Luthers Blues was his second LP for Berry Gordy and epitomizes Allisons Chi-Town blues style with its amalgam of big-city grit and polish. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards founded and fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice.In 1975, he switched to an instrumental style with focus on an innovative sound, and his releases spanned genres and styles ranging from blues rock, hard rock, jazz . Very best of that particular genre that includes Canned Heat and Ten Years After. Not sure which album to suggest, however hes on my list !!! To celebrate National Album Day, on Saturday 12 October 2019, Radio 2 counted down the Top 40 Best Selling Albums of the 21st century (so far), courtesy of The Official Charts Company. A self-taught pianist and singer from Nashville, Tennessee, Carr worked initially as an accompanist for other blues singers before performing as a solo artist in his own right. Taking to Instagram to share a handwritten list of the songs included on her debut album, RAYE said: 'Here she is, the full tracklist to my debut album My 21st Century Blues coming 3rd February 2023 '. Triumph was labeled hard rock or heavy metal but Rik Emmett and the band did play and record some bluesy music from time to time. Desolation and Groeten uit Grolloo by Cuby & Blizzards They are however some albums of undead white people who could be integrated in such a list: Mick Taylor. The albums Desolation and Hells Session would be my first choice (probably because I had these records myself and played them endlessly.). Well done Bert, I would say add To blind to see from Cuby and the Blizzards to the list as well. Uh, no. You might really want to check out Justin Johnson If Walls Could Talk and Smoke and Mirrors. Like Skip James, he recorded in 1930 for Paramount and was later plucked from obscurity by the folk-blues revival. This was the 10th album by the band, but it was really the first time they saw major mainstream success. Big Dave McLean Blues from the middle should be on this list. All noted exponents of blues harmonica, Cotton, Branch, Musselwhite and Norcia teamed up to spectacular effect on Superharps, an enjoyable romp through eleven original tunes. From Muddy Waters to B.B. My 21st Century Blues is the ultimate act of catharsis, full of big emotions expressed with revealing honesty. The replies here are priceless. "Black Mascara." 5. Something from Colosseum? The Blues was starting to come back to its own in 1965/1966 and would have continued thanks to the desire of college kids willing to expand away from the norm and the hipsters shunning mainstream music. The title song, a live recording, is an eloquent and humorous observation on the absurdity of racism and class division. Allman Bros.? Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac Bad Company that would be a joke! Not having your favorite album making the top 100 Thats what the blues is all about! Nicknamed the Guitar Wizard, Red cut his first record in 1928 and his final one, thirty-two years later. My debut album. What about William Clarke, Rod Piazza, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, etc? Cream were Cream, by no stretch of the imagination, can they be called a blues band. I am going to be busy buying more blues albums, the best! I also remember that the guitarist played a King, the Mississippi-born singer and guitarist who was born on a cotton plantation. Long before they conquered the pop music mainstream with their 1977 multi-platinum album, Rumours, Britains Fleetwood Mac was a blues-rock quartet distinguished by the spellbinding fretboard wizardry of Peter Green. The Groundhogs Split is one of the best unknown albums of all time, easily. The track was included on this retrospective, alongside a clutch of singles recorded for other indie labels during the 50s and early 60s, including I Believe, Done Somebody Wrong, and The Sky Is Crying. James music exerted a significant influence on the Rolling Stones during the British groups early years. I read them all and thanks. Tutored by his mother, Arkansas-born George Harmonica Smith learned to play the harmonica when he was four and after playing with a gospel group early on in his professional career, gravitated to the blues, which led him to Chicago in the 1950s where he joined Muddy Waters band. The Powder Blues Band, Jeff Healey, Colin James, Randy Bachman (known for rock and jazz, yes, but he teamed up with Jeff Healey too) and others I cannot name. Probably the best white British / black legend collaboration. As usual guitar is the theme. He was born with an eye condition that resulted in total blindness by the time he was 21, but it didnt curtail his ability to make music and in the 1930s he was a prolific recording artist, cutting some 120 sides that were released by a variety of labels. Below are links to the best blues albums of each decade. He rose to fame as a charismatic purveyor of folk-blues in the 1930s and went on to influence everyone from Lonnie Donegan and Bob Dylan to Nirvanas Kurt Cobain. Thank you for mentioning them! Joe Bonamassa would not know real blues even if it sat on his face. Though the LP garnered mixed critical reviews, From The Cradle topped the US and UK album charts and also triumphed at the 1995 Grammy Awards in the Best Traditional Blues Album category. Smitten by the blues at an early age, he became an itinerant guitar-playing singer who under the name Robert McCoy plied his trade in the Tennessee and Mississippi areas before moving to Missouri. Frank .. agreed. Weve set ourselves another, almost, impossible challenge. The latter group, a one-album-wonder featuring members of Delaney & Bonny & Friends and Allman Brothers guitarist, Duane Allman, recorded a double LP in Miami with Atlantic Records Tom Dowd producing. Rl burnside ass in pocket and finally graham bond organisation live at klooks kleek . Why is there always someone who has to have the 100 best or the top ten etc. His R&B chart-topper, Sweet Little Sixteen, is one of the standout cuts on the guitar-toting, duck-walking tunesmiths second album, One Dozen Berrys. Muddy Waters Electric Mud A mortal sin. Great list. He had big shoes to fill, but the Welwyn Garden City-born youngster immediately made a lasting impact with his intuitive grasp of the blues language. His songs have been covered by some of the best. An de andere kant, ach, zon lijstje slaat toch eigenlijk helemaal nergens op, Hi Bert. Saw him in Sydney, early 1980s from memory in a club in Balmain & he was incredible !!! Groundhogs are great. Other standouts included Sen-Sa-Shun and San-Ho-Zay., Tons Of Sobs was British blues-rock quartet Frees debut album for Chris Blackwells Island label. Agree about Willie DixonNeeds to be there. Key Track: Its Nobodys Fault But Mine, Paid tribute to by Bob Dylan (via his 1983 song, Blind Willie McTell) and covered by The Allman Brothers Band (Statesboro Blues), Georgia-born McTell recorded under several aliases, including Blind Sammy, Hot Shot Willie, and Barrelhouse Sammy. The star turn came from guitarist, Mike Bloomfield, whose fretboard work is outstanding throughout. Like you we have a soft spot for them. 461 Ocean boulevard is my favourite blues album, its disappointing not seeing that on this list. 1. Freddie King Live at Filmore 1970 is a great album, Amazed that Supersession wasnt the first album picked for the list. I would have to include ZZ Top and Hendrix to make this an official list! guess they assume its soul or r and b, but his early stuff was straight blues. Live At The Regal is widely considered one of the best blues albums of all time and purportedly had a profound influence on British guitarists Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. As far as Joe Bur right on. Canned Heat/John Lee Hooker Hooker and Heat. Winifred. An exponent of the Chicago blues style, Taylor recorded this, his debut album in 1971 as the inaugural release on Bruce Iglauers Windy City-based Alligator label. the vastness of your undertaking was so huge, that I am not surprised that many peoples favorites are missing! Nice try! The albums three original songs (all penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, who would become the Stones principal tunesmiths) revealed how blues DNA was shaping the bands approach to songwriting. On it, he interpreted material made famous by American bluesmen Muddy Waters, Tampa Red, Otis Rush, Freddy King, Lowell Fulson and others. And not to mention a few good blues artists and bands from the Antipodes: Jeff Lang, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Chain, Joe Camilleri (JoJo Zep), Phil Jones and The Unknown Blues, Fourday Riders, CW Stoneking, Backsliders, Zyedecats, Chris Wilson, Dutch Tilders, Foreday Riders, John Butler, Mia Dyson, just to name a few.. All lists will be criticised Dan Patlansky from South Africa is currently a well respected player, Warren Haynes (Govt Mule is a legend and Lonnie Mack is a notable absentee . . Bruce Fisher Ill second that! All essential. Where is Fathers and Sons ? Fats knew his blues! He's a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and four-time Blues Music Award winner whose career stretches back half a century. Big Bill Broonzys career as a blues singer took him on a remarkable odyssey, from the brutal cotton fields of the deep American south to the rarefied ambience of European concert halls. Lester Butler was a harp blowin maniac! Peter Green. Early on in his career, White recorded under the pseudonyms Pinewood Tom, The Singing Christian, and Tippy Barton before using his real name. However Im really disapointed in the 28 CD Box Set just released of Cuby. The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt Also Fleetwood Macs Then Play On just to name a few. THE BLUES! With, Standing at the Crossroads , Like a Sheep Out on the Foam , Doin the Shout , etc. Are you serious? I met a Dutch girl back around 1970 and took her to Tower Records at Bay and Columbus in S.F. Come Back Baby Great list just think you missed a few. Blues. Born Huddy Ledbetter in Louisiana, Lead Belly accompanied his tremulous, high tenor voice with a 12-string acoustic guitar. Muddy Waters: Fathers & Sons Have you heard his Blues and Ballads album with Elmer Snowden? The Blues is the blues some you like some you dont , some I like some I dont . Affectionately nicknamed the Velvet Bulldozer due to his silky smooth voice and imposing physique (he stood 64 tall and reputedly weighed 250lbs), Albert King rose to fame in the second half of the 1960s with his Born Under A Bad Sign album. I WANT TO HEAR IT ALL!! Also no love for anything Derek Trucks has been involved with. Fourteen of them can be found on this superb introductory compilation from 1978 (housed within an eye-catching Robert Crumb-drawn cover) which spans the years 1935 to 1939 and functions as a compelling showcase of Fullers unique singing and guitar playing. The title track from this, Harpos second album for Ernie Youngs Excello label, topped the R&B charts in 1966 but it was also significant for including the hypnotic, eminently danceable Shake Your Hips, covered by the Stones on their 1972 LP, Exile On Main Street, and the gentle, country-style ballad, Rainin In My Heart, which was a Top 20 US R&B smash. The albums final cut, Walking By Myself, was Rogers only hit record: a Top 20 US R&B chart entry back in 1957. This list needs serious reconsideration. It is one of my favourites of his, Family Style being another, but there is his live music too where we really see his genius unfiltered by record producers etc. Did I miss Gary Davis and Willie Mctell,Willie Johnson. A native of the fabled Crescent City, Isidore Tuts Washington was a piano-playing purveyor of a uniquely New Orleans-style of music that blended blues with rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, ragtime, and jazz. He enjoyed a brief recording career but made a lasting impact with the 51 songs he recorded for Paramount in a fertile period between 1929 and 1934. I have to disagree with you concerning the Alman Brothers not being a blues band. Pretty decent list. Hooker N Heat is a masterpiece of blues music. Losing Hand John Mayer Excellent list, though I would have left a Various Artists field opened for CHICAGO! from 1966. King, The Allman Brothers, Jimmy Reed along with Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, which gives you an idea of the scope of this list. Nicknamed Miss Peaches, this Los Angeles-born songstress was an ever-present figure on the US R&B charts between 1955 and 1978. We have given you our list of the best blues albums alphabetically, having given up trying to number. From Como, Mississippi, Hemphill was two years shy of her 60th birthday when she cut her debut LP, She-Wolf, for the French Vogue label in 1981; its a groundbreaking album that dispenses with the 12-bar format that had previously defined most blues records. Source Point & Southern Fried with Duane Allman!!! Marion Walter Jacobs was the birth name of Louisiana-born Little Walter, widely regarded as one of the best blues harmonica players of all time. The Charles Ford Band - The Charles Ford Band-(with Robbin Ford at his best) Amazing! A pall of myth and legend has clouded the publics perception of Johnson, a mysterious figure who supposedly sold his soul to the devil in a Faustian pact and died from poisoning aged 27. How freaking true. The British blues scene during the sixties was so important for the founders of the blues and played an very important role to make this black music style to be accepted among the white audience in America. If not for rolling stones early blues albums not the rock stuff I only learn later on that type of music was blues, Also the animals, yardbirds and canned heat promoted the blues as pop music. Your point is well taken. B. It was the singer/guitarists first-ever live recording and captured him at the peak of his powers, counterpointing his passionate vocals with stinging guitar lines. His first major records, The Fat Man, was a revamping of Champion Jack Duprees Junkers Blues. Born in Houston, this flamboyant singer and guitarist moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and is best remembered for his commercially successful marriage of pimped-up blues, funk and soul in the 1970s. Though she was reared on gospel music and grew up singing in church, the late Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was no stranger to the blues, or what God-fearing Christian folk called The Devils Music. This compilation draws on bluesy gems from the Memphis-born divas Atlantic repertoire, including inspired renditions of Today I Sing The Blues, B.B. 'My biggest thing on this album is candidness,' she says. Its always nice to read contemporary opinions of new poles but the affection adios would surely out number you nominal listing and statistically disagree with this list posted in the idem.. At least Kooper and Bloomfield were included on another pick. And I second (and must correct) another commenters pick of Mark Ford, with the Robben Ford Band a really stunning album that apparently never gets noticed. Winters fretboard pyrotechnics are impressive, but he matches his flashy technique with high emotional content. "Introduction." 2. It's an album that demands something of the listener, but rewards it in spades. SOOO many that there just isnt room for them on this list. Junior Wells, James Cotton, Billy Branch, and Cary Bell. Beth Hart What is abundantly clear, though, is the visceral power of Johnsons music, originally released on a series of 78-rpm singles between 1936 and 1937. Far too many white people on this list. Otis Spann. Bands like Cream, Allmans and Stones restored many blues originators fortunes and fame by crediting their accomplishments. Ray Charles (Self titled) contains: Hells Session and Wang Dang Doodle by Livin Blues. Is there a link to the Spotify playlist anywhere? Stacker set out to find the best albums of the 21st century, compiling data from Metacritic (as of October 2022). Odd Muddy Waters choices should be Real Fok Blues or Sail On. Hailing from Mississippi, Rush learned to play the guitar when he was eight and moved to Chicago when he was fourteen after hearing a Muddy Waters record. I did not rate him myself to be on the list. Topping the US pop charts, Wheels Of Fire was the power trios third long-player: a sprawling double album combining studio material with tracks recorded live in San Francisco. Stones Get your ya yas out On this, an epic five-LP final album recorded a year before his death at age 64, Broonzy not only performed some of his signature tunes with guitar accompaniment including Key To The Highway and South Bound Train but also talked at length about his life. Dave Van Ronk Sings the Blues This 20-track retrospective includes all of Browns early hits and essential sides; his specialty was desolate nocturnal ballads, like In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down, Evening Shadows, and Lonesome Feeling, where he accompanies his soothing, soulful voice with bluesy piano fills. Wht about Ali farka Toures last albumSavane. Three years shy of his sixtieth birthday, Water is backed by a superb band (including pianist Otis Spann and harmonica player, James Cotton), delivering a bravura performance. The singles B-side, Reelin & Rockin later recorded by The Rolling Stones also featured alongside the Top 10 US hit, Rock & Roll Music.. You know your stuff. Jimmy Witherspoon, Spoonful, on Bluenote, Discover 21st Century Blues [Ecko] by Various Artists released in 2008. Key Track: I Didnt Know What Time It Was. EPs, box sets, reissues, and compilations were not considered. Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Jimi Hendrix are big omissions. Neil Youngs soundtrack for Dead Man Chris Moran is RIGHT ON. His self-titled debut album showcased Mos old school, acoustic-based style, which is an amalgam of rural and urban blues styles spiced with country, calypso and folk flavors. Both worthwhile considerations for sure. Thanks all! Other highlights were Cuttin In, a chugging beat ballad with strings and the skipping R&B-flavored Broke & Lonely, where Watsons assured vocals are punctuated by dancing horns. What about? Both players enjoying the company they were keeping. His forte was smooth ballads but he also excels on two uptempo swingers: Everyday I Have The Blues and Kansas City. The teenage band showed an astonishing maturity, especially in relation to Paul Rodgers assured but craggy vocals and Paul Kossoffs blues-drenched guitar sound with its distinctive crying sound. Rory Gallagher Live in Europe is better blues album than Irish Tour in my opinion. It has long been regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues albums ever. King to Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton. You forgot Hookern Heat. This, their second LP release, partly recorded in Chicago, reflected the groups passion for black American blues and soul music with its covers of songs by Solomon Burke, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Irma Thomas, and The Drifters. Your list of 100 best blues albums and artists, not to be critical but to reflect with broader objectivity should state; A list of highly popular 100 Top Blues Albums and Artists but stretches your categorization listed here is it representative of broad objective empiricism because over many years of personal familiarity with Radio Broadcaster personal associations by myself and thousand s of other blues affection adios, your list has excluded a great many of other albums and groups or artists that have poled as greats unsurpassed statistically and by professionals and listeners over the generations. Agree with Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters. Though famed for its classic title cut (a superstitious ode co-written by Booker T. Jones of the famous Bluff City R&B quartet, Booker T & The MGs), Born Under A Bad Sign also included Kings smash singles Laundromat Blues, Cold Feet, and Crosscut Saw. The album would prove a touchstone for southern electric blues, influencing the likes of Otis Rush, Jimi Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. Minneapolis isnt considered a blues metropolis even though it lies on the mighty Mississippi River. No one mentioned Hadda Brooks. lol about Joeso true. 64. Excellent. Blues is black. He scored four US R&B chart-toppers in the 1950s and remained popular throughout his long and storied career. When someone has put these all on a Spotify play list let me know lol. As been noted, I cant see any list not including some Hendrix or Buchanan to be definitive, though this is subjective at best. Johnny Shines Standing at the Crossroads We ranked albums according to their Metascore, which represents an. I like Bonamassa but dont consider him a bluesman. So Many Blues band And no Robin Trower The man with the Soul The King of the Blues Rock. He was born Aleck Ford in Mississippi and then took the name Rice Miller before morphing into Sonny Boy Williamson. Eric Clapton & the Powerhouse (on Electra as I recall) Backed by an ace band (which includes pianist Otis Spann and blues legend Muddy Waters), Smith breezes through eleven Little Walter tunes while putting his own indelible spin on them. Her third album 25, is also on the list with sales of over 23 million copies. Lonesome George Thorogood and the Destroyers 2120 South Michigan Ave. Is a great blues album as well. 'American Idiot' is now one of the best selling punk albums of all time, topping album charts in the UK, America, Sweden, Australia, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada and more. this sucks, Your additions of sited omissions sir are excellent sited examples.. Please, listen to sean costello playing talk to your daughter and watsons three hours past midnight, No blues list that excludes Peter Green can be taken seriously. All of these works are valuable and have merit!! Such a list without any jimi Hendrix album sounds strange 1 and the slow, ambling ballad Sad Hours, where Walters harmonica is drenched in an eerie echo effect. They come from the long-forgotten Kid Bailey (Rowdy Blues), Garfield Akers (Cottonfield Blues), Mississippi Joe Callicott (Fare Thee Well Blues), Jim Thompkins (Bedside Blues), Blind Joe Reynolds (Outside Woman Blues), and Rube Lacy (Mississippi Jailhouse Groan). Lizzie Douglas was better known as Memphis Minnie, a prolific country blues doyenne originally from Algiers, Louisiana, who got her first guitar as a Christmas present when she was seven. Why the heck you did not mention Williw Dixon Im the Blues? No Muddy Mississippi Waters Live? Im with you, Slim. Many that are much better than those they selected !!! Jon Pareles's Best Albums of 2021 nytimes 0:00 1. 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