View Full Version : Are you into the "Blues"?
I like the blues... all kinds of blues but I'm partial to recordings after the mid '60s.
Can ya turn me onto some Blues?
Tell me what you listen to.
I need input.
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Cheech
06-13-2007, 4:22 PM
Blues is the base of sooo much modern music we listen to...
B.B. King,
Jeff beck ,
Stevie Ray Vaughn,
Johnny Otis,
Buddy guy,
Robert johnson,
Johny Winter,
Eric Clapton,
Johnny Lang,
from there, you can listen to pretty much anything that came from 60 rock to modern day... Jimmy hendrix, pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, White Stripes,
etc. etc./
Nolapete
06-13-2007, 4:26 PM
:iagree:
Add
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (http://www.kennywayneshepherd.net/)
captaincaveman9
06-13-2007, 4:46 PM
to quote a blues artist "Da blues ait nuttin but da truth, da blues aint nuttin but a good man at a bad time"
I love the blues
Squawkbert
06-13-2007, 5:12 PM
Adding to the above... (a few names from my Ipod)
John Lee Hooker
Albert King
Sonny Boy Williamson (I, II, III)
Jimmy Reed
Elmore James
Little Walter
Bessie Smith
Big Bill Broonzy
Bobby Blue Bland
Son House
Son Thomas
Junior Kimbrough
James Cotton
Muddy Waters
Howlin' Wolf
Jimmy Rushing
Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightrnin' Slim
Slim Harpo
Leadbelly
Mose Allison
Mississippi John Hurt
Taj Mahal
Otis Spann
If you want more names, check the blues shows at KDHX.org, web home of the Best Blues radio programs anywhere, period. Sunday evening shows and M, Thu, Fri 4-6PM shows are all very strong.
Nolapete
06-13-2007, 5:13 PM
Nina Simone
Nolapete
06-13-2007, 5:16 PM
Oh, and of course...Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues...the Blues Brothers!
Rubber Biscuit
Bow bow bow...
(um, do that again)
Bow bow bow...
Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? a wish sandwich is the kind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you, hee hee hee, wish you had some meat...
Bow bow bow...
Ummm... the other day I had a ricochet biscuit. a ricochet biscuit is the kind of a biscuit thats supposed to bounce back off the wall into your mouth. if it dont bounce back... you go hungry!
Bow bow bow...
Umm, umm, umm... the other day I had a cool water sandwich and a sunday-go-to-meetin bun...
Bow bow bow...
Hee hee hee hee... what da ya want for nothing? ... a rubber biscuit?
Bow bow bow...
redswi
06-13-2007, 9:49 PM
How can you list all these great artists and forget Etta James, and Koko Taylor????
Mgamer20o0
06-13-2007, 10:45 PM
oh blues.... not blueiz
electromen
06-14-2007, 12:59 AM
My biggest influences are:
Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Eric Johnson
Kenny Wayne Shephard Band
BB King
Buddy Guy
Johnny Copeland
I lot of my solo's are based off of studying blues guitarist. I've also been in many blues bands in the past. There just so fun.
Squawkbert
06-14-2007, 8:23 AM
How can you list all these great artists and forget Etta James, and Koko Taylor????
Other greats of the female persuasion:
Erma Thomas
Billie Holiday
Ruth Brown
Will eventually be known as a great:
Shemeka Copeland
The Asylum Street Spankers (Yes, the same group heard doing comic songs on the Bob and Tom show) have a couple of really nice blues tunes out too.
crazytrain
06-16-2007, 11:19 AM
Ahh, quite frankly, I love them too.
B.B. King
Chuck Berry
The Doors
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix (somewhat blues)
The Rolling Stones (Who doesn't have them?