anything by SRV (stevie ray vaughn)

yeah i couldn't believe it when i read that on the cover. but it's really cool too because with only enough songs to fill 2 maybe three cds (maybe fewer...half of them on the complete tracks are alternate takes), he's still seen as one of the greatest delta blues musicians.

well, for blues I think you gotta have some Howlin' Wolf, BB King, not to mention Eric Clapton, and believe it or not, Jimmy Page (from ledzep) did a pure blues album called OUTRIDER if im not mistaken, and it has some of the best songs I've ever heard on it.

Truly an essential recording... Amazing gathering of talent on that album...


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sure it's amazing talent, but I think I could name a handful of other miles recordings that had more well known people...

just an opinion :tongue:

Well, for jazz, I think Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerrald, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, Miles Davis,...and some others are essential. (can't name them all, too many)

For Blues: I think they all have been named, for me.

this thread drift towards The Blues, but I can't believe there've only been 15 posts in a month!?! And nobody's mentioned John Lee Hooker? I just signed on today, so I still got a lot to learn about this place... this is only the 4th thread I've checked out so far, and I agree with most of what's already been said, especially about the early guys like Robert Johnson and Django. When I first heard SRV, I thought, "This guy thinks he's the re-incarnation of Jimi", and wrote him off for years. Retrospectively, though, I think his "Wall of Denial" ranks pretty high on the all-timer list, and brings up an interesting question... given that Jazz evolved from Blues (which is a recently disputed sub-question in itself), where would y'all place that elusive little slash-mark that so neatly divides Jazz(slash)Blues? I mean, what artist(s), if any, would you say sit(s) squarely on the line? My vote, at least in the "single song" category, might be Clapton's version of "Nobody Knows You..." from the Unplugged Album.

Anyone?

Isn't that something for a new thread? Oh wait, no, we already got too many on this sub-forum...:tongue:

SRV really liked Hendrix and copied his Voodoo Chile identically, but for the rest I think he showed that he had a style of his own.

I won't comment on Jazz and as for the Blues it's all been said. Except that I'd like to add that Albert Collins put out some nice slowish songs.

Since people have covered the essential jazz albums for the most part, I'll list some great blues albums.

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells - Alone & Acoustic (best blues album ever in my opinion)
RL Burnside - A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey (electric delta blues with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion as the backup band; if you haven't heard it, go directly to your music store and purchase it)
T-Model Ford - Peewee Get My Gun (another Fat Possum label artist along with RL Burnside)
Various Artists - Paint It Blue - Songs of The Rolling Stones (top-notch artist doing their renditions of classic Stones songs)
Muddy Waters - The Chess Box (3 discs of classic electric blues)
Howlin' Wolf - The Chess Box (another 3 discs of classic blues)

It's good to see some Fat POssum on there. I would have to recommend any other R.L. Burnside though (well, except maybe the newest few) over Ass Pocket... Probably "Too Bad Jim" is my favorite.

As for other blues, essential, off the top of my head:

Charlie Patton - whatever you can find (comsidered the Father of the Delta Blues)
Mississippi John Hurt - The Tahoma Sessions
Leadbelly - there's tons of it, this is more on a folky tip, but still blues
John Lee Hooker - find the older stuff
Junior Kimbrough - God KNows I tried (N. Miss. Hill Blues, almost psych at times... Great stuff) R.I.P.
CeDell Davis - Feel Like Doing Something Wrong (had polio as a kid, plays guitar w/ a knife... very distinct and real)

I'll have to comment on this again later when I have time. There's a few though, if yr lookin to check out "real" blues... Hit the Patton first.