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What's Missing In My Blues Collection?

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grillebilly said:
1586 records is a lot to breeze through. The first page had some great records. :thmbsp:
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Hmm....I thought I sorted the link on blues so only the first two pages should have blues (about 350 titles).

I do have some John Hurt, but no Skip James....

Also, thanks for the link...
 
Taylor Player said:
Hmm....I thought I sorted the link on blues so only the first two pages should have blues (about 350 titles).

I do have some John Hurt, but no Skip James....

Also, thanks for the link...
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OK, went through, lots of great Chicago blues. I'm not a huge Musselwhite fan but his first record "Stand Back" is really good (Harvey Mandel plays on it among others) and it's being released for record store day.
Magic Sam "West Side Soul" is both magic and soulful :smoke:
John Hammond has a slew of cool records from 1961 - up and does it all, his early work tends to be more revved-up than his later acoustic records.
Get this and it will give you an excellent sampler to find a style you dig http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Great-Blues-Men/release/859378
 
Without looking at your unsorted list, a can make couple recommendations in case they aren't in there.

Anything by Junior Kimbrough and anything by Mississippi Fred McDowell. (I'm not so much an RL Burnside fan)
 
Matrix might surprise you ... I'm the only one I know who has any of their stuff ... Wizard and Tale of the Whale are both particularly tasty. Kinda of a Weather Report sort of thang.


http://www.discogs.com/artist/1012849-Matrix-26

PS ... you may have sorted your catalog, but I think that would only put a preference cookie and show on your computer. Maybe rearrange the columns on your list so GENRE shows, and then we can all click on that. Problem there, how many different designer jazz genre's is your stuff listed under? Whole slew of those if you took the defaults.

Oh. The Columbia Jazz Collection covers the gambit and may fill a few holes in your list ... $50 at Amazon ...

1 Blues By Basie Count Basie 1950
2 Chet Baker & Strings Chet Baker 1953
3 In Hi-Fi Sarah Vaughan 1955
4 The Jazz Messengers Art Blakey 1956
5 Ambassador Satch Louis Armstrong 1956
6 Beat Of My Heart Tony Bennett 1957
7 Lady In Satin Billie Holiday 1958
8 Black, Brown And Beige Duke Ellington 1958
9 Mingus Ah Um Charles Mingus 1959
10 Time Out Dave Brubeck 1959
11 Kind Of Blue Miles Davis 1959
12 Criss-Cross Thelonious Monk 1963
13 Brazilian Byrd Charlie Byrd 1965
14 The Bill Evans Album Bill Evans 1971
15 The Inner Mounting Flame Mahavishnu Orchestra 1971
16 Expectations Keith Jarrett 1972
17 Skies Of America Ornette Coleman 1972
18 Sun Goddess Ramsey Lewis 1974
19 High Energy Freddie Hubbard 1975
20 The Best Of Two Worlds Stan Getz 1975
21 Black Market Weather Report 1976
22 Manhattan Symphonie Dexter Gordon 1978
23 M'Boom Max Roach 1979
24 Scenes In The City Branford Marsalis 1984
25 Ellis Marsalis Whistle Stop 1993.
 
Went through the whole list and there are blues scattered right to the end. You have some great LPs, Daren. Sorry if I suggest any that are on your list, I probably didn't catch every entry.

Blues artists I enjoy:

Savoy Brown (Looking In, a Step Further, Raw Sienna) or solo work by Kim Simmonds.

Early Fleetwood Mac (Then Play On, S/T, Mr. Wonderful, The Pious Bird of Good Omen)

Junior Wells-Hoodoo Man Blues

Son Seals Live

Henry Qualls-Blues From Elmo, Texas

Mike Welch-Catch Me (local MA blues)

Steve James- Austin Sessions 1988-1995

T-Model Ford- Bad Man

Buddy Guy- Sweet Tea

Canned Heat- Boogie With

Luther Allison- Bad News is Coming

Albert Cummings-True To Yourself (another MA native)

Asie Payton- Worried

Yardbirds- Over Under Sideways Down

I'll keep looking. I have a lot of these on CD so I don't know if there is vinyl available.
 
I'd add the following on vinyl if you can find them:

"Otis Spann Is The Blues" (with Robert Lockwood Jr.)

"My Labors" by Nick Gravenites (with Michael Bloomfield)

"Fathers And Sons" (Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, Duck Dunn, etc, etc)

"Three Kings And A Queen" by Victoria Spivey (with Roosevelt Sykes, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson and a young Bob Dylan guesting on harp and vocals)

The soundtrack to the Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda movie, "Steelyard Blues" (featuring Nick Gravenites, Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield and Maria Muldaur)
 
Very helpful input guys, thanks. Sorry the list didn't stay sorted in the link; thanks to those that took the time to look through the whole list....
 
Son House
Elmore James
Bukka White
Hound Dog Taylor
Johnny Shines
John Lee Hooker
Howlin' Wolf
Otis Rush
Willie McTell
Rev. Gary Davis
Albert King
Elizabeth Cotten
Pearly Brown
Robert Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson (gospel-tinged but plenty of blues & sublime slide technique using a jacknife)

I don't recall seeing him listed, but someone must already have mentioned Muddy Waters, the 1948-1955 era in particular.
 
Of course we're all missing Henry Sloan, born in Mississippi in 1870, and by 1900 was living in the same community as the Patton and Chatmon families near Bolton, MS, eventually moving to the Dockery Plantation (Indianola, MS) @ around the same time as the Pattons, between 1901 and 1904, @ which point he reputedly began tutoring Charley Patton in the Delta Blues. And from there, well, we know most of the players who sprang from Patton.

Also, no recordings of Sloan have ever surfaced.
 
I cant be bothered looking through all that list. But any John Mayell there. I'm listening to him now lol.
 
Papa John Creach - self-titled, 1971.

Members of Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana, and Tower of Power appear on this rocking blues album. Good stuff.
 
I can't really stand the early Blues. They sound like hound dogs howlin' to me. :D

I much prefer the later Chicago Electric Blues. I would recommend just about anything from Alligator Records. My favorite is The Living Chicago Blues series. Number 3 gets the most play around here.

http://www.alligator.com/albums/Living-Chicago-Blues-III/

From there you I'd move on to Albert Collins, A.C. Reed and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.
 
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