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12-23-2010, 10:44 AM
|  | Surf-Rock Fanatic | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Houston, Tx | | | Best blues albums ever?
I collect records. And so I've gotten a bunch from my dad. ALL he listens to is blues. But I was going through my records this morning, and out of all the ones I own, and plenty I don't own, there is one out of my own collection that I have liked the best. My vote for best blues album ever is, ZepplinII. Some might say its not conventional blues, or not even all of it is blues. But I'm in love.
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12-23-2010, 10:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: UK | | | Difficult one, I like John Mayall`s Bluesbreakers and Peter Green`s Fleetwood Mac best, but there have been some great songs by artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore, Jimi Hendrix, I think my preference is for more british style blues .
Having said that, I like a bit of Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy etc, the `blues` has a huge amount of artists to choose from .
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12-23-2010, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | | A lot of folks seem to think Hoodoo Man Blues by Junior Wells. I'm not a huge blues fan, but can appreciate it from time to time. Definitely more into the raw dirty blues than the guitar wankery sort of blues. |
12-23-2010, 10:56 AM
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12-23-2010, 10:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | There are just to many great ones out there for me to pick just one. Right now I am obsessing on the Jimi Hendrix "Blues" album. But Johnny Winter has always been one of my favorites, as long as Edgar isn't with him.
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12-23-2010, 11:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Forest Hills, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommygunn  I collect records. And so I've gotten a bunch from my dad. ALL he listens to is blues. But I was going through my records this morning, and out of all the ones I own, and plenty I don't own, there is one out of my own collection that I have liked the best. My vote for best blues album ever is, ZepplinII. Some might say its not conventional blues, or not even all of it is blues. But I'm in love.
Whats your vote? | It's a great classic album but I never once considered it blues..it falls IMHO into the classic rock category...
The great blues albums are from the early 20's, 30's, & 40's when the original bluesmen first recorded the tunes that inspired all the contemporary blues artists... |
12-23-2010, 11:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Minnesota - Twin Cities | | | Something Albert Colins..
Guess the purists would say Robert Johnson... the Billboard folks would point to Filmore East or Texas Flood
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12-23-2010, 11:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: MEXICANADAMERICA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 57pbass It's a great classic album but I never once considered it blues..it falls IMHO into the classic rock category...
The great blues albums are from the early 20's, 30's, & 40's when the original bluesmen first recorded the tunes that inspired all the contemporary blues artists... |
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so true,... that said, i like anything from either Albert or Freddy King with BOBBY BLUE BLAND taking the "Blues Cake" hands down!!!
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12-23-2010, 11:12 AM
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12-23-2010, 11:12 AM
|  | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NE US/CAN line | | | For Jazz Blues (rather than straight Blues): Kansas City 5 (Count Basie and friends). Killer!
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12-23-2010, 11:15 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Algonac Michigan | | | +1 on the Jimi Hendrix Blues. |
12-23-2010, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by MNAirHead Something Albert Colins.. | Ahhhhh,... Ice-Pick,.... Master of the Telecaster! (another great pick)
sorry Tommy,... try listening to some REAL Blues and re-post. i'm sure your father has some authentic stuff in that pile! 
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12-23-2010, 11:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | Thanks for the thread, BTW... Inspired me to create a blues station on Pandora!  |
12-23-2010, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Minnesota - Twin Cities | | | The albert song that always makes me chuckle is "conversation with collins"
There's a good one on Youtube from the 70s...
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12-23-2010, 11:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Minnesota - Twin Cities | | | If you like highly produced stuff..
BB King has commented several times that "Love Me Tender" is one of his favorite recordings...
"Legend in My Own Time" is maybe his best work.
It isn't traditional.... it's from the era that he did "Into the Night"
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If just starting.. it may be almost more important to assemble a list of the 50 must knows (stuff like "Outskirts of Town" etc)
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12-23-2010, 11:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | Q: What did the blues singer's gravestone read?
A: "I didn't wake up this morning..."  |
12-23-2010, 11:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Milford,MA | | Anything by these two guys...I love delta blues. Dock Boggs Mississipi Fred McDowell
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12-23-2010, 11:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | I just got my daily e mail from Rolling Stone. There is a article that has Mick Jagger's top 10 favorite Blues songs. Seeing how he started his carrier covering American Blues I find the list very good. http://rollingstoneextras.com/playli...ew/mick-jagger
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12-23-2010, 11:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: North West Indiana | | | There is no answer to this question, "The Best." However, Father and Sons by Muddy Waters is one great recording. I have owned it since the 60s and play it all the time.
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12-23-2010, 11:36 AM
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