The Blues!!! - Page 4

arjanvvliet · #91 05-06-2011, 08:39 AM

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Stackabones · #92 05-06-2011, 09:00 AM

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mangotango · #93 05-06-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by rayme330

Are you guys familiar with my current favourite Roy Rogers, great slide and on a 12 string as well!!!

YouTube - ‪Roy Rogers (slide guitar) - Walkin Blues‬&rlm;

Yep, saw him supporting Jools Holland' Big Band at hackney Empire a few years back - killer trio. Next day they were playing at the HMV in Oxford Street promoting the albums. Went doen there and got him to sign my copy of his instruction video. Nice guy.

Yes, I play blues occasionally. Strat into a Vox modelling amp (cranked Bassman model), plus an old SG/Melody Maker with a P90 set up in Open G for slide (cranked AC15 model).

Used to have a 1978 ES335 in walnut, BB King stylee. One of those that got away through various circumstances. How I wish I'd never sold that guitar!!

gpower · #94 06-22-2011, 08:34 AM

There are a ton of really great Blues guitarists out there and we could name them all day just to scratch the surface.

If you don't know of it, I'd recommend any Blues fan subscribe to Blues Revue

I think it's the most informative mag dedicated to Blues music available. Every second issue comes with a sampler cd, as well. I've discovered some great music I wouldn't have otherwise known about via the samplers.

On the name topic, here's a few you should check out:

Colin James
Matt Schofield
Ronnie Earl
Matt Anderson

Hope you enjoy!

jster · #95 07-19-2011, 07:46 PM

Does anybody know what the relationship is between the slave spirituals and the blues? Are the spirituals I IV V?

Billnc · #96 07-20-2011, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by C.A.JO.

Something in the vein of this thread...

Do any of you guys ever play blues live, in a band?

I do... And to me there aren't many sounds that beat a Les Paul through an overdriven Fender amp!!!

Thousands of gigs, all on bass though, preferably fretless. Quite a few festivals, and in the 90's played a few juke joints, most notably Frank Frost's in Helena AK where I had the pleasure to play with the likes of Ronnie Earl, Frank Frost, Sam Carr, Willie Lomax, Sam Meyers, Robbie Eason, Big Bad Smitty etc. In conjunction with the Helena Blues Festival.
I prefer to stretch out more now, I've gotten all I feel I can from the genre artistically after all these years. But the blues has been VERY kind to me, so I give back to that community.

AlohaJoe · #97 08-10-2011, 04:06 AM

I just got back on Sunday from the Acoustic Blues Festival and Workshop in Port Townsend WA. What a great week of roots blues! Jamming with Phil Wiggins, Guy Davis, Jerron Paxton, Sunpie Barnes and many more. Taj Mahal put on a great show and there was some Boogie-woogie piano goin' on there that gave you happy feet in a big way.

Doing the Workshop/Festival in a small, beautiful Victorian seaport with great weather (that week) made it even that much better. This was the 6th year we've gone and it just gets better each time.

mrblues · #98 10-05-2011, 01:08 PM

Long live to the Blues!

check this out:

"Cold, Cold" - Larry Carlton and Robben Ford - YouTube

anflecher · #99 12-07-2011, 01:33 PM

I think it is the most informative mag dedicated to Blues music available every where. Same band with Freddie Green on guitar. The coolest thing is to feel the cumulative effect of earlier blues listening. It feels a very good when u listen.

jmstritt · #**100** 12-07-2011, 02:33 PM

I'm in Houston, and this part of the Gulf Coast has a very distinctive blues sound formed by guys like Lightning Hopkins, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Albert Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson, and then later on Johnny Winter.

AlsoRan · #**101** 12-07-2011, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by jmstritt

I'm in Houston, and this part of the Gulf Coast has a very distinctive blues sound formed by guys like Lightning Hopkins, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Albert Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson, and then later on Johnny Winter.

Thank you, JM, for mentioning the "Iceman," Albert Collins.

I love the distincitive biting sound of his Telecaster and that almost machine-precision vibrato.

Great Thread! For me its Albert King, Albert Collins, Otis Rush, T-Bone Walker, and that crazy and politicallly incorrect Muddy Waters!

jmstritt · #**102** 12-08-2011, 04:48 PM

Otis Rush is another one, hard to believe he hasn't been mentioned yet!

But yeah, Albert Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson, that's what I'm talking about Blues wise.

kznkax789 · #**103** 12-12-2011, 02:27 AM

It can only make for a blues more subtle.

cosmic gumbo · #**104** 12-12-2011, 02:53 PM

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Turtlejimmy · #**105** 01-09-2012, 10:39 PM

I'm very glad to join this thread ..... I live for the blues. I play a Fender Strat and simulate a jazz guitar sound on that, as I'm learning jazz (why I'm here).

For me, there's one guy, he's my favorite, I'm a devoted fan with an extensive collection of his music. He IS the blues and was there from the start, building it.

Buddy Guy

I also really love all of Duane Allman's work, from the bluesy southern rock with the Allman Brothers Band and all the session work he did with blues artists. And Eric Clapton and other British blues guitarists. Also, the two guys on Fleetwood Mac's very first album.

Turtle