Blues

RE: Blues, posted on August 29, 2015 at 09:01:34
andy evans Audiophile Posts: 4378 Joined: October 20, 2000	"I got bit by the blues many years ago and have not stopped listening ever since...." Better than years of therapy for the blues.....

RE: Blues, posted on August 29, 2015 at 10:48:10
mkuller Audiophile Posts: 38130 Location: SF Bay Area Joined: April 22, 2003	...blues are more similar to rock than what they listen to here. Love the blues...

What kind of blues?, posted on August 29, 2015 at 11:21:24
Amphissa Audiophile Posts: 2717 Location: Zardoz Joined: March 9, 2004	Delta blues? Chicago blues? R&B? Blues-inflected jazz? Gospel? British blues? Blue-based folk? "Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)

RE: Blues, posted on August 29, 2015 at 11:31:40
Kindablue Audiophile Posts: 1072 Joined: August 7, 2003	No the blues dont bring you down that is a mistake a lot of people believe truth is they take those blue feelings away. Go to a blueshow and you see people dancing not crying. Also the blues span a large area of musical styles be it delta, Texas, Piedmont with so many differant intruments to express those blues. But they have certain things in common and one is that they all tell a story.

RE: What kind of blues?, posted on August 29, 2015 at 13:19:36

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Amp I have always been partial to the delta blues, but slide guitar is a sound that really pulls me closer into the blues then most. Missippi Fred McDowell is great, but so is Lightnin Hopkins I could listen to his work all day and he played very little slide but was a great bluesman. Stephan Grossman is one hell of a artist. And everyone has heard of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Paul Butterfield those are the guys who most people know of if only by name. Howlin Wolf man could just with his vocals alone tear up the stage. Yet sitting and listing to Bobby Blue Bland was a treat, or John Hammond who is still touring. So many artists so many styles I love them all. Well not so much the British now Rory Gallagher man could do some great work then there is Little Jr. Parker like I said I followed them all and probably will never stop. I thank you all for allowing me to take up space on your site much appreciated. I cant forget Son House, Honeyboy Edwards who I talked with on one of his later shows amazing well you get the picture. Whatever you enjoy is the best to you in the end.
Keep it alive and the music will always survive by just spinning it and hitting the shows.
Time for some R&B on the radio now.

Robert Johnson is by far my favourite...., posted on August 29, 2015 at 13:47:13

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There's something comforting and soothing about this entire album.

I also find Jr. Kimbrough's 'Most Things Haven't Worked Out' powerful.

RE: Blues, posted on August 29, 2015 at 14:17:30

genungo

I like some of the older Texas Bluesmen, some from the Mississippi Delta and Hill Country, and various other oddballs. Many of them were masters of the slide guitar, of course. Some sang, some didn't...

- Blind Lemon Jefferson

- Blind Willie Johnson

- Reverend Gary Davis

- John Lee Hooker

- Lightnin' Hopkins

- R. L. Burnside

- Junior Kimbrough

- Elmore James

- Tampa Red

- Lonnie Johnson

- Howlin' Wolf

- Robert Johnson

- Mississippi Fred McDowell

- Mississippi John Hurt

There are many good bluesmen. These guys are a few of the majors.

RE: Robert Johnson is by far my favourite...., posted on August 29, 2015 at 14:49:44
mkuller Audiophile Posts: 38130 Location: SF Bay Area Joined: April 22, 2003	...the amazing thing is that these recordings were made in 1937 and sound so good. They make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Then there are his vocal inflections and spectacular guitar playing. The Devil mustave taught him.

no exhibitors at a hifi show will let you play this..., posted on August 29, 2015 at 17:17:42
kuma Audiophile Posts: 10272 Location: IN Joined: July 8, 2001	yet this is a good example of contents outweigh far more than the sonics. Same for Richter's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' Sofia live. Certain records just have a very magnetic power with a strong in room presence ( as if the artist is in the room ) regardless of recording quality.

A favourite Delta-blues man of mine is R.L. Burnside, posted on August 29, 2015 at 20:25:33
Timbo in Oz Audiophile Posts: 23221 Location: Canberra - in the ACT - SE Australia Joined: January 30, 2002	His first recordings made at his home IIRC are scary good. Warmest Tim Bailey Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger

While not strictly "blues" it's hard to go wrong with, posted on August 30, 2015 at 01:28:13
kavakidd Audiophile Posts: 20316 Location: Upstate NY Joined: April 15, 2004	Mance Lipscomb "Texas Songster" "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain

RE: Blues, posted on August 30, 2015 at 05:57:32

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Well you people know your blues thats for sure. It is an amazing music with a deep history full of stories that you cant believe are true but they are. Just makes the music that much more interesting.
Was listening to Little Walter yesterday man what can I say? Then Willliam Clarke> Can you hear me calling damn LP cover tells it all one that you just frame and hang on the wall. What I always enjoyed is that every blues show I would sit down before the show with those guys and just talk. They could have blown my off but never did, that is class. Thanks again for the talk people and dont forget the blues.

Luther Allison, Mississippi John Hurt,, posted on August 30, 2015 at 08:09:56
JeffH Audiophile Posts: 4574 Location: Orange County, So Cal Joined: April 5, 2000	Hound Dog Taylor, JB Hutto the list goes on and on with great bluesmen.

Yeah - the Blues should make you "feel better", posted on August 30, 2015 at 09:14:12
andy evans Audiophile Posts: 4378 Joined: October 20, 2000	The point of therapy for "the blues" is supposed to be that it makes you feel better. But it has some stiff competition from a night out with a great Blues band - like you say!!

The Blues ennoble , posted on August 30, 2015 at 12:15:04

genungo

The Blues ennoble. Memories and feelings associated with oppression, bad luck, etc.., don't seem so bad once they are skillfully memorialized as subject matter (musically or otherwise). Blues music is played in order to enrich rather than impoverish. The Blues don't celebrate tragedy, the Blues celebrate the fact that some of us are still alive after the fact. Because beauty shows it's face even in the midst of dark, unpleasant, or evil transactions.

I used to work at an artist-in-residence program and I remember one artistic bimbo from NYC in particular. She decried the fact that so many classical paintings had violent themes - rape, murder, martyrdom, etc... She was determined to turn the artistic legacy of male morbidity inside out. If Poussin or Rubens painted a scene of rape or murder, this happy bimbo would re-do these compositions by removing all "offending" figures, inserting colorful animals playing harmlessly in their place. By doing so she supposed that she was creating and fostering a *happy*, politically correct, world vision. Certain people there would clap with glee at the cuteness of her compositions and at the cleverness with which she undermined one male vision after the other...

Superficial schlock is way more depressing than ennobled tragedy.

The Sun is Shining

RE: Blues, posted on August 30, 2015 at 12:15:20
mkuller Audiophile Posts: 38130 Location: SF Bay Area Joined: April 22, 2003	...while reading in the evening, I often turn on the Comcast Blues channel as background music. They play some great old and new stuff. For newer slide guitar, I like the Delta Moon - the guitarist wrote a book about Dobros. Unfortunately, Comcast repeats many of the songs from night to night.

Have you ever heard Roy Eldridge sing the blues?, posted on August 30, 2015 at 21:34:10
Mike K Audiophile Posts: 13973 Location: 97701 Joined: September 23, 1999	My god he was good at it! Lack of skill dictates economy of style. - Joey Ramone

The Things I Used To Do*..., posted on August 30, 2015 at 22:42:20

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amongst them was the good fortune to have seen Mr. Albert Collins live some dozen times from
1977 until 1990 or so. There's SO MANY types of blues, and AC could take you through the electric ones, wring you out, leave you sweating, laughing, crying. The Master of the Telecaster is one of my all time favorite musicians, always gave his most. A veteran performer, a helluva geetarist, a humble and gracious gentleman.

* starts at 33:00

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure

I have - and I agree - when it comes to blues with a big band, posted on August 30, 2015 at 23:22:13
kavakidd Audiophile Posts: 20316 Location: Upstate NY Joined: April 15, 2004	My very favorite is Jimmy Rushing - nobody better IMO "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain

The MOFI SACD is fine., posted on August 31, 2015 at 22:16:51
Ozzie Audiophile Posts: 3814 Joined: August 1, 2002	Recorded on a cassette deck and in mono be darned.

RE: Have you ever heard Roy Eldridge sing the blues?, posted on September 2, 2015 at 06:47:03

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I just picked up Johnny Adams "Heart and soul some of his earlier work what a voice. Later on he got together with "The Duke" on guitar but still his vocals just improved with time. So many styles of music to listen to when it comes to the blues. Never stop finding new artists or old new artist so to speak also. Did I mention Little Junior Parker "Driving Wheel knocks me out. I got to stop with just two artists.

Have a look at this, posted on September 18, 2015 at 11:09:20

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If you don't have recordings of Ishmon Bracey, Tommy Johnson and some the Delta Blues originals.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/1489189-Ishman-Bracey

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