King King by The Red Devils is my favorite live blues album of all time. And one shouldnt ignore Canadas Downchild (a.k.a. Im not sure if itd fit on a best blues list though definitely rooted in the blues, but more rock oriented (although their cover of Groundhog on that album is spot on). Far too many white people on this list. Its all about the space between the notesjust ask BB (RIP). Big Dave McLean For the Blues, Always. The poled list of artists and top albums highly skews the reality of affection adios and professionals as well as the generational listeners would not even say this list poled by this site is even near accurate. . Allman Brothers, Cream, Derek and the Dominos, and The Rolling Stones shouldnt even be mentioned here. We went to Tower Records on Columbus Ave. and she recommended a Cuby disc. For most of his life, this Mississippi-born practitioner of hill country blues received scant attention though in his final decade began to receive the accolades his music deserved. She paid tribute to one of her idols, Bessie Smith, with this New Orleans-style album, which included reworkings of the Smith favorites Send Me To The Lectric Chair and Backwater Blues., A self-taught guitarist who initially preferred not to sing because of a speech impediment, Earl Zebedee Hooker was the cousin of fellow Mississippian, the more famous John Lee Hooker. Williams, whose trademark was playing a custom-built nine-string guitar, was 65 when he recorded this LP in London during the fall of 1968 under the supervision of Mike Batt (who would later find fame writing Bright Eyes for Art Garfunkel and leading the novelty group, The Wombles). Any Live Allman Bros. Spot on Harmonica Slim..with you all the way ! Dave Van Ronk Sings the Blues Any Compilations from: I would have to include ZZ Top and Hendrix to make this an official list! Hells Session and Wang Dang Doodle by Livin Blues. deservedly won a Grammy in 1986, and is clearly among the best blues albums ever. Btw I nominate Talk to Your Daughter as Robben Fords actual best album. Release Date May 6, 2008. I Am The Blues Willie Dixon (1970) Everyones would be different and we all wonder how isnt this or that album included or this or that artist Certainly overall I think you got the vast majority of choices right. 1. No Muddy Mississippi Waters Live? Dont ever, ever, ever miss this one! Fine list anyway! I would also include their Raw Sienna. Theres Lightnin Hopkins, Cream, Muddy Waters, B.B. The British blues scene during the sixties was so important for the founders of the blues and played an very important role to make this black music style to be accepted among the white audience in America. I agree 1000% with you. Though he was a talented multi-instrumentalist who could play guitar and piano, Arkansas-born Frost rose to prominence as a harmonica specialist mentored by the legendary blues harp blower, Sonny Boy Williamson. You missed a real gem..Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. Cuz yer listening to the blues and thats the thing. I could not leave out these ass kickin`records that represent the artists as their best: I might beg to differ on The Allman Brothers though. Ive never been too much into blues, but I thought he was pretty great. Feeling lazy. My 21st Century Blues is the ultimate act of catharsis, full of big emotions expressed with revealing honesty. One James Cotton album and two Mayall. this sucks, Your additions of sited omissions sir are excellent sited examples.. Gary Davis Live at Manchester Union Hall & you need some thing with Buddy Guy & Junior Wells. Although The Rolling Stones are definitely not a blues Band. Some of them turned up on this, his debut LP, a blues barnstormer that took his unique style of music to a new audience. Otis Grand, Blues 65 The missing link between rural delta Mississippi blues and its electrified Chicago cousin, singer/guitarist/harmonica player Wolf first made his mark with a potent succession of singles between 1951 and 1956 for Chess. Go to the source not the people that are doing Rock covers. Tutored by his mother, Arkansas-born George Harmonica Smith learned to play the harmonica when he was four and after playing with a gospel group early on in his professional career, gravitated to the blues, which led him to Chicago in the 1950s where he joined Muddy Waters band. How many do you have? On Good Mornin Blues, Barbers band features Northern Irish singer/songwriter, Ottilie Patterson, as well as London jazz saxophone legend, Ronnie Scott, on a selection of material that ranges from Lead Bellys title song and Lionel Hamptons Hamps Blues to originals by Barber and Patterson. Born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor in Natchez, Mississippi, hoarse-throated singer and guitarist Hound Dog Taylor had a rare physiological condition known as polydactylism, which resulted in him having six digits on each hand. And I didnt know people were so mixed on Bonamasa. 13 in the Billboard 200. The songs names are surrounded by . Harpos popularity peaked in the 1960s when he racked up several US R&B hits and found his repertoire raided by British bands like the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Kinks. Kings I was happy to see Texas Flood made the list. Ive bookmarked this list, its comments, and all the insightful dickering because damn right I got the blues! Love it all! Key Track: Good Morning, School Girl. We have given you our list of the best blues albums alphabetically, having given up trying to number. Check out the story behind the making of Blues for Greeny. Of the five albums he made in his 35 years, this, his debut, is arguably his best, showcasing his compelling fretboard style and commanding tone. Pretty decent list. How is that left off? A feel-good collaboration between two Texas veteran guitar slingers and newcomer, Cray, Showdown! J.B.Hutto & The Hawks: Hawk Squat Something from Colosseum? I didnt see Love Sculptures Blues Helping. I was happy to see Al Kooper mentioned, but its too bad that a band he was a member of the Blues Project featuring a great blues guitarist, Danny Kalb, wasnt included. And no one mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughs double Lp, Live. Great. Made the list. That is like making a chicken soup with no chicken! Donde esta THE LONDON SESSION HOWLIN WOLF, I own most of the 100 mentioned but would like consideration for: Muddy Waters The London sessions, Big Joe Williams Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick. He patented an earthy electric delta blues sound that was inspired by Robert Johnson (whom he knew) and Tampa Red. Im with you, Slim. c. All lists such as this are subjective of course, but I totally agree with Chris Moran. Its AWESOME! This 20-track retrospective includes all of Browns early hits and essential sides; his specialty was desolate nocturnal ballads, like In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down, Evening Shadows, and Lonesome Feeling, where he accompanies his soothing, soulful voice with bluesy piano fills. It included super-charged blues-inflected versions of songs by writers as diverse as Chuck Berry (Johnny B. Goode, given a fuel-injected makeover), Bob Dylan, Albert Collins, and Little Richard. On it, he interpreted material made famous by American bluesmen Muddy Waters, Tampa Red, Otis Rush, Freddy King, Lowell Fulson and others. Fleetwood Mac, Dog & Dustbin album missing also Handy found and lost at the Tutwiler train depot in 1903. Add: Vanguard Records The Best Of The Chicago Blues a seminal anthology. TODAY! I think about 30 of these should have been left off and something else put in. We could endlessly debate about the definition of blues, but the purpose here is not to list all the guitarists that once played a blues classic, or our favorites RnB or jazz or rock musicians. One half of a famous country blues duo with Brownie McGhee, Georgia-born Terry (real name Saunders Terrell) was a blind singer and harmonica player who also made several noteworthy solo albums. for Seymour Solomons Vanguard label but his expressive falsetto voice, underpinned by gently undulating guitar filigrees, sounded better than ever. RAYE says, "My 21st Century Blues. The session features the veteran bluesman alone in the studio accompanying his strident vocals with slide guitar chords that exude a visceral rawness. Incendiary covers of tunes by Albert King, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, and Robert Johnson reflected the groups debt to the many American blues artists that had inspired them to make music. He cut some singles for Chess Records in the 50s and later achieved a cult following in England, where he cut an album in 1964 with Eric Clapton on guitar. This list has too many blues inspired classic rock bands on it. Sheryl Crow, "C'mon C'mon" (2002) Missouri ties: Crow is a. Absolutely, the Stones introduced real blues and r&b to the world at a time when the Beatles were singing about a bloody octopus which had a garden and some Eleanor Rigby who put her face in a jar. The album features two original songs and covers of material by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, George Harrison and Richie Havens. The possessor of a powerful contralto voice, she was hailed by her first record company as the Mother of the Blues. She made her debut recording in 1923 and her final one, five years later, before retiring in 1935. The 2CD Luther Allison, Best of Chicago: the Blues Today, volume with Johnny Young, Johnny Shines, Big Walter RL Burnside- Come On In. This is a list of the best-selling albums of the 21st century to date based on IFPI certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. Though she was dubbed Queen of the Blues, she was a versatile singer grounded in earthy rhythm and blues. Right on Bert. Great Album!!!!! This potent album, Simones RCA debut, not only underlined the singers affinity with the blues argot with her performances of songs by Lil Green and Buddy Johnson but also revealed her as a blues-influenced songwriter of note. Macclesfield born multi-instrumentalist John Mayalls finest moment came in 1966 when he led a band called Bluesbreakers, which featured a rising guitar star who had previously been with The Yardbirds: Eric Clapton. Rock blues, straight blues, jazz blues etc. Layla may not be pure blues but it is blues enough to me. Come Back Baby King, the Mississippi-born singer and guitarist who was born on a cotton plantation. Im glad people weighed in on Deutsch and Canadian blues. In 1994, however, this compilation containing eleven tracks, six of which were previously unissued, highlighted his connection with musicians like Howlin Wolf and B. Having started performing in public at age ten, Copeland was a veteran by the time of the albums release in 1998 and her mix of sass, swagger and assured professionalism revealed that she was the finished article rather than a work in progress. I thought that is what the blues is all about.Thanks! Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac Kings 1969 smash, The Thrill Is Gone, and Cecil Gants 1944 hit, I Wonder., Riley B. Hooker & Heat is one of the greatest blues records ever. Stevie Ray Vaughn Martin Scorcese presents I am going to be busy buying more blues albums, the best! 20. However Im really disapointed in the 28 CD Box Set just released of Cuby. A double album with John Lee Hooker and The Canned Heat. And not to mention a few good blues artists and bands from the Antipodes: Jeff Lang, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Chain, Joe Camilleri (JoJo Zep), Phil Jones and The Unknown Blues, Fourday Riders, CW Stoneking, Backsliders, Zyedecats, Chris Wilson, Dutch Tilders, Foreday Riders, John Butler, Mia Dyson, just to name a few.. All lists will be criticised Dan Patlansky from South Africa is currently a well respected player, Warren Haynes (Govt Mule is a legend and Lonnie Mack is a notable absentee . Junior Wells, James Cotton, Billy Branch, and Cary Bell. If you asked leading University music appreciation doctorate professors , I am CERTAIN you would find popularity and technical statistics that could not agree with the idem listing you have posted. Son House Father of the Blues, Albert King Years Gone By, Big Mama Thornton Jail, Fred McDowell and His Blues Boys, Sonny Boy Williamson One Way out, and Pink Anderson Carolina Blues Man. Jesus just left Chicago???? Other standouts included Fried Hockey Boogie and the anti-drug message song, Amphetamine Annie. Though considered a rock group and beloved by the hippies and Woodstock generation, Canned Heats musical DNA was deeply rooted in the blues. Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation with John Moorshead? B. Sugar Blue, Paul DeLay, William Clarke and piano OTIS SPANN, Little Brother Montgomery, Big Maceo. The remaining antique gems are incredibly obscure. I accept it is a subjective thing and impossible to include everyone. So what are your selections? Great list and recommendations from others. News. Recording since 1978, gravelly-voiced Davis, who plays harmonica and acoustic guitar, stays true to the delta blues style on Butt Naked Free, a collection of all-original songs except for a version of Blind Willie McTells Writing Paper Blues., Key Track: Waiting On The Cards To Fall. Mississippi-born Chester Burnett was better known as Howlin Wolf, who at 300-pounds and 6 3 tall was an imposing figure of a man. Grammys would come later in her career and help to crown her the queen of contemporary blues, but Turn Up The Heat captures her at the start of what became a storied musical journey. Wow. This anthology of his recordings for Eli Toscanos short-lived indie label Cobra includes Rushs Top 10 US R&B hit, I Cant Quit You Baby, later covered by Led Zeppelin. You might really want to check out Justin Johnson If Walls Could Talk and Smoke and Mirrors. Fleetwood Mac Irish rose. Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter - Hard Again Incredible! The group included a couple of blues covers: raw but incendiary versions of Albert Kings The Hunter and Jimmy Odens Howlin Wolf-associated Goin Down Slow.. He had others that could easily have been on this list as well. ought to be there: No Ronnie Earl! I remember the first time I saw Muddy Waters at the Jazz Workshop in Boston 1965? The eight selections on this LP released 25 years after his demise were recorded in Chicago and showcased his plaintive high voice and intricate guitar accompaniment. Junior Kimbroughs Sad Days, Lonely Nights. Pretty decent list one huge omission in my opinion Willie Dixons I Am the Blues is easily one of the finest blues albums ever recorded. Why doesnt Joe Bonamassa feature anywhere? Highlights range from the rocking Yakity Yak and Nighthawk Shuffle to the searing Burning Heat, featuring Carey Bells tooting harmonica. Eric Clapton & the Powerhouse (on Electra as I recall) Also, in many cases, there are better collections by the same artist than the ones listed. Geoff is referring to the Arhoolie release of the Charles Ford Band, which preceeded the Ford Bros on Blue Rock-It. One of them, the iconic I Pity The Fool, features on this 26-track retrospective focusing on his work for the Memphis Duke imprint, which also includes the hits Cry Cry Cry, Dont Cry No More, and Turn On Your Love Light. Admired by Van Morrison and Simply Reds Mick Hucknall, Bland won many awards and muddied the boundaries between rhythm and blues and soul music. Fords guitar playing steeped in the blues lexicon but augmented by rock power and jazz harmonic sophistication is unimpeachable on a 12-song selection that includes a slow, sizzling version of Etta James I Just Want To Make Love To You.. Rogers 1950s sides for Chess Records were combined for Chicago Bound, a compilation LP that featured cameos from Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Willie Dixon. Lonesome George Thorogood and the Destroyers 2120 South Michigan Ave. Is a great blues album as well. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002; Matador) It can be argued that Interpol took their sound toward more of a mainstream, alternative rock direction over time, but their 2002 debut stayed rooted in an atmospheric, melancholy take on early post-punk, with Paul Banks' vocals and Carlos D's driving bass serving as a not-so-subtle nod to acts such as Joy Division and The Chameleons. On some of the tunes like Walkin The Blues and Whisky & Women a band backs Hooker though the unaccompanied songs Sugar Mama and Leave My Wife Alone undoubtedly possess greater intensity. Community. Today (Jan. 6), she heightened the anticipation by revealing the official tracklist. You left out Lazy Lester, Lightnin Slim and Slim Harpo albums on Excello. They ranged from driving, full-throttle numbers such as the Cotton-penned The Hucklebuck, and Narcias atmospheric ballad, Life Will Be Better, to the slow-burning after-hours blues, Harp To Harp. The music may sound like it originates straight from the Mississippi delta but was recorded in Portland, Maine. Alvin Lee Bluest Blue is my favorite not on the list. James revamped some of his earliest recorded songs, breathing new life into Im So Glad and Killing Floor Blues, which benefited from an improved recording quality over the originals. We all have our own ideas for those who do and dont qualify for inclusion in this list but I am just grateful that so many artists and albums are listed by the compilers and the mailers because there are some I missed, until now. Both are brilliant guitar players and got great voices. Joe Bonamassa Sloe Gin. 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