Any blues lovers?

the blues. wonderful music. i cant put it into words really. i just love the chills i get whenever someone really lays it down over a 12 or 8 bar or whatever. Blues is beautiful.
 
Johnny Winter.

"Without the Blues, life would be an error" - F. Nietzche
 
my favorite blues album this past 2 year : Country Negro Jam Sessions

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbcKAcG624c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck4bOiJvfrw&feature=related

(you can find it on mediafire)
 
if you guys want some modern blues to whet your whistle might I recommend Chris Thomas King. he played the Robert Johnson-look alike in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

remember this cover, "hard time killing floor blues", from the movie?

the blues are the best export America has given to the world
 
I get a little bored when I play jazz. usually you're right, musicians say the opposite, but give me grimey, disenfranchised, soul-music over jazz anyday
 
axl blaze said:
I get a little bored when I play jazz. usually you're right, musicians say the opposite, but give me grimey, disenfranchised, soul-music over jazz anyday
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My favorite jazz guitarist Grant Green once said, "The first thing I learned to play was boogie-woogie. Then I had to do a lot of rock & roll. It's all blues, anyhow." He's right. Jazz and rock & roll as a whole are firmly rooted in the blues, and many contemporary artists owe a great deal to the early innovators like Willie Dixon (just ask Led Zeppelin ;) ). So in that sense, I sorta agree with your original statement about America's greatest export. But when you compare the catalog both genres have given the world, jazz goes way deeper and is entirely more varied in its approach.



and lol if you find playing an Art Blakey solo boring!!
 
it would take me months to learn a solo of his, I'm just your average, neighborhood rock n roll drummer!

it comes down to taste, I suppose, and I agree with all of your statements. I would take the heart of blues over the pretension of jazz, in any second
 
If you got something against jazz, lemme know. We can duke it out, brah.
 
loulou reed said:
No. The Blues is the best import Africa has given to America.
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lolwut ?

the blues is 100% from the U.S. south
as much as samba is 100% from bahia brazil
or that mento is jamaican and rumba is cuban and cumbia is colombian...

the slave trade started 500 years ago and recorded music started 100 year ago
so thats 400 of mixing influence, mainly European melodies unto African rhythm, before we ever recorded something as the blues
the blues isnt any more african than it is european, it is 100% american

and jazz is the greatest export the U.S. gave to the world
it did it decades before the blues which at that point was still considered a lower art form (if art at all)
blues only came into the light when it got a revival in the 60s, and by then jazz already had being influential all over the world
elvis, the beatles or any bluesman never had the kind of impact that louis armstrong did
 
Hendrix was a blues master. But the oldies are the best. Muddy Watters, Johhny 'guitar' Watson, all the blind dudes. Son House was the O.G. bluesman though.
 
and for you stevie ray vaughn fans check out doyle bramhall II and smokestacks version of life by the drop. Since he co wrote it with srv.... A fun time song...
 
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