Favorite Blues Artist

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I'm going to see Buddy Guy tomorrow night up in Sandpoint, Idaho. Got me to thinking about my favorite blues musicians, he's right up there, his guitar playing and songwriting is amazing. Just curious if many of you like blues and who you like.
 
Living or dead?

Living: Sonny Landreth is a guy that for some reason doesn't get a lot of attention. Plays awesome slide guitar.

Dead: Way to many to mention them all. Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, etc.
 
Buddy Guy is the man! Enjoy the show!
 
Saw Albert King a couple of years before he passed at the St. Louis VP Fair, wonderful show.
Hard to pick a favorite though...Muddy Waters had an incredible band...
 
Lots of good guys mentioned but one of my favs is Robert Cray. Very tasty playing but he kind of got lost in the wake of SRV.
 
Eric Clapton said that Buddy Guy was the best guitar player in the world.
Pretty strong words from a guitar sensei.
My favorite..........I dunno there are so many.
If I had to chose just one, I would do it on the basis of how much I listen to him. It would be the Boogie Man.........John Lee Hooker.
Boom Boom Boom Boom...............!


wabi
 
I like hundreds of them.

Check out some of the old masters that made up the licks that have made all the later ones famous:

Scrapper Blackwell
Tampa Red
Robert Johnson
Lightnin' Hopkins
Mississippi John Hurt
Son House
Elmore James

And many more...

Not that I don't like the modern guys, including Buddy.
 
My favorites are Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, BB King, and Steve Miller.
 
Enjoy the Show! It should be awesome. Buddy Guy is one at the top of my list along with John Lee Hooker, but I pretty much like them all.
 
:D I'd vote for him, but there's a spell on me ;)

It's impossible to name just one -- or just 10.
The greats who don't get named enough include , Blind Willie Johnson [an incomparable "Nobody's Fault But Mine"], Son House [death letter :eek: ], Howlin' Wolf [Backdoor Man :eek: :eek: ,], Albert Collins, Freddie, Albert, Roy Buchanan and Mike Bloomfield. The list is huge.
 
For a real treat on blues guitar, check out ZZ Top's First Album. It is pure bar blues. When he wants to, Billy Gibbons is as good a blues guitarist as any I've heard.
 
Some of my favorites,
Kenny Neal
Albert Collins
Frank Marino, doesn't do it much but when he does it's pretty amazing.
Duke Robillard
 
Aside from the obvious, (SRV, Buddy, Robert Johnson...)

Freddie King - also taught Clapton a thing or two
Johnny Winter - Albino White men get the blues
Steve James - Texas Country Blues
Derek Trucks - Duane Allman lives!!
I'll second Sonny Landreth
Ronnie Earl - Call him Mr. Earl
 
Enjoy the concert, Buddy rules!!! As to your question:

Clapton (seen him 3 times, my gosh he is incredible)

Robert Johnson (from whom all true blues springs)

B. B. King (it's no accident that his last name is King)

SRV (man what he could have done had he been given more time :( :( )

ZZ Top (seen them twice, forget the beards, chicks and cars those guys can play)

Katie Webster AKA The Swamp Boogie Queen (trust me on this one ;))

John Lee Hooker (Boom boom boom boom)

Muddy Waters (Clapton called him his second Father)
 
I'm pumped for the show...I used to see Robert Cray in a small club in Spokane back in the late 70s...he'd take requests from the audience..very cool..
my favorite irish bluesman: the late Rory Gallagher
 
I like lots of those posted. Lightnin Hopkins sticks out along with Pinetop Perkins and one nobody has mentioned yet, Doug McLeod. Doug's a great songwriter and a great entertainer.

John
 
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