re: Your favorite older Blues artist/Group & newer Blues artist/group?

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Not sure about new, but for old I think I gotta go with Muddy Waters. Ask me tomorrow and I might say Robert Johnson.

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I am not sure how Robert Johnson can be anyone's favorite bluesman. I have listened to every song we have recorded of him and he is great for Blues historians to understand the beginning of the genre as is Son House, but that is like saying that John Adams is my favorite politician or Cicero is my favorite philosopher or Homer is my favorite author. They were the beginning, but the genre evolved so much further past those scratchy, archaic recordings.

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Buddy Guy were the apex for me. Jimi Hendrix's blues recordings are up there as well. "The Sky Is Crying" might be my favorite blues recording of all time and, while it doesn't follow the blues progression, "Little Wing" might be the height of music that flowed up from out of the genre.

I have listened to all the greats from the 30's on and you can name the Pantheon and say that Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Son House, etc. But, it got better as time went on until it kind of hit a standstill in the 70's-80's, in my opinion.

John Lee Hooker is someone that has not been mentioned as well. Incredible. Groundbreaking, too, in my opinion.