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Location: NC | I know alot of you like blues and was wondering who your favorites were?
BB King being one of the most notable but any others come to mind?
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Location: Vernon, CT | George Benson wailed out alot of good R&B tunes and was popular when I was in college in the 1970's. I think he still tours. Play On!
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Actually I like Freddie and Albert better. Can't forget Duane and of course Stevie. Been listening to alot of Muddy lately.
Keb Mo is great, and still alive. |
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Location: Tennessee | Way too many to do justice. Some personal favs ...
Albert Collins. John Mayall. Johnny Winter. The Paladins. Roy Buchanan. Little Charlie and the Nightcats. |
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Location: Georgia USA | My all time faves were Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. I saw them both (separately)... saw Sonny shortly before he died. I also saw John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Gatemouth Brown, Taj Mahall, BB King, OV Wright, Bobby Bland...
Saw Stevie Ray once with the Fab Tbirds (w/Jimmy Vaughan) as the opening act. And I saw Elvin Bishop.
If you are looking for great blues album, check out The London Sessions by Howlin' Wolf. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Michael Bloomfield has done wonderful stuff with his sustaining style. Probably responsible for the growth of the Les Paul, among blues guitar players. I also still love Jimmy Reed. As for living artists, John Hammond is as close as you can get to a pure blues acoustic player and early blues vocal.
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Location: Toronto | Robert Johnson - truly the greatest primative musician every.... |
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Location: Vermont USA | I would have to say B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton.
There are many others I could gone on for a long time.
Not a blues guitarist but one I like a lot is Phil Keaggy.
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I'll add some that you normally don't hear about.
Michael Burks
W. C. Clark
Joanna Connor
Deborah Coleman
Debbie Davies
Tinsley Ellis
Coco Montoya
Rory Gallagher |
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Location: Toronto | How about Jim Morrison or even Janice Joplin? |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | I don't think white people get the blues; they get "depressed" and get prescriptions for selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I think Michael Bloomfield gets the award for bringing back the Les Paul. Without him it would have stayed dead.
I've been listening to alot of Paul Butterfield lately. Great stuff. And of course he had Bloomfield and Bishop at times. And later Amos Garret and a bunch of others, all great. |
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Location: NJ | I am half way through the michael bloomfield biography, I was reading on the plane from lax to phl |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Johnny Winter for me... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | There's a guy in Palm Springs who is killer.
Kal David.
He's played with just about everybody, those mentioned who aren't here anymore, and those who still are. The guy can sing and he got the chops as in GOT THE CHOPS! |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Stevie Ray Vaughn
BB King
Eric Clapton
Hendrix had some very cool Blues tunes too! |
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Location: south of munich, Germany | Robben Ford (everything he did together with Jimmy Witherspoon)
Frank Diez (German guy, best blues: "Electric Blues Duo" with Colin Hodgkinson)
SRV
John Lee Hooker
Buddy Guy |
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Location: Florida | Without a doubt, BB puts on one hell of a show. He really convey a certain warmth and charisma, he's just a very very good performer. I encourage everyone to see him live if you can. Soon.
There are about 100 million Stevie Ray wanna bee's, sound alike clones out there. I was never a real SRV fan.
This was blues performer.. not just guitar... and Otis Spann comes to mind. I'm not sure if he's still with us, but you can still hear him on quite nearly any Chess record.
Charlie Musselwhite is another bluesman of outstanding talent, and charm, and grace.
I guess I better put Elmore James in there too. "The King of the Slide Guitar" must have had a lot of faith... every song has "I beeelieeeeeeeeve" in it. |
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Location: Omaha | The Holmes Brothers: These guys aren't strictly "blues" but if you haven't heard them, check 'em out! One word of warning; a couple of their CD's are pretty much all gospel, so if that doesn't float your boat (it's great though!), try something else like Lotto Land, or their latest, which I can't remember the title to right now, but it's excellent!
cwk2 wrote:
"I've been listening to alot of Paul Butterfield lately. Great stuff. And of course he had Bloomfield and Bishop at times. And later Amos Garret and a bunch of others, all great."
Ironic, Bill; I have been too; gotta love Amos Garret; he brings a whole different dimension to everything he does! Also check out Bloomfield with Al Kooper on Super Sessions, which has been re-released on CD with a few bonus tracks (with the horns removed, makes for a different feel).
BTW, Bill, the pups are on the "brown truck"; I'll e-mail you tracking info in the morning, but you should have them by Thursday. (And I should be picking up my L777 tomorrow!)
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...yup, John Dawson Winter III, and of course, Duane Allman :cool: |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Blue Man Group. |
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Location: State College, PA | Agree with Muddy, Robert Johnson, Brownie & Sonny, and Johnny Winter.
"Hard Again," with Muddy & Johnny, is a truly great modern blues album - probably one of the best - modern, but with unsevered roots back into the real thing.
Let's add Ray Charles, and a few more connections to Memphis & the Delta:
Sleepy John Estes
Rev. Gary Davis
Furry Lewis
Piano Red
Memphis Slim
Mississippi John Hurt
Heck, even Harmonica Frank!
Last but not least: Huddy Ledbetter.
Of the above:
Saw Muddy (sat ten feet away. When he he sang to the lily-white crowd that he got his mojo workin' but it just don't work on you, somehow I had the feeling he meant it....)
Saw John Estes, and Piano Red.
Saw Furry.
Saw Harmonica Frank. Man had no teeth left (or maybe he just took them out). He played on the guitar for a bit, and then said, "And now I'm gonna show you why they call me Harmonica Frank." Stuck a harmonica, end first, into his mouth. Then proceeded to play it, no hands, by moving it in and out of his mouth with his lips and tongue. Then, with the harmonica still there, he played guitar, sang out of the side of his mouth, and played harmonica riffs between singing lines.
Don't try this at home, folks. I don't want to be responsible for a bunch of emergency room visits...
Best wishes to all -
Michael Pelikan
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Speaking of harmonica: James Cotton. |
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Location: Iowa | Did you say Blue Man Group? :eek: |
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Location: NJ | blues magoos |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | The Blues Magoos - they did a version of Tobacco Road, no? And had something of a hit song with You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet? It's so long ago, maybe my memory is playing tricks on me. |
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Location: NJ | David Bromberg |
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Location: SoCal | Re: David Bromberg
One of my favorites...never saw him live, but love his persona and style :cool: |
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Location: NJ | Bromberg still tours, but not very often.
He came thru this area last spring, but I missed him.
He owns/operates a storefront shop of very fine violins in Wilmington, Delaware.
Evidently, the city gave him a sweet deal on purchasing/renovating the historic building that the store (and his home) is in, in return that he and his wife organize the city's cultural/arts programs. |
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Location: SoCal | dang, that would be worth a visit to his store even though I can't even pretend to know anything about a violin...would probably ask to see the "bowl" models :p :p |
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Location: NJ | I saw bromberg pre the violin stuff. He put on a great show. |
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Location: State College, PA | Saw Bromberg in Northfield, MN in the early '70s. The crowd kept asking him to play Mr. Bojangles. He kept saying, "Listen, that poor song has been played to death, listen to this one, see if you like this...."
When he finally relented & played Mr Bojangles, he began by asking if anyone in the audience knew the name of Mr. Bojangles dog...
A few guesses were called out, but he shook his head. "Why, it's right in the song," says Bromberg, "listen for it..."
Then when he got to the line, "His dog Up n' Died," he paused in his singing and said, "Up n' Died. See, I told you, right in the song..."
Best wishes -
Michael Pelikan
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Location: SoCal | I've got a live recording of Bromberg doing Bojangles on a record I bought in college (mid 70's). Does a great solo in the middle that I've been trying to learn ever since. It's just him on acoustic and somebody else on bass. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | I met Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee backstage when they played at Le Hibou in Ottawa in the 60's. Brownie was nursing a whisky and milk - guess he was having stomach problems, but didn't want to swear off the "hootch." He was cradling this wonderful beat-up old Martin; he looked down at it and said something like "I gotta throw out this old wreck of a thing one of these days." My eyes went wide, I looked at him, and said "Look, when you throw it out, please, please throw it in my direction!" I knew, though, that he was yankin' my chain; there's no way he was parting with that guitar.
That was a great show, and they were two great guys. |
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Location: Midland, MI | A bunch of good ones posted so far (have to agree with Bill...BB is good, but Albert and Freddie are better). Lately I've been listening to Gary Moore 'Blues Alive.' Very good stuff. |
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