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Title: Blueswomen and bluesmen: the Blues music thread
Post by: Guillaume on July 23, 2014, 09:55:46 AM
Are there some fans of Blues music on this forum?

Do you have some blues albums and blues bands/songwriters to recommend to me?

I like Stevie Ray Vaughan, his albums like "Couldn't stand the weather", "Texas flood", "the sky is crying", etc.

I also fell in love with John Campbell (R.I.P.  :'(), especially his beautiful, haunting, moving album "One believer"...highly recommended:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr7hosIJG80
Title: Re: Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Campbell and the others bluesmen...
Post by: Master Ray on July 25, 2014, 06:42:16 PM
I was in Chicago a couple of years ago and saw Buddy Guy playing live at his club... now THAT was a bloody amazing night...

 
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Post by: Guillaume on September 25, 2019, 09:41:58 PM
Up, 5 years later!

An underrated short lived band, Cry of Love, they did only two albums and their talented singer died a few years ago...still, their first album "Brother", blues rock album influenced by Free, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hendrix...is fantastic!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTo3bPtRbv0
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Post by: Tony S on September 26, 2019, 12:51:57 PM
Jeff Healey was really great !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cUswsWUBHs
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Post by: Tony S on September 26, 2019, 01:01:51 PM
Don't forget blueswomen !

Joanne Shaw-Taylor is a great guitar player, with a fantastic voice too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEHboZ4Shho&list=PLhMArNrsjSibPlsTWVPxlfthEKpQ1swT9&index=12&t=0s
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Post by: Tony S on September 26, 2019, 01:09:29 PM
Snowy White's Blues Agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPKwMb2_hg
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Post by: Guillaume on September 26, 2019, 08:01:35 PM
Snowy White's Blues Agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPKwMb2_hg

I also like what he did on my favourite Thin Lizzy album, the underrated "Renegade".
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Post by: Whirlwind on September 27, 2019, 12:35:14 AM
Blues is the worst music on Earth. Just so repetitive. Dull, boring, simplistic. Horrible.

That's the reason why I like punk and post punk. And New Model Army. Not one blues lick in the whole lot of it.
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Post by: Ghosttrain on September 27, 2019, 09:06:51 PM
Maybe a listen to Into The Blues by Joan Armatrading may change your mind .... 8)....
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Post by: cthulhu on September 28, 2019, 08:49:50 AM
Good stuff there! I like blues music, its more that i like it when i hear it, but i don't have any records.

Here's a blues session i really like, but it's too heavy to listen to it often. Blues reduced to the max you could say: pain...

"believe me when i tell you: Life will not break your heart.., it will crush it" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc4-PLiesrE[/url)
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Post by: Guillaume on September 30, 2019, 05:56:31 PM
Don't forget blueswomen !

Joanne Shaw-Taylor is a great guitar player, with a fantastic voice too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEHboZ4Shho&list=PLhMArNrsjSibPlsTWVPxlfthEKpQ1swT9&index=12&t=0s

It's pretty great! Which are the best albums from her to recommend?

Others blueswomen: Ana Popovic, Dani Wilde, Samantha Fish..
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Post by: Tony S on October 15, 2019, 03:43:27 PM
Snowy White's Blues Agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPKwMb2_hg

I also like what he did on my favourite Thin Lizzy album, the underrated "Renegade".

Yes ! I love Renegade too ! :)
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Post by: Tony S on October 15, 2019, 03:49:53 PM
Don't forget blueswomen !

Joanne Shaw-Taylor is a great guitar player, with a fantastic voice too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEHboZ4Shho&list=PLhMArNrsjSibPlsTWVPxlfthEKpQ1swT9&index=12&t=0s

It's pretty great! Which are the best albums from her to recommend?


I must confess, I don't actually have any of Joanne's albums, but most of what I've head from her I've liked. The track I posted above is from her 5th album, The Dirty Truth.
She was inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert Collins and Jimi Hendrix. More info (and discography) here;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_Shaw_Taylor#Discography
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Post by: Tony S on October 15, 2019, 03:54:53 PM
I also like when some artists not necessarily known for blues music, delve into blues territory. Like this for example;

Joe Satriani - Down, Down, Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEgv3jwqwmA&list=PL8778CCBDBFF0F176&index=4&t=0s
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Post by: Guillaume on October 15, 2019, 05:10:36 PM
Snowy White's Blues Agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPKwMb2_hg

I also like what he did on my favourite Thin Lizzy album, the underrated "Renegade".

Yes ! I love Renegade too ! :)

It's the first album and first song i"ve heard from Thin Lizzy in the mid or late 80's, and i loved it from the start! I don't really know why this album met kind of hostile reviews from the critics and Thin Lizzy fans back in the 80's...great melodies and lyrics, in all cases.
It's too bad that Phil Lynott died so young.  :'(
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Post by: Tony S on October 16, 2019, 01:12:49 PM
Snowy White's Blues Agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPKwMb2_hg

I also like what he did on my favourite Thin Lizzy album, the underrated "Renegade".

Yes ! I love Renegade too ! :)

It's the first album and first song i"ve heard from Thin Lizzy in the mid or late 80's, and i loved it from the start! I don't really know why this album met kind of hostile reviews from the critics and Thin Lizzy fans back in the 80's...great melodies and lyrics, in all cases.
It's too bad that Phil Lynott died so young.  :'(

Yeah, Snowy co-wrote the title track with Phil. I immediately liked it the first time I heard it. Also love Angel of Death on the same album. I don't really get the hostile reviews either. Though the band were struggling as a unit by those days. Snowy admitted he didn't really fit in with the band (though I think he did musically), and left after that. There's a good write-up here about the album

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/thin-lizzy-renegade/

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGtJ8WR5Shc
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Post by: stephanieD on October 26, 2019, 04:45:02 PM
In Blues I like very much RORY GALLAGHER, BB KING, HOWLING WOLF, ALBERT KING, BIG MAMA THORTON, some Blues from JANIS JOPLIN, some cd from RY COODER...
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Post by: Guillaume on October 27, 2019, 11:26:22 AM
In Blues I like very much RORY GALLAGHER

I was listening to the albums "Jinxed" and "Calling card" last week...great stuff!  8)
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Post by: stephanieD on October 28, 2019, 05:25:07 PM
In Blues I like very much RORY GALLAGHER

I was listening to the albums "Jinxed" and "Calling card" last week...great stuff!  8)

c'est le meilleur pour moi Rory :) j'aurai adoré le voir en concert dans les années 80 ... mais à ce moment je ne connaissais pas dommage..
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Post by: Guillaume on May 19, 2020, 09:45:25 AM

An underrated short lived band, Cry of Love, they did only two albums and their talented singer died a few years ago...still, their first album "Brother", blues rock album influenced by Free, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hendrix...is fantastic!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTo3bPtRbv0

I quote myself ha ha!

If you like Cry of Love and especially his great singer Kelly Holland (RIP) here's some of his last recordings, sounding a bit like Cry of Love's fantastic first album, so bluesy rock soul mood..:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm15zWQyTYA
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Post by: Guillaume on November 18, 2020, 02:02:27 PM
No Blu Rays and Dvds of the great John Campbell but at least two concerts on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSPjK9K92c&ab_channel=BatisteGerardin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9m3jn65bQ8&ab_channel=BatisteGerardin
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Post by: Winterwulf on November 18, 2020, 08:48:50 PM
Another of the blues-rock greats worthy of mention here is Peter Green, and when he quit music in the early 70s he gave his '59 Les Paul to a young Belfast guitarist who went on to greater things...
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Post by: Guillaume on September 20, 2022, 11:10:46 AM
Don't forget blueswomen !

I've been listening to a lot of Samantha Fish's albums these past few months...voice, guitar, lyrics...she's brilliant!

"Daughters" (live): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE9fjWC9pZo&list=RDrE9fjWC9pZo&start_radio=1&ab_channel=Audiotree

"***** on the run" (live):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYVlsV_u7kM&ab_channel=DominaxelS

"Money to burn" (live):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bx83kUYkx4&ab_channel=ChanceJohnT58

"All the words" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne9wDpyT3RE&ab_channel=Blues%26RockmusicIlijaCapko