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nomination - best WHITE blues guitarist (1 Viewer)

As an aside: Killer Ray passed away last week here in Chicago.  Just a week before, he had played in an intimate afternoon performance at my university ...a Sociology professor who sponsors an annual blues conference brings in a couple of Chicago's top blues men to offer a special performance as part of a student seminar class each fall.  So cool to sit up close and personal to see a guy like Killer Ray do his thing.  If any of you can picture big ol' Ray, you can imagine the sight of him singing a high-voiced "My Girl" ...RIP.

 
Case for Gary Moore (RIP).   Great rock and blues guitarist.  These are some of his blues contributions.  

Red House - Tribute to Jimi Hendrix at Fender Festival - cool moment at 2:25 and solo takes off at 3:05.

Dust My Broom - Shows skills with slide. 

The Sky is Crying

Still Got The Blues - My favorite original from Gary.  Solo starts at 3:55 and just musical magic on to around 5:50, to the end of the song.

Parisienne Walkways - Not exactly blues but another favorite of mine.  One of the longest sustained notes on a guitar at 3:07 (single note sustained for 24 seconds). 

Miss this guy.  He got serious vibrato without the use of the tremolo bar.  

 
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
How about Robin Trower?

Blues-rock - yes.

Blues-blues -?

Regardless, I was looking for an unmentioned name, so I may be pushing off the envelope here. :shrug:
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Loved him in Procol - Simple Sister (9:20) is the best rock song no one remembers and always my 1st suggestion to garage bands - and abided his slowest-hand as a bluesier soloist, but maaaan, i will never get used to my heroes looking that old.

 
Eric Gales & my good buddy Kirk Smithhart (youngest winner of Albert King award in history) 

Not the sexiest picks but I like the idea of their names being in the hat.... 

Honorable mention for another buddy of mine Josh Roberts, who's one of the better slide guitarists I've seen in person. This video doesn't even begin do him justice as he's half in the bag but here he is with another buddy singing (Patrick Dodd). 

Patrick ,Kirk, and Josh will be playing a 3-4 hour together at our BBQfest booth on the banks of the Mississippi this May. Can't wait...  
 

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Loved him in Procol - Simple Sister (9:20) is the best rock song no one remembers and always my 1st suggestion to garage bands - and abided his slowest-hand as a bluesier soloist, but maaaan, i will never get used to my heroes looking that old.
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Sweet...I must embarrassingly admit, that Simple Sister was not on my radar...likey much!

Also, I could not agree more with "slowest-hand"...it really hits me...slowly and surely.

In regards to old looking hero's...here's your solution: I look a lot younger...and my costume is bright and flashy as well!  :excited:

Now, back to the thread topic. If Robin Trower qualifies as blues, then I would like to nominate another who is not yet on the list: 

George Thorogood...with a healthy dose of Albert Collins.

EDIT: Want to add another...this time with Bo Diddley.

 
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Man of Constant Sorrow said:
George Thorogood...with a healthy dose of Albert Collins.

EDIT: Want to add another...this time with Bo Diddley.
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Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Oh...one other.

We need some women in this here pool:

Bonnie Raitt...with John Lee Hooker
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Bringin up some strange memories, son. Bo Diddley had a ranch in a one-horse town a few miles south of  Albq. One of his guests was so enamored of the area that he bought the adjoining property to use as a getaway. There was always a party going on at this rocker's house and i went to several, but the rocker himself never appeared. Saw Bo Diddley quite a few times (the urge to greet him with "BoDiddleyBoDiddleyhowyoudoin?" is overpowering, but he always had a sidearm so i didnt) but never the owner. Even when Joe Cocker was there, he was always said to be out back getting impossibly high (shooting #### into the veins behind his eyeballs was a rumor i heard more than once). Belen NM is a very strange place for a British rock legend to dope coop, but there you go. It always gave the parties a 6th-circle-of-hell gestalt, i will say.

Bonnie was never happier than when she had a f'real blues singer on tour with her. She had the legendary Fred McDowell with her just before he died (she and my boss put him in the ground and bought his stone, matter o fact) and had Hook and Sippie Wallace with her on gigs while i worked with her. Strong slide player - i can hear our pal Lowell, her mentor (she'd never take her bone out when he was around), in her every note.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Bringin up some strange memories, son.
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Well pops, I'm glad to help flush em outta ya...but I can't take the blame for the stranginess.  :P

wikkidpissah said:
Bo Diddley had a ranch in a one-horse town a few miles south of  Albq. One of his guests was so enamored of the area that he bought the adjoining property to use as a getaway. There was always a party going on at this rocker's house and i went to several, but the rocker himself never appeared. Saw Bo Diddley quite a few times (the urge to greet him with "BoDiddleyBoDiddleyhowyoudoin?" is overpowering, but he always had a sidearm so i didnt) but never the owner. Even when Joe Cocker was there, he was always said to be out back getting impossibly high (shooting #### into the veins behind his eyeballs was a rumor i heard more than once). Belen NM is a very strange place for a British rock legend to dope coop, but there you go. It always gave the parties a 6th-circle-of-hell gestalt, i will say.
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:lol:  @ bolded especially...but the rest too!

Also, this  story reminds me of a question I have carried for years...still totally unconfirmed....yet denied neither...that maybe an OG like you could answer for this young'in.

In regard's to Cocker's eyeball shoot'in rumor, I have also heard rumor's of Jimi's acid drop'in eyes and, the even better, razor-blade to the forehead wrapped with cid-soaked bandanna...seems kinda like OVERKILL to me.  :shrug:

I've certainly never tried 'em///and I'm nuts...so...got the goods on any o this?

And in order to keep this post from being spam, I wanna link one of my very favorite Billy Gibbons songs. It's the the lyrics that really touch me the most...so subtle...yet to the point.

Note: You may need to listen a second time to catch all of the words, but keep listening until you do...it's worth it! ;)

...you just don't know what shape I'm in...

EDIT: Oh, here is my very favorite ZZ Top song...and it's lyrics truly speak to me:

It's been the same way for Oh so long...It looks like I'm singing the same old song.

 
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Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Well pops, I'm glad to help flush em outta ya...but I can't take the blame for the stranginess.  :P

:lol:  @ bolded especially...but the rest too!

Also, this  story reminds me of a question I have carried for years...still totally unconfirmed....yet denied neither...that maybe an OG like you could answer for this young'in.

In regard's to Cocker's eyeball shoot'in rumor, I have also heard rumor's of Jimi's acid drop'in eyes and, the even better, razor-blade to the forehead wrapped with cid-soaked bandanna...seems kinda like OVERKILL to me.  :shrug:

I've certainly never tried 'em///and I'm nuts...so...got the goods on any o this?
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No - tripped a couple hundred times in my teen years (never since, tabwise), dealt acid for a while - sweetest gig i ever had, me and my best pal (who was old enough to drive, i wasnt) piled into the family station wagon to go see his sister @ NYU one Friday a month, stopped at a place in White Plains and picked up 2000 hits of sunshine for $600, partied in the city, had it all unloaded in either NY or Bos,100-for-$100, by Sunday midnite, you know what kind of money $600/mo was to a teen in the late 60s?! - but, for all the loadin i done, have never done or had much use for or patience with the specialist tip. Admittedly, there are some who get the benefit of purepurepure and the greatest buzz and all and there are certainly some heads that have crossed boundaries we needed em to simply because of their hunger for maximum load but, mostly, i saw the specialists as anal toads who were fake-amping what there was to get from it or people mastering their domain cuz that was their jones, just like today. Even w speedballs, which are pretty damn dangerous, if i trusted the person i took the concoction. If not, no. So i never trucked in masterblaster lore.

 
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