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Today's Blues Playlist

Bobby "Blue" Bland- Two Steps From The Blues (Duke Records, 1960). This album is a collection of singles recorded between 1956-60.
 
Andyman said:
Canned Heat Concert Recorded Live in Europe
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CANNED HEAT RULES!!:thmbsp:

Although most of the good stuff is from the bands years when both founding members Alan (Blind Owl) Wilson (Guitar and Vocal) and Bob (The Bear) Hite (Vocals, Harp) were still alive. They pretty much were the sound that made the band, and the sound most folks would recognize.

The band lives on to this day unless something has changed but normally there is only one or two members from the "good ol days" left, being either Fito De La Parra (drums), or Larry (The Mole) Taylor (Bass)
 
Alan Wilson was more than just a member of Canned Heat. He was one of the blues researchers/enthusiasts who found Son House living in Rochester, NY, in 1964. The story goes (apocryphal, or not) that when House was rediscovered he hadn't played guitar for some 15 years, and Wilson had to literally teach him to play like Son House again. Wilson also appears on several of House's albums. Wilson seemed to bring out the best in the old and infirm House. House's last real album, a live recording in London (which I have mentioned in this thread), has Wilson on it, and it was subsequently dedicated to Wilson by House when Wilson died just a few months after it was recorded.
 
Hey thanks for the reminder! I just dug out Son House-Delta Blues And Spirituals and discovered the Alan Wilson tracks. Treasure that I didn't know I had!!
 
Muddy Waters - King Of Chicago Blues,DiscI.This is from a 4CD set on Proper Records.This set spans his career from '41 - '55.Nearly 100 songs.
 
Great stuff dmax99. The late 40s/early 50s sides are Muddy at his best (which is as good as it gets), still playing that wicked slide guitar, and when Little Walter joins up, ecstasy. You can listen to these recordings for the rest of your life, they never grow old. Absolutely essential recordings for any blues fan.
 
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SAD DAYS LONELY NIGHT
Junior Kimbrough
and the Soul Blues Boys

Fat Possum
 
On vinyl:

"Memphis Swamp Jam"

Blue Thumb Stereo BTS-8706

2 record set (4 sides)

Features: Mississippi Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, Booker White, Nathan Beauregard, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes, John Williams, Piano Red, Mike Stewart, Tommy Garry, Napoleao Strickland, Other Turner, Other Turner's daughter, R.L. Watson, Josiah Jones

Recorded 1969, Memphis, Ardent Recording Studios and Royal Recording Studios
 
Hi lguise. I've got part of this music on CD (Mississippi Delta Blues Jam in Memphis, Vol 1—w/Fred McDowell, Napoleon Stickland, Otha Turner, Furry Lewis, Memphis Piano Red and R.L. Watson & Josiah Jones). Really incredible country blues and fife & drum band music, played by some hall of famers. McDowell in particular is worth the price of admission (as he almost always is). Other bluesmen might have played slide guitar as well, but nobody has ever played better. Bit of trivia, the supposedly deaf mute guitar duo, R.L. Watson & Josiah Jones, are in fact John Fahey and Bill Barth. Highly recommended, if you can find a copy.
 
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