The Blues

[Red Dawn]

Favorite...performer....song...style.

As a lad I could get Chicago stations on a clear night and would stay up all hours of the night listening to the Blues. In the early 60's I started listening to British blues. John Mayall where I first discovered Clapton along with Page. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was among my favorites as well.

Billie Holiday is in my top 5 performers. To many songs to pinpoint one.

"Train to Nowhere" Savoy Brown is a fine Lp with Chris Youlden on vocals. I enjoy Howlin Wolf 's London Sessions. If you like the Blues you'll need to listen to EC's From The Cradle. Mike Bloomfield is a fine performer as well.

chicago electric blues


Muddy Waters.
John Lee Hooker
Buddy Guy.



I personally can't stand it when stiff british white guys try to pass themselves off as bluesmen. John Mayall and Eric Clapton annoy me with that crap.

 

[Red Dawn]

oh, and for uptown blues, I could listen to Billie Holiday all week long

 

[Freemason]

Favorite...performer....song...style.

As a lad I could get Chicago stations on a clear night and would stay up all hours of the night listening to the Blues. In the early 60's I started listening to British blues. John Mayall where I first discovered Clapton along with Page. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was among my favorites as well.

Billie Holiday is in my top 5 performers. To many songs to pinpoint one.

"Train to Nowhere" Savoy Brown is a fine Lp with Chris Youlden on vocals. I enjoy Howlin Wolf 's London Sessions. If you like the Blues you'll need to listen to EC's From The Cradle. Mike Bloomfield is a fine performer as well.

chicago electric blues


Muddy Waters.
John Lee Hooker
Buddy Guy.



I personally can't stand it when stiff british white guys try to pass themselves off as bluesmen. John Mayall and Eric Clapton annoy me with that crap.

I love Hooker's The Healer.

 

[Harry Dresden]

a friend turned me on to them a long time ago. my friend played the harp so he was hugely into them.

I bet you would enjoy Charlie Musselwhite.

i do, good call.

then you must enjoy listening to Paul Butterfield....

 

[Freemason]

I bet you would enjoy Charlie Musselwhite.

i do, good call.

then you must enjoy listening to Paul Butterfield....

More in the early 60's with Mike Bloomfield on lead.

 

[alan1]

Howlin' Wolf, Big Mamma Thorton, LeadBelly, R.L. Burnside, Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, the list could go on and on. I'm more partial to folk blues, but for some more modern blues, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Delbert McClinton, and of course Eric Clapton.
I've got one cd with Howlin' Wolf and Clapton playing together, it's awesome.
I saw SRV in a small venue with less than 2000 people, he was a wizard on the guitar.

 

[Said1]

No one mentioned one of my favs, Son House. I love Albert King, too.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCNbacVt5w[/ame]

Great Duo
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaCPMN5VLk8[/ame]

 

[Said1]

Of course, my fiancee does a superb cover of Death Letter as well.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fM2qhG8mA4]YouTube - White Stripes - Death Letter (Son House Cover live)[/ame]

 

[Freemason]

Of course, there's Sonny Boy Williamson 1. Also Canned Heat with Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson
Bob "The Bear" Hite
Henry "Sunflower" Vestine
Larry "The Mole" Taylor
Harvey "The Snake" Mandel

 

[Meister]

Sonny Boy Williamson has to be one of my all time favorites, the harmonica and blues go together
I couldn't leave out Etta James, either.

 

[Harry Dresden]

i do, good call.

then you must enjoy listening to Paul Butterfield....

More in the early 60's with Mike Bloomfield on lead.

in their prime years.....yep

 

[Wolf]

Favorite...performer....song...style.

As a lad I could get Chicago stations on a clear night and would stay up all hours of the night listening to the Blues. In the early 60's I started listening to British blues. John Mayall where I first discovered Clapton along with Page. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was among my favorites as well.

Billie Holiday is in my top 5 performers. To many songs to pinpoint one.

"Train to Nowhere" Savoy Brown is a fine Lp with Chris Youlden on vocals. I enjoy Howlin Wolf 's London Sessions. If you like the Blues you'll need to listen to EC's From The Cradle. Mike Bloomfield is a fine performer as well.

No particular order..

Elmore James, Howlin Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson.. the piano blues also.. otis spann

EC's from the cradle is good.. but go get the originals or other artists versions of those songs as well..

 

[random3434]

First time I heard this song was by the JD Blues Band. I have always loved it. This is the only version I could find on youtube.





[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVzYNWy2_g]YouTube - Buddy Johnson - A Pretty Girl, A Cadillac, and Some Money[/ame]

 

[editec]

Blind Mellon Chitterlings...

He da man!

 

[Freemason]

Did someone say female Blues.... Ma Rainey sure comes to mind.

 

[del]

Blind Mellon Chitterlings...

He da man!

hold on, i think he's gonna show ya.

whoa, we'll never get that on an album cover.

 

[Freemason]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e44Os5eut3c]YouTube - MOTHER EARTH -- JOHNNY WINTER & BAND[/ame]

MOTHER EARTH -- JOHNNY WINTER & BAND

 

[Peejay]

Pinetop Perkins.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8aKyvZqZp0&feature=related]YouTube - Pinetop Perkins and Friends, Helena, AR 2007[/ame]

 

[Freemason]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYtgj5v49gE]YouTube - Hubert Sumlin plays Howlin' Wolf[/ame]

Hubert Sumlin plays Howlin' Wolf

 

[del]

annybody named king
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