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Jeez, Mississippi Fred McDowell. When Blues is Blues it is spooky.
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02-18-2020 05:16 AM
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there are a lot of jazz-blues that stays in the spirit of the blues. Someone brought Herb Ellis' record, Starring Stan Getz and Roy Eldrige, it's one of Getz's best
Getz's counter-sing at 4:10 then solo at 4:45
there is obviously Mingus, and so much free jazz or its heritage
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BB King + the Count Basie Orchestra. BB's voice so absolutely glorious. And it's like God's Orchestra supporting him.
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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I still try and play a bit of slide occasionally, it’s such a great expressive sound, but I’m not very good at it!
Here’s one of the famous examples.
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Remember when the blues was cool enough to be used in TV ads?
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Clarence Gatemouth Brown is one of my favourites, you get a bit of everything when he plays!
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young Van Morrison
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Originally Posted by TOMMO
Later still, I ordered cassettes from a guy in Virginia who was taping from old albums, mostly out of print. I got my first Bob Wills recordings that way. (My uncle Tommy had them on 78s and sometimes he would play them for me.)
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Originally Posted by joelf
Mike Bloomfield: "Between a Hard Place and the Ground"
Rev. Gary Davis Jr: Live at Newport
Blues Project: Live at the Cafe Au GoGo
Jimmy Reed: I had a couple of singles collections, I think one was called the Best of Jimmy Reed
Otis Rush: So Many Roads Live in Japan
Albert King: King of the Blues Guitar
Freddie King: Let's Hide Away and Dance with Freddie King
Hot Tuna: the first live album, and Burgers
Lightin Hopkins: The Best of Lightnin Hopkins
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: The first album, and East/West
Derek and the Dominoes: Layla
Robert Johnson: Kind for the Delta Blues Singers
I was fortunate to have gotten into blues when there was still a pretty vibrant live blues scene in NY, and was able to see a lot of great people live just at the point when I was trying to learn this music. I also had a few lessons with Danny Kalb (of the Blues Project) in high school, and he showed me a lot of stuff and got me singing, which is really the key to playing the blues.
John
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All my favorite jazz knows the blues. I can hear it pretty quickly. Great idea for a thread.
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This is one of my favorite records, blues or not. The bridge is unusual.
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Another one from Taj Mahal, totally different vibe.
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Can't say I have heard him mentioned hereabouts , although not a guitar player. I love Junior Mance his albums are a great place to dig into blues ideas
Will
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My favorite song from the first Taj Mahal album I got as a teenager. (That's the original cover pictured in the video.)
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How about this one? Joseph Spence!... i mean, if Monk was a Blues player..
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02-18-2020, 07:19 PM #119joelf GuestOriginally Posted by John A.
Albert King: Years Gone By
Paul Butterfield: The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw; In My Own Dream
Mike Bloomfield: It Ain't Killin' Me
Jesse Fuller: (Anything)
*Did anyone have this collection LP with a lot of mostly Chicago artists? Can't remember the name for the life of me, but it had an astounding moment in the middle of----I think---a Lowell Fulsom cut. Someone shouts out, music playing, 'Heil Hitler!'. Bizarre. Guess it was someone's idea of a joke?
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02-18-2020, 07:25 PM #120joelf GuestOriginally Posted by MarkRhodes
'She caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride...'
Takes me back to when, in about '68, ca, Jonathan Schwartz was a rock DJ on WNEW FM. He played Taj a lot. I used to lie on the floor in front of the family Magnivox entertainment center for 8 hours at a time, spellbound.
Any wonder I turned out like this? (Insert stick figure of nut job here)...
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For guys my age, this was influential eye opening affirmation of the power and validity of contemporary electric interpretations of the country blues. Post Cream, pre SRV. Allmans owned it.
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Deep Lightnin' Hopkins.
Muddy w/ James Cotton. Wish I knew the rest of the group, but they are stellar no doubt.
Can't forget Freddie
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Originally Posted by arielcee
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Different forms of country blues
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
Interesting to compare their "You Don't Love Me" with the earliest one. (Which I also like, don't get me wrong.) Between the two was the version by Junior Wells (1965). The Allmans were more influenced by this version than by the Willie Cobbs version. But b/w the Wells version and the Allman Bros version you can hear how much the rhythm section adds. (That's Buddy Guy playing guitar with Junior Wells and it's interesting to compare how he plays the main riff with how the Allmans do it.)
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