I havent listened to very much blues type music. Recently i watched "Black Snake Moan" and really dug the music that he was singing/playing and i was wondering if anyone could point me to artists/songs along those lines? Here's a few good songs from the first age of blues with artists and approximate recording dates.
1920 - Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
1923 - Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver
1923 - St. Louis Blues - W.C. Handy
1923 - T'ain't Nobody's Business if I Do - Bessie Smith
1924 - Down Hearted Blues - Bessie Smith
1925 - Careless Love Blues - Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong
1925 - Taint None o Your Business - Butter Beans & Susie
1926 - Black Snake Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson
1926 - West Coast Blues - Blind Blake
1927 - A Handful of Riffs - Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang
1927 - Backwater Blues - Bessie Smith
1927 - Billy Lyons & Stack-O-Lee - Furry Lewis
1927 - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
1927 - High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
1927 - In My Time of Dying - Blind Willie Johnson
1927 - Ma Rainey's Big Black Bottom - Ma Rainey
1927 - Match Box Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
1927 - Muddy Water [A Mississippi Moon] - Bessie Smith
1927 - Nobody's Fault but Mine - Blind Willie Johnson
1927 - Savoy Blues - Louis Armstrong
1927 - Stack O'Lee Blues - Long Cleve Reed & Little Harvey Hull
1927 - You Gonna Quit Me Blues - Blind Blake
1928 - Big Leg Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
1928 - Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
1928 - Chump Man Blues - Blind Blake
1928 - Corrina Corrina - Bo Carter
1928 - Downtown Blues - Frank Stokes
1928 - Fishin' Blues - Henry Thomas
1928 - Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
1928 - How Long, How Long Blues - Leroy Carr
1928 - It's Tight Like That - Tampa Red and Georgia Tom
1928 - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
1928 - Praise God I'm Satisfied - Blind Willie Johnson
1928 - Statesboro Blues - Blind Willie McTell
1929 - Diddie Wah Diddie - Blind Blake
1929 - God Moves on the Water - Blind Willie Johnson
1929 - Guitar Blues - Lonnie Johnson
1929 - K.C. Moan - Memphis Jug Band
1929 - Pony Blues - Charley Patton
1929 - St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
1929 - When the Levee Breaks - Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
1930 - No More Troubles Now - Lonnie Johnson
1930 - Preachin' the Blues - Son House
1930 - Rope Stretching Blues, Pt. 1 - Blind Blake
1930 - Sitting on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks
1930 - Standin' on the Corner (Blue Yodel, No. 9) - Jimmie Rodgers
1930 - Ten and Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
1930 - Walk Right In - Cannons Jug Stompers
1931 - Devil Got My Woman - Skip James
1931 - Diddie Wa Diddie, No. 2 - Blind Blake
1931 - I'm So Glad - Skip James
1931 - Travelin' Blues - Blind Willie McTell
1932 - Guitar Chimes - Blind Blake
1932 - These Times - Peetie Wheatstraw
1933 - Blues Before Sunrise - Leroy Carr
1933 - I Can't Be Satisfied - Big Bill Broonzy
1934 - You Can't Get That Stuff No More - Tampa Red and Georgia Tom
1935 - Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
1935 - C.C. Rider 鈥?Leadbelly
1935 - I'm a Bad Luck Woman - Memphis Minnie
1935 - Roberta 鈥?Leadbelly
1936 - Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday
1936 - Come on in My Kitchen - Robert Johnson
1936 - Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
1936 - Dirty Mother for You - Roosevelt Sykes
1936 - Stop Breakin' Down Blues - Robert Johnson
1936 - Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson
1937 - From Four Till Late - Robert Johnson
1937 - Good Morning Blues 鈥?Leadbelly
1937 - Good Mornin' Little School Girl - Sonny Boy Williamson I
1937 - Hellhound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
1937 - Love In Vain - Robert Johnson
1937 - Shake 'Em on Down - Bukkka White
1938 - Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind - Blind Boy Fuller
1938 - Cold in Hand - Sweet Peas Spivey
1938 - Freight Train Blues - Trixie Smith
1938 - Roll 'Em Pete - Joe Turner and Pete Johnson
1938 - Seminole Blues - Tampa Red
1939 - Tarzan of Harlem - Cab Calloway
1939 - Thinking My Blues Away - Sonny Boy Williamson
1939 - Too Evil To Cry - Champion Jack Dupree
1940 - Come on with the Come On - Cab Calloway
1940 - Fixin' to Die Blues - Bukka White
1940 - Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
1940 - Untrue Blues - Blind Boy Fuller
1941 - Am I Blue - Billie Holiday
1941 - Cross Cut Saw Blues - Tommy McClennon
1941 - Crowing Rooster Blues - Lonnie Johnson
1941 - Going to Chicago Blues - Count Basie
1941 - Hep Cat's Love Song - Cab Calloway
1941 - Key to the Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
1941 - Me and My Chauffeur Blues - Memphis Minnie
1941 - Million Lonesome Women - Brownie McGhee Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and my personal favorite Stevie Ray Vaughan. There are a lot of good blues musicians out there. Try these and see what you think. listen to anything by Muddy Waters BB, King or Leadbelly crawling king snake: John Lee Hooker
Taildragger: Howlin Wolf
Little red rooster: Willie Dixon There are many blues artist out there and your choices can range from older classic blues from Robert Johnson and Etta James up to the more current artist such as Big Sugar, Blues Traveller and John Mayer.
Some of my favorites are the Stevie Ray Vaughn albumns and Eric Clapton. Clapton does an electric slide version of Robert Johnson's "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day" and this is one of my favorite songs and versions.
Check out the Eric Clapton concert series on DVD called "Crossroads". willie dixon ... those are the real blues not that commerical stuff " DUST MY BROOM " BY ELMORE JAMES......" LITTLE WHEEL " BY JOHN LEE HOOKER....." YOU'RE GONNA NEED SOMEBODY ON YOUR BOND " BY BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON....." STATESBORO BLUES " BY BLIND WILLIE MCTELL....." ON-LINE RELIGION " BY LITTLE TOBY WALKER................................. LASTLY...THE EVER POPULAR " MY BIG 10 INCH " BY BULL MOOSE JACKSON & " PLEASE WARM MY WEINER " BY BO CARTER I wasa going to answer but CONCOBO my god he/she is superb!
Take a look at his/ her titles you cannot go wrong! All the names mentioned be the others are great, some of them I will have to look up! Another great to just came to mind who I just saw last month near Toronto is Buddy Guy, one of Jimi Hendrix's big influences in fact. Yup he's still kickin! Also, Los Lobos is one that doesn't come to many peoples minds too quick, I think because their style is so diverse. that's why make sure you try a few of their songs, don't judge from one. One song might be mariachi, such as the song they did with Antonio Banderas in the movie "Desperado" then you'll probably run into "Labamba" which they did for the hit movie years ago. But they do a lot of blues, and it has a kinda L-a Mexican feel to it. | 