• Blues Megathread V.2 "come up with a witty title" edition
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[release]Blues, who doesn't know what blues is? The genre created by african-americans, based on spirituals, work songs, shouts and chants in the late 19th century. The blues has influed mordern music, for example rock. Early blues recording by Bessie Smith in 1929 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtErmipXE[/media] [img]http://z.about.com/d/womenshistory/1/0/c/8/bessie_smith_002x.jpg[/img] "The term "the blues" refers to the "the blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness" Probably the most famous bluesman was Robert Johnson, the king of delta blues, who (according to the legend) sold his soul to the devil. I'm sure you've heard of the song Crossroads [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A[/media] [img]http://www.ovationtv.com/files/large_image_videos/0000/0273/robert_johnson_372x280.jpg[/img] Blues was often about racism and discrimination, for example in this song, where Big Bill Broonzy "Just a dream"; a song about how things, perhaps in opinion, should be. During the 30's and 40's bluesmen like Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson and Blind Boy Fuller had some recordings. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZInJNg2kE[/media] During the 50's there was also a blues style called Rythm & Blues that would attract more people from different generations and races. So whenever you hear todays RnB, you know it's not real. Here we have B.B. King performing Every Day I Have The Blues (probably during the 80's). [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIaRUVWPuOE[/media] The blues has envolved and 'white' ppl, for example Elvis Preasly or Jerry Lee Lewis or began to sing blues although it was then called Rock & Roll. Example, here is Hound Dog that was originally recorded by Big Mama Thorton, although this is Elvis preforming live. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JALwwaASg[/media] Later on the 60's and 70's bluesrock became populare, such as Cream, John Mayal And The Bluesbrakers, and Taste. Here we have Free performing Mr. Big [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhCilozomo&feature=related[/media] So i changed the original post here, perhaps to make it more populare, I know there is alot more about blues, but i didn't feel like writing it all up. If you see that i spelled anything wrong or that i should change something, give me a note.[/release] MrJazzy's original OP, with all spelling mistakes. The thread was two years dead, so not worth the flak from a bump, I assume. There are/were whole lot of bluesmen/women, so have fun looking at this [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blues_musicians"]list[/URL] of them. I have a song to discuss, Mose Allison's "Parchman Farm". I want to see how you guys think of him thinking he didn't do anything wrong killing his wife or other potentially controversial lyrics. Song= [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5hw9T9Ozv4[/media] [quote="lyrics from SongMeanings"]Well I'm sittin' over here on Parchman Farm Well I'm sittin' over here on Parchman Farm Well I'm sittin' over here on Parchman Farm And I ain't never done no man no harm Well I'm puttin' that cotton in an eleven foot sack Well I'm puttin' that cotton in an eleven foot sack Well I'm puttin' that cotton in an eleven foot sack With a twelve guage shotgun at my back I'm sittin' over here on Number Nine I'm sittin' over here on Number Nine Well I'm sittin' over here on Number Nine And all I did was drink my wine Well I'm gonna be here for the rest of my life I'm gonna be on this farm for my natural life Well I'm a gonna be here for the rest of my life And all I did was shoot my wife I'm sittin' over here on Parchman Farm[/quote] [release] A nice station for blues radio[url]http://www.jango.com/stations/260624895/tunein?song_id=193207[/url][/release]
v2?
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;33210032]v2?[/QUOTE] Well, the first one was two years old, so I wasn't gonna bump/necro it.
Posting one my favourite blues musicians, blind willie mctell. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMRuKOmEMqI&feature=related[/media]
headbanging stuff, for real. :dance: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7QFvhL76ck[/media]
My Jango station, playing the best of what they got, from all periods, and all types of blues. [url]http://www.jango.com/stations/260624895/tunein?song_id=193207[/url]
Oh yessss, I like. Modern Blues, what you know about it motherfucker? Joe Bonamassa [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SMjL5u5D40[/media] Robert Randolph and the Family Band [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxrDTFBHTnQ[/media] John Mayer convinced me he was more than a pop artist at the Crossroads: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IjkCDCGSMc[/media] Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, motherfucker [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNayySwr7SQ[/media]
Since I've started playing in a blues-band, my list of blues-artists I like has gone up drastically. Freddie King - Have you ever loved a woman(greatest fucking blues-voice ever!): [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLmZCZ1sXY&feature=related[/media] T-Bone walker - Call it stormy monday blues [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVR8lg1YLuc[/media] Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful(covered by Cream later) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI[/media] Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Workin' [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY[/media] Here's a drum-cam from a gig I played with the blues-band. Posted it before in musicians thread. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jHEzk6rkY&feature=channel_video_title[/media] I'll probably post more later.
chicago blues for life brah
So I was looking for this video of the Black Crowes to use, I fucking love these guys, amazing Blues rockers and I hope their hiatus ends soon. I come across one of my favorites by them, She Talks To Angels. And the comments of course changed since the last time I watched it, and its a bunch of religious bullshit. Both Christian and Atheist a like ranting and raving on the other. That's the one thing I hate the most about people that just start fights for the sake of starting fights...Just enjoy the damn song. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=8_5U0M9ErGA[/url] That's the video, see the comments for yourself.
try putting the link in [url][./url] or [media][./media]
I put in Media for some reason the tags aren't working.
Now time for some full Blues-rock groups! The American Badasses, ZZ Top [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLqACIj8nc[/media] The Bad Guys, The Black Crowes (now with my favorite song by them!) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1L4I6uhODE[/media] The unforgettable Cream [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdwVVI4B3oY[/media] The Southern rocking blues infused Allman Brothers Band with the Godly slide guitarist, Duane Skydog Allman [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDhR1R3S0s[/media] Derek and The Dominos, Eric Clapton and Duane Allman together is almost incomprehendable. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th3ycKQV_4k[/media] A spinoff group that came from the Allmans lineup in the 90s, Gov't Mule: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaa3iPBy_Jw&feature=related[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gQEDwjhaDE[/media] Oh yes, Robert Cray.
Another random factoid that I think I may have mentioned elsewhere before. If you look at a lot of Blues musicians they are the prefix Blind before them. Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Dog Willie Brown (Robert Johnson's companion!), Blind Boy Fuller, etc. While Blind Dog Willie Brown and I believe Lemon weren't actually blind, but had extremely bad eyesight, they picked up the guitar. Its speculated there were so many Blind early Bluesmen because they couldn't work on the plantations to make money and were useless other than hanging around and playing guitar. There are a lot of Blind Piedmont/North Carolina bluesmen, mainly because the Piedmont area of North Carolina was such good land for plantations.
Ahh, that's a good explanation for a strange phenomenon. Have some Hooker and Santana [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43yvS6bPZDs[/media]
Greatest guitarists, are blues guitarists.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1E1EH6bXfA[/media] Gotta have some Johnny Winter in a blues thread
Fuck to the yes. I love Johnny. Johnny actually came to my town one time for a wedding, his current wife was the sister of one my parent's good friends, so they were invited, obviously. My dad said it was funny because you have easily one of the best guitarists in history out in this little Podunk town at a local Church getting married to someone you've known forever. My dad said Johnny was of course wearing one of those signatures hats he has, except he went all out. He had two copperheads roped around the brim of his hat. For the reception it was in one of the party rooms at a Holiday Inn and my dad noticed that Johnny was just sitting quietly in a corner. He went over and talked to him the entire time and Johnny said he personally killed and set the copperheads on his hat. Johnny asked my dad if he played, and he does, so my dad went home and got his steel guitar and Johnny's Guitar Slinger album for him to sign. He's got the album currently framed, I can barely read Johnny's writing but I believe it says: "To Chris, Love ya' brother Johnny Winter" Anyway, enough stories we need some mo' blues. I think Lucille is probably my favorite B.B. song, I don't know why. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8QxOjuYHg[/media] Elmooooooooore [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKo80b-QfK0[/media] Son House [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBoP70A7Q0[/media] How could we not have posted Buddy Guy? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rd8y8A2oE[/media] Of course, ending with Johnny Winter. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7WY2MjpPk[/media] If you have a chance look for Johnny Winter: A Rock n' Roll Collection. The first track has probably the most iconic sound ever, Johnny's scratchy yet badass scream of "ROCK AND ROoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOLL!" Most of the tracks are taken from live performances and released on other albums, but some are unreleased. The rock n' roll scream is taken directly from Live Johnny Winter and.
Some of the best live albums, are blues. Seriously, how can they find it incredibly easy to perform flawlessly.
Its like Hubert Sumlin said: "I don't are how good they is at playin...if they ain't got the soul, they ain't in it."
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_roFodiWpHM&list=UUkm2-mBea_Us6nBdREQtgNQ&index=3&feature=plcp[/media] Fat Willie Band. When I was googling it, it said try wet willie band :derp:
No Junior Kimbrough? Blasphemy! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9frcNYP6zZs[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tw0vMPXIxs[/media]
[QUOTE=Pedro the Fuzzy;33769112]Now time for some full Blues-rock groups! The American Badasses, ZZ Top [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLqACIj8nc[/media] The Bad Guys, The Black Crowes (now with my favorite song by them!) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1L4I6uhODE[/media] The unforgettable Cream [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdwVVI4B3oY[/media] The Southern rocking blues infused Allman Brothers Band with the Godly slide guitarist, Duane Skydog Allman [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDhR1R3S0s[/media] Derek and The Dominos, Eric Clapton and Duane Allman together is almost incomprehendable. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th3ycKQV_4k[/media] A spinoff group that came from the Allmans lineup in the 90s, Gov't Mule: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaa3iPBy_Jw&feature=related[/media][/QUOTE] white people
...Yes? The Blues Revolution/Revival of the late 60s and 70s was brought about by white players. Obviously Gov't Mule and the Crowes came during the 90s, but still. It doesn't matter your skin color, it just matters if you've got the soul for it.
I'M JUST SAYIN
well there aren't many all black blues-groups, albeit from Robert Randolph and the Family Band which still has some white players in it. I could easily make a post about Elmore or Lighting Hopkins or Buddy Guy or B.B. or Muddy or Wolf or any other of the black blues musicians, but I find that the groups and artists of the revival era certainly helped stimulate many of the original musicians careers again.
that said here's some japanese blues from the 70s [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFll69-A730[/media] [editline]20th December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Pedro the Fuzzy;33809170]well there aren't many all black blues-groups, albeit from Robert Randolph and the Family Band which still has some white players in it. I could easily make a post about Elmore or Lighting Hopkins or Buddy Guy or B.B. or Muddy or Wolf or any other of the black blues musicians, but I find that the groups and artists of the revival era certainly helped stimulate many of the original musicians careers again.[/QUOTE] I was just joking around don't think about it too much
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2prKnYnI&ob=av2e[/media] I love how he can get so much out of just one or two notes, it's like anti shred.
All these youngins talkin' about doing that there mary-joo-wanna, back when I was a boy all we had was champagne and reefer. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHowqKYSXNI[/media] also, I find it hilarious that Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi managed to get so many people interested in the Blues and also become a viable touring act for awhile just by partaking in an SNL skit. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plaDFJpOfMs&feature=related[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlou_2lMLAc&feature=related[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ka-rGmXr7A&feature=related[/media]
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