Good Ol' Classic Blues Songs

[Highlander]

ROFL...!



(Thank you Gentlemen...)

[Rob]

I put him on page 1! You can't remember a mere 55 pages ago? 

Good for you Dave that's where he belongs.
Shame on you Kenny

[uwe]

"Did you know that tHe call is an anagram of a popular American carrier-borne WWII aircraft ..."

Try as I might I can't scrabble "Corsair" out of those letters ... 

[gweimer]

[Highlander]

"Did you know that tHe call is an anagram of a popular American carrier-borne WWII aircraft ..."

Try as I might I can't scrabble "Corsair" out of those letters ... 

How about the Ford Pubic... made out of old Cors-airs...

... and this might relate to Gary's post above...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdyVHgrxMW0

[gweimer]

[uwe]

I liked the recent album of these guys (risen from the ashes of post-Alvin Lee Ten Years After):



There are parallels to Bonamassa's work no doubt, but Hundred Seventy Split are perhaps not quite as "finger-snapping blues class teacher's pet" as Joe B.

[nofi]

its a shame that black folks have pretty much abandoned the blues. the voice is the key for me and most white guys don't have it. imo blues is like jazz in that the golden days are long gone and they ain't coming back. gary 'the new face of modern urban blues'clarke included.

[uwe]

I bought that Gary Clarke jr album on the basis of the hype around it and was disappointed. Yes, there are blues influences, but I don't find them overt, I've heard Lenny Kravitz tracks that owe more to the blues than most of what is contained on Clarke's last CD. Mind you, he's not a bad singer or songwriter or guitarist, but I can't see the much heralded new urban blues wonder in him.

[westen44]

I also got my hopes up high for Gary Clark, Jr., but was disappointed.   

[Nocturnal]

I like several of the songs on his album, but I wouldn't crown him as the new blues king by any stretch. I don't think he broke any new ground with that album.

[nofi]

clarke is like robert cray. blues-ish but not really blues.

[uwe]

I disagree, Nofi! Cray might be too little raw for a purist like you (and your blues knowledge can run circles around mine), he's a bit like a black Eric Clapton, gentlemen blues so to say.  Cray is a black blues guitarist like Denzel Washington is a black actor - they both don't correspond to the "black male" stereotype we all, without being racist, tend to have (and which a genre like Rap reinforces all the time).



But I like Cray's approach. No, it's not animalistic, gritty and you can't hear the plantation just around the corner, but I think it's sincere. Miles Davis wasn't a "black male" either and his music, while intellectually playful and not unemotional, was always a little reserved and not oozing raw emotion.

[nofi]

cray seems more r&b influenced than others. smooth dinner music for the polite set. i disagree about miles. i find alot of emotion in his music, even bitches brew. coltrane was awarded the emotion crown long ago starting with a love supreme and on to the end. even his last record, interstellar space, which was 100% free jazz from start to finish is loaded with emotional playing. even though most folks can't stand it. a tough but rewarding listen, imo.

[uwe]

That makes two of us here! Who like Bitches Brew I mean.