Are you one who loves lots of different music but always return to the Blues?

Yes, pre war blues. And when I do, I always say this is the best.

 

Wow, that is interesting to me. Metal runs in you blood.

 

I like the blues, especially British blues of the late 60s and earlly 70s, but I can only take so much of it. A little blues goes a long way.
I like to go out to blues jams when I am not gigging and sit in, but I would get tired of playing blues real fast if I was in a band that did nothing but blues.
I wouldn't say I "return" to it, but it is a small part of what I enjoy listening to. And playing.

 

There's a lot of cultural history in there which is one reason I appreciate the genre

 

You are kidding of course

 

I range very far from the blues, but I always go back. The older I get, the more the pre-war bluesmen (and women) speak to me. I keep thinking that it would be nice if in the 21st century somebody did something really innovative with the blues. But whenever somebody does -- I don't like it.

 

Since I first became aware of and seduced by the blues about 50 years ago, I have never really gone away, so no need to return. But I am equally enamored of other kinds of music.

 

No. It's been a LONG time since I was into blues (Champion Jack Dupree, Junior Wells, Bukka White, etc). Probably not since late 70's. I still like hearing it live, but don't bother buying.

 

Sure. Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Albert King, Elmore James. This stuff moves the organs like no other.

 

Very timely topic given my current listening, and I agree completely that it always comes back to the blues. I can get caught up in prog or jazz for periods of time, but they don't provide the same level of engagement and comfort.

 

I'm with you. I listen to all kinds with blues definitely a major part. Been on a Bob Dylan kick recently and a blues thread runs through most everything that he does. At the gym today I had some Soundgarden going. It's all good.

 

Blues is part of my listening habit. I gave up exploring the genre some time ago, yet I like to spin a blues album from time to time, mostly a familiar one.

 

I am not that person, although I do like a lot of different music. Rock, classic rock, hard rock, rock & roll, dad rock, rockabilly...you get the picture.

 

I always return to Genesis.

Aside from a little Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, I find the blues infinitely tedious. SRV is like nails on a chalkboard. Just the absolute worst thing you can play around me. Ugh!

 

Now that you mention it ... yes.

 

No, I'm really not much of a blues fan, to be honest.

 

I often come back to the blues. Delta blues, electric blues, even some folk blues. But mainly that of the Mississippi Delta or Chicago or Memphis. R&B and rock and roll just as much. No matter how weirded out I get on psychedelic, progressive, alternative rock and punk and new wave and all kinds of jazz and Sinatra and modern classical etc. I just have to hear the blues at least once a week. Mainly Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Junior Parker and older artists like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Tommy McClennan. Plants your feet on the ground again.

 

Surprised at all the nay-sayers here: Blues is the root of jazz, folk, and rock & roll. Here are some of the artists in my collection:
Albert Collins
Albert King
Allman Brothers Band
The Animals
B.B. King
Big Bill Broonzy
Billie Holiday
Blind Arthur Blake
Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Willie McTell
Bonnie Raitt
Carey Bell
Charles Brown
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Cream
David Bromberg
Debbie Davies
Dion DiMucci
Earl Hooker
Ella FItzgerald
Elmore James
Eric Bibb
Eric Clapton
Fleetwood Mac (original)
Freddie King
Gary Moore
Gregg Allman
Hot Tuna
Howlin' Wolf
J.B. Lenoir
John Hammond
John Lee Hooker
John Mayall
Johnny Copeland
Johnny Guitar Watson
Johnny WInter
Junior Wells
Keb' Mo'
Kenny Neal
Kitchen Syncopators
Lead Belly
Led Zeppelin
Lightnin' Hopkins
Little Walter
Louis Armstrong
Mighty Sam McClain
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Mississippi John Hurt
Missisisippi Sheiks
Muddy Waters
Otis Rush
Peter Green Splinter Group
Ray Charles
Reverend Gary Davis
Robert Cray
Robert Johnson
Rolling Stones
Rory Block
Ry Cooder
Savoy Brown
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Skip James
Solomon Burke
Sonny Boy Williamson
Stevie Ray Vaughan
T-Bone Walker
Tab Benoit
Ten Years After
Toby Walker
Walter Horton
Yardbirds
ZZ Top

 

Why no piano blues masters in your collection?

 

Good question, and thanks for reading my post. I've been playing guitar since I was 10 years old, so I gravitate towards that, but Charles Brown and Ray Charles are two of the greatest of all time, and between the two of them I have 17 albums, so you missed that inference from my list.


A wonderful live DVD/CD set. I was lucky to see him perform at Tramps in NYC before he passed.

 

No , as a guitar player I find it way to restrictive ,repetitive and boring .
Played blues in my school band about 20 years ago and that was enough.
Rock/pop and classical for me .

 

A lot of my favourite music is heavily influenced by the blues so i acknowledge it in that regard but it all gets very monotonous to me.

 

Ray Charles is usually not considered as "strictly blues", and Charles Brown is usually considered as "jump blues/R&B".
I was talking about the artists like Leroy Carr, Roosevelt Sykes, Champion Jack Dupree, Memphis Slim, Otis Spann, Sunniland Slim etc. - those who define the "piano blues" sub-genre.
I hope I don't sound like Elwood motivating his band in BB2000.

 

Nope.

 

Nope. Why would I be kidding?