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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2013 8:56:12 GMT -5
What are some great Blues groups that have established a "distinctive" style?
The first one I think of is John mayall and the Bluesbreakers
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2013 12:13:41 GMT -5
CCCCCCRRRRRRREEEEEAAAAAAMMMMMMM and though some think they were not blues SMALLFACES/FACES/HUMBLE PIE !!! I ALSO LOVE MAGIC SLIM, GARY MOORE, GUITAR SHORTY, FREDDIE KING, ALBERT KING, LOS LOBOS, MINKEY JUNK, BLACK KEY;S ALABAMA SHAKES...... I PREFER THE BANDS I GREW UP WITH LIKE CREAM, STONES, THE BLUES BREAKERS, CCR, LED ZEP...so many bands back in the day were playing blues n like HERB said once I did not even know I was playing blues..... We all started with a blues song if ya look back....I wonder what it would have been like if I had been into more a a heavy metal sound Black Sabbath FIRST album to me was there BEST...but it was not blues, nor rock, it IMHO was like a fusion of rock n jazzzz that album is forever burnt into my mind. Oneof the BEST BLUES BANDS yet considered a rock band is the STONES N THER ALBUM BEGGARS BANQUET.... with the use of acoustic guityar n slide n such deep songs as SISTER MORPHINE, LOVE IN VAIN...FANTASTIC> ANOTHER album I LOVE is FACES A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK TO A BLIND HORSE..... it is this album that put me n Stratty STeve together....I think Steve Marriot was far ahead of his time and took such great blues songs n turned em into 15 minute rock songs..... LINK WRAY....... man to many to think of. I do think JOE COCKER is bypassed when it comes to theBLUES but is ans was a great vocalist and used it to create a vocal not heard since HOWLIN WOLF> My favorite JOE COKER song was WOMAN TO WOMAN. JAMES
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2013 12:18:42 GMT -5
I agree with Cream! Great group and they definitely set the bar for the British Blues to come.
How about Jimi Hendrix Experience. Although they might not be considered Blues by some purists, Jimi and the Experience definitely had a signature tone! I still believe Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) is one of the all time great music group performances of all time and most definitely has a definitive tone. Long Live the Wah pedal. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2013 14:39:57 GMT -5
I do love Hendrix BUT I DO NOT THINK HE WAS THAT GOOD A PLAYER,
HAVING SEEN HIM 3 TIMES( if ya count being 100+ yeard from the stage at woodstock) but Jimi was sloppy , a BAD singer and most of all though his studio work was good it wasnt GREAT except for BAND OF GYPSIES.
After leaving Little RIchard jimi had failed as a LEAD guitarist and could not get a job and was close to giving up tillhe went overseas. What Jimi was was the FIRST to do a lot of things he did...... but is buring your ax and beating it and baging it agaisnt a cabinet playing?
He was obsessed with ACID and on stage it showed....the band THE EXPERIENCE was NEVER EVER in sync. The biggest downfall was the amountof COVERS JIMI played.
In his LIVE sets he had more covers he played than originals. Wild Thing, Al lALong The Watch tower, Hey joe, Jonny B GOOD and the list goes on.
JIMI would change the song without the band knowing it..... Honestly seeing JIMI live was a thrill is in it;s own ways was a dissapointment.
DO NOT GET ME WRONG he was certainly talented but I think thattalent reallyonly showed in his latter days.... The rawness of the first albums was great..... and the ability to go from a a song like FIRE to CASTLES IN THE SAND, but in saying that EVERYONE:S FIRST album IS USUALLY oneof there best.
In the bio of Jimi even he saids I have reached a point that Ihave no idea where to take my music at this point,,,this was taken from an interview with in hislast 48 hours of life. IMO Jimi got caught up in the HYPE and the fact that everyone was coming to see him .....buthonestly if he was WHITE would he have attracted so many??? With guys like CLAPTON, TOWNSHEND and others I thnk the BIG SALE of JIMI was that he was Black
Still IMO his BEST album other than BAND OF GYPSIES was JIMI:S "BLUES"...... it shows him pplaying and doing what he did best. If he had been a strict blues player and stuck to his rottss training he would have had more success.
Today Jimi;s antics onstage would be NOTHING compared to that of say even a LOW LIFE of SID VISCIOUS,.
He was a great guitarist but IMO would have been much better ina 5 piece band as the guitar player not the singer, frontman.
Burning your ax IMO is not a musical piece..... itis a gimmick which even JIMI said he did for attention.
Jimi came around at the best time for him....... new gimmicks, pedals, effects and LOUD MUSIC had he tried to do the same in the 70;s he would have been just 1 of many guitarist who covered there sloppiness with stage showmanship.
Do not let my word make you think I do not like Hendrix....I just think if he was alive he would have faded as so many great artists did..... he himself admitted I am out if ideas.
JAMES
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Post by muddylives on Feb 4, 2013 1:51:45 GMT -5
For great blues bands, we should certainly mention The Aces. A few of the incarnations of the Muddy Waters band were also killer.
As for Hendrix, my attachment to him is also through the blues. I think that he was a truly great and highly original blues player. Voodoo Chile is a blues epoch that will never die.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2013 6:57:20 GMT -5
Not sure if we really consider the Memphis Jug Band as blues, but they certainly were instrumental in the development. Memphis Jug BandBiography
Formed 1927, in Memphis, TN. Disbanded 1935. A rollicking collection of street musicians led by the irrepressible Will Shade, the Memphis Jug Band dominated the town's blues culture in the 1930s with their jazzed-up version of country standards. Some of Memphis' most creative blues players shuffled in and out of Shade's group, among them harmonica maestro Walter Horton, mandolinist Charley Burse, slide guitar ace Will Weldon, jug popper and comic Charlie Polk and vocalist Hattie Hart. And always close at hand was kazoo man Ben Ramey, whose nattering instrument at times leavened--and other times marred--the group's fluid picking and singing. The group's almost-instant success among blues buyers in 1927 paved the way for similar jug groups led by Gus Cannon and Jack Kelly. The rolling "Memphis Jug-Blues" and "Sometimes I Think I Love You" set the pattern for the band's easy-paced, humorous efforts. Sweet-natured, romantic rags alternated with tough-minded tracks that played off the violent, comic nature of Memphis life. The most sardonic titles included "I Whipped My Woman with a Single-Tree" and "I Can Beat You Plenty"; their most enduring recording is "Stealing, Stealing," decades later a favorite in the jug band revival that swept through the folk community in the 1960s. The prolific band recorded nearly 70 songs for Victor and OKeh between 1927 and 1934, dropped only after their quaint country stylings fell out of favor with record buyers who preferred more urbane musicians such as Leroy Carr and Walter Davis. Undaunted, Will Shade kept putting together new versions of the Jug Band as late as the 1960s. Only his death in 1966 ended the long-running group. Source: MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide Jug bands were found in nearly every city in the South during the 1920s and '30s, but they were most popular and prolific in Memphis, Tennessee. The Memphis Jug Band was the first (and some consider the best) of many to record. Between 1927 and 1934, the group recorded close to 100 sides. Led by multi-instrumentalist Will Shade, the Memphis Jug Band performed at every conceivable type of venue: street corners, backwater juke joints, city nightclubs, political rallies, private parties at elegant homes and hotel ballrooms, openings of stores, medicine shows, and even on excursion trains and riverboats. Their repertoire had to include a wide range of styles in order to entertain all these different sorts of audiences, so they could and did play everything from the latest popular ragtime pieces to old-time waltzes and breakdowns, raucous bawdy blues songs, and humorous vaudeville routines. This seminal jug band went through numerous configurations during its seven years of recording; the consistent element was the band's organizer, Will Shade (who sometimes used the pseudonym "Sun Brimmer," a local name for a parasol, which "will shade"). The group stopped recording in 1934, but in 1956 Sam Charters recorded a recreation of the Memphis Jug Band with two of its original members, Shade and Charlie Burse, joined by Gus Cannon (of Cannon's Jug Stompers). comprehensive introduction to the good-time party music played by this genre-defining aggregation of Memphis's finest musicians and spans their entire recorded output from 1927 to 1934. It includes all their classics: their most well-known song, "Stealin," the achingly beautiful vocal harmonies of "K.C. Moan," Hattie Hart's down-home "Cocaine Habit," the raunchy duet "Cave Man Blues," and much, much more. The Memphis Jug Band provided a benchmark for all future jug bands, and this material shows why: an entertaining, danceable fusion of blues, pop music, and old-time music featuring a thundering jug in place of a bass, melodic kazoo and harmonica duets anchored by two thumping guitars, vocals that are by turns lighthearted, lewd, melancholy, and comical. It's a must-have for anyone interested in jug band music. Source: MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide Personnel: Charlie Burse, guitar, mandolin, vocals Jab Jones, piano, vocals, jug Charlie Pierce, violin Will Shade, harmonica, vocals Vol Stevens, mandolin, vocals Will Weldon, guitar, vocals Charlie Polk, vocals, jug Tewee Blackman, guitar Hattie Hart, vocals Charlie Nickerson, piano, vocals Ben Ramey, kazoo, vocals Milton Robie, violin Memphis Minnie, guitar, vocals Hambone Lewis, jug
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Jun 3, 2014 10:41:15 GMT -5
The Fieldstones played rough and tumble electric Memphis Blues with Soul and Rock influences.
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Post by garryfernand on Jun 11, 2014 7:10:42 GMT -5
I like to listen Sonny boy Williamson. I just love his blues. I think he earned his legacy by expanding the vocabulary of the harmonica in blues music. I have recently purchased a Sonny boy’s Bluesman Harmonica, which is perfect harp for beginners.
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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2014 8:44:18 GMT -5
Among my favorite groups - Howlin' Wolf - Featuring Hubert Sumlin on Guitar Paperback by Howlin' Wolf
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