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assuming you are talking about more recent music, not the oldies?

here's my pandora station for music like that: http://www.pandora.com/station/145842112822511695

To name drop some artists you may like:

• Alabama Shakes

• Middle Brother

• Benjamin Booker

• J Roddy Walston & The Business

• The Weeks

• St. Paul & The Broken Bones

• Hanni El Khatib

• Oil Boom

• The Growlers

• Allah-Las

• Modest Mouse

• Portugal. The Man

• Shovels and Rope

• Rayland Baxter

• Dr. Dog

• Deer Tick

• Band of Skulls

• The Kills

• Kings of Leon

• The White Stripes

• The Black Keys

edit:

• Sunset Sons

Here's the tab. Enjoy! The tuning is REALLY strange and it took me about 3 weeks to figure it out but I can tell you how to do it if you're interested.

Read B.B. King's autobiography is full of amazing stories. As a small child he lived by himself in the empty shack where he had lived with his mom a while before. The plantation owner found him. One popular story is how his guitar Lucille got her name.

Try out Francis Davis's The History of The Blues

Deep Blues is a brilliant, if slightly dense, book. But the amount of detail is fascinating.

I'm also quite keen to read Lomax's book. Haven't read it yet but given the amount of recording Lomax did, it is sure to be informative.

Amen to Lightnin' (in particular). There's no such thing as a bad Lightnin' record, but look out for the Folkways album and anything with 'Gold Star' or 'Aladdin' in the title.

I'm learning a lesson from last week and posting the direct YouTube link to the video, as I've discovered that SteemIt links can head straight into reddit's spam filter.

So here's the link to the complete Episode 02 article: https://steemit.com/music/@ramblin-bob/vintageblues4k-e02-worried-blues-by-skip-james-1966

I would have the Aladdins and the Sam Charters 'stripes' album and 'Blues in My Bottle' as indispensable. I've also sent you a PM.

Not an easy one to answer.

Here's a good starting point - http://www.allmusic.com/album/blues-masters-the-very-best-of-t-bone-walker-mw0000067347

The Imperial and Capitol recordings are worth looking out for, if you want to go a bit further.

I really love John Crampton, has anyone else ever heard of him? Stompbox Blues Guitarst/Vocalist singing/touring round today. His album - Live and Stompin' is one of my favourite things ever. Anyone know people similar to him?

(favourite song by him - https://soundcloud.com/johncrampton/walls-of-steel )

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Berklee College of Music is offering a free online course which, by the end of it, has you writing your own riff for a 12-bar blues. I followed the course last fall and it really helped me figure out a lot of things that many others might take for granted. The course starts again in February. Maybe you'd enjoy it too: It's called Developing your Musicianship https://www.coursera.org/course/musicianship

Sultans of swing by dire straits, do it again by steely Dan, and early Santana are all i can think of. I think the guitarist for the doors started as a flamenco player so maybe some of their earlier stuff. I was also googling Spanish blues bands and this thread came up.

Hi Jordan, I started a new blues YouTube channel recently, covering the blues era you mention. Only three episodes are up so far, but for each one I'm trying to type up a blog article with some historical tidbits about the artists and songs I'm covering, perhaps you can use something:

https://steemit.com/@ramblin-bob

This Big Walter w/Carey Bell album is stellar.

So good, there's a harmonica tab book of every song!

That subgenre of Blues would roughly be called "Urban Blues." When referring to acts who recorded at Chicago record labels (Chess, Checker, Cobra, et al) it is knowns specifically as "Chicago Blues."

I would recommend you seek out The Chess Blues Box to sample a variety of some of the best post war Blues as a jumping off point.

This one got me started in blues:

https://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Blues-Today-Vol-LP/dp/B09RM3CPMF/ref=asc\_df\_B09RM3CPMF/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=564670353081&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7262118833483059114&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&a...

Exactly what are you looking for?

https://www.amazon.com/Face-Rising-Sun-Delta-Four/dp/B00VB05U0S

Male gospel quartet, that recorded for Paramount in 1930.

Wheeler Ford (lead vocals), Ivory Lou Allen (tenor vocals), Will Mosely (baritone vocals), Archie Smith (bass vocals)

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Lyrics

Where was Eve-a

Sleeping?

Where was Eve-a

Sleeping?

Where was Eve-a

Sleeping?

She was sleeping

She was sleeping

When she died

Down in some lonesome

Graveyard

Down in some lonesome

Graveyard

Down in some lonesome

Graveyard

She was sleeping

She was sleeping

When she died

I know my child is

Dying

I know my child is

Dying

I know my child is

Dying

It was dying

It was dying

When he died

I heard the church bells

Ringing

I heard the church bells

Ringing

I heard the church bells

Ringing

It was ringing

It was ringing

When she died (dong dong dong dong)

Where was Eve-a

Sleeping?

Where was Eve-a

Sleeping?

Where was Eve-a

Sleeping?

She was sleeping

She was sleeping

When she died

I heard the church bells

Ringing

I heard the church bells

Ringing

I heard the church bells

Ringing

It was ringing

It was ringing

When she died (dong dong dong dong

Although Blue Devil is in here, there are also a couple of other possibilities mentioned in this article.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/color-blue-sadness_b_13233778

Phew, glad I didn't come over as a stalker.

I'm a long way from an expert on Dylan, but I would think that his 60s stuff is the place to start. I don't think you could go wrong with the 1967 Greatest Hits album.

Meanwhile, fun facts dept, Pink Floyd got their name from two pre-war blues artists, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Ok, if you like rock, try Stevie Ray Vaughan, if you like Dylan and singer songwriter, try Mississippi John Hurt. However, I would start with Muddy Waters, and in particular, his Real Folk Blues (very misleading title) album. If you like that, you have a jumping off point for classic Chicago Blues (Howling Wolf, Etta James, Little Walter, Buddy Guy etc etc), the more modern stuff and a pointer back to the Delta founding fathers.

Tell us how you get on.

(I just stalked your history, so here's another couple of suggestions - Roots of the Grateful Dead on Shanachie, and Roots of the Grateful Dead on Catfish )

As has been suggested here already. Irish Tour '74 will be played forever because it's some of his strongest work and a great, great concert. I suggest watching the performance, which is available on both Blu-ray and DVD.

In the last couple of years his estate released a collection called Blues, which might be what you're after. Other than that, I'd suggest getting his albums in the order they were released. You really can't go wrong with Rory.

Have a listen to Thomas Ford. He's not very big but is an awesome blues player. I'm lucky enough to live in the same city as him, so I see him quite a bit.

here is a tiny snip of the tune. i think you would kill it! i don't care about an accent, accent is welcome! this is 100% reddit collab so far. drums were done by a dude in freaking Azerbaijan, lead guitar is from a guy in Sweden. rhythm and bass by me in Georgia, organ by a guy in Canada....... https://clyp.it/jnw5y55d

I can't beat softcheese's contributions, but I will suggest taking advantage of Allmusic if you want to go deeper. They list similar artists which will put you onto the path of many hours of exploration. Here is Son House's entry down at the bottom of the page are links to similar artists and under each artist there is a tab for songs which you can listen to previews.

ahah, obviously not the original but lead me to find this:

https://musicbrainz.org/release/3b24e6eb-33de-4367-b77b-58c40c6944af

Seems the original artists are shrouded in obscurity. Thanks for the reply anyway.

It's kind of hard to explain it briefly but it came out of migration of African Americans from rural places to cities. California got a lot of folks that moved from Texas as well as the midwest, and they brought both the country blues sound and the jazzy sound that was already popular in Texas.

Then, the styles also changed because the audiences changed depending on where you were. Southern California was more uptown and high class and there was more of a white audience for blues so things got a bit cleaned up, you had people like Charles Brown coming from the Nat King Cole school and being very jazzy and almost a lounge/pop sound sometimes. Bay Area was more segregated and the bluesmen came out of the dock workers, the sound was rougher and more lowdown, had more of the country blues left in it.

Bob Geddins had a studio in Oakland, CA and recorded a bunch of people like Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin, Johnny Fuller... He is an instrumental figure in West Coast blues.

If you really wanna learn more I recommend this book, California Soul, for a great history of black music in California- jazz, blues, gospel, etc. - https://www.amazon.com/California-Soul-Music-African-Diaspora/dp/0520206282

and this one covers much more than West Coast blues but still has some great information on the LA scene and Bob Geddins' work. One of the best books I've found on blues and r&b in general, very detailed account of how the music and the record industry evolved in the first half of the 20th century - https://www.amazon.com/Honkers-Shouters-Golden-Years-Rhythm/dp/0020617402

https://www.amazon.com/Vol-1-Saturday-Night-Blues/dp/B00000B33O/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=%22Saturday+Night+Blues%22&qid=1605968717&sr=8-1

There is not a lot by way of full length writing on Patton. There's the Calt / Wardlow and there's John Fahey's 'Patton' - that's about to be republished. I've got both, but have never managed to finish the latter as it more focused on the technicalities of his playing. The former is not a bad read, but does go on a bit, and there's a lot of point scoring going on. Also, even used it is going to cost you a small fortune. I haven't read Evans / Ferris, but neither have a record of writing page turners.

Meanwhile, here's a link to a site where someone has posted Robert Crumb's graphic life of Patton, based on Calt/Wardlow.

Damn fine write-up. The only thing I'd add is Drinkin' TNT 'N' Smokin' Dynamite. His performance with Junior Wells at Montreux in 1982. It only became available on Amazon within the last couple of years. I recommend it very highly.

What about this - <em>R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz &amp; Country</em>

If his tastes are a bit more modern, <em>here's something similar which is a bit more contemporary</em>.

Sooooooo I haven't gotten to read it myself yet but I've heard and read really good things about Cross Dog Blues: https://www.amazon.com/CROSS-DOG-BLUES-Great-Story/dp/0991132025/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1503466280&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=cross+dog+blues

Deep Blues by Robert Palmer is a must read.

I've read dozens and dozens of books about the Blues and this one is essential.

Mississippi Sheiks are unbeatable. Third Man has a 3-LP Sheiks reissue for those curious.

Also,there's an awesome album with North Miss Allstars, Carolina Chocolate Drops, et al that pays tribute to The Mississippi Sheiks, who they call easily one of the most important bands in American history. Check out the album... In fact, there's some pretty good blues fiddlin' on it: Things About Comin' My Way http://www.amazon.com/Tribute-The-Mississippi-Sheiks-Things/dp/B002OB6IZO

Maybe Ellen McIlwaine - Dead End Street. It's part of a great album about blues guitar women (maybe even called that way). I can send you the whole song if you'd like.

[Personality] B.B. King's autobiography

[Personality] [History] Me and the Devil Blues - The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson - a fun graphic biography of Robert Johnson - not to be taken too seriously

The Blues: A Visual History by Mike Evans is rather nice, but the emphasis is on images.

I recommend Jerry Portnoy's Harmonica Masterclass if you can't find an in-person teacher.

He starts easy but it gets challenging fast.

I have seen B.B. King live, and Buddy Guy too, but I never saw either Albert King or Stevie Ray Vaughan live. That clip is from their "In Session" album, which is available at Amazon as a CD/DVD.

This version of Yonder Wall by Freddie King. I couldn't find a version on youtube so the sample on Amazon is probably a cheesy substitute. Sorry.

Edit: Dang, forgot the link but not the brackets.

That and their EP of Kimbrough covers: Chulahoma. The Keys definitely do him justice.