Blues Artists
Jam10
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Who are some blues guitar artists you guys recommend I get into. I want to really start focusing on the Blues a bit and I want to start doing my homework and listen to the greats.
How about Jazz? Who are great jazz guitar players that I can listen to?
How about Jazz? Who are great jazz guitar players that I can listen to?
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As for Jazz, check out Louis Armstrong, Big momma Thorton, Duke Ellington, David Benoit, Dave Coz, any of the Marsalis (Branford being amazing), Sean "Thunder" Wallace, Dave Brubeck, Taj Mahal, Dixie Land Jass Band, The Menahan Street band(Jay-Z sampled "Make The Road By Walking" for "And The Winner Is"), Us3's Cantaloop is a modern Hip Hop/Jazz song and pretty famous.
I could go on and on because I LOVE Jazz and the Blues
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Man, there are so many.
For down and dirty soul filled minimalist blues. The man who shows you that you don't need no stinking high class bunch of gear to play the blues, John Lee Hooker. I always like his guitar style!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyj4ciJk34
Buddy Guy is amazing, too. Great showman, too. He's still out there and has a big smile on his face and rips into that Strat and Fender Bassmans.
My favorite of his is a CD "Stone Crazy". That producer really caught Buddy's style. Listen to him and you'll know where Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn got their chops from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyj4ciJk34
For impossible to reproduce syncopated acoustic guitar picking, Robert Johnson. I think he taught'm all.
Mike Bloomfield for good old simple Les Paul into a Twin Reverb and amazing fingers just drip guitar tone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByN1oHmRVrU&feature=related
Ok, well, in the process of looking for Buddy Guy, this turned up.
Jimi Hendrix. Nothing to do with anything, except he could play some blues!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByN1oHmRVrU&feature=related
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If I combine them all I like: Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, Scott Henderson,
Mike Stern, Grant Green, Pat Martino, and Joe Pass (and Stanley Jordan's fun).
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I forgot my jazz players in my post
Joe Pass is one of my favorites, as well as Pat Martino. Local boys!
I took a jazz guitar class at University of the Arts with Pat Martino and another amazing guitarist, Jimmy Bruno, as the teachers. The better part of 6 months having them show me how much I suck on guitar!
Jam10, if you're local to Philly, you can go see Jimmy Bruno in small clubs in Philly. Something not to miss.
For some beautiful chord styling mixed with a fantastic voice, get these two CD's before they go out of print. Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass together:
http://www.amazon.com/Fitzgerald-Pass-Again-Ella-Joe-Pass/dp/B00004Z3ZK
http://www.amazon.com/Sophisticated-Lady-Ella-Fitzgerald-Pass/dp/B00005LMJX/ref=pd_bxgy_m_text_b
If you're local to New York City, go see Les Paul at the Iridium on any Monday night. He's 92 and it's like sitting and watching a piece of history before your eyes. He's a great jazz player. Not nearly as nimble as years ago, but,,, we'll even if you're NOT local to NYC, every guitar player should go see him. :cool:
John Scofield is great, too. He has a history of playing with a few people!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgyHqJ4U1UE&feature=related
For his more electric bebop style, try the CD "A Go Go" Him with Modeski Martin and Wood.
Or his minimalist style with "In a Silent Way" I love that album.
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I think you have to go early rock too at the same time... You need to get the Rolling Stones Exile on Main St and others and Led Zepplin One as well as say Cream; The Yardbirds; The Who etc to see how these guys inspired them and basically the covers they played. Look at some of the album credits for Elvis etc and check out some of the session players like those listed above. Les Paul is tremendous. Savoy Brown had some good stuff too.
I think the White Stripes and Black Keys and Black Crows are pretty solid modern artists to study in the faure as well.
Oh and Soul too. James Brown; Otis Redding; Booker T and the MG's
also hasn't been mentioned... but Oscar Peterson not blues persay by nature but it's in there.
It's not all strait blues, but you'll get a feel for the influence
AND Average White Band...How could we all forget Miles Davis and John Coltrane? (It's spelled wrong, probably)
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John played on Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew". Pick that shit up pronto.
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Jimi Hendrix
he has an album Jimi Hendrix the Blues....unreal, some of the the best electric blues out there. This is a must have for any blues fan. fucking 10 minutes of hear my train a coming. RED HOUSE BLUES...amazing
SRV(Stevie Ray Vaugh) excellent, maybe better than Jimi
Eric Clapton- this guy is so fucking good
Kenny Wayne Sheppard- A little more modern, has a nice yellow ledbetter ripoff song while we cry
Led Zep has some ungodly blues stuff- Since I've been loving you...mnnn
CCR has some amazing tunes too
Van Morrison's first band called "Them"- wicked stuff
Tracey Chapman
Bar Blues- George Thorogood- he has some good stuff
Old schoolers: John Lee Hooker, Otis Rush, Otis Redding, Albert King, Big Bill Broonzy, big Walter Horton Band, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Buddy Guy, Eddie Reed, Etta James, Janis Joplin-shit she can wail, JB Hutto, Jesse Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, Junior Wells, RAY CHARLES, Otis Spahn, Skip James,
watch the blues brothers you'll see a ton of these guys in it!
Jazz John Coltrane
and Rory Gallagher.
stevie ray vaughan is a legend, he is mike mccready's idol too, check out some of his stuff mate
he has awesome versions of little wing and voodoo chile (slight return) too
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Jimmy Reed.
Old stuff that my uncle used to play. I love his laid back style and slightly off the beat playing. Sort of a precursor to Stevie Ray, Keith Richards, oh, and maybe about 200,000 other blues lovin' guitarists!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65V0mWYl4PI&feature=related
Not long before he died. I love the low quality TV picture and sound. Looks like a color TV picture i they had'm in 1935
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhRZha7ULWg&feature=related
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Robert Johnson
Then go on to the next generation:
Muddy Waters
Hubert Sumlin
Bo Diddley (RIP)
Little Walter (best Harp player I've ever heard)
Howlin Wolf
BB King
From there, take the advice of an earlier poster and get Exile on Main Street by the Stones, some very nice rock/blues on there. I'd even take it a step further and get the stones first two albums (US: England's Newest Hitmakers, and 12 x 5). There are some excellent blues covers on there and it is a nice place to see how blues initially began transferring over to Rock.
From the modern generation, check out:
Buddy Guy
Eric Clapton
MICK TAYLOR
Jonny Lang
Discovering blues was one of the highlights of my musical experience, and best of luck to you.
Here's an experiment!
Check out a classic blues song and listen to all the different interpretations of it. To me, none of these are any better than each other. It's just the beauty of music, where different artists can put their own feeling into it.
Here's the classic Love in Vain by Robert Johnson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRIgWqXI79Y
The 1971 version by Faces with Ronnie Wood. I love his slide tone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-zaUtVFt4&feature=related
the 1972 live version with Stones and Mick Taylor on slide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVW94UWgBg&feature=related
Eric Clapton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZCREueK6OI&feature=related
Keb Mo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkrapUIhh9c&feature=related
Haha,,,, cool, and 20 some years later, Ronnie Wood and the Stones and acoustic slide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEq1Xho1h3Q
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BTW, the "Life and Times of Love In Vain" is an excellent idea and I know I enjoyed it and hope everyone gives these versions a watch/listen.
Cheers.
I've seen the Stones quite a bit, too, over the years, starting in '69.
I like watching Keith and Ronnie interact at a show. They have an amazing communications and if you listen, you can hear them changing and weaving with each other. When one of them screws up, they smile and the other picks up. Most people make jokes about how wrinkly they and don't realize that they are some of the masters of playing minimalist and not overplaying. If there're four notes in a chord, you'll see Ronnie play two or three notes and Keith play one or two, and they're definitely enjoying it!
Last time I saw them, they did Love in Vain. Keith started out the song acoustic with Mick singing, no bass or drums.
There's Ronnie kind of laughing and goofing off bringing a stool out on stage, then went back and brought out his lap steel and was clumsily sitting down and adjusting the stool, and the guitar, then the stool,,,,,, when the second verse came in and he played the slide,,,,
Righteous tone that makes the hair stand up on my neck! :cool:
There must be more versions of Love in Vain out there, too. Not many notes to learn, but that's the beauty of the blues. It's all about the feeling and tone and technique!
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Agreed.
I assume you probably seen them in 2002-2003 last then? They rarely played Love in Vain on the Bigger Bang tour. I have yet to find another band that plays in the "ancient form of weaving" style.
One of the reasons I enjoy PJ is that they keep their playing very straightforward. Their simplest songs are some of my favorites too. (See: Footsteps, Indifference, Why Go)
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This is required viewing. Rory Gallagher going off!!!! notice the fluidity in the solos, not just your standard blues riffs, lot more in there at times.
yeah, definitely...
For old school Just go with the Kings- BB, Albert, Freddy.
Newer school go with SRV, Hendrix(Blues) and Clapton(From the cradle)
That's where I recommend starting.
check out SRV and Albert King live together in studio(Amazing!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBdJkTDgbw