John Lee Hooker Jr. Live at Soledad Prison. 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. Without further ado, get ready to gawk at the greatest album art of the 21st Century: . Orangedroog65. I agree with a lot of these comments that its very difficult to please everyone as there are only 100 spots. Geoff is referring to the Arhoolie release of the Charles Ford Band, which preceeded the Ford Bros on Blue Rock-It. Otis Spann. Cream were Cream, by no stretch of the imagination, can they be called a blues band. Kind of a snore in this list though, IMHO. JB is a blues hack who can only play fast but has very little feel or soul. Grammys would come later in her career and help to crown her the queen of contemporary blues, but Turn Up The Heat captures her at the start of what became a storied musical journey. Winifred. Stackerset out to find the best albums of the 21st century, compiling data from Metacritic(as of October 2022). Key Track: Hound Dog. That is like making a chicken soup with no chicken! 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. Born in Houston, this flamboyant singer and guitarist moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and is best remembered for his commercially successful marriage of pimped-up blues, funk and soul in the 1970s. Im glad people weighed in on Deutsch and Canadian blues. As far as Joe Bur right on. Where is Fathers and Sons ? As been noted, I cant see any list not including some Hendrix or Buchanan to be definitive, though this is subjective at best. Highlights range from the rocking Yakity Yak and Nighthawk Shuffle to the searing Burning Heat, featuring Carey Bells tooting harmonica. And where is Professor Longhair , dr John, Bukka White, Big Joe Williams and Big Joe Turner. Recorded between 1966 and 1970, the LP contains original material (Hear My Train A Comin' and Voodoo Chile Blues) with covers of Albert Kings Born Under A Bad Sign and Muddy Waters Mannish Boy. Crucially, the album also shows how Hendrix was able to transcend his blues roots and take the music on a mind-blowing cosmic journey. THE BLUES! 64. 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. They changed how we heard pop, and changed what pop meant in the new millennium. Have a Good Bluesdigging Life , Bert!!!! The album had a profound impact on British blues-rock bands. The youngest of three regal-named bluesmen, this Texas-born, Chicago-raised singer and guitarist began his career in the 1950s. Growing up in Chicago I became a fan of Billy Boy Arnold. We agonised over Big Willie, because he appears on very few lists. Otis Grand, Blues 65 Im checking him out at a small venue this August. "Ice. RAYE says, "My 21st Century Blues. The blues was almost dead in the us. You forgot Janis Joplins i got dem old kosmic blues again.. You got that right, Lesleyno Janis?? As usual guitar is the theme. Joe Bonamassa is said by nearly all of the guitar, blues, and rock music magazines to be the best living blues guitarist and should be on the list (he is much better than Johnny Lang, a contemporary who is on the list). And speaking of Brooks, Ill bet Lonnie Brooks is going to come out with a top 200 LP one of these days. User Reviews. R.L. It contains some of the best guitar work of Claptons career. Mathus & his knockdown society? No Ronnie Earl! They spotlight Walkers smooth crooners voice as well as supernal fretboard skills on a varied selection of material that ranges from silky ballads (Glamour Girl) to big band jump-blues excursions (Strollin With Bones). The Blues is the blues some you like some you dont , some I like some I dont . Im glad to see both old and new records on the list, but one of my all-time favorite is missing; Walter Trout. Think weve missed one of the best blues albums? Fine list anyway! Its not about hip snobbery, its straightforward common sense. Canadas finest blues man!!! Possessing a voice that the LPs liner notes liken to gravel through a swamp, Taylor dishes up eleven tunes co-produced by and featuring the eloquent fingerboard work of guitarist Mighty Joe Young. No Rolling Stones, Cream, Fleetwood Mac etcBut Stevie Ray was real blues. Two other greats of that vintage: Love Sculptures Blues Helping (with Dave Edmunds) Key Track: Electric Church Red House. Having started performing in public at age ten, Copeland was a veteran by the time of the albums release in 1998 and her mix of sass, swagger and assured professionalism revealed that she was the finished article rather than a work in progress. A Top 5 R&B hit, the timeless At Last, was her bluesy reconfiguration of a 1942 tune by big band jazzman, Glenn Miller. King, you need a better recommendation than that?? Born Huddy Ledbetter in Louisiana, Lead Belly accompanied his tremulous, high tenor voice with a 12-string acoustic guitar. The teenage band showed an astonishing maturity, especially in relation to Paul Rodgers assured but craggy vocals and Paul Kossoffs blues-drenched guitar sound with its distinctive crying sound. Excellent recording with a superb interview of Nighthawk by Michael Bloomfield! Think in those terms and some of the classic rock bands qualify. You might really want to check out Justin Johnson If Walls Could Talk and Smoke and Mirrors. The albums Desolation and Hells Session would be my first choice (probably because I had these records myself and played them endlessly.). Sugie Otis, Sugie Otis, 1997. Every single LIGHTNIN HOPKINS ALBUM is better than MOST of the albums listed. Bo is one of the greats and unfortunately very underappreciated. Made the list. Sheryl Crow, "C'mon C'mon" (2002) Missouri ties: Crow is a. Thank you! One of the Mississippi blues maestros more unusual live performances was this one, recorded on September 10, 1970, at an outdoor concert within the walls of a large Chicago penitentiary, where he played to an audience of over 2,000 prison inmates. Add: Testament Records Modern Chicago Blues.. This is a list of the best-selling albums of the 21st century to date based on IFPI certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. His first album West Side Soul was released in 1967. Would like to see One Album per Artist this allows a greater degree of inclusivity. Well, have we succeeded? 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. Sometimes you get the frustrating sense that strong ideas are being deliberately short-circuited in the pursuit of a slightly self-conscious weirdness. Chicken Shack appears on so few lists of greats, sad to say. Hudson Woodbridge was the birth name of Tampa Red, who was born in Georgia and raised in Florida. Strangely, none of his singles for the Chicago Chess label cut during the first half of the 1950s entered the charts, but they were eventually rounded up on a well-received album, House Of The Blues. Fantastic list but seriously where are The Animals one of the best blues bands of the 60s nothing can come close to there self titled album and House of the Rising Sun is a classic. Jimmy Barnes Though the album shot to No. Leaving out Willie Dixons I AM The Blues was egregious. THIS IS A WHITE FOLKS LIST. Ronnie Earl Language of the Soul But you have forgotten one very important British blues classic from that time, Five Live Yardbirds with the Yardbirds (Eric Clapton was one of members at that time, replaced later by Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page). all these had made exellent albums. Dont ever, ever, ever miss this one! 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. He also contributed the albums killer cut, an intoxicating instrumental called Screamin.. John Luries Legendary Marvin Pontiac I think I will have to check out a few of these Nevertheless I miss Jimmy Vaughan . I should Why the heck you did not mention Williw Dixon Im the Blues? Your email address will not be published. Noted for his trademark fedora and sunglasses, Texas singer/guitarist Sam Lightnin Hopkins blueprinted an even more distinctive musical style, accompanying his raspy voice with deft fingerstyle guitar. 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. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was The Flaming Lips' first 21st century album, and it ended up being one of the best of all time. Robert Nighthawk The blues master recordings. I thought that is what the blues is all about.Thanks! Some of them turned up on this, his debut LP, a blues barnstormer that took his unique style of music to a new audience. Best Albums. King is more familiar to blues fans as B. Re; the Allman Brothers. His double LP Chronology, Vol I, a good mix of blues and soul. For example: you only looked ar individual artists, why isnt there an album You know your stuff. He actually did make the list, but only for one album? On the Boards Taste (1970) It did, however, give birth to a trio called Koerner, Ray & Glover, three white college students smitten by black music whose earnest folk-blues style would purportedly influence Bob Dylan and Bonnie Raitt. Otis Spann is the Blues (wikipedia: leading postwar blues pianist) and savoy browns street corner talkin needs to be included! Bomba Estreo, 'Deja' The Colombian duo Bomba Estreo released "Deja" as a series of EPs tied to the ancient elements: water, air, fire, earth.. Rod Piazza & Mighty Flyers Live at B.B. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Blowin the Fuses. Second Winter, his sophomore album a three-sided LP with the fourth side left intentionally blank featured his younger brother, Edgar, on keys. Though the LP garnered mixed critical reviews, From The Cradle topped the US and UK album charts and also triumphed at the 1995 Grammy Awards in the Best Traditional Blues Album category. They were just regurgitating the masters. Below are links to the best blues albums of each decade. Famed for his harmonica prowess and stentorian vocals, Morris joined forces with Memphis guitarist/producer Brad Webb for Back Porch Blues, a collection of eleven, raw, self-penned songs that stayed true to the delta blues tradition. We are surprised by the breadth of the blues, as well as the sheer number of different blues styles that are represented here. Released 42 years after his death, King Of The 12-String Guitar is a retrospective featuring tracks he recorded during 1935 in New York City for the American Recording Company. Taking to Instagram to share a handwritten list of the songs included on her debut album, RAYE said: 'Here she is, the full tracklist to my debut album My 21st Century Blues coming 3rd February 2023 '. 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. I love that album but its rock, not blues. They included the chart-topping Messin Around, one of many standout cuts on Blues Greats, alongside the humorous Beer Drinking Woman. Frankie & Johnny Boogie is a pulsating solo piano piece highlighting Slims keyboard prowess. Black and white photographs. Really enjoyed your list and found many great recommendations from all the comments as I sit here listening to Showdown! Thats news to me. Two Steps from the Blues Bobby Blue Band (1962) Very best of that particular genre that includes Canned Heat and Ten Years After. Fourteen of them can be found on this superb introductory compilation from 1978 (housed within an eye-catching Robert Crumb-drawn cover) which spans the years 1935 to 1939 and functions as a compelling showcase of Fullers unique singing and guitar playing. And how the hell did you not include Jimmy Pages work with Led Zeppelin? I thought the same thing. EPs, box sets, reissues, and compilations were not considered. No Champion Jack Dupree? However, behind the dazzling stage presence lay a considerable musical talent who blended blues with jazz and swing. King to Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton. 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. Key Track: "How. Muddy Waters: Fathers & Sons The first photo shows RAYE holding a notepad, with the tracklist written on it in gold pen. 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). No Percy Mayfield? 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Black is blues. Other highlights include Whos Cheating Who, Baby I Love You, and I Feel So Bad.. Unbelievable. Preposterous. No King Curtis? The Genius of Earl Hooker Earl Hooker (1968) Chances are most of us would not even be aware enough to discuss, much less compile, a list of great blues albums if not for guys like John Mayall. Fats domino too. Give me a break! 13 in the Billboard 200. Wow. Many of them appeared on this album, which despite its title, was recorded in a studio and not in front of an audience. The Powder Blues, The Jeff Healey Band, Colin James and there are others I am not able to list as well. The choice for Muddy Waters does not cover his best recordings. I think about 30 of these should have been left off and something else put in. But I am glad Big Bill Broonzy made the list. ), I saved the link with the title 100 Great Blues / Blues Inspired Albums. The title was just misleading really, John Lee Hooker LP-Live at cafe au-go-go. I havent heard of your selections but then maybe that is a good thing? 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). This is just not music, its life. Born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Georgia, Ma Rainey was one of the first blues singers. His forte was smooth ballads but he also excels on two uptempo swingers: Everyday I Have The Blues and Kansas City. Bad Companyreally? Blues by Willie Brown, mainly remembered as Charley Pattons sidekick but who purportedly influenced Robert Johnson. Best culture of the 21st century Pop and rock Why the best album of the 21st century is Amy Winehouse's Back to Black Quietly beautiful and earthily funny, Back to Black's ebullient music. Ive got a lot of music to find! And I applaud you for alphabetical as opposed to a merit ranking. AC/DC and Led are stretching it. 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. On Good Mornin Blues, Barbers band features Northern Irish singer/songwriter, Ottilie Patterson, as well as London jazz saxophone legend, Ronnie Scott, on a selection of material that ranges from Lead Bellys title song and Lionel Hamptons Hamps Blues to originals by Barber and Patterson. Those bands are not blues bands but, rather, blues-inspired. After years of obscurity, James would finally taste acclaim in the 1960s when he recorded more frequently. 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.. Big Joe Turner The Groundhogs Split is one of the best unknown albums of all time, easily. Fleetwood Mac Irish rose. Johnny Lang will have to go! Recording since 1978, gravelly-voiced Davis, who plays harmonica and acoustic guitar, stays true to the delta blues style on Butt Naked Free, a collection of all-original songs except for a version of Blind Willie McTells Writing Paper Blues., Key Track: Waiting On The Cards To Fall. Regarded as one of the best guitarists of all-time, Clapton paid tribute to his blues roots with this, his thirteenth solo studio LP. At least this got people talking and Im sure that many will be picking the lists for stuff they may have missed. I would have to include ZZ Top and Hendrix to make this an official list! Muddy Waters They Call Me Muddy Waters. King and Willie Dixon. !, no Mose Alison and no Nina Simone!). The eight selections on this LP released 25 years after his demise were recorded in Chicago and showcased his plaintive high voice and intricate guitar accompaniment. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2002; Matador) It can be argued that Interpol took their sound toward more of a mainstream, alternative rock direction over time, but their 2002 debut stayed rooted in an atmospheric, melancholy take on early post-punk, with Paul Banks' vocals and Carlos D's driving bass serving as a not-so-subtle nod to acts such as Joy Division and The Chameleons. Unlike Memphis Minnie, pianist and singer Memphis Slim was an authentic Bluff City native. King were among those influenced by Jefferson. The sophomore album by a Los Angeles quintet formed in 1965, Boogie With Canned Heat contained Canned Heats Top 10 US single, On The Road Again, a chugging blues groove flecked with Alan Wilsons piquant harmonica wails. why is it so windy lately 2021; pretense in a sentence; den of thieves full movie filmyzilla; judith resnik accomplishments; the horse whisperer hospital scene; rage games online; who is clint black's biological mother; center console runabout Ive never been too much into blues, but I thought he was pretty great. You cant be serious about J Geils? 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. BB King and Bobby Blue Bland, Together, on Duke/ABC. Washingtons harmonic sophistication and ornate, highly ornamented style are revealed on twenty-three tunes that pay homage to the pianists New Orleans musical roots. Id include The Paul Butterfield Blues Band LIVE double LP and Charlie Musselwhites often overlooked Tennessee Woman. Id be quite tempted to include Janis Joplins I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama! since we have a Soul-Blues cross-over Aretha Franklin. Sadly, he never released an LP in his lifetime but the posthumously released Live On Maxwell Street 1964 from 1979, with its plaintive vocals and searing bottleneck guitar licks, reveals Nighthawks incredible on-stage dynamism during a night in Chicago. There are some good albums here, but a number of giants like Robert Nighthawk, Big Joe Turner, Tommy Johnson and J.B. Hutto are strangely absent. Bo Carter, Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Robert Wilkins, Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, Elizabeth Cotten, Rev Gary Davis, Lil Son Jackson, Dave Honeyboy Edwards, Cephas and Wiggins, John Jackson, Sony Boy Williamson I, Stefan Grossman, Eric Bibb are all major names worthy of inclusion in my opinion. Jack Bruce. Side A consists of a sole feature from 070 Shake while Side B sees an assist from Mahalia. For most of his life, this Mississippi-born practitioner of hill country blues received scant attention though in his final decade began to receive the accolades his music deserved. Lead Belly, Josh White, and B. Release Date May 6, 2008. Big Dave McLean For the Blues, Always. Great list, but i suggest some of Sean Costello and the first recordings of Johnny guitar Watson to. I believe this really should be Moanin in the Moonlight out in 1962 with Moanin at Midnight as the first song on this release. These are the 21st Century albums that hit every pleasure center for us, that made us dance and sing along to karaoke and made the commute to work a little less miserable. But more importantly, we can see all the comments of what people left out. Ive bookmarked this list, its comments, and all the insightful dickering because damn right I got the blues! Love it all! Though it mainly consisted of self-penned material, the influence of the Mississippi delta blues style is almost palpable. His Best rounded up twenty of Diddleys most popular and commercially successful tunes for the Chicago Chess label, which was the singer/guitarists recording home between 1955 and 1974. Pretty decent list. With its looped guitar riff over a jaunty but mesmeric backbeat, Smokestack Lightnin proves the albums killer track. That track is the leadoff cut on Sufferin Mind, a 26-song anthology of his work for Art Rupes LA-based Specialty label. try it out. Many that are much better than those they selected !!! Though born in Paris to Austrian and Greek parents, Korner became one of the prime movers and shakers of the influential British blues scene in the 1960s. The Powder Blues Band may not be pc blues but they played their variety of blues. Though he was the new blues kid on the block, Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.) showed a musical maturity and fretboard virtuosity beyond his years on blues-steeped tracks like the title song, Hit The Ground Running, and the jazz-tinged, easy-swinging Rack Em Up.. Oscar Brown Jr, Between Heaven and Hell, Columbia If theyre going to include ctoss-over bands how could they omit Led Zeppelin I, yet have Cream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_cNA0fodY. It included a stripped-down version of his 1942 R&B hit, the risqu Let Me Play With Your Poodle, alongside revamps of his earlier tunes, Its Tight Like That and Love Her With A Feeling., Key Track: Let Me Play With Your Poodle, A legendary group who at their peak represented the pinnacle of southern blues-rock, the Allman Brothers Band was formed in Florida in 1969 and thanks to the dueling guitars of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts quickly made a name for itself. He has every right to a place on this list. Theres Lightnin Hopkins, Cream, Muddy Waters, B.B. Both worthwhile considerations for sure. The biggest was the chart-topping Juke, a driving instrumental attributed to Little Walter & His Night Cats, which begins this 20-song overview of the harmonica players fertile Chess tenure. Joe Bonamassa is easily worthy of this list. I agree and was going to post the same. The latter group, a one-album-wonder featuring members of Delaney & Bonny & Friends and Allman Brothers guitarist, Duane Allman, recorded a double LP in Miami with Atlantic Records Tom Dowd producing. Live on the Queen Mary Professor Longhair (1978) Ray Charles (Self titled) contains: 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. 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