Who is your favorite rock band that sangs tha blues

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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    saw doyle bramall II open for robert cray who opened for EC. crazy !!
    oh and derek trucks was in EC's band...omg...
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,399
    rgambs said:
    Black Pumas are killing it right now.
    All-time blues rock best is Zeppelin, because they just did it best lol

    Favorite blues blues is the one who Hendrix copied, Buddy Guy.  I don't have beef about it, but Hendrix gets a TON of credit that Buddy Guy deserves, including some of Hendrix's "innovation" and stage presence, which are emulations of Buddy.  Little Wing though, he gets credit on that brilliance, but then SRV took it to another level.
    Somehow Buddy Guy played a song on Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix - but I guess the man has got to pay the bills.

    Zeppelin: Since I've Been Loving You - that's about as great as blues can be.
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,777

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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,777
    Stones b-sides are where it's at. 
  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    That blues covers album that the Stones released a few years back is fantastic. Really enjoyed that.
    "...though my problems are meaningless....that don't make them go away...."
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,777
    I don't know that one. I saw the show on tv they played with muddy waters at that tiny club. I may have to watch that again soon.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Loujoe said:
    Stones b-sides are where it's at. 

    For sure, cool stuff!  It seems like Mick and Keith get a lot of the credit there, but it was really Brian Jones who was the blues instigator early on- at least that's my understanding.

    Another great blues-rock player, one I've been listening to a lot again these days, is that big lovable Great Fatsby, Leslie West.
    Leslie West on Discogs

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    edited June 2021
    Forgot the band: THEM.
    Album: the story of them.  Amazing album
    Van Morrison is great. 

    Bring em on in....
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  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    The record comapny is badass too
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,335
    whitesnake? :tired_face:

    kenny wayne shepherd.

    the lineage was hendrix to SRV to KWS.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    edited June 2021
    Ahh yes Kenny Wayne His While we cry- his  Ledbetter- Srv song....has some great albums.  Love- Blue on Black
  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    Gary Moore, not really a band, but DAMN.
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    huge fan of 3 piece blues bands. john mayer trio killed it

    GREAT PERFORMANCES | John Mayer Trio and Bill Murray | PBS

  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    ZZ Top
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 25
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited June 2021
    Every time I see this thread, a very perplexing question arises in my head, one that has been asked many times.  The question arises because almost all the examples given here of rock musicians singing the blues are white bands.  So the question is:  "Can white people sing the blues?"

    There are good arguments suggesting they should not.  Here's a good example of what I mean:

    That article presents an argument against whites singing and playing the blues that is hard to argue against.  I have about 65 albums filed under blues in my collection.  Almost all of the artists represented in that section are black musicians.  My blues section does not include cross-over artists like John Mayall, Canned Heat, Harvey Mandel, or The Rolling Stones (etc.), all of whom are steeped in the blues.  In years past, I had kept some of those white artists in my blues section but eventually pulled them out.  To my way of thinking, blues is basically a black music genre.

    But then wait!  I see I still have Charlie Musselwhite and Paul Butterfield filed under "blues".  How do you not keep Charlie filed under "blues"?  Also, my John Mayall records are in their own little section (because I have several of them), but how do you not connect John to the blues?  And the same for Paul Butterfield?

    So again, that question nags at me.  I still think blues is basically a black music genre. But am I able to be as true to that notion as the author of the article linked above?  Evidently I am not.

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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Blues you say?  Oh yeahhhhh...

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • pjpjpaul
    pjpjpaul Posts: 1,718
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSKKVIeE2IA


    I usually call my cousin Eli Cook for a good fix of the blues. He has played with BB King, Gary Clark jr and many others through the years. Currently working on a new album.
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  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    edited June 2021
    Buddy Guy
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    SRV
  • mvw
    mvw Posts: 1,700
    The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

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