Otis Rush - Right place, wrong timeMuddy Waters - Folk Singer, Fathers and Sons ( many others)John Lee Hooker - I'm John Lee Hooker
These are just a few of mine. I can go on and on
― yaeger, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― ham on rye (ham on rye), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)
to name a few....
― Joe Gross, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― pauls00, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― dave q, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― gE0rdIEr0b0t, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― bham, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)
Robert Nighthawk - Live on Maxwell Street (frightening)Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues* (the best music ever made)John Lee Hooker - The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954J.B. Lenoir - Vietnam Blues (beautiful, beautiful record - get the cd on Evidence which compiles the two lps released in the 60s on L&R)Skip James - Complete Early RecordingsOtis Rush - 1956-1958 - Cobra RecordingsMagic Sam - 1957-1966: West Side Guitar - Cobra RecordingsMagic Sam - Live at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival and the Alex Club in ChicagoMagic Sam - Give Me Time (hear Sam play some insane shit sitting around his home while the phone rings and his kids run around the place in the background! Wonderful record!!)Ishman Bracey - (1928-1930) Complete Recordings in Chronological OrderJunior Wells - Hoodoo Man BluesHound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers - Natural BoogieB.B. King - Live at the RegalBuddy Guy - Southern Blues 1957-63Homesick James - Goin' Back HomeMuddy Waters - The Complete Plantation RecordingsMuddy Waters - Hard AgainMuddy Waters Chess boxHowlin' Wolf Chess boxThe Best of Duke-Peacock Blues collectionLeroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell - Blues Before SunriseElmore James / John Brim - Whose Muddy ShoesDavid "Honeyboy" Edwards - Crawling KingsnakeEarl Hooker - Two Bugs and a RoachFreddie King - Let's Hide Away and Dance Away With Freddy Kingget all the Little Walter you can get your hands onget the Jimmy Reed Vee-Jay stuff any way you can. I can't remember what the comp I have is called.10 million Yazoo label collections of all kinds mindblowing shit...
Every single one of those records is goddamn outstanding, and there are TONS more but I'm going to bed. Everyone ought to, geez, check out at least a couple of them before buying another cruddy indie rock record...
(*this is the 60s session he did for the Library of Congress. In some ways I like it better than his original sides - I love the interview bits between the songs for one. I think the material has been packaged and repackaged under a number of different names over the years .. but the cd I have is Avalon Blues on Flyright.)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)
Memphis Minnie: Hoodoo LadyVA: Texas Blues: Bill Quinn's Gold Star RecordingsVA: When the Sun Goes Down (box set)The Complete Bukka WhiteBefore the Blues series (on Yazoo)Robert Pete Williams: anything, but esp. s/t (Fat Possum), Free Again, When a Man Takes the Blues, I'm As Blue As a Man Can BeVA: Angola Prisoners' BluesThe Complete Blind Willie JohnsonFred McDowell: Levee Camp Blues, Amazing GraceVA: The Voice of the Blues: Bottleneck Guitar MasterpiecesSkip James: Complete Early RecordingsRev Gary Davis: Complete Recorded Works 1935-1949The Definitive Blind Willie McTellVA: American Primitive Vol. 1: Raw Pre-War GospelCharley Patton: Complete RecordingsJunior Kimbrough: All Night LongSister Rosetta Tharpe: Precious MemoriesGene Autry: Blues Singer 1929-1931Josh White: Blues Singer 1932-1936Mississippi Sheiks: Stop and ListenBig Bill Broonzy: Good Time TonightJ.B. Lenoir: Vietnam BluesEmmett Miller: The Minstrel Man from GeorgiaVA: White Country Blues 1926-1938
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 4 September 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― ron (ron), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 5 September 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 September 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)
along with about twenty others of course
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 August 2006 06:17 (eighteen years ago)
Albert King- Born Under a Bad Sign, Live Wire/Blues PowerJohn Mayall - Bluesbreakers with John Mayall, A Hard RoadBuddy Guy & Junior Wells - Play the BluesMuddy Waters - Live at Newport 1960, Electric MudJunior Kimbrough - Most Things Have Not Worked OutFreddy King - Hide Away: The Best of Freddy KingMagic Sam- West Side Soul, Black MagicLittle Walter - His Best (Chess Anniversary Collection)Sonny Boy Williamson - His Best (Chess Anniversary Collection)Johnny Guitar Watson - The Very Best of Johnny Guitar Watson (Blues Masters Collection)Jimmy Reed - The Very Best of Jimmy Reed (Blues Masters Collection)Slim Harpo- The Best of Slim Harpo (Excello Blues Collection/Hip-O Records)
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago)
my most fave blues album-as-album, I suppose, is Sonny Boy Williamson's "Bummer Road." Also, his "Real Folk Blues" with "Stop Right Now," the coon-hunting lynch-mob fable "Coon Hunt," "Decoration Day," "Nine Below Zero," and such.
one guy who gets passed over a lot owing to how his name is almost the same name as another guy's, plus he's from the same part of the country and about the same age, is Little Johnny Taylor, not the Johnnie Taylor of Stax fame. In fact, I would wager there's never been two performers of the almost same name as vital as David Jones (David Bowie, right?) and Davey Jones (Monkees). Taylor's Fantasy comp, "Greatest Hits," 17 trax, includes the essential "Part Time Love" that Howard Tate did note-for-note, also "Zig Zag Lightning," which isn't the Beefheart song; "First Class Love," of course; "Sometimey Woman"; "I Smell Trouble." classic, west-coast shit, which is why I like it; blues getting slightly sanitized like the way Little Johnny did it, that's always a fun process.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago)
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago)
― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 04:06 (eighteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 04:11 (eighteen years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago)
Buddy Guy I Was Walkin Through The WoodsHowlin Wolf Moanin in the Moonlight DUH
add:
Son Seals Midnight SonSon Seals The Son Seals Blues Band
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago)
― Lynco (lync0), Thursday, 17 August 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago)
Junior Wells was truly a bad mf'er, such a great blues singer.
Add for me...
Junior Wells- Southside Blues Jam, Hoodoo Man BluesJunior Wells- Chief Singles 1957-63Jimmy Dawkins- Fast Fingers
Thing is with some of these guys like Albert King or Freddie King, I haven't really heard anything I didn't like. Even some of their albums that are not as heralded are still pretty nice.
― earlnash, Monday, 15 March 2010 03:20 (fifteen years ago)
Nice thread, guys. Good work
― Cristal Kieslowski (admrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago)
Which of these would stand out for their guitar playing?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:58 (fourteen years ago)
Lots of them!
I need to decide which Otis Taylor cd to add to the list. He's a Singer/electric guitarist with a unique modal, droning style. He's also still at it, and is touring the US fairly often.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 May 2011 20:42 (fourteen years ago)
We need an Otis Taylor S&D thread.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:49 (fourteen years ago)
idk blues that well but maybe:
jb hutto and the hawks - hawk squat
i got it from a friend it's really good
― end to end berners (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 00:32 (fourteen years ago)
thanks, always meant to check out jb but never knew where to start - sunnyland slim plays on that one, doesn't he?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)
you know i'm not even sure, i got a bunch of records from an older dude i work with and it had lots of cool blues stuff that i don't know that much abt...it's super tuff chicago style electric blues, really hyper and rowdy
i also got "no way out" by sonny boy williamson in that batch which i like a lot too. but yeah i don't know many blues sidemen or anything
― end to end berners (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 00:50 (fourteen years ago)
ha any yes it says sunnyland slim right on the cover duh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W8dDj0LkeE
― end to end berners (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 00:51 (fourteen years ago)
awesome. will pick that one up.
been on a huge robert nighthawk kick. dude rules
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 01:01 (fourteen years ago)
I stopped by Jazz Record Mart on my run home and picked up Muddy Waters' 1969 supergroup album with Otis Spann, Michael Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald Duck Dunn, Sam Lay, Buddy Miles etc., Fathers And Sons. Will be putting on the headphones in a few. Also got cheap used copy of Stevie Vaughan's Texas Flood, which I've heard but never owned. I saw there's also a 2011 remaster of Magic Sam's West Side Soul, but wanted to get something I didn't have.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:51 (fourteen years ago)
Also listening to:
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues (1965)Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign (1967)
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 17:10 (fourteen years ago)
curmudgeon - which Otis CD do you recommend, the Pentatonic Wars one or the Clovis People one? Let me know in the next few hours if you can! My local shop has both...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 18:25 (fourteen years ago)
ELECTRIC MUD
― american thinker (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 18:37 (fourteen years ago)
also this:http://www.wirz.de/music/testamen/grafik/22191.jpg
― american thinker (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 18:39 (fourteen years ago)
oh man i am way too distracted right now to contribute to this thread but when i get back
― blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)
that being said shakeys most recent suggestion is 1000% OTM. i have to dig a little to decide on albums, but bukka white, sonnie terry/brownie mcgee, and mance lipscomb would all be on the top of my list i think
― blbllbllllllrlrrghgghhh (jjjusten), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 18:46 (fourteen years ago)
keep your lamplights trimmed and boinin yo
― american thinker (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 18:48 (fourteen years ago)