Members Trauma_Luna Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 my favorite blues ''band'' or well guitar player is Barney Kessel.. who also played jazz.. but what's yours?
Members Trauma_Luna Posted September 27, 2007 Author Members Posted September 27, 2007 Aerosmith is aerosmith blues? i thought they were rock n roll
Members Funkee1 Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 is aerosmith blues? i thought they were rock n roll Aerosmith = Blues based Rock and roll. I vote for a two way tie: Robert Cray band/ Robben Ford and the Thin Blue Line
Members DevilRaysFan Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Albert Collins and The Icebreakers is Number 1 for meAlbert King is Number two Number Three is a tie between Koko Taylor, Keb Mo, and Little Charlie and The Nightcats
Members Perfessor Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Barney Kessel was an awesome guitarist. He played the big band circuit, too. I liked Robert Lockwood Jr. who died here in Cleveland in March. He was the last of the Mississippi bluesmen and he played here weekly his last 10 years. His passing went almost unnoticed in the music business. I never saw a single national news bit about his passing!!
Members chunky-b Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Older ZZ-Top blues stuff...
Members woofenstein Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 I like Tommy Castro a bunch!
Members Thumper Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 SRV and Double Trouble +1
Members James Hart Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 current favorites.... Derek Trucks Bandhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBDkFcwmAuY Jim Weider more traditional favorites... Roy Buchanan Albert Collinshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvvf1R_vWo
Members JRoll Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Currently, I gotta agree with James Hart on the Derek Trucks Band. Just incredible. But I loves me some Freddie King.
Members Robin Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 The Paul Butterfield Blues BandOld ZZGovt. MuleRobben Ford
Members Westsailor Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Do the (original) Blues Brothers count?
Members flatcat Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 I like the Chicago stuff: Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Magic Sam. Wolf is my favorite, though. Just amazing stuff, Hubert Sumlin, those vocals...wow. A good book to read is Moanin' at Midnight, about Wolf. It's really interesting. A real portrait of a bygone world of playing music and making records and all. Wolf contributed to Social Security to the members of his band; he was one of the very, very few blues/rock guys who did. He was able to get himself a nice house and live reasonably well from what he made performing. You can't do that any more, at least not where I live. Really interesting stuff. I highly recommend it.
Members basshunter Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Always been a Muddy Waters fan. I like the ealry Robert Cray Band, pre-Strong Persuader. HUGE Taj Mahal fan. The Bloomfield/Cooper/Stills Super Sessions album is killer. {censored}, I just digs me the blues.
Members catphish Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 I like the Chicago stuff: Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Magic Sam. Check out Melvin Taylor
Members chunky-b Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 If any of you like the Mississippi Blues, which has a connection to the Chicago Blues, checkout the movie "Last of the Mississippi Jukes"... It is a good story of the people tryin to keep the old blues alive and the roads it has gone down to get here...
Members sludgebass69 Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Robert Johnson SRV Muddy Waters
Members davis1 Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Someone said Derek Trucks' Band +100
Members DevilRaysFan Posted September 27, 2007 Members Posted September 27, 2007 Do the (original) Blues Brothers count? Depends who you ask-- If you ask me? No - they were a Stax/Volt Memphis-ish-style R&B band
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