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re: Your favorite older Blues artist/Group & newer Blues artist/group?
Posted on 5/23/13 at 6:09 pm to Hat Tricks
Posted on 5/23/13 at 6:09 pm to Hat Tricks
Junior Kimbrough, SRV, Buddy Guy.
Locally Tab Benoit.
I like Black Keys, and am now ducking.
Locally Tab Benoit.
I like Black Keys, and am now ducking.
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Posted on 5/31/13 at 5:37 pm to Hat Tricks
Posted on 5/31/13 at 10:09 pm to Hat Tricks
Posted on 5/31/13 at 10:32 pm to chinese58
Not sure about new, but for old I think I gotta go with Muddy Waters.
Ask me tomorrow and I might say Robert Johnson.
Ask me tomorrow and I might say Robert Johnson.
Posted on 6/1/13 at 5:40 am to urinetrouble
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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.
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.
Posted on 6/1/13 at 6:41 am to Hat Tricks
[link=(www.youtube.com/watch?v=16AnGcB7MHA?)]Freddie King "Aint no sunshine when she's gone[/link]
[link=(www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYWhsjFpNM)]SRV "Tin pan alley"[/link]
[link=(www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYWhsjFpNM)]SRV "Tin pan alley"[/link]
Posted on 6/1/13 at 7:33 am to AlaTiger
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They were the beginning, but the genre evolved so much further past those scratchy, archaic recordings.
Well maybe I enjoy the bare bones production and delivery of Johnson's work and others from the early stages.
Not everyone gets damp over gut-busting electric guitar solos. I like the songwriting of a lot of earlier blues musicians.
Posted on 6/1/13 at 10:11 am to Hat Tricks
John Lee Hooker
Elmore James
interchangeable. Depends upon the mood.
Elmore James
interchangeable. Depends upon the mood.
Posted on 6/1/13 at 2:48 pm to Dandy Lion
Ah, Elmore James. I forgot about him. Used to listen to him in college. Really good.
Posted on 6/1/13 at 2:50 pm to urinetrouble
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Well maybe I enjoy the bare bones production and delivery of Johnson's work and others from the early stages. Not everyone gets damp over gut-busting electric guitar solos. I like the songwriting of a lot of earlier blues musicians.
To each his own. I appreciate the old stuff for the innovation and the history of it, but it is hard for me to say it is the greatest too. SRV was light years ahead of Robert Johnson, for example. But what makes Johnson great is that he paved the way for SRV and many others and indefinitely appreciate that.
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