No. 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. A fascinating history lesson for delta blues scholars. Hes great. Release Date May 6, 2008. With, Standing at the Crossroads , Like a Sheep Out on the Foam , Doin the Shout , etc. But I am glad Big Bill Broonzy made the list. The album had a profound impact on British blues-rock bands. Jon Pareles's Best Albums of 2021 nytimes 0:00 1. Leaving out Willie Dixons I AM The Blues was egregious. It's an album that demands something of the listener, but rewards it in spades. Purchasing My 21st Century Blues from . Rod Piazza & Mighty Flyers Live at B.B. I thought the same thing. I believe this really should be Moanin in the Moonlight out in 1962 with Moanin at Midnight as the first song on this release. Like you we have a soft spot for them. Add: Testament Records Modern Chicago Blues.. Uh, no. The first photo shows RAYE holding a notepad, with the tracklist written on it in gold pen. Jethro Tull This Was It is one of my favourites of his, Family Style being another, but there is his live music too where we really see his genius unfiltered by record producers etc. Made the list. The Genius of Earl Hooker Earl Hooker (1968) Great list and recommendations from others. Fords guitar playing steeped in the blues lexicon but augmented by rock power and jazz harmonic sophistication is unimpeachable on a 12-song selection that includes a slow, sizzling version of Etta James I Just Want To Make Love To You.. Yeah saw him live at an Eric Clapton gig in Sheffield plays a fiddle (violin) not sure if there is a difference. As far as best living guitarist, not sure if anyone tops Derek Trucks right now. By channelling the straight-talking soulfulness of Etta James and the no-nonsense imperiousness of Big Mama Thornton, Copeland forged her own declamatory style and showed that she could handle slow ballads and uptempo material with equal aplomb. Ultimately who is the definer of what blues is and whether an artist is truly a blues artist? Magic Sam was a huge part of the famous Chicago blues sound. 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 '. This music accompanied me through my bluest blues, crafted unapologetically and fearlessly with love and tears, and now I can . ric ya damn skippy! An incredible guitar/fiddle player who refused to be pigeonholed as a bluesman, however I think the majority of his work would be considered by most to be blues. Im glad people weighed in on Deutsch and Canadian blues. Hardcore Hip Hop Pop Rap Trap. 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. As a Englishman I very rarely meet other Cuby & The Blizzard Fans here. West Side Soul - Magic Sam Blues Band. 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. Joe Bonamassa Sloe Gin. So true. As usual guitar is the theme. the vastness of your undertaking was so huge, that I am not surprised that many peoples favorites are missing! On this, an epic five-LP final album recorded a year before his death at age 64, Broonzy not only performed some of his signature tunes with guitar accompaniment including Key To The Highway and South Bound Train but also talked at length about his life. One half of a famous country blues duo with Brownie McGhee, Georgia-born Terry (real name Saunders Terrell) was a blind singer and harmonica player who also made several noteworthy solo albums. I wish it was more than 100. 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. As been noted, I cant see any list not including some Hendrix or Buchanan to be definitive, though this is subjective at best. Blues. Rogers 1950s sides for Chess Records were combined for Chicago Bound, a compilation LP that featured cameos from Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and Willie Dixon. The possessor of a powerful contralto voice, she was hailed by her first record company as the Mother of the Blues. She made her debut recording in 1923 and her final one, five years later, before retiring in 1935. No Champion Jack Dupree? What about? Including blues standards as well as compelling versions of Hopkins signature tunes Mojo Hand and Short Haired Woman, the concert reveals the Lone Star state bluesman to be an engaging and humorous raconteur as well as a mesmerizing musician. Junior Wells, James Cotton, Billy Branch, and Cary Bell. McDowell is in magnetic form, shining on nine scintillating tracks. After toiling as a street musician in Chicago, Hooker began playing in clubs and eventually cut some singles one of which, the instrumental Blue Guitar became the basis of Muddy Waters 1962 single, You Shook Me. With his reputation blossoming he guested on a Beatles TV special in the US Hookers debut LP followed in 1967 for the Wisconsin indie label, Cuca, and contained a dozen self-written instrumentals which highlighted his guitars stinging attack and lucid tone. His double LP Chronology, Vol I, a good mix of blues and soul. Jimmy Barnes Also surprised that Robin Trower hasnt been mentioned. You could get rid of all the rock bands and all the English bands. Lists. . Neil Youngs soundtrack for Dead Man This is a list of the best-selling albums of the 21st century to date based on IFPI certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. JB is a blues hack who can only play fast but has very little feel or soul. 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. Texas Flood is the first album from the blues master, and one of the most important and influential. Hells Session and Wang Dang Doodle by Livin Blues. Bruce Fisher above is right! Johnny Winter Whit Hot and Blue. Humble Pie Up your Sleeves A collection of rollicking Big Easy barrelhouse piano tunes, the album spotlights Duprees singular blues style with its distinctive New Orleans slant. I would have left out any rock or jazz cross-over artists (No Stones, no Clapton, no Allman Bros, No Cream, no SRV!! Duke Robillard & The Pleasure Kings Rockin Blues It was the singer/guitarists first-ever live recording and captured him at the peak of his powers, counterpointing his passionate vocals with stinging guitar lines. It originated somewhere, found a place in America, became known in England, Canada too I would argue and perhaps many other places. Remarkably, it was his first recording using an electric guitar, and he precedes a version of the blues standard, Baby Please Dont Go, with a short talk about his guitar style and affection for the blues. James was 64 when he recorded Today! Key Track: I Didnt Know What Time It Was. JImmy Thackery & The Drivers Wild Night Out ! Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters, Live in Europe. Freddie King Live at Filmore 1970 is a great album, Amazed that Supersession wasnt the first album picked for the list. this sucks, Your additions of sited omissions sir are excellent sited examples.. 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 . 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 album highlights Carrs smooth and more sophisticated urban blues vocal style, which would influence Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He recorded this album in 1969, though it wasnt released until after his death. . Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. Jack Bruce. EPs, box sets, reissues, and compilations were not considered. I agree with a lot of these comments that its very difficult to please everyone as there are only 100 spots. The thirteen songs offer a quintessential sample of Hurts unique country-blues style, and include the early singles, Frankie and Stack O Lee., Allison was a white hipster from Tippo, Mississippi, who sang, played mean blues piano and wrote songs that blended satire with a social conscience. Some of them turned up on this, his debut LP, a blues barnstormer that took his unique style of music to a new audience. The Fabulous Thunderbirds: `Girls Go Wild I like Fats Domino singing the blues He did a lot of blues, mostly his earley recordings. Otis Spann is the Blues (wikipedia: leading postwar blues pianist) and Blessed with a raspy soulful voice, which he accompanies with intricate acoustic guitar filigrees, Davis serves up 12 tunes on this intimate solo recital that bridge the divide between country blues and gospel music. 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. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (2019; Dark Descent) It's tempting to read pure escapism into the aesthetics of Colorado's Blood Incantationpulp sci-fi alien art adorns the front cover of their down-the-rabbit-hole-conspiracy named second album, Hidden History of the Human Race.And I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a lot of fun to be had when diving into . From Greenville, South Carolina, this much-garlanded singer and guitarist was also an accomplished actor and vociferous Civil Rights activist who found favor in the Whitehouse during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Live At The Regal is widely considered one of the best blues albums of all time and purportedly had a profound influence on British guitarists Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. With his raw, hoarse growl of a voice and searing slide guitar accompaniment, Johnson pioneered a unique blues style in Texas that also referenced gospel music. Any of the 60s Savoy Brown albums are a huge omission. That is true for a number of these picks. Layla may not be pure blues but it is blues enough to me. Also, no Lonnie Mack. Amen brother, what a joke. John Mayall is not in the pantheon of blues artists. Ive got a lot of music to find! No King Curtis? Hes another haunting, beautiful player who might not have come to your attention yet. Some may complain about crossover or blues rock albums, but how could anyone not think that the Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East shouldnt be on this list. The album is off the list? 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. A mortal sin. Between 1952 and 1959, he was a ubiquitous figure in the US R&B charts, racking up fifteen hit singles. Mick Taylor. The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt begins with an electrifying version of T-Bone Walkers T-Bone Shuffle setting the tone for what is a thoroughly enjoyable blues summit characterized by some exceptional guitar playing. Blues musicians and writers who are now household names were driving buses or working odd jobs in many cases..they could not get a gig. 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. Any Compilations from: Personally my top 6 guitarists of all time are: Freddie King, Duane Allman, Hendrix, SRV, Derek Trucks and Albert King. Great stuff. Bonamassa is one the greatest bluesmen of the 21st century. The Blues Forever! King is more familiar to blues fans as B. AC/DC If you want Blood, Clarence Gatemouth Brown Amongst its gems is the carefree title song, the earthy I Crave Pigmeat with washboard accompaniment, and the storytelling ballad Homesick and Lonesome Blues, a vehicle for Fullers scything slide guitar. In a slightly more dialed up vein, Id also include Anthony Gomes. Born Eunice Waymon in North Carolina, Simone was a highly accomplished classically-trained musician who harbored dreams of being a concert pianist until racisms ugly reality made her turn to the worlds of blues, spirituals and jazz. He was born Aleck Ford in Mississippi and then took the name Rice Miller before morphing into Sonny Boy Williamson. You left out Lazy Lester, Lightnin Slim and Slim Harpo albums on Excello. 3 James Hunter People Gonna Talk. The Blues Project any of their albums should have been included. Colin James National Steel Love it! Well see. By 1956, Rush had quit his job in a steel mill having established himself as a rising star of the Windy Citys vibrant west side blues scene. 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. He was born with an eye condition that resulted in total blindness by the time he was 21, but it didnt curtail his ability to make music and in the 1930s he was a prolific recording artist, cutting some 120 sides that were released by a variety of labels. Jas. I have 28 of them and I feel pretty good about that. You are having a larf aint ya,not one album by Ray Charles i.e.Ray Charles at Newport plus plenty of his Atlantic albums deserve a mention,i believe to my soul is a rite blues song for instance but people classed it as soul. Saw him in Sydney, early 1980s from memory in a club in Balmain & he was incredible !!! Both worthwhile considerations for sure. Many that are much better than those they selected !!! We ranked. The poet laureate of rock and roll and high priest of rhythm and blues, St. Louis-born Charles Chuck Berry was an eloquent black songwriter whose songs articulated the aspirations of white teenage America. Mathus & his knockdown society? Johnny Winter progressive blues experiment all these had made exellent albums. I would have included Otis Spann LP-The biggest thing since Colossus.John Lee Hooker LP-Live at cafe au-go-go.Muddy Waters 2LP-Fathers and Sons.Earl Hooker LP-Hooker and Steve.Cheers to All. best blues albums of the 21st century. Topping the US pop charts, Wheels Of Fire was the power trios third long-player: a sprawling double album combining studio material with tracks recorded live in San Francisco. Key Track: Rooster Blues. Stevie Ray Vaughn Martin Scorcese presents Muddy Waters Hard Again is arguably his greatest Album ever and certainly his best Contemporary Blues Album he ever made. The list opens up with the almighty Elmore James, the legendary King . 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. The album marks her first project following her 2021 separation What? Janis Joplin The essential In 1994, however, this compilation containing eleven tracks, six of which were previously unissued, highlighted his connection with musicians like Howlin Wolf and B. Love seeing a list like this and watch people speak of their favorites and how could they miss.!? King and Koko Taylor to Shemekia Copeland, discover the records that made it onto our list of the best blues albums ever. The rest is history. This 17-track retrospective spans two decades and features several cuts with McGhee playing the guitar. What should have been listed instead of Little Walter His Best was The Best of Little Walter and Hate To See You Go two of the most influential blues platters to have been released. Regarded as one of the best guitarists of all-time, Clapton paid tribute to his blues roots with this, his thirteenth solo studio LP. first Taj Mahal solo record (w/ Ry Cooder, Jessie Ed Davis, etc) She paid tribute to one of her idols, Bessie Smith, with this New Orleans-style album, which included reworkings of the Smith favorites Send Me To The Lectric Chair and Backwater Blues., A self-taught guitarist who initially preferred not to sing because of a speech impediment, Earl Zebedee Hooker was the cousin of fellow Mississippian, the more famous John Lee Hooker. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Blowin the Fuses. Hes the apex songwriter of blues music. During that short time, he topped the US R&B charts for fourteen weeks with the 1954 million-selling single, The Things That I Used To Do, with a young Ray Charles producing and playing the piano. Discover. This list has too many blues inspired classic rock bands on it. 64. There are blues albums that everyone acknowledges as among the best Robert Johnsons King of The Delta Blues Singers, Junior Wellss Hoodoo Man Blues, Albert Kings Born Under a Bad Sign, and Magic Sams West Side Soul. i believe it should read muddy waters live at Newport 1960. Bill Wymans favorite. Well, I respect that you are entitled to your opinion, but I wonder if you have heard him play live? Wow. No. Mance Lipscomb You Got to Reap What You Sow I want to know about everyone and then select my own favorites. Btw I nominate Talk to Your Daughter as Robben Fords actual best album. Hurt possessed a distinctive singing voice: a light, airy, high tenor, which he underpinned with a delicate but rhythmically fluent fingerstyle guitar accompaniment. This was his first long-player and it contained the original version of his signature song, the memorable Gangster Of Love, dating from 1957. With Collins, Cray, Copeland on vinyl! 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.. You might want to re-evaluate your stance on Stevie Ray Vaughan too. Im for the Top 200 Blues albums. This has to be one of the greats! Stones Get your ya yas out The blues was almost dead in the us. The sextets commercial breakthrough came was this incendiary live album, recorded over two nights in rock promoter Bill Grahams New York venue. Both players enjoying the company they were keeping. 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