Blues

[fuckin crazy]

Anyone else like the Blues ? Who? Genre?

Me ... I love Mississippi Delta Blues

Sime of my favorites :
John Lee Hooker (probebly one of my all time favorite guitar players)
Muddy Waters (another fav.)
Ledbelly
Little Walter
Big Bill Broonzy
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Bumble Bee Slim
and of course Robert Johnson


what about you ?

EDIT : oops , I almost left out Buddy Guy

[Bill 213]

Get some Robert Nighthawk and Sam Myers....really great stuff.

[hogg2500x]

How could you guys forget B.B. King!

The Thrill Is Gone....

[gilld1]

Son House andf Leadbelly are also great.  Muddy Waters' Folk Singer is my personal fave album.  It's acoustic and you can hear him keeping time by tapping his foot.  It is almost like he is sitting in your living room performing for you.  Go check out Clarksdale, Miss.  It's where alot of these guys were born and it's where the imfamous 61 and 49 crossroads are located.  There is a Blues Museum anda great place to stay called the Shack Up Inn.  They renovated old sharecropper shacks and people like the Allman Bros. have stayed there.  Very cool little town.

[fuckin crazy]

Son House andf Leadbelly are also great. Muddy Waters' Folk Singer is my personal fave album. It's acoustic and you can hear him keeping time by tapping his foot. It is almost like he is sitting in your living room performing for you. Go check out Clarksdale, Miss. It's where alot of these guys were born and it's where the imfamous 61 and 49 crossroads are located. There is a Blues Museum anda great place to stay called the Shack Up Inn. They renovated old sharecropper shacks and people like the Allman Bros. have stayed there. Very cool little town.

Yea I've heard of that . Someday (one of my fav. Muddy Waters tunes) I hope to visit there .

Somehow I left out Eric Clapton , Stevie Ray , and Robin Trower .

[Ellroy]

Can't go wrong with the blues. Everyone mentioned so far is great, but I'll add Lightnin' Hopkins, Taj Mahal, and Blind Willie Johnson (for his rendition of Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground, an incredibly haunting and beautiful song).

[vietnow138]

Anyone like Johnny Winter? I love his stuff. Other artists who werent mentioned and need to be are Howlin Wolf, Albert King, Freddie King, Charley Patton, and John Mayall.

[fuckin crazy]

Anyone like Johnny Winter? I love his stuff. Other artists who werent mentioned and need to be are Howlin Wolf, Albert King, Freddie King, Charley Patton, and John Mayall.

All good stuff . I especially like Johnny Winters cover of the Chuck Berry song 'Back in the USA' on Edgar Winter's White Trash -Road Work .

[freedom78]

Thought I'd give this one a bump, 'cause it ALL goes back to the blues.

Electric blues.  There's something about a note being bent on electric guitar, as if the tempo of the song is just too fast and the blues can't quite catch up.

SRV, of course (and the thing he did w/ Albert King especially)
Jimi's Blues album is great 
Buddy Guy (duh)
Joe Bonamassa (check out his cover of Zep's "Tea for One" on his album You & Me)

....many more, of course, that I'll have to think on.  I'm still very much exploring the blues (electric and otherwise).

[Padmasana]

Son House IS the blues. Once you've heard him, you know exactly where everyone else got their stuff from.