Great list. European or African? Key Track: "How. However, lets not forget the blues was all but forgotten until musicians like Eric, Duane, Mick and Keith among others revived the genre. Between 1949 and 1952, this Texas-born chemistry teacher-turned-singer/pianist racked up 12 Top 20 US R&B chart entries, including two number ones, Trouble Blues and Black Night. With his velvety tone and smooth phrasing, Brown brought a sense of urban sophistication to the blues; initially, as part of Johnny Moores Blazers, a Los Angeles-based trio who scored a No. Though he possessed a distinctive gravelly singing voice and played bass and guitar, hes more famous as a prolific songwriter; he was responsible for penning some of the key blues songs of the 1950s, including Spoonful, Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man, and The Little Red Rooster. He serves up his own striking interpretations of those three blues evergreens on this 1970 LP, the sixth album of his career, on which he sings and plays bass in the company of a smoking band that includes harmonica player Big Walter Horton and Chess Records session pianist Lafayette Leake. Lift Yr. Otis Spann. I Am The Blues Willie Dixon (1970) Youre quite right, and dont forget Livin Blues Wang Dang Doodle and Hells Session , Goed opgemerkt, zeker mbt c+b, desolation The album features two original songs and covers of material by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, George Harrison and Richie Havens. The album topped the US R&B charts but proved to be Kings only No. As for Jimmy Reed, Cold Chills tops the Carnegie Hall album. If anyone can recommend artist like these players, thatd be cool too. Johnny Shines Standing at the Crossroads I met a Dutch girl back around 1970 and took her to Tower Records at Bay and Columbus in S.F. Lightnin Slim Best of A raspy-voiced Louisiana singer and guitarist, Slim was the brother-in-law of Slim Harpo and released his debut single in 1954 for the Feature label but reaped more acclaim a few years later during his time at Excello, an R&B imprint of Ernie Youngs Nashboro label. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel. Remarkably, it was his first recording using an electric guitar, and he precedes a version of the blues standard, Baby Please Dont Go, with a short talk about his guitar style and affection for the blues. Add: Vanguard Records The Best Of The Chicago Blues a seminal anthology. Also the Graham Bond Organisation. Omar&Howlers:I Told You So. Street Corner Talking should be on the list. Not sure which album to suggest, however hes on my list !!! "Escapism." (feat. King and Koko Taylor to Shemekia Copeland, discover the records that made it onto our list of the best blues albums ever. "Hard Out Here." 4. King and Willie Dixon. How about When a guitar plays the blues or any song off Loading Zone he smokes almost every player on this list! Mathus & his knockdown society? Its all about the space between the notesjust ask BB (RIP). I love you all. 3 James Hunter People Gonna Talk. The 100 best albums of the 21st century From left, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Beyonc, Kendrick Lamar. Below are links to the best blues albums of each decade. King Of The Delta Blues Singers was the first-ever compilation of his music and helped Johnson reach a new audience in the 1960s. Like Skip James, he recorded in 1930 for Paramount and was later plucked from obscurity by the folk-blues revival. Though she comes from Burbank, California, Bonnie Raitt is a soulful singer and bottleneck guitarist whose music is steeped in the delta blues sound. His R&B chart-topper, Sweet Little Sixteen, is one of the standout cuts on the guitar-toting, duck-walking tunesmiths second album, One Dozen Berrys. My medicine, my anxieties and traumas, my unfiltered thoughts. Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, and Frank Zappa all cited Slim as a seminal influence. And everyone has their own opinion and thats great. Hooker & Heat is one of the greatest blues records ever. Thank you, Wanda. My 21st Century Blues is the ultimate act of catharsis, full of big emotions expressed with revealing honesty. Immediately after that, Spann returned to Chicago where he recorded The Blues Never Die! Hardcore Hip Hop Pop Rap Trap. As usual guitar is the theme. Jethro Tull This Was Future blues star, Buddy Guy, assists on additional guitar, but its Waters who is the unequivocal center of attention, mesmerizing with his nuanced vocals, which range from booming hollers to hushed whispers. Though recorded in 1964 at a folk festival in Pennsylvania, this live album didnt get released for another 29 years. Something tells me you guys didnt get to see these people play live . Hes more of a Rock Band. Side A consists of a sole feature from 070 Shake while Side B sees an assist from Mahalia. Blending memorable original material (After Awhile) with four Cotton tunes and covers of Muddy Waters Im Ready and a rocking take on Robert Johnsons Dust My Broom, Spann delivered a mesmerizing showcase that highlighted his stentorian voice and fluid piano licks. 4.25 49,337 343. I agree with you regarding Savoy Brown, John. Bonamassa is one the greatest bluesmen of the 21st century. Right on Bert. BB King and Bobby Blue Bland, Together, on Duke/ABC. I now have about 20 new artists/albums that I need to hear based off peoples comments and I thank the list and the people who commented for that. [1] [2] The album will be Raye's first project following her 2021 separation from Polydor Records. And I second (and must correct) another commenters pick of Mark Ford, with the Robben Ford Band a really stunning album that apparently never gets noticed. Taking to Instagram to share a handwritten list of the songs included on her debut album, RAYE said: 'Here she is, the full tracklist to my debut album My 21st Century Blues coming 3rd February 2023 '. Also, agree that the classic Love Sculpture LP, Blues Helping, would belong on my list. With its fusion of soulful urbanity and raw, delta earthiness, the record would prove a blueprint for modern blues recordings. Totally agree with Savoy Browns Street Corner Talking. The youngest of three regal-named bluesmen, this Texas-born, Chicago-raised singer and guitarist began his career in the 1950s. Submit Corrections They spotlight Walkers smooth crooners voice as well as supernal fretboard skills on a varied selection of material that ranges from silky ballads (Glamour Girl) to big band jump-blues excursions (Strollin With Bones). No. Humble Pie? The replies here are priceless. 6 in the UK albums chart, Clapton left to form Cream shortly afterwards. 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. That is like making a chicken soup with no chicken! Finally, someone mentioned ray Charles, thought I was the only one! Though blues was an omnipresent element in Hendrixs oeuvre, he never made a dedicated blues album. Greens playing is perfect Sublime ferocious subtle but most of all perfectly suited to each song. Has been previously mentioned but should include Chicken Shack and the Groundhogs. Uh, no. Johnny Winter nothin but the blues Savoy Brown Blues Band, Raw Sienna, John Mayall , Blues breakers with Eric Clapton and the Hard Road album with Peter Green. Lizzie Douglas was better known as Memphis Minnie, a prolific country blues doyenne originally from Algiers, Louisiana, who got her first guitar as a Christmas present when she was seven. I love his playing, but this is ridiculous. no luther and no jimi joints either.. what about page, yardbirds. From North Carolina, Fuller (real name Fulton Allen) was an exponent of Piedmont blues, a US east coast style defined by guitar finger-picking that was influenced by the jaunty rhythms of ragtime music. Im glad to see both old and new records on the list, but one of my all-time favorite is missing; Walter Trout. Jesus just left Chicago???? Other delights include the chugging How Many Years, the boogie-style Baby How Long, and the plaintive Forty Four driven by a ramshackle rhythm section. Minneapolis isnt considered a blues metropolis even though it lies on the mighty Mississippi River. Even people who love the blues can manage to leave Willie Dixon off this list. She cut a slew of memorable 78-rpm singles that included the chart-topping, Down Hearted Blues featuring just piano accompaniment from 1923, which is one of the numerous highlights of a 2-CD retrospective that stands as a monument to Smiths remarkable legacy. guess they assume its soul or r and b, but his early stuff was straight blues. Musical support comes from James Harmonica Smith and saxophonist Bill Potter, who light up Little Red Rooster, the slow-burning Rock Me Baby and Ball N Chain. The set ends with a rousing gospel number: Edwin Hawkins Oh Happy Day. Where is Fathers and Sons ? All essential. Chicago: the Blues Today, volume with Johnny Young, Johnny Shines, Big Walter Fine list anyway! I thought that is what the blues is all about.Thanks! Hurt possessed a distinctive singing voice: a light, airy, high tenor, which he underpinned with a delicate but rhythmically fluent fingerstyle guitar accompaniment. The album tapped into Moores blues roots and contained two ace covers: Chicago bluesman Jimmy Rogers Walking By Myself and Johnny Guitar Watsons Too Tired, featuring a guitar cameo from Albert Collins. This was the 10th album by the band, but it was really the first time they saw major mainstream success. This album was the fledgling groups rush-released second studio LP, helmed by Blue Horizon boss, Mike Vernon. Joe Bonamassa Sloe Gin. The album includes reworkings of Walkers late 40s Top 10 Us R&B hits, Call It Stormy Monday and T-Bone Shuffle.. Community. And how the hell did you not include Jimmy Pages work with Led Zeppelin? A long-time fan of bluesman Howlin Wolf, Hemphill wrote the albums title song by imagining herself as a female version of the lupine blues legend. I am going to listen to them, but as a Belgian I would like to say you might want to check out The Zoots live at The Bannana Peel. Neil Youngs soundtrack for Dead Man The title track from this, Harpos second album for Ernie Youngs Excello label, topped the R&B charts in 1966 but it was also significant for including the hypnotic, eminently danceable Shake Your Hips, covered by the Stones on their 1972 LP, Exile On Main Street, and the gentle, country-style ballad, Rainin In My Heart, which was a Top 20 US R&B smash. Under the name Elmo James, he scored a Top 10 R&B hit with a searing cover of Johnsons Dust My Broom for the Trumpet label in 1952. I could not leave out these ass kickin`records that represent the artists as their best: Live Gary Clark Jr. (2014). Live At The Regal is widely considered one of the best blues albums of all time and purportedly had a profound influence on British guitarists Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. lol about Joeso true. Robert Nighthawk The blues master recordings. The standouts range from the chugging instrumentals My Babe and Everythings Gonna Be Alright to nocturnal vocal ballads in the shape of the smoldering Last Night.. What? "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a recurring opinion survey and music ranking of the finest albums in history, compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone.It is based on weighted votes from selected musicians, critics, and industry figures. Best Albums. Thats news to me. Among the latter were tunes by Otis Rush (All Your Love), Freddy King (Hideaway) and Little Walter (It Aint Right). Cream were Cream, by no stretch of the imagination, can they be called a blues band. Superharps???? 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. Key Track: Shake Your Hips, From Riverton, Mississippi, Eddie Son House was one of the delta blues styles principal architects. Rock blues, straight blues, jazz blues etc. Electric flag long time coming The albums three original songs (all penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, who would become the Stones principal tunesmiths) revealed how blues DNA was shaping the bands approach to songwriting. Peter greens playing on it sublime. Its near impossible to get all of them, but you need to take the classic rock bands off and replace them with real blues players like the ones listed above. Genres. Lester Butler was a harp blowin maniac! Key Track: Two Bugs In A Rug. This 11-track collection was Burnsides penultimate long-player, recorded when he was 74. Between 1952 and 1959, he was a ubiquitous figure in the US R&B charts, racking up fifteen hit singles. Theres no debating this fact. George Thoroughgood? Influenced by Blind Boy Fuller and mentored by the Reverend Gary Davis, he made his first record, a single called Catfish Blues, in 1966. On this, an epic five-LP final album recorded a year before his death at age 64, Broonzy not only performed some of his signature tunes with guitar accompaniment including Key To The Highway and South Bound Train but also talked at length about his life. The songs names are surrounded by . I like Leslie West. Give him a listen. Your list of 100 best blues albums and artists, not to be critical but to reflect with broader objectivity should state; A list of highly popular 100 Top Blues Albums and Artists but stretches your categorization listed here is it representative of broad objective empiricism because over many years of personal familiarity with Radio Broadcaster personal associations by myself and thousand s of other blues affection adios, your list has excluded a great many of other albums and groups or artists that have poled as greats unsurpassed statistically and by professionals and listeners over the generations. What about all the albums He produced on the Blue Sky label performing with Muddy Waters? Excellent list, though I would have left a Various Artists field opened for CHICAGO! The first photo shows RAYE holding a notepad, with the tracklist written on it in gold pen. His first major records, The Fat Man, was a revamping of Champion Jack Duprees Junkers Blues. Great Lp. Most of the material is self-penned though Allison also stamps his authority on Willie Dixons Easy Baby and Roosevelt Sykes Driving Wheel. Montgomery shared the vocals with Elaine McFarland. there were probably about 20 people there, and each time after it became more and more crowded ,not because we were awakened to the music by Elvis,Mick and Keith , and Clapton No Percy Mayfield? Seriously, great choice! Typical North American rubbish. Backed by an ace band (which includes pianist Otis Spann and blues legend Muddy Waters), Smith breezes through eleven Little Walter tunes while putting his own indelible spin on them. No Champion Jack Dupree? A fascinating history lesson for delta blues scholars. Lonnie Mack Wham The biggest was the No. Big Joe Turner, with Count Basie, Kansas City; on Pablo A clear contender among the best blues albums ever, Muddy Waters At Newport captured the man born McKinley Morganfield at Rhode Islands famous annual jazz festival. 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