

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.īlues Classical Country. Most of the playing is low-key blues, and Mayall holds his own with the homegrown competition. The three expatriate Americans had been recorded in sessions with British backup musicians, including Eric Clapton and Mayall himself. Climax Blues Band.This is not, strictly speaking, a John Mayall album, but rather a various artists album containing among its 14 selections six recorded by Mayallplus four tracks by Otis Spanntwo by Champion Jack Dupreeand two by Curtis Jones. GoodFlower November 14, Blues RockPop Rock.
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Discovered unlabelled and by pure luck in the US, their era has been authenticated by experts of the bands blues origins.įleetwood Mac has given their full approval for the release of these tapes. GoodFlower November 15, Leon November 15, Not much is known about the live recordings. Leon February 27, Leon November 19, Read More. GoodFlower March 11, The recording has remained unreleased until now, kicking off this 50th anniversary collection. In retrospect, especially as the lyrics sank in, the arrangements seemed far more considered and crafted to support a group of songs that took family, faith, and rural life as their subjects and proceeded to imbue their values with uncertainty. At first blush, the group seemed to affect the sound of a loose jam session, alternating emphasis on different instruments, while the lead and harmony vocals passed back and forth as if the singers were making up their blend on the spot. Leon March 13, As it was, Music from Big Pink came as a surprise. Whiskey Blues - Best of Slow Blues/Rock #1īe-Bop Deluxe. GoodFlower March 20, Vocalist Eric Burdon recruited Vic Briggs guitar, pianoJohn Weider guitar, violin, bassDanny McCulloch bass and Barry Jenkins drums to form a new group which changed direction away from raucous rhythm and blues and embraced psychedelic rock and the influences of the emerging counter-culture.Įric BurdonThe Animals. 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.Leon April 4, Read More.īlues Rock. You might want to re-evaluate your stance on Stevie Ray Vaughan too. I am prepared to ignore your future posts if you continue with American and English biases and continue ignoring Canada and other countries. It originated somewhere, found a place in America, became known in England, Canada too I would argue and perhaps many other places. I am thinking that udiscovermusic is not living up to its name but being arrogant in essentially pushing the idea that blues is English-American. You forgot Dutch Mason the Prime Minister of the blues. Canadian blues artists are missing here! Maybe you did research but you seem biased to American and English whites as well as universally recognized blues artists! I might beg to differ on The Allman Brothers though. Those bands are not blues bands but, rather, blues-inspired. 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. Cream were Cream, by no stretch of the imagination, can they be called a blues band. Blues musicians and writers who are now household names were driving buses or working odd jobs in many cases….Ĭhances are most of us would not even be aware enough to discuss, much less compile, a list of great blues albums if not for guys like John Mayall. Strictly speaking, Harmonica Slim may be correct about several blues-inspired bands appearing on a blues-exclusive list. When they tour they sit in with blues bands after the gig. Although The Rolling Stones are definitely not a blues Band. I have to disagree with you concerning the Alman Brothers not being a blues band. 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. They are not blues bands, no matter how hard they try.

This list has too many blues inspired classic rock bands on it. You might wanna check them on Spotify or iTunes. How many do you have?Īnd just as importantly, what have we missed? Too bad that you only looked at US and UK blues greats. We have given you our list of greatest blues albums alphabetically, having given up trying to do down to 1.

Well, have we succeeded? We are surprised by the breadth of the blues, as well as the sheer num-ber of different blues styles that are represented here.
