Blues Band Thread

[hoppybrewster]

Let's list our favorite blues bands.

Homemade Jamz Blues Band

 

[dcHokie]

Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, BB King.

Blues guitarists: Clapton & Hendrix

Modern artists, I enjoy RL Burnside & SRV

 

[JoeyChopps]

Do the black keys count if so that's my vote

 

[hercher]

Band, or artist? If its a band, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Derek & the Dominos. Artist? Clapton. Jimi Hendrix playing Red House. Charlie Parker playing Parker's Mood. Muddy Waters playing anything. James Blood Ulmer's No Escape from the Blues.

 

[jberg440]

Just saw Scott H Biram a few nights ago. Not traditional blues but defiantly heavily influenced from Texas blues.

All around favorites, SRV, Muddy Waters, KWS, Johnny Winter....so many to list!!

I honestly think if John Mayer ever escapes the pop scene and focuses on the blues he will be an epic modern day bluesman!

 

[funkapottomous]

oh man.

new guys?
black keys
robert randolph
derek trucks/tedeschi trucks band
ben harper is bluesy enough.
johnny lang
john mayer (the Try! live album is awesome. A few good blues tracks on there.)

and of course classic stuff too:
john mayall and the bluesbreakers
bb king
buddy guy
any clapton stuff (yardbirds, lovin spoonful, all that jive)
SRV
albert king
john lee hooker


I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT SEASICK STEVE. Check him out, plays amazing delta blues on a three string.

 

[nyer]

My new favorite stations on sirius are the blues station and bluegrass station. They will be on for this weekends brewing.

 

[Wus67]

I'm a big Charlie Musselwhite and Junior Wells fan, guess I just like the harp, and I'm really into Kenny Wayne Shepard and Warren Haynes blues stuff.

 

[jafo28]

One of my favorites lately is Joe Bonamassa.

 

[P_A]

Sorry for the myspace link but try WSNB from North Carolina.
http://www.myspace.com/wsnb
http://www.wsnbmusic.com/fr_home.cfm

 

[zakkweichbrodt]

Joe bonamassa /thread

 

[D_Ranged_Eskimo]

I'm suprised nobody has listed Led Zeppelin!

John Mayall and the Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton - man, that album is great!

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

 

[arturo7]

I'm suprised nobody has listed Led Zeppelin!

I'd be surprised if anyone did.

 

[McGarnigle]

Mississippi John Hurt.

 

[D_Ranged_Eskimo]

I'd be surprised if anyone did.

Why? They were the band that really got me into blues when I was growing up.

The first two albums are heavily blues influenced.

Couple of my favorites outside of Zep 1 and 2 are Traveling Riverside Blues, Since I've Been Loving You, When the Levee Breaks, and Hats Off to Roy Harper.

 

[Wetfoot]

Tab Benoit, Robert Cray, Keb Mo

 

[Randar]

One of my favorites lately is Joe Bonamassa.

Love me some Joe. If his voice was a bit grittier he would really have it made. But, while I still enjoy it, his guitar work is sometimes "too technically perfect", if you know what I mean.

new guys?
black keys
robert randolph
derek trucks/tedeschi trucks band
ben harper is bluesy enough.
johnny lang
john mayer (the Try! live album is awesome. A few good blues tracks on there.)

and of course classic stuff too:
john mayall and the bluesbreakers
bb king
buddy guy
any clapton stuff (yardbirds, lovin spoonful, all that jive)
SRV
albert king
john lee hooker

Pretty solid list I can't disagree with (although I am not the biggest BB King fan). I'd add Keb' Mo, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Cray as well... on my usual rotation. Johnny Lang needs to get back to the blues and knock off this religious kick he's been on.

So, nobody in this thread lists Luther Allison? Now that is some of the best gritty electric blues you could imagine.

10 minutes of Bad Love? Yes please.

 

[Randar]

Why? They were the band that really got me into blues when I was growing up.

The first two albums are heavily blues influenced.

Couple of my favorites outside of Zep 1 and 2 are Traveling Riverside Blues, Since I've Been Loving You, When the Levee Breaks, and Hats Off to Roy Harper.

I love a lot of the blues-inspired classic rock from Jethro Tull to LZ to the (early) Stones to Yardbirds & Cream and so on... but most of it I don't usually refer to it as the Blues, per se. Semantics? Sure.


Oh, and have any of you seen Jeff Beck live? Good LAWD!

 

[arturo7]

Why? They were the band that really got me into blues when I was growing up.

The first two albums are heavily blues influenced.

Couple of my favorites outside of Zep 1 and 2 are Traveling Riverside Blues, Since I've Been Loving You, When the Levee Breaks, and Hats Off to Roy Harper.

I'm familiar with their repertoire, I just don't consider it blues. Sure,they play some 1-4-5's, and they may be blues-"ee", but that's about it. It most definitely is not blues music.

As long as I'm ranting...

I wouldn't necessarily consider SRV the blues either. More like a blues/rock hybrid.

 

[hoppybrewster]

John Primer

 

[zacjack]

Joe Bonamassa has to be my favorite somewhat-recent blues guitarist.

 

[kbuzz]

All the Fat Possum cats: Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Cedell Davis...old school Thickfreakness-era Black Keys (the new stuff is pop/dance, white collar nonsense).

Older stuff: Robert "King of the Delta Blues, sold my soul to the devil" Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and the legendary Lead Belly.

Blues/Rock: Led Zepellin for sure (see: In My Time of Dying), Safe as Milk-era Captain Beefheart, Radio Moscow, the Entrance Band...

 

[Brutus Brewer]

Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, (I believe they're married BTW), met Buddy Guy at his old place in Chicago 11 years ago. I've always thought Christina Aguilera covering Janis Joplin would sound awesome, and a way for her to break into a whole new audience; I'd guess Adele could probably pull that off too.

 

[hoppybrewster]

Luther Allison

 

[Wus67]

Edit to my earlier post... completly forgot the North Mississippi Allstars, jam band blues, love it.

 

[hoppybrewster]

Billy D & the HooDoos

 

[hoppybrewster]

Bernard Allison(Luthers Son)

 

[smokewater]

Gatemouth Brown

 

[hoppybrewster]

Albert Castiglia

 

[WilliamWS]

Just saw Scott H Biram a few nights ago. Not traditional blues but defiantly heavily influenced from Texas blues.

Crazy,I haven't heard that name in years-I used to go to his weekly gig at Club DeVille in Austin when I was in college 11 years ago. He was great.

As for my favorites: Skip James, Lightnin Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters (I share his birthday), Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Blind Willie McTell, Charlie Patton, Mississippi Fred McDowell, ...