Blues music

[dk]

I was watching a documentary on the History channel about Blues music, and they introduced J.B. Lenoir. I REALLY enjoyed his style. If anyone else has any Blues music they enjoy, feel free to post it in this thread. I loved his song "The whale has swollowed me" that starts about thirty seconds in.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=34evyrWA0xc&feature=related

[uriel]

while it may not be true "blues", masayoshi yamazaki plays some music that sounds like blues, if only in spirit.

[tim duncan]

really like the track by jd...

really like john the revalator by son house..really good clapping, vocals and feeling...also like lemondrop by stevie ray vaughn...ah the troubles of alcohol...

also like shima no uta by the boom. if this is not okinawan blues...then i am an idiot...makes me want to go back to okinawa, but also makes me glad that i live in hawaii...:)

[OCanadaOurHomeAndNativeLand]

I liked this flick...

http://www.sonyclassics.com/lightninginabottle/trailer-open.html

[mikersoft]

I can't really name any blues songs or artists in particular, but I like the sound in general... I often listen to the blues channel (74) on Sirius satellite radio.

-Mike

[Trail]

It's more of a blue/rock combination but my dad raised me on Stevie Ray Vaughn and BB King.

[uriel]

SRV = the man. BB King = the man. they're both the men. uh, where was I going with that?

[dk]

B.B. King is great. I've been lucky enough to see him play live twice.

[kombu_kid]

I can't really name any blues songs or artists in particular, but I like the sound in general... I often listen to the blues channel (74) on Sirius satellite radio.

-Mike

Yeah, I'm kinda like that as well......Sunday afternoons are easy to find the blues playin' on the local college radio stations & it's great!

[perfect10]

SRV, Buddy Guy, BB King and Eric Clapton doesn't get much better

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OXrmxDp44&feature=related

[perfect10]

John Lee Hooker, BOOM BOOM BOOM, good old stuff

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyj4ciJk34&feature=related

[perfect10]

One more here is a little Muddy Waters

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WaIT0mKJ7D0&feature=related

[Sex Wax]

Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (Crossroads)[1936]

According to a legend known to modern Blues fans, Robert Johnson was a young black man living on a plantation in rural Mississippi. Branded with a burning desire to become a great blues musician, he was instructed to take his guitar to a crossroad near Dockery's plantation at midnight. There he was met by a large black man (the Devil) who took the guitar from Johnson and tuned it, giving him mastery of the guitar, and handed it back to him in return for his soul. Within less than a year's time, in exchange for his everlasting soul, Robert Johnson became the king of the Delta blues singers, able to play, sing, and create the greatest blues anyone had ever heard.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(musician)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A

I went to the crossroad
fell down on my knees
I went to the crossroad
fell down on my knees
Asked the Lord above "Have mercy, now
save poor Bob, if you please
Mmmmm, standin' at the crossroad
I tried to flag a ride
Standin' at the crossroad
I tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me
everybody pass me by
Mmm, the sun goin' down, boy
dark gon' catch me here
oooo ooee eeee
boy, dark gon' catch me here
I haven't got no lovin' sweet woman that
love and feel my care
You can run, you can run
tell my friend-boy Willie Brown
You can run, you can run
tell my friend-boy Willie Brown
Lord, that I'm standin' at the crossroad, babe
I believe I'm sinkin' down

[OtisPMerriweather]

Well, I'm from Memphis, let me hip you to some of that old chitlin' circuit, dirty soul blues they play on "All Blues Saturdays" in Memphis...

Mr. Tyrone Davis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRp8eKUtvGA

[OtisPMerriweather]

And of course, Mr. ZZ Hill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL114c40OOo

[kombu_kid]

Here's Love Sculpture (Dave Edmunds) doing Wang Dang Doodle. The original by Howlin' Wolf is great also, I just happen to love this guy's guitar work.......

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

And here's B.B. King doing "3 O' Clock Blues"......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6xSpIRYa7I

[kombu_kid]

"The Stumble" by Love Sculpture......their whole damn CD just kills!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsPiul5IzhI

[Sex Wax]

I love blues music. I prefer the Chicago style but I do like Delta blues too. Some of my favorites from Chicago are Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Koko Taylor, etc.
In the Delta blues style I like Mississippi John Hurt, Taj Mahal, (early) Bonnie Raitt, John Hammond, Lightning Hopkins, (early) Lucinda (Williams), Rory Block, etc.

You ROCK !!!...or let me say...You gots da blues !!!!