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Also thanks for the list and for everyone adding their favorites. Though born in Paris to Austrian and Greek parents, Korner became one of the prime movers and shakers of the influential British blues scene in the 1960s. Unsettling Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Other highlights were Cuttin In, a chugging beat ballad with strings and the skipping R&B-flavored Broke & Lonely, where Watsons assured vocals are punctuated by dancing horns.
The Springsteen comparisons were fair: not since the Boss had music sounded so good driving along an empty highway. The music ranges from songs associated with blues acts Ray Charles, Sonny Boy Williamson and Albert King to rock groups Traffic, The Band, and Cream. More accessible but no less skilful or hard-hitting than its predecessors, Damn rightly became the first non jazz or classical album to win the Pulitzer prize for music.
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This triple CD set focused on an overlooked collection of early Hooker recordings that remained unreleased until the 1970s. Key Track: Shake Your Hips, From Riverton, Mississippi, Eddie Son House was one of the delta blues styles principal architects. Willie Dixon Listen to the album.
Listen to the album. Indeed. The album is Harp Attack. Listen to the album. Key Track: Truckin My Blues Away, An influential purveyor of Piedmont blues who was blind from early childhood and famed for his fluid finger-picking style, South Carolina-born Davis was 64 when he recorded this seminal album in 1960 at the dawn of a folk revival. Bad Company? A great blues album, and did as much as any album to enlighten the average 70s rock fans to the greatness of the blues.
This album was the fledgling groups rush-released second studio LP, helmed by Blue Horizon boss, Mike Vernon. The cracked poetry (Jigsaw pattern dominoes left a trail / The whites of their eyes / Polaroids of the tale) was chewed up and then spat out for moshpit soundbites (Cut away!, Is it heavier than air?), between see-sawing riffs and bursts of pure noise. Both are brilliant guitar players and got great voices. Excellent. The title of the album was : In fact, well shall never know who the truest bluesmakers were or where they came from.
Initially grabbing headlines for its pay-what-you-want release online, it quickly became clear that this was one of Radioheads greatest albums. Blues is black. Second Winter, his sophomore album a three-sided LP with the fourth side left intentionally blank featured his younger brother, Edgar, on keys. Notably Canadas Downchild (a.k.a. Give me a break!
An de andere kant, ach, zon lijstje slaat toch eigenlijk helemaal nergens op, Hi Bert. Then I listened to Escapism, then I started to listen to the whole album, then immediately started for
Excellent recording with a superb interview of Nighthawk by Michael Bloomfield!
I would add Tripping Thru a Midnight Blues by Cuby and The Blizzards myself Bert I do love Desolation and Groeten uit Grolloo by Cuby & Blizzards 100 best albums of the 21st century, according to critics Music has always played a role in helping to define cultural moments throughout history. Key Track: The Things That I Used To Do, The son of noted African American actor, Ossie Davis, native New Yorker Guy Davis has divided his life between music-making and acting (he appeared as Robert Johnson in an off-Broadway play about the singers life). Also Jeff Beck TRUTH..Robin Trower Bridge Of SighsTen Years After-A Space In Time.Fabulous Thunderbirds Butt RockinThe Stones Get Your Ya Yas Out..Ray Charles -The Genius Sings The Blues.and pretty sure its blaspemy not to have Peter Green-Jimi Hendrix-Janis Joplin-George Thorogood or Big Mamma Thornton on a blues list somehow A blues shouter from Arkansas who possessed a rich, resonant voice, Witherspoon rose to fame in the 1940s with pianist Jay McShanns band before going solo and topping the US R&B charts in 1949 with Aint Nobodys Business. That particular song features on the singers iconic 1959 album, At The Monterey Festival, which was included as part of the 1972 live double LP compilation, Spoon Concerts. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. I have to disagree with you concerning the Alman Brothers not being a blues band. It included super-charged blues-inflected versions of songs by writers as diverse as Chuck Berry (Johnny B. Goode, given a fuel-injected makeover), Bob Dylan, Albert Collins, and Little Richard.
Led Zepplin First album They included the chart-topping Messin Around, one of many standout cuts on Blues Greats, alongside the humorous Beer Drinking Woman. Frankie & Johnny Boogie is a pulsating solo piano piece highlighting Slims keyboard prowess. Im with you, Slim. Hurt possessed a distinctive singing voice: a light, airy, high tenor, which he underpinned with a delicate but rhythmically fluent fingerstyle guitar accompaniment. 2.
The sets 24 songs include Williamsons most popular sides: his signature tune Good Morning, School Girl, plus Got The Bottle Up And Go and Sugar Mama Blues.
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.
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A sightless singer who accompanied his smooth voice with rhythmically-flowing acoustic guitar lines, Blind Arthur Blake was a pioneer of the east coast Piedmont blues style, renowned for its ornate, ragtime-style, finger-picking. I also agree with Chriss statement that cross over artists should have been dropped in favor of true blues legends.
But I am so happy _not_ to see Joe Bonamassa. Think weve missed one of the best blues albums? Well done Bert, I would say add To blind to see from Cuby and the Blizzards to the list as well. wearethepit.com - Michael Pementel. The songs here are full of the horrible electricity of grief, Win Butler sometimes hollering at the pain, sometimes burned out by it. Many of them appeared on this album, which despite its title, was recorded in a studio and not in front of an audience.
Listen to the album. Pepsiisgood. Amen brother, what a joke. Listen to the album. 1 single, Blue Shadows, which features on this double LP compilation of recordings made between 1955 and 1962.
Whatever his best technical album might be, I believe it was In Step that brought Stevie further to the attention of music lovers, not just blues lovers.
Feeling lazy. This Mississippi delta blues mans immortality largely rests on his influential 1935 recording Baby Please Dont Go, which spawned almost a hundred different interpretations, including hit versions by the rock bands Them and AC/DC.
Guitar Shorty Roll Over Baby Heat Jay-Z performs with The Roots in 2001. YES too many Blues-Rock releases and BLUES FOR A ROTTEN AFTERNOON isnt even on the list, so THAT tells me the compilers are just kids.
Twenty points were allocated for a No 1 choice, down to one point for No 20. Why not include Men At Work and Bay City Rollers?
The albums opening song Samson & Delilah was later covered by Peter, Paul & Mary and the Grateful Dead.
Think in those terms and some of the classic rock bands qualify. James Murphys group were the smart, snippy toast of Brooklyn after the hyper-literate breakthrough tracks Losing My Edge and Yeah. On their second album, they broke through the snark, pondering their identities as New Yorkers, Americans and thirtysomethings and with a range of potential dance moves, from pogoing to sleek disco shapes.
Source Point & Southern Fried with Duane Allman!!! Wheres KoKo Taylor, Tinsley Ellis Shemika Copeland and Luther Allison. deservedly won a Grammy in 1986, and is clearly among the best blues albums ever. B. king Live and Well.
ShortList. Oscar Brown Jr, Between Heaven and Hell, Columbia You forgot Hookern Heat. Both players enjoying the company they were keeping. Dank Bert, voor de aanvulling, prima keus ! Agree with Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters. Willie Dixons Chess Box MUST be included hands down one of the best blues compilations ever! Listen to the album.
Also the Graham Bond Organisation. Dubbed the king of the string, Nighthawk was born Robert Lee McCollum in Arkansas. Folding in influences from LAs beat scene including Kamasi Washington and Flying Lotus Lamar exploded the possibilities for rap in the 2010s, bouncing like a car down Crenshaw on to neo-soul, jazz and squelchy funk. From the spine-tingling four-note downward melody that opens Everything in Its Right Place, it was clear that Radiohead had taken a huge leap into colder, stranger territory. King, often come up. Even people who love the blues can manage to leave Willie Dixon off this list. Under the name Elmo James, he scored a Top 10 R&B hit with a searing cover of Johnsons Dust My Broom for the Trumpet label in 1952. Witherspoon blends a rugged, bluesy earthiness with svelte jazz sophistication in the company of two legendary saxophonists (Ben Webster and Gerry Mulligan) and trumpeter Roy Eldridge. Johnny and Muddy during their time together was priceless! 1.
Regarded as one of the best guitarists of all-time, Clapton paid tribute to his blues roots with this, his thirteenth solo studio LP. ALSO, guys: Where the heck is THE BEST OF MUDDY WATERS (also known as Sail On in reissue). A nimble-fingered guitar wizard from County Donegal, Ireland, who played like a man possessed, Gallagher led the band Taste in the second half of the 1960s before going solo in 1971. A massive leap in ambition as the synthpop of Visions was pulled into HD, driven up a gear and transformed into pop-punk as thrillingly fast and trashy as a Nascar race.
guess they assume its soul or r and b, but his early stuff was straight blues.
Something from Audience? Thousands of blues albums were released in the years between 2000 and 2009, and the decade not only brought us exciting, late-career masterpieces from blues veterans like B.B. King and Buddy Guy but also introduced us to fresh young talents like Nick Moss and Watermelon Slim that will continue to entertain us for years. And I applaud you for alphabetical as opposed to a merit ranking. Where is the westafrican blues!? The album topped the US R&B charts but proved to be Kings only No. Chicken Shack, and I didnt see Savoy Brown, Climax Blues Band and the Chicago Blues Band.
Ill definitely be checking them out. I would have included, SRV & Joe Bonamassa, plus looking at some of the artists there, i would have had J GEILS Band, Live Full House.
I believe this really should be Moanin in the Moonlight out in 1962 with Moanin at Midnight as the first song on this release. One of them, the iconic I Pity The Fool, features on this 26-track retrospective focusing on his work for the Memphis Duke imprint, which also includes the hits Cry Cry Cry, Dont Cry No More, and Turn On Your Love Light. Admired by Van Morrison and Simply Reds Mick Hucknall, Bland won many awards and muddied the boundaries between rhythm and blues and soul music. WebFind many great new & used options and get the best deals for Fast Eddys Blue Band Blues Club (signed) at the best online prices at eBay! Drown In My Own Tears Very best of that particular genre that includes Canned Heat and Ten Years After. Listen to the album.
What about African Blues.Ali Farka Toure.
Everything that Johnson recorded is on this 30-track compilation, a compelling testament to his genius.
A feel-good collaboration between two Texas veteran guitar slingers and newcomer, Cray, Showdown! Deeply influenced by blues music, Belfast-born Gary Moore started his career playing the guitar with Northern Irish band Skid Row in the early 70s before briefly joining Thin Lizzy.
Any Live Allman Bros. 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.
Hes great. Alvin Lee.
He was born with an eye condition that resulted in total blindness by the time he was 21, but it didnt curtail his ability to make music and in the 1930s he was a prolific recording artist, cutting some 120 sides that were released by a variety of labels. Nicknamed the Guitar Wizard, Red cut his first record in 1928 and his final one, thirty-two years later.
Fleetwood Mac Irish rose.
Muddy Waters The London Sessions.
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.
Live Gary Clark Jr. (2014). Son seals koko Taylor missed them stones bull, Joe Bonamassa Stacker compiled data on the top 50 rock albums from the 21st century according to Best Ever Albums, which ranks albums according to their appearance and I would have include Bukka White, but thats just my personnal taste.
It also anticipated the way Londons clubland and indeed communities would be hollowed out by gentrification. Good listening. Humble Pie? After years of obscurity, James would finally taste acclaim in the 1960s when he recorded more frequently. The album highlights Carrs smooth and more sophisticated urban blues vocal style, which would influence Nat King Cole and Ray Charles.
Peter Green. ought to be there:
I Am The Blues Willie Dixon (1970) Bad Axe by Son Seals is definitely missing, Boom Boom by John Lee Hoover is definitely deserving, and Clarence Gatemouth Brown probably should also be included.
1 LP. He spliced the itchy drumnbass and industrial moods that fascinated him in the 90s with terrifically freaky jazz, symphonic balladry and on Girl Loves Me authentically heavy rap. A bottleneck guitar specialist from Rossville, Tennessee, McDowell first learned to play slide guitar using a filed-down beef bone.
Incendiary covers of tunes by Albert King, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, and Robert Johnson reflected the groups debt to the many American blues artists that had inspired them to make music.
Groundhogs should be in there and Chicken Shack as previously mentioned.
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Between 1949 and 1952, this Texas-born chemistry teacher-turned-singer/pianist racked up 12 Top 20 US R&B chart entries, including two number ones, Trouble Blues and Black Night. With his velvety tone and smooth phrasing, Brown brought a sense of urban sophistication to the blues; initially, as part of Johnny Moores Blazers, a Los Angeles-based trio who scored a No. Janis Joplin? Stacker compiled data on the top 50 rock albums from the 21st century according to Best Ever Albums, which ranks albums according to their appearance and performance on 40,000 editorial and data-based charts (e.g., Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard, etc.).
James Cotton, first LP on Vanguard I agree with you about Joe Bonamassa and John Hammond! The Fabulous Thunderbirds: `Girls Go Wild Featuring tracks recorded in Memphis during 1962, Jelly Roll King chronicles Frosts work for Phillips International, a label run by Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, and the Louisiana-based Jewel imprint. Why the heck you did not mention Williw Dixon Im the Blues?
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A former Baptist preacher who was imprisoned for a year after killing a man in self-defense, he sang with a sermonizing intensity, accompanying his vocals with metallic slide guitar.
Add: Testament Records Modern Chicago Blues.. No one mentioned Hadda Brooks. Rory Block When a woman gets the blues Sweet! Though the album shot to No.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi, singer/pianist Otis Spann moved to Chicago when he was 22 and made his mark on the burgeoning Windy City blues scene of the late 1940s. The Smokin Joe Kubek Band Served up Texas Style
Re; the Allman Brothers. Listen to the album. Well, have we succeeded? Man, did they miss a lot.
I know most folks think of Louis Armstrong as Jazz, but for me, Id include some of his work.
It was rekindled at the end of the 50s by young white Americans fascinated by their nations folk and blues heritage. Soccer - The 100 Best Albums of The 21st Century | Music | The Guardian Winehouse at her most innocent if you could ever call her that, given the cheekiness of songs like Fuck Me Pumps. Weblists The 15 best blues albums of the 2000's A list by DJ_LuPe Categories: 2000s, Genre [List557744] | +1 | Log in to suggest an addition Only one album per artist, in chronological Bert. SRV and Double Trouble, In Step. Best Albums of 2023 - User Score. Blue Streak Luther Allison (1995) Listen to the album.
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.
Best of all is Percy Mayfields Memory Pain, transformed into a riff-heavy hard-rock workout. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Live in Europe. Lizzie Douglas was better known as Memphis Minnie, a prolific country blues doyenne originally from Algiers, Louisiana, who got her first guitar as a Christmas present when she was seven. Some of them turned up on this, his debut LP, a blues barnstormer that took his unique style of music to a new audience. Really enjoyed your list and found many great recommendations from all the comments as I sit here listening to Showdown! THE BLUES! Kaj <3 , Rocking at the Tweed Mill. released in 1972, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv370LpF0cU His self-titled debut album showcased Mos old school, acoustic-based style, which is an amalgam of rural and urban blues styles spiced with country, calypso and folk flavors. The biggest was the chart-topping Juke, a driving instrumental attributed to Little Walter & His Night Cats, which begins this 20-song overview of the harmonica players fertile Chess tenure. Good try but no Johnny Shines (with Shakey Horton) or Peatie Wheatstraw.
Born Aaron Thibeaux Walker, this Texas singer and guitarist was renowned for his flamboyant showmanship. I noticed that too. The master of the Telecaster?
I WANT TO HEAR IT ALL!!
Little Walter playing with their back up on Checkin it out is a sensational album. Give a listen to the techno sounds of Isole, hip-hop's Missy Elliott, the pounding dubstep by Britain's Burial, and Frank Ocean's lively rhythm and blues, soul, and Somebody just went through his own collection. Born Ruth Lee Jones in Alabama, Washington possessed a distinctive voice defined by clear diction and a tart, bittersweet tone. Strong Persuader, his fourth long-player recorded three years later, went double platinum in the USA, where it peaked at No. This, his debut LP, collected together some of Kings seminal big hits for the Bihari brothers RPM label. But you have forgotten one very important British blues classic from that time, Five Live Yardbirds with the Yardbirds (Eric Clapton was one of members at that time, replaced later by Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page). No Ronnie Earl! Possessing a voice that the LPs liner notes liken to gravel through a swamp, Taylor dishes up eleven tunes co-produced by and featuring the eloquent fingerboard work of guitarist Mighty Joe Young.
On her debut, Keys was a traditionalist steeped in pedigree, but not so schooled that it stifled her vulnerability. King, you need a better recommendation than that??
Listen to the album. King Of The Delta Blues Singers was the first-ever compilation of his music and helped Johnson reach a new audience in the 1960s. Dont ever, ever, ever miss this one!
With Johnny Winter,James Cotton Steady Rollin Bob Margolin, Charles Calmese and Willie Big Eyes Smith this would be near or at the top of my Top 100! In a slightly more dialed up vein, Id also include Anthony Gomes. More information. The deaths of relatives of band members Regine Chassaigne, Richard Reed Parry, and Win and Will Butler underpinned the (mostly) Canadian bands debut.
Listen to the album. And no one mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughs double Lp, Live. Great.
They are however some albums of undead white people who could be integrated in such a list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEm5zJKMksc
Not that I know of anyway.
One James Cotton album and two Mayall. That Frank Ocean appears three times in this list is testament to his universal appeal this mixtape debut opened with a Coldplay cover, and Radiohead, the Eagles and even a sample of Nicole Kidman crop up, too. I have 28 of them and I feel pretty good about that. Friday Top: 20 Best Blues Albums of All Time 1 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Texas Flood 2 B.B. King - Live at the Regal The King of the Blues himself, Mr. 3 Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers On the third spot, we have one of the historically most important artists of the 20th century who pretty much More items 100. Listen to the album. Hes another haunting, beautiful player who might not have come to your attention yet. In 1994, however, this compilation containing eleven tracks, six of which were previously unissued, highlighted his connection with musicians like Howlin Wolf and B.
During that short time, he topped the US R&B charts for fourteen weeks with the 1954 million-selling single, The Things That I Used To Do, with a young Ray Charles producing and playing the piano.
By then, Davis who was proficient on the banjo, guitar, and harmonica had been a minister for 30 years and had a string of recordings to his name that stretched back to the 1930s. Rogers 1950s sides for Chess Records were combined for Chicago Bound, a compilation LP that featured cameos from Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Willie Dixon. His innovation, radical at the time, of playing single-note melodies that combined expressive string-bending and vibrato, eventually became the norm and was adopted by a host of fretboardists, including Django Reinhardt and T-Bone Walker.
Desolation and Groeten uit Grolloo by Cuby & Blizzards 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. Of the five albums he made in his 35 years, this, his debut, is arguably his best, showcasing his compelling fretboard style and commanding tone.
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. Jay-Z had been working on his rap game for five years within the public eye after his 1996 debut Reasonable Doubt and, on 2001s Larry Taylor.
A multicultural celebration, a political statement and a middle finger up to misogynists. I met a Dutch girl back around 1970 and took her to Tower Records at Bay and Columbus in S.F. King and Koko Taylor to Shemekia Copeland, discover the records that made it onto our list of the best blues albums ever. Although there will always be missing someting. This, the Butterfield Blues Bands sophomore LP, was commercially more successful than its predecessor, peaking at No.
for Seymour Solomons Vanguard label but his expressive falsetto voice, underpinned by gently undulating guitar filigrees, sounded better than ever. And I didnt know people were so mixed on Bonamasa. Theres no debating this fact.
By channelling the straight-talking soulfulness of Etta James and the no-nonsense imperiousness of Big Mama Thornton, Copeland forged her own declamatory style and showed that she could handle slow ballads and uptempo material with equal aplomb. Kevin Martins discordant and seductive second, voicing his discontent via an array of guest MCs. Speaking of full, I miss Blind Boy Fuller.
I did not rate him myself to be on the list. Early on in his career, White recorded under the pseudonyms Pinewood Tom, The Singing Christian, and Tippy Barton before using his real name.
Key Track: Rooster Blues.
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He steps in and out of the shadows as Otis leads the band. How is that left off? This, the better of her two albums this year, is
A potent blues-rock manifesto. Live on the Queen Mary Professor Longhair (1978) Nicknamed Miss Peaches, this Los Angeles-born songstress was an ever-present figure on the US R&B charts between 1955 and 1978. However, behind the dazzling stage presence lay a considerable musical talent who blended blues with jazz and swing. THIS IS A WHITE FOLKS LIST. Jack Bruce (though you do have a Cream album)? All of these works are valuable and have merit!! Blues by Willie Brown, mainly remembered as Charley Pattons sidekick but who purportedly influenced Robert Johnson.
Bond, so glad you gave recognition to Roy Buchanan. King, who are pictured alongside many other blues legends on the albums collage-like cover. 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. I am going to listen to them, but as a Belgian I would like to say you might want to check out The Zoots live at The Bannana Peel. 1986: R.E.M.
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Rocking at the Tweed Mill. Listen to the album. 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. Youre quite right, and dont forget Livin Blues Wang Dang Doodle and Hells Session , Goed opgemerkt, zeker mbt c+b, desolation You could get rid of all the rock bands and all the English bands.
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