Just went to a blues festival yesterday, and I'm really excited to talk about and listen to one of my favorite genres. Let's throw a blues party and share our favorite blues artists, songs, and albums. Everything blues is welcome here from the newer and accessible to the deeper, older stuff. I'll do my part to keep something on the juke box.
Big Blues Party
Matthew Roberts
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Leo Diaz
Let's start with a little Lightnin' Hopkins (pictured in my OP):
Carter Reed
And here's one rock fans might recognize:
Asher Brown
Here's another favorite of 60s rockers:
Kevin Hall
Now let's go way back to some authentic country blues.
Brayden Evans
I would recommend Mississippi John Hurt to anyone interested in older acoustic blues or folk music. His finger-picking style and gentle vocals are ever soothing and uniquely his own. Truly one of the greats.
Nolan Diaz
Back to the beginning with Charlie Patton:
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Levi Ross
MJH is awesome, but I don't really know of anyone else like him. Just started listening to Charlie Patton not too long ago. I'm definitely more interested in the old school country blues.
Nolan Long
Here, have a video of the great Doc Watson playing Columbus Stockade Blues in some random person's living room.
Caleb Lewis
i've never gotten blues music
am I too white?
Michael Morgan
You might not be white enough. I'm from northeast Tennessee and was born and raised in the mountains on traditional bluegrass. It was an easy transition into another form of roots music for me.
Brayden Richardson
>implying its a race thing
you might just be an idiot
Jayden Miller
oh shit nevermind i may be white but this is nice
James Edwards
Or I might just not like blues music fool
I was just joking of course it's not a race thing
Cool! I kinda like bluegrass actually, been listening to some compilations recently.
Julian Young
Don't know. I'm pretty damn white. How easily you can get into the blues really depends on what you listen to already. My exposure to the blues really started with blues inspired rock bands (a few examples below), and then I grew to prefer the real thing.
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Jason Bailey
Here, have some next level bluegrass on the house.
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Jonathan Allen
I think I might have just been listening to too much Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, been listening to songs posted ITT and really enjoyed them. Knew the Howlin' Wolf song already and it's always been amazing, thanks for those recs!
Cool will give this a listen :)
Joshua Rogers
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this man's voice is ridiculous af
Landon Moore
Yeah, I'm thinking you might like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins more, at least at first. Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters are great, but I also a hard time getting into them for a while, even though I already knew a lot of their songs through covers.
Hurt and Hopkins are considered "country blues" singers because they sing accompanied by a single guitar or sometimes limited accompaniment by drums and/or piano for Hopkins. The point is that it's not a full band like you get with the "Chicago blues." Country blues is more stripped down and rooted in old folk traditions, so it might be more to the taste of someone who likes bluegrass.
Leo Ward
If you want to hear something a little heavier, I would suggest Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, or John Lee Hooker.
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I'll also put in a plug here for Willie King, who's kind of a local legend in West Alabama. He died a few years back, but there's a festival held every year in his honor, which I went to yesterday. This is just good, raw electric blues.
Ryan Nguyen
seems appropriate to the thread title
Brandon Lee
That's awesome. Coincidentally, I've had this song stuck in my head lately.
Matthew Nguyen
Never really got into his world-music influenced music, but early Taj Mahal and some late songs really do it for me. He never seems to be brought up as much as the major blues guys.
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Same thing with Junior Kimbrough, seems to get overlooked a lot of the time. I love the dirty, droning sound he gets, plus the band behind him is always really tight.
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The Black Keys tribute album to him is worth a listen too,
Lincoln Williams
Had this stuck in my head for a long, long time. One of my favorite guitar performances.
Owen Lee
Buddy Guys "Mary had a little Lamb" at supershow is superb