Favorite Blues Artist

WHAT?!?!

Nobody mentioned Johnny Copeland?

Well I will.
Johnny Copeland
Albert Collins
Keb Mo
SRV
Blues Brothers
Muddy Waters
BB King

And some local bands and players in my area
Young Neil and the Vipers
Jack Veronesi
Anyone that plays at an open blues mike night


Paul

God didn't invent the blues directly, He used Eve.
 
I knew someone would bring in Jake and Elwood. I almost did it, but was trying to stick with guitarists.

Savoy Brown was good in their earlier recordings, I liked the Street Corner Talking album, but they went down hill later.

I have mentioned him in other blues threads and will bring Magic Slim in to this one. His name is Sam Holt and he is a contemporary Chicago blues guitarist. His band is the Teardrops and he is tops. There is a CD out on the Blind Pig label called Black Tornado that I like a lot.

Sherman Robertson from Houston is another very good contemporary blues guitarist in the Texas blues tradition. He has a CD out on the Audioquest label called Going Back Home that is worth the price.

Another really good one is Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers whose Empty Arms Motel CD just rips the blues and includes such great songs as Red House, Rude Mood and the old Luther Allison tune Lickin' Gravy. I bought it a bar from the band. A later one didn't do much for me and I traded it for another.

A woman guitarist that I really like is Debbie Davies. Her Tales from the Austin Motel CD rocks. Her band in this is Chris Layton on drums andTommy SHannon on bass, both from Double Trouble. Check out the lyrics on Bald Headed Baby.
 
Buddy Guy was great last night! Along with great blues he played some 70s era funk songs...very fun...He does a great job of engaging the audience with call and response stuff and joking around. For an older guy he's still an axe killer.
 
First Blues Album I bought was by Lightning Hopkins,
I Like John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, George Thouroughgood(spelling),
BB King, saw him live in Santa Fe, RL Burnside, got tattoed while his album was in the box.

Matthias
 
I saw Lightnin Hopkins in an all star show at Carnegie Hall back in the middle 70's.
He plays a slow and relaxed sort of blues. The crowd was getting restless. Lightnin stops playing, sez
"I know what you want."
And rips of this Hendrix-esque riff on his guitar. The crowd cheers. He sez:
"I don't play that S__."
And finished the song. 2 songs later he won them over.

I'm surprised that I didn't see Johnny Winter mentioned. We saw him in Central Park (also in the stone ages mentioned above). Muddy Waters and Pinetop opened for him. Later they all jammed together.

No John Mayall mentions either? Clapton and Taylor and the drummer from Fleetwood Mac all played in Mayall's band(s).
His "Jazz/Blues Fusion" album/CD is on my desert island list.

I think I'd have to call Little Walter my favorite. He could *play* the Harmonica
Then again Mayall is no slouch on the harp...and I do have more Mayall albums...
Great thread :D
 
jmxcpter said:
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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Wow, nice to hear Doug mentioned here. He lives here in the South Bay and I run into him once in a while. I used to see him probably several times a month in the 80's.

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Originally Posted by java
The '60s SF band Cold Blood had a blues-jazz sound and lead singer Lydia Pense had a gritty blues voice that IMO surpassed Janis Joplin best blues efforts.
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I was in the Bay area in the 60's too and remember them well. Tracy Nelson fronted Mother Earth at that time too and did some fine blues, including Mother Earth and Down So Low.
 
One great guitarist not mentioned yet is J.J. Cale. He has influenced generations of guitarists from Clapton to Skynard to Mark Nopfler. He wrote and/or recorded many great songs: After Midnight, The Breeze, Cocaine, Crazy Mama.

J.J.'s playing sounds mellow and laid back, but just try to play it like he does.
 
A couple blues-based artists today I love:

Tommy Castro (one of the tightest live blues acts around) -- http://www.tommycastro.com

Jon Cleary (a New Orleans funk-blues guy who played with Dr. John and also tours with Bonnie Raitt on keys) http://www.joncleary.com

A lesser-known guy: singer Howard Eldridge, who sang with Matt "Guitar" Murphy for 11 years, and toured recently with the Original Blues Brothers Band in Europe. He's one of the best roots blues singers around. I have the honor of playing drums for him when he's back in town here, and it's amazing everytime. He sang "Blues Don't Bother Me" with Matt Murphy for the Blues Bros 2000 movie soundtrack.
 
Not in any particular order:
Johnny Winter,
Sonny Terry,
Brownie McGee,
Willie Dixon,
Sonny Boy Williamson II (Alec Rice Miller), remember the original “King Biscuit Time”,
Sonny Boy (John Lee) Williamson,
Junior Wells,
Buddy Guy,
Little Walter Jacobs,
Howling Wolf,
Muddy Waters,
John Lee Hooker,
etc., etc.
Sonny many great musicians, I can’t list them all.
 
Mellow Chaos said:
Charlie Christian
Muddy Waters
Lightning Hopkins
SRV
Jimi Hendrix
Bleeding Gums Murphy
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Wait a minute "Bleeding Gums Murphy"! What's your real name Lisa Simpson?
:p
 
R.L. Burnside, Howln' Wolf, Eddie KirklandJohn Mayo

anybody know a modern blues guy outta portland OR with an album with catfish n the title. Awesome, wish I could remember the guys name
 
For me Kenny Wayne Shepherd Espacially with his last album,

Where concept That for me is unique actually. Kenny Wayne made a trip of 10 days in the US to meet and play with his idols (B. B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Henry Townsend, Honeyboy Edwards, Cootie Stark, Neal Pattman, and Etta Baker, Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Buddy Flett, Bryan Lee, John Dee Holeman, The Howlin' Wolf Band and thee Muddy Waters Band ).
This new release is a combo of CD/DVD. The CD is the soundtrack of the DVD Documentary. We found some compositions of the meeting bluesmen and for one time the CD is full !! 80 Minutes of pure good blues. There is a good mix between Acoustic and electric.

The DVD is very good but it’s a documentary and not a DVD Live, Of course we can see some part of the performance but necessary complete except for the last day who was a Live show on a church with the Members of the Howling Wolf band and after with the members of the Muddy Water Band.

Partial proceeds of this project are being donated to Music Maker Relief Foundation

You can hear and see some samples in Legality on the KWS Management team site at this Link : www.ksmgt.com/links/
 
All those i like have been mentionned except Luther Allison and Cassandra Wilson.

dantzk.
 
Steve Hayden said:
A woman guitarist that I really like is Debbie Davies. Her Tales from the Austin Motel CD rocks. Her band in this is Chris Layton on drums andTommy SHannon on bass, both from Double Trouble. Check out the lyrics on Bald Headed Baby.
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Steve,
Thanks for this. :thumbup:
Lost track of those two guys down through the years.Chick guitarist:eek: is she hot? Her playing that is! :)
Going on 17 years that he's been gone and SRV is still the ideal,for me.Time passes and more than several take there shot,Kenny Wayne and Johnny Lang come to mind,still waiting for someone to showcase their own Texas Flood.
Lots of greats listed,hundreds not.Good thread. :thumbup:
Edited to add,just saw Steve's post was from '04.Oops. :eek: :foot:
And.Agree with ya' about Buddy Guy,Ren. :thumbup:
When informed of SRV's death,Buddy said,"I never cry.But when they told me Stevie was gone,I laid down on the bed and cried like a little baby".

Doug
 
Steve Hayden said:
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.
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Jimi Hendrix once said that Billy Gibbons was his favorite guitar player. (Not a bad reference if you ask me!)
 
Luther Allison:thumbup: :thumbup:

Got to see him in concert a couple of times...what a blast!

Didn't see Mississippi John Hurt on the list, either...
 
Too many to count. My favorite genres are Mississippi Delta Blues and Texas Blues, Muddy Waters and Stevie Ray Vaughn are in my top 5. I like the raw stuff, the old timey stuff, the cd's with the pops and fizzes barely remastered from the 20's and 30's recordings. For right now, I don't own any of Keb Mo's albums, but from what I've heard, he's pretty good. I found a boxed set called "History of the Blues" at a local record shop, and that had Lighting Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, BB King and a whole host of others. It's out in my truck right now, at lunch I'll get it and list some more musicians. Jimi Hendrix did some great blues covers, as did SRV. Eric Clapton did a great remake of Robert Johnsons collected work, but did not match Robert Johnson (although Clapton is a great artist in his own right). My favorite album has to be Not the Same Old Blues Crap volume 2 (only because I haven't been able to find Vol 1 or 3). Just some guys getting off work and playing on the front porch.

Just to throw out some Maryland flavor, there is a local band called Kelly Bell Band. More of a funky blues, but their music is pretty good. Are there any good juke joints in the MD area?
 
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