The great Blues appreciation thread!

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWZtccSDws

[Blackened Soul]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEkzZ7WjisA

[Dandolin]

my fav'rite King (Albert is awfully close tho)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMtuNipi-SE
was harder than it should have been to find a version of this that wasn't on the Public Enemies soundtrack :/

[Blackened Soul]

Oh yeah, I forgot about him!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeHLMrL7nzY

[Dandolin]

Sonny & Brownie are like a genre all by themselves - i liked these two as Piedmont followers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewdAcT-3ivs

listening to that Sonny & Brownie album - that is pretty far for their core style - it def opens a can of worms
and this song, which is pretty far from blues, although it is kind've gospel, is the biggest can opener in the drawer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io6eZTjgOLc

although i prefer their prime material, this is a pretty interesting counterpoint to 'Fathers and Sons'
plus, banjo

and back to Otis Taylor and his 'Recapturing the Banjo' album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twypAhhSSAI

[Chankgeez]

Oh, forgot I found this the other day:



https://reverb.com/item/53066392-nation ... ohn-cephas

Your post reminded me.

[Dandolin]

noice! i want it

i'ma post the Otis Taylor tiny desk i'm watchin', which has some elucidative commentary from the man; and, because he's on that second OT song, but moreso 'cause Albert King purportedly preferred to be referred to as "Albin Keen" - some Alvin Youngblood Hart


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4GcbBrdMA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kiY-la2ok

and later, cause Cephas & Wiggins cover two of his songs on their debut, i'ma post some Skip James, *my* king of the blues

Last edited by Dandolin on Tue Jun 14, 2022 8:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Chankgeez]

Sonny & Brownie were pretty prolific. Speakin' of stuff outside their core style, I like their more "urban" stuff:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPgOqBwwrA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaN340m5dP8

I also like their stuff w/ Earl Hooker:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu0zybWT_l0

[Dandolin]

nice - that is a lot of range

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOuEZipvtmE

[Dandolin]

navasota'd

so good

as mentioned previously
the '31 stuff is better, but there's so little of it that it's by definition over-played
his later stuff still has that otherworldly tinge in the vocals and some new themes that are poignant as he faces mortality (but with very little diminution in his powers afaic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0

[Chankgeez]

Also, didn't know Sonny Rhodes sang the Firefly theme:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZJpewvSZwo

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJBLFzREqJc

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNkXoS3zutw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ehxW9MKRH0

[Blackened Soul]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNkXoS3zutw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ehxW9MKRH0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nga02Om6M8