Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 10 Feb 20 - 08:59 AM

I have the Roscoe Holcomb album but haven't played it in ages, I dug it out last night and listened to it again. I love his playing but I do find that a little of his singing goes a long way. I found it interesting that you think of him as a blues player, I never considered him in that light, but I see what you mean.
I am also familiar with Sonny Boy Williamson, though I have no music by him. I will give a listen to that as well as to your other suggestions, thanks.
Oh, I meant to mention Little Walter, best Blues harmonica EVER.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 08:27 PM

This thread is another keeper for reference...

cheers mudcat mates...


When I was a teenager in the mid 70s
I found some tatty John Dummer and Dave Kelly British Blues LPs in a local junk shop
[for 10 or 20 pence each],
which I bought out of curiosity..

That's when I first heard Jo Ann Kelly...

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: Stewie
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 07:18 PM

HiLo, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. A few other favourites:

Luke Jordan

Richard 'Rabbit' Brown

Roscoe Holcomb

Sonny Boy Williamson

Arizona Dranes

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 06:05 PM

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Peter Green Live in 1967.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 01:22 PM

Larry Campbell with Levon Helm- Deep Elem Blues

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 12:52 PM

Rising Sun Blues · Doc Watson

Heckuva blues singer and player he was.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 12:20 PM

A few posts ago it was suggested some of us might be getting the names of Blues players confused.....

I used to have an encyclopedic knowledge of music
up until my mid 40s...
Unfortunately, I can barely remember my own name these days..

So all I can narrow it down to now,
is my ears will perk up for any mid 20th Century Blues artist
who discovered how good a distorted guitar amp could sound...

But I'm not too keen on a lot of the later post 1980s copyists who followed after...

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 11:38 AM

I'm so glad this moment was captured for posterity:

Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session ,a passing of the torch, as it were.

Albert King - Crosscut Saw

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 10:40 AM

Hello Stewie;
Thanks for the heads up on the Buddy Guy and Junior Wells album, I have listened to it three times, just brilliant..thanks again.

Subject: RE: Favourite Singers
From: GUEST,Joseph Scott
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 10:11 PM

Three I think have never been talked about enough yet:
Marion Abernathy
Cecil Barfield
Scott Dunbar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zatRgL5_LA

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: Stewie
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 09:55 PM

And this classic should not be forgotten:

The rocking chair album

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: Stewie
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 09:47 PM

There are so many great albums available, but here is one of my all-time favourites. You can listen to the entire album on youtube.

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 05:44 PM

I have saved the Bluesville (B.B. King) channel on SiriusXM as one of my favorite channels, where I've heard It Was the Wine Talkin' lately. Cute. I first heard this song during an interview on Terry Gross' Fresh Air.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,Pseudonymous
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 05:34 PM

Elmore James does that open-tuning slide guitar stuff, (over and over again I sometimes feel, though very well) not harp.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,Pseudonymous
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 05:31 PM

I also have an Elmore James version! But I prefer the SBW 2, which is why I chose it. I know of others too, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Gary Moore. All good. We did this together at a home-based musical get-together once so I looked for lots of versions. Sorry I did not quote a CD.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: pdq
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 05:08 PM

It is listed on a 1990 CD - Sonny Boy Williamson II "Keep It to Ourselves".

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,Hootennanny
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 04:30 PM

May I suggest to the two posters above that they may be confusing Alec "Rice" Miller or Sonny Boy Williamson 2 as he came to be known with Elmore James. If not can they let me know where his version is available. It doesn't seem to appear on any of his Trumpet or Chess recordings.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 03:26 PM

yes sonny boy version of skys are crying was very good, sonny terry was good too

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,Pseudonymous
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 01:31 PM

All the above, especially S B Williamson ll's version of The Sky is Crying and Billy Holiday.

And: Allman Brothers Band Live at Filmore East

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 11:45 AM

Nobody's Fault But Mine - Blind Willie Johnson


Outside Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 11:33 AM

Mean Old World - Otis Rush


Killing Floor - Howlin Wolf

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,Brad Sondahl
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 11:31 AM

Paul Butterfield Blues Band Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw
Fathers and Sons Muddy Waters, Butterfield, lots of other greats on it...
Howlin' Wolf...
Memphis Slim
Early Bonnie Raitt
Sonny Boy Williamson II AKA Rice Miller
A lot of wonderful music and musicians...

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 11:07 AM

The sometimes forgotten John Mayall
Spider John Koerner
Canned Heat
Bessie Smith

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 09:29 AM

Hi Tunesmith, I have heard of those but have not heard them. Are they currently available ?
I forgot to mention one of my absolute favourites..Howlin Wolf.
   I also love JJ Cale but again, there are those who argue that he is not a Blues musician. I get a bit impatient with these arbitrary definitions..everyone seems to have their own !

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 07:43 AM

Well, how about the Alan Lomax 1941 Mississippi field recordings.with Son House's "Jinx Blues", and a young Muddy Water's first - acoustic - recordings.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 04:38 PM

blind blake [ not the hawaiann]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-YwCk6ANY4

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: cnd
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 04:36 PM

I've always liked Pink Anderson and Scrapper Blackwell

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 04:22 PM

and Fleetwood Mac made some good blues recordings (and other good stuff) back during the Peter Green era.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 04:17 PM

Of course Billie Holiday sang blues (e.g. Fine and Mellow and Billie's Blues) as well as standards and pop songs but it seems like everything she sang had a healthy dose of the blues in it.

I had that Hooker 'N Heat LP long ago and I thought the Heat were rough enough and gritty enough (and could certainly play that boogie) to complement Hooker well but I remember being a bit disappointed because there wasn't a lot of C.H. on the album and I was a big fan.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 02:37 PM

The Essential Gerry Lockran
The Blues Project - the compendium album, not the group
Any Josh White Album
Any Lightnin' Hopkins album
The Chess Albums
Sunjay
Robert Johnson of course

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 02:05 PM

I have the Hooker N Heat album, John Lee Hooker and canned Heat, haven't played it in ages..must dig it and play it...Do you own that album gillymor ? If so, what do you think of it ?

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 01:15 PM

Bukka Whites song Panama Limited is brilliant. A fairly decent version was done by Tom Rush on his Debut (think) album Tom Rush, great guitar playing.
I never seem to know where to place Billie Holiday..if I say Blues, my musical friends say Jazz..either way, I just love her.

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 11:17 AM

and "Keep it Clean"- Sid Selvidge version

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 11:16 AM

Top of my head:

"Righteous Blues", "Chump Man Blues","Police Dog Blues"- Blind Blake
LP "Reverend Gary Davis 1935-1949" I favor his earlier recordings.
"Hesitation Blues"- Rev. Davis
"99 Year Blues"- Jim Kweskin version.
"Let's Work Together"- Canned Heat Version
"High Water Everywhere", "Green River", "Pony Blues"- Charley Patton
"M&O Blues"- Willie Brown
"How Blue Can You Get"- B.B. King from Live at the Regal
"That's What Love Will Make You Do"- Little Milton

Subject: RE: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 11:06 AM

The Fred McD one is one of my favourites of his (and of all) and, of course, the Bessie Smith sides with Louis and Joe Green.
RtS

Subject: Favourite Blues Albums/ Singers
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 09:45 AM

I listen to a lot of American Blues Music and I have a few favourites. Since it has been awhile since we've had a blues thread, I thought I would share some of my choices and, hopefully, others will share and we will hear of some new things.
One of my most most played is "My Name Is Mississippe Fred MacDowell And I Do No Play No Rock and Roll". It is fabulous, especially his version of Red Cross Store.
   Bukka White "High Fever Blues, Recordings 1930-1940. I love John Lee Hooker and could not restrict my self to one choice, a fairly modern one, "The Healer" secondly, Kabuki Wuki, I don't believe this is available on CD or even if the Album is still available. BB King, Love Me Tender, came out in the eighties..great album but no cd that I am aware of.
    Mississippi John Hurt, "Avalon Blues". 1928 Okeh recordings.
    One more.. Furry Lewis, "Shake Em On Down".
    Lots of others, of course. Too numerous to mention..oh how could I forget Ellen MacIllwaine.