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How many blues fans?

StickmanJamStickmanJam Posts: 425
edited January 2009 in Other Music
I'm a blues lover. Listen to a lot of Clapton (Me and Mr. Johnson and From the Cradle are awesome), SRV, B.B., Buddy, Hendrix and the like.

A newer blues band that I love is Back Door Slam, if you haven't yet, I'd highly suggest checking out their debut album "Roll Away," the guitarist and singer, Davy Knowles, is like a young Clapton, and the band is very reminiscent of Cream. I saw them live opening for Govt. Mule and they absolutely kicked major ass.

Anyways, I can't get enough of the blues, anyone else share the love?
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  • CB206820CB206820 Posts: 105
    Davy is SPECTACULAR, and a nice guy to boot!!!!!

    He's a little more explosive than Clapton, just spectacular to see live!

    As a guitar player, I love the blues.
  • StickmanJamStickmanJam Posts: 425
    Davy is a real down to earth guy, met him after a show in CT in November. Just really laid back and generous.

    I'm also a guitar player myself, as you can see my strat pictured in my avatar.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I love the blues. My cousin's the lead guitarist for a San Francisco blues band called the Delta Wires, so it's in duh blooooooood:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OCsCqbi4P_Q
  • CB206820CB206820 Posts: 105
    StickmanJam wrote:
    Davy is a real down to earth guy, met him after a show in CT in November. Just really laid back and generous.

    I'm also a guitar player myself, as you can see my strat pictured in my avatar.
    Haha, I'm AKA keeponrockin, I have one of those strats too...

    I've hung with him a couple times, and he's just relaxed. You'd never know he's as amazing as he is just talkin to him.
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    I dig some blues, but BDS, don't do much for me. It's hard to be original with the blues and they don't pass the test imo. Nice to hear he's a cool dude.

    Love Gov't Mule.

    Hendrix and Zep had some cool straight up blues numbers, but they were better when they expanded on it.

    Black Crowes blow me away, especially live.

    SRV is just about as ridiculous as it gets as blues player. Soooooo much emotion. It's one thing to be able to paint a picture with a guitar, like alotta the other great blues/rock guitarists. It's another, when everything that comes out the amp explains feelings better than words could. You can always feel Stevie.
  • StickmanJamStickmanJam Posts: 425
    DewieCox wrote:
    I dig some blues, but BDS, don't do much for me. It's hard to be original with the blues and they don't pass the test imo. Nice to hear he's a cool dude.

    Love Gov't Mule.

    Hendrix and Zep had some cool straight up blues numbers, but they were better when they expanded on it.

    Black Crowes blow me away, especially live.

    SRV is just about as ridiculous as it gets as blues player. Soooooo much emotion. It's one thing to be able to paint a picture with a guitar, like alotta the other great blues/rock guitarists. It's another, when everything that comes out the amp explains feelings better than words could. You can always feel Stevie.


    I totally agree. In some cases with SRV, it's almost better he doesn't sing and let the guitar do the talking. In "Leave My Girl Alone" for example, the fills he puts in between the lyrics are just as powerful as the lyrics.

    And I forgot about the black crowes. Shake Your Money Maker and the Southern Harmony Music Companion have some great blues tunes.

    And Hey KeeponRockin, didn't know you changed your name, this change of board has me all screwed up. We've talked BDS and strats a few times as I remember. Anyways, I guess BDS is recording an album sometime soon, so I'm pumped.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    If you haven't heard the Crowes latest, Warpaint, I suggest it. More bluesy than any album since SYMM.

    I'm a Les Paul man myself, but I got a 08 Strat back in Aug and absolutely love it.
  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    gimme some blues ... yes please ...

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    I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn in concert in the mid 80's (he opened for Robert Plant) ... such an amazing show ... still remember that show vividly.
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  • Stu42Stu42 Posts: 178
    big blues fan, although I've always kind of skewed toward a more raw delta sound then clapton and SRV. Those guys are both incredible, but it's easy to start getting a little bland following that model. I'll have to check out back door slam, and I would definately suggest alvin youngblood hart and corey harris, have a great blues sound and expand on it very well I think.
  • CB206820CB206820 Posts: 105
    [quote="StickmanJamI
    And Hey KeeponRockin, didn't know you changed your name, this change of board has me all screwed up. We've talked BDS and strats a few times as I remember. Anyways, I guess BDS is recording an album sometime soon, so I'm pumped.[/quote]
    Yeah, last I heard Davy was recording basic tracks, and the other guys are taking a bit of time off at home right now.

    And The Crowes... holy shit what an amazing band.
  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,902
    Jimi Hendrix The Blues Album is second to none if you want some badass electric guitar blues- The mega version of Here my train a comin and red house....un fucking real
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    There was a period -- the college years and beyond mostly -- when all I listened to was the blues. Recently I have really been leaning in that direction again and most of the rock I listen to now is very bluesy. Being from Mizzip, it kind of seemed to me like I had to familiarize myself with the history of the blues. I actually taught a day of classes to a junior high class on the blues, playing songs and sharing a little history, which was actually kind of a blast. I've visited the Blues Museum in Clarksdale on several occasions too and stood at the supposed crossroads where Robert Johnson sold his soul.

    Clapton and SRV are at the center of the white boy blues and definitely were worthy torchbearers in my book, but BB, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Bobby Blue Bland and on and on and on are where it's at. A guy I absolutely love is Robert Cray....the guy is absolutely amazing to me. A lesser known named Corey Stevens, who I met once, did some really great stuff back in the '90s but I have not heard anything out of him in years.

    It's really a shame in a way that the blues really isn't embraced by black people as much any more. It is something you more often see carried on by the likes of Back Door Slam (which I must admit doesn't impress me much as a whole but I love the guitar playing) Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Castro and Jonny Lang. Check out Tommy Castro for some bad ass rockin' blues too. To me, blues is the most important genre there has ever been in the history of music because it all evolved from there.

    Warpaint is definitely one bad ass bluesy album and one of my favorites, so maybe that is what has led me back to it
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  • StickmanJamStickmanJam Posts: 425
    Stu42 wrote:
    big blues fan, although I've always kind of skewed toward a more raw delta sound then clapton and SRV. Those guys are both incredible, but it's easy to start getting a little bland following that model. I'll have to check out back door slam, and I would definately suggest alvin youngblood hart and corey harris, have a great blues sound and expand on it very well I think.

    Clapton's Mr and Mr. Johnson album is very much delta blues, mostly because it's all RJ covers, but I still think it's a great record.

    Also Clapton's unplugged album, with versions of before you accuse me, nobody knows you, alberta and the like are in the same vein.

    But I hear what you're saying, that raw delta sound is so soulful, you can absolutely feel the emotion bleeding through the guitar.
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  • stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Love the blues.......especially the more kick ass stuff,Crowes,Aynsley Lister,BB King.Got a lot of blues in my collection.
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