critique my 2am blues album purchase

[Polynitro]

Put on your blues hats and tell me if I done good.

Magic Sam-West Side Soul
Freddie King-Burglar
Albert King-Live Wire
BB KIng-Live in Cook County
Led Zeppelin-I

 

[fuzz_factor]

Not familiar with that particular Freddy King album, but the rest are classics. Great playing, great songs, you can't go wrong...

 

[stevel]

Put on your blues hats and tell me if I done good.

Magic Sam-West Side Soul
Freddie King-Burglar
Albert King-Live Wire
BB KIng-Live in Cook County
Led Zeppelin-I

There are a couple of other Zep albums you should have bought (all of them

If you like the Freddie King, check out Hideaway and Dance away with Freddy King (or similarly worded title).

Yeah, you did good.

Steve

 

[stevieboy]

Nice trip, but I would have stopped once I got to Cook County.

 

[jtindle]

You have been on TGP for 2 1/2 years and have over 7000 posts and you are just now buying BB King-Live in Cook County? You didn't read the member agreement did ya? And you just now got LZ I? You are supposed to have all LZ albums within the first 6 months of membership to TGP.

MODS?, MODS? Why haven't they banned this guy yet?

 

[Steve_2020]

Have loved "Live Wire -Bluespower" since I first heard it on vinyl - when it was released -yikes .. Have always had a cooy of it handy in some format.

The other releases are major winners too, imoho. Even and including those English cats take on the blues- and other stuff ..Zep crosses over into at least one other huge genre, imoho. A great lesson on how to use blues to launch into rock there, tho.

If I were going for a more straightforward 'UK blues guitar' release for this collection, might have picked one of the mid/late 60s releases from Mayall or Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

Nothing wrong with zep tho.. Big fun there.

 

[johnhenry]

Magic Sam's West Side Soul is essential.

 

[terrapin]

Magic Sam's West Side Soul is essential.

ABSOLUTLY ESSENTIAL!!!!! Magic Sam RULES!!!

 

[erksin]

Magic Sam's West Side Soul is essential.

Absolutely.

Now go buy some Albert Collins!

 

[Polynitro]

Yeah Ive owned Led Zep 1 before

Heres some more I ordered:

Blyther Smith: Hold that Train
Gary Moore: Still Got the Blues
Guitar Boogie: EC, PAge, Beck

I want some Peter Green, which CD? I really like his Jimmy Page tone

BTW I just googled "10 best blues albums" and most of these are from a list Warren Haynes made, then I crossed checked the list with TGP

 

[Polynitro]

OK I ordered some more:

BB KIng: Blues is KIng
Albert Collins: Truckin'
Buddy Guy: a man and the blues
John maYall: hard road (peter green)
Joh MayAll: blues breakers

 

[Tomo]

Put on your blues hats and tell me if I done good.

Magic Sam-West Side Soul
Freddie King-Burglar
Albert King-Live Wire
BB KIng-Live in Cook County
Led Zeppelin-I

Great!

Let's add Earl Hooker "Two bugs and a roach"
Albert Collins "Trucking with Albert Collins"
B.B. King "Blues King"
Freddie King "1936-1976"

Tomo

 

[Steve_2020]

Yes, Albert Collins is a 'king' too.

 

[ReddRanger]

Magic Sam's West Side Soul is essential.

ABSOLUTLY ESSENTIAL!!!!! Magic Sam RULES!!!

Absolutely.

Now go buy some Albert Collins!

Agree, agree, agree!!

I'd add Black Magic from Magic Sam too. Just as important as West Side Soul, IMO.

 

[fuzz_factor]

Great!

Let's add Earl Hooker "Two bugs and a roach"
Albert Collins "Trucking with Albert Collins"
B.B. King "Blues King"
Freddie King "1936-1976"

Tomo

Here's another vote for the Earl Hooker album that Tomo recommended. Hooker is fun and full of life on Two Bugs and a Roach!

My favorite Albert Collins album is Ice Pickin'. "Master Charge" is a great song.

For BB, don't forget about Live at the Regal. His most recent, One Kind Favor is surprisingly good.

If you want some beautiful, mellow country blues then check out Mississippi John Hurt. Today! is a good place to start.

Don't forget John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Roy Buchanan.

 

[mojoslide]

Magic Sam's West Side Soul is essential.

+1,000

 

[Polynitro]

how about Magic Sam live at the Alex club?

 

[Phil M]

I own a few of those and think you did well. I like your Freddie King album, it's later in his career and a little harder edged than the early '60s stuff. I love "Pack it Up"!

Great Magic Sam too.

Check out some Earl Hooker next time.

 

[ReddRanger]

how about Magic Sam live at the Alex club?

Yes!

 

[Tom Gross]

Yeah - the ones you got are great. Magic Sam is indeed essential. and Cook County is a great BB album.
I also second (or third or whatever) the Albert Collins, and Ice Picken is a great choice. Earl Hooker is another classic.

The Zep album is interesting. I dig that it is cool to find what I would call some "bridge" type album to show how blues stepped into rock, and there are a lot of them.
In this vein I might recommend "Fathers & Sons", Bloomfield playing with Muddy & that gang. I found that album to be very interesting in showing how the louder, more notes, rockier guitar blended (and clashed) with chicago style blues. The Fleetwood Mac Chicago sessions with Peter Green are interesting for that as well (and despite criticism, have some great playing on them).