El Fish should be added too....
They're belgian, so I have no clue in what country's they're known....

Well...

Okay, I've got tons of opinions on Jazz but am just getting into the Blues sceen. It blows my mind.

I've really been meaning to get into early blues guitarist like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, etc. but never really got around to it. However I do love what the brits did with the blues. Bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Ten Years After, Eric Clapton, etc. The blues are just at the heart of everything.

All of the above, plus Robert Cray, Otis Spann, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, and let's not forget John Mayall's Blesbreakers - the band where Eric Clapton honed his craft and the source of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mack (more famous but less gutsy after Peter Green crashed out)

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, and me.

If you want to peep out the really old stuff. Look up Yazoo. It's a great record label.

Love blues rock...Yardbirds, Foghat, Free, Stones, The Animals, Clapton, all awesome dudes

The Blues Series produced by Martin Scorcese has just toured Melbourne, and did wonders in introducing (and re-introducing) blues and blues roots to us. There seems to be some kind of blues revival at this point in time, with more bluesy-rootsy music being heard and appreciated around town. Which is fantastic.

The only thing I found disappointing about the Blues Series was the dismissal of blues women artists and their roles in the movement. Only one of the six documentaries touched about women at all, and even then, it was scant.

Howlin' Wolf has bad teeth, but woah. Same with Son House. And Skip James has got to be the most emotive blues musician in the history of blues music!

Personally, the British blues explosion during the 60s doesn't do a thing for me, it reeks too much of a bland kind of psychedelia, but still, I guess it's far more intriguing than..disco or something.

I didn't like the Blues Series. But it's nowhere as bad as Ken Burns' Jazz documentary!!

Why didn't you like the Blues Series or Ken Burns' Jazz one?
Surely you're not one of those people who think it's "cheating" to watch these informative, entertaining pieces? I thought that at one stage too, then realised that it's kind of useful sometimes to have someone hand a truncated (and admittedly, sporadic) musical history to you on a platter. I don't have enough time these days to sit at my computer and download/research music. Those documentaries in many ways reinforced what I already knew from my own stumblings but also made me aware of other things it would have taken me awhile to discover for myself.