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

[ZenoRazon]

William Clark, James Harman, Robert Lucas

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-QyqJf7lw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6YDEiz4u_A

 

[Mister CIA]

All these guys are solidly fixed in my top 10.

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (you'll never confuse his fingers with someone who shall remain nameless)

• Honky Tonk
  
• Pressure Cooker
  
• Okie Dokie Stomp
  

Hound Dog Taylor

Cedell Davis

• More butterknife
  
• Yackity Yack ... Wholly wrong, but still awesome.  In the running for best blues tune ever.
  

R.L. Burnside ... had the good fortune to see Mr. Burnside play live.

Junior Kimbrough

• All Night Long
  
• Meet Me in the City ... pure beauty
  

Ted Hawkins ... There is no prettier Blues voice

• All I Have to Offer You is Me
  
• Bring it on Home to Me
  
• Happy Hour
  
• Strange Conversation ... Tell me, did I save the best for last
  

 

[ZenoRazon]

Otis Taylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMtuNipi-SE

Louisiana Red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-di0ej2N2bg

Corey Harris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTGfbYtw1e4

Taj Mahal and Keb Mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3sDygsxvSg

Sleepy John Estes cover

 

[Mister CIA]

I forgot one: Lazy Laster

 

[ZenoRazon]

I forgot one: Lazy Laster

Lightnin' Slim his buddy.

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

 

[bigbottom]

Something newer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0rUvG9uu8

Walter Trout

Also something newer - Joanna Connor Band.  Not one of the  greats like those listed in this thread, but that is still one bad woman on slide.

From a backyard BBQ:

https://youtu.be/iSwoM7WIy5M

 

[Rove!]

Live instrumental version of Big Bill Broonzy - “Hey Hey”

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

Studio version with words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftbp4Uvd3Q

 

[Rove!]

More Broonzy...”Worrying You Off My Mind”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygjruoPJ7hY

 

[Murph]

Some contemporary artists. I've had the pleasure of seeing each of these guys (and gal) live except for Warren.

She's Alright. Doyle Bramhall and Gary Clark.

Shake 'Em On Down. Samantha Fish covers this one on a cigar box guitar. If you don't care for the music at least watch it for the legs.

The Thrill is Gone. Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes with Soul Live. Unfortunately Derek's volume is a little low in the mix but it's still good.

 

[Murph]

All these guys are solidly fixed in my top 10.

Hound Dog Taylor

R.L. Burnside ... had the good fortune to see Mr. Burnside play live.

Junior Kimbrough

• All Night Long
  
• Meet Me in the City ... pure beauty
  

Luther Allison's Tribute to Hound Dog (audio only)

RL and Johnny Wood- Telephone Blues

Meet Me in the City is one my all time favorites, but your link isn't right. Sadly not much video of Junior. Audio only.

 

[Murph]

Lightnin' Hopkins might be my favorite bluesman.  

Sky Hop

Bring Me My Shotgun

 

[Murph]

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?

Slim Harpo I'm a King Bee

Another song I knew from b4 I really knew blues.

I learned from deese guys ---------------> Jake & Elwood

Mannish Boy from The Last Waltz

Slim Harpo is criminally underrated. Scratch My Back

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

Mannish Boy from The Last Waltz

Slim Harpo is criminally underrated. Scratch My Back

I'm yodelin' Manish Boy right now...well, well, well... 

Slim Harpo is next up. 

Nice!

 

[ZenoRazon]

Excello Records  recorded that group of what is known as....Swamp Blues, this was a Louisiana gang consisting of...

Lightnin' Slim

Lazy Lester

Slim Harpo

Silas Hogan

Lonesome sundown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktX-ansa-Hg

Love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKgztIOy7wE

In the early 40's this guy made a huge impact, this is Jump Blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6pHtiNT_k

This was first recorded in 1931, but I couldn't find that original, this ain't bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE

This will be the only time I linger a little off topic, but this really is a must see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBb9hTyLjfM

 

[Apple Jack]

More great, less entire history of everybody who ever looked at a guitar.

 

[ZenoRazon]

More great, less entire history of everybody who ever looked at a guitar.

One of the real bummers in the guitar world is the death of Robert Johnson he of the freakish hands. He never picked up and electric guitar, what a tragedy to American music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82yNxiF-T4A

Check out those fingers. 

 

[ZenoRazon]

Some of the great blues duos were....

Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie (married) Zeppelin covered ...Leevee Breaks

Tampa Red and Georgia Tom Dorsey

Leroy Carr and Scapper Blackwell

Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry

Geechie Wiley and Elvie Thomas

The Baxters

The Two Poor Boys

But none sounded any better than these two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygoQ3dGGPTM

They were more solo but played together a lot.

 

[Mister CIA]

Here's a guy I have not dialed in for quite some time:  Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson,  Kidney Stew Blues.  For those that like their blues wrapped in jazz.

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

Here's a guy I have not dialed in for quite some time:  Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson,  Kidney Stew Blues.  For those that like their blues wrapped in jazz.

Nice - and yeah, I like blues/jazz - I really like Ray Charles for this category.

 

[ZenoRazon]

Nice - and yeah, I like blues/jazz - I really like Ray Charles for this category.

Jellyroll Morton

Some Louis Armstrong

And this guy...

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

 

[ZenoRazon]

There are so many in them prewar blues who did their thing and it's just lost.   Nobody really remembers them but a few geeks like me and the guy who posted this.

Listen to these lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrA53gavUoM

We got hard times, wicked wimmen, trains, prison, drugs/alcohol and violence as major themes in them blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLHWOPqg-iU

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

OK - after the jazz/blues tracks above, I wanna go back to a country/blues great:

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues - Live at San Quentin (Good sound quality)

 

[Abrantes]

CIA got it 10000000000% right kicking things off with the Wolf. What a voice.

 

[ZenoRazon]

The Reverend Shawn Amos

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75nOPCzJhH0

Govt' Mule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia1WVUURrCQ

Jamie N. Commons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K53Lf5Jkbjs

 

[Psychopav]

I gave up listening to songs for Lent so...

:Blackdot:

 

[ZenoRazon]

Sidestreet Reny covering Blind Willie McTell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jiMKCbp1mk

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

Sidestreet Reny covering Blind Willie McTell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jiMKCbp1mk

Love this - stand up bass - gravel voice - saved. 

 

[ZenoRazon]

Love this - stand up bass - gravel voice - saved. 

Yep, very cool, here is the original. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgmM9CxwgNo

My fav Dr.John

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zPqgQ67yo

The great Curtis Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7MjuJglBrE

 

[ZenoRazon]

Here are  some old blues songs you have heard because famous rockers have covered them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhEa8vuP6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lomNaluJ-Tg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWxZtI3ONY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4up4VP8zjyc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGRsuK8MbM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-_mzVBSF8

 

[ZenoRazon]

Of those with a tiny output and not known by most he has to be the best of that forgotten group and this is his signature tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO1l41xvsUQ

 

[msommer]

This may be too new (version, not the song)

Hard Time Killing Floor Blues

Just to show there are still young (and living) people in the game!

 

[ZenoRazon]

This may be too new (version, not the song)

Hard Time Killing Floor Blues

Just to show there are still young (and living) people in the game!

Love to know how they became aware of Skip James. Any young people today being interesting in stuff over 80 years old, very cool.

As fair as a female/females trying what is considered an unusal blues (James was unique) they nailed it.

Remind me of Rory Block.

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

Cover of a Willie Brown blues, he recorded during the same time as James. Brown only one record, James far more output.

 

[Klimtology]

 

[ZenoRazon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9uMbGjxqBI

Like Lead Belly this guy was also discovered in Angola Prison. This is a rather different blues.

 

[ZenoRazon]

Skip James had a different sound, nobody really like him in them blues. yep, unique.

His Devil Got My Woman and this one true classics of the genre, if at least one of them isn't on that Essential/Difinitive/Best of  CD, they are lying.

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

Chris Thomas King one of the big names in current blues.

 

[simsarge]

Not as purist bluesy as most of what you hard core blues guys, but this lady is great.

Marcia Ball

https://youtu.be/Wuhql7WOgaM

 

[ZenoRazon]

Not as purist bluesy as most of what you hard core blues guys, but this lady is great.

Marcia Ball

https://youtu.be/Wuhql7WOgaM

A few years ago an internet buddy sent me some Texas artists he knew in Austin (a bouncer)  Ray Wylie Hubbard, Steve Earle, LoAnn Barton, Greg Clark and her, my intro to Marcia Ball. What a great sound, you nailed it man.

 

[ZenoRazon]

Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones loved this guy, adored him actually. Huge, influense on him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsgZ5IDQu80

Apparently his mom and the great Robert Johnson had a fling to the point of Robert living with her for awhile, story goes he taught young Elmore some gee-tar.

James is considered to be one of the very best blues slide man, if not THE best.

 

[skol asylum]

Can't believe you missed this Blues song.

 

[ZenoRazon]

Can't believe you missed this Blues song.

Hmmmm?

"Mail Time Blues"

woke up this mornin;'

bout the breakaday

expecting a letter from my baby

so far away

I gots them mail time

don't know what to do blues

the post man came and went

nothing in my mail box

I began to weep n'  moan

no letter from my baby

sumthing must be wrong

I gots then mail time

don't know what to do blues

gee-tar solo break

maybe tomorrow

a letter from my baby

 saying she'll be home soon

no more cryin' no more gloom

I  gots them mail time

don't know what to do blues

 

[ZenoRazon]

Albert Collins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6LbWWqX-g

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9uMbGjxqBI

Like Lead Belly this guy was also discovered in Angola Prison. This is a rather different blues.

Different - but very good!

 

[ZenoRazon]

Different - but very good!

First heard that on a radio station out of a San Francisco  "Blues by the Bay". every Sat at noon. Hosted by a blues historian/scholar Tom Mazzelini, the guy knew them blues, he taught me a TON.

Robert Pete Williams  about as good as that drone sound gets.

 

[ZenoRazon]

T-Bone Walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lokLq6fY4

Amos Milburn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkUxty74aQ

Sunnyland Slim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICd-fNX19jQ

Lowell Fulson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrJy5cCOIdY

 

[ZenoRazon]

Pat Hare one of the first to play around with distortions with the guitar. A major player in the guitar world.

Here he is doing his signature tune "Gonna Murder My Baby", would you believe, he did?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piK63f4oNuA

Here Hare is backing the great harmonica man James Cotten on vocals.

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

Check out his guitar work.

 

[dickey moe]

Hard Times Killing Floor Blues

Was just coming to post this but you beat me too it.

This IS the best blues song ever written.

 

[ZenoRazon]

Was just coming to post this but you beat me too it.

This IS the best blues song ever written.

Have you heard every blues song ever written?

Yes, that is considered to be among the greatest blues ever recorded,  here is that 1930 original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-_mzVBSF8

There are a few others blues in the running however.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TUvxwJyBLQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEjayzfS24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4JWXPPcMw

 

[ZenoRazon]

Oreo Cookie Blues

Lonnie Mack & SRV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nn_Z84kpk

Townes Van Zandt & Calvin Russell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0b50yNQjjA

 

[ZenoRazon]

A must listen.

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

 

[ZenoRazon]

No place in the song to we hear....Viola Lee...mentioned.

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

The Grateful Dead do a great cover, and the tune I learned to play the harmonica, got me started anyway. Noah Lewis one of the first great harmonica men in them blues.

Probably the best known of the prewar Alabama blues cats, he was also a harmonica man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMrsPMzsFS0

Jimi Hendrix on an acoustic gee-tar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P701paKEMXs

Willy Deville

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_7hLailRNE