Gotta luv B.B. I was fortunate to see him in Dusseldorf, Germany years ago when he was in his prime. I introduced my German girlfriend to the blues this way.

 

One of my favorite groups is 'Roomful of Blues'. Must have close to ten of their CD's. My favorite blues CD was put out by a little Memphis BBQ restaurant outside of Washing D.C. call 'Red Hot & Blue'. The CD was an amazing compilation called, what else, 'Red Hot & Blues'.

I know zilch about blues, can anybody recommend some all-time greatest blues classics so i can listen to them on youtube?

 

 

I grew up in India, and I used to listen to Deep Purple, Jimmi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper et al when I was 11 years old. Totally hooked on rock. . Although my dad had Elvis and Satchmo, I never heard of the blues until I ended up in Univ of Arizona where I discoverd the "Blues" due to a buddy of mine who had almost 5000+ LPs of em.

 

Try

 

Bobby "Blue" Bland! (My alltime fav)

 

- "Exactly where its at"

- "Aint no sunshine when she's gone"

- "I'll take care of you"

- "This time I'm gone foer good"

- "Lovin on borrowed times"

 

 

Wilson Pickett

- "Taxi Love"

 

 

Pinetop Perkins (If you like Piano)

 

Manny

 

BTW..this is not Blues per se.but rather R&B. Get the movie. Rent it, borrow it, buy it.... "The commitments". Its an offbeat movie that will blow you away. Just make sure you are watching it with a good sound system. Its a bunch of rowdy Irish kids...forming an R&B band... its got a billion "f" word in it...but ignore that and make sure there are no kids around (on the account of the language".

 

http://www.amazon.co...the commitments

 

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If you've never seen "The Commitments" because you cringe at the notion of white Dubliners singing American soul tunes, well, I hear ya. I fully expected watered-down music along the lines of Michael Bolton butchering Percy Sledge. However, I was wrong - the music, in the context of the movie, is pure and genuine, and performed by young actors who understand that you don't have to pretend to be anything you're not to get soul. Besides, Jimmy Rabbitte, the mastermind behind the band, gives them all a thoroughly convincing speech that assures the lads and lasses from Dublin that they, too, are qualified to sing soul."

If you've never seen "The Commitments" because you cringe at the notion of white Dubliners singing American soul tunes, well, I hear ya. I fully expected watered-down music along the lines of Michael Bolton butchering Percy Sledge. However, I was wrong - the music, in the context of the movie, is pure and genuine, and performed by young actors who understand that you don't have to pretend to be anything you're not to get soul. Besides, Jimmy Rabbitte, the mastermind behind the band, gives them all a thoroughly convincing speech that assures the lads and lasses from Dublin that they, too, are qualified to sing soul.

 

All true -- it's a great film, but their version of Dark End of the Street still isn't as good as James Carr's original. :cool:

Try

 

Bobby "Blue" Bland! (My alltime fav)

 

- "Exactly where its at"

- "Aint no sunshine when she's gone"

- "I'll take care of you"

- "This time I'm gone foer good"

- "Lovin on borrowed times"

 

 

Wilson Pickett

- "Taxi Love"

 

 

Pinetop Perkins (If you like Piano)

 

 

Thanks i've looked some up on youtube and they're a bit slow for me, and are mostly about doods lamenting their lost woman..

I like stuff with a lot of swing, dunno what category this Barrett number falls into (R&B or rock maybe?) but it blows my socks off-

 

I knew the Beatles had recorded that song, and it was something of a standard for bands during the Merseybeat early-to-mid-sixties era, but that's the first time I've heard what was probably the original version, so thanks for posting.

 

As to category, it would have definitely regarded as R&B (although that term has come to mean something a bit different these days. In the USA it would have been called 'race music'). Thing is, those categories overlap a lot, and rock, blues, R&B, jazz and even country & western have all borrowed from, and been influenced by, each other in various ways and at various times.

 

Here's a Youtube clip of the Beatles at Liverpool's Cavern Club from 1962 purportedly performing the above song. Maybe they were, but it's clearly been overdubbed from the recorded version (been there, had the membership, and the acoustics were totally unsuited to the live recording technology of the time, or even comfortable listening for that matter :lol: ).

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2AXaOULs6Q

Blues, love muddy waters songs, but Robert Johnson me and Devil can feel guitar slide wail without re-dubs and other overdub abuse that todays studio use. Been playing gutiar off and on since the mid 90s and got into music just off Cream, Santana, Chuck Berry. Blues is all about feel not about playing 5000 notes a mintue like Yangie Malstreem. Own 3 guitars one telecaster fender, a mexi-start fender of course, and fast neck Ibanez. Cobain was tradegy at when I was 16 but Stevin Ray Vaguan was bigger one to me the guy had talent musically raw. Boom, Boom or the Thrill is Gone, Back Door Man classic songs. Being 34 got a lot of blues cds and downloads good tunes

Blues, love muddy waters songs, but Robert Johnson me and Devil can feel guitar slide wail without re-dubs and other overdub abuse that todays studio use. Been playing gutiar off and on since the mid 90s and got into music just off Cream, Santana, Chuck Berry. Blues is all about feel not about playing 5000 notes a mintue like Yangie Malstreem. Own 3 guitars one telecaster fender, a mexi-start fender of course, and fast neck Ibanez. Cobain was tradegy at when I was 16 but Stevin Ray Vaguan was bigger one to me the guy had talent musically raw. Boom, Boom or the Thrill is Gone, Back Door Man classic songs. Being 34 got a lot of blues cds and downloads good tunes

 

fooling around with pentatonic in A, with little bending and chromatic sounds a lot better than G3 or that 5000 notes/minute... lol

Want ballsy bluesy blues? Listen to some of Chris Rea's stuff from Blue Guitars. Or any of his music, that voice, that guitar! He rocks!