good blues players

[nicebassplayer]

I am looking for good blues bass players that play electric bass to learn new patterns. can anybody recommend? thx

[saxnbass]

Check out Duck Dunn

I can recommend some artists, not the bass players though (I'm too tired to think of the bassists)

SRV
Treat Her Right (I love this band, greatness)
John Mayall and the Blues Breakers
Jonny Lang

[nicebassplayer]

Thank you!

[rjny36]

My favorite blues bass album is B.B. King's "Completely Well," with Jerry Jemmot on bass.

Tommy Shannon (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter) is excellent.

Greg Rzab with Buddy Guy was fantastic, too.

[K2000]

Not electric, but Willie Dixon is considered a giant. He plays bass on a whole bunch of records, look up his credits as a sideman at http://www.allmusic.com

Even though he plays upright, you may want to check him out.

[ErikP.Bass]

for Jerry Jemmott. Other good albums he plays on are : BB King's Live and Well, and Freddie King's My Feeling For the Blues and Freddie King is a Blues Master. Pretty tricky lines though.

[markjazzbassist]

Originally Posted by ErikP.Bass

for Jerry Jemmott. Other good albums he plays on are : BB King's Live and Well, and Freddie King's My Feeling For the Blues and Freddie King is a Blues Master. Pretty tricky lines though.

+1

[Dr. Feelgood]

Yup, Duck Dunn is the way to go! Blues beast!

[Skel]

I had an album way back when. It was Eric Clapton, Albert King, and Freddie King. One of the songs was "Further On Up the Road". That's what I call rockin' blues.

[Phalex]

Johnny B. Gayden

He's everywhere!!

[arbarnhart]

Hal Leonard's selection of blues bass books (click) are pretty good. I just ordered JUMP 'N' BLUES BASS which has a CD with bass through a different channel than the rest of the band so you can turn it off to play along. Here is their description:

Essential jump/swing and modern blues bass lines for electric and upright players. Includes lessons and music in the style of Willie Dixon, Larry Taylor, Edgar Willis, Duck Dunn, Tommy Shannon, and more! The CD includes a lives blues band with over 20 play-along tracks.

[Skel]

Originally Posted by Skel

I had an album way back when. It was Eric Clapton, Albert King, and Freddie King. One of the songs was "Further On Up the Road". That's what I call rockin' blues.

And Clapton wrote the song. He makes me sick.

[brianrost]

Originally Posted by saxnbass

I can recommend some artists, not the bass players though (I'm too tired to think of the bassists)

Treat Her Right (I love this band, greatness)

The "bass" is a guitar played through an octave divider

The player is Mark Sandman (RIP) who later founded Morphine.

[brianrost]

Originally Posted by Skel

And Clapton wrote the song. He makes me sick.

"Farther On Up The Road" was not written by Eric Clapton!!!

The writer credit goes to Don Robey and the orignal hit was recorded by Bobby "Blue" Bland.

[fcleff]

I have always enjoyed listening to Richard Cousins of the Robert Cray Band.

Tommy Shannon (again).

Sarah Brown (played in the Antone's House Band and with Lou Ann Barton, Angela Stralei. I also saw her play live with Buddy Guy and Albert Collins).

[daffy]

Tommy Shannon is one of my all time fave blues players.

I love Duck Dunn, Tommy Cogbill, Chuck Rainey, and the like for their R&B, and funk/soul stuff. I never really thought of Duck Dunn as a straight blues player to be honest, but he has served up some monster blues lines.

To me, Tommy Shannon is one of the most inventive blues players - I can listen to hours of SRV without ever getting tired of it and without realising that so many of the songs are really just Eb 12 bar blues! That's a sign of a really good bluesman.

I'm playing in a dirty country/blues band at the moment and I make it a mission to get through a gig without ever playing the same bass line twice. Last night we did 9 12 bar blues songs (and one 13 bar blues, a la Chuck Berry :-) "I'm the singer and guitar and if I say it's 13 bars then it's 13 bars!!!") - and I had a ball!

[Skel]

Originally Posted by brianrost

"Farther On Up The Road" was not written by Eric Clapton!!!

The writer credit goes to Don Robey and the orignal hit was recorded by Bobby "Blue" Bland.

Oh. I googled it and found some stuff about "lyrics by Eric Clapton" - maybe I didn't check into it enough or we're talking about two different songs. Does "yours" go "Further on the road...somebody's gonna hurt you like you hurt me"?

I didn't think this sounded like something even Clapton could come up with.

[flatwoundfender]

Johnny B. Gayden bassist with Albert Collins, killer player.

[dougjwray]

A favorite of mine is Larry Taylor, who's played with Canned Heat, John Mayall and lots of other people.

[Loel]

Originally Posted by dougjwray

A favorite of mine is Larry Taylor, who's played with Canned Heat, John Mayall and lots of other people.

+1000
check out John Mayal's jazz and blues fusion
featuring Larry Taylor on bass good stuff..