Just got done watching the Cosby show. the episode where B B King was on there (but his character was Riley Jackson) haha I just found it sorta cosmic being how I've been getting into the Blues a bit more lately and they show this episode. He mentioned T Bone Walker and of course Muddy Waters in this episode. Just thought I'd share that, k thanks
I have that episode on my computer... lmfao... I have like... everything blues related on my computer.
haha omg George! Wow, now thats a true fan of the blues. Well consider yourself the man I look to if ever I have a question concerning the Blues.
maybe classification is important for you. take a look.. Early Country Blues: Richard "Rabbit" Brown Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Blake Blind Boy Fuller Blind Willie Johnson Blind Willie McTell Mississippi John Hurt Robert Johnson Mississippi Fred McDowell Jesse Fuller Charlie Patton Son House Sonny Terry Lightnin' Hopkins Leadbelly Son House Bukka White Scrapper Blackwell Gus Cannon Sonny Boy Williamson I Lucille Bogan Georgia Tom Dorsey Lil Green Creole George Gusenon Lucille Hegamin Mamie Smith Gertrude "Ma" Rainey Clara Smith Bessie Smith Ethel Waters Sippy Wallace Big Joe Turner Chicago/Detroit Blues (i think this is my favourite) Willie Dixon Buddy Guy ( yeah...he's really great....) Elmore James John Lee Hooker Albert King Freddie King Robert Nighthawk Jimmy Rogers Magic Sam Otis Rush Johnny Shines Little Walter Muddy Waters Junior Wells Howlin' Wolf Bo Diddley Sonny Boy Williamson II Jimmy Reed Otis Spann Modern Blues (post 1950s) James Anthony B.B. King Clarence Gatemouth Brown Eric Clapton Albert Collins James Cotton Willie Dixon Alvin Hart John Lee Hooker Colin James Etta James Freddie King Taj Mahal John Mayall Keb' Mo' Koko Taylor Ali Farka Toure Stevie Ray Vaughan Johnny Winter Bobby Blue Bland Blues in late 1960s Rock Music (i think everybody know this one..) Janis Joplin (there's nothing to say about her...) Cream Led Zeppelin The Yardbirds Santana Fleetwood Mac The Rolling Stones Captain Beefheart Humble Pie Van Morrison ZZ Top Livin' Blues ....... enjoy.....
thanks so much for this list, haha i really had no idea that there was so many blues artist out there. i have alot of DLing to be doing.
Big Bill Broonzy. (early stuff) And, to tell you the truth, I have to say Mississippi John Hurt is probably my favorite early Blues player, but it's hard to tell. He pioneered ragtime and fingerstyle blues guitar... he has an amazing life story. Well, it's simple, yet amazing. He was a blues guitarist pre-depression, then he became a farmer, living on the Mississippi River Delta. Then later, a couple guys from Washington D.C., I believe, discovered his music and went looking for him and searching for his history. They then found him and talked to him then he and he became a famous again for two or three years and then died happily in the late 60s...
And as for Buddy Guy... he's from Louisiana but moved to chi-town in 1957. He started playing with Otis Rush, I believe, then he started thinking about retreating back to Baton Rouge. Then, he ran into Muddy Waters the same time and then Muddy talked him out of going back over a salami sandwich, if I recall. He got famous playing as a session guitarist and mostly because of his work with Howling Wolf. He is one of the most famous last remaining chicago blues musicians and own's Buddy Guy's Legend's club. He plays there regularly and they have a birthday bash concert every Julyyyyyyyy... 31st, I believe, is his birthday. Bob Dylan has even been there before, I think, and John Lee Hooker has been there often, I believe. I'd also check out John Hiatt and the Goners... he's kinda blues/zydeco/country/folk/heartland/rock. He's written for Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, BB King, Jewel Kilcher, Bonnie Raitt, and a bunch of other people. Sonny Landreth is in his band. And check out Paul Butterfield.
Some of my faves: Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, some of Janis Joplin's stuff is blues, Bo Diddley, BB King, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, Koko Taylor, Elmore James, R.L. Burnside, Sonny Boy Williamson, Luther Allison, Freddie King, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Walter, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, some of Sly and the Family Stone but they're more funk-ish usually, Otis Rush, Coco Montoya, James Cotton, Jimmy Rogers, Wille Dixon, Etta James, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Roomful of Blues, Lucky Peterson, Lowell Fulson, Otis Spann, Roy Buchanan, Rory Block, Lonnie Brooks, Pinetop Perkins, Champion Jack Dupree, Hound Dog Taylor, Big Mama Thornton, Taj Mahal, Charley Patton, Albert Collins, Memphis Minnie...and loads more, but if I keep going I won't be able to stop. And sweet smoke has done a great job anyway :-D
About Robert Johnson - His stuff isn't actually that hard to find, he only has like 40-some recorded tracks of his music in existance, and thankfully they've been complied to one album.
orsino2 thanx for buddy guy's short history...and novarys if you really want to know some good stuff you can try martin scorsese's the blues serie (there are 7 movie about the blues...and it's really good...two thumbs up!! buddy guy - five long years.....
I agree with hipsterdufus. I would also add Koko Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Etta James. Johnny Winter, Jimmy Reed, and (for some real down home chicago blues,...Hound Dog Taylor!)
Sorry people,...I didn't see pages 2,3,and 4! :/ (newbie...) Orsino and sweetsmoke really know their blues!
and also if you want to read some books you can try: Giles Oakley - The Devil's Music, A History Of The Blues Samuel Charters - The Blues Makers: Containing Reprints of Two Titles: The Bluesmen and Sweet As the Showers of Rain Robert Palmer - Deep Blues Peter Guralnick - Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll Samuel Barclay Charters - The Country Blues Jim O'Neal, Amy Van Singel - The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine A. Houston Baker - Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: a Vernacular Theory Francis Davis - The History Of The Blues (there are many books [especially in america and england] out there...but in my country there are only a few blues books and it's really hard to find... i've read these books and in my opinion these are really good...i think you can find these books.... Livin' Blues - Sunrise
ohh i forgot them....Livin' Blues...this band is really really good....try "Bamboozle" (selected 1972's best blues album)sunrise is my favourite song...it's full of feelings...
Modern-Folk-Country-Flamenco-Blues ----------------- Rev. Gary Davis Chet Atkins Merle Travis Tommy Emmanuel Jerry Reed Leo Kottke As well as a few of my tracks which can be found at the link in my sig...
