Apologies, a couple of the artists I mentioned are on the list! It contains some of his most famous and influential songs: Hellhound On My Trail, Crossroad Blues, and Come On In My Kitchen.. It features guest cameos from Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, and an uncredited Steve Miller on a broad selection of material. Very difficult to narrow it down to 100. When I 1st heard Groeten uit Grolloo I was hooked , have many records of their music. Will probably be one of 2023's best albums. Im still warming up to Trucks, but I highly respect him and believe he has a bright future. Stackerset out to find the best albums of the 21st century, compiling data from Metacritic(as of October 2022). 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. Big Joe Turner, with Count Basie, Kansas City; on Pablo And speaking of Brooks, Ill bet Lonnie Brooks is going to come out with a top 200 LP one of these days. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street. Smithsonian Folkways Classic Appalachian Blues. But then again, there are a lot of people who could, or should, have been on this list but arent. In fact, well shall never know who the truest bluesmakers were or where they came from. The 15 best blues albums of the 2000's - Rate Your Music DJ_LuPe lists 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 order. TODAY! Its AWESOME! Why is there always someone who has to have the 100 best or the top ten etc. best blues albums of the 21st century. The poled list of artists and top albums highly skews the reality of affection adios and professionals as well as the generational listeners would not even say this list poled by this site is even near accurate. RL Burnside- Come On In. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. Blue Streak Luther Allison (1995) Only two or so from the last 40 years? 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. New Releases. Wht about Ali farka Toures last albumSavane. The albums opening song Samson & Delilah was later covered by Peter, Paul & Mary and the Grateful Dead. Growing up in Chicago I became a fan of Billy Boy Arnold. Wouldnt have suffered from a mention of Savoy Brown though? Spot on Harmonica Slim..with you all the way ! I did not rate him myself to be on the list. My 21st Century Blues is the ultimate act of catharsis, full of big emotions expressed with revealing honesty. The albums final cut, Walking By Myself, was Rogers only hit record: a Top 20 US R&B chart entry back in 1957. Give me a break. Robert Johnsons immortal Dust My Broom, the first of only two covers, references Elmore James electric guitar-driven version of the tune. Ma Raineys Black Bottom is a compilation that cherry-picks 14 of the singers best tracks, including the memorable and risqu title song and the equally marvelous Bo-Weavil Blues and See See Rider Blues. Unquestionably, without Ma Rainey, there would be no Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, or Janis Joplin. Ill definitely be checking them out. There the Gibson is really crying. To the gentleman who commented that John Mayall doesnt deserve a place in the Blues pantheon because he was born white and BritishEric Clapton. One of the Mississippi blues maestros more unusual live performances was this one, recorded on September 10, 1970, at an outdoor concert within the walls of a large Chicago penitentiary, where he played to an audience of over 2,000 prison inmates. It's here that the full scope of Bad History Month can be understood, from gently intricate Jim O'Rourke-like folk pop to dramatically . Bo is one of the greats and unfortunately very underappreciated. Something from Audience? Sure, some of those cross overs were not exactly bad by any means, but I dont know that they belong on this list. Listen to the Stones 1st 4 LPs,Rolling Stones After Muddy Waters.When they tour they sit in with blues bands after the gig .Listen to Mick Jagger & the Red Devils all lil walter&Willie Dixon,Howlin Wolf, Strictly speaking, Harmonica Slim may be correct about several blues-inspired bands appearing on a blues-exclusive list. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice.In 1975, he switched to an instrumental style with focus on an innovative sound, and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz . JImmy Thackery & The Drivers Wild Night Out ! For example: you only looked ar individual artists, why isnt there an album Consider all the Henry Sloans weve never heard and the mothers of those we have. Chicago: the Blues Today, volume with Johnny Young, Johnny Shines, Big Walter Add: Vanguard Records The Best Of The Chicago Blues a seminal anthology. Though blues was an omnipresent element in Hendrixs oeuvre, he never made a dedicated blues album. How is that left off? 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. Did you consider any Canadian blues artists? And thank you!! Hendrix Blues Kendrick Lamar. Losing his eyesight to congenital glaucoma, Mississippi-born Morris (real name Morris Cummings) is a cousin of Chicago blues maven, Willie Dixon. The British blues scene during the sixties was so important for the founders of the blues and played an very important role to make this black music style to be accepted among the white audience in America. However Im really disapointed in the 28 CD Box Set just released of Cuby. He actually did make the list, but only for one album? Though it mainly consisted of self-penned material, the influence of the Mississippi delta blues style is almost palpable. "Introduction." 2. Renowned for his flamboyant stage act and colorful attire, Slim was also one of the first guitarists to use distortion. Ford formed Blue Line in 1992 and Handful Of The Blues, produced by noted US guitarist, Danny Kortchmar, was the trios third album. I agree with you regarding Savoy Brown, John. Three volumes with Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Otis Spann, Otis Rush, J.B. Hutto, Jimmy Cotton, Walter Horton, Johnny Shines, Johnny Young, Homesick James, and Charlie Musselwhite is absolutely essential blues listening! Johnny Adams? I would include Howling Wolf The London Sessions among others. Im glad to see both old and new records on the list, but one of my all-time favorite is missing; Walter Trout. James Milton Campbell is better known to blues and soul fans as Little Milton, a dynamic singer and guitarist originally from Inverness, Mississippi. Among the compilations high-points are the foot-tapping tracks Crawlback, Back Scratcher, and Harp And Soul, all vehicles for Frosts harmonica pyrotechnics. The Brits embraced it and started it again. McDowell is in magnetic form, shining on nine scintillating tracks. I WANT TO HEAR IT ALL!! I,m mostly in agreement with you, especially Willie Dixons exclusion. It was rekindled at the end of the 50s by young white Americans fascinated by their nations folk and blues heritage. Something from Colosseum? And nothing by Howlin Wolf? You mean there is only 100 good blues albums out there? His most impressive moments come on the churning My Time After Awhile and the blistering instrumental, Snowy Wood, which he co-wrote with Mayall. Tutored by his mother, Arkansas-born George Harmonica Smith learned to play the harmonica when he was four and after playing with a gospel group early on in his professional career, gravitated to the blues, which led him to Chicago in the 1950s where he joined Muddy Waters band. Handy found and lost at the Tutwiler train depot in 1903. King, the Mississippi-born singer and guitarist who was born on a cotton plantation. 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. Duke Robillard & The Pleasure Kings Rockin Blues Red Devils album King King Great stuff!! Two other greats of that vintage: Love Sculptures Blues Helping (with Dave Edmunds) Blessed with a resonant and smoky baritone voice, Slim scored seven US R&B hits between 1948 and 1953. Otis Grand, Blues 65 The lack of Blodwyn Pig is disturbing. It is one of my favourites of his, Family Style being another, but there is his live music too where we really see his genius unfiltered by record producers etc. Robert Nighthawk The blues master recordings. Born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor in Natchez, Mississippi, hoarse-throated singer and guitarist Hound Dog Taylor had a rare physiological condition known as polydactylism, which resulted in him having six digits on each hand. They were just regurgitating the masters. 4.25 49,337 343. Your list of 100 best blues albums and artists, not to be critical but to reflect with broader objectivity should state; A list of highly popular 100 Top Blues Albums and Artists but stretches your categorization listed here is it representative of broad objective empiricism because over many years of personal familiarity with Radio Broadcaster personal associations by myself and thousand s of other blues affection adios, your list has excluded a great many of other albums and groups or artists that have poled as greats unsurpassed statistically and by professionals and listeners over the generations. He scored four US R&B chart-toppers in the 1950s and remained popular throughout his long and storied career. Album text by Charles Waring, introduction by Richard Havers. Blues musicians and writers who are now household names were driving buses or working odd jobs in many cases..they could not get a gig. He steps in and out of the shadows as Otis leads the band. Oscar Brown Jr, Between Heaven and Hell, Columbia Your email address will not be published. JB is a blues hack who can only play fast but has very little feel or soul. Rokia Traor - Tchamantch. Born in Houston, this flamboyant singer and guitarist moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and is best remembered for his commercially successful marriage of pimped-up blues, funk and soul in the 1970s. Thornton is in imperious form here, blazing through her material like wildfire eating up a forest. The pioneering multi-racial quintet formed in 1963 and two years later released its self-titled debut, which consisted of original material alongside the groups turbo-charged interpretations of songs by Elmore James, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, and Willie Dixon. Allman Bros.? The album is off the list? Between 1955 and 1961, Mississippi singer, guitarist and harmonica maestro, Jimmy Reed, racked up eighteen US R&B hit singles for the Chicago-based Vee-Jay label. and Ronnie Early, his 2002 release with Cleanhead Vinson. This double live album recorded at San Franciscos Fillmore West marked an inspired jam session between noted Chicago guitarist Bloomfield and Brooklyn organist, Kooper, who had just left Blood, Sweat & Tears. The album topped the US R&B charts but proved to be Kings only No. They are however some albums of undead white people who could be integrated in such a list: I like to add Watermelon Slim and the Workers 2006 album and their The Wheel Man 2007 CD. On Good Mornin Blues, Barbers band features Northern Irish singer/songwriter, Ottilie Patterson, as well as London jazz saxophone legend, Ronnie Scott, on a selection of material that ranges from Lead Bellys title song and Lionel Hamptons Hamps Blues to originals by Barber and Patterson. An de andere kant, ach, zon lijstje slaat toch eigenlijk helemaal nergens op, Hi Bert. This album was the fledgling groups rush-released second studio LP, helmed by Blue Horizon boss, Mike Vernon. 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. Im not sure of the origin of many of these artists listed but it appears that the list doesnt include any Canadian blues guitarists. A charismatic singer and harmonica player from West Memphis, Arkansas, born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr, Wells released his debut album, Hoodoo Man Blues, for Chicago indie label, Delmark. We agonised over Big Willie, because he appears on very few lists. Fords guitar playing steeped in the blues lexicon but augmented by rock power and jazz harmonic sophistication is unimpeachable on a 12-song selection that includes a slow, sizzling version of Etta James I Just Want To Make Love To You.. One of his most influential tunes was his 1928 hit single, How Long, How Long Blues, the centerpiece of this 22-track compendium of Carrs best work. A collection of rollicking Big Easy barrelhouse piano tunes, the album spotlights Duprees singular blues style with its distinctive New Orleans slant. The list opens up with the almighty Elmore James, the legendary King . When it comes to white guys playing the Blue how about ZZTop Rio Grand Mud,. The rest is history. 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. Where is Fathers and Sons ? One half of a famous country blues duo with Brownie McGhee, Georgia-born Terry (real name Saunders Terrell) was a blind singer and harmonica player who also made several noteworthy solo albums. What about The Groundhogs? The album highlights Carrs smooth and more sophisticated urban blues vocal style, which would influence Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. A versatile pianist who was comfortable in a wide range of different musical settings, Louisiana-born Eurreal Little Brother Montgomery began his recording career in the 1930s. Blues With A Feeling was Smiths debut album, recorded in 1969 as a homage to another virtuosic blues harp player; the legendary Little Walter Jacobs, who had died a year earlier. His Best rounded up twenty of Diddleys most popular and commercially successful tunes for the Chicago Chess label, which was the singer/guitarists recording home between 1955 and 1974. Savoy Brown Blues Band, Raw Sienna, John Mayall , Blues breakers with Eric Clapton and the Hard Road album with Peter Green. Missing.Walter Trout, Joanna Connor,Ronnie Earl to name three!!!!!! The remaining antique gems are incredibly obscure. Fats domino too. Eric Clapton & the Powerhouse (on Electra as I recall) You might really want to check out Justin Johnson If Walls Could Talk and Smoke and Mirrors. Claptons presence galvanized the band on a mixture of original material and blues covers. You forgot Hookern Heat. You also need to listen to Janis Joplin and Big Mama Thornton if you want to know what womens blues sounds like. Junior Kimbroughs Sad Days, Lonely Nights. Why not The Best of Muddy Waters? And Kanye West and Just Blaze, and Eminem and Timbaland. Before then, though, he was an aspiring bluesman influenced by the on-stage antics of extrovert guitarist T-Bone Walker and first made his mark in the 1950s combining his smooth vocals with humorous lyrics and dazzling fretboard pyrotechnics. I bought it, of course, and we went back to my place and played it several times. Enjoy our picks for the 10 best 21st century pop . The winner of five Grammy awards, Georgia-born Robert Cray is considered a member of the blues old guard. Although there will always be missing someting. The Nighthawks Live at the PsycheDeli should be on this list ahead of many others. The set includes songs associated with Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Mama Thornton, and Willie Cobbs while the Wells original, the funky Snatch & Hold It Back, doffs its cap to James Browns Papas Got A Brand New Bag. Its regarded as one of the best blues albums of the 1960s. On some of the tunes like Walkin The Blues and Whisky & Women a band backs Hooker though the unaccompanied songs Sugar Mama and Leave My Wife Alone undoubtedly possess greater intensity. Nevertheless, Blues Breakers remains a highly-regarded cornerstone of British blues-rock and is an obvious pick for one of the best blues albums ever. I think you are mistaken on Howlin Wolfs Moanin at Midnight. B. Big Dave McLean For the Blues, Always. Other standouts included Fried Hockey Boogie and the anti-drug message song, Amphetamine Annie. Though considered a rock group and beloved by the hippies and Woodstock generation, Canned Heats musical DNA was deeply rooted in the blues. Im a bit sad that I dont have it anymore. What about African Blues.Ali Farka Toure. This music accompanied me through my bluest blues, crafted unapologetically and fearlessly with love and tears, and now I can . Charley Patton was arguably the most significant architect of the influential Mississippi delta blues style and also recorded under the names The Masked Marvel and Elder J J Hadley. Canned Heat/John Lee Hooker Hooker and Heat. My first concert was the Jefferson Airplane with the warm up band The Yardbirds in 1967. or Jeff Beck ,it was just the time for the Blues , which had never really made it outside of the black community.It was word of mouth , conversation , concerts like the newport Jazz festival. The album will be delving into deeply personal topics in RAYE's life, such as . I am thinking that udiscovermusic is not living up to its name but being arrogant in essentially pushing the idea that blues is English-American. So what are your selections? Gary Moore Blues for Greeny . Kind of a snore in this list though, IMHO. You might wanna check them on Spotify or iTunes. Phil. Key Track: Good Morning, School Girl. 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 2-CD set, Father Of The Delta Blues, captures a 63-year-old House revisiting some of his most potent songs, including Death Letter, Preachin Blues and Dry Spell Blues.. Suffice to say, every album here should be in any discerning blues fans collection. These are the 21st Century albums that hit every pleasure center for us, that made us dance and sing along to karaoke and made the commute to work a little less miserable. SOOO many that there just isnt room for them on this list. Especially leadbelly. Hooker N Heat is a masterpiece of blues music. Blues by Willie Brown, mainly remembered as Charley Pattons sidekick but who purportedly influenced Robert Johnson. 6 in the UK albums chart, Clapton left to form Cream shortly afterwards. Some other (also not mentioned in the comment section, i think) great blues (or bluesrock) albums I very much like are: Big Joe Turner The Boss of The Blues (1956) Below are links to the best blues albums of each decade. Im not sure if itd fit on a best blues list though definitely rooted in the blues, but more rock oriented (although their cover of Groundhog on that album is spot on). What about William Clarke, Rod Piazza, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, etc? 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. Sinners Prayer This album collected together some of Guys best Chess sides, including First Time I Met The Blues, and his 1962 US R&B hit, Stone Crazy. Windy City electric blues at its visceral, compelling finest, it clearly stands among the best blues albums ever. A great blues album, and did as much as any album to enlighten the average 70s rock fans to the greatness of the blues. Down and Out Blues Sonny Boy Williamson (1959) Discovered by Chess songwriter Willie Dixon, Taylor (who was born Cora Walton in Tennessee) scored a Top 5 US R&B hit with Wang Dang Doodle in 1966 before leaving Chess for another Windy City label, Bruce Iglauers Alligator imprint in the 70s. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (2019; Dark Descent) It's tempting to read pure escapism into the aesthetics of Colorado's Blood Incantationpulp sci-fi alien art adorns the front cover of their down-the-rabbit-hole-conspiracy named second album, Hidden History of the Human Race.And I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a lot of fun to be had when diving into . Rorys Irish Tour is brilliant, but not a blues record. Jas. King, who are pictured alongside many other blues legends on the albums collage-like cover. No Rolling Stones, Cream, Fleetwood Mac etcBut Stevie Ray was real blues. His self-titled Folkways album helped revitalize Hopkins ailing career, putting him back into the big time. AND THE ALLMAN BROTHERS LUDLOW GARAGE THATS ABOUT AS CORE AS IT GETS, Missing thoughts, Check out the story behind the making of Blues for Greeny. 070 Shake) 6. Mick Taylor. I also like Fleetwood mac by Fleetwood mac. Rory Gallagher Live in Europe is better blues album than Irish Tour in my opinion. The Blues is the blues some you like some you dont , some I like some I dont . Key Track: Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down, From Woodlake, California, Ford is a quick-fingered guitarist who as a young man played with Charley Musselwhite, the LA Express, Joni Mitchell, and Miles Davis. Give him a listen. The session features the veteran bluesman alone in the studio accompanying his strident vocals with slide guitar chords that exude a visceral rawness. Johnny guitar watson I agree Brendan..their would be no postings here without those blues-inspired bands and many more. There are 4 albums by Dutch Bluesbands that I would ad to the list: A double live album, Irish Tour 74 offers a vivid portrait of Gallaghers magnetic on-stage performances.
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