Who is your favourite blues artist?

[enmac]

I nominate Leroy Carr

 

 

[enmac]

Poor poor Leroy

 

 

 

[enmac]

 

[ozleicester]

Hank Tate

 

 

[Strokes]

The Blue brothers obviously.

[Fox92]

Chuck Berry (if you'll let me have him). He's probably more Rock&Roll but he originated in the early blues period and some of his music has that structure. But all that early stuff; Little Richard, John Lee Hooker etc. Originals. All massively influential on our best bands (Beatles/Kinks/Rolling Stones etc).

 

I like Eric Clapton, more his stuff with Cream but also some of his solo stuff.

[Vossen]

Linda Lovelace 😆

[SpacedX]

 

[Izzy]

I think maybe we should have a music sub section on the forum for topics like this 

[The Syrup]

 

[murphy]

Not a blues artist per se, but Jimi Hendrix is an imaginative and masterful blues player.

 

I had a phase of getting into blues, mostly the ones everyone's heard of like Howlin' Wolf and BB King etc and mainly to learn the guitar parts.  Most music genres can be traced back lineally, ie blues gave birth to rock and roll etc but where did blues come from?  It seems to me to have sprung up all by itself without an obvious forerunner.

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 hour ago, The Syrup said:

 

I know Sonny Boy Williamson once said "Man, these white boys sure want to play the blues really bad...……..and they do. However, this sends the hairs up on the back of my neck.

 

 

 

[urban.spaceman]

Eiffel 65

[spacemunky]

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan in concert on four occasions. Each time I was just blown away by his playing. 

[boots60]

John Lee Hooker, King of the Blues

[Silebyfox_89]

 

Gotta be this guy surely?

[Mike Oxlong]

Stormy Daniels 

[Trav Le Bleu]

 

Of course, white people can't do the blues...

 

(A reminder that Fleetwood Mac were a good band before the arrival of Buckingham and Nicks.)

 

 

[oakman]

Junior Kimbrough

 

Hound Dog Taylor

 

 

Buddy Guy

 

 

Son Seals

 

 

[joachim1965]