floyd@burdvax.UUCP (Floyd Miller) (07/24/83)
Yeah, B.B. I'm listenin' to wxpn's blues show right now.
B.B.'s great, certainly the most popular and celebrated blues
artists in the history of the genre. Three albums I can reccommend
would be, "Indianola Missisppi Seeds" (with a watermelon guitar on the
front and back - Carol King plays piano on some tunes), "Live at the Regal"
(recently re-issued) and his brand new album (I forget the name) which is
a heart warming return to the blues from his previous album which was not
blues for the most part.
There are many other blues singers and guitarists that are also great and
different. To drop a few names, Albert King (the major blues influence
in 60's rock music - compare "Cross-Cut Saw" on Albert's album,
"Born Under a Bad Sign", to "Stange Brew" on "Disraeli Gears", by Cream),
Howlin' Wolf, T. Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Son Seals are also great.
Of course there's Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters, Otis Spann and other
legends. Luther Allison, Hound Dog Taylor, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King,
......
How about some Brittish 1960's blues like the original Fleetwood Mac with
Peter Green ("Black Magic Woman"), 1st generation Yardbirds, and John Mayal,
in whose bands, most of the others started.
I've left a lot out, included all of the pre-war and country blues.
Discovering all these musicians has awakened the blues-lover in me.Wenner.es@XEROX.ARPA (04/30/85)
Thanks to Jody Patilla for that one message sum-up of the past few hundred sent to net.music or info-music. It BEGINS to point out the incredible spectrum of taste and sounds of interest to all you musicians and music-lovers out there in arpanet and usenet-land. Just an aside, we XEROX Internet users are still trying to figure a way to connect to the net.music.gdead, so have patience with us with regards to that particular subject. I've greatly enjoyed the too-few jazz discussions, particularly the Blue Note re-releases and the new artists, such as Stanley Jordan. I'm curious about the interest in blues, both traditional and contemporary. I'm from Arkansas, relocated to Los Angeles (hitting the cultural brick wall, so to speak!) and grew up listening to many of the Delta and Texas blues performers, such as Freddie King, Albert Collins, Sonny Boy Williamson, et. al. The blues scene is thriving in Los Angeles, with many musicians performing regularly here (Etta James, Big Joe Turner, Smokey Wilson) and many up-and-coming young bands cutting their teeth in the drinking establishments throughout town (Tony Mathews, Butch Mudbone are around here right now). I'd appreciate hearing from other parts of the country (world?) about the blues scene in your area. Thanks, Jim Wenner <Wenner.es@XEROX.ARPA> Xerox Microelectronics Center, El Segundo, CA (213)-536-9582
mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) (05/02/85)
> I'd appreciate hearing from other parts of > the country (world?) about the blues scene in your area. > > Jim Wenner <Wenner.es@XEROX.ARPA> The live scene in this area varies. A few weeks of intense activity, followed by several months of little good stuff. However, Ernestine Anderson just cut an album of blues classics with one wicked band! I don't know the name of it but it just got released a month ago. Well worth it. Some hot piano and tenor sax, and Ernestine herself, of course, with that sweet-and- coarse-at-the-same-time voice of hers. Nice!!! Marcel Simon