Blues?

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  1. novarys

    novarys Hip Forums Supporter HipForums Supporter

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    Does anyone have any suggestions for really good Blues singers?
     
  2. dedhead95

    dedhead95 The Wizard of Rhythm

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    Robert Johnson is good, you get a really errie feeling listing to him. It might be tough getting recordings though.
     
  3. sef

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    is otis redding considered blues?? or r and b???
    hes great though...

    this other guy i cnat remember his name real nice voice....
    wait for the input of someone who really knows...
     
  4. thehipsterdufus

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    male or female?
     
  5. novarys

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    i like both. But Females preferably
     
  6. crystalstarr

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    billie holiday she is a great blues singer look up the song "at last"
     
  7. thehipsterdufus

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    Susan Tedeschi
    Deborah Coleman
    Keri Leigh
    Lou Ann Barton

    ....my faves, and all I seem to be able to think of at the moment
     
  8. Lucifer Sam

    Lucifer Sam Vegetable Man

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    Muddy Waters, B.B. King, John Mayall...
     
  9. paulfreespirit

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    peter green
     
  10. BlackGuardXIII

    BlackGuardXIII fera festiva

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    The CD "Howlin' Wolf, The London Sessions" Wolf is backed up by Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts.

    Bo Diddley, B.B. King

    Stevie Ray Vaughn

    John Lee Hooker

    Billie Holliday
     
  11. KozmicBlue

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    I dunno if Nina Simone is more jazz, but anyway... She's wonderful! :)

    Also, Gary Moore. I adore his music.
     
  12. Orsino2

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    Eric Clapton,
    Jimmie Lee Vaughan (Stevie Ray's Brother)
    Buddy Guy
    Neil Young's album Greendale has some songs on it that are bluesy... it's bluesy folk stuff
    Stephen Stills
    Jerry Garcia does some good blues work too
    Robert Cray
    Hubert Sumlin
    Billy Preston (not really blues but kinda kickass on the hammond B3...)
    Scott Henderson
    Some of Neil Schon's stuff
    ZZ Top
    John Mayer (moreso his live stuff... does some SRV/Hendrix covers)
    Carlos Santana
    Doyle Bramhall
    Doyle Bramhall II,
    Robert Randolph
    J.J. Cale
    Joe Walsh
    Leo Kottke (does nice 12 string slide work)
    Robert Johnson
    Mississippi John Hurt
    Albert King
    Albert Collins
    Eric Johnson
    Creedance Clearwater Revival/John Fogerty
    Jonny Lang
    Steve Vai
    Mississippi Fred MCDowell
    James Cotton
    Son House
    Howling Wolf
    Jimi Hendrix
    David "Honeyboy" Edwards
    Robert Lockwood "Junior"
    Jerry Douglas
    Some of Bob Dylan's stuff
    B.B. King
    John Mayall
    Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
    Bonnie Raitt
    Tracy Chapman
    Lightnin' Hopkins
    Muddy Waters
    T-Bone Walker
    Guitar Slim
    Little Son Jackson
    Blind Willie McTell
    Frankie Lee Sims
    Allman Brothers Band
    Derek Trucks Band
    Chet Atkins
    Rev. Gary Davis
    Jerry Reed
    John Lee Hooker

    Although he's more jazz, though, I'd also check out John McLaughlin... I love how he can take jazz and mix in tabla drums and indian influences and world music along with electronica stuff. It's really spiritual sounding... and he's an amazing guitarist who records out of his home studio.

    Andddd... buy the Crossroads Festival DVD, too. It's great.
     
  13. novarys

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    Thanks guys for the help. I appreciate it
    and haha George, Chuck told me I should have asked you about it. haha thanks for the long list man.
     
  14. Orsino2

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    Blues is my specialty. Anytime, Syra. :D BTW, Scott Henderson... not too many people know about him, but he's amazing. He's kind of underground. I wrote a song called harlem and I emulated his tremolo use on his stratocasters but kind of made it too overblown... awesome blues and jazz guitarist/musician. http://www.scotthenderson.net/ He does really great jazz fusion on the side from his blues work. He played with Chick Corea, Jean Luc Ponty, and Joe Zawinul.

    And of course... I highly reccomend Stevie Ray Vaughan, but you knew that. I really reccomend his live stuff... way better than studio. Live at the El Mocambo DVD, Austin City Limits concerts, and his Montreaux Jazz Fest appearances. And of course the MTV Unplugged concert. I have those tracks on my computer... they're hard to find. I have some bootlegs of him with albert and B.B. king and I have a bootleg of him with Carlos Santana back in 1979. :D

    Oh Edit: by the way, I'm not sure if I like SRV's stuff before Reese joined double trouble on the Hammond B3... I'm not sure. Reese is pretty good.... I like his playing on Say What and Crossfire... I used to only listen to pre-1986 SRV stuff, most of the time, but now I'm actually starting to dig Reese.... I used to think it was too overblown and cheesy sounding with him in it, sometimes. :p But then I got to see more of what he does and how good he is. The 1986 appearance of them playing Say What on Saturday Night Live is awesome and blows me away along with voodoo chile, and a lot of SRVs style is rediculously easy if you study it closely... it's a lot of pentatonic stuff and shuffles... it's just that you have to get the rhythms down right and know when and where. It's mostly in hand strength, and tone. Hand technique, string guage, and strength makes up 90 percent of your playing tone. The other ten percent from what amp you're using, single coils or humbuckers, alnico/sumarium or ceramic, and wood combinations and choices.
     
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    Stevie Ray Vaughn, Noah Hunt(Kenny Wanye Shepherd Band), Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Albert King John Lee Hooker, B.B King, Bessie Smith, Etta James, and Joan Beaz are good ones. But there are many more.
     
  16. lover/young_peace

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    Robert Johnson :)
     
  17. RainbowCat

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    ya! these are good!
     
  18. RainbowCat

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    man! this is great! you got good taste
     
  19. Orsino2

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    Oh... and I forgot one of the best....

    Koko Taylor.
     
  20. Orsino2

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    Thanks... :D


    And I've been trying to remember the name of Steve Winwood for like, three days now :D :eek:

    IMO, for the best organ work, keyboards, and pianos... Billy Preston. :D He's kinda underrated, but he's making a comeback now working with Eric Clapton, and all. Of course, there's Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder...

    Will it go round in circles... will it fly high like a bird up in the skyyyyy...
     

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