King and Koko Taylor to Shemekia Copeland, discover the records that made it onto our list of the best blues albums ever. Born Robert Brooks in Tennessee, the perennially popular Bland was a constant presence in the American R&B singles chart between 1957 and 1985, scoring three chart-toppers. This compilation focuses on his earliest recordings, a bunch of 78s made in 1931 for Paramount Records where he first established his idiosyncratic style. Blue Streak Luther Allison (1995) The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt More remarkable was Wolfs singing voice, which could change from a deep, full-throated roar to an eerie lupine howl. Future blues star, Buddy Guy, assists on additional guitar, but its Waters who is the unequivocal center of attention, mesmerizing with his nuanced vocals, which range from booming hollers to hushed whispers. Other standouts included Sen-Sa-Shun and San-Ho-Zay., Tons Of Sobs was British blues-rock quartet Frees debut album for Chris Blackwells Island label. Blues. When it comes to white guys playing the Blue how about ZZTop Rio Grand Mud,. A raspy-voiced Louisiana singer and guitarist, Slim was the brother-in-law of Slim Harpo and released his debut single in 1954 for the Feature label but reaped more acclaim a few years later during his time at Excello, an R&B imprint of Ernie Youngs Nashboro label. Other delights include the chugging How Many Years, the boogie-style Baby How Long, and the plaintive Forty Four driven by a ramshackle rhythm section. full of Southren Prison Blues? The Jimmy Rogers All Stars Band (Jeff Healey, Kim Wilson, Eric Clapton and more) Blues, Blues Blues. 1 single, Blue Shadows, which features on this double LP compilation of recordings made between 1955 and 1962. I miss Duane. The biggest was the No. After years of obscurity, James would finally taste acclaim in the 1960s when he recorded more frequently. A clear contender among the best blues albums ever, Muddy Waters At Newport captured the man born McKinley Morganfield at Rhode Islands famous annual jazz festival. How can you miss Hendrix Blues Album? But those albums that Ive listed are the ones I suggest people listen to, and I have done so for a long time. My 21st Century Blues is RAYE's long-awaited upcoming debut studio album, set to be released on February 3rd, 2023. Compilations or reissues are not considered. I agree and was going to post the same. What of J. J. Cale? Backed by an ace band (which includes pianist Otis Spann and blues legend Muddy Waters), Smith breezes through eleven Little Walter tunes while putting his own indelible spin on them. The Electric Flag should be required listening for all who are interested in the blues and how music evolves IMHO. It represents a scintillating tour de force of blues expression, thanks in part to Buddy Guys feverish fretboard work (for legal reasons Guy performed under the name Friendly Chap). I like Fats Domino singing the blues He did a lot of blues, mostly his earley recordings. Blues music as raw, down and dirty as it gets!!! Alongside it are two other early Rush classics: Double Trouble and Jump Sister Bessie. With his aggressive, energetic style, Rush exerted a powerful influence on several notable British blues guitarists in the 1960s, including Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and Jeff Beck. Strong Persuader, his fourth long-player recorded three years later, went double platinum in the USA, where it peaked at No. This Mississippi delta blues mans immortality largely rests on his influential 1935 recording Baby Please Dont Go, which spawned almost a hundred different interpretations, including hit versions by the rock bands Them and AC/DC. Good listening. Blues For Harlem, his eighth long-player, was recorded in England for the British Armadillo label and contained a tribute to Davis in the shape of a spiritual medley called The Reverend & Me.. The Blues Forever! At the end of that decade, he signed a deal, appropriately enough, with Cincinnatis King label, where he recorded his debut long-player, Freddy King Sings. Well, have we succeeded? Janis Joplin The essential Minneapolis isnt considered a blues metropolis even though it lies on the mighty Mississippi River. Hollywood Fats Rock this House The Groundhogs Split is one of the best unknown albums of all time, easily. Black and white photographs. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street. Musical support comes from James Harmonica Smith and saxophonist Bill Potter, who light up Little Red Rooster, the slow-burning Rock Me Baby and Ball N Chain. The set ends with a rousing gospel number: Edwin Hawkins Oh Happy Day. I wish it was more than 100. It features guest cameos from Paul Simon, Carlos Santana, and an uncredited Steve Miller on a broad selection of material. Van Lear Rose was one of the best-reviewed albums of 2004, representing White's first studio success with a full band and a peerless reminder of Lynneven past the age of 70as a bard and songwriter steeped in grace (on the wistful title track), sin ("Portland, Oregon," her duet with Jack), and drama ("Mrs. Leroy Brown," "Women . The remaining antique gems are incredibly obscure. They ranged from driving, full-throttle numbers such as the Cotton-penned The Hucklebuck, and Narcias atmospheric ballad, Life Will Be Better, to the slow-burning after-hours blues, Harp To Harp. The music may sound like it originates straight from the Mississippi delta but was recorded in Portland, Maine. Before she achieved significant pop/rock crossover success, Raitts early albums like this one, only her second long-player were an eclectic mix of blues, antique jazz, folk, and singer-songwriter pop. Mississippi-born Chester Burnett was better known as Howlin Wolf, who at 300-pounds and 6 3 tall was an imposing figure of a man. He has every right to a place on this list. Winters fretboard pyrotechnics are impressive, but he matches his flashy technique with high emotional content. Five Live Yardbirds The Yardbirds (1964) And you are an expert? THE BLUES! Music has always played a role in helping to define cultural moments throughout history. Although there will always be missing someting. From North Carolina, Fuller (real name Fulton Allen) was an exponent of Piedmont blues, a US east coast style defined by guitar finger-picking that was influenced by the jaunty rhythms of ragtime music. with a band that included noted blues harpist and singer James Cotton. I like them, but they dont belong anywhere near this list. Do you even play blues or are you an armchair critic? Two Steps from the Blues Bobby Blue Band (1962) What resulted was a fascinating and insightful aural document that commemorated a singer who bridged the divide between rural and urban blues styles. There are 4 albums by Dutch Bluesbands that I would ad to the list: Probably the best white British / black legend collaboration. And just as importantly, what have we missed? Black Country Suite, his debut album, is mainly instrumental and is dominated by the ten-part titular opus, which shows off Allisons bebop-meets-blues and country piano style in a trio setting. The first list was published in a special issue of the magazine in 2003 and a related book in 2005. Music Reviews: My 21st Century Blues by RAYE released in 2023. Your email address will not be published. Townes Van Zandt Live at the Old Quarter, And some compilations: I can think of stuff Id like to see on the list, but then you have to bump someone else and I just dont know ho you do that Yikes! Though blues was an omnipresent element in Hendrixs oeuvre, he never made a dedicated blues album. There the Gibson is really crying. Excellent recording with a superb interview of Nighthawk by Michael Bloomfield! Though considered a jazz singer, Baltimore-born Billie Holiday (real name Eleanor Fagan) was well-versed in the language of the blues, with its bittersweet cadences and themes of bad luck, heartbreak, and disappointment. Immediately after that, Spann returned to Chicago where he recorded The Blues Never Die! But more importantly, we can see all the comments of what people left out. The songs names are surrounded by . McDowell is in magnetic form, shining on nine scintillating tracks. Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, Freddy King, BB King. I thought that is what the blues is all about.Thanks! John Luries Legendary Marvin Pontiac My first concert was the Jefferson Airplane with the warm up band The Yardbirds in 1967. And The Blues was starting to come back to its own in 1965/1966 and would have continued thanks to the desire of college kids willing to expand away from the norm and the hipsters shunning mainstream music. I used to have (in the early 1970:ies) an album AC/DC? The title song appeared on this compilation, a 10-track overview of his Stax-era recordings, including assorted singles, B-sides, and album tracks. Larry Taylor. In fact, well shall never know who the truest bluesmakers were or where they came from. He steps in and out of the shadows as Otis leads the band. Albums were ranked according to their Metascore, which represents an aggregation of critic reviews. Duke Robillard & The Pleasure Kings Rockin Blues This potent album, Simones RCA debut, not only underlined the singers affinity with the blues argot with her performances of songs by Lil Green and Buddy Johnson but also revealed her as a blues-influenced songwriter of note. Agree with Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters. Below are links to the best blues albums of each decade. Hudson Woodbridge was the birth name of Tampa Red, who was born in Georgia and raised in Florida. Three volumes with Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Otis Spann, Otis Rush, J.B. Hutto, Jimmy Cotton, Walter Horton, Johnny Shines, Johnny Young, Homesick James, and Charlie Musselwhite is absolutely essential blues listening! Consisting of just voice and guitar, the LP captured the visceral intensity of Hopkins performances via tracks such as the mournful Penitentiary Blues and livelier boogie-style Come Go Home With Me., Slims real name, Otis Hicks, just doesnt have the same ring as his electrified stage moniker. George Thoroughgood? The Fabulous Thunderbirds: `Girls Go Wild Thx, Your email address will not be published. The groups blues roots are reflected by their meaty repurposing of songs by T-Bone Walker (Stormy Monday), Blind Willie McTell (Statesboro Blues), and Elmore James (Done Somebody Wrong). Styles. Folk directions of the 21 century Tweet Indeed. His first major records, The Fat Man, was a revamping of Champion Jack Duprees Junkers Blues. Although it includes super-charged versions of Howlin Wolf and Buddy Guy songs, the most impressive cuts are the original Pride & Joy and the rhythm and blues-rocker, Love Struck Baby. Those who had written off the blues as deader than a Dodo were made to eat their words by Texas Flood, a dynamic musical tour de force that bristled with life and energy. And not to mention a few good blues artists and bands from the Antipodes: Jeff Lang, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Chain, Joe Camilleri (JoJo Zep), Phil Jones and The Unknown Blues, Fourday Riders, CW Stoneking, Backsliders, Zyedecats, Chris Wilson, Dutch Tilders, Foreday Riders, John Butler, Mia Dyson, just to name a few.. All lists will be criticised Dan Patlansky from South Africa is currently a well respected player, Warren Haynes (Govt Mule is a legend and Lonnie Mack is a notable absentee . And how the hell did you not include Jimmy Pages work with Led Zeppelin? I agree with you about Joe Bonamassa and John Hammond! My medicine, my anxieties and traumas, my unfiltered thoughts. I didnt see Love Sculptures Blues Helping. Rock blues, straight blues, jazz blues etc. It's Jay-Z. It was there that he released his debut LP, Rooster Blues, in 1960; a cache of singles that ranged from ramshackle down-home laments (My Starter Wont Work) to humorous Cold War meditations (GI Blues) and portentous tales of love gone bad (Hoo-Doo Blues). Though not as accomplished, perhaps, as his later records, it presents Hookers unique Mississippi blues style in its rawest, undiluted form. Will probably be one of 2023's best albums. You cant be serious about J Geils? Savoy Brown definitely belongs on that list. 'My biggest thing on this album is candidness,' she says. He was 56 when he recorded this 11-track collection. Im a bit sad that I dont have it anymore. Ruth Brown, James Cotten, Son Seals, Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows, Little Ed and the Blues Imperials, The Staple Singers,Savoy Brown, John Hammond, Sister Roseta Thorp, Ko Ko Tylor, Bobby Blue Bland, Kokomo Arnald, I almost out of room here to bad I could name another hundred I bet. Aynsley Dunbar. deservedly won a Grammy in 1986, and is clearly among the best blues albums ever. On some of the tunes like Walkin The Blues and Whisky & Women a band backs Hooker though the unaccompanied songs Sugar Mama and Leave My Wife Alone undoubtedly possess greater intensity. What about African Blues.Ali Farka Toure. Key Track: Rooster Blues. The apotheosis of blues-rock. This anthology of his recordings for Eli Toscanos short-lived indie label Cobra includes Rushs Top 10 US R&B hit, I Cant Quit You Baby, later covered by Led Zeppelin. The album marked a watershed moment for the British music scene, sparking a blues-rock explosion. Sheryl Crow, "C'mon C'mon" (2002) Missouri ties: Crow is a. Deeply influenced by blues music, Belfast-born Gary Moore started his career playing the guitar with Northern Irish band Skid Row in the early 70s before briefly joining Thin Lizzy. Black is blues. By then, Davis who was proficient on the banjo, guitar, and harmonica had been a minister for 30 years and had a string of recordings to his name that stretched back to the 1930s. I also remember that the guitarist played a I love that album but its rock, not blues. Submit Corrections The rest is history. A blues shouter from Arkansas who possessed a rich, resonant voice, Witherspoon rose to fame in the 1940s with pianist Jay McShanns band before going solo and topping the US R&B charts in 1949 with Aint Nobodys Business. That particular song features on the singers iconic 1959 album, At The Monterey Festival, which was included as part of the 1972 live double LP compilation, Spoon Concerts. B. John Mayall is not in the pantheon of blues artists. Im glad to see both old and new records on the list, but one of my all-time favorite is missing; Walter Trout. You might want to re-evaluate your stance on Stevie Ray Vaughan too. Too bad that you only looked at US and UK blues greats. She cut a slew of memorable 78-rpm singles that included the chart-topping, Down Hearted Blues featuring just piano accompaniment from 1923, which is one of the numerous highlights of a 2-CD retrospective that stands as a monument to Smiths remarkable legacy. The Smokin Joe Kubek Band Served up Texas Style Known as the Empress of the Blues, the highly influential Bessie Smith patented a distinctively earthy and soulful vocal style that brought her much fame and wealth in the 1920s. The album will be delving into deeply personal topics in RAYE's life, such as . They changed how we heard pop, and changed what pop meant in the new millennium. BTW : as much as Led Zep did to revive the blues, they never credited the musicians and writers whos songs they recorded..they simply reworked them slightly and kept the royalties for themselves.pretty much of a weasel move. Maybe so, Brian, but you have to admit, it makes a change for any of Rorys albums to appear in a list like this. Missing The Chicago Climax Blues Band, precursor to Climax. As far as Joe Bur right on. Also, no Lonnie Mack. Please, listen to sean costello playing talk to your daughter and watsons three hours past midnight, No blues list that excludes Peter Green can be taken seriously. Between 1955 and 1961, Mississippi singer, guitarist and harmonica maestro, Jimmy Reed, racked up eighteen US R&B hit singles for the Chicago-based Vee-Jay label. Excellent list, though I would have left a Various Artists field opened for CHICAGO! I LOVE it ALL. Luthers Blues was his second LP for Berry Gordy and epitomizes Allisons Chi-Town blues style with its amalgam of big-city grit and polish. And then Kanye is also in some sort of strange 1970s burned-out back room of a Chicago blues club having a . Given the name Memphis Minnie by an A&R employee at Columbia Records in 1930, she initially recorded with her first husband Kansas Joe McCoy before she went solo. 65 in Billboards pop albums chart. The Nighthawks Live at the PsycheDeli should be on this list ahead of many others. WILLIE DIXON, besides writing MANY BLUES STANDARDS/CLASSICS, is playing on mist of the CHESS stjuff. If theyre going to include ctoss-over bands how could they omit Led Zeppelin I, yet have Cream. YES too many Blues-Rock releases and BLUES FOR A ROTTEN AFTERNOON isnt even on the list, so THAT tells me the compilers are just kids. Fats knew his blues! Not that I know of anyway. One of the few things Ill miss when I die. John Hammond So Many Roads (http://www.allmusic.com/album/so-many-roads-mw0000618281) and if youre going to include Layla and Wheels of Fire, you should think about Highway 61 Revisited. And what about Roy Buchanan When a Guitar plays the Blues? I should It is an impossible task. I agree. Key Track: Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down, From Woodlake, California, Ford is a quick-fingered guitarist who as a young man played with Charley Musselwhite, the LA Express, Joni Mitchell, and Miles Davis. That track is the leadoff cut on Sufferin Mind, a 26-song anthology of his work for Art Rupes LA-based Specialty label. Discover 21st Century Blues [Ecko] by Various Artists released in 2008. The Doors L.A Woman, Amazing list. All noted exponents of blues harmonica, Cotton, Branch, Musselwhite and Norcia teamed up to spectacular effect on Superharps, an enjoyable romp through eleven original tunes. Great list! Willie Dixon Dont ever, ever, ever miss this one! West Side Soul was Sams debut LP and is considered one of the best electric blues albums of the 1960s. Fool For You. 1w. So true. Otis Spann. Thanks, enjoyed reading this. Source Point & Southern Fried with Duane Allman!!! Very difficult to narrow it down to 100. Dubbed the king of the string, Nighthawk was born Robert Lee McCollum in Arkansas. Even people who love the blues can manage to leave Willie Dixon off this list. Characterised by extravagant fretboard pyrotechnics and searing blues-rock grooves, the albums repertoire ranges from exciting Gallagher originals (Cradle Rock) to steroid-injected blues covers (Muddy Waters I Wonder Who). Ive got a lot of music to find! Formed in 1961, Korners band Blues Incorporated recorded R&B From The Marquee in a London studio with vocals shared between Cyril Davies and Long John Baldry on a meld of blues covers and original material. Composite: n/a We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st. This album collected together some of Guys best Chess sides, including First Time I Met The Blues, and his 1962 US R&B hit, Stone Crazy. Windy City electric blues at its visceral, compelling finest, it clearly stands among the best blues albums ever. From Como, Mississippi, Hemphill was two years shy of her 60th birthday when she cut her debut LP, She-Wolf, for the French Vogue label in 1981; its a groundbreaking album that dispenses with the 12-bar format that had previously defined most blues records. Johnny guitar watson Community. it was good to Nina Simone & josh white on the list some notable piano players are missing- Otis Spann, Charles Brown and of course Ray Charles. Tom Rush Blues, Songs & Ballads It was rekindled at the end of the 50s by young white Americans fascinated by their nations folk and blues heritage. Great list. Wheres KoKo Taylor, Tinsley Ellis Shemika Copeland and Luther Allison. Hailing from Mississippi, Rush learned to play the guitar when he was eight and moved to Chicago when he was fourteen after hearing a Muddy Waters record. All essential. Heavily influenced by Albert King and Jimi Hendrix, Vaughan was a virtuoso guitar slinger from Dallas, Texas, whose meteoric career was cut short by a fatal helicopter crash. Bond, so glad you gave recognition to Roy Buchanan. Big Mama Thornton with Muddy Waters Band Im kind of you that I even looked at this list after realizing of what it consists. King and Willie Dixon. Johnny Winter progressive blues experiment Guitar Shorty Roll Over Baby Glad Alex Koris was mentioned. 98. 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Big Joe Turner The poled list of artists and top albums highly skews the reality of affection adios and professionals as well as the generational listeners would not even say this list poled by this site is even near accurate. J.B.Hutto & The Hawks: Hawk Squat Big Dave McLean Blues from the middle should be on this list. Its all about the space between the notesjust ask BB (RIP). Speaking of full, I miss Blind Boy Fuller. Allman Brothers, Cream, Derek and the Dominos, and The Rolling Stones shouldnt even be mentioned here. We have given you our list of the best blues albums alphabetically, having given up trying to number. George Thorogood & The Destroyers self titled debut (1977) I met a Dutch girl back around 1970 and took her to Tower Records at Bay and Columbus in S.F. I read them all and thanks. ! When I 1st heard Groeten uit Grolloo I was hooked , have many records of their music. Bad Companyreally? Missing: His R&B chart-topper, Sweet Little Sixteen, is one of the standout cuts on the guitar-toting, duck-walking tunesmiths second album, One Dozen Berrys. Amen brother, what a joke. Smithsonian Folkways Classic Appalachian Blues. With Johnny Winter,James Cotton Steady Rollin Bob Margolin, Charles Calmese and Willie Big Eyes Smith this would be near or at the top of my Top 100! [1] [2] The album will be Raye's first project following her 2021 separation from Polydor Records. John Mayer I noticed that too. Key Track: TAint Nobodys Business If I Do. Odd Muddy Waters choices should be Real Fok Blues or Sail On. Right on Bert. The group included a couple of blues covers: raw but incendiary versions of Albert Kings The Hunter and Jimmy Odens Howlin Wolf-associated Goin Down Slow.. The sextets commercial breakthrough came was this incendiary live album, recorded over two nights in rock promoter Bill Grahams New York venue. Aw, yes, the Powder Blues Band. No one mentioned Hadda Brooks. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Blowin the Fuses. Its not about hip snobbery, its straightforward common sense. Walker joined Lew Chudds Imperial label in 1950 for a four-year stint that is represented by the 52 tracks on this two-disc anthology. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. The 2CD Luther Allison, Best of Thank you, Wanda. . Beth Hart A former Baptist preacher who was imprisoned for a year after killing a man in self-defense, he sang with a sermonizing intensity, accompanying his vocals with metallic slide guitar. Keb Mo? His most impressive moments come on the churning My Time After Awhile and the blistering instrumental, Snowy Wood, which he co-wrote with Mayall. Its hard to imagine a list of the best blues albums without this one. It revived the New Orleans jazz style of the 1920s via a selection of original material and covers arranged for piano, cornet, and banjo. 2. SRV and Double Trouble, In Step. Downchild Blues Band) 45+ years of great tunes. Kendrick Lamar. That honor belonged to T-Bone Walker, whose piece de resistance was doing the splits during a guitar solo. Yeah saw him live at an Eric Clapton gig in Sheffield plays a fiddle (violin) not sure if there is a difference. If you asked leading University music appreciation doctorate professors , I am CERTAIN you would find popularity and technical statistics that could not agree with the idem listing you have posted. Sure, some of those cross overs were not exactly bad by any means, but I dont know that they belong on this list. Unlike Memphis Minnie, pianist and singer Memphis Slim was an authentic Bluff City native. Mick Fleetwood. You forgot Smokey Wilsons 88th Street Blues. Born in Harlem and raised in Massachusetts, Mahal (real name Henry Saint Clair Fredericks) is a singer, guitarist and blues harp player who performed with a California-based band called Rising Sons with Ry Cooder before signing a solo deal with Columbia in 1967. Ronnie Earl Language of the Soul Renowned for his flamboyant stage act and colorful attire, Slim was also one of the first guitarists to use distortion. I might beg to differ on The Allman Brothers though. This was his first long-player and it contained the original version of his signature song, the memorable Gangster Of Love, dating from 1957. Canadian blues artists are missing here! Thanks for reading thus far, if you have. The man whose single Rollin Stone gave Britains most famous rock band their name, Muddy Waters was inextricably linked with the Chicago electric blues sound. some way. European or African? Only two or so from the last 40 years? Here are a list of albums that I like. 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