Under-appreciated Greats?
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Blues artists.
Thanks,
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> I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
> Blues artists.
George "Harmonica" Smith
Big Walter Horton
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Lightning Hawkins
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>Blues artists.
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Old Friendly Cliff
: I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
Lightning Hopkins. And Canned Heat (the OLD Canned Heat), since they are
so seldom mentioned here. Bad Company, also. Paul Rogers is a fantastic blues
singer, but most people don't even know his name.
Bad Company and Canned Heat are usually thought of as Rock or
Rock n Roll, but listen to them, fer Gawd's sake. They are two of
the best blues "bands", ever, if not the best. Muddy Water's band may
have been the best ever. Muddy was great, but a lot of the credit was due
to his band, many of whose members from the early 50's became stars
in their own right.
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>I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
>Blues artists.
Bobby Parker. He had a hit or two in the 60's; "Watch Your Step" and
"Blues Get Off Your Shoulder". Great guitarist..
>Thanks,
>Mark
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>>Blues artists.
Engineered Plastics Corp
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>In article <6shp7h$ed0$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> <mzad...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>>Blues artists.
>
>"Blues Get Off Your Shoulder". Great guitarist..
Oops, that's "Blues Get Off MY Shoulder" Duh..
>>Thanks,
>>Mark
mzad...@my-dejanews.com
> : I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
> : Blues artists.
> : Thanks,
> : Mark
> : Rock & Roll Hangover
> : http://pseudo.com/shows/hangover
Bad Company, also. Paul Rogers is a fantastic blues
> singer, but most people don't even know his name.
Um, I hardly think Bad Company were "under-appreciated". They sold millions of
records, sold-out arena tours, etc. Regardless of what you or I think of their
music, they were not obscure.
Mark.
Bob Diekfuss
Mac McVay
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group, but he is mainly a footnote to blues novices these days. While the guy
never got it together for an entire album (possible exception: the first Paul
Butterfield Band album), his stinging attack and extended lines were major
influences in turning me on to the blues. "Stop" on the old Super Session album
has moments in which I honestly believe Michael is approaching Jimi Hendrix.
Come to think of it, I seem to recall a quote from the electric Jimi-Man himself
in which he declares that Bloomfield was "the only guitar player who really
scared me". High praise indeed.
McMahon
>Michael Bloomfield. I have been heartened by several mentions of him in this
>group, but he is mainly a footnote to blues novices these days.
Figured I'd reply since I've been the one mentioning his name, mostly...
>While the guy
>never got it together for an entire album (possible exception: the first Paul
>Butterfield Band album), his stinging attack and extended lines were major
>influences in turning me on to the blues.
I disagree... East-West features superb guitarwork throughout, or do you
disagree? Have you bought the Roots 'N Blues compilation? It has 5 previously
unreleased tracks from a 64 session with Charlie Musselwhite, one of which,
"Last Night", is absolutely incredible blues for what, a 20 year old kid?
>"Stop" on the old Super Session album
>has moments in which I honestly believe Michael is approaching Jimi Hendrix.
Couldn't agree more... particularly the first little riff he plays... absolute
magic. Funny, he thens goes and botches a note about 3 seconds later, but covers
it up wonderfully. That song is a masterpiece.
>Come to think of it, I seem to recall a quote from the electric Jimi-Man
himself
>in which he declares that Bloomfield was "the only guitar player who really
>scared me". High praise indeed.
Wow, any idea where this came from? I'll ask around on the Hey-Joe mailing
list... They were, in my mind, the best American blues guitarists born outside
the South...
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> In article <6shp7h$ed0$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> <mzad...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> >I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but
under-appreciated
> >Blues artists.
>
> Bobby Parker. He had a hit or two in the 60's; "Watch Your Step" and
> "Blues Get Off Your Shoulder". Great guitarist..
>
> >Thanks,
> >Mark
>
> cheers,
Vance Augustine
wrote:
>mzad...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>> I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
>> Blues artists.
>
>George "Harmonica" Smith
>Big Walter Horton
Elvin Bishop. He's played with all the greats and still cranks out
some mean down home style blues. He takes the music seriously, but not
still has a ton of fun with it One of the best, most fluid slide
players around. "He ain't good lookin', but he sure can play".
Vance
li'l crazy dog jr.
>I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
>Blues artists.
1) Larry Garner. He's not only a great bluesman but a really good
songwriter too. So many blues artists just stick with the old "Woke
up this mornin, blues sittin on my face" stuff; Larry writes humorous
lyrics and lyrics that will make you think as well. He is extremely
under-appreciated. His most recent album is called "Standing Room
Only." I really think he deserves more attention than he gets.
2) Peter Green. Peter Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac, and
their albums with him contain some astounding blues guitar. B.B. King
once said of Peter Green, "He was the only white guy who ever made me
sweat," and if you listen, you'll hear why. Tone and taste was
everything with Peter Green. He was the best British blues guitarist
of his generation, and could also write good songs when he was of a
mind to. Unfortunately, Peter suffered from substance abuse and
schizophrenia, and dropped out of music after leaving Fleetwood Mac.
In recent years he has managed to conquer his problems and has put out
two solo albums with his band, The Splinter Group, both of which are
worth hearing. I would also like to recommend the 2-CD set, "Peter
Green's Fleetwood Mac Live at the BBC." This isn't a perfect CD, as
it contains a few too many of fellow bandmember Jeremy Spencer's
tiresome 50's music parodies, but the Peter Green material is
brilliant, and more than makes up for it. Of course the original
Fleetwood Mac albums, "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac," "Mr. Wonderful,"
"Pious Bird of Good Omen," and "Then Play On" are recommended.
Old Friendly Cliff
>
>
>> : I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
>> : Blues artists.
>> : Mark
>> : Rock & Roll Hangover
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>
>Bad Company, also. Paul Rogers is a fantastic blues
>> singer, but most people don't even know his name.
>
>Um, I hardly think Bad Company were "under-appreciated". They sold millions of
>records, sold-out arena tours, etc. Regardless of what you or I think of their
>music, they were not obscure.
>
I realized when I posted what I did, that someone might make that point.
Likewise about Canned Heat.
What I was getting at was that they are underappreciated as *blues* groups.
I recall the one time that I saw Canned Heat, in 1969. I took a couple
hippie types, just fresh away from the semi-stoned UTexas campus at Austin, to
a Blues and Folk concert in San Jose, CA. They dug the Beatles, Dylan,
Hendrix, Janis Joplin, etc., (not at the concert we went to, of course), but
turned their noses up at Canned Heat. Likewise, they did not dig blues in
general -- what they dug was rock, the British invasion, folk, etc. Canned
Heat was the closing act, and did a full hour, with a half hour of encores. It
was getting late in the afternoon, and my friends didn't even want to stay --
just no appreciation for blues -- indoctrinated to rock & folk stuff all the
way.
Canned Heat had two big hits -- Going Up The Country and Let's Work Together
(which was gospel, of course, also done by the Staples Singers, a favorite of
mine since the 50s, when I first heard them). They were playing in the venues
of the time, where there were rockers and folk artists and the British types
and imitators, and simply not appreciated as Blues, which is what they were
for the most part.
Listen to things like Big Road Blues, Spoonful, etc., by Canned Heat. Hell,
I have three versions of Spoonful by them. Best number in my opinion, the
little known "Time Was".
Similarly for Bad Company. They had more hits than Canned Heat, but were
billed as rock -- and their hits were mostly up-beat R & B as blues men might
do them.
Bad Company did original stuff, not traditional stuff. Half of it appears to
have been written by Paul Rodgers -- and that's the bluesiest. Most of the
rest is by a guy named Clicke -- I guess another member.
Listen to something like their Desolation Angels album, which was
gin-scented (literally, it smelled like gin when it came out), and featured
Rock and Roll Fantasy -- a big hit and also blues -- but billed as rock. The
two best songs on the album are actually Oh, Atlanta, and Gone, Gone, Gone,
which are true blues -- especially Gone, Gone, Gone.
Maybe a problem with Bad Company is that their playing is so smooth. They
sound as if they have rehearsed everything and cut and recut until every note
is perfect. They are as far from raw-edged as any blues group has ever gotten.
But Paul Rodgers could express agony, desperation, despair, and sadness in
his singing as well as anyone else I have ever heard, along with the like of
Bobby Bland, Otis Rush, Brownie McGhee, Lightning Hopkins, and John Lee
Hooker. Bland is the best vocal comparison to Rodgers and, also, his band is
slickly rehearsed. Never a note out of place, like Bad Company.
I have a real feeling that Bad Company really should have played as Paul
Rodgers. The band was great, but he appeared to really make the outfit what it
was. I am reminded of Muddy Waters -- his band was equally great, but went
under his name as the creator (for a while, it went as Muddy waters and the
Blues Ensemble). Paul Rodgers might well have gone as Paul Rodgers and Bad
Company.
Reiterating, what I was getting at was that they are underappreciated as
*blues* groups.
Somebody mentioned Elvin Bishop, also. He, too, gets less thought of as a
bluesman, being thought of as "good time" or rock, but he plays good blues.
I might also mention Delbert MClinton. He keeps getting associated with
hillbillies, and gets written about in Country & Western fan mags, even -- as
if he were C & W. It's because record company economics make him record
country-tinged stuff. Same thing holds for Bonnie Raitt, but she has finally
gotten lots of attention -- and still makes too much country-poppish stuff
IMO.
But Delbert plays a really good Harp, and sings well, too. He considers
himself as blues, not country or any such. In fact he says he got his
baptismal playing the harp when Jimmy Reed puked on him once onstage (he was
Reed's backup on harp). He grew up playing blues, not in a C & W background.
McClinton and Bishop suffer from the drawback of being white and having
gotten somehow associated with C & W. But *they* both think they play blues,
and so do I -- damned well, in fact. I've seen them both in person more than
once, and, like some others, what they do on stage is better than the way
their recordings come across (and more purely blues -- less country- and pop-
tinged stuff). In fact, I confess that the albums I have by them are not
favorites of mine -- too hickish and poppish. It's a shame, but that's the
record biz, I guess.
I mentioned Charlie Musselwhite as a great harpist. I think he would also
qualify as being under-appreciated. He, too, is white; but not seedy looking
enough (he looks like a guy that's never left a bar in 20 years:) ) to be
taken for C & W -- and won't go near C & W. He's also a temperamental guy, and
sometimes puts on a poor show.
If you ever get a chance, go out of your way to see Bishop or McClinton --
they put on great shows. Musselwhite has a temperament problem I think, and
seems to need both a good hall, and an appreciative audience, to do his best.
Like I said, I've seen him leave the stage after the first number. One thing
for him, though, he's a blues purist -- he doesn't want to do anything but
straight blues -- maybe one reason that as a recording artist, he seems to
have done less well than either Bishop or McClinton.
It seems like most good white bluesmen have to make some concession or nod
to C & W, in order to do well. It's a shame.
Even more of a shame is the fact that some C & W guys like Willie Nelson can
do really good blues, also -- and spend most of their time doing hillbilly
trash.
I am a little bit of a traitor to my race, I fear -- I really dislike most
C & W music with a passion! I'd rather listen to Johann Bach than Clint Black,
I have seen a couple of C & W bands that could play good blues, but only did
it sporadically, when the boots and hat set had thinned out and the booze had
set in. It's the same thing as with Bishop and McClinton -- they have to play
to please the paying customers, even if it isn't their favorite music. It has
seemed to be the "Western Swing" type outfits that can also play blues.
Lest anyone get the wrong idea -- that I went some place to see a C & W band
-- be advised that I once drank a lot, and wound up in a lot of strange
places. I was usually just seeking a drink or a woman. The band was free --
I've only once in my life ever paid to see C & W (I was going with a woman who
insisted on seeing Bobby Bare -- a typical C & W narcissist who wore tight
white leather pants and liked to wiggle his buns at the audience).
As for people named Garth, forget it -- the only Brooks that were good
performers were Hadda Brooks, and Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers!
Anybody remember them?
Hadda played boogie-woogie piano, and Louis had one big hit called It's
Love, Baby (24 Hours a day)). I have the record on 45, and I don't recall
ever hearing anything else by him. It's a great record, but a single number
doesn't put him in the "underappreciated" class -- rather, the obscure
flash-in-the-pan class, I'm afraid. :)
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mzad...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
> Blues artists.
> Thanks,
> Mark
> Rock & Roll Hangover
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Hey, who said 'Bad Company'? Are you nuts?
C'mon people, let the rockers rock and leave the blues to the
bluesmen/women.And don't you dare ever again run down MUDDY WATERS,thank you!!
Ok, here's my picks.
Sonny (Cat Daddy)Rogers, a fabulous guitarist and singer, won a Handy Award a
few years back.
Magic Sam !!
Mojo Buford, and the guitar players on his new CD are getting close, I think
it's Brown and Schwalbe.
homesick
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"McMahon" <baadmoon@fla$h.net> wrote:
>
> >Come to think of it, I seem to recall a quote from the electric Jimi-Man
> himself
> >in which he declares that Bloomfield was "the only guitar player who really
> >scared me". High praise indeed.
>
> Wow, any idea where this came from? I'll ask around on the Hey-Joe mailing
> list... They were, in my mind, the best American blues guitarists born outside
> the South...
> --
> Murphy McMahon
> baadmoon@fla$h.net ( if replying, $ = s )
> "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I
> repeat myself..." --Mark Twain
>
>
Parazaider (of the group Chicago) in 1968, "Your guitar player is better than
me", refering to Terry Kath. Then there is the time when someone (supposedly)
asked Jimi what it felt like to be the greatest guitar player in the world. To
which he replied, "I don't know. You'll have to ask Phil Keaggy". And now this
about Michael Bloomfield. Well, if anyone could have afforded to be humble, I
would guess it was Jimi. BTW, has anyone heard Jimi's album "Blues"? Great
album. Jimi does the blues straight up. He keeps the feed back and histrionics
to a mininum. Features some fine covers of Mannish Boy and Born Under a Bad
Sign. My favorite tune is one called Jelly 292, which may or may not be blues
tune, depending on your definition :-). I recommend it.
Vance
Frederick Rudofsky
with on stage.
As for the subject, all of whom are liviing:
Earl King-- a peremire songwriter who B.B. and Buddy shoud cover to put
a halt to their predictable studio albums
Larry Garner-- great Louisiana artist
Lou Ann Barton-- unbelievable and yet underrecorded singer
The Holmes Brothers (the best blues band, without question!!!)
Bobby Radcliff-- Magic Sam disciple
Satan and Adam-- the best duo I've ever heard
Robert Jr. Lockwood-- a legend
Big Jack Johnson (solo and with The Jelly Roll Kings)
Sue Foley-- wonderful performer and one of the best guitarists around
Barrence Whitfield-- Howlin'Wolf and Roy Brown would dig this dynamo
Eddie Shaw-- the best blues sax
Clarence Hollimon and Carol Fran-- words don't do justice to them
Michael Hill's Blues Mob-- blues with integrity and daring
and many more I could list....
Bianco
> I might also mention Delbert MClinton. He keeps getting associated with
> hillbillies, and gets written about in Country & Western fan mags, even -- as
>
> But Delbert plays a really good Harp, and sings well, too. He considers
> himself as blues, not country or any such. In fact he says he got his
> baptismal playing the harp when Jimmy Reed puked on him once onstage (he was
> Reed's backup on harp). He grew up playing blues, not in a C & W background.
>
> McClinton and Bishop suffer from the drawback of being white and having
> gotten somehow associated with C & W. But *they* both think they play blues,
> and so do I -- damned well, in fact. I've seen them both in person more than
> once, and, like some others, what they do on stage is better than the way
> their recordings come across (and more purely blues -- less country- and pop-
> tinged stuff). In fact, I confess that the albums I have by them are not
> favorites of mine -- too hickish and poppish. It's a shame, but that's the
> record biz, I guess.
If you ever get a chance, go out of your way to see Bishop or
McClinton --
> they put on great shows.
You're so right about Delbert McClinton. For years, a friend of
mine
kept referring to McClinton as a "blues artist", and I would sniff to
myself.
Based on his recordings, I did not identify him with the blues. I had to
change
my tune (and eat a little crow) after seeing him perform at the
Chesapeake Bay
Blues Festival this year. Some of his performance was a Texas roadhouse,
honkey-tonk
kind of blues, but much of it was, as you say, "more purely " blues.
> It seems like most good white bluesmen have to make some concession or nod
> to C & W, in order to do well. It's a shame.
>
> Even more of a shame is the fact that some C & W guys like Willie Nelson can
> do really good blues, also -- and spend most of their time doing hillbilly
> trash.
>
> I am a little bit of a traitor to my race, I fear -- I really dislike most
> C & W music with a passion! I'd rather listen to Johann Bach than Clint Black,
Inasmuch as this is a blues newsgroup, perhaps this is not the
place to
defend C&W, however, I think you may be doing the genre (and perhaps
yourself) a
disservice. Even though blues is the music that makes *me* forget to
breath,
I can see how someone else could experience the same effect from hearing
Hank
Williams sing "Lost Highway", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" or "Your
Cheatin'
Heart", or Patsy Cline do "Leavin on Your Mind" or "Crazy". Or Emmylou
Harris sing
just about anything in that clear, pure voice.
>
> Lest anyone get the wrong idea -- that I went some place to see a C & W band...
Perhaps you should? ;) Jan
McMahon
>Parazaider (of the group Chicago) in 1968, "Your guitar player is better than
>me", refering to Terry Kath. Then there is the time when someone (supposedly)
>asked Jimi what it felt like to be the greatest guitar player in the world. To
>which he replied, "I don't know. You'll have to ask Phil Keaggy". And now this
>about Michael Bloomfield. Well, if anyone could have afforded to be humble, I
>would guess it was Jimi. BTW, has anyone heard Jimi's album "Blues"? Great
>album. Jimi does the blues straight up. He keeps the feed back and histrionics
>to a mininum. Features some fine covers of Mannish Boy and Born Under a Bad
>Sign. My favorite tune is one called Jelly 292, which may or may not be blues
>tune, depending on your definition :-). I recommend it.
Jimi Hendrix:Blues is absolutely essential listening for any blues guitar fan,
IMO...
I personally prefer the two versions of Hear My Train A-Comin' ... I think they
pretty much sum it up...
...as does Jimi's grandmother, Nora Rose, who, according to the liner notes,
once said, in reference to her grandson and the blues,
"I've seen slavery, and I've seen Jimi Hendrix perform. That pretty much covers
it."
Eric F
>I'm interested to know who Blues fans consider great, but under-appreciated
>Blues artists.
Mighty Sam McClain.
Had a few hits back in the 60's including a killer cover of Patsy
Kline's "Sweet Dreams".
Ended up living on the streets for a big part of the 80's, and now
has had a comeback with an awesome string of albums on the Audioquest
label. Appears often in the Boston area.
Grab one of his albums if you know what's good for you :)
Steven P Bibbo
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chuck n.
Stoligirl9
Mason Ruffner
Larry Johnson
Elmore James
Lousiana Red
I can go on and on...
li'l crazy dog jr.
I forgot to mention Roy Buchanan.
Roland Jost
mick clarke!
cheers
roland
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> For power and excitement, Gary Moore.
Gary Moore is great, but not "Under-appreciated". Mick Taylor, on the other
hand is not only great, but under-appreciated and not well-known enough
considering his credits.
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>For power and excitement, Gary Moore.
>
>
StevieRay Vaughan....
Albert Collins.....
Hound Dog Taylor.....
To mention but 3.....
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Henk Dolleman
jr.) wrote:
>worth hearing. I would also like to recommend the 2-CD set, "Peter
>Green's Fleetwood Mac Live at the BBC." This isn't a perfect CD, as
>it contains a few too many of fellow bandmember Jeremy Spencer's
>tiresome 50's music parodies, but the Peter Green material is
>brilliant, and more than makes up for it. Of course the original
>Fleetwood Mac albums, "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac," "Mr. Wonderful,"
>"Pious Bird of Good Omen," and "Then Play On" are recommended.
>
Plus: the 'Blues jam at Chess' album, 'The biggest thing since
Colossus'(with Otis Spann), 7936 South Rhodes (with Eddie Boyd) & the
fantastic blues album 'The original Fleetwood Mac' (recorded *before*
Then play on, but released after Green left the band.
Let me add another under appreciated great guitar player: Stan 'the
man' Webb, the frontman of Chicken Shack. I saw him a year or so ago.
He's still going strong.
I saw Green with his Splinter Group in Amsterdam a few months ago.
Green is only a shadow of what he used to be. IMO his playing is too
mellow nowadays.
h
James Dawson
SRV and Albert Collins are hardly under appreciated.
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D s
Earl Hooker...one of the best guitarist ever.
Ike Turner..awesome on guitar an piano
the blues world would be a whole lot different
without his contributions.look around he is
everywhere.Sun records,Cobra with Otis.
talent scout.
Current players
Mike Henderson..this guy can play an sing
with anyone out there..fantastic vocals an
guitar..great band too.
Colin James..from Canada has put out 3
great Cd's..two in Canada..check out
National Steel an The Little Big Band 2.
Big Band at its best..Resse Wynans,George
Rains,Kaz Kazanoff.Greg Picallo.
Paul Oscher...a great harp player that not
enough people know about...Muddy did!!
Thanks!!
Don
Steve Ranta
(D s) wrote:
. . .
> Colin James..from Canada has put out 3
> great Cd's..two in Canada..
Interesting perspective.
Coming from Vancouver, where Colin James is based, I'd have to say there
are at least a dozen working blues guitar players in this town who are
much better than Colin James. Must be the haircut and the leather jacket.
- -
Steve Ranta
Rick Bywalski
loved Master Charge and I ain't Drunk.
harp...@aol.com
says...
Amen to Mason Ruffner, a truly overlooked great. While his (relatively)
best-selling "Gypsy Blood" CD was very satisfying, his previous album (produced
by fellow guitar slinger Rick Derringer, I think) is amazing. I don't think it
has ever been released on disc, but if you come across a vinal copy at a used
record store, do youself a favor and pick it up. Sizzling string wizardry
abounds without the sometimes annoying overproduction that tended to mar Gypsy
Blood. Any word on what Ruffner is up to these days?
Stoligirl9
I met Mason in NYC many years ago and jammed with him. He liked my slide
playing and brought me to join in Bill Dicey's band for a while.. then he left
to go to New Orleans and I never found him after that... another blues
guitarist told me a few months ago that he's in the Austin area now... At one
point I read in Guitar Player Mag that Jimmy Page said that Ruffner was his
favorite guitarist... Where ever he is I wish him well and would like to thank
him someday for helping me...
Steven Levine
woman.
-Steve
Barry Welch
Yep Mason's in Austin. Don't see him much though. Last time I saw him was
opening for Sanatana down in San Antone, a couple years back.
chuck n.
AtomicVOL
Mike Henderson one mean slide player
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James Harman great style
Sam Myers
John Primer Muddy's legacy
GUITAR SLIM....if you like Albert Collins as I do, listen to Guitar Slim!
Yank Rachell blues on mandolin
Corey Harris GREAT acoustic stuff
ELMORE JAMES (is he underappreciated?) REALLY king of the slide
Robert "Bilbo" Walker
Bluesman
Frederick Rudofsky wrote:
The most underrated Blues Guitarist of all time is TD Bell. Before the
majority of blues musicians in the world were playing TD was out there.
There was T-Bone then came TD. He's from Rockdale, Texas. All natural and
still playing smoothly.
Richard Lee
excellant guitar work on '39 steelbody slide. He is dead now like so
many blues men. His name is John Campbell on Elektra Records. Two CDs I
reccommend are One Believer and Howlin Mercy. I'm sure your record store
won't have him in stock as I had to ask the the little turd working
there to order after teaching him all the different spellings of
Campbell. Surely it wouldn't be too much to ask that even a music turd
have an IQ greater than his shoe size. Just venting, sorry. Oh, I am not
trying to sell CDs, I'm simply sharing. Enjoy!
Adrian Gyger
> So many greats out there you never hear about. I know one if you like
> excellant guitar work on '39 steelbody slide. He is dead now like so
> many blues men. His name is John Campbell on Elektra Records. Two CDs I
> reccommend are One Believer and Howlin Mercy.
He was really great! He only recorded three albums. His first one is called
"A Man And His Blues"(Crosscut Records CCD 11019). It is completely
different from the Elektra albums, much more traditional. It was recorded in
two days in 1988 with Ronnie Earl and Jerry Portnoy. I recommend it!
Adrian
MK
the blues!!! Saw him open up for Buddy Guy in 1992?/93, and was totally
impressed with his playing and attitude. The audience loved him! He had to
come back for 2 encores, and then he watched Buddy's show from first row
later!
Michael
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Adrian Gyger schrieb in Nachricht <35F8DB75...@bluewin.ch>...
NYBluesFan
I was also a big Campbell fan. He was a great live performer. There is a
another cd...his first called John Campbell..A Man And His Blues...produced by
Ronnie Earl..and Ronnie also plays on the cd.
NYBluesFan
li'l crazy dog jr.
I'll add my recommendation to the above. I'm not sure I would listen
to them late at night in the dark though, John could get mighty creepy
sometimes. Sometimes he sounded like he'd been to the crossroads and
met that fella that's supposed to teach you the guitar...
Dick Cowles
When You're Down and Out". It might have been on Ed Sullivan or another
variety show of the day. I don't think he's ever received the recognition as
a blues singer that he deserved. Maybe it was because he was a NYC "lounge
singer" rather than a Chicago club performer, but I think he was a great
bluesman.
Steve Cobbett
One Believer. Never got the chance to see him though or Steveie Ray either
who I believe he supported on tour for a while. Now sadly both are gone
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>Absolutely true - this man was a true genius and believer in the power of
>the blues!!! Saw him open up for Buddy Guy in 1992?/93, and was totally
>impressed with his playing and attitude. The audience loved him! He had to
>come back for 2 encores, and then he watched Buddy's show from first row
>later!
>
>Michael
>
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>2000...@bigfoot.com
>"Vincent Price Said It's Alright..."
>(ZZ Top - Rhythmeen)
>
>Adrian Gyger schrieb in Nachricht <35F8DB75...@bluewin.ch>...
>>Richard Lee wrote:
>>
>>> So many greats out there you never hear about. I know one if you like
>>> excellant guitar work on '39 steelbody slide. He is dead now like so
>>> many blues men. His name is John Campbell on Elektra Records. Two CDs I
>>> reccommend are One Believer and Howlin Mercy.
>>
RGU
Mike Shannon
nobody mentioned Rory Gallagher
outstanding guitar player
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>We would be fools to leave out these two:
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>*Arthur "BIG BOY" Crudup...wrote the tune that everyone thinks is
>B.B.'s: "Rock Me Baby" back in the mid 40s. Elvis did ok with one
>Crudups tunes "That's Alright Mama."
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>*Johnny "GUITAR" Watson...oh yes he was!
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>chuck
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