Good blues songs to get started?!
Question: I really wanna get into blues music. From what I have heard, it's amazing. I like Spoonful - Howlin Wolf', Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker, thrill is gone - bbking.
Any good songs to get started, or good artists?
Answers: I really wanna get into blues music. From what I have heard, it's amazing. I like Spoonful - Howlin Wolf', Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker, thrill is gone - bbking.
Any good songs to get started, or good artists?
Other fundamentals and / or interesting artists:
Muddy Waters - "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Mannish Boy", "Rollin' Stone", "I Just Want to Make Love to You"
Willie Dixon - "Bring It On Home", "Back Door Man", "I Ain't Superstitious", "I Can't Quit You Baby", "Little Red Rooster" (Howlin' Wolf vocal version)
Robert Johnson - "Crossroads", "Sweet Home Chicago"
Elmore James - "Dust My Broom", "The Sky Is Crying", "Done Somebody Wrong", "Shake Your Moneymaker"
Little Walter - "Blues With A Feeling"
Memphis Minnie - "Bumble Bee Blues"
Lightnin' Hopkins - "Penitentiary Blues"
Bo Diddley - "Bo Diddley", "Who Do You Love"
Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightnin"
Charlie Patton - "Oh Death", "Pony Blues"
Slim Harpo - "I'm A King Bee", "I Got Love If You Want It"
J. B. Lenoir - "Eisenhower Blues"
Bukka White - "Parchman Farm Blues"
Skip James - "Hard Time Killing Floor"
Son House - "Death Letter", "John the Revelator"
Big Mama Thornton - "Hound Dog"
Buddy Guy - "My Time After Awhile"
Freddy King - "Tore Down", "Have You Ever Loved A Woman"
Random list of other artists, ancient and modern: Memphis Slim, Albert King, Albert Collins, Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red, Jimmy Reed, Ry Cooder (slide, but much more than just a blues player)
Add to that list Freddy King's "Hideaway", the greatest guitar-based dance instrumental ever to come along, even better than Bill Doggett's fully-instrumented "Honkey Tonk".
Check out the duo of Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Piedmont style. Amazing stuff.
Go back to the beginning ... "Robert Johnson" and then on up to Stevie Ray Vaughn a Black Bluesman stuck in White Boy's body till God called him home.
Now they all Black and playing "Six Strings Down" Blues in Heaven the Blues section of course, T-Bone there and Blind Lemon, Muddy and Etta too!!
But remember if it ain't Black it ain't Blues
Blues music is amazing brother. You can't go wrong with the that list. Go on yahoo music and pick a blues radio station, it's free or create your own ..you'll be amazed at the choices. Once it's in your heart....you'll own it!
ROCK ON!