Who's got the blues?

Man, Buddy Guy kicks ass. I got him and Jr. Wells "Alone & Acoustic." There is more soul in one of their songs than the last 20 years of popular music combined. Looks like I added a new form of music to my repertoire.

 

[Red Dawn]

John Mayall
George Thurogood
Paul Butterfeild Blues Band
Johnny WInters

 

[slightlyhuman]

while we cry>*

saw the king b's in concert a few years ago, awesome

 

[royaldank]

White Stripes are pretty darn good and haven't been mentioned.

 

[ThaPerculator]

Uh, all rock music has blues/r&b influence in it. That's how it came about. Zeppelin is not blues.

Led Zeppelin was EXTREMELY blues influenced. A lot of the themes/lyrics of the songs were directly taken from uncommon blues songs, with a few changed words, etc. Plant/Page were extremely large blues fans, and admittedly stole quite a lot from their influences.

Personally, I've been jamming to John Lee Hooker - Motor City's Burning for the last couple of days in my car... Then again I'm from the Detroit area so it's relevant Good song tho, in fact most of his stuff was real good.

 

[ThaPerculator]

White Stripes are pretty darn good and haven't been mentioned.

Man... White stripes suck hard... I could go on for the longest time about that one, but I will leave it at that.

Man, Buddy Guy kicks ass. I got him and Jr. Wells "Alone & Acoustic." There is more soul in one of their songs than the last 20 years of popular music combined. Looks like I added a new form of music to my repertoire.

I can vouch for that one... Buddy Guy is the man.

 

[royaldank]

Originally posted by: ThaPerculator

White Stripes are pretty darn good and haven't been mentioned.

Man... White stripes suck hard... I could go on for the longest time about that one, but I will leave it at that.

To each their own, but Jack is an impressive student of the blues.

 

[polm]

start with Muddy Waters.

 

Originally posted by: polm
start with Muddy Waters.

I went for a job once and the last question the two guys interviewing me asked was, "who is Muddy Waters?" I said, "a rock group?," and they got all upset I got the job anyway and the guys were the two biggest blues freak white guys I ever met. One played the "harp" and the other guitar. They would go to "Blues School" down South once a year. Too bad I didn't really appreciate the music as much then.

They were always talking about some guy called Papa Chubby.

 

[Fritzo]

Papa Chubby is a newer blues band making the rounds. I haven't heard anything from them but they're supposed to be "headed for stardom" according to Rolling Stone.