Strangeblue on 19/1/2007 at 20:50
Too bad for the neighbor!
Stitch on 19/1/2007 at 21:00
Never have I so sympathized with a cat-threatening apartment dweller.
ignatios on 19/1/2007 at 21:05
Quote Posted by fett
Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson are great.
These guys and Mississippi John Hurt.
Gillie on 19/1/2007 at 21:19
Love the Blues.
Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson,and Sonny Boy Williamson. Plus many more.
The female blues singers like Bessie Smith. Great to listen when feeling melancholy!.
John Lee Hooker is fantastic. His Album "The Healer" is awesome.
demagogue on 20/1/2007 at 05:43
I liked the blues revival that went on in the mid-60s; some old bluesmen who hadn't recorded for probably 30 years were suddenly rediscovered and started inspiring and getting covered by bands like Cream and Jimi Hendrix Exp. Not sure if these 60s-70s otherwise-rock bands really count as the blues (they break more than a few of the "rules"), but in particular I like their blues covers, reinterpretations, and own blues songs. I admire that they didn't let the rules tell them what to play and not.
I was watching some documentary on blues and there was a clip of Skip James by himself, on a stool, with a guitar singing Blind Willie Johnson's
What is the soul of a Man, and it was fucking haunting. His eyes were way unfocused, like he was looking well past the camera into outer space, and he was swaying and singing in a deep gravelly voice, not really 'to' the camera either, but not to himself. Like it was literally pouring out of his soul. And the words were haunting too. I couldn't stop watching it! That clip is sort of a defining standard for me of deep, good blues.
(btw, I found a good review of this episode (
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2003/10/03/the-blues-the-s/) here, which includes a sound recording of the song on the page and those haunting lyrics.)
doctorfrog on 20/1/2007 at 07:51
Don't know if I can do it that way, it doesn't seem right to just sit down and say, "I'm going to get into the blues now, let's see what artists I need to respect first..." It just doesn't seem like the right way to discover it. It's like getting some producers together and going, hey dudes, let's make a film noir film, yeah? What you might end up with would technically be noir or a blues collection, but really you went about it like you were shopping for socks or a pair of speakers. Doesn't seem right to figure it out that way. Like, you want the blues, or just the House of Blues, son?
Myself, I have a few albums that might or might not be categorized as blues albums. I don't remember getting them, and a few tunes crop up here and there in my listening habits, maybe the right feeling comes up, maybe not. It isn't something you can force.
Then again, when it comes to musical anything, I probably make some of the most ignorant and banal choices on this whole forum. I've also been reading Achewood strips for the past hour, which I really promised I wouldn't do anymore.
Kolya on 20/1/2007 at 17:00
After thinking about it for a while Janis Joplin is probably my favourite Blues singer. Yeah, she's neither black nor a man. On which she might have answered with Carrie Smith: "I gotta a right to sing the blues!"
In any case here's a small snippet from the awesomeness that is (
http://www.mp3sugar.com///-349712.m3u) Farewell Song (live at Winterland 68).
TheGreatGodPan on 20/1/2007 at 19:47
The thread title is in error. Don Covay & the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band clearly demonstrated that in fact The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Good Woman On Your Mind, whether the man in question is good, bad or indifferent. Some of you might point out that one can have a good woman on the mind without feeling bad, but Little Milton showed previously that The Blues is Alright.
Para?noid on 20/1/2007 at 20:16
Quote Posted by Stitch
Never have I so sympathized with a cat-threatening apartment dweller.
Well bill it's a scientific fact that women have no taste in music
Kolya on 20/1/2007 at 22:34
Well Bob, I'm still not giving you my number.
