Blues Music

[EasyEd]

Hey All,

Blues - I thought I'd start a thread celebrating the blues.

Rather than I'll start it off with somebody famously obvious I'll go with a band that plays music that they profess to be from a time when "folks didn't make as much of a distinction between styles as they do today" and I agree with one band member who calls their music "birth of the blues" music. So much of their music is right on the edge of being a "hardcore blues" form of one subgenre or another. Probably one of the most common groups of musicians to sing the "blues" back turn of the century into the 20s or 30s were various combinations of guitar, banjo, bass and harmonica. This trio is one of my very favorite bands - Brokenjoe. Here's couple - if you only listen to one try Blessings as you'll probably at least enjoy the lyrics.

Here's Blessings

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Here's an old classic - Walkin Boss

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Enjoy!

-Ed-

[tigisfat]

:icon_lol:I cry foul!!

That's a great band, but I'll bet one if not all have computers!! According to your list, that disqualifies them.

[6297J]

I'm more than happy to celebrate someone obvious -

The master - Riley B. King



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2prKnYnI


I've seen him live a few times and they were probably the best concerts I ever went to :cool:

(I went out with one of his backing singers for about six months a few years back - she said he was the kindest man she'd ever worked with)

[6297J]

...... and a less than obvious one but still a great in my opinion -



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plKO0q9zcv0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBmqfM74sIY

[cheezyflier]

:icon_lol:I cry foul!!

That's a great band, but I'll bet one if not all have computers!! According to your list, that disqualifies them.


:applause::icon_lol: that was a good one.

but, seein as how we are now talkin straight up blues, i'm bringout the big guns right off the bat. and i'm goin double barrel:

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and if that don't do it for ya, i know this will:

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told you i wasn't foolin around! hahahahaha

[pilottj]

Amen to the blues, the blues is in a part of your soul that says, 'I got somthin' to say!' when you sit down to a piano or hold a guitar or harmonica or a microphone. I have played them on a piano and literaly felt a disconnect between my brain and my fingers, and it seemed the playing came from somewhere within. There is a root structure...like the bone of the music...but the meat of the blues is all improvisation. There might be a set lyrics to a particular song but its up to the individual singer how to express them. If you understand what the blues means to you, when you hear a John Lee hooker, or a Muddy Waters or any of these fine artists shown in the posts above, their sound resonates within you and you 'feel' the power of the music.

Youtube is quite a wonderful place to find great tunes.
Here is a handfull of some really good ones. :jump:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI98xPkLNVU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXoRljXZwK0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNQsoZJq9co


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqU9RZqvFKY&feature=related


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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBeuco0PgJs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4cCSdrGP9I


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWeK8Vheak

and as a piano player, my all time idol, Mr Otis Spann.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0NZMZfIOgk&feature=related

Cheers
TJ

[djscoo]

I made an "early blues" station on Pandora Radio a couple months ago, and it's what I listen to while I do my homework. Good ambient music.
Blind Boy Fuller is probably my favorite:
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[EasyEd]

Hey All,

Great stuff!!

Tig your technically right they probably all have computers just like every modern blues performer - so they don't qualify - but tough I like em anyway! :d

BB is the King and I like that Kelly Joe Phelps - some of his stuff has too much Jazz in it for my taste but when he keeps it toned down a bit it's great!

Jeez Cheezy - Big Mama Thornton is double barrel all by herself :applause:- much less adding in one of my all time favorites in Sonny an Brownie.:applause: I don't know if you knew but Big Mama is an absolute monster on the harp (harmonica) - she can flat wail! I'm gonna put in my favorite Big Mama Youtube just to show she can hold her own with the best - in this case John Lee Hooker, Big Walter Horton and Doc Ross the harmonica boss.

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-Ed-

Have to do an edit. Wow TJ what variety in blues. Great to bring in Son House although my favorite is his accapello version of John the Revelator. I can relate to what your saying about the blues just coming from somewhere within. I try to be a harmonica (harp) player because my Grandfather played cowboy songs on his. As I learned and looked for harp players to learn from and maybe try to emulate I naturally found myself listening to the blues because there are so many famous blues harp players.You can have an absolute blast with the harp if you just learn to suck and wail - harp players will know I mean 2nd position (crossharp) on a 10 hole diatonic - which basically gives you that blues sound - course I usually just suck. :d

[Pauke! Pauke!]

:redfire::redfire::redfire: RED HOT & BLUE :redfire::redfire::redfire:

Here are some great oldies from Pops and Lady 'Day.

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[Pauke! Pauke!]

Oh! You meant Delta Blues! Something like Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf?

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Some skinny-a** kat from London England and his band took up some blues too back in the day.

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[pilottj]

aye good stuff, it will never die.

Here is a beauty with Willie Dixon and Koko Taylor...just listen to that power of Koko's voice...RIP Koko.:icon29:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3QySTQlmI

This recording of Crawlin Kingsnake is just oh so beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYBgpZdbKM

This is John's last known recording before he died which happened the day before my 23rd birthday, one of the saddest birthdays of my life. RIP John, hope your in that great juke joint in the sky makin them enjoy their burbon, scotch and beer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRGMLYlXosg

[JoeW]

Oh! You meant Delta Blues! Something like Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf?

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Some skinny-a** kat from London England and his band took up some blues too back in the day.

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Now we gettin there wid this. This is Blues ...........
I was born and raised in Mississippi, Been listenin' to this all my life. Some of these numbers ... depending on who played them, Muddy Waters or Buddy Holly ..... one would be Rock 'n' roll .... the other ... the Blues.
This started it.

[Dain Arns]

It was Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters that started my first few tentative steps in my Blues journey.

I was driving through Yellowstone National Park on a solo trip in an old Ford pickup with a topper, listening to a very tasty radio station out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
It was the only station within range at the time.

They played this song by SRV that gave my Blues journey great strides. :d
As soon as I got home I bought that album and promptly wore it out.

I'll forever remember that moment in time.

"Mary Had A Little Lamb"


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[pilottj]

and we need some Jimi in here too :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfszi_10VDU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swM_MSA7uqM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU7lC3bhq7c

[Eoraptor1]

and we need some Jimi in here too :D

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Pilottj,

What did you think of Valleys of Neptune?

JAMES

[pilottj]

Valley of Neptune is another fine example of Jimi's ability to explore sound through improvisation. I believe he had the soul of a delta bluesman combined with the desire to explore sound. Guess thats why they call it the Jimi Hendrix Experience lol

CHeers
TJ

[tigisfat]

Valley of Neptune is another fine example of Jimi's ability to explore sound through improvisation. I believe he had the soul of a delta bluesman combined with the desire to explore sound. Guess thats why they call it the Jimi Hendrix Experience lol

CHeers
TJ
Delta music? The most famous delta rock band ever wasn't from anywhere near a delta. CCR was from the bay area. A childhood friend was their original bassist. They were outta high school and he wasn't. His momma said they would never amount to anything and wouldn't let him go. Talk about regrets.

[viking3]

The first music I heard that I identified as the blues were Zeppelin and the Stones. Those 2 bands plus Eric Clapton started a musical journey through such artists as BB King, Muddy, Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, ZZ Top, Albert King, Bonnie Raitt, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Tab Benoit, Jeff Healey, Colin James, The Powder Blues Band, Duke Robillard/Fabulous Thunderbirds/Jimmy Vaughn, SRV, Buckwheat Zydeco, Motown, Ry Cooder, etc., etc.. You get the picture. I figure some 50% of my 1000+ CDs are blues/R'n'B/Country blues oriented. The music doesn't have to make you sad to be the blues it just has to be authentic and real. Ain't no pretending in the blues.

Regards, Rob:ernae:

[pilottj]

Delta music? The most famous delta rock band ever wasn't from anywhere near a delta. CCR was from the bay area. A childhood friend was their original bassist. They were outta high school and he wasn't. His momma said they would never amount to anything and wouldn't let him go. Talk about regrets.

LOL the Sacramento river delta ain't too far :d Give a listen to Jimi's accoustic version of Hear My Train A Commin', some really good 'delta' sound in that. But yeah CCR is another fine example of great blues rock. I love their cover of Good Golly Miss Molly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6o48KxbDww

Cheers
TJ

[tigisfat]

LOL the Sacramento river delta ain't too far :d [/video]

Cheers
TJ

Yes, but I still get a kick out of listening to them talk about hound dogs, the bayou and such.:mixedsmi:

[pilottj]

On a sadder note, think about all the young rising musiicans who had a real feel for blues who died too young. Jimi, Janis, Stevie, Roy Buchanan, Rory Gallagher, Eva Cassidy, Jeff Healey, among others. If you think about it, Robert Johnson and Little Walter fall in to that category too. It would be amazing to imagine if they could have grown old as musicians, still peforming the blues for us. But perhaps that is what made their blues that authentic. Deperession, addictions, terminal illnesses which many of them suffered from will bring out real blues for sure. I hope today's generation of blues artists like Johnny Lang and Joe Bonamassa live long lives and help keep the blues alive for generations to come.


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[Pauke! Pauke!]

Here's a newcomer that's pretty good!

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This gal is not a newcomer but she sure is fine IMHO

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[Cazzie]

De doctor said I might get better
But I'll never get well.

Some fine stuff, y'all talkin mah music now.

Boogie with King Biscuit Boy, aka Richard Newell, a Canadian Blues legend.

-NAie-UsI_A

The best double-picker since Roy Buchanan:

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Mel Melton lives right down the road, has some big time acts at the Mojo Room in Mountain Hill, had a Cajun Zydeco night too and lots of good Cajun food.

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Caz, y'all done got me chugglin'!:ernae:

[pilottj]

If ya'll want some good streaming blues, I highly recommend Blue Ears Radio.
www.blueears.com (http://www.blueears.com)

1.FM has some good blues too.

Cheers
TJ