Why is there no blues listening club?

Re-re-reading Robert Palmer's Deep Blues. His description of a Howlin' Wolf concert may be some of the best concert review writing I've read. It sent me here, to look for the ILM blues listening club, only to find none existed. Why's not?

Dude, I'm with you. Until recently, there wasn't even a thread here devoted to either T-Bone Walker or Bessie Smith! Bessie Smith!!!! But plenty of threads, of course, devoted to such great musical icons as Scott Walker and Thin Lizzy. Good Lord.

Because you haven't started one.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.

phil lynott and scott walker totally had the blues!

is there a vintage country listening club? or an old-timey string band listening club? tbh i would be down to do a week of a blues listening club, but i am almost exclusively interested in pre-war stuff. don't get much out of folks like bb king, muddy waters etc.

i'd read a blues listening club (at least on those weeks where it was turn-of-the-century blues, e.g., blind willie johnson or miss. john hurt).

the thing is with the blues is you have to really be a total head to know which albums are worth hearing - blues isn't so much an albums genre imo. metal lends itself well to a listening club because metalheads are album geeks. blues grows out of a tradition of 78s and although there are plenty of great blues albums I for one would be totally adrift in recommending any outside of some Jimmy Reed ones and yr classic John Lee Hooker LPs.

could do songs or compilations. makes sense with blues.

people could pick three great songs they like and that would make it easier for people. and that way ian might actually hear some great 50's, 60's, and 70's blues tracks!

Lightnin' Hopkins: Shining Moon
Jimmy Reed: I'm The Man Down There
Little Walter: Hate to See You Go

man it would be difficult to overstate what the blues meant to me in the 8th grade

yep. with songs, you can also pretty much guarantee that everyone could hear the songs, via embedded youtube clips.

^

you could turn more people on with single tracks. i honestly think some people are scared of blues comps cuz it feels like homework or something. and they don't know what they are missing.

i really wish i hadn't just doused my brain in nyquil/didn't have to get up at 6:00am--so down for this thread right now, this second.

hnn talkin baout "sunshine on leith" in the WC had me in mind of devotional music alreddy, have a utoob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_bBuAMQFvw

one of two clips of Jimmy Reed I've ever seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhRZha7ULWg

I can't find the versions of "Shining Moon" (not the one that begins "shine on, shining moon" but the one that begins "don't the moon look pretty/shining down through the trees") or "Hate to See You Go" on Youtube but both were life-changing for me

the impetus for the thread. anyone know who is playing piano?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws2sO9a7jG8

re "shining moon": v beautiful full live tv performance of it is hidden tucked away in the very first two thirty of this tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLemj5LjnjY

oh cool! I didn't watch that one because I thought it would be some guy playing some guitar-store version of it! man that song & me & my stereo & my bedroom on summer nights when I felt like I was going to jump out of my skin when I was 13 or so

man oh man it was like lightnin hopkins was the only person in the world who'd ever understood how I felt

As long as we're diggin up videos, here is my favorite video on youtube of blues anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jRX69mxcE

oh holy hell that lighnin' hopkins video.

j.aroc: it's Sunnyland Slim, according to another vid with the lineup: Howlin' Wolf (guitar, vocals) introduced by Mae Mercer, with Sunnyland Slim (piano), Little Hubert Sumlin (guitar), Willie Dixon (bass) and Clifton James (drums).

lightnin*

meanwhile the garish colors really offset the song in a way i can't entirely pinpoint, but it makes the whole thing more voyeuristic and weird?

made me feel like jumpin' lord lord through the keyhole in the door

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why is there no punk listening club

jimmy reed rules

would do an album each by BB, Freddie & Albert King. but I don't completely understand how these listening clubs work as opposed to regular threads

I don't know why there's no club, but I've been listening to John Lee Hooker & Lightnin' Hopkins quite a bit lately. I feel an Elmore James jag comin' on too.

just start one if you want one. Same goes for punk or disco or skots 70s thudrock club.

I'm thinking in terms of a polkadub or blackgrass listening club. Or maybe smashlounge.

country/acoustic blues is cool but I dig blues w/soul horn riffs & go-go girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbqtnNorgQA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOh7Vy7j_I&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4GfRQSE-Ak

there's a better Albert - from the '72 Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Fest! - but the vid quality is torture

i'm listening to live albert king and freddie king right now at this very moment. live 70's stuff. (half the cd is albert and half is freddie) sounds great.

As a rule I prefer country blues, but lately I've been on an electric/Chicago kick.

maybe this should just be a rolling blues thread.

Whenever Stormy Davis and I were repping for Otis Taylor or me for Rl Burnside and other Fat Possum Missippi folks over recent years those posts got ignored...

There was this thread...

If you were going to buy one BLUES album from the past 5 years...

Maybe because I didn't proofread and correct my spelling errors

this bukkah video is my fave of his, i think. i can't get enough of that WHAP WHAP WHAP on the guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc&feature

and those little slide zips, oh man

hound dog is my man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX9UG8rqRRQ

this little leadbelly thing is one of my favorite things in all of existence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlszmjNhaVQ