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Today's Blues Playlist

John Lee Hooker: Detroit 1948-1949
Savoy Jazz
Hooker came to be a legend in his own time. His later records were often a who's who of the music scene, a contrast to his beginnings when it was usually just Hooker and his guitar. These are the complete Savoy recordings from 48-49, only a few of which were released at the time. Hooker is in fine form, mostly utilizing the one note, boogie-rhythm style that was to become a virtual stereotype 20-30 years later. What might be booring in most hands is of course clay for molding in Hooker's. Not essential Hooker (partly because most were not released until long after the fact, thus don't belong to the "historic" Hooker legacy), but still great music by a great bluesman. Sound varies, but mostly OK.
 
Blind Blake: All The Published Sides
JSP Records-5CDs

Blind Blake is the great unknown bluesman. Robert Johnson's rather mysterious life is like an open book when compared with Blake's, about whom virtually nothing is known for sure, other than his 110 record sides cut between 1926-32. Blake is a guitarist of exceptional technique and imagination, alone or as accompanist (some of the material is in jazz mode when playing in small combo). He also has an ability to vary tempo at virtually any time during a song, sometimes almost note to note (with startling effect), using double-time, stop-time, and slow-time tempos within the same tune with incredible virtuosity. Yet he doesn't use his prodigious ability just to be flashy, it is fully at the beck and call of his nuanced, imaginative playing. If he were alive today guaranteed, steady employment as a guitar virtuoso would be his fate. Being a blind bluesman during depression era America means we are lucky to have this recorded legacy.
Sound quality varies immensely, from good to couldn't sound worst if recorded in a metal building during a hallstorm, but about half of it is okay. Essential blues. Essential music. Recommend a one CD greatest hit package, then prepare to be amazed.
 
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My Kind of Blues - B.B. King on Crown
Goin' Away - Lightnin' Hopkins on Bluesville
"KING BEE" - Muddy Waters on Blue Sky
 
Paul Butterfield's Better Days - R2 70877
(Rhino / Bearsville)

- New Walkin' Blues
- Please Send Me Someone to Love :thmbsp:
- Broke My Baby's Heart :thmbsp:
- Done a Lot of Wrong Things
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Buried Alive in the Blues :thmbsp:
- Rule the Road
- Nobody's Fault but Mine
- Highway 28
 
Just gave a listen to a cdr that I made from an LP: BB King - Live at the Regal. It turned out exceptionally good and quiet (pop free).

JD
 
Medicine Show Man -Peg Leg Sam on Trix with Baby Tate and Henry Johnson.

Sonny Terry and his mouth harp on stinson
 
the only truly american form of music and it has to be resurrected from 06. certainly my favorite form of music, there is nothing more emotional on vinyl some of the greatest guitar licks ever put down. get up and shake your booty!

robert cray-strong persuader
 
howlin' wolf- london sessions

howlin' wolf, eric clapton, steve winwood, bill wyman, charlie watts, hubert sumlin, jeffery carp, ian stewart
 
Byarmson - Excellent idea starting this thread, me have lots of fun pulling out & playing albums to complement this one. :thmbsp:


Bukka White - Mississippi Blues, 1964
 
Cool thread. I dont have an abundance of blues but will add the following as I change cartridge and play original 45RPMs from 1953.
Champion Jack Dupree -Stumbling Block Bues (Red Robin)
Sonny Terry - Doggin' My heart Around (Red Robin)
Champion Jack Dupree- Shake Baby Shake ( red Robin)
Brownie McGhee- Dont Dog Your Woman(Red Robin)
Champion Jack Dupree- Shake Baby Shake( Red Robin)
 
An old friend and I sat for 3 hours and listened to Canned Heat. I think it was Future Blues and the new release Boogie House Tapes which is completely mind blowing. If you don't know about these guys you NEED to check into them circa 67-71

In its prime this was one Hell of a powerhouse boogie/blues band....in my opinion the BEST.....
 
I'd sorta given up on this thread. Seemed I was the only one posting. Hard to keep a thread going by yourself. Thanks imready for digging it up from the dead zone. Here we go again.

Charlie Patton: The Definitive
Catfish Records-3 CD's

Charlie Patton is usually considered the first great Delta bluesmen. His influence hangs over all later Delta bluesmen, thus over virtually all blues artists. Patton was both a "star" performer in the delta and a recording star. His life (what is known of it) was a virtual stereotype of the itinerant, hard-living, hard-drinking, womanizing bluesman who died early (in 1934 at 40ish). His recorded legacy is much larger than most of his contemporaries, he sold records, just like he packed them in at delta gatherings. His large, gruff vocals would later be emulated by Howlin' Wolf. He was a great guitarist too, both with a slide and without, he also utilized lots of tapping and banging to get a myriad of sounds out of his guitar. A lot of the guitar showmanship standard to today's guitarists (playing behind your head, etc) were used by Patton to wow audiences. His greatest songs have entered the blues repetoire and many of his harmonies and guitar riffs have become so well know as to be commonplace. But as with Louis Armstrong, Patton was there first, or at least first to record. Highlights: Mississippi Boweavil Blues, Pony Blues, Pea Vine Blues, A Spoonful Blues, Prayer of Death Parts one & two. Get a greatest hits package to start. Sound good to awful, as is the case with most early Delta artist's recordings. Essential stuff, not the first Delta blues, but its first great flowering.
 
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