Im for the Top 200 Blues albums. Koko Taylor Live from Chicago Ronnie Earl Language of the Soul (Remember, if we get rid of cross-over bands we can have a little more room for the class blues artists who created the music all these cross-over bands derived their music from). Black and white photographs. His second album, Lets Hide Away And Dance Away With Freddy King, was all-instrumental and included his Top 10 US R&B smash, Hide Away. The 12-track LP showcased Kings influential electric guitar style with its percussive attack, clean tone and precise articulation. Music has always played a role in helping to define cultural moments throughout history. Mick Taylor. Allman Bros.? He plays a lot of cigar box guitars and unusual instruments. I also Roy Buchanan should be there. "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a recurring opinion survey and music ranking of the finest albums in history, compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone.It is based on weighted votes from selected musicians, critics, and industry figures. simply stunning, There is a Hendrix compilation, titled Blues. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Live in Europe. Missing: Unlike Memphis Minnie, pianist and singer Memphis Slim was an authentic Bluff City native. Stacker set out to find the best albums of the 21st century, compiling data from Metacritic (as of March 17, 2021). They come from the long-forgotten Kid Bailey (Rowdy Blues), Garfield Akers (Cottonfield Blues), Mississippi Joe Callicott (Fare Thee Well Blues), Jim Thompkins (Bedside Blues), Blind Joe Reynolds (Outside Woman Blues), and Rube Lacy (Mississippi Jailhouse Groan). With its looped guitar riff over a jaunty but mesmeric backbeat, Smokestack Lightnin proves the albums killer track. Thanks for reading thus far, if you have. The Blues is the blues some you like some you dont , some I like some I dont . West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop. you include SR Vaughan , but not his master !!! Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter - Hard Again Incredible! It was the singer/guitarists first-ever live recording and captured him at the peak of his powers, counterpointing his passionate vocals with stinging guitar lines. Slim Harpo best of Otis Grand, Blues 65 Otis Spann. Good list, but disappointed that Roomful Of Blues nor Duke Robillard were on it. and Ronnie Early, his 2002 release with Cleanhead Vinson. Ruth Brown, James Cotten, Son Seals, Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows, Little Ed and the Blues Imperials, The Staple Singers,Savoy Brown, John Hammond, Sister Roseta Thorp, Ko Ko Tylor, Bobby Blue Bland, Kokomo Arnald, I almost out of room here to bad I could name another hundred I bet. They are not blues bands, no matter how hard they try. Buddy Guy Stone Crazy Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (2019; Dark Descent) It's tempting to read pure escapism into the aesthetics of Colorado's Blood Incantationpulp sci-fi alien art adorns the front cover of their down-the-rabbit-hole-conspiracy named second album, Hidden History of the Human Race.And I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a lot of fun to be had when diving into . Also the Graham Bond Organisation. A potent blues-rock manifesto. Showdown! 13 in the Billboard 200. King Of The Delta Blues Singers was the first-ever compilation of his music and helped Johnson reach a new audience in the 1960s. 1. A pity there hasnt been a compilation album of his blues work, acoustic and electric. Bond, so glad you gave recognition to Roy Buchanan. I agree and was going to post the same. [1] [2] The album will be Raye's first project following her 2021 separation from Polydor Records. The star turn came from guitarist, Mike Bloomfield, whose fretboard work is outstanding throughout. Claptons presence galvanized the band on a mixture of original material and blues covers. Lacking a certain Bo Carter if you ask me, Spot on bro. Including blues standards as well as compelling versions of Hopkins signature tunes Mojo Hand and Short Haired Woman, the concert reveals the Lone Star state bluesman to be an engaging and humorous raconteur as well as a mesmerizing musician. And Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix werent the first performers to play the guitar between their legs or behind their heads on stage. Washingtons harmonic sophistication and ornate, highly ornamented style are revealed on twenty-three tunes that pay homage to the pianists New Orleans musical roots. Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, and Frank Zappa all cited Slim as a seminal influence. riquitrefe. Yeah saw him live at an Eric Clapton gig in Sheffield plays a fiddle (violin) not sure if there is a difference. 1. Key Track: Aint Nobodys Business, With his gruff voice accompanied by jagged, driving guitar and a boogie beat established by his tapping foot, the prolific John Lee Hooker forged an immediately recognizable delta blues sound that proved profoundly influential. His most impressive moments come on the churning My Time After Awhile and the blistering instrumental, Snowy Wood, which he co-wrote with Mayall. Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters Paul Rodgers (& friends) (1993) Listen to 100 Years Of The Blues on Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll down for our list of the best blues albums ever. Key Track: Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues, James Oscar Moore is better known as Slim Harpo, one of the chief architects of the influential swamp blues style that seeped out of deepest Louisiana in the late 50s. Give me a break! Preposterous. The Five faces of Manfred Mann is a great album that has withstood the passage of time. Though she comes from Burbank, California, Bonnie Raitt is a soulful singer and bottleneck guitarist whose music is steeped in the delta blues sound. Originally from Greenwood, Mississippi, Slim (real name Eddie Jones) enjoyed a recording career that only lasted eight years, between 1951 and 1959. RL Burnside- Come On In. Dank Bert, voor de aanvulling, prima keus ! Included are a couple of potent original tunes, including an epic 23-minute-long version of the progressive-rock-style Whipping Post.. urban crime concept album conscious introspective male vocals passionate violence. Janis Joplin? Born in Houston, this flamboyant singer and guitarist moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and is best remembered for his commercially successful marriage of pimped-up blues, funk and soul in the 1970s. I would also include Alvin Lee and Ten Years After Playing the Blues. Submit Corrections Typical North American rubbish. Backed by an ace band (which includes pianist Otis Spann and blues legend Muddy Waters), Smith breezes through eleven Little Walter tunes while putting his own indelible spin on them. 20. Blues For Harlem, his eighth long-player, was recorded in England for the British Armadillo label and contained a tribute to Davis in the shape of a spiritual medley called The Reverend & Me.. It remains a go-to compilation for those wishing to get acquainted with Kings 60s oeuvre. I Am The Blues Willie Dixon (1970) Such a list without any jimi Hendrix album sounds strange Between 1952 and 1959, he was a ubiquitous figure in the US R&B charts, racking up fifteen hit singles. A native of the fabled Crescent City, Isidore Tuts Washington was a piano-playing purveyor of a uniquely New Orleans-style of music that blended blues with rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, ragtime, and jazz. Leaving out Willie Dixons I AM The Blues was egregious. The Groundhogs Split is one of the best unknown albums of all time, easily. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Ledbetter Heights Awesome! The group included a couple of blues covers: raw but incendiary versions of Albert Kings The Hunter and Jimmy Odens Howlin Wolf-associated Goin Down Slow.. Handy found and lost at the Tutwiler train depot in 1903. I agree with you regarding Savoy Brown, John. Born in Harlem and raised in Massachusetts, Mahal (real name Henry Saint Clair Fredericks) is a singer, guitarist and blues harp player who performed with a California-based band called Rising Sons with Ry Cooder before signing a solo deal with Columbia in 1967. Produced by frontman Michael Gira, the album featured musical guests St. Vincent, Bill Rieflin and Cold Specks. Johnny Winter First Winter. 2 R&B hit in 1946 with Driftin Blues. Two years later, Brown who had a profound influence on a young Ray Charles went solo and recorded for the Aladdin label. there were probably about 20 people there, and each time after it became more and more crowded ,not because we were awakened to the music by Elvis,Mick and Keith , and Clapton Key Track: Baby Please Dont Go, From Montgomery, Alabama, Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton is a one-hit-wonder whose claim to fame was her two-million-selling single, Hound Dog, a Leiber-Stoller tune which spent seven weeks at the summit of the US R&B chart in 1953 and was later covered by Elvis Presley. At least this got people talking and Im sure that many will be picking the lists for stuff they may have missed. Released 42 years after his death, King Of The 12-String Guitar is a retrospective featuring tracks he recorded during 1935 in New York City for the American Recording Company. Key Track: She-Wolf, The blues was the musical bedrock beneath Jimi Hendrixs flamboyant, high-decibel psychedelic rock style which sent seismic shockwaves through the music world of the late 1960s. But I am so happy _not_ to see Joe Bonamassa. However, lets not forget the blues was all but forgotten until musicians like Eric, Duane, Mick and Keith among others revived the genre. Big Joe Turner, with Count Basie, Kansas City; on Pablo Blues by Willie Brown, mainly remembered as Charley Pattons sidekick but who purportedly influenced Robert Johnson. Duke Robillard & The Pleasure Kings Rockin Blues Donde esta THE LONDON SESSION HOWLIN WOLF, I own most of the 100 mentioned but would like consideration for: Muddy Waters The London sessions, Big Joe Williams Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick. And speaking of Brooks, Ill bet Lonnie Brooks is going to come out with a top 200 LP one of these days. No John Hammond? A 2-CD set, Father Of The Delta Blues, captures a 63-year-old House revisiting some of his most potent songs, including Death Letter, Preachin Blues and Dry Spell Blues.. New Releases. Ultimately who is the definer of what blues is and whether an artist is truly a blues artist? THIS IS A WHITE FOLKS LIST. As a Englishman I very rarely meet other Cuby & The Blizzard Fans here. Though he possessed a distinctive gravelly singing voice and played bass and guitar, hes more famous as a prolific songwriter; he was responsible for penning some of the key blues songs of the 1950s, including Spoonful, Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man, and The Little Red Rooster. He serves up his own striking interpretations of those three blues evergreens on this 1970 LP, the sixth album of his career, on which he sings and plays bass in the company of a smoking band that includes harmonica player Big Walter Horton and Chess Records session pianist Lafayette Leake. Check out the album The Blues aint Bad on YouTube. The missing link between rural delta Mississippi blues and its electrified Chicago cousin, singer/guitarist/harmonica player Wolf first made his mark with a potent succession of singles between 1951 and 1956 for Chess. From Vinton, Louisiana, but raised in Texas, Brown was a multi-instrumentalist who, inspired by axe-slinger, T-Bone Walker, began his career playing blazing electric guitar. Both are brilliant guitar players and got great voices. Early 21st Century Blues is an album by the Canadian alt-country band Cowboy Junkies, released in 2005. Live At The Regal is widely considered one of the best blues albums of all time and purportedly had a profound influence on British guitarists Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. Born Ruth Lee Jones in Alabama, Washington possessed a distinctive voice defined by clear diction and a tart, bittersweet tone. Is there a link to the Spotify playlist anywhere? The presence of Big Bill Broonzys Key To The Highway and Chuck Willis Its Too Late honors the groups blues roots though its an original tune, Layla that won the critical plaudits. An exponent of the Chicago blues style, Taylor recorded this, his debut album in 1971 as the inaugural release on Bruce Iglauers Windy City-based Alligator label. And what about Roy Buchanan When a Guitar plays the Blues? My first concert was the Jefferson Airplane with the warm up band The Yardbirds in 1967. No song by Roy Buchanan? Though famed for its classic title cut (a superstitious ode co-written by Booker T. Jones of the famous Bluff City R&B quartet, Booker T & The MGs), Born Under A Bad Sign also included Kings smash singles Laundromat Blues, Cold Feet, and Crosscut Saw. The album would prove a touchstone for southern electric blues, influencing the likes of Otis Rush, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Love Paul Butterfield, Little Walter list goes on, maybe not in the top 100 albums but in top 100 harp players Richard Newel AKA King Biscuit Boy. Before then, though, he was an aspiring bluesman influenced by the on-stage antics of extrovert guitarist T-Bone Walker and first made his mark in the 1950s combining his smooth vocals with humorous lyrics and dazzling fretboard pyrotechnics. you cant win with a list like this . Though he was the new blues kid on the block, Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.) showed a musical maturity and fretboard virtuosity beyond his years on blues-steeped tracks like the title song, Hit The Ground Running, and the jazz-tinged, easy-swinging Rack Em Up.. Drown In My Own Tears My 21st Century Blues is the ultimate act of catharsis, full of big emotions expressed with revealing honesty. Those who fell under Blakes spell included the Reverend Gary Davis, Ry Cooder, and Ralph McTell. And consider the folks whose paths never crossed those of the white historians or those who sang only to themselves and their God. You forgot Hookern Heat. Maybe you did research but you seem biased to American and English whites as well as universally recognized blues artists! Please, listen to sean costello playing talk to your daughter and watsons three hours past midnight, No blues list that excludes Peter Green can be taken seriously. Influenced by Blind Boy Fuller and mentored by the Reverend Gary Davis, he made his first record, a single called Catfish Blues, in 1966. Also featured is M.O. Desolation and Groeten uit Grolloo by Cuby & Blizzards My ugly complex beautiful mosaic formed from broken pieces of glass from the last seven years of my life. Nick gravenites my labors Layla may not be pure blues but it is blues enough to me. Genres. Backed by a band with horns, King is in majestic form, serving up some of his most famous numbers, including his then-recent hit, The Thrill Is Gone, and a medley of his big 1950s R&B hits. The albums opening song Samson & Delilah was later covered by Peter, Paul & Mary and the Grateful Dead. Uh, no. My 21st Century Blues is the upcoming debut studio album by British singer and songwriter Raye, set to be released independently through the distribution label Human Re Sources on 3 February 2023. Id include The Paul Butterfield Blues Band LIVE double LP and Charlie Musselwhites often overlooked Tennessee Woman. Id be quite tempted to include Janis Joplins I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama! since we have a Soul-Blues cross-over Aretha Franklin. Other gems come in the shape of Im Glad You Reconsidered, the brassy proto-soul ballad, So Many Tears, and the mid-tempo lament, Pay Day Blues, which highlight Fulsons full-bodied, expressive voice and choppy guitar style. Everyones would be different and we all wonder how isnt this or that album included or this or that artist Certainly overall I think you got the vast majority of choices right. What about African Blues.Ali Farka Toure. The winner of five Grammy awards, Georgia-born Robert Cray is considered a member of the blues old guard. Born Eunice Waymon in North Carolina, Simone was a highly accomplished classically-trained musician who harbored dreams of being a concert pianist until racisms ugly reality made her turn to the worlds of blues, spirituals and jazz. Other omissions that certainly belong: Jimmy Witherspoon, Charles Brown, and Dave Van Ronk. Omar&Howlers:I Told You So. Kings 1969 smash, The Thrill Is Gone, and Cecil Gants 1944 hit, I Wonder., Riley B. from 1966. Tom Rush Blues, Songs & Ballads Strong Persuader, his fourth long-player recorded three years later, went double platinum in the USA, where it peaked at No. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. He is almost as bad as Eric Clapton. Peter Green. I would have included Otis Spann LP-The biggest thing since Colossus.John Lee Hooker LP-Live at cafe au-go-go.Muddy Waters 2LP-Fathers and Sons.Earl Hooker LP-Hooker and Steve.Cheers to All. Jack Bruce. Hollywood Fats Rock this House Rl burnside ass in pocket and finally graham bond organisation live at klooks kleek . Elmore James - Blues Master Works. Im in shock Hendrix Axis bold as love is not on here. You missed a real gem..Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. He rose to fame as a charismatic purveyor of folk-blues in the 1930s and went on to influence everyone from Lonnie Donegan and Bob Dylan to Nirvanas Kurt Cobain. The album is off the list? Blues is black. I was happy to see Texas Flood made the list. Not only as a rocker but as a bluesman. Memphis Slim Lonesome. Ive been listening to and playing the blues for about 50 years now. Other highlights include Whos Cheating Who, Baby I Love You, and I Feel So Bad.. A couple of albums that should have been included are: John Lee Hooker-I Am John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson-One Way Out. A Top 5 R&B hit, the timeless At Last, was her bluesy reconfiguration of a 1942 tune by big band jazzman, Glenn Miller. Totalmente de acuerdo, sobre todo en lo relacionado con Ronnie Earl. This album collected together some of Guys best Chess sides, including First Time I Met The Blues, and his 1962 US R&B hit, Stone Crazy. Windy City electric blues at its visceral, compelling finest, it clearly stands among the best blues albums ever. Weve set ourselves another, almost, impossible challenge. Chris Moran is RIGHT ON. On this magnificent album, however, he played an acoustic guitar on what was an intimate, unplugged-style session that attempted to latch on to the folk music revival of the early 60s. I like Fats Domino singing the blues He did a lot of blues, mostly his earley recordings. savoy browns street corner talkin needs to be included! Hes more of a Rock Band. King, you need a better recommendation than that?? Havent listened to much blues since I got sober but it holds a special place in my heart. Joe Bonamassa is easily worthy of this list. John Mayall is not in the pantheon of blues artists. I did not rate him myself to be on the list. King, who are pictured alongside many other blues legends on the albums collage-like cover. Im checking him out at a small venue this August. in my opinion A Hard Road is at least as good if not better than the John Mayall albums listed. Have a Good Bluesdigging Life , Bert!!!! I remember the first time I saw Muddy Waters at the Jazz Workshop in Boston 1965? From Muddy Waters to B.B. You might really want to check out Justin Johnson If Walls Could Talk and Smoke and Mirrors. A must-own if ever there was one. If you asked leading University music appreciation doctorate professors , I am CERTAIN you would find popularity and technical statistics that could not agree with the idem listing you have posted. The groups blues roots are reflected by their meaty repurposing of songs by T-Bone Walker (Stormy Monday), Blind Willie McTell (Statesboro Blues), and Elmore James (Done Somebody Wrong). The 31 tracks on this double-CD trace the journey John Lee, and the Blues, made from the Delta to the city, and on to the whole world. Have you heard his Blues and Ballads album with Elmer Snowden? I would also include their Raw Sienna. I think 100 albums is too limiting. Half of the songs were previously unissued sides, ranging from wailing blues ballads to sober meditations on loss, bad luck and prison life. Im glad to see both old and new records on the list, but one of my all-time favorite is missing; Walter Trout. Dont forget to listen the whole album Live in Dusseldorf Walker joined Lew Chudds Imperial label in 1950 for a four-year stint that is represented by the 52 tracks on this two-disc anthology. Also, no Lonnie Mack. What is abundantly clear, though, is the visceral power of Johnsons music, originally released on a series of 78-rpm singles between 1936 and 1937. Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation with John Moorshead? Magic Slim The essential Best of all is Percy Mayfields Memory Pain, transformed into a riff-heavy hard-rock workout. this sucks, Your additions of sited omissions sir are excellent sited examples.. James was 64 when he recorded Today! Other standouts included Sen-Sa-Shun and San-Ho-Zay., Tons Of Sobs was British blues-rock quartet Frees debut album for Chris Blackwells Island label. The London Howlin Wolf Sessions Howlin Wolf (1971) Glad folks mentioned Duster Bennett and Rod Piazza, Gravetes, and Alex Koris. Man, did they miss a lot. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel. Wheres KoKo Taylor, Tinsley Ellis Shemika Copeland and Luther Allison. etc etc. The Genius of Earl Hooker Earl Hooker (1968) I WANT TO HEAR IT ALL!! This, the Butterfield Blues Bands sophomore LP, was commercially more successful than its predecessor, peaking at No. A prolific recording artist and virtuosic guitarist, New Orleans-born Johnson was a blues pioneer who invented the idea of the lead guitar solo. What about William Clarke, Rod Piazza, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, etc? 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