| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/2/2008 12:40:44 AM | | Check out www.guitarwoman.com for lots of different guitar players including blues. | |
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| Mount Rushmore of the Blues
Posted: 1/2/2008 10:44:24 AM |
The blues is neither American or unique
You can find blues roots in African music....Ali Farka Toure...GREAT stuff!
Sure...blues may be a little easier to grasp than traditional jazz...but the bottom line is these guys love to jam it up live....Clapton's key player is fricken amazing....his name escapes me.... | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/7/2008 9:07:54 PM | Just wanted to direct ya'll to my friend, Stan Street ... not only is he an amazing blues man and serious harp player who has jammed with many of the great blues guys, the man is a frikkin' incredible folk artist who throws some serious paint on canvas as he depicts his blues essense ... his work has been featured on several album covers and also for posters for many of the great blues festivals in this country. He is currently focusing his energy on building an art gallery in the Mississippi Delta that is dedicated to this great genre of music. Plug him into a search engine and check this dude out ... he is truely a full - package deal.
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/9/2008 9:01:54 PM | I LOVE the blues...all great artists mentioned, but far too few women ... allow me to fix that.
Koko Taylor, Ida Cox, Sister Rosetta Tharpe , Alberta Hunter , Bessie Smith - so many great females howlin the blues. -
& the not so well known, but one of my personal favs Big Maybell - when she sings "Candy" she howls from a place I wish I had _ Man! | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/10/2008 4:06:34 PM |
I LOVE the blues...all great artists mentioned, but far too few women ... allow me to fix that.
Koko Taylor, Ida Cox, Sister Rosetta Tharpe , Alberta Hunter , Bessie Smith - so many great females howlin the blues. -
& the not so well known, but one of my personal favs Big Maybell - when she sings "Candy" she howls from a place I wish I had _ Man!
When Big Maybelle performs "Candy" there is something quite magical there, I can totally relate to what you're saying.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of America's great treasures, just a brilliant talent. There may be few women in the blues field but if I really thought about it I could come up with a very extensive list of brilliant female blues artists. | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/11/2008 11:21:04 PM | If you like those guys...you gotta check out the Black Keys. They're a two-piece out of Ohio. If you read "Blues Matters" magazine...you might have heard about them. It's a nice gritty grungy sound. It's the only thing I've heard that's "new" so to speak...that is faithful to the Delta sound...and yet...it's kinda modern.
I also like Eric Sardinas...and there are a couple of guys from out of Muscle Shoals (sp?) Alabama that are nice and crunchy, too. | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/12/2008 9:12:57 AM | the black keys are amazing!
if you wanna go for some old RAW acoustic blues...
check out RL Burnside. he's great.
one of my faves. | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/13/2008 12:59:16 AM | I can't play the blues cause I'm too happy heheh
I really like the way the blues came out back in the day. Seemed the way blues of the past was played out then was it came from a genuine spot, alot of creativity, low budget and great raw tones. Then I watch some blues of "today" trying to get a message across in a song using the best expensive sophisticated music equipment and you think yeh ok lol! thats having the blues?! 
Mind you blues is yinyang to like were having a good time as well and it sounds like this. I also like the honky tonk piano stuff like Ray Charles did and alike. SRV had some fun shuffles to with his beefed up texan riffery with hendrix, king influence.  | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/13/2008 2:45:53 PM | Definite YES on diggin' Eric Sardinas ... the first time I saw him play live, I was floored ...
Great blues festival coming up during the first weekend of April if you are in the Jacksonville Beach, Florida area ... Springing the Blues ... one of the largest free blues festivals in the country and held right on the beach. ALWAYS a great line - up of artists ... praise the bikini!!!
jeffery | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/14/2008 4:33:01 PM | Oh Yeah.....
I've "Dug the Blues" for over forty years.....
I'm a 55 year old bloke from England saw my first blues gig in London around 1966...
The best gig I saw was in the 80's and had John lee Hooker, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells and Albert (Iceman) Collins........
I see no one has mentioned Bonnie Raitt, a brilliant singer and guitarist with an idiosyncratic "Slide" style...She also had a hand in setting up the Blues Foundation, that helps musicians fallen on hard times...
The Blues in England is thriving with many great bands....
one of my favourites is a London based Blues/Funk outfit called
The Guv'nors...Go ogle them, there are free downloads on their website...
Cheers guys and gals...
John the Clueless | |
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| blues favs
Posted: 1/14/2008 6:01:58 PM | | bb king ,stevie ray vaughn, and clapton are my favs | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/14/2008 6:44:07 PM | | I love the blues. I listen to the blues almost everyday on my local blues cable channel and I never get bored. I have PLENTY of favourites, but I'd have to say Delbert McClinton's song "All there is of Me" (slow, sexy), Watermelon Slim and the Workers "I've got News" (faster, rhythm), Etta James "One Night" (sexy, very slow, aint no-one can sing the blues like Etta), Colin James/Colin Linden "Travelin Riverside Blues (guitar only, rockin' blues, awesome instrumental). | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/14/2008 6:50:46 PM | | Another amazing track is "Mercury Blues" by Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo. Lots of fast guitar licks, awesome, awesome. Or another amazing guitar man is Michael Jerome Brown, the track is "The Path you Leave Behind". It's a medium-slow, but again, awesome. | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/15/2008 3:19:32 AM | Yes i dig the blues ,how about-omar &the howlers
jhon hammond
anson funderberberg$the rockets
the stones
hooker n' heat
johnny shines
charlie musselwhite HAIL TO THE BLUES!!
jimmy reed
gatemouth brown
shemekia copeland
william clarke
mississippi fred m'cdowell
george thorogood
smoking joe kubek
r l burnside       | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/15/2008 3:39:29 AM | swing,blues,delta,texas,jump,boogie,chicago,juke joint,back hill
rock,west coast,east coast,country,detroit,and down home blues!!
...Don't forget to boogie!!!
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/15/2008 11:24:40 AM | ohhhh! how could I forget Shemekia Copeland!
what a voice..what a soul | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/15/2008 3:39:27 PM | How about-derek trucks band
taj mahal
hollwood fats
hollwood blue frames
mannish boys
guitar shorty
blind boys of alabama
ronnie earl
junior kimbrough
joe bonamassa
mitch kashmar
the fabulous thunderbirds
hubert sumlin
rod piazza
walter trout
coco montoya
mississippi heat
jimmy rogers..........................all night long  | |
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| Do You Dig The Blues?
Posted: 1/16/2008 1:55:24 PM | Did someone say more lady blues singers
katie webster
maria muldaur
janiva magness
irma thomas
tracy nelson
sappfire
alice stuart
willie mae thornton
lou ann barton
ruth brown
susan tedeschi
matriarch of the blues_etta james
Ringo  | |
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| Mount Rushmore of the Blues
Posted: 1/16/2008 5:04:05 PM | Ten Years After , Rory Gallagher - YES !
Little Charlie and the Nightcats
Lowell Foulson
Albert King
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Love it ! | |
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| Mount Rushmore of the Blues
Posted: 1/16/2008 11:57:45 PM | Whether you're young or old let the good times roll!!
keb mo
james harman
zz hill
jimmie vaughan
stevie ray
deacon jones
jelly roll kings
wc clark
the groove hogs
RIngoBlue    | |
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| Mount Rushmore of the Blues
Posted: 1/17/2008 1:22:26 PM | | Yay, there's a regular Sunday Blues Night in the town I work in in the UK, always packed out. And it's amazing how those same old three chords/twelve bars, with some blistering guitar or harmonica can get the whole crowd SMILING! | |
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