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

bluestime said:
I just looked at that list of 100 best albums. Allmost everything is electic and from the late 60s - early 70s. No Lightnin' Hopkins?
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Probably no Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Tommy Johnson, Fred McDowell, Rev Gary Davis or (gasp!) Charley Patton on that list, either.

You're more likely to see artists like "Blueshammer" on such lists.
 
Mystic said:
Probably no Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Tommy Johnson, Fred McDowell, Rev Gary Davis or (gasp!) Charley Patton on that list, either.

You're more likely to see artists like "Blueshammer" on such lists.
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Ya, you and bluestime got it right. There is a tendency to lump good time blues into the blues label, but there is no take me to the edge of total despair in songs like; I got my Mojo working or good morning little school girl. The good time music goes hand-in-hand with blues, but it's not blues.

It's not Born Dead by J.B.. Or, Sweet Home Chicago is not Sweet Home Chicago Blues. Blues is most effective solo like this Blind(forgot his name) guy in Chicago.
 

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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?????

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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Besides the incredible musianship all of SRVs stuff was meticulously produced. I use "Tin Pan Alley" to demo speakers, amps, tts that I am selling.
 
JohnMac said:
Besides the incredible musianship all of SRVs stuff was meticulously produced. I use "Tin Pan Alley" to demo speakers, amps, tts that I am selling.
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Ah mate, that is one of my all time favourites of SRV that and also 'Lenny' track 10 on the CD of Texas Flood. very cool and his wife's name too BTW.
 
daza152 said:
Ah mate, that is one of my all time favourites of SRV that and also 'Lenny' track 10 on the CD of Texas Flood. very cool and his wife's name too BTW.
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Don't forget about "Riviera Paradise", one of my favorite instrumentals ever, not quite as blues-oriented as the rest of his work, more Jazz (no doubt aided by the keyboard player added in "soul to soul"). 9 minutes of pure guitar tonality. And as mentioned, the production and mastering are spot-on and excellent:yes:.

I'll also go with Garww, Willie Dixon is such a huge player in the game it's hard to fathom the genre without him somewhere in it.
 
Stevie Ray is hard to beat. Lately its been Keb Mo, but am really liking Robben Ford and the Blue Line, very blues/jazz with awesome production. Still, my favorite is E.C. Was Here. Its a classic I play once a week.
 
Mystic said:
Probably no Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Tommy Johnson, Fred McDowell, Rev Gary Davis or (gasp!) Charley Patton on that list, either.

You're more likely to see artists like "Blueshammer" on such lists.
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In the '70s I used to go to a place called Farquhar's in Omaha and listen to Hound Dog Taylor rock the house. Recently found one of his LPs and it really takes me back, not that it would ever make the list.

One of my favorite Delta blues LPs is John Lee Hooker's "Alone". Live solo recorded and Hunter college, NY. Very mellow and all acoustic.
 
dim_span said:
Muddy Waters .... Folk Singer
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Fleetwood Mac .... Fleetwood Mac (their very 1st lp)

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Are you refering to what is also called Peter Green's Fleetwod Mac? I have the remasterd Blue Horizons CD, 90001-2. It's subtitled "Peter Green's Fleetwod Mac". This release has 19 tracks (6 bonus tracks with multiple re-takes and false starts). The liner notes says it was recording in Nov/Dec 1967.

I've never seen the LP version. Is the LP version also subtitled "Peter Green's Fleetwod Mac"?

This is one of my favorites. But I'm a blues noob. I'm gonna hav'ta check out some of the albums on the list, 100 Greatest Blues Albums.
 
I'll add another that I can't believe I forgot till now; Freddie King. He mixed blues with a little soul, a little jazz, and a good amount of Funk, but it's definately blues, and man, is it great stuff. I like "Burglar"(1974) as a prime cut of his style. Here he is playing with clapton, a two-for-one of blues greats.

Apparently, Rolling stone (for what it's worth), has him at 25 in the list of 100 greatest guitarist, for good reason, might I add:yes:.
 
To me the best blues album is, Hendrix...Band of Gypsies. Super great one of a kind blues and it's live too.
 
I see some mention of older albums but more of the newer 60's /70's.

Maybe more than other genres of music best and most important need to be distinguished with the blues style of music. Muddy Waters has "Folk Singer" or the "Plantation" recordings in his resume for instance. But would he have made those without Robert Johnson's influence who was mentored by Son House and then (some say) copied Skip James and Lonnie Johnson among others. Regardless R. Johnson only made two recordings and both are important but having been made in 1936 & 37 probably won't make too many best of lists because of sound quality.

So you have early North Mississippi acoustic influences moving up to Beale street in Memphis then migrating to Chicago when Beale was shut down for a while.

Meanwhile you had B.B. King in Memphis combining jazz techniques with the blues style and pioneering the lead guitar style common in rock and rock/blues today. Seems like T-Bone Walker should be mentioned here too.

So anyway much of the more recent popular electric blues or blues rock will be what gets picked on album "best of" genre. Mostly because of recording quality. I said all that to say this, if you want to really appreciate the blues look into the history and start with the pioneers then progress to the modern form. Rather than picking from "best" lists. Ultimately you'll enjoy it more.

Funny another artist I was going to mention Bessie Smith who was popular in the 1920's but forgot. She died in a car wreck in the thirties.
 
The history is rich. There are many styles and regional influences of blues. These styles merged and evolved and moved north and plugged in. Some young Britts got a taste of it, put thier spin on it and sent it back to the U.S. to become popular to a new audience, most of whom had no idea of the roots of this "new" sound. Keith Richards once said that if not for Robert Johnson there would be no Rolling Stones. The devil got involved too. I saw David "Honeyboy" Edwards in Denver a couple of years ago. He claims to have helped Robert Johnson to his room the day he died. That's getting pretty close to "real" blues. A casual study of the blues and bios on the individual artists gives an interesting and enlightening perspective on life for some in the south in the first half of the 1900s.
 
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However I'm ready to dig out:

FLEETWOOD MAC-THE VINTAGE YEARS.DELUXE two record set

and hear the Peter Green playing BLACK MAGIC WOMAN

Carlos Santana did an incredible version, however I prefer the original

Too many "best" to choose from.
 
For my tastes, there has only been a handful of white artists that have come close to playing real blues. There are plenty of extremely talented musicians who "cover" blues, but it just ain't the same as the real thing. Not taking anything away from Clapton, Stones, SRV..they all kick ass.
All the early blues greats had a special tone, and feeling, that really stirred the soul. They moved you, not blow you off your feet, it is an emotional thing.
At least that's the way I see it.
 
I think T Bone Walker doesn't get the credit he deserves, either as one of the greats in his own right or as someone who really set the stage for rock and roll. His influence on Chuck Berry is plain as day even with a casual listen. And we all know how influential Chuck Berry then went on to be.
 
Though I don't have a recording of hers, I saw Ruth Brown live back in early 90's. Dan Ackroyd put it on in Martha's Vinyard church. What a show :banana:

Love Johnny Winter Prgressive Blues Experiment especially his tribute to BB King's No Fault But Mine.

Ad Micchael Bloomfield smokes on PBBB Got A Mind To Give Up Livin' on East-West.
 
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