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Post subject: The Blues
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:22 pm
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i recently watched a film about the blues directed by martin scorcese, i found it a fantastic watch. I was facinated about all the origins of the blues (i knew only a little but i knew the basics) but its made want to listen to more blues. so i was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what to look for etc.

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Martin Scorsese's 'Presents the Blues' Compilation album is exactly what you're after methinks:


http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Scorsese-P ... B0000A0VA1


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Martin Scorsese's 'Presents the Blues' Compilation album is exactly what you're after methinks:


http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Scorsese-P ... B0000A0VA1



Ha cheers, shouldve thought of tht really =|

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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:40 pm
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Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, BB king, Freddie King,
Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Lightnin' Hopkins,
Earl Hooker, Junior Wells, Luther Allison, Albert Collins, Eddie Clearwater,
Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, Clarence Gatemouth
Brown.......and so on.........

There should be DVD's and CD's on internet and shops selling these
real cheap........because it's oldguy's music and not very popular with
Joe Average, the MTV crowd.

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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:43 pm
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cheers peter, im only 15 and id listen to it instead of anything on mtv anyday. its good to here music where people had passion and it wasnt about the money, it was telling a story.

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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:57 pm
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theboman wrote:
cheers peter, im only 15 and id listen to it instead of anything on mtv anyday. its good to here music where people had passion and it wasnt about the money, it was telling a story.


It's these people the bands in the late sixties early seventies were
listening to.
Rolling Stones, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page,
Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and more.
Even modern blues players like Stevie and Jimmy Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, John Mayer, Robert Cray.........................

They all listened to the old blues guys and galls.


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thats exactly what i listen to myself anyway, ao thats why im liooking to find what they listened too

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Post subject: Re: The Blues
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:51 pm
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theboman wrote:
i recently watched a film about the blues directed by martin scorcese, i found it a fantastic watch. I was facinated about all the origins of the blues (i knew only a little but i knew the basics) but its made want to listen to more blues. so i was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what to look for etc.

Robert Johnson complete smithsonian collecction is also great
very hard core very scary very blue.
my fave is also ANYTHING from Stax/Volts records
Albert king is the other king ( No offence to Riley B.B. King)


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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:01 pm
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If you're going back to Robert Johnson and such, try some Lightnin' Hopkins, Scrapper Blackwell, Charley Patton, Blind Boy Fuller, Leadbelly, Mance Lipscomb, Mississippi Fred McDowell, John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson, James Cotton, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, etc., etc. In addition to all of the fine musicians mentioned above.


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ally wrote:
Martin Scorsese's 'Presents the Blues' Compilation album is exactly what you're after methinks:


http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Scorsese-P ... B0000A0VA1




They also did separate CD's for a lot of the artists that were covered in Martin Scorsese's Presents the Blues.

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There are a bunch of compliations that aren't expensive. One is "Jukebox of Blues" another is "Box of Blues" "Chicago Electric Blues" Just go to your local record shop and look for them in the blues section. There are also single artists for under $10. I got a handful of some real great blues cd's for what I would pay for a current cd. The Scorsese stuff is expensive and you can get just as good a good start with the same artists finding the cheaper compilations.


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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:49 pm
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BB King's vintage 1950s songs are some of my favorite blues stuff because:

1. He's a highly developed musician who reads and writes music (unlike i.e. John Lennon who did more without being able to read the blues than anyone). BB's notes flow, which may be the result of his musical study. There's never a discordant tone that doesn't belong. Fast or slow, BB's music sounds good.

2. BB plays his own stuff and writes the bulk of it although he does plenty of covers of blues greats. When you listen to BB or play BB, it's BB.

3. BB's music is based on classic blues progressions and you groove them by playing them a lot. BB also throws in a lot of jazz chords because he was very into that kind of sound and even included horns and other instruments in his band.

4. BB's music, like "King of Guitar" from the mid-1950s holds up to anything done since. It's rompin' stompin' guitar music. Play BB's songs for two hours and you've played two hours of lead with a few chords thrown in. Very, very few guitar players play the kind of sustained rapid-fire complexity that BB plays. Play some Clapton afterwards, and you'll see where Clapton got a lot of his licks.

5. It's fun!


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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:02 pm
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you want to here blues you cant ignore jazz (post 1960) listen to mingus ,lester young, illinios jacquet,yeuseff latiff ,gene ammonds most these guys played horns but listen to the phrasing listen to the silence between the notes check out thelionios monk


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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:16 pm
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"the blues"

Chalk it up to age. Meant to say, "without being able to read or write music." Lennon was heavily influenced by the blues on Abbey Road and the White Album, but he's not a blues artist. Many of the Blues greats didn't read or write music, and the Blues developed close to the instrument and the heart. BB has that and then he also brings the musical study and his ability to read and write music, and maybe that's part of his way. One way or another, his notes don't go astray.


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XM or Sirrius radio. both have blues channels. I have xm and 99.0% of the time its on the Blues channel.


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