The Blues

[Voley]

This is a thread for when you woke up this morning to find your woman's been cheating, she's left you for another man, while you were knocking at the front somebody went out your back door, there's no food on your table, no shoes on your feet and if wasn't for bad luck luck you wouldn't have no luck at all.



Post yer fave blues songs here please.

 

[TruXta]

 

[Voley]

Never heard that before, cheers.

 

[TruXta]

 

[TruXta]

Never heard that before, cheers.

Dock Boggs is utterly fantastic.

 

[Voley]

Yeah, can't go wrong with the Fat Possum lot can you? I was lucky enough to see RL Burnside and he was fucking awesome live. Incredible slide playing. I was equally impressed by the pint of Bloody Mary he got through during the gig.

 

[TruXta]

One more RL Burnside:

 

[Voley]

Dock Boggs is utterly fantastic.

I shall investigate further, ta. Sounds like the folkier Appalachian end of things but I've been getting into that a bit more lately.

 

[TruXta]

Yeah, can't go wrong with the Fat Possum lot can you? I was lucky enough to see RL Burnside and he was fucking awesome live. Incredible slide playing. I was equally impressed by the pint of Bloody Mary he got through during the gig.

Never got to see him

Fat Possum is pretty solid indeed.

e2a - Boggs is Appalachian in style if not birth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Boggs

 

[Voley]

Dock Boggs is utterly fantastic.

The 'Folkways Years' album looks like a good place to start. Agree?

 

[TruXta]

The 'Folkways Years' album looks like a good place to start. Agree?

Yup. TBH I've not heard a bad song of his, like ever.

 

[TruXta]

OK, last batch for now:

 

[Voley]

John Lee Hooker backed by Canned Heat. Fucking great.

 

[boing!]

 

[chazegee]

 

[boing!]

Hard to find a good version of this one on youtube, but this will do

 

[Voley]

Love that Son House one. I first heard that by The White Stripes.

 

[Voley]

 

[killer b]

as mentioned on another thread, i picked up a huge folkways anthology of early jazz last week - features a load of blues too. including this total fucking scorcher.

 

[chazegee]

Been downloading the country blues series on BT, some fucking gold in there.

 

[chazegee]

There's also a white country blues one in there, top stuff.

 

[Voley]

 

[Voley]

 

[Voley]

 

[killer b]

nine men going to the graveyard, bubba
and eight men coming back

 

[Voley]

^ They're the Big 3 for me.

 

[killer b]

my big 3 are mississippi john hurt, blind willie & skip james. probably leadbelly should be ahead of all of them, but everyone knows him already...

 

[Voley]

I love Mississippi John Hurt. Really beautiful stuff. Seems a world away from that harsh Son House/ Fred McDowell slide style.

If Nick Cave hadn't recorded 'Stagger Lee' this would be my favourite version of it:

 

[killer b]

yeah, his stackolee is the best imo. he's got a style all of his own, which no-one's ever really copied. odd, as it is so beautiful, as you say.

 

[Voley]

I can remember Dub asking on here if anyone could recommend similar stuff and no-one really came up with anything. Pretty unique.