Discovering the Blues.

[dandarez]

popeyewhite said:

Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa - I'd Rather go Blind.
I'd forgotten about Ms Hart of late but this track is quite brilliant, originally by Etta James, Beth owns it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOiFJ5mzh7A

Give me the late 60s and Christine Perfect (McVie) and Chicken Shack

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

Edited by dandarez on Friday 21st September 00:22

[Skyedriver]

dandarez said:

Give me the late 60s and Christine Perfect (McVie) and Chicken Shack

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

Edited by dandarez on Friday 21st September 00:22

Saw Chickenshack at the City Hall Newcastle around 1968/9
Brilliant

[cherryowen]

dandarez said:

Give me the late 60s and Christine Perfect (McVie) and Chicken Shack

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

Edited by dandarez on Friday 21st September 00:22

That's a bonus track on the CD I've got of OK, Ken

Whilst writing, here's some footage of a little-known duo that I've always enjoyed:-

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

A couple of other classics that may have not been mentioned before:-

Smokestack Lightning

Stormy Monday

I'm pretty sure Robert Johnson has been mentioned, but Clapton once said, 'I have never heard anything as soulful as Robert Johnson'. This is my favourite Johnson tune; every time I listen to it, all my hairs stand on end:-

Love In Vain

[seiben]

cherryowen said:

I'm pretty sure Robert Johnson has been mentioned, but Clapton once said, 'I have never heard anything as soulful as Robert Johnson'. This is my favourite Johnson tune; every time I listen to it, all my hairs stand on end:-

Love In Vain

That's rather wonderful

[E34-3.2]

Jimi Hendrix. Get the album "blues", you'll get blown away.

[E34-3.2]

dandarez said:

popeyewhite said:

Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa - I'd Rather go Blind.
I'd forgotten about Ms Hart of late but this track is quite brilliant, originally by Etta James, Beth owns it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOiFJ5mzh7A

Give me the late 60s and Christine Perfect (McVie) and Chicken Shack

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

Edited by dandarez on Friday 21st September 00:22

Give me Gov't mule version over any others:

https://youtu.be/iYgId1baqWg

Stunning.

[popeyewhite]

E34-3.2 said:

dandarez said:

popeyewhite said:

Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa - I'd Rather go Blind.
I'd forgotten about Ms Hart of late but this track is quite brilliant, originally by Etta James, Beth owns it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOiFJ5mzh7A

Give me the late 60s and Christine Perfect (McVie) and Chicken Shack

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

Edited by dandarez on Friday 21st September 00:22

Give me Gov't mule version over any others:

https://youtu.be/iYgId1baqWg

Stunning.

Rather have a female vocalist for that one. Govt Mule are very good but they generally don't do covers justice...except for maybe their live version of Soulshine. They did a cover of Jesus Just Left Chicago which was frankly dreadful. Their tendency towards long jam sessions live and lots of covers makes them a bit of a marmite band to see in concert IMO.

[E34-3.2]

popeyewhite said:

Rather have a female vocalist for that one. Govt Mule are very good but they generally don't do covers justice...except for maybe their live version of Soulshine. They did a cover of Jesus Just Left Chicago which was frankly dreadful. Their tendency towards long jam sessions live and lots of covers makes them a bit of a marmite band to see in concert IMO.

I don't really listen to them. I just find their version of that song stunning and a very inspired guitar which is the key ingredient to blues for my listening.

[Stan the Bat]

seiben said:

cherryowen said:

I'm pretty sure Robert Johnson has been mentioned, but Clapton once said, 'I have never heard anything as soulful as Robert Johnson'. This is my favourite Johnson tune; every time I listen to it, all my hairs stand on end:-

Love In Vain

That's rather wonderful

All Robert Johnson's work is wonderful.

[dandarez]

Stan the Bat said:

All Robert Johnson's work is wonderful.

Your username just gave me a lightbulb moment. Whipped downstairs to make sure I still have the gatefold mid-70s double vinyl LP I'm thinking of. Sold so many over the years, I sometimes regret selling some... yep, it's still there, nice and mint still.
One of the most striking coversI'd ever seen at the time. And great gatefold pic of Stan.
Pics are not of mine, but just so you can see if you don't know of it. I might just give it a play tomorrow!

[freddytin]

Try this , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFAYi3UzkUw

She has a rather special voice, and her bands' guitarist can play too. " Feeling Good .", Kaz Hawkins

Edit. Here's a little ditty she wrote herself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTShI4EskTA Pray to the blues

Edited by freddytin on Saturday 22 September 22:16

[freddytin]

Danielle Nicole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uo3c7GE6g4&li... Such emotion "Just give me tonight"

[ninepoint2]

popeyewhite said:

Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa - I'd Rather go Blind.
I'd forgotten about Ms Hart of late but this track is quite brilliant, originally by Etta James, Beth owns it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOiFJ5mzh7A

Very good version of that, thanks

[Mothersruin]

Please forgive me for putting this here. It's just that it's sort of shared ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h448aMqexuo

Gary Moore - Voodoo Child (sic)

I reckon it's better than the SRV version - more aggressive, almost violent.

[Stan the Bat]

dandarez said:

Stan the Bat said:

All Robert Johnson's work is wonderful.

Your username just gave me a lightbulb moment. Whipped downstairs to make sure I still have the gatefold mid-70s double vinyl LP I'm thinking of. Sold so many over the years, I sometimes regret selling some... yep, it's still there, nice and mint still.
One of the most striking coversI'd ever seen at the time. And great gatefold pic of Stan.
Pics are not of mine, but just so you can see if you don't know of it. I might just give it a play tomorrow!

Thanks, nice to see .
I have 5 chicken shack albums on my HD but not that one.

[Skyedriver]

cherryowen said:

:

Whilst writing, here's some footage of a little-known duo that I've always enjoyed:-

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

When I was just getting into "The Blues" back in the late 60's early 70's Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee were some of my favourites.
As I recall they weren't actually that friendly to one another but I may be wrong.

[popeyewhite]

John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers feat. Gary Moore

So Many Roads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwc7ZEYfWYc

Joe Bonamassa

So Many Roads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9vR7cKfEg

Bonamassa is a lot slicker, but I prefer the John Mayall version.

[popeyewhite]

Alvin Lee and Ten Years After - Help Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdwvfM5ntbQ

[C&C]

popeyewhite said:

Alvin Lee and Ten Years After - Help Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdwvfM5ntbQ

This earlier version's not bad either - Sonny Boy Williamson II - Help Me

There were 2 guys called Sonny Boy Williamson: SBW 1: 1914 - 1946, and SBW 2: 1912 - 1965

I started to get into blues music only recently as I started to learn the harmonica, so the following are more from the blues harp angle:

Sonny Boy Williamson 1 - Sugar Mama

George "Harmonica" Smith - Mississippi River Blues

Little Walter - Juke

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Everything Going To Be Alright

Charlie Musselwhite-Christo Redemptor


Just for something you definitely won't have seen, but it's worth a watch/listen, is a video I took at a summer harmonica camp evening session with Pierre Lacocque (Mississippi Heat), and Greg Miller (I was attending his classes at the time). It was shot on an iPhone so not perfect, but it's the playing that's important.

.... and not blues but some other excellent harmonica stuff:

Blues Traveler - Hook (great harp solo on this)

The J Geils Band - Whammer Jammer

[cherryowen]

[quote=C&C] The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Everything Going To Be Alright
[/quote]

Loved that.

You mentioned Sonny Boy Williamson's Sugar Mama, and it instantly reminded me of a certain Mr. Gallagher:-

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

Edited by cherryowen on Monday 15th October 23:08