I know I just started a thread on music but I want to have one for just blues music. I recenlty started to listening to some blues and jazz and, I am really enjoying it. I just got into Willie Dixon and Bo diddley.
What are some of your favorite artists, bands, or songs?
Robert Johnson
Jimi Hendrix’s Blues Album
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Buddy Guy
Muddy Waters
Albert King
Duane Allman
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Just for starters…
SRV (best ever)
Luther Allison
Peter Green
John Lee Hooker
Eric Clapton
Jonny Lang
Rory Gallagher
Roy Buchanan
Howlin’ Wolf
Check out some styles…
Chicago Blues
Delta Blues
Texas Blues
Electric Blues
Investigate this. You can download from others, and as you accumulate your own musical library, your collection can be uploaded out.
[quote]The Bambino wrote:
Robert Johnson
Jimi Hendrix’s Blues Album
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Buddy Guy
Muddy Waters
Albert King
Duane Allman
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Just for starters…[/quote]
If you like SRV you should listen to Kenny Wayne Sheppard. They have similar styles but Kenny can sing.
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
The Bambino wrote:
Robert Johnson
Jimi Hendrix’s Blues Album
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Buddy Guy
Muddy Waters
Albert King
Duane Allman
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Just for starters…
If you like SRV you should listen to Kenny Wayne Sheppard. They have similar styles but Kenny can sing.
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Unless he changed it up, Kenny doesn’t sing at all – he has a vocalist. And his guitar style is so derivative of SRV it drives me crazy. Good player, but not in the same league as Stevie.
I prefer good ole Delta blues (I am from Arkansas, after all):
Charlie Patton
Leadbelly (more folky)
Son House
Robert Johnson
Willie Brown
Tommy Johnson
These are all Pre-WW2 musicians.
skip james and junior wells
[quote]Short Hoss wrote:
I prefer good ole Delta blues (I am from Arkansas, after all):
Charlie Patton
Leadbelly (more folky)
Son House
Robert Johnson
Willie Brown
Tommy Johnson
These are all Pre-WW2 musicians.
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Thats a little to folky…lol
I prefer artists that though me be singing some depressing lyrics that guitar playing is fire.
SRV, Jonny Lang, Kenny wayne, Roy Gallagher.
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
If you like SRV you should listen to Kenny Wayne Sheppard. They have similar styles but Kenny can sing.
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I thought this was going to be a serious blues thread until I read this.
[quote]The Bambino wrote:
Robert Johnson
Jimi Hendrix’s Blues Album
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Buddy Guy
Muddy Waters
Albert King
Duane Allman
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Just for starters…[/quote]
This is a really good ‘required listening’ primer for the budding bluesman interested in blues guitar. There’s a whole universe of blues out there that is not guitar-centric.
Other essential blues guitarists I would add:
Lonnie Mack
BB King
John Lee Hooker
Freddie King
Albert Collins
Roy Buchanan
… just for starters…