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This Thread Contains All the Great Blues Songs (1 Viewer)

Murph said:
How do we feel about instrumentals?

San Ho Zay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_fJzq4Wt6c

Stapled to the Chicken's Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STjx7Hx16qY

Green Onions (Steve Cropper could have a thread to himself): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q&t=0s
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Jazz , classical is pretty much instrumentals, a lot of Big Band, like anything else some is cool, some sucks.

This is considered to be the first "country blues" on record, Weaver out of Kentucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j00yl_EJUGQ

The great Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iPA7oNRr5o

 
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Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Best name yet = Furry Lewis

I need to hear that story!

Plus, the slide is sweet - and the voice is perfect. Not too good - not too bad - just right.
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 I was in Memphis at the Peabody and went into Lansky"s (Elvis' tailor) basement store and they had a clearance rack of shoes. Bought some blue leather deck shoes and Furry Lewis is featured on them. 

 
Bluesbomber said:
 I was in Memphis at the Peabody and went into Lansky"s (Elvis' tailor) basement store and they had a clearance rack of shoes. Bought some blue leather deck shoes and Furry Lewis is featured on them. 
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A.......... Best of Memphis Blues....would look like this.

Frank Stokes

Furry Lewis

Jim Jackson

Gus Cannon Jug Stompers

Jack Kelly South Memphis Jug Band

Will Batts

Memphis Minnie

Kansas Joe McCoy

Tom Dickson

Mooch Richardson

Will Weldon

Jed Davenport

Hattie Hart

Memphis Jug Band

Robert Wilkins

Sleepy John Estes

Pearl Dickson

Memphis Jug Band

 
When Lightnin' Hopkins first recorded for Alladin Records in 1947 (first recordings), his piano player was called Thunder Smith, hence....Lightnin',  little is known about Smith other than he was also out of Texas.

Thunder Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkH9iQhIAyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXG3x77E4qM

Sparkplug Smith and his Vampire Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ_PmrKEZUc

Cedarcreek Sheik...............some debate over was he white or black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtBKRjbi7J0

Bull City Red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVsIikUlXE

I don't think most people even those who knows some blues get just how many of these....who?....are out there in that old blues world.  TONS of guys who only recorded a record or a few and then...Poof gone.

Here we have Bobby Grant, I think he was out of Alabama***, the guy was great, right there with anyone else, he only had one record,  that breaks my heart as it does all us blues geeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO_UJYvWaJg

***  they want to put him in the Delta but I don't buy it.  He recorded his one record in Alabama.

Speaking of Alabama

Walter Roland on Piano, Sonny Scott on vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSVrc5DP2j0

Gotta love Too Tight Henry (not from Bama) on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_d8Ritc9Y

Todays Alvin Youngblood Hart covering Skip James.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyjU9h_MPvU

 
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There are 8 major regions in them blues.(territory a big deal in them blues)

Mississippi Delta (all Miss blues will be put here)

Memphis

Alabama

Louisiana

St.Louis

Georgia

East Coast/Piedmont (Appalachian will be here)

Texas

There will be around 50's great blues song from all of them with the exception of Louisiana, more into jazz, little blues.

So that's about 420ish blues songs where"great" would fit. A lot of it sucks, just like all music. Robert Johnson's  Red Hot, yuck.

 
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ZenoRazon said:
There are 8 major regions in them blues.(territory a big deal in them blues)

Mississippi Delta (all Miss blues will be put here)

Memphis

Alabama

Louisiana

St.Louis

Georgia

East Coast/Piedmont (Appalachian will be here)

Texas

There will be around 50's great blues song from all of them with the exception of Louisiana, more into jazz, little blues.

So that's about 420ish blues songs where"great" would fit. A lot of it sucks, just like all music. Robert Johnson's  Red Hot, yuck.
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Chicago deserves a mention too!

I'm no scholar, but if I recall correctly the documentary You See Me Laughin' made a clear distinction between Delta Blues and Mississippi Hill Country Blues. Without paying attention to actual timelines, the sound of Hill Country blues fits nicely between the sounds of the Delta and Muscle Shoals.  

 
Mister CIA said:
Chicago deserves a mention too!

I'm no scholar, but if I recall correctly the documentary You See Me Laughin' made a clear distinction between Delta Blues and Mississippi Hill Country Blues. Without paying attention to actual timelines, the sound of Hill Country blues fits nicely between the sounds of the Delta and Muscle Shoals.  
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My bad, I really didn't make it clear I was talking prewar blues with those regions.  Chicago came later.

To the astute blues lover someone who knows the genre yes we do have different regions in Mississippi BUT most the time the record companies just toss it all in together calling it Delta Blues, some including Memphis. They guess Joe Public just doesn't know any difference and they don't.

The founders of the legit Mississippi Delta Blues

Freddie Spruell the first to record,  this was 1926 There is however some debate on just where was he really from.

Rube Lacy only one record but it's a 100% classic.

Tommy Johnson...he sold his soul to the Devil at them crossroads.

Ishman Bracey who says...Rock Church Rock...in 1927

Geechie Wiley, her Last Kind Words, stunning.

Wilile Brown/Kid Bailey....he used both in his two records

Bukka White

Mattie Delaney...see Rube Lacy

Son House....true legend in all blues.

Charley Patton...The King of The Delta Blues

Robert Johnson...on the Mount Rushmore in them blues.

Skip James wasn;t out of the Delta and neither was Mississippi John Hurt.

 
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I look at them blues like this.

There are three kinds of blues cat.

1.Those who only recorded before Muddy Waters, like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson

2.Those who came after Muddy Waters, like BB King, Howlin' Wolf. Lightnin' Hopkins

3.Those who recorded before and after Muddy Waters like Bukka White, Skip James, Sleepy Jon Estes.

Obviously the regions is another way of doing it as is instrument played.  I seem to need to put everyone somewhere,  I blame that on the books which also break it down by time and region. As do the record companies, its.....The Georgia Blues...The Memphis Blues...etc etc.  Sure we also have compilations but usually these start out with the oldest to the more recent.

There are three guys, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb, Robert Pete Williams (1914) who did it a little differently. They were all born in the early 1900's and could have recorded in the mid 20's/30' slike most did who were born back then, but for some reason they never did.  They started recording in the late 50's.  So we never hear them as young men.

Mississippi Fred McDowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZtMFWZT7Q

Mance Lipscomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ExhHPYwxk

Robert Pete Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPCwFVPGg4

 
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ZenoRazon said:
I look at them blues like this.

There are three kinds of blues cat.

1.Those who only recorded before Muddy Waters, like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson

2.Those who came after Muddy Waters, like BB King, Howlin' Wolf. Lightnin' Hopkins

3.Those who recorded before and after Muddy Waters like Bukka White, Skip James, Sleepy Jon Estes.

Obviously the regions is another way of doing it as is instrument played.  I seem to need to put everyone somewhere,  I blame that on the books which also break it down by time and region. As do the record companies, its.....The Georgia Blues...The Memphis Blues...etc etc.  Sure we also have compilations but usually these start out with the oldest to the more recent.

There are three guys, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb, Robert Pete Williams (1914) who did it a little differently. They were all born in the early 1900's and could have recorded in the mid 20's/30' slike most did who were born back then, but for some reason they never did.  They started recording in the late 50's.  So we never hear them as young men.
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I struggle with modern blues. What is it?  I like this as an example of whatever modern blues rock is

 
Ilov80s said:
I struggle with modern blues. What is it?  I like this as an example of whatever modern blues rock is
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I'm familiar with him,  he's legit.

Give.

Chris Thomas King

Corey Harris

Keb Mo

Alvin Youngblood Hart

Ben Harper

Poppa Chubby

Otis Taylor

a listen. Modern blues obviously better done but that's about it. A bigger sound.

Obviously the old timers were actually living the music, when a black guitar player in 1928 Mississippi sings about hard times, it was hard times.

The thing about them blues is where it takes you if you allow yourself to get lost in the music. Words like haunting, eerie, chilling, back in the alley, bottom of the barrel fit. 

Lyrics like...

Roll me over on my belly baby, beat me with your chocolate tongue.......gotta love it. (Ruby Glaze to Blind Willie McTell)

I'm gonna cut your throat woman, drink your blood like wine....Pegleg Howell

A whole other world totally alien to most people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxdV23m_OxQ

No cute boy bands in them blues, ha!

 
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ZenoRazon said:
I'm familiar with him,  he's legit.

Give.

Chris Thomas King

Corey Harris

Keb Mo

Alvin Youngblood Hart

Ben Harper

Poppa Chubby

Otis Taylor

a listen. Modern blues obviously better done but that's about it. A bigger sound.

Obviously the old timers were actually living the music, when a black guitar player in 1928 Mississippi sings about hard times, it was hard times.

The thing about them blues is where it takes you if you allow yourself to get lost in the music. Words like haunting, eerie, chilling, back in the alley, bottom of the barrel fit. 

Lyrics like...

Roll me over on my belly baby, beat me with your chocolate tongue.......gotta love it. (Ruby Glaze to Blind Willie McTell)

I'm gonna cut your throat woman, drink your blood like wine....Pegleg Howell

A whole other world totally alien to most people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxdV23m_OxQ

No cute boy bands in them blues, ha!
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Some people 

 
When it comes to the history of things it really is hard to beat the history involved in them blues****.  We do start with the slave trade, and life on the plantations, it did start right there.

Recorded blues 1920 with Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" that is unless ya want to go with W.C.Handy's blues instrumentals a little earlier.

Wicked wimmen, straight razors, alcohol, drugs, hard times, trains, prison, blue steel 44, sex, homosexuality, bad men, hoboing, it's all there with this music. You will be taken to a place you aren't familiar with,  which is very cool.

He;s not singing about no snake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yd-c91ww8

**** pro wrestling and boxing also with a very interesting history.

 
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The thing about them blues is we have so many who recorded so little.  And most of them totally on a par with the more well known with some recordings.

This is Garfield Akers another one of those 1920/30 Delta players with little output, he had two records.

As we can see the cat had some serious talent, what a shame he recorded so little.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43DIskDNU1I

Some debate on just where Bobby Grant was from, but....either Mississippi or Alabama.

He only recorded one record and like Akers what a tragedy, this guy could have been somebody, which he is to geeks like myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO_UJYvWaJg

There simply cannot be any Blues ESSENTIAL/DIFFINITIVE/GREATEST without this tune there.  It really is considered a true masterpiece in the genre.

Geechie Wiley recorded three records, her buddy Elvie Thomas invloved on those records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIsbDzMRTf0

I might have already posted that, if I did it's worth another listen.

 
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Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Otay...I got some more low hangin' fruit, that needs to be here - so - I'll take the easy shots first:

Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (Audio)

I remember this song from my pre-teen years - b4 I even really knew what the blues were. We used to make up our own lyrics to this and sing. (Don't worry - I won't do that here.)

EDIT: Upon listening, I heard ... "well - well - well" - which is an RL Burnside catch phrase. Anyone know if there was an influence here (either direction), or was that phrase a common blues one?
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Blues may have begun in the dark continent before transforming to slave field chants but IMNO the blues begins with Mannish Boy. 😎

 
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