Good Ol' Classic Blues Songs

[nofi]

[uwe]

I betcha he's an university professor in his day job.

[nofi]

no day jobs for these guys. constantly touring and recording. why they were even in germany last year.

[uwe]

No surprise, we have a strong Blues community, jawohl.

[nofi]

 

[uwe]

Not all Kraut bands sound like the Scorpions, Nofi, some of zem even zing ze blües in Deutsch. Like the iconic Interzone which were in my book the best German singing band ever. This will probably sound grating and alien to you native English speakers, but Heiner Pudelko, their late lead singer (brain tumor, no, he wasn't gay), phrased our schöne langwich like no other. He sang the blues as if it was invented in East Prussia where he was born.



Most people attempting to sing blues in German phrase it like English. Jule Neigel, talented as she is, is one of those "Germenglish"-singers. I suppose her lead guitarist saw one SRV vid too many.  

[nofi]

thank god all german bands don't sound like the scorpians. i like when bands sing in thier native tongues, even the blues.

[4stringer77]

I thought Interzone was covering Tom Petty's "breakdown" for a minute there. That guitarist's outfit in the second vid is too funny!

[uwe]

That first TPATH album was very popular in Germany and the band had a 45 minute live feature on German TV only a few years before the Interzone debut came out - I wouldn't rule out some inspiration! Good ears.

[nofi]

[the mojo hobo]

[the mojo hobo]

[4stringer77]

Johnny Guitar Watson before he was all pimped out.

Not exactly old school blues but ya gotta love Space Guitar

[Granny Gremlin]

One of me last bands listed their influences on it's old myspace page as: "basements and beer.... also Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Nighthawk".... and already saw some Mississippi Fred on pg 1 (wasn't about to sift through 50 pages to make sure there ain't been no Nighthawk yet so apologies if this is redundant).



... and that old band of mine I mentioned ("irreverant noise-blues" containing absolutely no bass): http://peeder.bandcamp.com/

[nofi]

many of the blues guys on fat possum don't use a bass. rl burnside, paul wine jpnes, some jr. kimbrough, etc.

and the very late and very great hound dog taylor. on alligator records.

'we don't need no stinkin' bass to play the blues'.