Blues for Aficionados

I wish I could had even conceived of women-snaring lines like those in Ollie's "I'll Drink Your Bathwater Baby" in my youth.  Then again, I would have been to shy to use 'em.

Great stuff - thanks rok.

Roots music?  Check this out.  Mali's playing sounds very much like Junior Kimbrough.  Amy thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pytTF3mzaI

Hey rok, when I saw this thread listed in the "suggested" list on the right side of my screen, I figured "Oh no, here's another source of fantastic music I've been unaware of." Very happy to see you just started this one and there are only 28 posts.  Easier to stay current with than JFA.  Thanks!

For me, this may still the most amazing blues performance ever.  100% Delta.  Sheer passion, abandon, unbridled emotion:

Son House "Death Letter Blues" (live in Europe about 60 years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY

Yikes, it's great to see you all sharing Jr. Kimbrough.  Asie Payton anyone?  Cedell Davis?  Robert Belfour?  RL Burnside?

These guys aren't going to be mentioned in "Jazz for Aficionados," so thanks Rok for creating BFA.  I'll be back.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UWL6rBdXM

Rok, I've known others who don't care for the Hill Country sound.  Not sure what you mean about outside influences, but it's generally a harder-edged music than Delta.  I like it all.  RL's soulful singing and driving rhythm in "See my Jumper..." always grabs me.

Want the real deal?  RL Burnside in his back yard, 1978.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXvf12Bi6v8&list=RDS-G-VpZ34UM&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meC4pmw5u84&list=RDS-G-VpZ34UM

I had precious few lines that ever worked, but that's life.  They're just ice-breakers - that's when we really had to step up.  It's fun to look back on it all.

Earl Hooker's "Frosty"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj2D94mm9x4

@rok2id

<< the great postwar era of Chicago Blues >> 

"Great" is an understatement.  Thanks for the Snooky.

My favorite Bukka White (sorry for saying "Bukka," Booker):

"1963 isn't 1962"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dSF0SKsSAw&list=PL6xp58Fk-rbmXh0Z9A_sMzwRsjAMwPFIk

Junior Wells - "Come on in This House"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX-7MPrJQfM

@bdp24

We're out here and we appreciate your contributions. Rok is in steamroller mode, and that's cool.  He's on his stated mission.

But when you talk about Muscle Shoals, Parchman Farm, Jimmie Vaughan, Mose Allison and Rudy Van Gelder in one post, some us are going to notice ;)

Junior Wells - "Little Red Rooster"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5C0uD2BuEc

That does it, I'm un-following.  Try to enjoy the music folks.