I think john mayer is great. I'm a young guy and john mayer has given me hope for blues music and for young guys to want to play blues music. He's doing to me what stevie ray and hendrix did for him. I didn't learn about the blues because of him, I first heard stevie ray then I branched out to other artist, but at least there him and a couple of other younger guys that play the style so more people my age with learn the blues.

[quote="dylanger"]I think john mayer is great. I'm a young guy and john mayer has given me hope for blues music and for young guys to want to play blues music...................

Well, it looks like you're going to have to get into some Albert King and keep backing up from there. Gotta a lotta listening to do, bro, as well as a lot of hang'in out around here.

Doc

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straycat113 wrote:

I lived right down the block from the Methodist Hospital and still hang in the $@!&# as my mother still lives there. Embers on 97 and 3rd is another fave of mine but I just hate being squashed when I eat .lol

Thus the blues remains alive and well in Sunset Park. Rock on!!

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strato wrote:

American Idol, huh? Oh well...

Did you think not?! It's exactly what I've been saying all along.

(Unfortunately, if you want to read it all, you've a few threads to plow through. Sorry.)

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I have the Albert King Discography lol, I listened to that stuff way before I got into john mayer, I have all of robert Johnson's stuff a lot of BB king, a lot of Clapton, All of Stevie Ray's stuff and a lot more. I want to get into Bill Withers stuff next.

I was just saying how John Mayer has helped carry the torch a little bit because if you look at those really big blues jams at crossroads festival, besides John Mayer and Derrick Trucks everyone else is at least 60.

I was just saying how John Mayer has helped carry the torch a little bit because if you look at those really big blues jams at crossroads festival, besides John Mayer and Derrick Trucks everyone else is at least 60.[/quote]

That's, tradtitionally been, because to have really 'known' the blues, you have to have paid your dues. It's classically an older person's gig.

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I see your point but still all those guys were still blues musicians at like 20 years old. Theres videos of buddy guy when he was like 21, 22.

The comings up of the like of Buddy Guy, his mentors and peers can hardly be placed on an even playing field with some of the contemporary artists cited in these discussions.

What could John Mayer, Joe Bonnamassa, and even SRV, share in common in life's experience with the son of a Louisiana sharecropper who came up in the rural, brutally segregated South, and came to Chicago in the mid-fifties with his pockets empty? (Talk to me about Luther Allison's son perhaps, but not the others.)

By the time Buddy Guy turned 22 he'd already walked the mile.......

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I can agree with that.

PREACH DOC, PREACH!

PREACH DOC, PREACH![/quote]

Friends, musicians, fendermen......lend me your ears

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