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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:35 PM
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Favorite Blues Artist?
Who are your favorite blues artists?
Mine might be Muddy waters.
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:37 PM
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1. Slim Harpo
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:26 PM
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26. Yes!
Also:
Elmore James
Howlin' Wolf
Bukka White
Albert King
Muddy Waters
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:37 PM
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2. Howlin' Wolf
Though Muddy is so close, you can hear the Mississippi River moan...

I love too many to list.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:39 PM
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3. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:41 PM
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5. oooo!
On my wall facing me is an autographed pic of Gatemouth he signed for me in January 1997 at a show in Seattle. He played for over 3 hours, not counting the intermission.

He took donations for the autographs to pay for his daughter's college fund.

He is a mean SOB on fiddle and guitar. The San Antonio Ballbuster! No wonder you like him. :-)
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:43 PM
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7. I was thisclose to Clarence in New Orleans.
To date, that is best "luck" show I have ever seen. Walk to House of Blues, ask who's playing. Get told Clarence is playing, and it's his 72nd birthday. Pay 12 dollars. Stand 3 feet from the man. Soak in the genius.

No autograph, though. :evilfrown:
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:12 PM
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19. I'm going to see him this weekend!!
At the National Folk Festival in bangor, Maine!

I'm psyched.
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peacefreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 05:34 PM
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40. Me too
Lots of good music scheduled this weekend.
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:40 PM
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4. Would Buddy Guy
included in this list?


DDQM
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:42 PM
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6. of course
He played bass for Howlin' Wolf before venturing on his own on guitar. He sears.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:52 PM
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15. of course
Buddy Guy is GOD
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beanball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:43 PM
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8. The blues
Bobby"blue"Bland
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:53 PM
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16. He has one of the best voices
I have ever heard. I love his versions of 'Stormy Monday' and St. James Infirmary
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:46 PM
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9. Oh, lest we forget blues piano...OTIS SPANN! (nt)
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:48 PM
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12. and...
Jimmy Yancey or Professor Longhair dammit!
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:46 PM
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10. Definitely Buddy Guy
Nice vocals, great guitar work. I've gone to see him play so many times, I've lost count--man, he sets the place on fire!
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salmonhorse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:48 PM
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11. What kind of blues?
Chicago, Country, Big City, Delta?

:shrug:

Otherwise: Mississippi John Hurt, hands down ~

http://www.mudcat.org/hurt.cfm
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:49 PM
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13. any kind
Hurt is a good choice!
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:52 PM
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14. Too many to list but here’s some.
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee
Lighting Hopkins
Wille Dixon
John Lee Hooker
Otis Spann (Played Piano for Muddy too)
James Cotton
and so many more.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:55 PM
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17. I forgot Robert Johnson
the King of the Delta Blues.
Also John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Otis Rush
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 01:59 PM
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18. Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf

I really couldn't choose between the two of them. They were both so awesome!
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:13 PM
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20. Right now, it's Susan Tedeschi
Koko Taylor, too.

Many many more...
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:13 PM
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21. Kelly Joe Phelps
'nuff said.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:14 PM
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22. more info
What does he play? Is he contemporary, and are albums readily available?
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:19 PM
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25. Slide guitar...
www.kellyjoephelps.com has some samples and album info. His newer stuff is less slide oriented, more fingerstyle, but I like that too. Even the tunes that you wouldn't classify as "blues" clearly show the influence.

He's wonderful, IMO...
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:28 PM
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28. thanks!
Always grubbing for new stuff.
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 05:16 PM
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39. He's a jaw-droppingly technically talented and soulful Oregonian
All acoustic, fingerstyle that I've never heard anyone else play like. It's like Travis-picking combined with sometimes blistering, sometimes understated slide work, played lap-style.

That, and he has an amazing voice and range of expression. He has one album with a band, and three as a solo performer.

I'd recommend starting with 'Shine-Eyed Mr. Zen'.

There is simply no one else like him. To give you an idea of his talent, he is one of god's, I mean, Bill Frissel's favorite guitarists.

I cannot praise the man's music highly enough. If you like soul, he's your guy. If you like technique, he's your guy.
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Coffee Coyote Donating Member (949 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 05:43 PM
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42. I'm sold
Thanks for the heads-up.
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 05:49 PM
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43. You absolutely will not be disappointed.
His version of 'Goodnight Irene' is simultaneously so true and yet so uniquely his that it defies description.

Enough to make a man weep.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:16 PM
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23. Big Mama Thornton
John Lee Hooker
and , of course, BB.......
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:17 PM
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24. Howlin' Wolf is not only the greatest blues artist...
he is also the greatest rock star of all time. The man had everything.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:28 PM
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27. Tough to argue with that assertion!

I love listening to Wolf sing. His voice had a malevolent quality to it of which I never tire.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 03:42 PM
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31. I know what you mean. Sam Phillips said that Wolf's voice was...
"where the soul of man never dies"
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 02:43 PM
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29. Skip James
Unless I can nominate Don Van Vliet!
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ellay Donating Member (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 03:17 PM
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30. I'm impressed
Must be the Great Unwashed hangin' out at home today.

Don't forget about the great Johnny Winter, Port Arthur,TX's own.
Go out and get all the Blind Willie Johnson (Beaumont,TX) you can find.
I wanna hang out at some roadhouses with Sentinel Chicken.
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Bushfire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 04:00 PM
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32. David "Honeyboy" Edwards
who knew Robert Johnson personally, and has the chops to prove it. I've seen him 3 times, and love the delta blues sound. It won't get more authentic than Honeyboy.

"The World Don't Owe Me Anything" - highly recommended by Bushfire

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556522754/qid=1061585903/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4468984-1799912?v=glance&s=books
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 04:17 PM
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34. you know how dumb i am??
he played in a small bar where i live three times in two months and i never went...i mean you could sit right next to him..duh what an idiot i was
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Bushfire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 04:23 PM
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37. You must be in the windy city
n/t
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retread Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 04:03 PM
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33. Albert King
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sangh0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 04:18 PM
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35. A tie: Howling Wolf and Albert Collins
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 04:20 PM
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36. luther allison
otis rush,howlin` wolf.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 05:10 PM
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38. Ry Cooder
ain't too shabby either. ;-)
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peacefreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 05:35 PM
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41. Mississippi John Hurt
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corarose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 05:49 PM
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44. I live in the Blues Bros. Bldg. in Chicago (Coco Taylor, Etta James)
I love the Blues and I should be an expert on who's good.

Etta James & Coco Taylor are my favorites.

Wang, Dang Doodle is one of my all time favorite songs.
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Astarho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 06:08 PM
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45. R.L. Burnside
One of the best still playing. Of course the list of favorite blues artists is an ever growing one. Son House, Charlie Patton, John Lee Hooker, and so many more.
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