anybody here like the blues [Archive]

cruentus

10-13-05, 06:16 PM

Every night i go to sleep
The blues fall down like rain
Every night i go to sleep
The blues fall down like rain
Taking pills, cheap whiskey
Just to try to ease the pain

Well it's hard to gamble
When you lose every bet
Hard to save money
When you're twenty years in debt
The blues is falling
Falling down on me like rain
I'm gonna take a shotgun now people
And disconnect my brain

I made some mistakes
Had some bad breaks
Now my mind don't work
And my whole body aches
The blues is falling
Falling down on me like rain
My life is like water
Just swirling down the drain

Well i tried standin' up
I keep on falling down
Tried standing up
Keep on fallin' down
Everywhere i go
The blues is all around

late

10-13-05, 06:31 PM

Ok,
there are a bunch of great blues guys and gals out there.
But I have no way of knowing which ones will get to you.
BB King The Thrill is Gone is a must. Get to know the old guys, the roots of the blues.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027S3/ref=cm_bg_d_35/104-0919025-8787955?v=glance
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/TQUNSLWSRX5U/qid=1129249134/sr=lmlf-4/ref=br_lmlf__4/104-0919025-8787955

A general list
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/2NAOBBVWABJYQ/ref=cm_bg_lm/104-0919025-8787955

Muddy Waters sings Big Bill Broonzy is a favorite of mine.

pluto123

10-13-05, 07:50 PM

I like older stuff,

Libba Cotton
Muddy Waters
Leadbelly
Robert Johnson
Rev. Gary Davis
Howlin' Wolf
Bo Diddley
MAN!! ROBERT JOHNSON----KING OF THE DELTA BLUES. THATS GOING WAAAY BACK!

* jack *

10-13-05, 08:01 PM

MAN!! ROBERT JOHNSON----KING OF THE DELTA BLUES. THATS GOING WAAAY BACK!
Yeah, I like the folky, rootsy, lo-fi stuff.

You just missed the Bull Durham Blues Festival (http://www.hayti.org/blues/index.asp).

muccapazza

10-13-05, 10:33 PM

John Lee Hooker.

THe blues folder on my MP3 player gets more playing time than any other.

Edit: ...folder.

Shifty

11-15-05, 08:19 PM

James Cotton
Albert King
Francine Reed (amazing)
Paul Butterfield
Johnny Winter
Johnny Lange
BB King
Eric Clapton (he has some blues stuff that rips)

AngryRooster

11-16-05, 08:11 PM

Old(as in recordings) Buddy guy
Magic Sam
BB king (of course)
Robert Johnson
Clapton
S.R.V.
Albert Collins
Howlin' Wolf
Muddy Waters
Albert King- he's the man
Robert Cray is good- Some Rainy Mornin' is a beautiful album
thie list is in no paticular order.

Shifty

11-16-05, 09:12 PM

Tune to X-M radio 74 all blues all the time. No static at all

duane041

11-20-05, 08:24 PM

I listen to a lot of Gary Moore. Oddly enough, he used to play in Thin Lizzy and even motorhead :eek:

snickersnicker

11-21-05, 09:03 AM

Leadbelly is the man.

CyLowe97

11-21-05, 12:00 PM

You know who can flat out play the blues? John Mayer. That kid can make it sound like Stevie Ray V. at times. (yeah....yeah... how can anybody who studied at Berklee have the blues?)

mtnbiker66

11-25-05, 02:45 PM

Stevie Ray Vaughn. The best that has ever picked up a guitar and played the blues!!!! He made it sound like he was wringing the notes out of the neck and those heavy strings gave that killer tone.

Shifty

11-25-05, 09:20 PM

Son Seals
Matt Murphy
Deana Bogart
Allman Borthers Band
Jelly Roll Morton
Tom Principato

I totally agree on John Mayer, he's hot

red house

11-25-05, 10:20 PM

mtnbiker66

11-26-05, 05:13 AM

Nobody ever mentions Jimi Hendrix? Clapton, SRV are ussually thought of..but there would be no SRV w/o Jimi and Clapton woulda...well, Clapton would of been considered the "Best Guitarist" in his time if it weren't for Jimi. Listen to Hendrix Blues stuff and you'll here a whole lotta Muddy Waters and Albert King (also left handed blues guy), and lightin' Hopkins. Personally I think that guy was the greatest American Blues guitarist of all time -(if you haven't already geussed) ;)

Fer sure, he was a grest blues player. He killed it on Red House.When I was a teen in the 80's I used to catch flack becuse I was always listning to Hendrix in my car.I even did my senior term paper on Hendrix. :D

Shifty

11-26-05, 01:36 PM

Anybody ever get on the Rhythm and Blues Cruise? That sure looks like a good time, it runs out of Florida or California. Nice line up this year.

http://www.bluescruise.com/

FatguyRacer

12-15-05, 01:04 PM

Tune to X-M radio 74 all blues all the time. No static at all

+1

I've seen all the biggies live sometime in my life and now they're almost all passed on. :(

randya

12-15-05, 01:20 PM

I'll add these two artists to the list:

Popa Chubby. NYC blues. Hit the High Hard One is one of my favorite albums. http://www.popachubby.com/index.html

John Campbell http://www.devilinmycloset.net/john_campbell_home.htm

pigmode

12-15-05, 01:53 PM

I like Doug MacLeod's cover of Rollin' & Tumblin'. Good stuff.

timmhaan

12-15-05, 01:56 PM

I listen to a lot of Gary Moore. Oddly enough, he used to play in Thin Lizzy and even motorhead :eek:

ah, yes. gary moore. i kinda forgot about him to tell you the truth. hell of a guitar player.

CyLowe97

12-15-05, 02:35 PM

edit.... didn't mean to post in this thread! removed my comments!

nick burns

12-15-05, 03:30 PM

All those listed previously plus

Big Bill Broonzy

Feldman

12-15-05, 06:06 PM

I like almost all blues, electric or acoustic, but Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy and Peter Green are my favorites. Hubert Sumlin, who was Wolf's guitarist for years, is my all time favorite instrumentalist in the style. If acoustic blues fans get curious, check out Leadbelly.

randya

12-15-05, 06:23 PM

Walter Trout
Mike Morgan and the Crawl
Albert King
Carey Bell
Son House
Canned Heat
Little Walter

* jack *

12-15-05, 06:31 PM

I was just listening to this recently:

http://www.primusmedia.de/image/cover/front/0/8853161.jpg

- anybody know Dave Edmunds? This album was released in 1968 when young Brits were busy recycling old American blues. It's no Clapton, but its a great (albeit obscure) album nonetheless.

randya

12-15-05, 06:38 PM

Alexis Korner was the father of British blues, John Mayall was his disciple, and Eric Clapton was just John Mayall's guitarist, originally. Speaking of British Blues, The Groundhogs were pretty good, and Fleetwood Mac was *originally* a blues band...Mick Taylor ain't bad either...

CyLowe97

12-16-05, 06:29 AM

- anybody know Dave Edmunds?

Dave Edmunds is awesome! I don't know anything of his that is blues, but he had several minor hits in the late 70's and early 80's. Well known are "I Knew the Bride (When She Used To Rock and Roll)" and "Slippin' Away." And there's nothing like driving fast to "Crawling from the Wreckage..."

There's a good live album called "I Hear You Rockin'..." of these songs.

SpongeDad

12-16-05, 07:24 AM

Got spoiled living in Chicago for about 10 years.

Live - Koko Taylor and Sugar Blue.
Recorded - John Lee Hooker.

SpiderMike

12-16-05, 10:17 AM

Lot of good artist mentioned so far. I'll add one. Joe "Guitar" Hughes (http://www.waxmuseum.net/JoeGuitarHughes.html) Got to meet him before a show. He gave me some dating advice.

FlowerBlossom

12-19-05, 04:17 PM

You know who can flat out play the blues? John Mayer. That kid can make it sound like Stevie Ray V. at times. (yeah....yeah... how can anybody who studied at Berklee have the blues?)

Nobody can get even close to SRV. Nobody.

-=£em in Pa=-

12-19-05, 05:14 PM

Nobody ever mentions Jimi Hendrix? Clapton, SRV are ussually thought of..but there would be no SRV w/o Jimi and Clapton woulda...well, Clapton would of been considered the "Best Guitarist" in his time if it weren't for Jimi.

Im gonna get heat for this, but to me they arent blues.......
But, if you are a student of the Hendrix-Clapton-SRV is blues school of thought,
you should check out Mick Taylor. One of the most underated guitarists of all time.
the 'Stones have were never the same when he left.
I never got the Clapton stuff.....To me he is average at best.

randya

12-19-05, 05:43 PM

I'm with you on Clapton, Cream was one of my favorites back in the day, but I didn't think of them as blues. IMO Clapton is highly overrated and I don't really understand his enduring popularity. For starters, most 'British Blues' are a pale shadow of the blues' American roots, and Clapton's guitar playing was often carried by the other musicians he played with. I would probably rate Mick Taylor, Rory Gallagher and Tony McPhee as better British blues guitarists than Clapton.

smoore

12-21-05, 05:05 PM

Clapton (check out One More Car, One More Rider DVD with Steve Gadd, Nathan East and Billy Preston)
Francine Reed
Susan Tedschi---Gonna see her in Atlanta in a few weeks, GREAT
Bonnie Raitt

squeegy200

12-23-05, 01:20 PM

Anyone listen to Chris Cain?

lotek

12-23-05, 01:39 PM

Mississipi John Hurt
Blind cirtus Lemon
Fred McDowell
Houndog Taylor (brick, it hurt me too)
buddy Guy
buddy Miles
Johnny Winter
Roy Buchanon (sp?)
Ry Cooder (talk about your underated guitarist)
Long John Baldry (british boogie woogie and the king of rock'n roll).
Etta James
Big Mama Thorton
Billy Holiday
Janis Joplin (could have been a great blues shouter)
SRV (of course)
Clapton (master of the space between the notes)
Hendrix (find some of his session work, not just the
psychedelic albums).
Should I go on?