Blues Artists

Jam10
Jam10 Posts: 654
edited May 2008 in Musicians and Gearheads
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?
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Jam10 wrote:
    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?
    Out of Favor Boys. They're GREAT friends of mine but they're local Check out Howard and the White Boys, too, if you can. The Kalamazoo Blues Fest (where I live) is pretty well known in the blues world. Of course, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Charlie Parker, BB King, Joe Moon, and Ella Fitzgerald with Billie Holiday...yeah, those should start ya up.

    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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  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    Well, there's a broad question! :D


    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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  • ianvomsaal
    ianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    What kind fo jazz are we talking about, and are we talking GUITAR PLAYERS???
    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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  • The Vacant
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    Some that haven't been mentioned yet:

    Howlin' Wolf w/ Hubert Sumlin
    Albert King
    Alvin Youngblood Hart
    North Mississippi Allstars
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_Qnz8Dzv8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdyvPg0c6bI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW7BOYvX8ug
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXYAcVPDD4

    Jazz guitar:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXOrj7QAc8M
  • Jam10
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    Thanks guys! Ill have a listen.
  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    ianvomsaal wrote:
    What kind fo jazz are we talking about, and are we talking GUITAR PLAYERS???
    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).

    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! :D
    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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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    The Vacant wrote:
    Some that haven't been mentioned yet:

    Howlin' Wolf w/ Hubert Sumlin
    Albert King
    Alvin Youngblood Hart
    North Mississippi Allstars
    HOW COULD I FORGET HOWLIN' WOLF!!! Thanks, man!
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  • Pacomc79
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    to go on... John Lee Hooker, Clarence Gatemouth Brown....Robert Cray... SRV... Jeff Beck

    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.




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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Otis Redding and Booker T are AMAZING (as well as SRV and some Skynnard stuff)

    AND Average White Band...How could we all forget Miles Davis and John Coltrane? (It's spelled wrong, probably)
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
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    Wes Montgomery and John McLaughlin are my two favorite jazz guitarists.

    John played on Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew". Pick that shit up pronto.
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  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,940
    more rock blues guys:

    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
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    I forgot Robin Trower, need to have some Trower in your collection.

    and Rory Gallagher.
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  • Pappas
    Pappas Posts: 809
    hrd2imgn wrote:
    SRV(Stevie Ray Vaugh) excellent, maybe better than Jimi
    there's no maybe about it (when it comes to blues)

    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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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Pappas wrote:
    there's no maybe about it (when it comes to blues)

    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
    His version of Little Wing almost makes me cry...so amazing
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  • who's_pearljam?
    who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    When I'm thinking blues guitarists, I think back to the older masters
    Well, we got this far and I forgot to bring da man, into it!
    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 :D :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhRZha7ULWg&feature=related
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  • voodoopug
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    As far as blues goes, start at the beginning:

    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.
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