post your suggestions..


please.

"Riding with the King" -- BB King & Eric Clapton. BB's singing is still right on point, and Eric's playing is as smooth and wailing as ever. Every track is a winner.

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Extra Width or What Me Worry?

Get this one by Tyrone Davis



Freak is my favorite track. Bangin!!!!


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"Bluesy"

Luck Of The Draw (Bonnie Raitt)


"THE BLUES"

This is BUDDY GUY (Buddy Guy)
(before he became a rock star)

Tribal Disorder

Not a household name like Clapton, but bluesy with a very soulful voice.



Listen to samples here
[This message was edited Thu Apr 15 18:48:00 2004 by Hootchietoad]

Bluesy as in not a straight ahead Blues album, but .... ?

Supernova said:

Im not talking techinical. Bluesy/Blues.. whatever anyone gots for a suggestion im ups for..


Thanks to the peeps who did, Some of this stuff is great.
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For country/folk-y blues, go for Mississippi John Hurt. Funky/soulful guitar blues try Freddie King's "Texas Cannonball". The "This is Buddy Guy!" record that someone already recommended is a pretty good one, though "Stone Crazy!" is even better I think. You can never, never go wrong with Muddy Waters. Also pretty damn good: the 1930 recordings of Skip James, the Robert Johnson recordings, & Howlin' Wolf. For "where blues meets jazz guitar" from the very beginning, Lonnie Johnson. The link between Lonnie Johnson & BB King, not to mention Chuck Berry, and later Clapton, etc: T-Bone Walker.

You can tell I'm a guitar player by these recommendations huh!


stormbringer

Luther Allison-Luther's Blues
Stone Crazy is a good one,that's been mentioned.

All great suggestions because I love the Blues (even John spencer's twist) but my suggestion is a new one.

Before I type it, here's a disclaimer: I hate most of the Aerosmith from 1980 on.


Aerosmith's - Honkin' on Hobo


Great album from beginning to end. It's got a couple of weak moments but overall it's what they needed to do at this point in their career to make them relavant again.

Anything by Albert King, Elmore James or Howlin' Wolf

Slave2daGroove said:

Now Howling Wolf i really, really love. Though his voice is difficult to get into at first. Same with Robert Johnson's recordings. They take effort - but it's worth it.

And frankly i will also say get anything by Leadbelly. Awesome.

For a more modern gospel/blues/folk blend, i cannot recommend Eric Bibb enough. www.ericbibb.com or your nearest wrecka stow.

All of his albums are great - some of them are a bit more commercial like Home to me, but if you want more gospel orientated, then his album Spirit and the Blues is essential. Really wonderful stuff. And he's superb live, too.

Recommendation of "bluesy" albums and none of ya'll mentioned Lady Day?

Oh hell nah, I'll be goddamned if you mofos weren't no silly bunch with no fuckin' ears

-One of the best JAZZ soundtracks in my opinion. Stachemo and Lady Day make some heavenly combonation, The Bluse Are Brewin'(My fave from her )

-This album rarely get any mention and I don't know why, her version of Ellington's "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" is my FAVE.

-Her most CONTROVERSIAL/EARTHIEST/RAWEST album becoz of her vocal change. Ray Ellis(the album's arranger) as much of a prefectionist said that "I overlooked the 25,ooo bad notes over her powerful lyrics enterpetation. She poured her heart even tho she was in a bad condition and always came late and neva showed up to reharsel". Personaly, her vocal delievry in this album is much more effective to me then than it was in good shape.

Check whateva material she made with Count Basie's band or Teddy Wilson's band, check her songs "Mellow & Fine", "I Cover The Waterfront", "Strange Fruit", "Lover Man" and "God Bless The Child" (mostly in compilations).

Bluesy, melancholy or whateva you call it,,,ain't nobody could reach your core and touch the most sensitive nerve betta than Lady Day. She just knows how to get her message across and shake you soul without even trying by no hollering nor screaming.

Stevie BROUGHT IT on this album. Goodness.

Slave2daGroove said:

AMEN, brotha! This one smokes. Get it NOW!!!!

B.B. King - Live at the Regal

its what you need

ANYTHING from Albert King !

or Scofields' Still Warm.

ThreadBare said:

SRV Rules.....whent comes to blues....

PusherMan said:

Elmore James


But then there is Robert Johnson


Huddie Ledbetter -- known in the blues world as Leadbelly


Willie Dixon


John Lee Hooker

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PusherMan said:

Then there are also Little Walter Jacobs, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Blind Willie McTell, Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Memphis Minnie, Ida Cox, Texas Alexander, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Furry Lewis, Son Thomas, Barbecue Bob, Louisiana Red, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie Johnson, Jimmy Reed, John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Skip James, Sunnyland Slim, Memphis Slim, Peg-Leg Sam, Kokomo Arnold, Big Joe Williams, Otis Spann, Leroy Carr, Scrapper Blackwell, Bo Carter, Blind Blake, Casey Bill Weldon, Big Mama Thornton, Blind Boy Fuller, Peetie Wheatstraw, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, The Reverend Blind Gary Davis, Johnny Shines, Robert Nighthawk, Sippie Wallace, Champion Jack Dupree, Victoria Spivey, Sticks McGhee, Sleepy John Estes, Freddie King, Roosevelt Sykes, Guitar Slim, Slim Harpo, Z.Z. Hill, Big Walter Horton, J.B. Hutto, J.D. Short, Elizabeth Cotten, Ivory Joe Hunter, J.B. Lenoir, Lightnin' Slim, Magic Sam Maghett, Eddie Boyd, Ishman Bracey, Junior Parker, Lucille Bogan, Professor Longhair, Joe Willie Wilkins, Houston Stackhouse, Frank Stokes, Joe Callicott, Tampa Red, Sam Chatmon, Mance Lipscomb, Hound Dog Taylor, Albert Collins, Washboard Sam, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, Jack Owens, Frank Frost, Yank Rachell, and Estelle "Mama" and Jimmy "Papa" Yancey.

The words "nice bluesy album" seem contradictory, so I'd recommend this:

Southside Blues Jam by Junior Wells

The Doors: LA Woman

Chris Thomas, Cry Of The Prophets.

Blues, if Prince and Clapton were one.

BB King

Deuces Wild


'nuff said