Nick gravenites my labors Learn 20 blues, prog rock, folk and funk guitar chords. Arguably his most remarkable work was for Don Robeys Houston-based Peacock label, where he recorded a string of superb singles between 1949 and 1959. It revived the New Orleans jazz style of the 1920s via a selection of original material and covers arranged for piano, cornet, and banjo. A must-own if ever there was one. Your list of 100 best blues albums and artists, not to be critical but to reflect with broader objectivity should state; A list of highly popular 100 Top Blues Albums and Artists but stretches your categorization listed here is it representative of broad objective empiricism because over many years of personal familiarity with Radio Broadcaster personal associations by myself and thousand s of other blues affection adios, your list has excluded a great many of other albums and groups or artists that have poled as greats unsurpassed statistically and by professionals and listeners over the generations. Its now impossible to imagine a world without Seven Nation Army, chanted from football terraces to political rallies. Listen to the album. They come from the long-forgotten Kid Bailey (Rowdy Blues), Garfield Akers (Cottonfield Blues), Mississippi Joe Callicott (Fare Thee Well Blues), Jim Thompkins (Bedside Blues), Blind Joe Reynolds (Outside Woman Blues), and Rube Lacy (Mississippi Jailhouse Groan). The album, filled with sounds of blues and swing, won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. He serves up some of his big hits (Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man) alongside blues standards (Baby, Please Dont Go), and new and unreleased songs (I Got My Brand On You). Also no love for anything Derek Trucks has been involved with. Sonny Boy Williamson II told Mayall to do everyone a favor and dont sing ever again. 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. Down and Out Blues Sonny Boy Williamson (1959) You forget Super Session of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. Key Track: Truckin My Blues Away, An influential purveyor of Piedmont blues who was blind from early childhood and famed for his fluid finger-picking style, South Carolina-born Davis was 64 when he recorded this seminal album in 1960 at the dawn of a folk revival. Listen to the album. A noted British bandleader and trad jazz trombonist, Barber was a seminal figure of the UK music scene in the 1950s and 60s, helping to light the touchpaper to Britains skiffle movement and also the rhythm and blues-fueled beat group boom. Key Track: Gangster Of Love, Born in Fargo, North Dakota, of Norwegian descent, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Lang took his debut album Lie To Me into the Top 50 US albums chart at the tender age of sixteen. The Blues Forever! Stacker set out to Good listening. Ultimately who is the definer of what blues is and whether an artist is truly a blues artist? the vastness of your undertaking was so huge, that I am not surprised that many peoples favorites are missing! Second Winter, his sophomore album a three-sided LP with the fourth side left intentionally blank featured his younger brother, Edgar, on keys. I have 28 of them and I feel pretty good about that. Son House is the most familiar name on this compilation of vintage delta blues by some of the styles earliest exponents. 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! WILLIE DIXON, besides writing MANY BLUES STANDARDS/CLASSICS, is playing on mist of the CHESS stjuff. I also like Fleetwood mac by Fleetwood mac. Here are a list of albums that I like. The standouts range from the chugging instrumentals My Babe and Everythings Gonna Be Alright to nocturnal vocal ballads in the shape of the smoldering Last Night.. 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. Preposterous. Fenton Robinson Well, have we succeeded? Born Albert Gene Drewery in Texas and nicknamed The Ice Man, Collins was a cousin of blues maven Lightnin Hopkins but was inspired to sing and take up the guitar after hearing a John Lee Hooker record. Elsewhere, the album included beefed-up versions of songs by Muddy Waters (Two Trains Running), Robert Johnson (Walkin Blues), Allen Toussaint (Get Out Of My Life, Woman) and Nat Adderley (Work Song). Man, did they miss a lot. A Top 5 R&B hit, the timeless At Last, was her bluesy reconfiguration of a 1942 tune by big band jazzman, Glenn Miller. Great list, these must also be close to being on it:

SOOO many that there just isnt room for them on this list. Despite an outstanding lineup of guests and producers, all eyes were on Drakes journey into and out of heartbreak, variously bitter, angry and doe-eyed. European or African? Canadas finest blues man!!! 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. Has been previously mentioned but should include Chicken Shack and the Groundhogs. 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 remember the first time I saw Muddy Waters at the Jazz Workshop in Boston 1965? Mixing chilling realism with devastating metaphor, Vordul Mega and Vast Aire painted a grim, dystopian vision of their native New York City. The youngest of three regal-named bluesmen, this Texas-born, Chicago-raised singer and guitarist began his career in the 1950s. Free And Equal Blues is a compelling collection of recordings he made between 1944-1946 and encapsulate Whites singular meld of blues, folk, gospel and jazz styles. Listen to the album. Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter - Hard Again Incredible! Listen to the album. Listen to the album. The moment they made the transition from white-collar worriers to rarefied indie giants: the elegiac Boxer is as much of a New York totem as Is This It or Interpols debut.

Wests bombastic production, meanwhile, included samples of everything from King Crimson to Aphex Twin: a symphony to a new, omnivorous digital culture. Peter greens playing on it sublime. He recorded this album in 1969, though it wasnt released until after his death. Gonna check it out. Mick Taylor. That track is the leadoff cut on Sufferin Mind, a 26-song anthology of his work for Art Rupes LA-based Specialty label. Ford formed Blue Line in 1992 and Handful Of The Blues, produced by noted US guitarist, Danny Kortchmar, was the trios third album. Willie Dixon I am the Blues Overlapping acoustic guitars blend like plumes of smoke, and inspired snatches of melody flit by but bursts of noise and distortion herald danger deep in the woods. Read Alexis Petridiss essay on our No 1 choice here. 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. Listen to the album. To chronicle the past two decades, Stacker compiled data on the top 100 albums of the 21st century according to Best Ever Albums, which ranks albums

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.. Listen to the album. Though she was dubbed Queen of the Blues, she was a versatile singer grounded in earthy rhythm and blues. I Am The Blues Willie Dixon (1970) King of the Delta Blues Singers is a compilation album by American Delta blues musician Robert Johnson released in 1961 on Columbia Records. A nimble-fingered guitar wizard from County Donegal, Ireland, who played like a man possessed, Gallagher led the band Taste in the second half of the 1960s before going solo in 1971. I think hes sincere and tries hard, but being a great guitarist (technically) does not make you a great bluesman. Maybe Mose Allison could be dropped, or one of the BB Kings albums. Great list! No one mentioned Hadda Brooks. We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. 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. Led Zepplin First album Bruce Fisher Ill second that! Joe Bonamassa Sloe Gin. The best music videos of the 21st Century so far. Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Jimi Hendrix are big omissions. Bringing in a more rugged hip-hop mood to the neo-soul of his 1995 debut, DAngelo created a landmark in black American pop. King King by The Red Devils is my favorite live blues album of all time. Lascivious, soulful and compellingly weird, Kelis was ahead of her time though its still thrilling to remember that the extremely unsubtle Milkshake was a No 2 hit. Part state-of-the-nation opus, part eye-opening trawl through the unexplored depths of Badus brain. The Blues Project any of their albums should have been included.

and Ronnie Early, his 2002 release with Cleanhead Vinson. and The Charles Ford Band (Robben and his brothers) on Arhoolie. 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. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe): Genesis In 1974 Hit Single Shock, Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles Sonic Gateway, Half A Man: Only Half A Hit, But Still An Early Willie Nelson Landmark, The Isaac Hayes Movement: reDiscover A Stax Soul Classic, Music For Airports: Brian Enos Ambient Music Classic, How ABBAs Iconic Waterloo Performance Won Eurovision, How To Watch A Grammy Salute To The Beach Boys, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats New EP What If I Due In June, Maggie Rogers Announces Summer of 23 Tour, Bob Marley, Elton John, Lil Wayne And More Nominated For Webby Awards, 5 Seconds Of Summer Announce World Tour The 5 Seconds Of Summer Show, James Taylor Contributes Lot To Childrens Centre Fundraiser In Home State, Greta Van Fleet Announces New Album Starcatcher, Govt Mule Announces Peace Like A River, Shares Dreaming Out Loud, Tedeschi Trucks Band Add The Garden Parties To Upcoming North American Tour, Blues-Rock Personified: The Fiery Musicianship Of Gary Moore, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv370LpF0cU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEm5zJKMksc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_cNA0fodY, https://www.allmusic.com/album/so-many-roads-mw0000618281. And speaking of Brooks, Ill bet Lonnie Brooks is going to come out with a top 200 LP one of these days. Yeah Yeah Yeahs is not just Os show: like Jack White, the other great guitarist of those years, Nick Zinner could make his axe into bass and lead at all once, and drummer Brian Chase pits tub-thumping toms against seething hi-hats. In a slightly more dialed up vein, Id also include Anthony Gomes. And I didnt know people were so mixed on Bonamasa. 4. Macclesfield born multi-instrumentalist John Mayalls finest moment came in 1966 when he led a band called Bluesbreakers, which featured a rising guitar star who had previously been with The Yardbirds: Eric Clapton. No Ronnie Earl, Tab Benoit or Sonny Landreth??? Great stuff. Great list just think you missed a few. Resistant to being boxed in any one genre, the percussion retreats, the voice warps, the focus wanders and the emotion deepens as Ocean slips and stumbles through a series of poetic romances. For Blues Rockers: Taking their name from a Muddy Waters song, Londons The Rolling Stones were just one of myriad white long-haired British beat groups drawing inspiration from old American blues records. Especially leadbelly. One album that I love that past me by for many years is Otis spans the biggest thing since colossus . They did say they scoured magazines and the internet for picks, which tells me that they dont have a clue. I was happy to see Texas Flood made the list. 100. As for Jimmy Reed, Cold Chills tops the Carnegie Hall 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 | CD | Signed by Raye | IN HAND | FAST DISPATCH. The breakthrough moment for raps greatest ever talent. 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. Listen to the album. Im in shock Hendrix Axis bold as love is not on here. Not only as a rocker but as a bluesman. 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. Hollywood Fats Rock this House

Think in those terms and some of the classic rock bands qualify. So thanks again! Key Track: Its Nobodys Fault But Mine, Paid tribute to by Bob Dylan (via his 1983 song, Blind Willie McTell) and covered by The Allman Brothers Band (Statesboro Blues), Georgia-born McTell recorded under several aliases, including Blind Sammy, Hot Shot Willie, and Barrelhouse Sammy.

ALSO, guys: Where the heck is THE BEST OF MUDDY WATERS (also known as Sail On in reissue). Blues Rock Reviews Top 20 Albums of 2021 was compiled with the fans counting for And how the hell did you not include Jimmy Pages work with Led Zeppelin? Also, The London Howlin Wolf Sessions could have also been included. Steve winwood Exactly my sentiments. 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. King, the Mississippi-born singer and guitarist who was born on a cotton plantation. Before then, though, he was an aspiring bluesman influenced by the on-stage antics of extrovert guitarist T-Bone Walker and first made his mark in the 1950s combining his smooth vocals with humorous lyrics and dazzling fretboard pyrotechnics. with a band that included noted blues harpist and singer James Cotton. His first major records, The Fat Man, was a revamping of Champion Jack Duprees Junkers Blues. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, From left, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Beyonc, Kendrick Lamar. I like them, but they dont belong anywhere near this list. Your email address will not be published.

Like their peers the Strokes, the quartet made rhythm guitar the lead and foregrounded the bass, but cast them in sombre black suits rather than artfully distressed denim. B. An exponent of the Chicago blues style, Taylor recorded this, his debut album in 1971 as the inaugural release on Bruce Iglauers Windy City-based Alligator label. etc etc. Lil`Ed & The Blues Imperials: Roughhousin` Mick Fleetwood. Adele 's 21 is the best selling album of the 21st century to date, with sales of over 31 million copies worldwide. She would go on to embrace electronic pop that confronted the violence environmental, martial or otherwise of the anthropocene age. Im kind of you that I even looked at this list after realizing of what it consists. I think about 30 of these should have been left off and something else put in. Live on the Queen Mary Professor Longhair (1978) You forgot Janis Joplins i got dem old kosmic blues again.. You got that right, Lesleyno Janis?? More remarkable was Wolfs singing voice, which could change from a deep, full-throated roar to an eerie lupine howl. Williams, whose trademark was playing a custom-built nine-string guitar, was 65 when he recorded this LP in London during the fall of 1968 under the supervision of Mike Batt (who would later find fame writing Bright Eyes for Art Garfunkel and leading the novelty group, The Wombles). 1986: R.E.M. Duke Robilliard Dukes Blues Delightfull! One of his most influential tunes was his 1928 hit single, How Long, How Long Blues, the centerpiece of this 22-track compendium of Carrs best work. It is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues albums ever released. And I also miss some women for example Ruth Brown, LaVerne Baker and Bettye Lavette. Find out more about the greatest 21st Century Rhythm & Blues Singers, including Adele, Fetty Wap, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato and Future. Hudson Woodbridge was the birth name of Tampa Red, who was born in Georgia and raised in Florida. American audiences wouldnt know who any of these artists are today if he hadnt exposed them to the world, and we certainly wouldnt be aware of the blues greats who inspires them to pick up their respective instruments. His brother, Sticks McGhee, also a guitarist, accompanies Terry on the evocative song, Jail House Blues. Folk icon, Pete Seeger, contributes banjo to the stirring live medley Fox Chase/Right On That Shore.. Koko Taylor Live from Chicago Lots of omissions. As usual guitar is the theme. Humble Pie? As for Belgian Blues: Roland! (Remember, if we get rid of cross-over bands we can have a little more room for the class blues artists who created the music all these cross-over bands derived their music from). Listen to the album. Ben Harper & Charlie Musslewhite Get up! Allman Bros.? Its Muscle Shoals fed through a Manchester filter, and on songs such as the swaggering Catch It or the anthemic The Day The Music Dies, Iceage take the basic framework of early progenitors like The Gun Club and blow it wide open into one of the best rock n roll albums of the 21st century. The son of a bootlegger-turned-preacher, Nehemiah Skip James came from Bentonia, Mississippi, and was noted for his wailing voice and ornate, fingerstyle guitar accompaniment. Early on in his career, White recorded under the pseudonyms Pinewood Tom, The Singing Christian, and Tippy Barton before using his real name. Their most ferocious album, then, though the wry and bitter ballad Modern Girl uses the distortion to prettier ends. Black is blues. His most impressive moments come on the churning My Time After Awhile and the blistering instrumental, Snowy Wood, which he co-wrote with Mayall. Released two days before he died, Blackstar saw Bowie pour everything left of him into his best album since his 70s hot streak. And nothing by Howlin Wolf? The Fabulous Thunderbirds: `Girls Go Wild Listen to the album. The two James Brown-tinged tracks The Screwdriver and Two Bugs In A Rug with their funky undertows, showed that Hooker was hip to new developments in R&B, which gave his music a fierce contemporary edge. 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. If your including John mayall, Jazz blues fusion would be my pick, as would Roy Buchanans Austin city limits performance. 3. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street. Though recorded in 1964 at a folk festival in Pennsylvania, this live album didnt get released for another 29 years. 1 single, Blue Shadows, which features on this double LP compilation of recordings made between 1955 and 1962.

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Also Fleetwood Macs Then Play On just to name a few. WebMy 21st Century Blues. Key Track: Shake Your Hips, From Riverton, Mississippi, Eddie Son House was one of the delta blues styles principal architects. Im a bit sad that I dont have it anymore. Johnny Winter nothin but the blues It is an impossible task. Any Compilations from: Though it mainly consisted of self-penned material, the influence of the Mississippi delta blues style is almost palpable. Johnny Lang will have to go! Albums My 21st Century Blues RAYE 2023 6.6 By Aimee Cliff Genre: Pop/R&B Label: Human Re Sources / The Orchard Reviewed: February 8, 2023 The UK pop upcomer some way. Im not sure of the origin of many of these artists listed but it appears that the list doesnt include any Canadian blues guitarists. So true. The Blues is the blues some you like some you dont , some I like some I dont . Humble Pie Up your Sleeves The winner of five Grammy awards, Georgia-born Robert Cray is considered a member of the blues old guard. How about When a guitar plays the blues or any song off Loading Zone he smokes almost every player on this list! Listen to the album. What about African Blues.Ali Farka Toure. 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. Listen to the album. Colin James National Steel Love it! Between 1966 and 1970, guitarist Eric Clapton seemed addicted to the supergroup concept, appearing in Cream, Blind Faith, and the Anglo-American aggregation, Derek & The Dominos, in quick succession. After bulging baroque creations The Age of Adz and The BQE, Stevens pared everything back to soft electronics and fingerpicking for this moving rumination on his stepfather and late mother. I bought it, of course, and we went back to my place and played it several times. Stevie Ray Vaughn? Kokomo Arnold, Barbecue Bob, Charles Brown, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Blue Lu, Scrapper Blackwell, Cousin Joe, Pee Wee Crayton, Willie Dixon, Floyd Dixon, Snooks Eaglin, Sleepy John Estes, Four Blazes, Arthur Gunter, Slim Gaillard, Wynonie Harris,Earl Hooker, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Alberta Hunter, Ivory Joe Hunter, Tommy Johnson,, Lightnin Slim, J.B. Lenoir, Little Willie John, Smiley Lewis, Furry Lewis, Jimmy McCracklin, Percy Mayfield, Johnny Moores Three Blazers, Big Maybelle, Roy Milton, Amos Milburn to mention a few. Like Skip James, he recorded in 1930 for Paramount and was later plucked from obscurity by the folk-blues revival. Come Back Baby Marion Walter Jacobs was the birth name of Louisiana-born Little Walter, widely regarded as one of the best blues harmonica players of all time. Far too many white people on this list. Give him a listen. Great. But I am so happy _not_ to see Joe Bonamassa. Listen to the album. 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. Thornton is in imperious form here, blazing through her material like wildfire eating up a forest. B. After DAngelos years in the wilderness, struggling with addiction and indirection, many thought he was finished. He patented an eclectic yet distinctive sound that was an amalgam of blues, country, Cajun, jazz, and R&B styles. About My 21st Century Blues. He lends his soft but distinctive vocals to bluesman Mercy Dee Waltons One Room Country Shack..

Great Album!!!!! The duo were obscured behind robot heads, and their music got equally playful: cock-rock guitars, vocoders and brilliantly manipulated slivers of records by ELO, Tavares and Eddie Johns condensed into tinny yet heavy filter-house. Rorys Irish Tour is brilliant, but not a blues record. That is true for a number of these picks. Canadian blues artists are missing here! B. Tracks such as Kill V Maim were made for the balls of your feet, full of the chillingly cutesy pep of east Asian pop, but the best tracks were the robo-funky World Princess Part II and the demo version of Realiti: the sound of speeding through a city, its sounds muffled inside a luxury sedan. Listen to the album. Omar&Howlers:I Told You So. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Ledbetter Heights Awesome! Saw him in Sydney, early 1980s from memory in a club in Balmain & he was incredible !!! The missing link between rural delta Mississippi blues and its electrified Chicago cousin, singer/guitarist/harmonica player Wolf first made his mark with a potent succession of singles between 1951 and 1956 for Chess. I agree with a lot of these comments that its very difficult to please everyone as there are only 100 spots. Add Arhoolie Records: Sonny Boy Williamson II King Biscuit Time and Big Mama Thornton In Europe, Add: Chess Records Drop Down Mama (Nighthawk, Shines, Edwards, Jones, etc) and Elmore James/John Brim Whose Muddy Shoes?. Thx, Your email address will not be published.

From Muddy Waters to B.B. Notably Canadas Downchild (a.k.a. Though theres a competitive aspect to the album, its notable for an absence of macho posturing, with each musician seemingly content to share the spotlight with his fellow blues brother. This 17-track retrospective spans two decades and features several cuts with McGhee playing the guitar. Listen to the album. Bands like Cream, Allmans and Stones restored many blues originators fortunes and fame by crediting their accomplishments. Phil. "Live At Reading" by Nirvana It originated somewhere, found a place in America, became known in England, Canada too I would argue and perhaps many other places. Lyrics 12.8K 3 Hard Out Here. 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. Its AWESOME! Pepsiisgood. Snooks Eaglin New Orleans Street Singer lol about Joeso true. Listen to the album. Most fans of the blues recognize that it is something that is, as often as not, best played live and there are some cracking performances included. He rose to fame as a charismatic purveyor of folk-blues in the 1930s and went on to influence everyone from Lonnie Donegan and Bob Dylan to Nirvanas Kurt Cobain. Oh, and your boss trying to be trendy by wearing a T-shirt under his blazer at the office on Fridays? John McVie. If Wileys eski beats acknowledged grimes froideur, then Dizzee Rascal turned the temperature down further: his debut is a chillblained study in urban harshness that remains grimes masterpiece album. You mean there is only 100 good blues albums out there? You also need to listen to Janis Joplin and Big Mama Thornton if you want to know what womens blues sounds like.