This thread has brought to mind a lot of good blues music, including this chestnut by Charles Brown:
Black Night
Black Night
The Blues: You Dig It?
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Wow, I haven't heard Rod Piazza in a long time. He headlined the "Western Maryland Blues Festival" 10 years ago, an awesome show.
Luther Allison gave the best performance I have ever witnessed, about 3 months before he died. He was also a headliner and was supposed to play from 9 - 11 PM. 11 PM came and went. The theater turned off his power around 1 AM. He unplugged and walked down into the audience to play acoustic till 2 AM, until they simply turned off the lights and told everyone to get out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oz3QLa5Tw
Luther Allison gave the best performance I have ever witnessed, about 3 months before he died. He was also a headliner and was supposed to play from 9 - 11 PM. 11 PM came and went. The theater turned off his power around 1 AM. He unplugged and walked down into the audience to play acoustic till 2 AM, until they simply turned off the lights and told everyone to get out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oz3QLa5Tw
Awesome jams guys! Keep 'em coming. Most musicians of today, if you want to call them that, with their fancy dance moves and backup dancers, can't even compare to these old timers. One man, one guitar, one take. It's raw, real, and epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc&t=46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kchux9ltH_E&t=123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMpHHSLSlc&t=46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kchux9ltH_E&t=123
Bradley :clap: That paints such a picture for me......Thanks for sharing that story!
I respect the blues, though not my absolute favorite. I saw Stevie Ray in Athens Ohio in 1986, blew me away! I've seen Buddy guy many times and Robert Cray, and Joe Bonamassa plays a mean blues guitar. But to me, Muddy Waters is the Chit-- these two are my Favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIbFJETrScI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYpwQsHb2_o
^ Robert Cray, always puts on a good show. Definitely take in a Buddy Guy show-- He's a living legend, see him while you can you will not regret it.
http://robert
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http://robert
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Robert Cray puts on a heck of a good show. Buddy Guy is still on my short list (but sadly nothing near me this year).
The first brief bit, Howlin' Wolf is just telling off Sonny House for letting the bottle control his entire life. Hilarious.
Howlin' Wolf - Meet Me At The Bottom
Howlin' Wolf - Meet Me At The Bottom
Beth Hart tops my list for female Blues artists! I would still travel to see her perform, especially for a couple of concerts. And she is really terrific in a small venue.
With Joe Bonamassa:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5qpdOy8DWEw
I would love to see Ann & Nancy Wilson from Heart try some Blues. Ann definitely has the voice for it!
Anyone think Marge Simpson wears a wig hat?
With Joe Bonamassa:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5qpdOy8DWEw
I would love to see Ann & Nancy Wilson from Heart try some Blues. Ann definitely has the voice for it!
Anyone think Marge Simpson wears a wig hat?
I was playing tenor sax in a jazz and blues pickup band at a party of mostly musicians, back in the early 80s, in the DC suburb. Dizzie Gillespie dropped by while I was up and we chatted a bit between sets. When I realized Dizzy was in the audience, I was too bashful to go back on stage. Too late. He had already heard me.
A couple of months later Dizzy was being interviewed on WHUR, the Howard University radio station. I called into the show and was connected to Dizzy. I gave him my name, not really thinking he would remember me. Dizzy gives me shout-out, Saying certainly he remembered. He then state to the audience, ladies and gentlemen this is Steve ____. He may just be worst white sax player I ever heard, followed by a hearty laugh. Now, you might think I was crushed. But he gave me a life long story that I love retelling. He may not have thought much of my horn chops but I wasn't fooling myself that I was particularly gifted. But Dizzy Fn Gillespie remembered who I was and new my name and used it on the radio. I'm still smiling.
Like tbradsim1, the blues found me when I was a country boy, about 6 years old. That's another story.
Pax
A couple of months later Dizzy was being interviewed on WHUR, the Howard University radio station. I called into the show and was connected to Dizzy. I gave him my name, not really thinking he would remember me. Dizzy gives me shout-out, Saying certainly he remembered. He then state to the audience, ladies and gentlemen this is Steve ____. He may just be worst white sax player I ever heard, followed by a hearty laugh. Now, you might think I was crushed. But he gave me a life long story that I love retelling. He may not have thought much of my horn chops but I wasn't fooling myself that I was particularly gifted. But Dizzy Fn Gillespie remembered who I was and new my name and used it on the radio. I'm still smiling.
Like tbradsim1, the blues found me when I was a country boy, about 6 years old. That's another story.
Pax
It took me a very long time to appreciate Blues music. For decades I thought it was the silliest, laziest way to use a guitar ever, "dudum da duh... duh duh....My baby don' lef' meah!" dudum da duh... duh duh" etc ad nauseum.
Thankfully, I discovered there is much more to The Blues than that and I like it very much now. I was amazed at BB King's tone when I saw him live and just adore Derek Trucks, whose phrasing and band are really up there with the best of them. I spent years learning how to bend strings properly and now have a MIj 2103 [1952] Teleaster, a guitar I never thought I'd own.
One of my own little concert memories is of listening to the opening bass lines of "The Thrill is Gone" in a crowd of 3,000 people and whooping and shouting; I was the only one to do it so I stopped, feeling like a fool. About 10 bars later, when BB sang "The Thrill is gone" the other 2,999 people whooped and clapped. I stood there looking at them thinking "You guys are pathetic!" Now there's a lot of......how shall I put it.....lionizing of semi-literate old black men who can hardly play a diminished chord as the height of music and that still makes me a little queasy. But there is little doubt that Black Blues from a long time ago has a quality to it which is very precious and has been lost. I have a 10 CD set of "Old Blues Masters" featuring artists very few specialists will ever have heard of, but that set is a reassure trove of emotion and life which opened my eyes to the huge power of celebrating sadness.
Thankfully, I discovered there is much more to The Blues than that and I like it very much now. I was amazed at BB King's tone when I saw him live and just adore Derek Trucks, whose phrasing and band are really up there with the best of them. I spent years learning how to bend strings properly and now have a MIj 2103 [1952] Teleaster, a guitar I never thought I'd own.
One of my own little concert memories is of listening to the opening bass lines of "The Thrill is Gone" in a crowd of 3,000 people and whooping and shouting; I was the only one to do it so I stopped, feeling like a fool. About 10 bars later, when BB sang "The Thrill is gone" the other 2,999 people whooped and clapped. I stood there looking at them thinking "You guys are pathetic!" Now there's a lot of......how shall I put it.....lionizing of semi-literate old black men who can hardly play a diminished chord as the height of music and that still makes me a little queasy. But there is little doubt that Black Blues from a long time ago has a quality to it which is very precious and has been lost. I have a 10 CD set of "Old Blues Masters" featuring artists very few specialists will ever have heard of, but that set is a reassure trove of emotion and life which opened my eyes to the huge power of celebrating sadness.
What impressed me when I finally went and saw BB King in concert, after years of having listened to his albums, wasn't his guitar as much as his soulful vocalization. Sure, he plays with soul, but his voice is every bit as much of what makes him special.
Music makes you feel, and the blues done with heart and soul touch you at your core.
Music makes you feel, and the blues done with heart and soul touch you at your core.
20 years ago, BB King played in our small-town theater. One of my buddies was in local radio and got permission to interview BB on his tour bus, before the show. Did I want to come along? You bet! He was a real gentleman and gave my friend a wonderful 20 minute interview. And of course the show was terrific, the theater held maybe 1500 seats.
Love the blues. Play a ton of guitar- but I really need to learn that style. I have an Eric Clapton strat and a Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue with a swapped out transformer- it's a great setup for some blueay stuff.
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