You mean there is only 100 good blues albums out there? No John Hammond? Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 - 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist. Backed by a band with horns, King is in majestic form, serving up some of his most famous numbers, including his then-recent hit, The Thrill Is Gone, and a medley of his big 1950s R&B hits. It is an impossible task. I would have left out any rock or jazz cross-over artists (No Stones, no Clapton, no Allman Bros, No Cream, no SRV!! Not that I know of anyway. Key Track: Its Nobodys Fault But Mine, Paid tribute to by Bob Dylan (via his 1983 song, Blind Willie McTell) and covered by The Allman Brothers Band (Statesboro Blues), Georgia-born McTell recorded under several aliases, including Blind Sammy, Hot Shot Willie, and Barrelhouse Sammy. "Introduction." 2. Id also remove the Boogie with Canned Heat and replace it with Hooker & Heat.. Other standouts included Sen-Sa-Shun and San-Ho-Zay., Tons Of Sobs was British blues-rock quartet Frees debut album for Chris Blackwells Island label. Thank you for mentioning them! I bought it, of course, and we went back to my place and played it several times. I was happy to see Texas Flood made the list. Discover. Not having your favorite album making the top 100 Thats what the blues is all about! Give him a listen. The Blues Project any of their albums should have been included. Key Track: The Things That I Used To Do, The son of noted African American actor, Ossie Davis, native New Yorker Guy Davis has divided his life between music-making and acting (he appeared as Robert Johnson in an off-Broadway play about the singers life). I would have included Otis Spann LP-The biggest thing since Colossus.John Lee Hooker LP-Live at cafe au-go-go.Muddy Waters 2LP-Fathers and Sons.Earl Hooker LP-Hooker and Steve.Cheers to All. 21st Century Blues [Ecko] Album Information. King to Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton. Bout time someone mentioned Shuggie Otis. Though famed for its classic title cut (a superstitious ode co-written by Booker T. Jones of the famous Bluff City R&B quartet, Booker T & The MGs), Born Under A Bad Sign also included Kings smash singles Laundromat Blues, Cold Feet, and Crosscut Saw. The album would prove a touchstone for southern electric blues, influencing the likes of Otis Rush, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. John McVie. This double live album recorded at San Franciscos Fillmore West marked an inspired jam session between noted Chicago guitarist Bloomfield and Brooklyn organist, Kooper, who had just left Blood, Sweat & Tears. Is Awesome! He also contributed the albums killer cut, an intoxicating instrumental called Screamin.. For Blues Rockers: The albums three original songs (all penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, who would become the Stones principal tunesmiths) revealed how blues DNA was shaping the bands approach to songwriting. Hooker & Heat is one of the greatest blues records ever. Preposterous. I like to add Watermelon Slim and the Workers 2006 album and their The Wheel Man 2007 CD. Desolation and Groeten uit Grolloo by Cuby & Blizzards Im not sure that should really qualify as an album. Blues has always been about *songs* more than *albums*. I have 28 of them and I feel pretty good about that. One half of a famous country blues duo with Brownie McGhee, Georgia-born Terry (real name Saunders Terrell) was a blind singer and harmonica player who also made several noteworthy solo albums. This Mississippi delta blues mans immortality largely rests on his influential 1935 recording Baby Please Dont Go, which spawned almost a hundred different interpretations, including hit versions by the rock bands Them and AC/DC. Rocking at the Tweed Mill. Lil`Ed & The Blues Imperials: Roughhousin` Below are links to the best blues albums of each decade. Mick Fleetwood. "Mary Jane." 7. Key Track: I Didnt Know What Time It Was. The 2CD Luther Allison, Best of You might wanna check them on Spotify or iTunes. To chronicle the past two decades, Stacker compiled data on the top 100 albums of the 21st century according to Best Ever Albums, which ranks albums according to their appearance and performance on 40,000 editorial and data-based charts, e.g., Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard, and more. No Blues List is complet without Popa Chubby. Good list, but disappointed that Roomful Of Blues nor Duke Robillard were on it. Let us know in the comments section below. The Jimmy Rogers All Stars Band (Jeff Healey, Kim Wilson, Eric Clapton and more) Blues, Blues Blues. Great Lp. The Memphis-based Stax label was synonymous with earthy southern R&B but in 1967 it racked-up several blues hit singles thanks to Mississippi-born singer/guitarist Albert King. A double album with John Lee Hooker and The Canned Heat. Mississippi-born Chester Burnett was better known as Howlin Wolf, who at 300-pounds and 6 3 tall was an imposing figure of a man. What is abundantly clear, though, is the visceral power of Johnsons music, originally released on a series of 78-rpm singles between 1936 and 1937. Early on in his career, White recorded under the pseudonyms Pinewood Tom, The Singing Christian, and Tippy Barton before using his real name. Groundhogs are great. To Be Kind also featured material developed live during the band's 2012 and 2013 . Bo Carter, Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Robert Wilkins, Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, Elizabeth Cotten, Rev Gary Davis, Lil Son Jackson, Dave Honeyboy Edwards, Cephas and Wiggins, John Jackson, Sony Boy Williamson I, Stefan Grossman, Eric Bibb are all major names worthy of inclusion in my opinion. John Hammond, Jr. is one of the best Delta guitarists everright up there with the old guys like Robert Johnson and Son House. It originated somewhere, found a place in America, became known in England, Canada too I would argue and perhaps many other places. Highlights include the US R&B chart-topper, Bo Diddley, its B-side Im A Man, and Road Runner.. Big Joe Turner The set includes songs associated with Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Mama Thornton, and Willie Cobbs while the Wells original, the funky Snatch & Hold It Back, doffs its cap to James Browns Papas Got A Brand New Bag. Its regarded as one of the best blues albums of the 1960s. Even people who love the blues can manage to leave Willie Dixon off this list. They ranged from driving, full-throttle numbers such as the Cotton-penned The Hucklebuck, and Narcias atmospheric ballad, Life Will Be Better, to the slow-burning after-hours blues, Harp To Harp. The music may sound like it originates straight from the Mississippi delta but was recorded in Portland, Maine. Stevie Ray Vaughn Martin Scorcese presents Robert Nighthawk The blues master recordings. 'My biggest thing on this album is candidness,' she says. What about African Blues.Ali Farka Toure. European or African? A revered harmonica player and singer from Mississippi, Musselwhite made his debut with this classic album, which blurred the narrow divide between blues and rock music, especially on boogie-based songs such as Chicken Shack. The 12-song set mainly contained original material but also included a haunting blues reconfiguration of jazzman Duke Pearsons Cristo Redemptor(sic). It included the singles Trust Me and One Way Out, the latter featuring guitarist Buddy Guy. Macclesfield born multi-instrumentalist John Mayalls finest moment came in 1966 when he led a band called Bluesbreakers, which featured a rising guitar star who had previously been with The Yardbirds: Eric Clapton. The album includes reworkings of Walkers late 40s Top 10 Us R&B hits, Call It Stormy Monday and T-Bone Shuffle.. The Real Folk Blues, mainly a compilation of earlier tracks for Chess, came out in 1966. A bottleneck guitar specialist from Rossville, Tennessee, McDowell first learned to play slide guitar using a filed-down beef bone. Key Track: She-Wolf, The blues was the musical bedrock beneath Jimi Hendrixs flamboyant, high-decibel psychedelic rock style which sent seismic shockwaves through the music world of the late 1960s. With its fusion of soulful urbanity and raw, delta earthiness, the record would prove a blueprint for modern blues recordings. Arguably the poet laureate of the blues, Dixon was born in Mississippi but is synonymous with the postwar Chicago electric style. Tab Benoit, Tommy Castro, Blues Brothers, Room full of blues, Elvin Bishop??? Other standouts included Fried Hockey Boogie and the anti-drug message song, Amphetamine Annie. Though considered a rock group and beloved by the hippies and Woodstock generation, Canned Heats musical DNA was deeply rooted in the blues. Has been previously mentioned but should include Chicken Shack and the Groundhogs. Other highlights were Cuttin In, a chugging beat ballad with strings and the skipping R&B-flavored Broke & Lonely, where Watsons assured vocals are punctuated by dancing horns. One beneficiary was singer and harmonica player, Sonny Boy Williamson (not to be confused with the same-named singer who sang Good Morning School Girl and died in 1948). It was rekindled at the end of the 50s by young white Americans fascinated by their nations folk and blues heritage. Jesus just left Chicago???? As far as best living guitarist, not sure if anyone tops Derek Trucks right now. He was born with an eye condition that resulted in total blindness by the time he was 21, but it didnt curtail his ability to make music and in the 1930s he was a prolific recording artist, cutting some 120 sides that were released by a variety of labels. Stackerset out to find the best albums of the 21st century, compiling data from Metacritic(as of October 2022). J.B.Hutto & The Hawks: Hawk Squat Feeling lazy. Roy Buchanan was to overly stylistic, loved him but he began to bore me. Born John Lee Curtis Williamson, this trailblazing Mississippi musician the first of two Sonny Boy Williamsons in the blues field established the gold standard for blues harmonica with his iconic 1937 debut single, Good Morning, School Girl. Spanning the years 1937-1941, the 1995 compilation Sugar Mama is a superb introduction to the mans work and finds him singing and blowing harmonica alongside the likes of guitarists Big Joe Williams and Big Bill Broonzy together with pianist Blind John Davis. I also like Fleetwood mac by Fleetwood mac. Uh, no. Plus the fact Ronnie plays ever note like it is his last! Those bands are not blues bands but, rather, blues-inspired. John Hammond does deserve a nod from me for a couple albums. Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Jimi Hendrix are big omissions. King, The Allman Brothers, Jimmy Reed along with Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, which gives you an idea of the scope of this list. Blues musicians and writers who are now household names were driving buses or working odd jobs in many cases..they could not get a gig. West Side Soul - Magic Sam Blues Band. If so, one without open mindedness and compassion I would bet. Very glad to see my favorite Rory Gallagher included. Criteria: These "Blues" albums were chosen to showcase the artists musical vision through their impact, originality, influence, creative inspiration & musical quality.This list does not include "greatest hits, best of, live albums, box sets OR albums by those artists who did not exhibit a clear blues thread throughout their careers. Let us know in the comments below. I cant imagine how anything could be better that this one. Many of us that grew up in the 60s heard the blues first from these bands and more. Musical support comes from James Harmonica Smith and saxophonist Bill Potter, who light up Little Red Rooster, the slow-burning Rock Me Baby and Ball N Chain. The set ends with a rousing gospel number: Edwin Hawkins Oh Happy Day. Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, and Frank Zappa all cited Slim as a seminal influence. She cut a slew of memorable 78-rpm singles that included the chart-topping, Down Hearted Blues featuring just piano accompaniment from 1923, which is one of the numerous highlights of a 2-CD retrospective that stands as a monument to Smiths remarkable legacy. Not only as a rocker but as a bluesman. Among the latter were tunes by Otis Rush (All Your Love), Freddy King (Hideaway) and Little Walter (It Aint Right). know, Ive seen and listened to all the best in the business !!! With Johnny Winter,James Cotton Steady Rollin Bob Margolin, Charles Calmese and Willie Big Eyes Smith this would be near or at the top of my Top 100! The Sound of 65 Graham Bond Organisation (1965) Fantastic list but seriously where are The Animals one of the best blues bands of the 60s nothing can come close to there self titled album and House of the Rising Sun is a classic. Its near impossible to get all of them, but you need to take the classic rock bands off and replace them with real blues players like the ones listed above. All of these works are valuable and have merit!! Also no love for anything Derek Trucks has been involved with. And I second (and must correct) another commenters pick of Mark Ford, with the Robben Ford Band a really stunning album that apparently never gets noticed. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, singer/pianist Otis Spann moved to Chicago when he was 22 and made his mark on the burgeoning Windy City blues scene of the late 1940s. As for Jimmy Reed, Cold Chills tops the Carnegie Hall album. The track was included on this retrospective, alongside a clutch of singles recorded for other indie labels during the 50s and early 60s, including I Believe, Done Somebody Wrong, and The Sky Is Crying. James music exerted a significant influence on the Rolling Stones during the British groups early years. Bo is one of the greats and unfortunately very underappreciated. I now have about 20 new artists/albums that I need to hear based off peoples comments and I thank the list and the people who commented for that. Johnny and Muddy during their time together was priceless! Incendiary covers of tunes by Albert King, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, and Robert Johnson reflected the groups debt to the many American blues artists that had inspired them to make music. B. Omar&Howlers:I Told You So. Dont ever, ever, ever miss this one! How could you miss this one? At least you did include Texas Flood , Good to see Lonnie Johnson here. Discover 21st Century Blues [Ecko] by Various Artists released in 2008. I thought that is what the blues is all about.Thanks! Although The Rolling Stones are definitely not a blues Band. Clapton is good. Music Reviews: My 21st Century Blues by RAYE released in 2023. Released 42 years after his death, King Of The 12-String Guitar is a retrospective featuring tracks he recorded during 1935 in New York City for the American Recording Company. King, the Mississippi-born singer and guitarist who was born on a cotton plantation. Album text by Charles Waring, introduction by Richard Havers. James was 64 when he recorded Today! Discovered by Chess songwriter Willie Dixon, Taylor (who was born Cora Walton in Tennessee) scored a Top 5 US R&B hit with Wang Dang Doodle in 1966 before leaving Chess for another Windy City label, Bruce Iglauers Alligator imprint in the 70s. Walker's new record, Blues Comin' On, finds him teaming up with fellow legends Jorma Kaukonen, Keb' Mo', Eric Gales, Lee Oskar, and others for what can only be called a super session. He began his career in 1959 for a small Chicago indie label called Artistic before joining Chess a year later, where he stayed until 1970. I agree Brendan..their would be no postings here without those blues-inspired bands and many more. The pioneering multi-racial quintet formed in 1963 and two years later released its self-titled debut, which consisted of original material alongside the groups turbo-charged interpretations of songs by Elmore James, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, and Willie Dixon. A landmark blues recording. Mance Lipscomb You Got to Reap What You Sow A collection of rollicking Big Easy barrelhouse piano tunes, the album spotlights Duprees singular blues style with its distinctive New Orleans slant. The album marked a watershed moment for the British music scene, sparking a blues-rock explosion. The lack of Blodwyn Pig is disturbing. At the end of that decade, he signed a deal, appropriately enough, with Cincinnatis King label, where he recorded his debut long-player, Freddy King Sings. The Blues Forever! (Remember, if we get rid of cross-over bands we can have a little more room for the class blues artists who created the music all these cross-over bands derived their music from). Savoy Brown Shake Down, Getting To The Point, Blue Matter, What about the king of UK blues Dave Kelly. EPs, box sets, reissues, and compilations were not considered. There are some good albums here, but a number of giants like Robert Nighthawk, Big Joe Turner, Tommy Johnson and J.B. Hutto are strangely absent. 4 albums of BLOOMFIELD..???? His songs have been covered by some of the best. Key Track: TAint Nobodys Business If I Do. I didnt see Love Sculptures Blues Helping. American audiences wouldnt know who any of these artists are today if he hadnt exposed them to the world, and we certainly wouldnt be aware of the blues greats who inspires them to pick up their respective instruments. Any Live Allman Bros. In fact, well shall never know who the truest bluesmakers were or where they came from. For most of his life, this Mississippi-born practitioner of hill country blues received scant attention though in his final decade began to receive the accolades his music deserved. His eponymous 1962 album was his second long-player for Chicagos Chess Records and mostly consisted of material written by Willie Dixon. No Champion Jack Dupree? The possessor of a powerful contralto voice, she was hailed by her first record company as the Mother of the Blues. She made her debut recording in 1923 and her final one, five years later, before retiring in 1935. James revamped some of his earliest recorded songs, breathing new life into Im So Glad and Killing Floor Blues, which benefited from an improved recording quality over the originals. They included My Time Is Expensive, Okie Dokie Stomp and Midnight Hour, all present on this ace retrospective. Add: Vanguard Records The Best Of The Chicago Blues a seminal anthology. Duration 01:03:12. Walker joined Lew Chudds Imperial label in 1950 for a four-year stint that is represented by the 52 tracks on this two-disc anthology. Hes another haunting, beautiful player who might not have come to your attention yet. Kaj <3 , Rocking at the Tweed Mill. released in 1972, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv370LpF0cU Clarence Gatemouth Brown..hell yeah !!! Key Track: "How. I agree with you regarding Savoy Brown, John. I,m mostly in agreement with you, especially Willie Dixons exclusion. some way. You left out Lazy Lester, Lightnin Slim and Slim Harpo albums on Excello. Great stuff. No. 6 in the UK albums chart, Clapton left to form Cream shortly afterwards. The man whose single Rollin Stone gave Britains most famous rock band their name, Muddy Waters was inextricably linked with the Chicago electric blues sound. A blues shouter from Arkansas who possessed a rich, resonant voice, Witherspoon rose to fame in the 1940s with pianist Jay McShanns band before going solo and topping the US R&B charts in 1949 with Aint Nobodys Business. That particular song features on the singers iconic 1959 album, At The Monterey Festival, which was included as part of the 1972 live double LP compilation, Spoon Concerts. 100 best albums of the 21st century, according to critics Stacker set out to find the best albums of the 21st century, compiling data from Metacritic (as of October 2022). You missed a real gem..Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. The latter group, a one-album-wonder featuring members of Delaney & Bonny & Friends and Allman Brothers guitarist, Duane Allman, recorded a double LP in Miami with Atlantic Records Tom Dowd producing. Raw, earthy and visceral, its twelve songs focus on Taylors uniquely aggressive slide guitar playing. Whatever his best technical album might be, I believe it was In Step that brought Stevie further to the attention of music lovers, not just blues lovers. This, his debut LP, collected together some of Kings seminal big hits for the Bihari brothers RPM label. Hooker N Heat is a masterpiece of blues music. Heavily influenced by Albert King and Jimi Hendrix, Vaughan was a virtuoso guitar slinger from Dallas, Texas, whose meteoric career was cut short by a fatal helicopter crash. The groups blues roots are reflected by their meaty repurposing of songs by T-Bone Walker (Stormy Monday), Blind Willie McTell (Statesboro Blues), and Elmore James (Done Somebody Wrong). At least Kooper and Bloomfield were included on another pick. Monster Mike Welch Axe to Grind Rockin! Consider the West African griots or that itinerant bluesman that W.C. With Collins, Cray, Copeland on vinyl! Glad folks mentioned Duster Bennett and Rod Piazza, Gravetes, and Alex Koris. It contains some of his most famous and influential songs: Hellhound On My Trail, Crossroad Blues, and Come On In My Kitchen.. You are having a larf aint ya,not one album by Ray Charles i.e.Ray Charles at Newport plus plenty of his Atlantic albums deserve a mention,i believe to my soul is a rite blues song for instance but people classed it as soul. Muddy Waters Hard Again is arguably his greatest Album ever and certainly his best Contemporary Blues Album he ever made. Robert Johnsons immortal Dust My Broom, the first of only two covers, references Elmore James electric guitar-driven version of the tune. Blues, Rags & Hollers was a flagship LP for the folk revival of the early 1960s. But in those years I have heard five albums that have all had a great influence on me. Your email address will not be published. The Genius of Earl Hooker Earl Hooker (1968) I havent heard of your selections but then maybe that is a good thing? Also featured is M.O. A pity there hasnt been a compilation album of his blues work, acoustic and electric. Led Zepplin First album The albums final cut, Walking By Myself, was Rogers only hit record: a Top 20 US R&B chart entry back in 1957. Neil Youngs soundtrack for Dead Man Fats domino too. I like Fats Domino singing the blues He did a lot of blues, mostly his earley recordings. I thought the same thing. Do you mean Mark Ford, with the Robben Ford Band? 100. Johnny guitar watson Downchild Blues Band) 45+ years of great tunes. I might beg to differ on The Allman Brothers though. Best Albums. A double live album, Irish Tour 74 offers a vivid portrait of Gallaghers magnetic on-stage performances. Elsewhere, the album included beefed-up versions of songs by Muddy Waters (Two Trains Running), Robert Johnson (Walkin Blues), Allen Toussaint (Get Out Of My Life, Woman) and Nat Adderley (Work Song). West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop. He has every right to a place on this list. No Percy Mayfield? You forget Super Session of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. Hendrix Blues Key Track: Voodoo Woman, The song of a preacher, Johnson was a country blues singer and fingerstyle electric guitar player from Atlanta, Georgia. Especially leadbelly. Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter - Hard Again Incredible! the vastness of your undertaking was so huge, that I am not surprised that many peoples favorites are missing! Endless Boogie, John Lee Hooker. with a band that included noted blues harpist and singer James Cotton. Lightnin; Slim,Otis Rush,Little Junior Parker, Lightnin Hopkins Time album and album on Dart,Memphis Willie B, Jesse Fuller, Richard Rabbit Brown, Otis Blackwell, Charles Brown, and on and on. Its AWESOME! Though he possessed a distinctive gravelly singing voice and played bass and guitar, hes more famous as a prolific songwriter; he was responsible for penning some of the key blues songs of the 1950s, including Spoonful, Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man, and The Little Red Rooster. He serves up his own striking interpretations of those three blues evergreens on this 1970 LP, the sixth album of his career, on which he sings and plays bass in the company of a smoking band that includes harmonica player Big Walter Horton and Chess Records session pianist Lafayette Leake. Hes the apex songwriter of blues music. Good to see you have got Gary Moore in there. Styles. And then Kanye is also in some sort of strange 1970s burned-out back room of a Chicago blues club having a . So thanks again! Other highlights include Whos Cheating Who, Baby I Love You, and I Feel So Bad.. Cream were Cream, by no stretch of the imagination, can they be called a blues band. Im not really a fan of his music per se, but he does deserve a special recognition for the things you mention. That is like making a chicken soup with no chicken! Losing Hand I would have included, SRV & Joe Bonamassa, plus looking at some of the artists there, i would have had J GEILS Band, Live Full House. The apotheosis of blues-rock. Just relying on what they read. That is true for a number of these picks. I like Bonamassa but dont consider him a bluesman. With his croaky voice and piercing, bittersweet guitar melodies, Allison made his album debut for Chicagos Delmark label in 1969 but three years later, he was recording for Motowns Gordy imprint. This has to be one of the greats! Good try but no Johnny Shines (with Shakey Horton) or Peatie Wheatstraw. The good thing that came out of this is the secondary list from these comments so we may all discover some hidden treasures that we may have never known about! Bomba Estreo, 'Deja' The Colombian duo Bomba Estreo released "Deja" as a series of EPs tied to the ancient elements: water, air, fire, earth.. The session features the veteran bluesman alone in the studio accompanying his strident vocals with slide guitar chords that exude a visceral rawness. Big Mama Thornton with Muddy Waters Band Janis Joplin? Surely one of the best electric blues albums of all time. Aynsley Dunbar. Marion Walter Jacobs was the birth name of Louisiana-born Little Walter, widely regarded as one of the best blues harmonica players of all time. This 20-track retrospective includes all of Browns early hits and essential sides; his specialty was desolate nocturnal ballads, like In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down, Evening Shadows, and Lonesome Feeling, where he accompanies his soothing, soulful voice with bluesy piano fills. Son House is the most familiar name on this compilation of vintage delta blues by some of the styles earliest exponents. She contributes three self-written gems: Backlash Blues, Do I Move You, and I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl.. Consider all the Henry Sloans weve never heard and the mothers of those we have. The parent album arranged by Riley Hampton, varied from rocking R&B numbers (Tough Mary and Girl Of My Dreams) to sophisticated jazz-tinged ballads with strings (Stormy Weather), proving that James was much more than an earthy blues mama. Jack Bruce. Though he was the new blues kid on the block, Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.) showed a musical maturity and fretboard virtuosity beyond his years on blues-steeped tracks like the title song, Hit The Ground Running, and the jazz-tinged, easy-swinging Rack Em Up.. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street. 1 and the slow, ambling ballad Sad Hours, where Walters harmonica is drenched in an eerie echo effect. Im not sure if itd fit on a best blues list though definitely rooted in the blues, but more rock oriented (although their cover of Groundhog on that album is spot on). Freddie King Live at Filmore 1970 is a great album, Amazed that Supersession wasnt the first album picked for the list. etc etc. Key Track: Truckin My Blues Away, An influential purveyor of Piedmont blues who was blind from early childhood and famed for his fluid finger-picking style, South Carolina-born Davis was 64 when he recorded this seminal album in 1960 at the dawn of a folk revival. Contemporary Blues. Otis Taylor? Buy From Amazon PROFESSOR LONGHAIR - NEW ORLEANS PIANO: BLUES ORIGINALS 2 The much under-rated Professor Longhair pioneered the funky New Orleans piano sound that drove so much early Rock'n'Roll. One of the few things Ill miss when I die. B. king Live and Well. ZZ Top First album Hailing from Mississippi, Rush learned to play the guitar when he was eight and moved to Chicago when he was fourteen after hearing a Muddy Waters record. Son seals koko Taylor missed them stones bull, Joe Bonamassa Fool For You. Three volumes with Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Otis Spann, Otis Rush, J.B. Hutto, Jimmy Cotton, Walter Horton, Johnny Shines, Johnny Young, Homesick James, and Charlie Musselwhite is absolutely essential blues listening! John Mayer Originally from Greenwood, Mississippi, Slim (real name Eddie Jones) enjoyed a recording career that only lasted eight years, between 1951 and 1959. Alongside it are two other early Rush classics: Double Trouble and Jump Sister Bessie. With his aggressive, energetic style, Rush exerted a powerful influence on several notable British blues guitarists in the 1960s, including Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and Jeff Beck. Indeed, and for that matter add Michael Bloomfield Its Not Killing Me. Nevertheless, Blues Breakers remains a highly-regarded cornerstone of British blues-rock and is an obvious pick for one of the best blues albums ever. Toler Bros Toler Brothers You forgot Janis Joplins i got dem old kosmic blues again.. You got that right, Lesleyno Janis?? Featuring tracks recorded in Memphis during 1962, Jelly Roll King chronicles Frosts work for Phillips International, a label run by Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, and the Louisiana-based Jewel imprint. And Kanye West and Just Blaze, and Eminem and Timbaland. Nick gravenites my labors The title is Best Blues ALBUMS not blues artists. Highway 61 Revisited is on Johnny Winter Second Winter. On Good Mornin Blues, Barbers band features Northern Irish singer/songwriter, Ottilie Patterson, as well as London jazz saxophone legend, Ronnie Scott, on a selection of material that ranges from Lead Bellys title song and Lionel Hamptons Hamps Blues to originals by Barber and Patterson. Handy found and lost at the Tutwiler train depot in 1903. Missing The Chicago Climax Blues Band, precursor to Climax. The Smokin Joe Kubek Band Served up Texas Style They come from the long-forgotten Kid Bailey (Rowdy Blues), Garfield Akers (Cottonfield Blues), Mississippi Joe Callicott (Fare Thee Well Blues), Jim Thompkins (Bedside Blues), Blind Joe Reynolds (Outside Woman Blues), and Rube Lacy (Mississippi Jailhouse Groan). Dubbed the king of the string, Nighthawk was born Robert Lee McCollum in Arkansas. i believe it should read muddy waters live at Newport 1960. Bill Wymans favorite. Hes more of a Rock Band. Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix werent the first performers to play the guitar between their legs or behind their heads on stage. Pretty decent list. Despite being a compilation drawn from various late 50s sessions, T-Bone Blues had a unity of sound and intent that made it appear a coherent work. You forgot Dutch Mason the Prime Minister of the blues. Growing up in Chicago I became a fan of Billy Boy Arnold. The missing link between rural delta Mississippi blues and its electrified Chicago cousin, singer/guitarist/harmonica player Wolf first made his mark with a potent succession of singles between 1951 and 1956 for Chess. Born Huddy Ledbetter in Louisiana, Lead Belly accompanied his tremulous, high tenor voice with a 12-string acoustic guitar. Keith Hartley. He's a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and four-time Blues Music Award winner whose career stretches back half a century. However Im really disapointed in the 28 CD Box Set just released of Cuby. Go to the source not the people that are doing Rock covers. He had others that could easily have been on this list as well. No one mentioned Hadda Brooks. They were just regurgitating the masters. Early 21st Century Blues is an album by the Canadian alt-country band Cowboy Junkies, released in 2005. I am going to be busy buying more blues albums, the best! Peter greens playing on it sublime. Im not a member of the Blues Police force. (with Muddy Waters Band) the summit of Chicago Blues, obviously I miss in the List..about british blues A hard road John Mayall & bluesbrakers, one of my favs is Albert KingBlues PowerLive at the Filmore and also Smokin Jo Kubeck & Benoit KingHave Blues Will Travel. 65 in Billboards pop albums chart. . Though the LP garnered mixed critical reviews, From The Cradle topped the US and UK album charts and also triumphed at the 1995 Grammy Awards in the Best Traditional Blues Album category. Especially live album Face The Music is awesome. When it comes to white guys playing the Blue how about ZZTop Rio Grand Mud,. With his booming sepulchral voice and bare slide guitar accompaniment, Patton established a musical approach that would prove inspirational and become the stylistic blueprint for many bluesmen that would come in his wake, including Robert Johnson and Howlin Wolf. Under the name Elmo James, he scored a Top 10 R&B hit with a searing cover of Johnsons Dust My Broom for the Trumpet label in 1952. 'American Idiot' is now one of the best selling punk albums of all time, topping album charts in the UK, America, Sweden, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada and more. Without further ado, get ready to gawk at the greatest album art of the 21st Century: . Then there are some albums that you may not know, like Blind Mississippi Morriss Back Porch Blues, Koerner, Ray & Glovers Blues, Rags and Hollers, and Tampa Reds Dont Tampa With the Blues; they are all equally worthy of inclusion. Great list, but i suggest some of Sean Costello and the first recordings of Johnny guitar Watson to. You also need to listen to Janis Joplin and Big Mama Thornton if you want to know what womens blues sounds like. Maybe Mose Allison could be dropped, or one of the BB Kings albums. I think about 30 of these should have been left off and something else put in. Electric flag long time coming Rod Piazza & Mighty Flyers Live at B.B. And one shouldnt ignore Canadas Downchild (a.k.a. Im glad people weighed in on Deutsch and Canadian blues. it was good to Nina Simone & josh white on the list some notable piano players are missing- Otis Spann, Charles Brown and of course Ray Charles. A long-time fan of bluesman Howlin Wolf, Hemphill wrote the albums title song by imagining herself as a female version of the lupine blues legend. Live At The Regal is widely considered one of the best blues albums of all time and purportedly had a profound influence on British guitarists Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. . John Mayall is not in the pantheon of blues artists. Lots of omissions. Layla may not be pure blues but it is blues enough to me. Excellent list, though I would have left a Various Artists field opened for CHICAGO! They are however some albums of undead white people who could be integrated in such a list: Why the heck you did not mention Williw Dixon Im the Blues? The Brits embraced it and started it again. What should have been listed instead of Little Walter His Best was The Best of Little Walter and Hate To See You Go two of the most influential blues platters to have been released. Allman Bros.? Bands like Cream, Allmans and Stones restored many blues originators fortunes and fame by crediting their accomplishments. Allman Brothers, Cream, Derek and the Dominos, and The Rolling Stones shouldnt even be mentioned here. Have you heard his Blues and Ballads album with Elmer Snowden? Definitely: Lester Butler was a harp blowin maniac! King and Willie Dixon. Great Album!!!!! Though he was a talented multi-instrumentalist who could play guitar and piano, Arkansas-born Frost rose to prominence as a harmonica specialist mentored by the legendary blues harp blower, Sonny Boy Williamson. Fenton Robinson Only two or so from the last 40 years? He has a lot of great records. The remaining antique gems are incredibly obscure. In a . I would say that some of these bands should be included. Also, The London Howlin Wolf Sessions could have also been included. The biggest was the chart-topping Juke, a driving instrumental attributed to Little Walter & His Night Cats, which begins this 20-song overview of the harmonica players fertile Chess tenure. No Rolling Stones, Cream, Fleetwood Mac etcBut Stevie Ray was real blues. Joe Bonamassa Sloe Gin. They did say they scoured magazines and the internet for picks, which tells me that they dont have a clue. Check out the story behind the making of Blues for Greeny. Check out the album The Blues aint Bad on YouTube. We are surprised by the breadth of the blues, as well as the sheer number of different blues styles that are represented here. "Black Mascara." 5. Although his craggy voice is mostly framed by slick, contemporary production values (courtesy of looped beats and DJ scratches), the music still resonates with an authentic, Mississippi delta-steeped blues feel. Born in Houston, this flamboyant singer and guitarist moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and is best remembered for his commercially successful marriage of pimped-up blues, funk and soul in the 1970s. Produced by frontman Michael Gira, the album featured musical guests St. Vincent, Bill Rieflin and Cold Specks. Havent listened to much blues since I got sober but it holds a special place in my heart. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Ledbetter Heights Awesome! Re; the Allman Brothers. McDowell is in magnetic form, shining on nine scintillating tracks. Donde esta THE LONDON SESSION HOWLIN WOLF, I own most of the 100 mentioned but would like consideration for: Muddy Waters The London sessions, Big Joe Williams Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick. begins with an electrifying version of T-Bone Walkers T-Bone Shuffle setting the tone for what is a thoroughly enjoyable blues summit characterized by some exceptional guitar playing. Though recorded in 1964 at a folk festival in Pennsylvania, this live album didnt get released for another 29 years. We could endlessly debate about the definition of blues, but the purpose here is not to list all the guitarists that once played a blues classic, or our favorites RnB or jazz or rock musicians. Spot on Harmonica Slim..with you all the way ! Good listening. She paid tribute to one of her idols, Bessie Smith, with this New Orleans-style album, which included reworkings of the Smith favorites Send Me To The Lectric Chair and Backwater Blues., A self-taught guitarist who initially preferred not to sing because of a speech impediment, Earl Zebedee Hooker was the cousin of fellow Mississippian, the more famous John Lee Hooker. I would also include Alvin Lee and Ten Years After Playing the Blues. And what about Roy Buchanan When a Guitar plays the Blues? A prolific recording artist and virtuosic guitarist, New Orleans-born Johnson was a blues pioneer who invented the idea of the lead guitar solo. Magic Sam was a huge part of the famous Chicago blues sound. Johnny Winter Whit Hot and Blue. You might really want to check out Justin Johnson If Walls Could Talk and Smoke and Mirrors. One James Cotton album and two Mayall. 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