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. I totally agree that these 2 Dutch bands should be added to the list! I would have included Otis Spann LP-The biggest thing since Colossus.John Lee Hooker LP-Live at cafe au-go-go.Muddy Waters 2LP-Fathers and Sons.Earl Hooker LP-Hooker and Steve.Cheers to All. Hooker & Heat is one of the greatest blues records ever. Something from Colosseum? Pretty weak on harp: No Sonny Boy 1 (John Lee Williamson). For most of his life, this Mississippi-born practitioner of hill country blues received scant attention though in his final decade began to receive the accolades his music deserved. Johnny and Muddy during their time together was priceless! I would also include Alvin Lee and Ten Years After Playing the Blues. A prolific recording artist and virtuosic guitarist, New Orleans-born Johnson was a blues pioneer who invented the idea of the lead guitar solo. Memphis Slim Lonesome. James Cotton, first LP on Vanguard I accept it is a subjective thing and impossible to include everyone. What resulted was a fascinating and insightful aural document that commemorated a singer who bridged the divide between rural and urban blues styles. This collection features forty 78s from early on in Johnsons storied career, including material recorded with fellow guitarist, Eddy Lang, and guest singers, Victoria Spivey, Mooch Richardson, Texas Alexander, and Clara Smith. I think about 30 of these should have been left off and something else put in. No Ronnie Earl, Tab Benoit or Sonny Landreth??? Only albums with seven or more reviews were eligible. Gosh I could add a lot more. Listen to 100 Years Of The Blues on Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll down for our list of the best blues albums ever. Thornton is in imperious form here, blazing through her material like wildfire eating up a forest. Blues music as raw, down and dirty as it gets!!! . I agree with you about Joe Bonamassa and John Hammond! Fleetwood Mac and Otis Spann, Duster Bennett. 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. 070 Shake) 6. 20. The album includes reworkings of Walkers late 40s Top 10 Us R&B hits, Call It Stormy Monday and T-Bone Shuffle.. In that respect it is a great success so well done! As for Jimmy Reed, Cold Chills tops the Carnegie Hall album. Why doesnt Joe Bonamassa feature anywhere? Bert. This anthology of his recordings for Eli Toscanos short-lived indie label Cobra includes Rushs Top 10 US R&B hit, I Cant Quit You Baby, later covered by Led Zeppelin. The Fabulous Thunderbirds: `Girls Go Wild The list opens up with the almighty Elmore James, the legendary King . [1] [2] The album will be Raye's first project following her 2021 separation from Polydor Records. RL Burnside- Come On In. However, behind the dazzling stage presence lay a considerable musical talent who blended blues with jazz and swing. A tough job indeed! He actually did make the list, but only for one album? Criteria: These "Blues" albums were chosen to showcase the artists musical vision through their impact, originality, influence, creative inspiration & musical quality.This list does not include "greatest hits, best of, live albums, box sets OR albums by those artists who did not exhibit a clear blues thread throughout their careers. 12. Many of them appeared on this album, which despite its title, was recorded in a studio and not in front of an audience. Bit of British Blues and Boogie? Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. Aw, yes, the Powder Blues Band. A great blues album, and did as much as any album to enlighten the average 70s rock fans to the greatness of the blues. Uh, no. 'My biggest thing on this album is candidness,' she says. 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. 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. 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. I did not rate him myself to be on the list. Suffice to say, every album here should be in any discerning blues fans collection. Give me a break. Wht about Ali farka Toures last albumSavane. Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, Freddy King, BB King. Maybe Mose Allison could be dropped, or one of the BB Kings albums. It included a stripped-down version of his 1942 R&B hit, the risqu Let Me Play With Your Poodle, alongside revamps of his earlier tunes, Its Tight Like That and Love Her With A Feeling., Key Track: Let Me Play With Your Poodle, A legendary group who at their peak represented the pinnacle of southern blues-rock, the Allman Brothers Band was formed in Florida in 1969 and thanks to the dueling guitars of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts quickly made a name for itself. Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation with John Moorshead? 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I also Roy Buchanan should be there. A compelling synthesis of seasoned blues standards (Johnny Guitar Watsons Too Tired) and potent original material (Avalanche), Ice Pickin was Collins sixth long-player and, arguably, his best. And everyone has their own opinion and thats great. Is Awesome! 100% correct Harmonica Slim. I cant believe Five Live Yardbirds is not included, Also Stone The Crows, Bad Company. He scored a raft of US R&B hits between 1948 and 1976, including the No. 98. Musical support comes from James Harmonica Smith and saxophonist Bill Potter, who light up Little Red Rooster, the slow-burning Rock Me Baby and Ball N Chain. The set ends with a rousing gospel number: Edwin Hawkins Oh Happy Day. And the John Mayalls Bluesbreakers with Peter Green??? Btw I nominate Talk to Your Daughter as Robben Fords actual best album. did ya mention silas hogan,slim harpo ,lightin slim and excello artists. JImmy Thackery & The Drivers Wild Night Out ! Distinguished by fleet-of-finger 12-string guitar work, McTells unique Piedmont blues style is showcased on this magnificent 41-song compilation that contains the seminal tunes Broke Down Engine Blues and Southern Can Mama., From McComb, Mississippi, Ellas Otha Bates is better known as Bo Diddley, a much-decorated rhythm and blues pioneer whose influence helped to shape the landscapes of rock and pop. '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. Music has always played a role in helping to define cultural moments throughout history. The 100 best albums of the 21st century From left, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Beyonc, Kendrick Lamar. Gary Moore Blues for Greeny Buy From Amazon PROFESSOR LONGHAIR - NEW ORLEANS PIANO: BLUES ORIGINALS 2 The much under-rated Professor Longhair pioneered the funky New Orleans piano sound that drove so much early Rock'n'Roll. King Of The Delta Blues Singers was the first-ever compilation of his music and helped Johnson reach a new audience in the 1960s. 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. Orangedroog65. Check out Wild-Child Butler. This music accompanied me through my bluest blues, crafted unapologetically and fearlessly with love and tears, and now I can . I was happy to see Texas Flood made the list. Wow. 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. Superharps???? Chicken Shack appears on so few lists of greats, sad to say. Bo is one of the greats and unfortunately very underappreciated. Contemporary Blues. Add: Vanguard Records The Best Of The Chicago Blues a seminal anthology. 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. TODAY! Among the abundant highlights are some of Reeds most commercially successful tunes, including Aint That Lovin You Baby, Bright Lights, Big City, and You Got Me Dizzy. Those influenced by Reeds music included Elvis Presley, and the UK beat groups, The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds. We all know that our bluesmakers of all folks cannot possibly be ranked like football teams or mutual funds. Remarkably, it was his first recording using an electric guitar, and he precedes a version of the blues standard, Baby Please Dont Go, with a short talk about his guitar style and affection for the blues. Although his craggy voice is mostly framed by slick, contemporary production values (courtesy of looped beats and DJ scratches), the music still resonates with an authentic, Mississippi delta-steeped blues feel. John Mayall earns a place on my list because he appreciates the blues, he shepherded several artists like Clapton during their careers and for his contribution to the music! My medicine, my anxieties and traumas, my unfiltered thoughts. He cut some singles for Chess Records in the 50s and later achieved a cult following in England, where he cut an album in 1964 with Eric Clapton on guitar. Willie Dixons Chess Box MUST be included hands down one of the best blues compilations ever! Savoy Browns BLUE MATTER & Albert Kings Live Wire/Blues Power-live at the filmore are a couple of my favs. Otis Taylor? Included are a couple of potent original tunes, including an epic 23-minute-long version of the progressive-rock-style Whipping Post.. Very best of that particular genre that includes Canned Heat and Ten Years After. It showed Cray giving blues a modern makeover without sacrificing the musics traditional inner essence and confirmed his direct lineal descendent from legendary blues figures like Muddy Waters and Albert Collins. This has to be one of the greats! Those bands are not blues bands but, rather, blues-inspired. I have the equipment, just dont have the time. Wouldnt have suffered from a mention of Savoy Brown though? Strangely, none of his singles for the Chicago Chess label cut during the first half of the 1950s entered the charts, but they were eventually rounded up on a well-received album, House Of The Blues. Losing his eyesight to congenital glaucoma, Mississippi-born Morris (real name Morris Cummings) is a cousin of Chicago blues maven, Willie Dixon. Great Lp. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (2019; Dark Descent) It's tempting to read pure escapism into the aesthetics of Colorado's Blood Incantationpulp sci-fi alien art adorns the front cover of their down-the-rabbit-hole-conspiracy named second album, Hidden History of the Human Race.And I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a lot of fun to be had when diving into . Though considered a jazz singer, Baltimore-born Billie Holiday (real name Eleanor Fagan) was well-versed in the language of the blues, with its bittersweet cadences and themes of bad luck, heartbreak, and disappointment. Great list, but i suggest some of Sean Costello and the first recordings of Johnny guitar Watson to. Formed in 1961, Korners band Blues Incorporated recorded R&B From The Marquee in a London studio with vocals shared between Cyril Davies and Long John Baldry on a meld of blues covers and original material. How dare you omit A Hard Road John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Unbelievable. They changed how we heard pop, and changed what pop meant in the new millennium. Adele 's 21 is the best-selling album of the 21st century to date, with sales of over 31 million copies worldwide. Key Track: Electric Church Red House. Ive been listening to and playing the blues for about 50 years now. Nevertheless, Blues Breakers remains a highly-regarded cornerstone of British blues-rock and is an obvious pick for one of the best blues albums ever. Fats domino too. Sonny Boy Williamson II told Mayall to do everyone a favor and dont sing ever again. Calling Card Rory Gallagher (1976) Its near impossible to get all of them, but you need to take the classic rock bands off and replace them with real blues players like the ones listed above. Of the five albums he made in his 35 years, this, his debut, is arguably his best, showcasing his compelling fretboard style and commanding tone. Amongst its gems is the carefree title song, the earthy I Crave Pigmeat with washboard accompaniment, and the storytelling ballad Homesick and Lonesome Blues, a vehicle for Fullers scything slide guitar. Otis Spann is the Blues (wikipedia: leading postwar blues pianist) and He has every right to a place on this list. it was good to Nina Simone & josh white on the list some notable piano players are missing- Otis Spann, Charles Brown and of course Ray Charles. It remains a go-to compilation for those wishing to get acquainted with Kings 60s oeuvre. Elmore James - Blues Master Works. A 2-CD set, Father Of The Delta Blues, captures a 63-year-old House revisiting some of his most potent songs, including Death Letter, Preachin Blues and Dry Spell Blues.. Larry Taylor. Raw, earthy and visceral, its twelve songs focus on Taylors uniquely aggressive slide guitar playing. You might want to re-evaluate your stance on Stevie Ray Vaughan too. The Rolling Stones covered Little Red Rooster in 1964 while Cream recorded a version of Spoonful two years later. Any Live Allman Bros. Born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Georgia, Ma Rainey was one of the first blues singers. Also, The London Howlin Wolf Sessions could have also been included. Im a bit sad that I dont have it anymore. The Smokin Joe Kubek Band Served up Texas Style The other thing that amazes me is how everybody is an authority on how the bands such as the Stones, Cream , Mayall, Butterfield and on and on saved the music and brought it back to life. A versatile pianist who was comfortable in a wide range of different musical settings, Louisiana-born Eurreal Little Brother Montgomery began his recording career in the 1930s. And change some to different albums. What should have been listed instead of Little Walter His Best was The Best of Little Walter and Hate To See You Go two of the most influential blues platters to have been released. The omission of Luther Allison must be corrected, perhaps his Serious disc or the Where Have You Been disc. On the Boards Taste (1970) 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. I agree. But then again, there are a lot of people who could, or should, have been on this list but arent. It revived the New Orleans jazz style of the 1920s via a selection of original material and covers arranged for piano, cornet, and banjo. A pity there hasnt been a compilation album of his blues work, acoustic and electric. Lead Belly, Josh White, and B. And Kanye West and Just Blaze, and Eminem and Timbaland. You missed a real gem..Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street 1964. AC/DC? How can you possibly have a list of Blues Albums without Hogwash, Split or Thank Christ For The Bomb featuring anywhere? These are the 21st Century albums that hit every pleasure center for us, that made us dance and sing along to karaoke and made the commute to work a little less miserable. Blending memorable original material (After Awhile) with four Cotton tunes and covers of Muddy Waters Im Ready and a rocking take on Robert Johnsons Dust My Broom, Spann delivered a mesmerizing showcase that highlighted his stentorian voice and fluid piano licks. 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. Kokomo Arnold, Barbecue Bob, Charles Brown, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Blue Lu, Scrapper Blackwell, Cousin Joe, Pee Wee Crayton, Willie Dixon, Floyd Dixon, Snooks Eaglin, Sleepy John Estes, Four Blazes, Arthur Gunter, Slim Gaillard, Wynonie Harris,Earl Hooker, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Alberta Hunter, Ivory Joe Hunter, Tommy Johnson,, Lightnin Slim, J.B. Lenoir, Little Willie John, Smiley Lewis, Furry Lewis, Jimmy McCracklin, Percy Mayfield, Johnny Moores Three Blazers, Big Maybelle, Roy Milton, Amos Milburn to mention a few. Down and Out Blues Sonny Boy Williamson (1959) No Blues List is complet without Popa Chubby. In fact, well shall never know who the truest bluesmakers were or where they came from. This five-time Grammy-winning fedora-wearing blues troubadour from Los Angeles began his career in 1980 under his birth name, Kevin Moore, but didnt make an impact until he had reinvented himself as Keb Mo in the 1990s. Thanks for reading thus far, if you have. savoy browns street corner talkin needs to be included! Love Paul Butterfield, Little Walter list goes on, maybe not in the top 100 albums but in top 100 harp players Richard Newel AKA King Biscuit Boy. They did say they scoured magazines and the internet for picks, which tells me that they dont have a clue. The title song appeared on this compilation, a 10-track overview of his Stax-era recordings, including assorted singles, B-sides, and album tracks. Also the Graham Bond Organisation. Many that are much better than those they selected !!! You forget Super Session of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. Between 1955 and 1961, Mississippi singer, guitarist and harmonica maestro, Jimmy Reed, racked up eighteen US R&B hit singles for the Chicago-based Vee-Jay label. Sure, some of those cross overs were not exactly bad by any means, but I dont know that they belong on this list. John Hammond So Many Roads (http://www.allmusic.com/album/so-many-roads-mw0000618281) and if youre going to include Layla and Wheels of Fire, you should think about Highway 61 Revisited. James was 64 when he recorded Today! He lends his soft but distinctive vocals to bluesman Mercy Dee Waltons One Room Country Shack.. Based on votes and more than 160 comments, we summed this one up into a Top 20 rundown. Have you heard his Blues and Ballads album with Elmer Snowden? Fine list anyway! Omar&Howlers:I Told You So. No one mentioned Hadda Brooks. with Dutch band Living Blues. They are however some albums of undead white people who could be integrated in such a list: Strong Persuader, his fourth long-player recorded three years later, went double platinum in the USA, where it peaked at No. The first list was published in a special issue of the magazine in 2003 and a related book in 2005. Theyre a big favourite in our house. Gary Davis Live at Manchester Union Hall & you need some thing with Buddy Guy & Junior Wells. Hardcore Hip Hop Pop Rap Trap. Definitely: The parent album arranged by Riley Hampton, varied from rocking R&B numbers (Tough Mary and Girl Of My Dreams) to sophisticated jazz-tinged ballads with strings (Stormy Weather), proving that James was much more than an earthy blues mama. At least Kooper and Bloomfield were included on another pick. Keith Hartley. What about African Blues.Ali Farka Toure. Bo Carter, Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Robert Wilkins, Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, Elizabeth Cotten, Rev Gary Davis, Lil Son Jackson, Dave Honeyboy Edwards, Cephas and Wiggins, John Jackson, Sony Boy Williamson I, Stefan Grossman, Eric Bibb are all major names worthy of inclusion in my opinion. If anyone can recommend artist like these players, thatd be cool too. Blues, Rags & Hollers was a flagship LP for the folk revival of the early 1960s. All of these works are valuable and have merit!! from 1966. AC/DC and Led are stretching it. I wish the list could have had 500 or 1000 great albums. Five Live Yardbirds The Yardbirds (1964) Other standouts included Fried Hockey Boogie and the anti-drug message song, Amphetamine Annie. Though considered a rock group and beloved by the hippies and Woodstock generation, Canned Heats musical DNA was deeply rooted in the blues. For example: you only looked ar individual artists, why isnt there an album My 21st Century Blues is the ultimate act of catharsis, full of big emotions expressed with revealing honesty. I agree with a lot of these comments that its very difficult to please everyone as there are only 100 spots. The possessor of a powerful contralto voice, she was hailed by her first record company as the Mother of the Blues. She made her debut recording in 1923 and her final one, five years later, before retiring in 1935. Freddie King Live at Filmore 1970 is a great album, Amazed that Supersession wasnt the first album picked for the list. 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. Not having your favorite album making the top 100 Thats what the blues is all about! Ma Raineys Black Bottom is a compilation that cherry-picks 14 of the singers best tracks, including the memorable and risqu title song and the equally marvelous Bo-Weavil Blues and See See Rider Blues. Unquestionably, without Ma Rainey, there would be no Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton, or Janis Joplin. Born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor in Natchez, Mississippi, hoarse-throated singer and guitarist Hound Dog Taylor had a rare physiological condition known as polydactylism, which resulted in him having six digits on each hand. You forgot Johnny Winters, The Progressive Blues Experiment. Key Track: I Didnt Know What Time It Was. or Jeff Beck ,it was just the time for the Blues , which had never really made it outside of the black community.It was word of mouth , conversation , concerts like the newport Jazz festival. Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers Sinner Street His innovation, radical at the time, of playing single-note melodies that combined expressive string-bending and vibrato, eventually became the norm and was adopted by a host of fretboardists, including Django Reinhardt and T-Bone Walker. Did you consider any Canadian blues artists? Spot on Harmonica Slim..with you all the way ! Jeff Healey Group, he was appreciated by BB King and Eric Clapton. 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. Give me a break! Key Track: Baby Please Dont Go, From Montgomery, Alabama, Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton is a one-hit-wonder whose claim to fame was her two-million-selling single, Hound Dog, a Leiber-Stoller tune which spent seven weeks at the summit of the US R&B chart in 1953 and was later covered by Elvis Presley. Little Walter playing with their back up on Checkin it out is a sensational album. Lightnin; Slim,Otis Rush,Little Junior Parker, Lightnin Hopkins Time album and album on Dart,Memphis Willie B, Jesse Fuller, Richard Rabbit Brown, Otis Blackwell, Charles Brown, and on and on. So Many Blues band And no Robin Trower The man with the Soul The King of the Blues Rock. The sophomore album by a Los Angeles quintet formed in 1965, Boogie With Canned Heat contained Canned Heats Top 10 US single, On The Road Again, a chugging blues groove flecked with Alan Wilsons piquant harmonica wails. Williams, whose trademark was playing a custom-built nine-string guitar, was 65 when he recorded this LP in London during the fall of 1968 under the supervision of Mike Batt (who would later find fame writing Bright Eyes for Art Garfunkel and leading the novelty group, The Wombles). Their recording Projections still holds up well although possibly not among the Top 100. Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters Paul Rodgers (& friends) (1993) An de andere kant, ach, zon lijstje slaat toch eigenlijk helemaal nergens op, Hi Bert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv370LpF0cU Before then, though, he was an aspiring bluesman influenced by the on-stage antics of extrovert guitarist T-Bone Walker and first made his mark in the 1950s combining his smooth vocals with humorous lyrics and dazzling fretboard pyrotechnics. Arguably his most remarkable work was for Don Robeys Houston-based Peacock label, where he recorded a string of superb singles between 1949 and 1959. As for Belgian Blues: Roland! I would also include their Raw Sienna. 99. Check out the story behind the making of Blues for Greeny. This posthumous album collected some of Blakes best sides he recorded for the Paramount label between 1926 and 1932. Greens playing is perfect Sublime ferocious subtle but most of all perfectly suited to each song. Not sure which album to suggest, however hes on my list !!! One album that I love that past me by for many years is Otis spans the biggest thing since colossus . etc etc. She's coming. 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Rory Gallagher Live in Europe is better blues album than Irish Tour in my opinion. The songs on the album loosely follow the story of Yoshimi as she (surprise, surprise) battles the pink robots. When someone has put these all on a Spotify play list let me know lol. In 1948, he reinvented himself as Robert Nighthawk and began playing electric guitar in Chicago he was one of the first bluesmen to plug in where he was soon recording some 45s for the Aristocrat and Chess labels. Give him a listen. Rl burnside ass in pocket and finally graham bond organisation live at klooks kleek . Also surprised that Robin Trower hasnt been mentioned. and The Charles Ford Band (Robben and his brothers) on Arhoolie. Heavily influenced by Albert King and Jimi Hendrix, Vaughan was a virtuoso guitar slinger from Dallas, Texas, whose meteoric career was cut short by a fatal helicopter crash. Recorded between 1966 and 1970, the LP contains original material (Hear My Train A Comin' and Voodoo Chile Blues) with covers of Albert Kings Born Under A Bad Sign and Muddy Waters Mannish Boy. Crucially, the album also shows how Hendrix was able to transcend his blues roots and take the music on a mind-blowing cosmic journey. And I didnt know people were so mixed on Bonamasa. I also like Fleetwood mac by Fleetwood mac. Theres Lightnin Hopkins, Cream, Muddy Waters, B.B. Van Lear Rose was one of the best-reviewed albums of 2004, representing White's first studio success with a full band and a peerless reminder of Lynneven past the age of 70as a bard and songwriter steeped in grace (on the wistful title track), sin ("Portland, Oregon," her duet with Jack), and drama ("Mrs. Leroy Brown," "Women . "Oscar Winning Tears." 3. 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