Who do you think is the best blues musician? I can't pick one because i'm torn aprat between....well....all of them especially Mississippi John Hurt and many others. Yes white boys do count, but the only white blues musicians I really appreciate are Clapton and Winwood. I saw their concert at MSG in February, it was magical.

Couldn't say who the 'best' is but I can say my favorite is Skip James, he definitely had a unique slant on the blues.

Robert Johnson. Muddy Waters. Albert King. Stevie Ray Vaughn.

I'm going with Ray Charles...He has always been one of my favorite blue's singers..Of course I would have to throw the word "rhythm" in there too...

Muddy Waters was the man.

I just saw B.B. King live and up close in March and he is still the best!

Just a few off top of my head;

Robert Johnston
John Lee Hooker
Freddie King
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
Eric Clapton
Muddy Waters
B B. King
Buddy Guy




100 Greatest Blues Guitarists

The Lone Star State has always produced the meanest badest kick *** blues men/guitarist imo...
'This wild cool cat' is just one of the reasons why.

Lemondrop Jefferson.

Champion Jack Dupree

I also say ZZ TOP who were finally inducted into the Rock'n Roll Hall Of Fame back in '04, with Gibbons acknowledged as one of America's finest blues guitarists. They have the distinction of being among a very small group of bands with a 30 year plus history that still has all of its original members.

Wow, there are (and have been) so many great blues musicians, I can't pick just one. Here's a quick list off the top of my head:

Stevie Ray Vaughn
T Bone Walker
John Lee Hooker
Robert Cray
Billy Gibbons
Eric Clapton
Jonny Lang
B.B.King
Hound Dog Taylor

I'm sure there are many more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

Ah yeah TC, HOUND DOG TAYLOR had a wicked pounding raw slide blues sound to his playing (way melikes it ) Ya know what basically sux tho, theres very little of him on youtube.

I know, it's a shame.

I saw ZZ Top Thursday and they sound as good as ever. I had almost given up going to see some of the old timers because some of them haven't kept their voices up and we've been very disappointed.

All that have been mentioned are great!

I am sooo envious!! I've never gotten to see ZZ Top in concert, sounds like they put on an awesome show!

My older brother told me about the ZZTop concert he went to in the mid 1970's where the band would let livestock roam through the crowd. He said a cow hung out by his seat for almost the whole show.

It was fantastic! They were at out local Riverbend festival. The tickets are $35 and it has bands all week. It costed $10 extra to see ZZ Top and a friend of ours got there at 4:00 to spread out our blankets so we could have the best seats for the 9:30 show. During the concert they were talking about some of their adventures while in town and we found out they had been partying TWO BLOCKS away from our house that day!

Laughingly I told my husband to look around at all of us old hippies (I, myself had on a tie-dyed T-shirt with a peace sigh necklace so we fit right in). The nice thing was that most of them had brought their teen or older kids and they were going as nuts as the parents were.

We had a ball!

I take it Blues isn't very popular in UM?...


Think maybe what the world needs is a genuine Blues Revival, kinda like what SRV did way back in '83 with the Grammy Award winning masterpiece of the Texas Flood album release.


When i first heard & saw Stevie (tv) for the first time: With BB King & Albert Collins <-- Tis mesmerizing stuff!

I remember first hearing SRV back in '84, I believe. I didn't really get into his music until '89 and then before I knew it, he was gone. I often wonder what great strides in music he would have made.

Yeah TC, just as his sound & style was starting to hit peek perfection, literally taking Blues & Blues/Rock to the world and those in the know knew it also. I remember exactly where i was & what i was doing (servicing my car in the back yard, radio cranked) the day the news broke of his death. Initial reaction was shock later followed by denial & disbelief lol!

I was in my back yard as well, listening to the radio, catching some rays. I heard it and turned to my mom and said,"Did they just say SRV died in a plane crash?" I couldn't believe it.

SRV is (was ) great. Cold Shot is a classic... I remember blasting that (along with Tightrope) in my room when I was a kid.

Hearing this song is what got me hooked on the blues.

SRV all the way.

lol! clever TC.

Hearing this one by JLH (with Big Head Todd and the Monsters) for the first time on The Longest Yard movie (Adam Sandler) gets me revved up into Blues-Blues/Rock
(sometimes, blending of old & new can create music to the ears)

Sorry I haven't been replying....I forgot all about this thread....
Anyway I think Hendrix is the most musically talented... Srv was amazing though. I might go see B.B. King in Hyannis, Mass. in August. That would be awesome cuz' that's like 1.5 hours away from my home.

Wow, what an amazing sound, I really like that version. Thanx for sharing, I could talk about blues music all night long, LOL

jelly roll morton

blind willie mctell

leadbelly

skip james

blues brothers j/k

Damn, no love for Johnny Winter?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jp7BrzrfJMM

Another Lone Star Stater with a unique & gutsy Slide Blues sound...
I got his Winter Of 88 CD...It'sa thumping Blues/Rock!




IDK who's sings this awesome version, but it's definitely not Muddy Waters or Elvis...?

Crank it up;
HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN <--Awesome Slide YEAH! LOL!

I don't know who's singing either; the riffs playing are from George Thorogood's song, "Bad to the Bone". Sounds pretty cool, though.

Anyone into older country blues like Mississippi John hurt?

^^ I forgot all about him, I like the song, "Candy Man".

Yeah that's a good tune

Tony Joe White originally performed & wrote this sooothing blues tune, did it with cool even better than the king.

Perusing the list Rebel linked to, I'm bummed not to see my personal fav, although he's not known as a BLUES guitarist per se, watching BB King led me to beleive this man, RITCHIE BLACKMORE was heavily influenced by him. So here's a little Ritchie and DP blues called....LAZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6x8GGXrCFQ

I would have to say Charley Patton, but I'm leaning towards Honeyboy Edwards (since I just did a gig with him )

Kenny Wayne Sheperd isn't halfbad...I love Mississippi John Hurt..And Champion Jack Dupree slays asses..
SRV goes without saying..handful of others..

I got all of KWS early CDs (real gutsy blues). He was heavily influenced by SRV (fellow Texan).



Prison Blues <-- from the CD/DVD compilation 10 Days Out KWS gathered together & capture most of the past Blues greats before the world looses em all forever.

err bit of trivia; lol! Bet no one knew Ice Cream Man ('under my sig' ) by Van Halen was originally written & performed by Chicago Blues guitarist John Brim way back in the late 40s early 50s.

Don't think anyone could have revived it better than Eddie Van Halen anyway.


Thats it thats all...

I forgot all about Kenny Wayne Sheperd...I really like his style. Like Rebel said, I believe he was influenced by SRV.

He admitted it TC, in an interview i read in Guitar World Magazine, SRV being one of his greatest influences. You can pick a lot of it in his playing anyway, even one of his guitars looks like Stevie's #1 <--The banged up '59 Strat custom lol! .

I can't think of a better influence, either! LOL

Yeah wasn't Terry Reid bad *** too----I kind of figured KWS got his style from SRV because KWS used 3 names like him too..
anyone like Dr. John? More uppity than blues but he really does kill asses dead haha..

The Black Lone Ranger was pretty good.

Johnny Lee Hooker has 'Gone Up Stairs' <-- R.I.P

Johnny Lee Hooker is Boogie Chill'n




Rare interview/insight with two cool Texan Blues Men, Brothers Jimmie & Stevie Ray.

You guys are all going to hate my response, because I'm the forum jazz musician.

Nobody on the planet could play the blues like Cannonball Adderley. NOBODY. Guitar players should check him out; he'll scare the crap out of you, especially on something like the Miles Davis album "Milestones."

I also dig Thelonious Monk. His style is just so wild and quirky, and even though he was a mediocre piano player by pianist's standards, he never failed to convey every emotion he could. And a lot of his music uses blues form.

As far as the stuff you guys are talking about? I've always loved Hendrix. Still can't get enough of him. There's an album called Hendrix: Blues that has some really amazing stuff on it. I also like Muddy Waters.

::runs away carrying saxophone::

I'll never knock Jazz, some of the greatest Blues/Rock Guitarists in history were influenced by Jazz.
The master himself, Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Santana, Beck, Smok'n Joe Satriani even Zakk Wylde before Ozzy transformed him lol!! etc, etc...

Yeah I could listen to THelonious Monk anyday. SOme others are the big shots including:Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke ELlington, John COltrane and lots of other stuff; at least for jazz.