He spliced the itchy drumnbass and industrial moods that fascinated him in the 90s with terrifically freaky jazz, symphonic balladry and on Girl Loves Me authentically heavy rap. One of the few things Ill miss when I die. blues favorites What about The Groundhogs? I believe this really should be Moanin in the Moonlight out in 1962 with Moanin at Midnight as the first song on this release. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. Listen to the album. I love that album but its rock, not blues. Indeed. Originally from Greenwood, Mississippi, Slim (real name Eddie Jones) enjoyed a recording career that only lasted eight years, between 1951 and 1959. Wheres KoKo Taylor, Tinsley Ellis Shemika Copeland and Luther Allison. Born Aaron Thibeaux Walker, this Texas singer and guitarist was renowned for his flamboyant showmanship. Jimmy Barnes Bad Company that would be a joke! A charismatic singer and harmonica player from West Memphis, Arkansas, born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr, Wells released his debut album, Hoodoo Man Blues, for Chicago indie label, Delmark. When someone has put these all on a Spotify play list let me know lol. 
Though he possessed a distinctive gravelly singing voice and played bass and guitar, hes more famous as a prolific songwriter; he was responsible for penning some of the key blues songs of the 1950s, including Spoonful, Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man, and The Little Red Rooster. He serves up his own striking interpretations of those three blues evergreens on this 1970 LP, the sixth album of his career, on which he sings and plays bass in the company of a smoking band that includes harmonica player Big Walter Horton and Chess Records session pianist Lafayette Leake. And I do believe the late, great BB King would disagree with you. John Luries Legendary Marvin Pontiac King is more familiar to blues fans as B. 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 etc etc. Also want to highlight a great blues boogie album, James Cotton 100% Cotton, awesome band with Matt Guitar Murphy, and Gary Clark Jr. Live, also great. The cracked poetry (Jigsaw pattern dominoes left a trail / The whites of their eyes / Polaroids of the tale) was chewed up and then spat out for moshpit soundbites (Cut away!, Is it heavier than air?), between see-sawing riffs and bursts of pure noise. 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. And what about Roy Buchanan When a Guitar plays the Blues? Listen to the album. 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. Key Track: Aint Nobodys Business, With his gruff voice accompanied by jagged, driving guitar and a boogie beat established by his tapping foot, the prolific John Lee Hooker forged an immediately recognizable delta blues sound that proved profoundly influential. Pinetop Perkins: Pinetops Boogie Woogie. Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, (as you see, i like the movies of Jim Jarmusch ! He began his career in 1959 for a small Chicago indie label called Artistic before joining Chess a year later, where he stayed until 1970. Omar&Howlers:I Told You So. John Mayer Janis Joplin The essential Snooks Eaglin New Orleans Street Singer Listen to the album. This, his debut LP, collected together some of Kings seminal big hits for the Bihari brothers RPM label. Listen to the album. From Muddy Waters to B.B. Jimmy Witherspoon, Spoonful, on Bluenote, Id also remove the Boogie with Canned Heat and replace it with Hooker & Heat.. And where is Professor Longhair , dr John, Bukka White, Big Joe Williams and Big Joe Turner. Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix werent the first performers to play the guitar between their legs or behind their heads on stage. King has Charlie Listen to the album. The blithe stoicism of his flow, seemingly resigned to a violent death at any moment, fills the record with poignancy, and transmutes his words into wisdom. Initially grabbing headlines for its pay-what-you-want release online, it quickly became clear that this was one of Radioheads greatest albums. Two Malian greats met for this soothing, spontaneous record of guitar and kora that is as subtly textured as it is generous. Love seeing a list like this and watch people speak of their favorites and how could they miss.!? You left out Lazy Lester, Lightnin Slim and Slim Harpo albums on Excello. Janis Joplin? Made after notable incidents of police brutality, Lemonade was charged with real political fervour, while there were numerous sharp jabs at Jay-Z for doing whatever predicated that elevator fight with her sister Solange. Is Awesome! This posthumous album collected some of Blakes best sides he recorded for the Paramount label between 1926 and 1932. West justified his arrogance by setting it alongside sharp political commentary (at a time when few of his peers were speaking up) and fiercely arresting production. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_cNA0fodY. With, Standing at the Crossroads , Like a Sheep Out on the Foam , Doin the Shout , etc. Its now impossible to imagine a world without Seven Nation Army, chanted from football terraces to political rallies. But the album has endured past its grand entrance thanks to its detailed, impassioned considerations of femininity and marital sexuality. AC/DC? King, the Mississippi-born singer and guitarist who was born on a cotton plantation. Yeah saw him live at an Eric Clapton gig in Sheffield plays a fiddle (violin) not sure if there is a difference. Good list, but disappointed that Roomful Of Blues nor Duke Robillard were on it. The 10 Catchiest Heavy Metal Bands of All Time. More remarkable was Wolfs singing voice, which could change from a deep, full-throated roar to an eerie lupine howl. Thousands of blues albums were released in the years between 2000 and 2009, and the decade not only brought us exciting, late-career masterpieces from blues veterans like B.B. King and Buddy Guy but also introduced us to fresh young talents like Nick Moss and Watermelon Slim that will continue to entertain us for years. At least Kooper and Bloomfield were included on another pick. Would like to see One Album per Artist this allows a greater degree of inclusivity. Comprising ex-Yardbirds guitarist, Eric Clapton, along with bassist Jack Bruce and flamboyant drummer, Ginger Baker, Cream was a volatile but progressive supergroup whose rule at the pinnacle of British blues-rock tree was short but eventful. The British blues scene during the sixties was so important for the founders of the blues and played an very important role to make this black music style to be accepted among the white audience in America. What about? Backed by a band with horns, King is in majestic form, serving up some of his most famous numbers, including his then-recent hit, The Thrill Is Gone, and a medley of his big 1950s R&B hits. That Frank Ocean appears three times in this list is testament to his universal appeal this mixtape debut opened with a Coldplay cover, and Radiohead, the Eagles and even a sample of Nicole Kidman crop up, too. Big Mama Thornton with Muddy Waters Band I think there are also cases of musicians from other genres who recorded blues or blues like music Triumph is one group I can think of. The Black Keys Thickfreakness We are surprised by the breadth of the blues, as well as the sheer number of different blues styles that are represented here. Though he was a talented multi-instrumentalist who could play guitar and piano, Arkansas-born Frost rose to prominence as a harmonica specialist mentored by the legendary blues harp blower, Sonny Boy Williamson. Fine list anyway! 2 R&B hit in 1946 with Driftin Blues. Two years later, Brown who had a profound influence on a young Ray Charles went solo and recorded for the Aladdin label. B.B. We all have our own ideas for those who do and dont qualify for inclusion in this list but I am just grateful that so many artists and albums are listed by the compilers and the mailers because there are some I missed, until now. Hooker N Heat is a masterpiece of blues music. Curated by. 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. B. The Powder Blues Band may not be pc blues but they played their variety of blues. Blues by Willie Brown, mainly remembered as Charley Pattons sidekick but who purportedly influenced Robert Johnson. His second album, Lets Hide Away And Dance Away With Freddy King, was all-instrumental and included his Top 10 US R&B smash, Hide Away. The 12-track LP showcased Kings influential electric guitar style with its percussive attack, clean tone and precise articulation. I would also include Alvin Lee and Ten Years After Playing the Blues. There is another side here, too: chatty, puckish and getting over it all. I also Roy Buchanan should be there. A stunning album that never seems to get noticed. This article contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if a reader clicks through and Love and self have always been Beyoncs two grand themes, but they were each invested with more passion and nuance than ever before on her fifth solo album. Canned Heat/John Lee Hooker Hooker and Heat. In 1994, however, this compilation containing eleven tracks, six of which were previously unissued, highlighted his connection with musicians like Howlin Wolf and B. This compilation focuses on his earliest recordings, a bunch of 78s made in 1931 for Paramount Records where he first established his idiosyncratic style. 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. He stumbles, numb, through his own poetry, pondering suicide, gaining existential clarity and crucially finding beauty: The breakers in the bar / The neighbours greeting. Listen to the album. Listen to the album. An de andere kant, ach, zon lijstje slaat toch eigenlijk helemaal nergens op, Hi Bert. Im checking him out at a small venue this August. Over street-fighting indie rock, he told of dirty dancefloors and scummy men, an observer sitting with his faced pressed up against a taxi window on a Saturday night watching humans bounce off one another. He also contributed the albums killer cut, an intoxicating instrumental called Screamin.. Winters fretboard pyrotechnics are impressive, but he matches his flashy technique with high emotional content. Let us know in the comments below. But that wisdom, an upgrade from the mere cleverness of their earlier work, led to their most rounded songwriting yet, still gassed up with the fizz of old. Maybe so, Brian, but you have to admit, it makes a change for any of Rorys albums to appear in a list like this. Key Track: The Things That I Used To Do, The son of noted African American actor, Ossie Davis, native New Yorker Guy Davis has divided his life between music-making and acting (he appeared as Robert Johnson in an off-Broadway play about the singers life). 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. Well, have we succeeded? Buddy Guy Stone Crazy A self-taught pianist and singer from Nashville, Tennessee, Carr worked initially as an accompanist for other blues singers before performing as a solo artist in his own right. 21st century life is replete with the feeling that its all too much, that our disenfranchisement cripples us, that the splendour of the natural world evades our grasp, and that our lives lack meaning. 65 in Billboards pop albums chart. One of my favorites but admitedly obscure albums is Indiana Avenue Blues by Shirley Griffiths and J. T. Adams. did ya mention silas hogan,slim harpo ,lightin slim and excello artists. Keb Mo? Key Track: Two Bugs In A Rug. Spot on Harmonica Slim..with you all the way ! 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). Theres the jazz end of the blues; folk blues; blues rock; straight forward, honest to goodness, down home blues; Chicago blues; British blues; country blues; as well as white men playing the blues. Listen to the album. The two big singles are genius: Piece of Me bats back tabloid gossip with a sonic golf club, and Gimme More is her best-ever song, an erotic psychodrama where the purring come-ons of the title also sound like a woman drowning under her ambition. Fleetwood Mac and Otis Spann, Duster Bennett. And change some to different albums. We could endlessly debate about the definition of blues, but the purpose here is not to list all the guitarists that once played a blues classic, or our favorites RnB or jazz or rock musicians. 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. Aynsley Dunbar. ric ya damn skippy! Like you we have a soft spot for them. He enjoyed a brief recording career but made a lasting impact with the 51 songs he recorded for Paramount in a fertile period between 1929 and 1934. Why not The Best of Muddy Waters? Chris Moran is RIGHT ON. If so, one without open mindedness and compassion I would bet. The presence of Big Bill Broonzys Key To The Highway and Chuck Willis Its Too Late honors the groups blues roots though its an original tune, Layla that won the critical plaudits. Im not sure that should really qualify as an album. Blues has always been about *songs* more than *albums*. Key Track: Hound Dog. This list needs serious reconsideration. Muddy Waters The London Sessions. Listen to the album. I am going to be busy buying more blues albums, the best! Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, From left, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Beyonc, Kendrick Lamar. The UK version of this classic album included Williams delivering a fiery version of his iconic Baby Please Dont Go. A masterclass in delta blues. I would have include Bukka White, but thats just my personnal taste. They are however some albums of undead white people who could be integrated in such a list: The anchor of the album initially released in a trailblazing three parts across 2010 was Dancing on My Own, a breakup song with a wildly transgressive edge: is there a secret erotic thrill behind the pain of going to the club to watch her partner with their new girlfriend? Wht about Ali farka Toures last albumSavane. Those who fell under Blakes spell included the Reverend Gary Davis, Ry Cooder, and Ralph McTell. Dat was in de Reinhalle : Lp hoes hangt hier nog steeds aan de muur! Those bands are not blues bands but, rather, blues-inspired. Despite being his first recording venture, the album remains a go-to entry in Musselwhites extensive catalogue. His most impressive moments come on the churning My Time After Awhile and the blistering instrumental, Snowy Wood, which he co-wrote with Mayall. Bruce Fisher Ill second that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv370LpF0cU 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. He would later lose the thread in a very public fashion, but Kanye West pulled every strand of his genius and torment together on his masterpiece: anthemic choruses, psychodrama lyrics and an all-star cast, from Bon Iver to that Nicki Minaj verse. Hooker & Heat is one of the greatest blues records ever. Among the latter were tunes by Otis Rush (All Your Love), Freddy King (Hideaway) and Little Walter (It Aint Right). In that respect it is a great success so well done! I am going to listen to them, but as a Belgian I would like to say you might want to check out The Zoots live at The Bannana Peel. or Jeff Beck ,it was just the time for the Blues , which had never really made it outside of the black community.It was word of mouth , conversation , concerts like the newport Jazz festival. And Ive bookmarked this list, its comments, and all the insightful dickering because damn right I got the blues! Love it all! Little Walter playing with their back up on Checkin it out is a sensational album. Trip-hop duo Moloko was dead, and Murphy teamed up with Matthew Herbert for this eclectic, saucy and still underrated pop record that anticipated the arrival of Lady Gaga by three years. Unsettling Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Fats knew his blues! You missed a real gem..Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. Im glad glad that you mentioned the Rolling Stones debut album which is one of the best examples of British blues from the sixties. How could you miss this one? The Powder Blues, The Jeff Healey Band, Colin James and there are others I am not able to list as well. It also anticipated the way Londons clubland and indeed communities would be hollowed out by gentrification. She would go on to embrace electronic pop that confronted the violence environmental, martial or otherwise of the anthropocene age. Jack Bruce. Cuz yer listening to the blues and thats the thing. you include SR Vaughan , but not his master !!! Listen to the album. Lonesome George Thorogood and the Destroyers 2120 South Michigan Ave. Is a great blues album as well. I agree 1000% with you. The Springsteen comparisons were fair: not since the Boss had music sounded so good driving along an empty highway. Listen to the Stones 1st 4 LPs,Rolling Stones After Muddy Waters.When they tour they sit in with blues bands after the gig .Listen to Mick Jagger & the Red Devils all lil walter&Willie Dixon,Howlin Wolf, Strictly speaking, Harmonica Slim may be correct about several blues-inspired bands appearing on a blues-exclusive list. I think hes sincere and tries hard, but being a great guitarist (technically) does not make you a great bluesman. Also Fleetwood Macs Then Play On just to name a few. Drawing from house, psychedelia and even Bollywood soundtracks, Missys third the one responsible for Get Ur Freak On forced pop to catch up with her yet again. And one shouldnt ignore Canadas Downchild (a.k.a. Written before the death of one of Caves teenage sons not after it, as was often assumed Skeleton Tree nonetheless cast Caves recurring themes in unsettlingly anaesthetised new light. Listen to the album. After keeping their heads down for their brilliant 1997 debut, letting Spike Jonze videos do the talking, Daft Punk revealed themselves sort of. Downchild Blues Band) 45+ years of great tunes. The Charles Ford Band - The Charles Ford Band-(with Robbin Ford at his best) Amazing! One of them, the iconic I Pity The Fool, features on this 26-track retrospective focusing on his work for the Memphis Duke imprint, which also includes the hits Cry Cry Cry, Dont Cry No More, and Turn On Your Love Light. Admired by Van Morrison and Simply Reds Mick Hucknall, Bland won many awards and muddied the boundaries between rhythm and blues and soul music. 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. With its searing fretboard licks, the album is a quintessential example of the guitarists flamboyant electric blues style. I think you are mistaken on Howlin Wolfs Moanin at Midnight. Though recorded in 1964 at a folk festival in Pennsylvania, this live album didnt get released for another 29 years. JT Key Track: TAint Nobodys Business If I Do. Koko Taylor Live from Chicago Lots of omissions. The first album album from an artist whose records had previously propped up killer singles with passable fillers turned her disaffection and disappointment into generational anthems. His double LP Chronology, Vol I, a good mix of blues and soul. I cant imagine how anything could be better that this one. Im for the Top 200 Blues albums. Key Track: Baby Please Dont Go, From Montgomery, Alabama, Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton is a one-hit-wonder whose claim to fame was her two-million-selling single, Hound Dog, a Leiber-Stoller tune which spent seven weeks at the summit of the US R&B chart in 1953 and was later covered by Elvis Presley. Fool For You. So true. Allman Bros.? Where is Fathers and Sons ? One album that I love that past me by for many years is Otis spans the biggest thing since colossus . Part state-of-the-nation opus, part eye-opening trawl through the unexplored depths of Badus brain. My 21st Century Blues Released February 3, 2023 My 21st Century Blues Tracklist 1 Introduction. are both deserved wedding disco staples. Hard Again by Muddy Waters is also a good one. Listen to the album. The Blues Project any of their albums should have been included. Im kind of you that I even looked at this list after realizing of what it consists. Some other (also not mentioned in the comment section, i think) great blues (or bluesrock) albums I very much like are: Big Joe Turner The Boss of The Blues (1956) You know your stuff. As for Jimmy Reed, Cold Chills tops the Carnegie Hall album. King, often come up. Give me a break! I think I will have to check out a few of these Nevertheless I miss Jimmy Vaughan . The choice for Muddy Waters does not cover his best recordings. 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. As far as best living guitarist, not sure if anyone tops Derek Trucks right now. Amen brother, what a joke. Listen to the album. His self-titled Folkways album helped revitalize Hopkins ailing career, putting him back into the big time. 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. Good try but no Johnny Shines (with Shakey Horton) or Peatie Wheatstraw. I love you all. Listen to the album. Johnny Adams? Born in Jackson, Mississippi, singer/pianist Otis Spann moved to Chicago when he was 22 and made his mark on the burgeoning Windy City blues scene of the late 1940s. 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! 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. I would also include their Raw Sienna. Great Lp. 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Though he possessed a distinctive gravelly singing voice and played bass and guitar, hes more famous as a prolific songwriter; he was responsible for penning some of the key blues songs of the 1950s, including Spoonful, Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man, and The Little Red Rooster. He serves up his own striking interpretations of those three blues evergreens on this 1970 LP, the sixth album of his career, on which he sings and plays bass in the company of a smoking band that includes harmonica player Big Walter Horton and Chess Records session pianist Lafayette Leake. And I do believe the late, great BB King would disagree with you. John Luries Legendary Marvin Pontiac King is more familiar to blues fans as B. 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 etc etc. Also want to highlight a great blues boogie album, James Cotton 100% Cotton, awesome band with Matt Guitar Murphy, and Gary Clark Jr. Live, also great. The cracked poetry (Jigsaw pattern dominoes left a trail / The whites of their eyes / Polaroids of the tale) was chewed up and then spat out for moshpit soundbites (Cut away!, Is it heavier than air?), between see-sawing riffs and bursts of pure noise. 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. And what about Roy Buchanan When a Guitar plays the Blues? Listen to the album. 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. Key Track: Aint Nobodys Business, With his gruff voice accompanied by jagged, driving guitar and a boogie beat established by his tapping foot, the prolific John Lee Hooker forged an immediately recognizable delta blues sound that proved profoundly influential. Pinetop Perkins: Pinetops Boogie Woogie. Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, (as you see, i like the movies of Jim Jarmusch ! He began his career in 1959 for a small Chicago indie label called Artistic before joining Chess a year later, where he stayed until 1970. Omar&Howlers:I Told You So. John Mayer Janis Joplin The essential Snooks Eaglin New Orleans Street Singer Listen to the album. This, his debut LP, collected together some of Kings seminal big hits for the Bihari brothers RPM label. Listen to the album. From Muddy Waters to B.B. Jimmy Witherspoon, Spoonful, on Bluenote, Id also remove the Boogie with Canned Heat and replace it with Hooker & Heat.. And where is Professor Longhair , dr John, Bukka White, Big Joe Williams and Big Joe Turner. Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix werent the first performers to play the guitar between their legs or behind their heads on stage. King has Charlie Listen to the album. The blithe stoicism of his flow, seemingly resigned to a violent death at any moment, fills the record with poignancy, and transmutes his words into wisdom. Initially grabbing headlines for its pay-what-you-want release online, it quickly became clear that this was one of Radioheads greatest albums. Two Malian greats met for this soothing, spontaneous record of guitar and kora that is as subtly textured as it is generous. Love seeing a list like this and watch people speak of their favorites and how could they miss.!? You left out Lazy Lester, Lightnin Slim and Slim Harpo albums on Excello. Janis Joplin? Made after notable incidents of police brutality, Lemonade was charged with real political fervour, while there were numerous sharp jabs at Jay-Z for doing whatever predicated that elevator fight with her sister Solange. Is Awesome! This posthumous album collected some of Blakes best sides he recorded for the Paramount label between 1926 and 1932. West justified his arrogance by setting it alongside sharp political commentary (at a time when few of his peers were speaking up) and fiercely arresting production. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_cNA0fodY. With, Standing at the Crossroads , Like a Sheep Out on the Foam , Doin the Shout , etc. Its now impossible to imagine a world without Seven Nation Army, chanted from football terraces to political rallies. But the album has endured past its grand entrance thanks to its detailed, impassioned considerations of femininity and marital sexuality. AC/DC? King, the Mississippi-born singer and guitarist who was born on a cotton plantation. Yeah saw him live at an Eric Clapton gig in Sheffield plays a fiddle (violin) not sure if there is a difference. Good list, but disappointed that Roomful Of Blues nor Duke Robillard were on it. The 10 Catchiest Heavy Metal Bands of All Time. More remarkable was Wolfs singing voice, which could change from a deep, full-throated roar to an eerie lupine howl. Thousands of blues albums were released in the years between 2000 and 2009, and the decade not only brought us exciting, late-career masterpieces from blues veterans like B.B. King and Buddy Guy but also introduced us to fresh young talents like Nick Moss and Watermelon Slim that will continue to entertain us for years. At least Kooper and Bloomfield were included on another pick. Would like to see One Album per Artist this allows a greater degree of inclusivity. Comprising ex-Yardbirds guitarist, Eric Clapton, along with bassist Jack Bruce and flamboyant drummer, Ginger Baker, Cream was a volatile but progressive supergroup whose rule at the pinnacle of British blues-rock tree was short but eventful. The British blues scene during the sixties was so important for the founders of the blues and played an very important role to make this black music style to be accepted among the white audience in America. What about? Backed by a band with horns, King is in majestic form, serving up some of his most famous numbers, including his then-recent hit, The Thrill Is Gone, and a medley of his big 1950s R&B hits. That Frank Ocean appears three times in this list is testament to his universal appeal this mixtape debut opened with a Coldplay cover, and Radiohead, the Eagles and even a sample of Nicole Kidman crop up, too. Big Mama Thornton with Muddy Waters Band I think there are also cases of musicians from other genres who recorded blues or blues like music Triumph is one group I can think of. The Black Keys Thickfreakness We are surprised by the breadth of the blues, as well as the sheer number of different blues styles that are represented here. Though he was a talented multi-instrumentalist who could play guitar and piano, Arkansas-born Frost rose to prominence as a harmonica specialist mentored by the legendary blues harp blower, Sonny Boy Williamson. Fine list anyway! 2 R&B hit in 1946 with Driftin Blues. Two years later, Brown who had a profound influence on a young Ray Charles went solo and recorded for the Aladdin label. B.B. We all have our own ideas for those who do and dont qualify for inclusion in this list but I am just grateful that so many artists and albums are listed by the compilers and the mailers because there are some I missed, until now. Hooker N Heat is a masterpiece of blues music. Curated by. 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. B. The Powder Blues Band may not be pc blues but they played their variety of blues. Blues by Willie Brown, mainly remembered as Charley Pattons sidekick but who purportedly influenced Robert Johnson. His second album, Lets Hide Away And Dance Away With Freddy King, was all-instrumental and included his Top 10 US R&B smash, Hide Away. The 12-track LP showcased Kings influential electric guitar style with its percussive attack, clean tone and precise articulation. I would also include Alvin Lee and Ten Years After Playing the Blues. There is another side here, too: chatty, puckish and getting over it all. I also Roy Buchanan should be there. A stunning album that never seems to get noticed. This article contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if a reader clicks through and Love and self have always been Beyoncs two grand themes, but they were each invested with more passion and nuance than ever before on her fifth solo album. Canned Heat/John Lee Hooker Hooker and Heat. In 1994, however, this compilation containing eleven tracks, six of which were previously unissued, highlighted his connection with musicians like Howlin Wolf and B. This compilation focuses on his earliest recordings, a bunch of 78s made in 1931 for Paramount Records where he first established his idiosyncratic style. 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. He stumbles, numb, through his own poetry, pondering suicide, gaining existential clarity and crucially finding beauty: The breakers in the bar / The neighbours greeting. Listen to the album. Listen to the album. An de andere kant, ach, zon lijstje slaat toch eigenlijk helemaal nergens op, Hi Bert. Im checking him out at a small venue this August. Over street-fighting indie rock, he told of dirty dancefloors and scummy men, an observer sitting with his faced pressed up against a taxi window on a Saturday night watching humans bounce off one another. He also contributed the albums killer cut, an intoxicating instrumental called Screamin.. Winters fretboard pyrotechnics are impressive, but he matches his flashy technique with high emotional content. Let us know in the comments below. But that wisdom, an upgrade from the mere cleverness of their earlier work, led to their most rounded songwriting yet, still gassed up with the fizz of old. Maybe so, Brian, but you have to admit, it makes a change for any of Rorys albums to appear in a list like this. Key Track: The Things That I Used To Do, The son of noted African American actor, Ossie Davis, native New Yorker Guy Davis has divided his life between music-making and acting (he appeared as Robert Johnson in an off-Broadway play about the singers life). 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. Well, have we succeeded? Buddy Guy Stone Crazy A self-taught pianist and singer from Nashville, Tennessee, Carr worked initially as an accompanist for other blues singers before performing as a solo artist in his own right. 21st century life is replete with the feeling that its all too much, that our disenfranchisement cripples us, that the splendour of the natural world evades our grasp, and that our lives lack meaning. 65 in Billboards pop albums chart. One of my favorites but admitedly obscure albums is Indiana Avenue Blues by Shirley Griffiths and J. T. Adams. did ya mention silas hogan,slim harpo ,lightin slim and excello artists. Keb Mo? Key Track: Two Bugs In A Rug. Spot on Harmonica Slim..with you all the way ! 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). Theres the jazz end of the blues; folk blues; blues rock; straight forward, honest to goodness, down home blues; Chicago blues; British blues; country blues; as well as white men playing the blues. Listen to the album. The two big singles are genius: Piece of Me bats back tabloid gossip with a sonic golf club, and Gimme More is her best-ever song, an erotic psychodrama where the purring come-ons of the title also sound like a woman drowning under her ambition. Fleetwood Mac and Otis Spann, Duster Bennett. And change some to different albums. We could endlessly debate about the definition of blues, but the purpose here is not to list all the guitarists that once played a blues classic, or our favorites RnB or jazz or rock musicians. 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. Aynsley Dunbar. ric ya damn skippy! Like you we have a soft spot for them. He enjoyed a brief recording career but made a lasting impact with the 51 songs he recorded for Paramount in a fertile period between 1929 and 1934. Why not The Best of Muddy Waters? Chris Moran is RIGHT ON. If so, one without open mindedness and compassion I would bet. The presence of Big Bill Broonzys Key To The Highway and Chuck Willis Its Too Late honors the groups blues roots though its an original tune, Layla that won the critical plaudits. Im not sure that should really qualify as an album. Blues has always been about *songs* more than *albums*. Key Track: Hound Dog. This list needs serious reconsideration. Muddy Waters The London Sessions. Listen to the album. I am going to be busy buying more blues albums, the best! Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, From left, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Beyonc, Kendrick Lamar. The UK version of this classic album included Williams delivering a fiery version of his iconic Baby Please Dont Go. A masterclass in delta blues. I would have include Bukka White, but thats just my personnal taste. They are however some albums of undead white people who could be integrated in such a list: The anchor of the album initially released in a trailblazing three parts across 2010 was Dancing on My Own, a breakup song with a wildly transgressive edge: is there a secret erotic thrill behind the pain of going to the club to watch her partner with their new girlfriend? Wht about Ali farka Toures last albumSavane. Those who fell under Blakes spell included the Reverend Gary Davis, Ry Cooder, and Ralph McTell. Dat was in de Reinhalle : Lp hoes hangt hier nog steeds aan de muur! Those bands are not blues bands but, rather, blues-inspired. Despite being his first recording venture, the album remains a go-to entry in Musselwhites extensive catalogue. His most impressive moments come on the churning My Time After Awhile and the blistering instrumental, Snowy Wood, which he co-wrote with Mayall. Bruce Fisher Ill second that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv370LpF0cU 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. He would later lose the thread in a very public fashion, but Kanye West pulled every strand of his genius and torment together on his masterpiece: anthemic choruses, psychodrama lyrics and an all-star cast, from Bon Iver to that Nicki Minaj verse. Hooker & Heat is one of the greatest blues records ever. Among the latter were tunes by Otis Rush (All Your Love), Freddy King (Hideaway) and Little Walter (It Aint Right). In that respect it is a great success so well done! I am going to listen to them, but as a Belgian I would like to say you might want to check out The Zoots live at The Bannana Peel. or Jeff Beck ,it was just the time for the Blues , which had never really made it outside of the black community.It was word of mouth , conversation , concerts like the newport Jazz festival. And Ive bookmarked this list, its comments, and all the insightful dickering because damn right I got the blues! Love it all! Little Walter playing with their back up on Checkin it out is a sensational album. Trip-hop duo Moloko was dead, and Murphy teamed up with Matthew Herbert for this eclectic, saucy and still underrated pop record that anticipated the arrival of Lady Gaga by three years. Unsettling Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Fats knew his blues! You missed a real gem..Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. Im glad glad that you mentioned the Rolling Stones debut album which is one of the best examples of British blues from the sixties. How could you miss this one? The Powder Blues, The Jeff Healey Band, Colin James and there are others I am not able to list as well. It also anticipated the way Londons clubland and indeed communities would be hollowed out by gentrification. She would go on to embrace electronic pop that confronted the violence environmental, martial or otherwise of the anthropocene age. Jack Bruce. Cuz yer listening to the blues and thats the thing. you include SR Vaughan , but not his master !!! Listen to the album. Lonesome George Thorogood and the Destroyers 2120 South Michigan Ave. Is a great blues album as well. I agree 1000% with you. The Springsteen comparisons were fair: not since the Boss had music sounded so good driving along an empty highway. Listen to the Stones 1st 4 LPs,Rolling Stones After Muddy Waters.When they tour they sit in with blues bands after the gig .Listen to Mick Jagger & the Red Devils all lil walter&Willie Dixon,Howlin Wolf, Strictly speaking, Harmonica Slim may be correct about several blues-inspired bands appearing on a blues-exclusive list. I think hes sincere and tries hard, but being a great guitarist (technically) does not make you a great bluesman. Also Fleetwood Macs Then Play On just to name a few. Drawing from house, psychedelia and even Bollywood soundtracks, Missys third the one responsible for Get Ur Freak On forced pop to catch up with her yet again. And one shouldnt ignore Canadas Downchild (a.k.a. Written before the death of one of Caves teenage sons not after it, as was often assumed Skeleton Tree nonetheless cast Caves recurring themes in unsettlingly anaesthetised new light. Listen to the album. After keeping their heads down for their brilliant 1997 debut, letting Spike Jonze videos do the talking, Daft Punk revealed themselves sort of. Downchild Blues Band) 45+ years of great tunes. The Charles Ford Band - The Charles Ford Band-(with Robbin Ford at his best) Amazing! One of them, the iconic I Pity The Fool, features on this 26-track retrospective focusing on his work for the Memphis Duke imprint, which also includes the hits Cry Cry Cry, Dont Cry No More, and Turn On Your Love Light. Admired by Van Morrison and Simply Reds Mick Hucknall, Bland won many awards and muddied the boundaries between rhythm and blues and soul music. 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. With its searing fretboard licks, the album is a quintessential example of the guitarists flamboyant electric blues style. I think you are mistaken on Howlin Wolfs Moanin at Midnight. Though recorded in 1964 at a folk festival in Pennsylvania, this live album didnt get released for another 29 years. JT Key Track: TAint Nobodys Business If I Do. Koko Taylor Live from Chicago Lots of omissions. The first album album from an artist whose records had previously propped up killer singles with passable fillers turned her disaffection and disappointment into generational anthems. His double LP Chronology, Vol I, a good mix of blues and soul. I cant imagine how anything could be better that this one. Im for the Top 200 Blues albums. Key Track: Baby Please Dont Go, From Montgomery, Alabama, Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton is a one-hit-wonder whose claim to fame was her two-million-selling single, Hound Dog, a Leiber-Stoller tune which spent seven weeks at the summit of the US R&B chart in 1953 and was later covered by Elvis Presley. Fool For You. So true. Allman Bros.? Where is Fathers and Sons ? One album that I love that past me by for many years is Otis spans the biggest thing since colossus . Part state-of-the-nation opus, part eye-opening trawl through the unexplored depths of Badus brain. My 21st Century Blues Released February 3, 2023 My 21st Century Blues Tracklist 1 Introduction. are both deserved wedding disco staples. Hard Again by Muddy Waters is also a good one. Listen to the album. The Blues Project any of their albums should have been included. Im kind of you that I even looked at this list after realizing of what it consists. Some other (also not mentioned in the comment section, i think) great blues (or bluesrock) albums I very much like are: Big Joe Turner The Boss of The Blues (1956) You know your stuff. As for Jimmy Reed, Cold Chills tops the Carnegie Hall album. King, often come up. Give me a break! I think I will have to check out a few of these Nevertheless I miss Jimmy Vaughan . The choice for Muddy Waters does not cover his best recordings. 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. As far as best living guitarist, not sure if anyone tops Derek Trucks right now. Amen brother, what a joke. Listen to the album. His self-titled Folkways album helped revitalize Hopkins ailing career, putting him back into the big time. 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. Good try but no Johnny Shines (with Shakey Horton) or Peatie Wheatstraw. I love you all. Listen to the album. Johnny Adams? Born in Jackson, Mississippi, singer/pianist Otis Spann moved to Chicago when he was 22 and made his mark on the burgeoning Windy City blues scene of the late 1940s. 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! 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. I would also include their Raw Sienna. Great Lp. 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