The Blues
17 years ago
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Does anyone here like the Blues? Can we discuss?
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It's okay, but I don't have much to say about it.
I'd rather just listen.
17 years ago
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You mean there are people who don't know the Blues??.... Shock!!!.... Blasphemy!!!.... Apocalypse Now!!!!
John Lee Hooker FTW
Point & Squirt
17 years ago
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Quote from gan17
You mean there are people who don't know the Blues??.... Shock!!!.... Blasphemy!!!.... Apocalypse Now!!!!
John Lee Hooker FTW
A man after my own heart.
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17 years ago
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Howlin' Wolf...you can't beat that voice
Smokestack Lightning is the greatest
If the sea were made of Whiskey and I was a duck
I'd swim to the bottom and never come up
17 years ago
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Howlin' Wolf...you can't beat that voice
Smokestack Lightning is the greatest
Probably the 'Greatest One-Riff Song Ever'. Timelessly beautiful baseline as well. I'm impressed.... many people have heard various covers but not the original.
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17 years ago
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Quote from gan17
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Howlin' Wolf...you can't beat that voice
Smokestack Lightning is the greatestProbably the 'Greatest One-Riff Song Ever'. I'm impressed.... many people have heard various covers but not the original.
I have a cover of it 😛
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17 years ago
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For those of us in the dark but wishing to make a foray into the wonderful wide world of Blues, what would y'all recommend to start us off?
Allow me to reacquaint you with... THE GROUND!
17 years ago
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Quote from kuraruka
For those of us in the dark but wishing to make a foray into the wonderful wide world of Blues, what would y'all recommend to start us off?
Albert King
John Lee Hooker
Howlin' Wolf
Muddy Waters
Robert Johnson
Son House
Then some more BluesRock
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Rory Gallagher
Buddy Guy (also his abums with Junior Wells are great)
17 years ago
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Sweet, thanks. I'll get right on that.
Allow me to reacquaint you with... THE GROUND!
17 years ago
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For Last fm users nice Blues group, introduced me to a lot of good artists 🙂
Blues Artist of the Week
17 years ago
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For Last fm users nice Blues group, introduced me to a lot of good artists 🙂
Blues Artist of the Week
Nice. Don't think I'm gonna find any artist I don't know there, but I'll talk about blues with anyone.
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17 years ago
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I know Blues, but not nearly as much as I would like to. I listen to some Stevie Ray Vaughn, I got the complete Robert Johnson, and I also hear some Blues every now and then from artists I don't know, but I don't have an abundant collection of it like I do for jazz and rock. I haven't heard too much, but from what I have heard, I love it. So, if any of you can give me some good stuff that'll be greatly appreciated (mainly I want the names of some good albums).
17 years ago
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I know Blues, but not nearly as much as I would like to. I listen to some Stevie Ray Vaughn, I got the complete Robert Johnson, and I also hear some Blues every now and then from artists I don't know, but I don't have an abundant collection of it like I do for jazz and rock. I haven't heard too much, but from what I have heard, I love it. So, if any of you can give me some good stuff that'll be greatly appreciated (mainly I want the names of some good albums).
R.L. Burnside- Ass Pocket Full of Whiskey, North Mississippi Hill Country Blues
Junior Kimbrough- You Better Run, God Knows I Tried
Buddy Guy- Man and the Blues
Muddy Waters- Hard Again
Howlin Wolf- Howlin the Blues
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers- With Eric Clapton (the Beano Album)
Cream- Fresh Cream
John Lee Hooker- Hooker & Heat, Born Down in Mississippi, Raised Up in Tennessee
Ry Cooder- Ry Cooder, Boomer's Story
The Black Keys- The Big Come Up
Keb Mo- Martin Scorsese Presents
For starters.
EDIT: And Mysterious Blues by Charles Mingus.
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17 years ago
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wtf? i'm disappointed that no one has even mentioned bo diddly. if not outta interest then at least outta respect for the man T_T.
but one of my top favorites has to be oak cliff T-bone. some might know him by T-bone walker. i just like to call him by oak cliff T-bone because it pays homeage to where he originally started and its where i'm from ^_^.
oh yea, and its not really to hard to know the blues. it generally follows a very strict musical pattern as well as a strict lyrical pattern. if you shot a man in Memphis, its the blues. if you shot a man in Memphis and he lived, then its not the blues.
