Shuttup about white blues!

(can someone really say they love the genre 'blues'? I would never in my life tell someone I loved the whole 'garage rock' genre, or the 'soul' genre. Are you making labels to patronise the ordinary folk, medicineman?)

the classics..

howlin wolf muddy waters little walter

oh

and it's cheesey as hell but you can't discount the influence of the great chuck berry

pbs rite now fucktards

roy buchanan scares me

White blues is a serious and important music genre, Mondo. You know this. You are a fan of Blueshammer, as am I. Be proud.

i think howlin' wolf is awesome. i am unexcited by long guitar solos though.

mondo, i think one can like the credos, the basic philosophy of a particular genre, and say "i love soul" without having to love every last soul song in the world.

I'm really diggin' on Charlie Patton and Dr.John at the moment....Oh and Dock Boggs

hillsong- why? To appeal to another's broad genre taste?

If you attempted to specify and, for example, stated your love for the 1968 Stax/Volt catalogue featuring the Bar Kays as backing band, or the mid-late 60s work of Irma Thomas, then perhaps you'd be actually saying something rather than "I like soul music''.

We all know Eric Clapton invented the blues.

I find it hard to choose between Kenny Wayne Sheperd and Gary Moore.

go on, angelic.

who's that guy? Eric Johnston?

Nothing cheesy about Chuck Berry, the man is a genius

Eric Johnson is alright! Give the guy a break! Unless there was no sarcasm...

haha, mondotopless is blowing his top off again.

"I only listen to the Atlantics sessions of Aretha Franklin that featured John murphy on triangle...the rest is trite".

I never get sick of hearing these 2:

Sonny Boy Williamson - More Real Folk Blues

Bobby Bland - Two Steps From the Blues

let's hear it for blues harp players

guys like Sonny Boy Williamson (both of 'em), Junior Wells, Little Walter, James Cotton, Paul Butterfield, Sonny Terry, Slim Harpo, Charlie Musselwhite etc..

I fucken love the blues harp

i was hoping by starting wide we could narrow it down.

if you want labels - Bea and Baby, Vee Jay, Chess, Otis Rush's Cobra sides, actually naything from Cobra.

um what else.... there are a fair few

i could name favourite records:

"This is Howlin Wolf's New Record, He doesn't Like It." is a fucking masterpiece.

Lightnin and the Blues by Lightnin Hopkins is masterful

I'm Jimmy Reed

King of the Blues guitar - Albert King

Bluesbreakers feat Eric Clapton

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac by Peter green's Fleetwood Mac.

East West - Paul Butterfield Blues Band

um I could go on mondo :)

so tim you don't like long extended guitar solos but you've joined the soldiers of forture?? how does that work :)

there are so many better texas bolues guys than SRV though - Johnny Winter for one.

Texas blues? It's all about this man:

that is true!

I finally got the Hopkins with 13th Floor Elevators Record - it's awesome!

my head got saw after this record. hahaha

see? sore..sorry. too loud SRV these days for me. I always thought he had two settings flat out and soft. He's good though the early stuff like cold shot, but yeah I like Psychadelic moreover or songy

Seriously no one interested in Big Mama Thornton or Big Bill Broonzy?

I'm a fan of both - though I prefer Big Bill....

I love Big Bill. Who doesn't?

Speaking of Big Bill, if you can find his stuff Big Bill Morganfield is a pretty good listen. He has the genes...

I've heard both Big Bill and Mama Thornton on some collections I've got, they both sound pretty cool. I'd be keen to investigate further.

Hopkins with 13th Floor Elevators Record

Wow. I want that!

I want some more Big Bill. He's great. The girl picked up a great live Big Mama album with Fred McDowell on guitar. Very cool. I haven't been able to take Evis's ''Hound Dog'' seriously since hearing Big Mama's original version.

Guitar Slim Green

RL Burnside (RIP)

Johnnie & Shuggie Otis

Lightin' Hopkins

i'm a huge fan of the Johnny Otis Show track Willy and the Hand Jive which has been covered by countless people and uses the bo diddley beat to great affect - i'm a huge fan of the track and play it on guitar often.

My world is being steadily rocked by:

hmm i've seen that around recently at Mojo and have been curious - so it's good?

Really good. There's some prototypical versions of songs that Taj later recorded on his first few albums. It's not all brilliant and there's some other guy who sings on some of the tracks who sounds like, I dunno, Gram Parsons pretending to be Paul McCartney or something. You can't fault the playing though. There's really something magical about what these guys were attempting - at a time when blues was the domain of the folk purists they were really trying to open the music up and make it breathe. It's this enthusiasm and love that makes this album so darn good to listen to.

cool - i will pick it up next time i see it fo sure!

This is an interesting one:

It's a new release on Chess which is pretty damn cool. The actual music is good but not great which is a pity because it's pretty much a Little Axe / Tackhead project. Worth grabbing but only if you're into that kind of thing.

Anyhow, I was just at the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society's ''Blues Performer of the Year'' contest. Collard Greens and Gravy won which is awesome because they're one of my favourite bands. They're going to Memphis in 2009 to compete in the International Blues Challenge and I think they can win. It'd be awesome if they do.

So, yeah, if you don't know this band then check them out. Hill Country stuff but more Jesse Mae Hemphill then R.L. Burnside and with a really subtle Aussie twist. They play at Young & Jacksons and the Transport Hotel a lot. Probably not the sorts of places Chats would normally like to be seen but it's worth the social shame to see this shit hot band.

I heard some good music by and had some good conversations with this fella over the weekend:

His name is Robert Belfour. He has two albums on Fat Possum that I've been listening to for years. He plays the deepest, most low down, most awesome blues you could ever want to hear.

awesome! I willhave to check him out.