Favorite Blues Musicians and songs

Lets change the mood around here from rocking to blues

Name all your favorite blues musicians and favorite songs by them

Mine:
Big Bill Morganfield - EVIL
Muddy Waters - Electric Mud "The Whole Album"
Sam Cooke - A change is gonna come
Charles Brown - Black Night
Howlin Wolf - Three Hundred pounds of joy
John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues
Robert Johnson - crossroad blues
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night (Cold was the ground)
Skip James - What am i to do blues
Jimmy Burns - Red Hot Mama
Sir Mack rice - Money Talks (Bullshit walks)
J.B. Lenoir - I sing um the way i feel
Willie Dixon, - Tail Dragger
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Big Bill broonzy - Key To The Highway
Memphis Minnie - When The Levee Breaks
B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get?
T-Bone Walker - They Call It Stormy Monday
Albert Collins - The Freeze
charlie musselwhite - Homeless Child
John Mayall - Room to move
Ray Charles - what i'd say
Lightin Hopkins -smokestack lightning

and my all time favorite
Wang Dang Doodle - willie dixon

 

Hey joe,
I'm definatly a blues man. I grew up in the Mississippi in the 50's & 60's. Mostly around Clarksdale MS. (home of several of the blues dudes i.e. Robert johnson, Muddy waters etc). I had Light'n Hopkins sign my guitar once. They have a couple of festables every yr. in August I think. When its Hot & humid....perfect blues weather.

here is a pic of my Dobro.

 

nice list, joe

I'll have to think about this and post again later

 

is that it?....only 2 replies?
I would of expected more replies seeing as how all the rock and roll the people listen to in here was the child of the blues, and that most songs that are considered classic rock were once just blues ballads.

 

I like the way Patsy Cline sang the blues.

 

R.L. Burnside - Snake Drive
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - can't name just one

 

this is just a short list of what I listen to most:

Stevie Ray Vaughan(who would've thought!) -- Willie the Wimp, everything else
Hendrix -- Red House
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac -- Rattlesnake Shake
John Lee Hooker -- Boom Boom, One Bourbon, One Scotch...
Leadbelly -- everything
Junior Kimbrough -- Done Got Old
RL Burnside -- Shake 'em on Down
Miss. John Hurt -- Corrinna, Corrinna
Robert Johnson -- Love In Vain, Trav. Riverside Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson -- Eyesight to the Blind
Howlin Wolf -- Killing Floor, I Asked for Water She Gave Me Gasoline
Elmore james -- You Got To Move
Joe Bonamassa -- Mumbling Word
Blind Willie McTell/Allman Bros. -- Statesboro Blues
ZZ Top -- Jesus Just Left Chicago, et.al
Paul Butterfield Blues Band -- Born In Chicago

I'll be back.....

 

ok, here's a couple to keep you going

Skipp James - Devil Got My Woman
The Reverand Gary Davis - Cocaine Blues
Little Walter - Watermelon Man (and just about everything else he's ever done!)

 

Just went through my cd collection looking over the blues I have and this is what I came up with.

Buddy Guy- Stone Crazy
Willie Dixon- Spoonful
Howlin' Wolf- Killing Floor
Muddy Waters- Mannish Boy
Robert Johnson- Hellhound on My Trail
Lightnin' Hopkins- Lightnin's Boogie
Leadbelly- Black Snake Moan
Freddie King- The Stumble
Albert Collins- Frosty
Albert King- Blues Power
T-Bone Walker- Mean Old World
John Lee Hooker- Boogie Chillen

 

Early Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac stuff is great. The original "Black Magic Woman" is incredible, and I agree that "Rattlesnake Shake" is also superb.

Contemporary-wise, I really admire Jonny Lang's latest, and the sound of that CD seriously kicks.

 

Testify
Pride and Joy
Life By The Drop
Riviera Paridise
Lenny
Voodoo Chile (slight return)
Couldn't stand the weather
Ain't Gone N' Give Up On Love
So Excited
Texas Flood
Love Struck Baby
Tin Pan Alley
Rude Mood
The Sky Is Crying
Crossfire
Cold Shot
Hug You Squeeze You
I'm Crying
Life Without You
Say What!
Scuttle Buttin'
So Excited
Tell Me
The Sky Is Cyring
Willie The Wimp

Yes.. I have an SRV obsession.

 

Big Mama Thornton, Pine Top Perkins, Lightnin Hopkins, Otis Rush, Chris Youlden>Savoy Brown Janis of course, and Lydia Pense.. Peace In Music..

 

Are there any other Blues Harmonica players here?

 

Its definately BLUE around here....

I love Susan Tedeschi, she is one of my all time favorites.
Bonnie Raitt
and Toni Price...and that Johnny Lang..wow, he's like.."THATS A KID????"

Larry's favorites are Lonnie Mack,Muddy, Johnny Winter,Stevie and about 1000 more.
Blues is all he plays and records, right now he's doing "I found a love" by Lonnie.
He got a new recorder and can't wait till the studio is finished.

He got me a Gibson Epiphone and after I was a good girl and could play all my chords well and strum out songs, the first blues song he taught me is the old standby "Stormy Monday"....I just LOVE that 9th chord.....lol
Getting them bar chords real smoothed out too.
We did record it together and its wasn't too bad for my first time on tape.

Now to work on this voice.
Next is "papa come quick" by Bonnie.

I can play a bit of harp...little whammer jammer by J.Geils and a bit of alvin lee...just fartin around,... Larry is great...

 

Robert Johnson - Love in Vain, Hellbound on my Trail, Walking Blues.
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
Memphis Minnie - Black Cat Blues
Leadbelly - Good Morning Blues, Easyrider, Pick a Bale of Cotton
Ma Rainey - Titanic Man Blues
Big Mama Thorton - Don't Talk back, Hound Dog
Son House - County Farm Blues

 

I'm surprised only one person mentioned R.L. BurnsideI saw him perform in Dallas at the Red Jacket. I was right up front, he stuck out his hand And shook mine. He rocked out, man.
You all should check out the other players from the Fat Possum Records line up..
Bob Log
T Model Ford
Etc.

 

Muddy Waters is probably my favorite blues singer. But I also love Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, Elmore James, Albert Collins, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Johnson, Son House, Albert King and John Lee Hooker.

When I want more rocking blues I go for Peter Green, Allman Bros. Band, Derek and the Dominos, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Indigenous, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, etc.

I recently discovered a blues/rock guitarist by the name of Guitar Shorty, he is amazing! If you want to hear some fiery fretwork, check him out.

 

Bugs Henderson

 

i am getting in2 a bit o blues music....miles davis is a true legend