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Blues artists pick out some of their favs..... https://alanpaul.substack.com/p/essential-blues-albums-picked-by?r=fls&s=w
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Blues artists pick out some of their favs..... https://alanpaul.substack.com/p/essential-blues-albums-picked-by?r=fls&s=w
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Interesting. Picks to learn
Interesting. Picks to learn from.
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I have several of those
I have several of those albums, but none of the collections... fun read though
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Good beginners lists for sure
Good beginners lists for sure. Blues 101
I have em all and then some.
Thanks for mentioning Rice Miller, Warren,, as usual you da man.
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Backroads Blues fest in
Backroads Blues fest in Buffalo has free general admission tickets on Ticketmaster at the Artpark... Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd
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Wasn't me Raz, just passing
Wasn't me Raz, just passing along an interesting link someone waaaaay smarter than I compiled.
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Glad you did, just letting
So glad you did, just letting folks know those lists are just the tip of the blues iceberg. There's so much more, so many more lessons to be learned.
Blues - the real American Roots music.
To know the blues is to know life.
You youngsters on the list, pay heed and you'll be wise.
You old timers, if you don't know the blues, you've squandered.
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Buddy Guy & Junior Wells -
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - drinking TNT, smoking dynamite
RL Burnside - a ass pocket of whiskey
albert king & Stevie ray - in session
Luther Allison - it's gonna be a live one in here tonight
Roy Buchanan - live stock
Willie Dixon - I am the blues
John Lee hooker - never get out of these blues alive
rory Gallagher - tattoo
The paul butterfield blues band - s/t
and every word Jimmie Rodgers ever wrote
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Lots of good stuff here, but
Lots of good stuff here, but there's a real lack of women represented on these lists--there's only Koko Taylor as part of the Little Walter youtube, and Bonnie as part of Delaney and Bonnie selection--and of course no women got to share their essentials.
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A reasonable point Mike
A reasonable point Mike
big mama absolutely killing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53jcs3EYwg
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Memphis Minnie and Libba
Memphis Minnie and Libba Cotten
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Mamie Smith
"Don't Care Blues"
https://youtu.be/C0u8ZQ1iT8o
"It's Right Here For You"
https://youtu.be/X_E_VQww0RQ
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Charley Patton - Spoonful
Charley Patton - Spoonful Blues 1929
https://youtu.be/EyIquE0izAg
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Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's
Peetie Wheatstraw - Devil's Son-In-Law
https://youtu.be/F5Ac24bdUFM
Police Station Blues
https://youtu.be/7RbyxfFxebc
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Blind Willie McTell -
Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues
https://youtu.be/fnWxZtI3ONY
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Wang Dang Doodle - Koko
Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor w Little Walter
https://youtu.be/qyUHkY0K8HE
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Buddy Guy on His Incredible
Buddy Guy on His Incredible Life Story and The Future of Blues
https://youtu.be/KLrQ8oYPwtU
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Great thread guys!
Great thread guys!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNZm9KXm8w Blind Willie McTell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcaRwlDdhao Delta Blues A lot of it. 00:00 - I Be's Troubled – Muddy Waters 03:05 - Cross Road Blues – Robert Johnson 05:38 - I'm a Guitar King - Tommy McClennan 08:28 - Sitting On Top of the World – The Mississippi Sheiks 11:33 - Fare Thee Well – Joe Callicott 14:44 - Devil Got My Woman – Skip James 17:44 - Little Girl In Rome – Otto Virgial 20:23 - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Sonny Boy Williamson 23:25 - Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams 26:49 - Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt 29:53 - Cottonfield Blues - Garfield Akers 32 :48 - Labor Blues - Tom Dickinson 35:49 - Falling Down Blues - Robert Wilkins 38:28 - Don't You Want to Know - The Delta Boys 41:38 - New Stock Yard Blues - Tim Wilkins 44:36 - Easin' Back to Tennessee - Sleepy John Estes 47:18 - Shake' Em On Down - Bukka White 50:21 - Got the blues - Mississippi John Hurt 53:13 - Come on in my kitchen - Robert Johnson 56:04 - Pretty baby blues - Bukka White 58:39 - Packing trunk blues - Lead Belly 01:01:34 - So lonesome - Ramblin Thomas 01:04:19 - Whiskey and women - Black Ace 01:07:35 - Bye bye bird - Sonny Boy Williamson 01:10:34 - Going through the bushes - Robert Pete Williams 01:14:06 - Magnolia blues - Charley Patton 01:17:13 - Future blues - Willie Brown 01:20:12 - Detroit blues - Tampa Red 01:23:36 - New York city - Lead Belly 01:26:42 - Joe Kirby - Charley Patton 01:29:52 - Stop breaking down - Sonny Boy Williamson 01:32:49 - Parchman farm blues - Bukka White 01:35:33 - Walking blues - Son House 01:38:33 - Jail House blues - Sam Collins 01:41:05 - Whose Muddy shoes - Elmore James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2prKnYnI&list=PLC9FB2AC82FFC8DF7 BB