The best all time(In your opinion) Blues album?

daza152

daza152

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Hi all, I just popped in to pick your brains LOL.:yes: I bought this awesome Blues album by the Late Great Stevie Ray Vaughn, Texas Flood, and it is ranked at no.9 on the top 100 of all time Blues albums.....(electric and acoustic) who do you think is or should be at the no.1 spot?????

Daza. p.s good to come home to my favourite forum and see my old buddies even you to Mrt2 LOL.:D
 
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Muddy Waters .... Folk Singer

Keb Mo .... Suitcase

Robert Lucas .... Luke & the Lococomotives

Etta James .... Blues to the Bone

Fleetwood Mac .... Fleetwood Mac (their very 1st lp)

all of these have been very well recorded
 
Wow... I mean, this is really a wide-open field, lol.

Whoever takes the number one spot the album "Two Men With The Blues" by Willy Nelson and Wynton Marsalis won't be far behind.

Mmmm... many hours of enjoyment there.
 
Yeah, Texas flood is a awesome record, certainly one of the best, even in the rock circuit. Don't discount his second album, "Couldn't stand the weather", it's really great as well.

As for a favorite blues album?...I really can not choose, but i'll say I enjoy "The blues; A real summit meeting" very much...kind of a cheap answer, though since it includes B.B.King, Muddy Waters, Big mama thornton, Arthur "big boy" crudup, and several others on 2 live disc.

Also enjoy Son House (a founder of Delta blues), and a couple other obscure greats, like Perry Tillis's "Too close", religious blues recorded way out in the field, good stuff:yes:.
 
daza152 said:
Hi all, I just popped in to pick your brains LOL.:yes: I bought this awesome Blues album by the Late Great Stevie Ray Vaughn, Texas Flood, and it is ranked at no.9 on the top 100 of all time Blues albums.....(electric and acoustic) who do you think is or should be at the no.1 spot?????
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What pressing are you listening to? :D
 
BB King-Live at the Regal or Live at Cook County Jail
Albert King-Born Under a Bad Sign
Fleetwood Mac-in Chicago

I just picked up a copy of Charley Musselwhite's Stand Back, Harvey Mandel on guitar, awesome album. I'm trying to track down a LP copy of From The Cradle - Eric Clapton

I'm surprised Taj Mahal made it to 15
 
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No.1 for me: Johnny Winter's 1969 self titled album. I have an original and a reissue on vinyl the original that's been massively partied still gets more spins than the reissue. The pops seem to fit in just right.
 
Mississippi John Hurt: Today

The London Howling Wolf Sessions

Muddy Waters: Hard Again

John Mayall and the Blues Breakers AND A Hard Road

A few of my faves anyway...
 
Junior Wells
Blues Hit Big Town with
Muddy guitar b side
Elmore James guitar a side
Willie Dixon bass
Otis Spann, Fred Below, Louis Myers, Dave Myers, Odie Payne

The most soulful blues vocals and harp I have ever heard
 
kruisin said:
No.1 for me: Johnny Winter's 1969 self titled album. I have an original and a reissue on vinyl the original that's been massively partied still gets more spins than the reissue. The pops seem to fit in just right.
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Johnny's golden era. great record.
Try "Progressive Blues Experiment" also released as "Austin Texas"
same time frame same great flavor
 
Buddy Guy......guitar
Junior Wells.....harmonica
Junior Mance.....piano

This was an acoustic blues LP, that was put out in the early 60's.

Freakin' awesome!!

Steve
 
grillebilly said:
Johnny's golden era. great record.
Try "Progressive Blues Experiment" also released as "Austin Texas"
same time frame same great flavor
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That's one I've never owned but will someday thx for adding to a priority list (I may actually have to pay for it). Last night I took "Still Alive and Well" for a walk around the turntable.:thmbsp:
 
kruisin said:
No.1 for me: Johnny Winter's 1969 self titled album. I have an original and a reissue on vinyl the original that's been massively partied still gets more spins than the reissue. The pops seem to fit in just right.
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much as I find it disturbing to assign this honor to a white man (and an extremely white man at that, lol), I pretty much agree. That is a face RIPPIN' album.
 
Zekeman said:
Agreed!! I have turned more people onto this recording. I first heard it thanks to Fisherdude at Robie's place.
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there is an SACD of this now. I've never heard it, but based on you guys' opinions I'm thinking I shall order it now! Buddy Guy plays on it, right?
 
By definition it comes down to the lyrics and vocal rendition - an almost impossible choice !! "woke up this mornin', didn't know right from wrong" ?

Johnny Winter, old canned heat, Savoy brown. I love Youlden stuff. Mac was my real introduction to white boy blues. And Peter is still my fav.
 
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