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Snapcase
04-13-2005, 10:54 PM
So, Ive been checking out as much blues as I can latley. Its my new thing. I absoloutley love the song "Baby Please Dont Go" by Muddy Waters. I'm lookin for some of the more upbeat artists which sound like this song? I'm open to anything really though if you want to just name some of your favorites.
flynn
04-13-2005, 11:52 PM
Mike Henderson and the Blue Bloods
Sonny Landreth
flynn
04-13-2005, 11:54 PM
The Jimi Hendrix Blues Cd is one of my all time faves - he's incredible on this disc.
Jonny Lang
Gary Moore
The Allman Brothers Band
John Mayall
George Thorogood
Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Vaughan Brothers
and of course . . . The Blues Brothers
Snapcase
04-14-2005, 03:40 AM
Originally posted by Kirk
Jonny Lang
Gary Moore
The Allman Brothers Band
John Mayall
George Thorogood
Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Vaughan Brothers
and of course . . . The Blues Brothers
I have the Allman Brothers, George, Clapton, Stevie and some Blues brothers. I'll check out the others though thanks. Keep em comin guys.
Boilerblues
04-14-2005, 01:17 PM
Joe Bonamassa is a great new one, especially track down the live DVD "A New Day Yesterday"
punxking
04-14-2005, 01:36 PM
John Lee Hooker. One of my all time favorites, and chances are you've heard many of his songs before even if you don't realize it right away. Crawlin' King Snake, Boom Boom and Boogie Chilun' are 3 prime examples.
IMHO he has one of the greatest voices in all of the blues genre.
Also worth checking out are:
Albert King
Lightnin' Hopkins
Howlin' Wolf
Son House
Koko Taylor
CrzyCanuck72
04-14-2005, 01:38 PM
If you want awesome rock-blues, try The Black Keys.
Snapcase
04-14-2005, 05:11 PM
Thanks guys
Nergol
04-14-2005, 07:41 PM
Chris Smither.
His two best tracks: "Winsome Smile" and "No Love Today".
Jenesis
04-15-2005, 12:45 AM
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Robert Cray
The Gales Brothers
Buddy Guy
<shudder> I intentionally left out John Lee Hooker and Robert Cray . . . .
I'd like to add another recommendation, Eric Johnson
Galley
04-15-2005, 01:22 AM
Robert Johnson; King of the Delta Blues Singers :D
dragfree
04-15-2005, 05:15 PM
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Bessie Smith
BB King
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Charlie Musselwhite
The Ford Brothers
Janis Joplin
to name a few thus far unmentioned.
iPod Master
04-15-2005, 05:21 PM
Stevie Ray Vaughn!!!!!
JeffsJeep04
04-15-2005, 05:56 PM
Originally posted by Boilerblues
Joe Bonamassa is a great new one, especially track down the live DVD "A New Day Yesterday"
Wow, I just got one of his songs, and if you like SRV (and you really should), deffinatly check this guy out.
The Big Vanilla
04-20-2005, 04:34 PM
Three Kings (BB., Albert, and don't forget Freddie)
Two Walters (Little Walter and Big Walter Horton)
Both Sonnyboy Williamsons
My favorite recommendation for new blues listeners is a band out of LA called the Red Devils. They only released one album, a 1992 live album titled "King King" and it absolutely SMOKES. Similar to Little Charlie and the Nightcats, but less "jump". From what I've heard, one of the band members died shortly after the album was recorded and the band broke up (don't know if that's true, though).
And listen to as much Stevie Ray Vaughan as you can.
TBV
Rod Smith
04-20-2005, 05:51 PM
"Wolf's unique sound was fully in evidence from his first recording session for Sam Phillips. Nobody before or since has sung the blues quite like the Wolf. Supported by the molten guitar of Willie Johnson and the crudely powerful drumming of Willie Steel, Wolf growled, moaned, howled, and blew harp through one dynamic recording after another. This is music for scaring the living and waking the dead." -from the excellent biography "Moanin' at Midnight" by Mark Segrest and Mark Hoffman, Discography, West Memphis and Memphis recordings. Recommended are Memphis Days: Definitive Edition, vols. 1 and 2 (Bear Family 15460 and 15500).
Chicago recordings: The Chess Box (MCA/Chess 9332) Three disc set "provides the best overview of Wolf's entire recording career for Chess".
If you want more, Howlin' Wolf/Moanin' at Midnight (MCA/Chess 5908) and The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions [Deluxe Edition] (MCA/Chess 112985) are excellent choices.
Sam Phillips- " A disc jockey from West Memphis told me about Chester Burnett's show on KWEM and I tuned him in. When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I said, 'This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies.'"
"I tell you, the greatest thing you could see to this day would be Chester Burnett doing one of those sessions in my studio. God, what it would be worth to see the fervor in that man's face when he sang. He cut everything out of his mind and sang with his damn soul. I mean, his eyes would light up and you'd see the veins come out on the back of his neck. Awwww.... how different, how good! I would love to have recorded that man until the day he died. I never would have given up on him"
josie777
09-08-2008, 04:09 PM
Some of my new favorites in the blues rock genre...
Clayton Senne
Heavy Young Heathens
Luke Mulholland
musiclovr89
09-17-2008, 07:17 PM
I love that John Mayer has tried to make his album a blues one.
melsmusic
09-19-2008, 12:57 PM
Most of the good blues Artists have already been mentioned, but I'll reinforce my favourites and add a couple.
The Black Keys
Joe Bonamassa
Jonny Lang
SRV
Hendrix blues album - although a lot of his stuff is bluesy, so there are others too.
Bob Dylan has his blues moments too
Fleetwood Mac are considered a blues band, but maybe a little more pop than Muddy :D
The Fumes - especially if you like The Black Keys
Aerosmith - Honkin' On Bobo album
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Chris Rea - Dancing Down the Stoney Road
Keb Mo
Harry Manx - more an acoustic relaxed blues
Albert King
Albert King with SRV - In Session - awesome album