Hey Blues guys...

Its a rainy day here on the Hudson river so I'm playing the blues...Just picked up a copy of Albert Collins - Ice Pickin' loving it, great sounding recording...

What should I play next....?

 

How about some Stevie Ray Vaughan!

 

I have Soul to Soul...

Big SRV fan...

 

Albert Collins with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland - Showdown! Amazing album where all three of these great performers were ON.

http://www.amazon.com/Showdown-Albert-Collins/dp/B004GHYCDO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414084019&sr=8-1

 

Muddy waters then howlin' wolf.

 

Albert Collins with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland - Showdown! Amazing album where all three of these great performers were ON.

That looks great....put that on my "need to get" list...

 

Howlin Wolf the london session is one of my favs...

Then I'm thinking The Super Super Blues Band...

Then I have to get my daughter from school....I'm Daddy Daycare today...

 

My avatar suggests:




Arnie

 

Mississippi John Hurt
Lightnin' Hopkins
Willie Dixon

 

one of my alltime favourite albums:

"Buddy Guy & Junior Wells play the Blues"

produced by Clapton in the early '70's, features the J Geils band as backing musicians....fantastic album

 

I'm going to have to call in some delivery food to get me through this....

 

Johnny Winter. His first album is a monster.
Freddie King - Burglar
Lowell Fulsom - Tramp
(yes on this release it's Fulsom, the guy who owes you money is named Fulson)

 

I played this today

 

1. Muddy Waters Folk Singer

2. Muddy Waters Live

3. Big Bill Broonzy - Bill Broonzy Story
Incredible music + storytelling between songs, and by far the best sounding album (sq wise) I have heard covering early country blues.

http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Broonzy-Story-Big/dp/B00000JWNM

 

My wife knows zero about music...No favorite bands, etc...So I couldn't take it anymore so we went to Memphis for the weekend...days and nights filled with live blues and barbecue ...On the plane going home she says, OK, i get it now, that was fun....

 

never heard of this...It would be easier if I didn't like other kinds of music...

 

Free's debut, Tons Of Sobs....................they always had the blues feel if not always the structure..............not a bad one in their six studio and one live albums...........guitarist Paul Kossoff a superb feel player, gone long before his time...............

 

and then

 

Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early ~ Takes One To Know One

 

Couldn't agree more. Free combined blues, rock and soul to make one of the greatest bands ever. My favourite album is their second album, simply called Free, but they are all great!

In terms of a "pure" blues album then once you've digested Muddy and the Wolf, this is unbeatable IMHO:

 

wasn't there 2 Sonny Boy Williamson's....I have Down and Out...

 

Artwork by Jon Langford!

 

My wish list on ebay is growing by the minute...

 

One of my favorites:

 

Fred McDowell !