Any leftist blues fans?

[Gitfiddle Jim]

I've always loved the blues, are there any other fans here?

[Red_or_Dead]

Yeah, I like some blues, my favourite would be Rory Gallagher (R.I.P) and some Led Zep (tho I think that much of their songs are just plain boring, no matter how good of a guitarist Page is).

Also, I like the early rock n roll, artists like Buddy Holly, who still had a pretty strong blues influence.

[Gitfiddle Jim]

Yeah, I like some blues, my favourite would be Rory Gallagher (R.I.P) and some Led Zep (tho I think that much of their songs are just plain boring, no matter how good of a guitarist Page is).

Also, I like the early rock n roll, artists like Buddy Holly, who still had a pretty strong blues influence.

Yeah, I feel the same about Zepp, some of their songs do drag on a bit. Love a lot of Rory's stuff too, really underrated IMO.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Yeah, I like some early blues and early Chicago blues - but I can't stand the later 70 and on Chicago blues (B.B. King and wanky-guitar stuff). I love the era right before rock and roll: Mississippi Fred MacDowell, and Bo Diddley and so on.

I also like the modern stuff on Fat Possum Records. There's Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside and his electric-delta blues and then there's young people doing rock-blues like the Black Keys (who you may have heard) and Deadboy and the Elephantmen (who sound like Lou Reed backed by the Stooges... http://www.myspace.com/deadboytheelephantmen).

[Sleeping Dog]

I've always been a blues fan. I don't believe I've any of what you are terming "modern blues" but my stuff goes waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back! Check out http://www.redhotjazz.com/bands.html you can get real blues from there.

[Mujer Libre]

Oh yes. Zeppelin, the Black Keys, Buddy Guy, The Yardbirds are all among my favourite bands.

And any blues-influenced music. Yum.

[Pirate Utopian]

I love blues, especially electric blues, blues rock and delta-blues.
Robert Johnson FTW!

[Jazzratt]

Howlin' Wolf is a fucking deity.

Tom Waits is also acceptable.

[Gitfiddle Jim]

Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, Son House, Fred McDowell, Blind Willie McTell and RL Burnside have gotta be my favourites, simply awesome.

[Sleeping Dog]

Sooooooooo many Billie Pete outa Texas proved a white boy can play the blues but Led Zeppelin?

Any but else got some U.P. Wilson?

[Pirate Utopian]

As for blues of today, I like The White Stripes and Seasick Steve.

[Sleeping Dog]

K look what I just found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRDi67G0Siw Nifty but Blues?

[Pirate Utopian]

Seven Nation Army and basically the intire Elephant album is blues rock. It's also their best album.

[More Fire for the People]

I like blues hip hop and older blues.

[Marsella]

Albert King
B.B. King
Barry Goldberg
Buddy Guy
Junior Wells
Eric Clapton
Electric Flag
Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green era only)
Gary Moore
Howlin Wolf
John Lee Hooker
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
Magic Sam
Mike Bloomfield
Muddy Waters
Paul Butterfield
Robben Ford
Rory Gallagher
Robert Johnson
Son House
Stevie Ray Vaughan
T-Bone Walker

Other 'kinda' Bluesy artists:
Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
Led Zep
Wes Montgomery
Kenny Burrell
Jeff Beck.



Oh yes. Zeppelin, the Black Keys, Buddy Guy, The Yardbirds are all among my favourite bands.

I'm going to a Buddy Guy concert. :P

You should see this (if you haven't already) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix4TNJvVk8M

Haven't heard much Yardbirds *goes to dl torrents*

My favourite is probably Michael Bloomfield...maybe Pete Green or Buddy Guy. It changes every time I hear em play. :drool:

[Mujer Libre]

I'm going to a Buddy Guy concert. :P
I wanted to go, but Unimelb is making me go on a rural rotation. Boo!

[Red October]

I love the Blues, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and John Hurt are my favorite. Right now I'm writing a paper on race, class, and the development of the Blues which I'll post when I'm finished.

[Marsella]

I love the Blues, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and John Hurt are my favorite. Right now I'm writing a paper on race, class, and the development of the Blues which I'll post when I'm finished.

You should check out that documentary Chicago Blues (Harley Cokliss, 1972).

[ArabRASH]

YES!!!

Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, JIMI HENDRIX, oh oh STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN!!

Led zep isn't really blues but they rock.

[Rage Against Right]

Larry Carlton does some great blues stuff, real classy and some old zappa and steely dan blues eg. pretzel logic.

"Tom Waits is also acceptable." Tom Waits is turd, end of story. lol

[Gitfiddle Jim]

I love the Blues, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and John Hurt are my favorite. Right now I'm writing a paper on race, class, and the development of the Blues which I'll post when I'm finished.

Sounds good. I did something similar for school last year, shall be interesting to see what you put.

[bayano]

wow, people forgot lightnin hopkins, and all of the women, including ma rainey, etta james, koko taylor, bessie smith, billie holiday, ummm, who else? memphis minnie. and i grew up on lee dorsey tho no one ever knows what to call his stuff and its admittedly not straight blues. love the blues.

im always lookin for the political songs, tho, which can be hard to find.

like there are a number of different songs called "hard times" (not all of which are blues, as ray charles and curtis mayfield had great songs with that name). the most famous is probably leadbelly's 'bourgeois blues', and there are some ones about the 'neighbors blues' i always loved. hooker's got the 'house rent boogie' and 'no shoes'

a lot of blues songs are about being broke and poor, troubles as a rural worker (and often sharecropper).

i once heard buddy guy play one about a sharecropper who was fed up with his rural boss, saying first that he was gonna either steal or wreck the farming tools, and then move to the city, but ive never found the name of that song.

and as frustrating as it is that there are a lot that promote violence against women, im always looking for ones that promote violence against bosses.

incidentally, angela davis has a book about female blues singers, and amiri baraka has a book under his name leroi jones about the blues.

[Ol' Dirty]

I like the blues. I got to see B.B. in concert a while back. He's up ther in years, but he's still really good.

[Gitfiddle Jim]

I like the blues. I got to see B.B. in concert a while back. He's up ther in years, but he's still really good.

Yeah he's still fantastic live, despite him getting on a bit.