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Not kidding at all. SRV's playing was all about the guitar, while Jimmy's is about the song and the music. And I find that a LOT more soulful and appealing than the overblown histrionics of the younger brother when you're talking blues.
John
There was a great Austin city limits with Jimmy and Stevie Vaughn playing on a double neck guitar.... I would say they were/are both great!
butchblack
Life is short. Do good. Find and do what you love.
This exemplifies the breadth of the blues. Both are great players but both are very different in their approach to the blues.
You guys crack me up. They are both great, and they are both very different players. I happen to like Stevie's material better. It's just more my style. Jimmy is a real master on the guitar, though, and every bit as good a player as his brother. Again, though, they are just different.
I'll give another shout out to Michael Burks. Really, if you haven't heard this guy, check him out. I wish he'd play around here some time, I've never been able to see him live.
Speaking of live blues, if you ever get to see Susan Tedeschi live, do it. She's really good on CD, but live she just rocks the place. What a voice!
Has anyone mentioned Doyle Bramhall II yet? If not, check him out too.
Cool thread here. I've been a huge blues fan all my life and I still hear of a new performer or band every once in a while. Keep the names comin'!
+1 on Michael Burks, I forgot him and he is one of the best players today. I saw him live and he killed-the closest thing you will get to Albert King.
This one ALWAYS gets me flamed!
I'm only posting this because it grates on me and I gotta vent.
Eric Clapton is NOT Blues...he thinks he's Blues; he calls himself Blues...his style is NOT Blues and most of it has very little Blues feel to it at all.
ZZ Top is more Blues and Eric Clapton.
OK, I'll sit down and be quiet now.
I'm only posting this because it grates on me and I gotta vent.
Eric Clapton is NOT Blues...he thinks he's Blues; he calls himself Blues...his style is NOT Blues and most of it has very little Blues feel to it at all.
ZZ Top is more Blues and Eric Clapton.
OK, I'll sit down and be quiet now.
BB King seems to THINK he is a blues guy ...
Asked why he took so long to make a blues album with his long time friend BB King,
he answered that until he made this record he didn't consider himself ready.
Clapton "is" all you say ... and a blues guy too.
I was lucky enough to catch his 1990 blues tour and it was amazing!
Jimmi was a Blues man to the core. He cut his teeth on Muddy Waters records. Nobody played Blues better than Hendrix.
Have you ever listened to his "From The Cradle" CD? It was the album that inspired his "Nothin' But The Blues" tour (which I was also lucky enough to see). I don't like a lot of his pop stuff, but as a blues guitarist, he's WAY up there...
I understand what you are saying about Clapton, and there are a lot of things he has done over his loooooong career that annoy me.
But I do believe at the base of it all is a genuine love and passion for the blues.
I think he and SRV both suffer from a kind of "overexposure" and "over-imitation"- Sometimes it can be difficult to separate the annoyance with the pale imitators of these guys vs an annoyance with the actual artists themselves. I mean how many SRV and Clapton barroom imitators are there in the world?... bad imitations, I should say.
I also believe he has, more than most, tried to point fingers back to the source of this music we all love, giving credit to the original blues guys as the source his inspiration and breathing life back into the roots of this music (Quite literally in Skip James's case).
Oh yeah, BB and Freddie King along with a lot of other blues greats would probably disagree with a summary dismissal of Clapton's blues capabilities.
I'm quite sure he's crying all the way to the bank over what you and I think about him too!
example: this is about Skip James: "Living in Philadelphia with his third wife, James was chronically broke during his last years. Until the group Cream recorded “I’m So Glad” and gave James the songwriter’s credit, that is. As a result, he received a royalty check for nearly $10, 000."
But I do believe at the base of it all is a genuine love and passion for the blues.
I think he and SRV both suffer from a kind of "overexposure" and "over-imitation"- Sometimes it can be difficult to separate the annoyance with the pale imitators of these guys vs an annoyance with the actual artists themselves. I mean how many SRV and Clapton barroom imitators are there in the world?... bad imitations, I should say.
I also believe he has, more than most, tried to point fingers back to the source of this music we all love, giving credit to the original blues guys as the source his inspiration and breathing life back into the roots of this music (Quite literally in Skip James's case).
Oh yeah, BB and Freddie King along with a lot of other blues greats would probably disagree with a summary dismissal of Clapton's blues capabilities.
I'm quite sure he's crying all the way to the bank over what you and I think about him too!
example: this is about Skip James: "Living in Philadelphia with his third wife, James was chronically broke during his last years. Until the group Cream recorded “I’m So Glad” and gave James the songwriter’s credit, that is. As a result, he received a royalty check for nearly $10, 000."
Many many great players mentioned already
Two that I didn't see mentioned yet:
Lowell Fulson
T-Bone Walker
For my 2¢ worth, the Three Kings are a must. Albert, Freddy, and BB. Ditto, Buddy Guy and Albert Collins
For a real stretch into the farthest edges of the genre: Kelly Joe Phelps - See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Two that I didn't see mentioned yet:
Lowell Fulson
T-Bone Walker
For my 2¢ worth, the Three Kings are a must. Albert, Freddy, and BB. Ditto, Buddy Guy and Albert Collins
For a real stretch into the farthest edges of the genre: Kelly Joe Phelps - See That My Grave is Kept Clean
The Red Devils; 13; John Nemeth; Imperial Crowns; Joe Louis Walker; Kid Ramos; John "Juke" Logan; Kim Wilson; Rusty Zinn; Rick "LA Holmes" Holmstrom; Mitch Kashmar; Lynwood Slim; Nick Moss & The Fliptops; NICK CURRAN...
There's a few to chew on for awhile.
There's a great streaming internet radio Blues show on Tuesday nights from KFMG991.org that comes on at 7 PM Central time that's hosted by my buddy Don "T-Bone" Ericson. He's a writer for Blues Review magazine and he's on every other Tuesday as he alternates with another DJ by the name of "Big Dog" that also spins Blues on his show. T-Bone is on tomorrow night, Dec.22nd, and his show is called "T-Bone's Blues & Groove" and he covers a lot of Blues ground with all kinds of Blues and Groove music. Highly recommended. The show is two hours.
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There's a few to chew on for awhile.
There's a great streaming internet radio Blues show on Tuesday nights from KFMG991.org that comes on at 7 PM Central time that's hosted by my buddy Don "T-Bone" Ericson. He's a writer for Blues Review magazine and he's on every other Tuesday as he alternates with another DJ by the name of "Big Dog" that also spins Blues on his show. T-Bone is on tomorrow night, Dec.22nd, and his show is called "T-Bone's Blues & Groove" and he covers a lot of Blues ground with all kinds of Blues and Groove music. Highly recommended. The show is two hours.
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