Please Help Me Find Amazing Blues Albums/Recordings/Players

[jamiehenderson1993]

Hi everyone,
I hope this is ok to post - I really want some help finding great music!

I'm going to do a separate post for jazz-blues (LINK HERE).

I'm hoping people are happy to share their favourite Blues Albums/Recordings/Players that someone new to the genre MUST check out. I'm looking for stuff that not only sounds great, but also has incredible, tasteful playing on it. Not Jazz-Blues if possible please. The other thread for that please

(If this has been posted in the wrong category, please move it to the right place please).

but I'm hoping to hear from people who can make some excellent suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

[Jimmy blue note]

Skip James Devil Got My Woman Changed my life
Son House. Death Letter
Bukka White.

This is the blues uncut and when I was looking for the roots, these were the ones that taught me It's ALL in the phrasing.
It may take a while to make the connection, but when you do, you'll get a big picture. I learned blues from a grave digger named John Jackson. I learned indescribable things about blues that continue to inform my ideas of jazz today.

[RJVB]

You can do a lot worse than checking out Doug Macleod if you ask me.

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

Several threads already. Use Advanced Search here or "site:jazzguitar.be/forum" at Google (or better Startpage).

[supersoul]

Charley Patton

[Bobby Timmons]

I'm so tired of cryin
I'm on the road again
I ain't got no woman
Just to call my special friend

[Jimmy blue note]

Blues recording labels to check out:
1. Chess
2. Alligator
3. Cobra
4. Fat Possum
5. Blind Pig

Acoustic/Slide:
1. Robert Johnson
2. Tampa Red
3. Blind Boy Fuller
4. Bukka White
5. Bind Willie Mctell

Chicago First Generation:
1. Elmore James
2. Howlin’ Wolf
3. Muddy Waters
4. Little Walter
5. Willie Dixon

Chicago Second Generation:
1. Magic Sam
2. Hound Dog Taylor
3. Otis Rush
4. Buddy Guy
5. Junior Wells

Texas/Louisiana/Gulf:
1. Lightnin’ Hopkins
2. Clarence Gatemouth Brown
3. Blind Lemon Jefferson
4. T-Bone Walker
5. Jimmie Vaughan

West Coast:
1. Charlie Baty
2. Charles Brown
3. Big Mama Thornton
4. Pee Wee Crayton
5. Lowell Fulson

Miscellaneous:
1. Lonnie Johnson
2. B.B. King
3. Freddie King
4. Albert Collins
5. John Hammond Jr.

GREAT LISTS!
Hey Yazoo records is also a great old school label
Charlie Patton is a serious daddy of old blues.
Big Bill Broonzy, Albert King, and gotta say, I love John Fahey.

[John A.]

B.B. King - Live at the Regal
Muddy Waters - Fathers and Sons
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues
Louis Jordan - any of the compilation albums
T-Bone Walker - any of the compilations
Robben Ford - the first Blue Line album
John Mayall - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (the “Beano” album)
Paul Butterfield - either the first one or East/West
Otis Rush - So Many Roads, or one of the Cobra compilations
Reverend Gary Davis Jr. - Live at Newport
Mississippi John Hurt - Worried Blues (or anything else)
Chris Cain - Chris Cain
Broke, Black, and Blue (boxes set of early blues recordings)

[Bobby Timmons]

Tears burning me
Way down in my heart mofos

[Rolf Field]

Couldn't agree more with this list. Missed some though.
- Big Bill Broonzy
- Eric Bibb
- John Lee Hooker (Boogy)
- Albert Collins

To OP: I guess the list can be endless. Explore Spotify. By listening to an album, Spotify does suggestions for other ones. Sometimes it's great to discover some new things to you, sometimes it really s***s.

[ruger9]

Here's my favorites list:

BB King
Freddie King
Albert Collins
Stevie Ray Vaughan
T-Bone Walker (he does have some jazzy in his playing, but he's blues)
Tab Benoit (especially older stuff, before 2011's "Medicine" album)

I won't recommend albums, because any album by any of those people are awesome.

I'm also a Bonnie Raitt fan, but there's less "blues playing" on her records than you would think, unless you're listening specifically for her slide work.

[RJVB]

Here's an up-and-coming young old soul:
Arnaud Fradin & His Roots combo
(great harmonica player too!)