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RE: Post your favorite blues song.
December 9, 2017 at 9:59 am
(December 9, 2017 at 8:48 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: There are no good blues songs.
There are also no good country and western or reggae songs.
Folk music also sucks.
What about 'The Thrill Is Gone From The Babies Who Grew Up To Be Cowboys On The Irish Rover And Shot The Sheriff'? That one rocks the most.
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RE: Post your favorite blues song.
December 9, 2017 at 10:05 am
Probably anything George Thorogood.
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RE: Post your favorite blues song.
December 9, 2017 at 11:10 am
I have the collected works of a great many old delta bluesmen in my music collection.
Son House is one of my favourites:
But at this point, I think the big dark horse candidate is Washington Philips; singing Gospel songs on a heavily-modified Frankenzither he apparently called the Manzarene, and while it might not quite fit with a lot of ideas of what the blues should be, most blues fans tend to do so anyway:
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RE: Post your favorite blues song.
December 9, 2017 at 11:43 am
If you want a soundtrack to help you sound the depths of your own heartsick blues .. put this one on.
For something you can tap your toe to while feeling a little something something I like the version of Needed Time that Eric Bibb did with Dave Kelley.
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RE: Post your favorite blues song.
December 9, 2017 at 4:34 pm
Me to, that other one with Dave Kelly on the slide guitar is more upbeat but pretty damned amazing too.
I like lots of the professor. "Whole lot of love" is upbeat and fun.
But my favorite by him is probably Crawfish Fiesta.
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RE: Post your favorite blues song.
December 9, 2017 at 4:37 pm
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I know next to nothing about blues. I have nice memories seeing Charlie Love in some Chicago club on a freezing day in January, and I was at B.B.Kings for a death metal concert, and that's about it.
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