Quintessential Blues Bassists

[JimmyM]

jerry casale from devo. no kidding. he played in a blues band called 15-60-75 before devo and a lot of his early devo songs are highly blues based, like beehive, 37, and i been refused.

 

[plangentmusic]

Randy Jo Hobbs ... check out his playing on the "Johnny Winter Live And" disc and also on "Tobacco Road", off of Edger's "RoadWork" disc

I checked out Johnny Winter Live and on the last chorus of Johnny B Goode, the bass is playing in the wrong key. Not good.

Blues bass is simple bass and you can't do it any better than Tommy Shannon.

 

[5StringBlues]

Recently deceased Calvin "Fuzz" Jones

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Longtime bassist with Muddy Waters and also appeared in "The Blues Brothers" with John Lee Hooker.

 

[Boot Soul]

Bassist Larry Taylor's work with blues legend John Mayall

Larry thumbing flats on a P through an Orange 4x12 so understated so steady

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6rXBy1uc0M&feature=related

 

[rymiraflores]

I've recently been getting into Blues and am curious who would be consider THE blues bassists?

Jack Bruce is about the only I can think of . . .

Thanks for the help.

Hmmm I think that if you asked Jack he would say that he is more about jazz....anyway for me Andy Fraser and Felix Pappalardi...my favourites...and really my two main influences

 

[zillo]

Larry Taylor is the king of them all. There was a guy who played with Jimmy Dawkins named Sylvester Boines who was pretty amazing. Bill Stuve who plays with Rod Piazza can really lay it down as well.

 

[chicago_mike]

1 to Fuzz Jones

+1 to Johnny B. Gayden

Nick Charles ( Billy Branch )

Larry Williams ( Big James and Chicago Playboys )

The late Willie Kent ( Wille Kent and The Gents )

J.W. Williams

Joewann "man" Scott ( Carlos Johnson , Carl Weathersby )

Me ( James Armstrong )

J/K on the last one...theres so many great blues players its silly.

 

[5StringBlues]

Jackie Newhouse


Bob Stroger

 

[Tom Howland]

Willie Dixion
Keith Fergerson
Rallow Radford
Jarome Arnold
Berry Oakley
Larry Taylor
Jack Myers
Freebo
Tommy Shannon
Harvey Brooks
Ronnie James

 

[Jim Dep]

Larry thumbing flats on a P through an Orange 4x12 so understated so steady

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6rXBy1uc0M&feature=related

Hey COOOL !!!

THANKS!!
I haven't seen that one. Good to see Sugarcane, Harvey Mendel and Paul Lagos on the drums.

One of my favorite Larry Taylor recordings is Mayall's Jazz Blues Fusion. That's one of my all time, most played records. Larry and Freddie Robinson were cookin'!!

 

[sleepytime]

My friend Harlan Terson has been an unsung hero on the Chicago scene since the late '60s. You couldn't ask for a more solid player.

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Live in Geneva

 

[mtshark]

John Freakin' Paul Jones

 

[Thor]

Jackie Newhouse


Bob Stroger

Jackie is still active down in Austin I hear. He also posts here occasionally under a pseudonym.

Harvey Brooks

I first heard Harvey growing up. Excellent player. Last I heard he moved to Israel.

 

[mellowinman]

Don't forget John McVie!

 

[cdef]

Bugsy Maugh, who played with Paul Butterfield and many others. His lines on the album In My Own Dream really grabbed me, particularly Last Hope's Gone.

 

[jerry]

Dave Smith out of Memphis, the guy is a stud!

 

[lfmn16]

I've recently been getting into Blues and am curious who would be consider THE blues bassists?

Jack Bruce is about the only I can think of . . .

Thanks for the help.

I wouldn't call Jack Bruce a blues bass player. Others may disagree.

 

[gumbynotpokey]

Yeah, Willie Dixon and Tommy Shannon were the first 2 I thought of.

 

[MuzikMan]

John Paul Jones played some very tasty blues in Zeppelin.

 

[Roy Vogt]

The late Larry Exum and also Johnny B. Gayden graced many an Alligator Records release in the 80s.
Also, Steve Evans (Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings, Elvin Bishop, CoCo Montoya) and Roscoe Beck (Robben Ford and The Blue Line, Eric Johnson), two Blues-based bassists with virtuoso technique but serious Blues roots.