BS: Just 1 Blues Album

Subject: Just 1 Blues Album
From: GUEST,John Galt
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 04:20 PM

If your music collection could only contain 1 blues album what would it be? My choice would be Taj Mahal's "Take a Giant Step". It covers such a diverse collection of styles, recent and nostalgic, country, piedmont, etc.. Of course I may be cheating with a double album.

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Justa Picker
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 04:22 PM

B.B. King - "Live At Cook County Jail"

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: celticblues5
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 09:00 PM

Saffire - "Hot Flash"

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: celticblues5
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 09:03 PM

(That's today, of course. Tomorrow I may have a completely different answer.) ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: gus C
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 09:27 PM

just one!!!! Too hard. Reverand Gary Davis "from Blues to Gospel". It is an album that if you listen to the record guides is 'far from his best'. I love it, I think it displays everything that was great about Gary without the tendancy to show off the hot licks of his lean, mean, Baddest preacher in town, younger days. A softer, gentler , older, wiser Gary if you will. But if you are gonna try and force me to give up the rest of my Blues albums, thems fightin' words.- DJH

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: dr soul
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 09:28 PM

Magic Sam - "Westside Soul"

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: RichM
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 10:13 PM

If I could have only one blues album, THAT would give me the blues!

Rich

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Dan Keding
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 10:58 PM

Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues, 1963

Sweet sound, always wanted to play like that, never could. Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Pene Azul
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 11:01 PM

That's a fine choice, John. Around '94 or '95 Max and I had planned to see Taj Mahal. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it. Max went and took with him the only two Taj CDs that he had at the time, one of which was Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home (originally 2 separate vinyl albums). Although he prefered it to the other one, when he met Taj and got autographs, he had Taj autograph Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home to me because its liner notes were in better shape. That's Max for ya. So, I'd definitely have to keep that one. It stands on its music too.

Thanks again Max,
Jeff

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 11:07 PM

Harry Gurevitch-1349

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: toadfrog
Date: 09 Jun 01 - 12:38 AM

Dan Keding's choice is real good. But if its old, folk, guitar blues, then eitherLeadbelly, Alabama Bound (RCA Heritage Series) or Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings (C2K 46222 COUMBIA). But no-one has mentioned piano blues.

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Tedham Porterhouse
Date: 09 Jun 01 - 10:42 AM

Pene,

Taj Mahal's "Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home" was not two separate vinyl LPs. It was a 2-LP set; the first LP with a band, the second solo.

I remember buying it on the very first day it was released 30+ years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Pene Azul
Date: 09 Jun 01 - 02:55 PM

Obviously I stand corrected then, Tedham. Thanks for the info.

Jeff

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: rube1
Date: 09 Jun 01 - 07:51 PM

Jammed Together: Albert King, Steve Cropper, Pop Staples

One record I will never get tired of hearing.

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: harpgirl
Date: 09 Jun 01 - 08:25 PM

Leadbelly...any recording and for white boys any John Hammond recording and for girls any of Lucinda's first three albums......oh you said just one...I never want just one...hg

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: texastoolman
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 09:24 AM

"Blues,Rags

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 09:55 AM

Nicky Moore's Blues Corporation 300 pounds of joy.
But I admit, there's an awful lot of others that I haven't heard yet

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: YOR
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 01:22 PM

"Blues Alive, Best of" Gary Moore

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: ddw
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 05:02 PM

There are two or three compilation CDs that would rank high, but if I had to choose just one it would be "Special Streamline, Slide Guitar." It has Leadbelly, Bukka White, Tampa Red & Georgia Tom, Sylvester Weaver, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Taj Mahal, Joanne Kelly and a bunch of others on it. And not a bad cut in the bunch.

If I had to stick to a single performer's work, it would be any CD by Blind Boy Fuller. Or maybe Blind Blake. Or maybe John Hurt. Or maybe Mance Libscomb. Or .... well, you get the idea.

david

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 08:02 PM

I think it would have to be one of Taj's, most probably "The Real Thing", his amazing live album; covers a lot of ground, stylistically, shows his big heart and humor to great advantage and features "Fishin Blues", the tune that made me a stone Taj fan forever! Yeah, "The Real Thing"'s the one I'd have to have.

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: GUEST,Seth in China
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 08:36 AM

"Blues from the Gutter" Champion Jack Dupree, if the house is burning down and I only have time to grab one, but if the house is burning down but not that fast, I would get the T-Bone Walker and Albert King albums that were autographed. Seth from China

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Peter T.
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 09:37 AM

If you are going for compilations, you would be hard pressed to beat:
Roots of Rock (Yazoo, an eclectic oldie!)
Friends of Charlie Patton (Yazoo encore)
and the Columbia "Legends of the Blues, Vol. 1". I have worn out these on tape and have already scratched up two or three CDs worth (I never learn). Single record: Son House, Death Letter Blues! (on the Columbia album, bless their hearts).

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 11:15 AM

Yet another thread to bring on a panic attack. The Robert Johnson or the Leadbelly , the Broonzy or the Sonny & Brownie? If pushed I'd probably grab Fred McDowell's "I do not play no rock and roll" but I hate to make these choices. If we can cheat and take a compilation, as has been suggested, then it would probably be the 4-LP Paul Oliver set "Story of the Blues" as most of my favoutites would be represented on there.
RtS (Blues all 'round my head)

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: YOR
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 01:10 PM

OOPS, I miss quoted:

"Blues Alive" Gary Moore

"Out in The Fields, The Very Best of" Gary Moore, different CD.

Both loud electric blues!

David, "Special Streamline, Slide Guitar" sounds interesting. On my to do list!

Roy

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 02:08 PM

I have Special Streamline, it's one of the best compilation CD's I've heard.

Just one? I'd probably have to go with Robert Johnson, The Complete Recordings.

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: GUEST,bluesman4123
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 06:54 PM

It would have to be "Crossroads" by Ry Cooder. I can play it 20 times a day and never tire of it.....Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Just 1 Blues Album
From: simon-pierre
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 11:21 PM

Yep, another vote for "Streamline special", but... just one blues album in my collection?!? And what would be the rest? Britney Spears? Argh!

Well, that would be "The complete Bukka White"... and I would miss John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Sonny & Terry, Leadbelly, Kelly Joe Phelps, all my folks you know...