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Let's Talk Blues Music

Mojo said:
Little Walter and Hound Dog Taylor on there as well. Looks as if it's from the same session I linked to above.
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Good catch! Same stage, same set, same clothes, same opening graphics.

I'll go out on a limb and say these are both from The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969V3 recorded at the Festival in Copenhagen.

Search "American folk blues festival" in youtube... lots of great stuff there.
 
madurobob said:
She was also, AFIK, the original belter for Willie Dixon's "Wang Dang Doodle"
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Willie Dixon wrote Wang Dang Doodle for the Wolf who recorded it in 1961 and it was released as Chess 1777. The earliest recording done by Koko Taylor that I can find is Checker 1135 recorded in 1965. Regardless, the lady can still belt 'em out. Another of my favourite female voices is Shemkia Copeland.
 
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Well he has been mentioned but Rory Gallagher is up among the greatest. Here he is with my old hero Jack Bruce (i used to play Bass)


But off course you dont talk blues without mentioning BB King, John Lee Hooker, Johnnie Winter and Eric Clapton. :)
 
Fitter said:
Willie Dixon wrote Wang Dang Doodle for the Wolf who recorded it in 1961 and it was released as Chess 1777. The earliest recording done by Koko Taylor that I can find is Checker 1135 recorded in 1965. Regardless, the lady can still belt 'em out. Another of my favourite female voices is Shemkia Copeland.
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Ya know, I own the Wolf Chess Box so I knew he recorded it fairly early and I could have checked the dates. But I guess I assumed Koko's version was the original since it was such a big hit at the time. Silly me.

And thanks for the Copeland link - hadn't heard her before that I recall.
 
Lots of good ones mentioned here, but I'll add a couple of personal favourites: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
 
I rarely listen to blues these days but was heavily into it in the 80s and early 90s. I've got a couple hundred albums. Some favorites:

Chicago
Magic Sam
Howlin' Wolf
Muddy Waters
Sonny Boy Williamson
Elmore James
Freddie King
Buddy Guy
Hound Dog Taylor
Son Seals
J.B. Hutto
Otis Spann
Blind John Davis

Delta
Mississippi John Hurt (although his style was more Piedmont)
Skip James
Son House
Robert Johnson
Leroy Carr
Bukka White
John Lee Hooker
Charlie Patton
Mississippi Fred McDowell
R.L. Burnside

Texas/Louisiana
Mance Lipscomb
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Johnny Adams
Lonnie Johnson
T-Bone Walker
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Carolinas/Piedmont
Reverend Gary Davis
Doc Watson
Blind Blake
Blind Boy Fuller
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Blind Willie McTell

All but one of those (Brownie McGhee) was blind. Don't drink the moonshine!

Others/Related
Professor Longhair
Taj Mahal
Eric Clapton
Mike Bloomfield
Jimi Hendrix
Robert Cray
Keb Mo
Etta James
Ted Hawkins
John Fahey
Chris Smither
Ray Charles
Louis Armstrong
Louis Jordan
Billie Holiday
Alberta Hunter
Bessie Smith
Big Joe Turner
Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy Witherspoon
Joe Williams

Mojo said:
Even if you stick to jazzers you're missing a few there:

Grant Green
Milt Jackson
Coltrane
Monk
Blakey
Jimmy Smith
...

Everything those guys did was soaked in the Blues.
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Absolutely. And Bechet, Teagarden, Morton, Waller, Ellington, Basie & the Kansas City crowd, Mingus, Clark Terry, Kenny Burrell, Mose Allison, Wynton Marsalis, and on, and on....

billydkid said:
here is RLBurnside
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Met him years ago. Funny guy.

Fitter said:
Bumping because I have tickets to see Taj Mahal Monday night.:dc_biggrin:
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Always a good show. Have fun!

Mississippi John Hurt: Spike Driver Blues


Earl Hooker, apparently stoned out of his gourd, does a backstage country music imitation, then opens a set with "Off the Hook" and shows where Hendrix learned some of his chops. Silly and entertaining.


From the same show, Magic Sam plays Hooker's guitar on "All Your Love" and "Magic Sam's Boogie."
 
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Worm said:
Depends on your definition of 'blues' of course, but in addition to those already mentioned, I should like to add Rory Gallagher
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Another Rory fan here. Another guy I'd like to mention is Roy Buchanon. Like Rory--he did a lot of things besides blues and as good as Rory was with his strat--Buchanon is even more amazing (IMO) with that beat up old Tele...

Also--Buddy Guy's amazing. Saw him on Cape Cod a few years back. He had the polka dot strat sitting on stage--but never played it......the one "bad" part of the concert.

also--Joe Bonamassa-Guitar Pete-RL Burnside-and Michael Powers.....

I never get tired of JL Hooker either.................
 
Allman Brothers. Back in the day with Greg singing and Duane playing. Now, with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks tearing it up.

Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule.

SRV. I was lucky enough to see him 5 times, 4 in small clubs and once in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas opening for the Who, back in 89. The clubs definately did not help my hearing any. He was LOUD.
 
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