Great list on this site...
Go here-
http://www.accuradio.com/
Click on Blues. The list on the left is excellent.
Lee
Go here-
http://www.accuradio.com/
Click on Blues. The list on the left is excellent.
Lee
Can't say enough about Buddy Guy: Saw him, got his autograph, a true blues legend ( he'll try to dog your girlfriend ). He taught Hendix a few things. "Bring Em' In"
John Mayall - And just about any of the many guitarists that played in his band. Including as mentioned CoCo Montoya and Buddy Whitington.
The newest cd by Susan Tedeschi with Tony Joe White.
Don't overload her astonishingly talented husband Derek Trucks.
Tony Joe White - great guitarist - swamp blues/rock from the guy who wrote Poke Salad Annie.
North Mississippi hill country blues is a big blues sub group which includes the kids of the late R.L. Burnside (R.I.P.). The North Mississippi Allstars Hill Country Revue: Live at Bonnaroo (2004) * My fav, great party disc, always get the attention of those unfamiliar, when they 1st here it.
Sonny Landreth: Anything, I repeat Anything by him. You have to see him play cajun blues to fully appreciate how well he can play.
Cajun Blues ( Bluesiana ) is another sub group including John Mooney, and Marsha Ball ( great piano blues ).
Albert Cummings "True to Yourself" ( Tex Strat blues )
Classic Old blues Robert Johnson, Miss. Fred McDowell, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolfe, Muddy Waters, etc, etc.
The Queen of the Blues Koko Taylor, born in 1928, she is still going strong, doing a New Years show @ Buddy Guy's Chicago club.
Preview her latest cd "Old School" ( wow ).
Also check the vintage footage of her doing "Wang Dang Doodle" with Little Walter on harp
John Mayall - And just about any of the many guitarists that played in his band. Including as mentioned CoCo Montoya and Buddy Whitington.
The newest cd by Susan Tedeschi with Tony Joe White.
Don't overload her astonishingly talented husband Derek Trucks.
Tony Joe White - great guitarist - swamp blues/rock from the guy who wrote Poke Salad Annie.
North Mississippi hill country blues is a big blues sub group which includes the kids of the late R.L. Burnside (R.I.P.). The North Mississippi Allstars Hill Country Revue: Live at Bonnaroo (2004) * My fav, great party disc, always get the attention of those unfamiliar, when they 1st here it.
Sonny Landreth: Anything, I repeat Anything by him. You have to see him play cajun blues to fully appreciate how well he can play.
Cajun Blues ( Bluesiana ) is another sub group including John Mooney, and Marsha Ball ( great piano blues ).
Albert Cummings "True to Yourself" ( Tex Strat blues )
Classic Old blues Robert Johnson, Miss. Fred McDowell, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolfe, Muddy Waters, etc, etc.
The Queen of the Blues Koko Taylor, born in 1928, she is still going strong, doing a New Years show @ Buddy Guy's Chicago club.
Preview her latest cd "Old School" ( wow ).
Also check the vintage footage of her doing "Wang Dang Doodle" with Little Walter on harp
Johnny Shines!
Many may not know of Johnny Shines, he is (to my meager knowledge) the only dude who played/toured around with Robert Johnson extensively. I can never get enough of his stuff. To ease in - I suggest "Johnny Shines and Snooky Prior - Back to the Country". Much of Johnny's "singing" resembles field hollerin' and the tracks are always gritty and warm.
I'm new here, and thought I'd put in my 0.02!
Can't go wrong with a good Lucky Peterson track either!
Many may not know of Johnny Shines, he is (to my meager knowledge) the only dude who played/toured around with Robert Johnson extensively. I can never get enough of his stuff. To ease in - I suggest "Johnny Shines and Snooky Prior - Back to the Country". Much of Johnny's "singing" resembles field hollerin' and the tracks are always gritty and warm.
I'm new here, and thought I'd put in my 0.02!
Can't go wrong with a good Lucky Peterson track either!
Re: two favorites...
That is interesting, indeed. I dont have the mentioned album, but a load of other Robert Cray albums. They are all good, but with some (few) tracks that calls for the skip button on them.
Keb' Mo' is great. I like "Keep it simple" a lot. If you want to boast about how good your system sounds, thats it. The quality of this recording is simply amazing.Otherwise a lot of his stronger songs are compiled on "Martin Scorsese presents the Blues; Keb' Mo' " Also very, very, good recording quality. I am certain that Mr. Moore is a very picky person, when it comes to sound quality and compression.
Other than that, do yourself a favour and order Delta Moon's "Goin' down south" One have to spin it a few times before it gets under your skin, but after that you cant have enough😉 If you ever get a chance to see those guys live, dont miss it!!
🙂
BTW "Blues recordings recommendations" ?? This will be an everlasting thread😉
Ren said:
That is interesting, indeed. I dont have the mentioned album, but a load of other Robert Cray albums. They are all good, but with some (few) tracks that calls for the skip button on them.
Keb' Mo' is great. I like "Keep it simple" a lot. If you want to boast about how good your system sounds, thats it. The quality of this recording is simply amazing.Otherwise a lot of his stronger songs are compiled on "Martin Scorsese presents the Blues; Keb' Mo' " Also very, very, good recording quality. I am certain that Mr. Moore is a very picky person, when it comes to sound quality and compression.
Other than that, do yourself a favour and order Delta Moon's "Goin' down south" One have to spin it a few times before it gets under your skin, but after that you cant have enough😉 If you ever get a chance to see those guys live, dont miss it!!
🙂
BTW "Blues recordings recommendations" ?? This will be an everlasting thread😉
Rory Block
Quote "Check out Rory Block for some of the finest acoustic country blues you're likely to hear..."
you won't be sorry to check her songs!
try "Lovin' Whiskey"
gave me chills and still gives me chills after so long listening to that song!
Jean-Pierre
there is a Dutch singer, Anouk who also gives a nice rendition!
Quote "Check out Rory Block for some of the finest acoustic country blues you're likely to hear..."
you won't be sorry to check her songs!
try "Lovin' Whiskey"
gave me chills and still gives me chills after so long listening to that song!
Jean-Pierre
there is a Dutch singer, Anouk who also gives a nice rendition!
Rory Gallagher
My first Blues encounter was with Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe.
It's more blues-rock but very accessible
My first Blues encounter was with Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe.
It's more blues-rock but very accessible
It seems nobody has already mentioned the fabulous music and sound-production of the label Music Maker (musicmaker.org). Plenty of well recorded traditional blues.
See, on this, my other post in the audiophile recordings thread
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1709504#post1709504
See, on this, my other post in the audiophile recordings thread
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1709504#post1709504
The epitome of the second-generation Chicago blues band for me is the 4-piece lineup including Buddy Guy on "Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues " album.
When that album was very first imported in to the UK in the 1960's, my blues band drove from Bristol to London on a Saturday morning to get a copy straightaway from Dobell's record store in Charing Cross Road, which stocked all the blues and jazz imports.
The magic of that album still does it for me - the recording is perfectly suited to the music ( and I say that as a pro recording engineer) and what is really good is that it's survived the transition to CD amazingly well - whoever mastered the CD release has done a great job of retaining the spirit of the original. The CD also has out-takes not on the original Delmark vinyl release.
Essential album in any blues enthusiast's collection... ( as is Lightning Hopkins' "Burnin in L.A.......)
Anyone who hasn't heard of Mississipi Fred McDowell should check him out too. I had the very great privilege of catching a Sunday evening gig of his in a blues club in a small room above a pub in Bristol, when he did a UK tour very shortly before his death in 1972. Pure magic - and for a taster of Fred watch him on youtube doing "Going Down To The River" at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyzAAwJnIw
Youtube is absolutely the best thing that's happened to the blues since the British blues boom in the 1960s brought deserved recognition to many veteran blues legends who were spending their twilight years languishing in deprived circumstances , with their huge contributions to the blues going unheralded in their homeland.
While we're talking under-recognized... , check out Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing and playing some gospel -style blues on a station platform in England for a TV show in the 1960's . Surreal situation - but this is the real deal...!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQJLTdDSco
and just one more...Otis Rush, great guitarist with a great tone - to whet your appetite to get some tracks of his watch him singing and playing his classic " I Can't Quit You, Baby" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq3Y8yCsVaA
When that album was very first imported in to the UK in the 1960's, my blues band drove from Bristol to London on a Saturday morning to get a copy straightaway from Dobell's record store in Charing Cross Road, which stocked all the blues and jazz imports.
The magic of that album still does it for me - the recording is perfectly suited to the music ( and I say that as a pro recording engineer) and what is really good is that it's survived the transition to CD amazingly well - whoever mastered the CD release has done a great job of retaining the spirit of the original. The CD also has out-takes not on the original Delmark vinyl release.
Essential album in any blues enthusiast's collection... ( as is Lightning Hopkins' "Burnin in L.A.......)
Anyone who hasn't heard of Mississipi Fred McDowell should check him out too. I had the very great privilege of catching a Sunday evening gig of his in a blues club in a small room above a pub in Bristol, when he did a UK tour very shortly before his death in 1972. Pure magic - and for a taster of Fred watch him on youtube doing "Going Down To The River" at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyzAAwJnIw
Youtube is absolutely the best thing that's happened to the blues since the British blues boom in the 1960s brought deserved recognition to many veteran blues legends who were spending their twilight years languishing in deprived circumstances , with their huge contributions to the blues going unheralded in their homeland.
While we're talking under-recognized... , check out Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing and playing some gospel -style blues on a station platform in England for a TV show in the 1960's . Surreal situation - but this is the real deal...!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQJLTdDSco
and just one more...Otis Rush, great guitarist with a great tone - to whet your appetite to get some tracks of his watch him singing and playing his classic " I Can't Quit You, Baby" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq3Y8yCsVaA
Don't know where to start, I have a 40 yr collection of blues recordings.
More recent stuff
John Mayall Blues-Jazz Fusion
Anson Funderburg and Sam Myers-Change in my pocket
Robben Ford- any album except Tiger Walk
Ronnie Earl- any album
Allman Bros Band-first and second albums
James Ibold- dont remember names
Gov't Mule-all
Coco Montoyo-all
Jimmy Smith-all
Bnios King and Smokin Joe Kubeck
A few older artists you don't hear much about
Big Joe Turner-unbelievable voice
Ruth Brown-really great
Luther Allison-several discs
Thats all that comes to mind right now.
More recent stuff
John Mayall Blues-Jazz Fusion
Anson Funderburg and Sam Myers-Change in my pocket
Robben Ford- any album except Tiger Walk
Ronnie Earl- any album
Allman Bros Band-first and second albums
James Ibold- dont remember names
Gov't Mule-all
Coco Montoyo-all
Jimmy Smith-all
Bnios King and Smokin Joe Kubeck
A few older artists you don't hear much about
Big Joe Turner-unbelievable voice
Ruth Brown-really great
Luther Allison-several discs
Thats all that comes to mind right now.
Two of my Favorites are
anything by Gary Moore, excellent guitar work
and
Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials
check'em out and let me know what you think😀
anything by Gary Moore, excellent guitar work
and
Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials
check'em out and let me know what you think😀
Blues
When I got the blues:
BB King\Blues On The Bayou\Blues Boys Tune
Buddy Guy\Damn Right I Got The Blues\Five Long Years
John Lee Hooker & Van Morrison\The Best Of Friends\I Cover The Waterfront
Luther Allison\Live In Chicago\Bad Love (Live) Genialt album!!
Mighty Sam McClain\Blues Masters\Too Proud
Matt "Guitar" Murphy\Blues Brothers 2000 soundtrack\The Blues Don't Bother Me
When I got the blues:
BB King\Blues On The Bayou\Blues Boys Tune
Buddy Guy\Damn Right I Got The Blues\Five Long Years
John Lee Hooker & Van Morrison\The Best Of Friends\I Cover The Waterfront
Luther Allison\Live In Chicago\Bad Love (Live) Genialt album!!
Mighty Sam McClain\Blues Masters\Too Proud
Matt "Guitar" Murphy\Blues Brothers 2000 soundtrack\The Blues Don't Bother Me
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