Suggest some blues albums...

[clare_bear]

Hi All

I am (I promise!) getting back into playing the guitar again!. I decided to go back to the beginning to try to iron out technique issues and basically just learn to play the basics better. I'm using Justin Sandercoe's 'Beginner's Course', which is fantastic and really helping me focus. Anyway, I'm halfway through the course and I'm at the blues chapter. Previously, I have skipped over all things blues, thinking that they were boring. I am now older and wiser and wish to embrace them!

So, I need some blues advice! I don't have much of a blues collection. All I really have is Robert Johnson's 'Complete Recordings'.....OK that is quite hardcore, but I actually quite like the older, more traditional blues... and the Beano album.

I'm not interested in modern blues, but BB king, Albert King type stuff...more traditional blues. What should I listen to...without breaking the bank!

Cheers

[octatonic]

Get Spotify, search for blues artists and find out what you like.

My faves are Albert King, BB King, Rory Gallagher, Peter Green, Clapton, Hendrix, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Leadbelly, Elmore James, T Bone Walker, Allman Brothers, Son House, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker,

[clare_bear]

Get Spotify, search for blues artists and find out what you like.

My faves are Albert King, BB King, Rory Gallagher, Peter Green, Clapton, Hendrix, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Leadbelly, Elmore James, T Bone Walker, Allman Brothers, Son House, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker,

Thank you octatonic, I'll try some of those on Spotify. The trouble is, they all have massive back catalogues and I only have a limited amount of time to listen (I have a 1 year old...hence the break from the guitar!!), so where to start. I'll have to listen at work more

[octatonic]

Thank you octatonic, I'll try some of those on Spotify. The trouble is, they all have massive back catalogues and I only have a limited amount of time to listen (I have a 1 year old...hence the break from the guitar!!), so where to start. I'll have to listen at work more

Try "best of" albums.
I get into a lot of artists this way.

Congratulations on the new spoglet.

[clare_bear]

Try "best of" albums.
I get into a lot of artists this way.

Congratulations on the new spoglet.

Thanks, I'll try some 'best ofs'.

And thanks for the congrats.

[erictheweary]

For the three Kings:
BB - Live at the Regal. Mostly very short songs!Or a Best Of.
Albert - Born Under a Bad Sign (when he was at Stax) or a Best Of. I think Albert is a bit of an acquired taste and not everything still stands up so buy carefully!
Freddie - for his early instrumental stuff (basically all the licks Clapton nicked) Let's Hide Away and Dance Away, gets a bit repetitive but the best bits are the bees knees. For his later, more varied stuff I'm fond of Getting Ready (you will recognise a lot of the songs from other people's bad covers). His album Burglar is the funky one if you want a different spin (and highly recommended by guitar legend Warren Haynes on this here website not long ago).

For classic electric blues don't overlook Otis Rush (generally darker, more minor stuff, fewer 12 bars, again probably a Best Of - Best of the Cobra Recordings ) or his buddy Magic Sam (his West Side Soul usually comes in top blues albums of all time type charts).

I like Buddy Guy but his output is pretty erratic.His DJ Play My Blues is one of my all time favourite albums which is very straightforward vocal+guitar+guitar+bass+drums and a lesson in blues rhythm guitar from Phil Guy and Doug Williams even if you ignore Buddy ( but don't, he is at the top of his game on this one).

Some of the Alligator Records samplers might be worth a look at, the double cd's are £7.99 for 30 odd tracks as mp3 albums. They had the latter parts of the careers of some more established artists like Albert Collins or Lonnie Mack and some lesser known ones like Son Seals or Lonnie Brooks ( anyone remember him from the Carlsberg ads?) and they were the label that recorded the amazing Hound Dog Taylor. Nice spread from classic electric blues to quite raw Chicago blues to blues rock but not like one of those awful supermarket blues compilations full of dodgy versions of Little Red Rooster and Hoochie Coochie Man.

EDIT: 38 tracks for £6.49 as MP3's http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alligator-Re...3301747&sr=1-1 what good US blues was doing from 1971 to 2011.

[musophilr]

Howlin' Wolf (anything with Hubert Sumlin on guitar)
Sonny Boy Williamson

[RocknRollDave]

I'm using Justin Sandercoe's 'Beginner's Course', which is fantastic

Wholeheartedly agree with this - I've used a few of his videos to improve on a few things and he's a great teacher.

[Rocker]

Clare, the MusicRadar site has 40 Blues turnarounds/outros that might interest you. Good to hear from you again.

[Close2u]

Hi All

I am (I promise!) getting back into playing the guitar again!. I decided to go back to the beginning to try to iron out technique issues and basically just learn to play the basics better. I'm using Justin Sandercoe's 'Beginner's Course', which is fantastic and really helping me focus.

Stick with it - the structure learning programme with all the other stuff and you can't go wrong.

Anyway, I'm halfway through the course and I'm at the blues chapter. Previously, I have skipped over all things blues, thinking that they were boring. I am now older and wiser and wish to embrace them!

You may want to delve in to this section in the near future

Blues lessons


So, I need some blues advice! ... What should I listen to...without breaking the bank![/QUOTE]

Try some of the varied links here

http://justinguitarcommunity.com/ind...?topic=22821.0