what is the best blues album guys?? enlighten me please..

[bibir]

I only knew a little.. my version is :
1. SRV live at mocambo
2. Howling wolf at london session 71
3. Hendrix live at royal albert hall
4. clapton layla and other assorted love songs..

tell me yours..

 

[benjammin420]

"hoodoo man blues" junior wells
"sweet tea" buddy guy
"indianola mississippi" bb king
"live wire: blues power" albert king

 

[blood5150]

Sound Hound Lounge is pretty good.

 

[jpervin]

B.B. King "Live At The Regal" is right up there, along with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's Chess Box sets.

 

[stryker59]

texas flood srv
the sky is crying elmore james
damn right i got the blues buddy guy to name a few...

 

[Trebor Renkluaf]

B.B. King "Live At The Regal" is right up there, along with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's Chess Box sets.

+1 for "Live at the Regal".

 

[Trebor Renkluaf]

damn right i got the blues buddy guy to name a few...

Damn straight about "Damn Right I got the Blues" -
"Five long years, chucking steel just like a slave..."

 

[fenderfreak]

BB King and Friends 80

 

[Jed B]

Albert King: live wire, blues power is very good!
BB King: Blues is King (think that's what it's called?!) is up there for me
The first Indegineous album is not to shabby either.......

 

[GCDEF]

I only knew a little.. my version is :
1. SRV live at mocambo
2. Howling wolf at london session 71
3. Hendrix live at royal albert hall
4. clapton layla and other assorted love songs..

tell me yours..

Not sure I'd call 3 and 4 blues albums. 1 is iffy too.

Not a blues album, but Allman Brothers at Fillmore East has some of the best blues ever recorded on it.

If you want to get introduced to other artists, Alligator has a bunch of sampler CDs out there. That would be a good way to find out who's out there and who you like.

I like Chris Cain
Lucky Peterson
Johnny Winter
Roy Buchanan
Gary Moore (mainly a rock player, but does some good blues too)
Freddie King
Some of Eric Clapton's blues stuff

 

[Mudder]

Greg Koch - Live! On the Radio

 

[MrBoZiffer]

I'm going to second "Sweet Tea" by Buddy Guy. I love Junior Kimbrough, as well as guys like RL Burnside, and Sweet Tea is a great tribute to Junior. But that stuff is entirely different form the same old SRV, Clapton, etc. type of stuff.

 

[73171]

BB King - Live in Cook County Jail, Indianola Mississippi Seeds
SRV - Texas Flood
Rev. Gary Davis - Harlem Street Singer
Johnny Winter - Johnny Winter, Second Winter, Progressive Blues Experiment, Nothin' but the Blues
Jazzy torch song type blues - Diana Krall

....and lots of ZZ Top and Led Zep songs...



my all-time favorites? Second Winter and Texas Flood
YMMV

 

[cnardone]

Copeland, Collins Cray - showdown (KILLER)
Buddy guy - A man and the blues
Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live

Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (kind of moving to rock but still steeped in blues)
I've also got a Mayall Boxed set that is incredible (full of Clapton and Green)

As mentioned about
BB King - Live at the Regal,
Wolf - London Sessions (Some GREAT Clapton work on it)

so many more.

 

[Guinness Lad]

BB King "Live at the Regal" Is the best lesson on how to be a showman/bluesman I have ever heard.

I wore out the double live Albert King album.

 

[Voodoo Blues]

+1 for "Live at the Regal".

+2 for "Live at the Regal".

"Live from Cook County Jail" is pretty good too.


Texas Flood - SRV
From the Cradle - Clapton
Jammin' Blues - Buddy Guy
Burlgar - Freddie King
Blues - Hendrix

 

[benjammin420]

+2 for "Live at the Regal".

"Live from Cook County Jail" is pretty good too.

if theres a bad BB King album, ive never heard it :AOK

 

[jumpnblues]

Are you talking straight/traditional blues or more of a blues influenced rock? Blues covers a lot of territory. It's a very broad genre.


Tom

 

[benjammin420]

1. SRV live at mocambo
2. Howling wolf at london session 71
3. Hendrix live at royal albert hall
4. clapton layla and other assorted love songs

is the OP list, id say its open season for blues styled music

 

[stryker59]

Damn straight about "Damn Right I got the Blues" -
"Five long years, chucking steel just like a slave..."

yep!! "five long years with one woman....and she had the nerve to kick me out!!"