Who loves the blues like I do :)

It's all I've been listening to lately.
I love...

Howlin' Wolf
Willie Dixon
Muddy Waters
Robert Johnson
Sonny Boy Williamson
Junior Wells
BB King
Bobby 'Blue' Bland
T-Bone Walker
Albert King
Buddy Guy
Memphis Slim
Elmore James
Lightnin' Hopkins

Any other suggestions? Tell me who you dig.

 

From The Cradle Clapton
The Healer John Lee Hooker
Anything by Billie Holiday

New just out. Breaking it up. Breaking it down w/ Muddy, Johnny Winters and Cotton

I'll discuss the Blues with you

 

a few good blues cd's - james cotton:cut you loose (1968) -- chicken shack:forty blue fingers,freshly packed and ready to serve (1968) -- savoy brown:shake down (1967) -- johnny winter:the progressive blues experiment (1969)

 

Yes. John Lee Hooker is great. Forgot to add him. Love Clapton, especially with The Yarbirds. And Billie Holliday is cool. I think I like you. *yay*

 

I do enjoy "old" Savoy Brown

WC, if you would like to hear some fine blues listen to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. It is still the same Fleetwood Mac you may have enjoyed recently, but the Peter Green line up was blues to the max! Also, there is not alot of material but Robert Johnson's music is very good and some real early stuff. Please remember the blues are not to make you sad but to get that beat back in your soul. Wait, I forgot do you listen to xm,Bluesville?

I enjoy Jerry Garcia (RIP) alot of some of his stuff is very good. When he was into what he was doing he and alligator were very soulful!

Peace

 

Otis Rush!!!! He is FANTASTIC!
Agree with you about Peter Green. I've heard a little of his stuff.
I gots Sirius and satelite, but I find the generic satelite music channel the better for blues. 'Lucille' I think it's called.

 

Otis Rush ! In 1969, the album Mourning in the Morning was released on Cotillion Records. Recorded at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the album was produced by Michael Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites of Electric Flag. The sound that incorporated soul and rock was a brand new direction for Rush.

Michael Bloomfield was an excellent ax player. Sadly he died to early

 

Yeah. I'm really digging him.
And as far is later blues goes, John Mayall was pretty great. Agree?

 

Blues is the one of the only genres of music where i can listen to pretty much any song and enjoy it.

I cant pick up a guitar without playing something that sounds blue.

 

Ooh! I Curtis, do you think you could identify these lyrics? I downloaded them under Stormy Monday Blues, and it happened to be a totally different song, a song I've grown to love! I love performing it and wish to record it. Does this sound familiar to you?

Seems like everybody
In the world is down on me.
Seems like everybody
In the world us down on me.
You know, I ain't no bad fellow
I don't intend to be.

I used to have someone to love me
But that someone passed away
I used to have someone to love me
But that someone passed away.
I believe if my mother was living
I wouldn't have to feel this way.

The blues, they start rolling
And they start in my front door
Sometimes the blues start rolling
And they start in my front door.
Don't you know, because me and my woman
Just can't get along no more.

My life has been
Just like a rolling stone
My life has been
Just like a rolling stone.
Until I find someone that loves me,
I guess I'll just keep moving along.

Someday, someday
I'm gonna be six feet in my grave
Someday, someday, someday
I'm gonna be six feet in my grave.
There'll be no more worries
And I won't have to feel this way.

 

John Mayall has been around for awhile. He has had the likes of the following join him, E.Clapton, P.Green, J.Page

WC, I'll get back w/ you on that song!

 

Yup. Alabama Blues, Evil Woman Blues and I Could Cry are my favorites. He does a decent cover of It Hurts Me Too as well. Ah, Jimmy Page. One of my favorite guitarists of all times. Alongside Alivin Lee of course. Ten Years After were a pretty good psychedelic blues band.
Ooooh and what about Keith Relf? I think The Yardbirds are great.

Thanks! It will be much appreciated.

 

Alvin Lee and Ten Years After. Just a great band. The band is still touring,but w/o Lee.

WC, check out Bernard Jenkins by Clapton & Mayall!!

I haven't been able to Id your song yet

 

Ten Years did some great stuff, but Lee was the heart and soul. His heartfelt, energetic guitar-playing is to be admired.
Clapton and Mayall I love. Bernard Jenkins I'm not familiar with, but I'll be sure to check him out.
Then there's the Robert Johnson 29, and Ray Charles.

 

Bernard Jenkins is a song done by Clapton & Mayall. It is an instrumental with Mayall on piano and Clapton of course on guitar.

Wonderful song

 

Ohhh. Cool I wonder if I'd be able to find that on Limewire.

It's cool about the song. It's almost as if it doesn't exist! Anywhere!

Stevie Ray Vaughan?

 

I saw SRV twice. There are not words to express his talents. SRV was the common man's guitar player! Hard, blue and right in your face. If the house is a rockin don't brother knockin'!

 

Yeah. He was the one who first turned me on to blues. It was his version of "The Sky Is Crying"
Elmore's blues classic, Stevie Ray style.
John Littlejohn? I dig his stuff
But it's Ray Charles for me right now. Soul soul soul.

 

Early in his career he went by Ray Charles Robinson, but to avoid confusion with the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson he changed his name to Ray Charles. He patterned his style after Nat King Cole.

I really like his early stuff, Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand, Mess Around, I Got A Women,but my all time favorite is a Guitar Slim tune, The Things I Use To Do.

Did you know that when Ray first started he played in jazz bands but the biggest surprise was a Hillbilly band called The Florida Playboys.

 

Me too! I got a Woman is my all-time favorite. Great tune, great vocals.
Oh wow, cool
Howlin' Wolf=favorite
Though.