Memphis Slim Lonesome. 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. 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. Though she comes from Burbank, California, Bonnie Raitt is a soulful singer and bottleneck guitarist whose music is steeped in the delta blues sound. Check out Wild-Child Butler. I like Bonamassa but dont consider him a bluesman. Calling Card Rory Gallagher (1976) It's an album that demands something of the listener, but rewards it in spades. Half of them are on vinyl though and I have a big job ahead of me digitizing them all. This, the Butterfield Blues Bands sophomore LP, was commercially more successful than its predecessor, peaking at No. Compilations or reissues are not considered. A revered harmonica player and singer from Mississippi, Musselwhite made his debut with this classic album, which blurred the narrow divide between blues and rock music, especially on boogie-based songs such as Chicken Shack. The 12-song set mainly contained original material but also included a haunting blues reconfiguration of jazzman Duke Pearsons Cristo Redemptor(sic). The Jimmy Rogers All Stars Band (Jeff Healey, Kim Wilson, Eric Clapton and more) Blues, Blues Blues. Agree with Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters. Humble Pie? Bout time someone mentioned Shuggie Otis. Leaving out Willie Dixons I AM The Blues was egregious. 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. Born Robert Brooks in Tennessee, the perennially popular Bland was a constant presence in the American R&B singles chart between 1957 and 1985, scoring three chart-toppers. Odd Muddy Waters choices should be Real Fok Blues or Sail On. And, of course, pretty much everything by Wolf and Muddy. Missing The Chicago Climax Blues Band, precursor to Climax. How about When a guitar plays the blues or any song off Loading Zone he smokes almost every player on this list! 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. It was there that he released his debut LP, Rooster Blues, in 1960; a cache of singles that ranged from ramshackle down-home laments (My Starter Wont Work) to humorous Cold War meditations (GI Blues) and portentous tales of love gone bad (Hoo-Doo Blues). Included are a couple of potent original tunes, including an epic 23-minute-long version of the progressive-rock-style Whipping Post.. They are not blues bands, no matter how hard they try. Released 42 years after his death, King Of The 12-String Guitar is a retrospective featuring tracks he recorded during 1935 in New York City for the American Recording Company. Source Point & Southern Fried with Duane Allman!!! Phil. And just as importantly, what have we missed? It included a stripped-down version of his 1942 R&B hit, the risqu Let Me Play With Your Poodle, alongside revamps of his earlier tunes, Its Tight Like That and Love Her With A Feeling., Key Track: Let Me Play With Your Poodle, A legendary group who at their peak represented the pinnacle of southern blues-rock, the Allman Brothers Band was formed in Florida in 1969 and thanks to the dueling guitars of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts quickly made a name for itself. How can you miss Hendrix Blues Album? Johnny Winter First Winter. Showdown! EPs, box sets, reissues, and compilations were not considered. Key Track: Gangster Of Love, Born in Fargo, North Dakota, of Norwegian descent, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Lang took his debut album Lie To Me into the Top 50 US albums chart at the tender age of sixteen. Ray Charles (Self titled) contains: My first concert was the Jefferson Airplane with the warm up band The Yardbirds in 1967. It remains a go-to compilation for those wishing to get acquainted with Kings 60s oeuvre. King, who are pictured alongside many other blues legends on the albums collage-like cover. all these had made exellent albums. Duration 01:03:12. B. John McVie. With his croaky voice and piercing, bittersweet guitar melodies, Allison made his album debut for Chicagos Delmark label in 1969 but three years later, he was recording for Motowns Gordy imprint. "Escapism." 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The omission of Luther Allison must be corrected, perhaps his Serious disc or the Where Have You Been disc. Im kind of you that I even looked at this list after realizing of what it consists. We went to Tower Records on Columbus Ave. and she recommended a Cuby disc. I,m mostly in agreement with you, especially Willie Dixons exclusion. They changed how we heard pop, and changed what pop meant in the new millennium. Kokomo Arnold, Barbecue Bob, Charles Brown, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Blue Lu, Scrapper Blackwell, Cousin Joe, Pee Wee Crayton, Willie Dixon, Floyd Dixon, Snooks Eaglin, Sleepy John Estes, Four Blazes, Arthur Gunter, Slim Gaillard, Wynonie Harris,Earl Hooker, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Alberta Hunter, Ivory Joe Hunter, Tommy Johnson,, Lightnin Slim, J.B. Lenoir, Little Willie John, Smiley Lewis, Furry Lewis, Jimmy McCracklin, Percy Mayfield, Johnny Moores Three Blazers, Big Maybelle, Roy Milton, Amos Milburn to mention a few. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Live in Europe. Bruce Fisher above is right! This Mississippi blues master recorded for a variety of record companies during his long career, including Modern, Sensation, and Vee-Jay, where he scored some massive R&B hits. From Greenville, South Carolina, this much-garlanded singer and guitarist was also an accomplished actor and vociferous Civil Rights activist who found favor in the Whitehouse during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 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 . West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop. Both worthwhile considerations for sure. Though most of the album is self-written, Mos musical roots are referenced by the inclusion of two Robert Johnson songs. I would have included Otis Spann LP-The biggest thing since Colossus.John Lee Hooker LP-Live at cafe au-go-go.Muddy Waters 2LP-Fathers and Sons.Earl Hooker LP-Hooker and Steve.Cheers to All. The Powder Blues Band may not be pc blues but they played their variety of blues. What about all the albums He produced on the Blue Sky label performing with Muddy Waters? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Hear, hear been listening lately to that 90s Rounder Records release, Gatemouth Swings something like that, in which he is playing the Texas blues of his youth ala T-Bone Walker. Also the Graham Bond Organisation. 1w. You forgot Smokey Wilsons 88th Street Blues. Distinguished by fleet-of-finger 12-string guitar work, McTells unique Piedmont blues style is showcased on this magnificent 41-song compilation that contains the seminal tunes Broke Down Engine Blues and Southern Can Mama., From McComb, Mississippi, Ellas Otha Bates is better known as Bo Diddley, a much-decorated rhythm and blues pioneer whose influence helped to shape the landscapes of rock and pop. Im in shock Hendrix Axis bold as love is not on here. That track is the leadoff cut on Sufferin Mind, a 26-song anthology of his work for Art Rupes LA-based Specialty label. Come Back Baby Music has always played a role in helping to define cultural moments throughout history. Future blues star, Buddy Guy, assists on additional guitar, but its Waters who is the unequivocal center of attention, mesmerizing with his nuanced vocals, which range from booming hollers to hushed whispers. We all have our own ideas for those who do and dont qualify for inclusion in this list but I am just grateful that so many artists and albums are listed by the compilers and the mailers because there are some I missed, until now. You know your stuff. More significantly, the exotic 13-minute title song defined by extended improvisational passages over a mesmeric, open-ended groove lit the touchpaper for both acid and west coast rock. Comprising ex-Yardbirds guitarist, Eric Clapton, along with bassist Jack Bruce and flamboyant drummer, Ginger Baker, Cream was a volatile but progressive supergroup whose rule at the pinnacle of British blues-rock tree was short but eventful. Although The Rolling Stones are definitely not a blues Band. Magic Slim The essential I bought it, of course, and we went back to my place and played it several times. Nicknamed the Guitar Wizard, Red cut his first record in 1928 and his final one, thirty-two years later. Live At The Regal is widely considered one of the best blues albums of all time and purportedly had a profound influence on British guitarists Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. Good listening. The UK version of this classic album included Williams delivering a fiery version of his iconic Baby Please Dont Go. A masterclass in delta blues. The Blues is the blues some you like some you dont , some I like some I dont . He plays a lot of cigar box guitars and unusual instruments. Far too many white people on this list. They were just regurgitating the masters. 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. Kaj <3 , Rocking at the Tweed Mill. released in 1972, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv370LpF0cU Steve winwood This five-time Grammy-winning fedora-wearing blues troubadour from Los Angeles began his career in 1980 under his birth name, Kevin Moore, but didnt make an impact until he had reinvented himself as Keb Mo in the 1990s. Have you heard his Blues and Ballads album with Elmer Snowden? The Memphis-based Stax label was synonymous with earthy southern R&B but in 1967 it racked-up several blues hit singles thanks to Mississippi-born singer/guitarist Albert King. A noted British bandleader and trad jazz trombonist, Barber was a seminal figure of the UK music scene in the 1950s and 60s, helping to light the touchpaper to Britains skiffle movement and also the rhythm and blues-fueled beat group boom. He is almost as bad as Eric Clapton. Every single LIGHTNIN HOPKINS ALBUM is better than MOST of the albums listed. 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. It was rekindled at the end of the 50s by young white Americans fascinated by their nations folk and blues heritage. Thx, Your email address will not be published. THIS IS A WHITE FOLKS LIST. Stackerset out to find the best albums of the 21st century, compiling data from Metacritic(as of October 2022). Superharps???? King and Koko Taylor to Shemekia Copeland, discover the records that made it onto our list of the best blues albums ever. Plus the fact Ronnie plays ever note like it is his last! Also thanks for the list and for everyone adding their favorites. What resulted was a fascinating and insightful aural document that commemorated a singer who bridged the divide between rural and urban blues styles. 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) The daughter of Texas blues maven Johnny Copeland, this large-lunged Harlem-born singer was just 19 when she unleashed Turn Up The Heat, a combustible debut album that put her indelibly on the radar of all hardcore blues fans. Muddy Waters Hard Again is arguably his greatest Album ever and certainly his best Contemporary Blues Album he ever made. One of the few things Ill miss when I die. Well, I respect that you are entitled to your opinion, but I wonder if you have heard him play live? No Blues List is complet without Popa Chubby. Low Country Blues Gregg Allman (2011) He's a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and four-time Blues Music Award winner whose career stretches back half a century. Though not as accomplished, perhaps, as his later records, it presents Hookers unique Mississippi blues style in its rawest, undiluted form. Three years shy of his sixtieth birthday, Water is backed by a superb band (including pianist Otis Spann and harmonica player, James Cotton), delivering a bravura performance. Super Session should absolutely be here, I think you could have included every SRV album released, but glad Texas Flood is on there. Otis Taylor? Fats domino too. It was the singer/guitarists first-ever live recording and captured him at the peak of his powers, counterpointing his passionate vocals with stinging guitar lines. Possessing a powerful, expressive voice, he racked up seventeen US R&B hits for Chess Records Checker imprint between 1962 and 1971. Big Joe Turner, with Count Basie, Kansas City; on Pablo The Blues was starting to come back to its own in 1965/1966 and would have continued thanks to the desire of college kids willing to expand away from the norm and the hipsters shunning mainstream music. Cream were Cream, by no stretch of the imagination, can they be called a blues band. Apologies, a couple of the artists I mentioned are on the list! and Ronnie Early, his 2002 release with Cleanhead Vinson. 'My biggest thing on this album is candidness,' she says. Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, Duck Dunn, Buddy Miles, and so many more. 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. 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. Bumble Bee spans the years 1929-1941, collecting all the Hoodoo Ladys seminal early sides with McCoy, including the classics Black Rat Swing, Dirty Mother For You, and New Dirty Dozen., Key Track: Whats The Matter With The Mill. 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. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. I thought the same thing. He has a lot of great records. Big Bill Broonzys career as a blues singer took him on a remarkable odyssey, from the brutal cotton fields of the deep American south to the rarefied ambience of European concert halls. His most impressive moments come on the churning My Time After Awhile and the blistering instrumental, Snowy Wood, which he co-wrote with Mayall. The title is Best Blues ALBUMS not blues artists. Though he was a talented multi-instrumentalist who could play guitar and piano, Arkansas-born Frost rose to prominence as a harmonica specialist mentored by the legendary blues harp blower, Sonny Boy Williamson. 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