)
WOW!
QuoteGreat stuff on this thread! I scrolled through the whole thing to make sure the one I drafted in the Desert Island Draft was still out there.
Simply Masterful!
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Rock on! It's with ole Buddy
Love that one!
I just ordered a Lightnin' Hopkins anthology (Chills/Serg put Sometimes She Will on a mix for me)
QuoteI was @ this show!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V48_CvbHP8
The first few minutes almost made me cry. holy shit, why couldn't I have been blessed to do THAT. Damn, that would have been a helluva show.
I don't own anything by him but Robert Cray is playing in my city this Friday. The man's a legend, I should go right? Tickets aren't cheap though, about $75.
Chris Thomas King (people will know him from O Brother, Where Art Thou) is on the bill too.
Any thoughts?
Ouch man. That's steep.
QuoteI don't own anything by him but Robert Cray is playing in my city this Friday. The man's a legend, I should go right? Tickets aren't cheap though, about $75.
Chris Thomas King (people will know him from O Brother, Where Art Thou) is on the bill too.
Any thoughts?
Robert Cray really should be bigger than what he is. Cray along with Stevie Ray Vaughan, brought the blues back into the mainstream, making it relevant in the 80s. And, how many bluesmen roll through Japan anyway?
$75 is fairly steep, but bluemen are showmen, so it will more than likely be a great night. I've seen Chris Thomas King in concert and he is great live. He'll contrast nicely with Cray's more Chicago style blues.
QuoteI don't own anything by him but Robert Cray is playing in my city this Friday. The man's a legend, I should go right? Tickets aren't cheap though, about $75.
Chris Thomas King (people will know him from O Brother, Where Art Thou) is on the bill too.
Any thoughts?
As far as sound...as good as any show I've ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bupbE-i-IY
Two thumbs up from our resident blues experts Jaimoe & RC...I guess I need to empty the wallet!
(Thanks for the PM John!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyARwzjJee0&feature=related :-*
Waiting outside the backdoor at the Ga Theater in Athens Ga after a Cray show at the theater out walks RCray from the backdoor. I looked at him like I just saw a ghost and looked like a deer in the headlights. I barely lifted my hand to shake his and said hello Mr Cray. He shook my hand in stride and said hello and stepped aboard his bus. His bus was 15 feet from the back door of the venue. I was the only person to catch him. I watched from the back of the venue and took off for the door after the show. After the encounter I sprouted two golden wings out of my ass and flew home.
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Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal - Natch'l Blues
Eddie Boyd & a very young Buddy Guy - excellent clip!
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I really dig late 40s early 50s John Lee Hooker 8-)
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