Sue Foley recently put out an album "Pinky’s Blues." Some very good heavy duty blues guitar from Ms. Foley. Good sound.
The B. B. King/Eric Clapton album "Riding with the King" is an excellent blues album if you do a little surgery on the Deluxe Edition on Qobuz. Remove the 3 rock tunes, "Riding with the King", "Marry You", and "Hold On I’m Comin", and move the standard "Come Rain or Come Shine" to the last track and you’ve got a really nice blues album, also good sound.
Rosie Flores put out a blues album a couple years ago with some really nice blues guitar on it, "Simple Case of the Blues." Rosie plays in the left channel and Kenny Vaughan plays in the right. They both can play good blues guitar. Sounds good too.
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I've never approached Blues listening with SQ in mind but you might look into Robben Ford and Ronnie Earl as artists whose recordings possibly offer better- than-average sonics.
Try "Handful of Blues" by Ford and "Healing Time" by Earl, to start with.
No doubt there are more.
Hopefully, other, more knowledgeable forum members will offer suggestions.
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The Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs remaster of 'Hooker and Heat'. Featuring John Lee Hooker on vocals and Canned Heat on instrumentals. Blind Al Wilson plays some great guitar licks and blows the harmonica like his life depends on it. it's a three record album. And even if you're not a Canned Heat fan, this is a must have. I absolutely love this album.
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Hans Theessink, Lifeline, is very well recorded and a great album as well. Very nice relaxed take on the blues.
Muddy Waters, Folk Singer, has great sound too.
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Analog Productions has some excellent blues recordings.Right now I'm rather obsessed with the Peter Green Splinter Group Artisan Recordings) especially the live album. They're very well done. Chris Smither - Another Way to Find You.BB King - Blues Summit, which is all duets is a fave.
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John Mayall - Jazz Blues Fusion. Amazing sonics and an all star cast. You will love it.
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Any of the alblums made in the Sixties by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers!
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Muddy Waters “Folk Singer” on MFSL and Lightning Hopkins “Goin Away” Acoustic Sounds Reissue are two of my faves for SQ and music.
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Buddy Guy's album "Bring 'Em In" is worth having if only for the duet with Tracy Chapman of "Ain't No Sunshine."
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Muddy Waters and Etta James recent releases from the Montreux years series are well recorded sound great and also have MQA .
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I find Buddy Guy and Junior Wells' "Alone and Acoustic" to have pretty good sonics. My version of this CD is on the Alligator label.
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Audioquest put out a release on CD and SACD called Bluesquest.
I have the CD and it is *very* well recorded. |
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Blues "light" maybe but
Robert Cray Band - Heavy Picks has a fine, clean (sophisticated) sound
Boz Scaggs - Dig
Fleetwood Mac - S/T
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Excellent! Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. I love finding music I have not listened to before.
Happy listening.
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Roxy,
I was at the John Mayall show in Boston
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Hans Theessink, Robben Ford, and Robert Cray as mentioned above. I also find Tedeschi Trucks Band albums very well recorded (and great playing). Keb Mo’s albums are also some of the better blues recordings out there.
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"Come On Home" by Boz Scaggs is more bluesy R&B than Blues but it's a terrific sounding disc and the playing/singing is excellent.
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I have most of Doug MacLeod’s work.
It seems to be generally very well recorded.
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This may be of interest. It looks like these remaster are to be released this month.
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Joe Bonamosa - An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House
David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
Mississippi Fred McDowel - I Do Not Sing No Rock and Roll
Otis Spann - Good Morning Mr Blues
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Joe Bonemassa-=Live at Royal Albert Hall
Stevie Ray Vaughn=the sky is crying
Johny Lang= Lie to me
Gary Moore and Albert Collins=Live
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Stevie Ray Vaughn - album "Couldn't Stand The Weather", and especially the cut, "Tin Pan Alley" is impressive.
Agree with the previously mentioned Ronnie Earl. Albums "Beyond the Blue Door" and "The Luckiest Man" are very well recorded and produced. Great stuff!
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Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues on Delmark is a very good sounding Blues lp. It also kills musically.
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John Lee Hooker, notable albums:
-The Healer - excellent album.
-Chill Out
-Mr Lucky
-Don't Look Back
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- Albert Collins, Robert Cray, and Johnny Copeland, SHOWDOWN - Alligator Records
- John Lee Hooker, The Healer, Silvertone Records
- Gregg Allman, Low Country Blues, Rounder Records
More southern soul than blues but check this guy out nonetheless:
- Marcus King Band, Carolina Confessions, Fantasy
Happy listening
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A few I listen to on Qobuz
Slightly Hung Over by Blues Delight
Help Me Through The Day by Bernard Allison
Trouble & Whiskey by Sean Chambers
Change in the Weather by James Armstrong
Aint’ Enough Whiskey bu D Man
I Walk Alone by Michael Hardie
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R.L Burnside: Come On In.
R.L. Burnside: A Bothered Mind
Samantha Fish: Faster
Buddy Guy: Born To Play Guitar
Jimi Hendrix: Blues
John Lee Hooker: Whiskey & Wimmen
Junior Kimbrough: God Knows I Tried
Junior Kimbrough: Meet Me In The City
Muddy Waters : The Real Folk Blues
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Original blues are raw and not particularly well recorded, but they are authentic! I love Howlin Wolf sing Smokestack Lightin’
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This is off the cuff but Blues is a very wide genre. Many good artists are often regional. Many also are more popular in Europe Like Luther Allison, et al. And their music is not as easily found. But they are very rewarding. These are albums I have and can recommend
Layla Zoe - Breaking Free
Keb Mo - Slow Down & Just Like You
Keb Mo & Taj Mahal - TajMo(?)
Collins, Cray * Copeland - Showdown
James Cotton - Live From Chicago Mr Superharp Himself
Big Twist - Live from Chicago
Jimmy Smith - Dot Com Blues
Toronzo Cannon - Pain Around Me & Politician Preacher or Pimp
Albert King - Cold Snap
Some names of interest
Shemeka Copeland
Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart
Gary Moore
Samantha Fish
Charlie Musselwhite
Tommy Castro
Roomful Of Blues
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Blues Company: My little angel
Stevie Ray Vaughn: Chitlins with carne & Riviera Paradise
All great songs, and well recorded. Enjoy!
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Lots of excellent recommendations from others. I would also add Buddy Guy - Blues Singer and the great falsetto album Skip James - Blues from the Delta to go along with Muddy Water - Folk Singers stand out fidelity. It isn’t technically a blues album, but Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker - The Healing Game has excellent fidelity. There are so many others, but these are a couple that come to mind.
P.S there is often a wide range of fidelity quality on the same Howlin’ Wolf albums. There is an excellent high fidelity recording of Smokestack Lightnin’ on The Millennium Collection 20th Century Masters. The gain the engineer employed is quite low though.
So many great blues albums! I could go on for hours and write a book about it :).
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This seemed like an opportune time to share this piece.
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I would suggest eschewing any expectation of elite engineering with this type of music.
Late-1920s-through-mid-1960s recordings of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Blind Willie McTell, Charley Patton, Huddie Ledbetter, Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi Fred McDowell and others are the cream of the crop. Recording quality ranging from rough to acceptable.
If I could have a fast food chain (Stevie Ray Vaughn, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton) or real Mexican food, I’ll take the real deal any time.
No amount of slick audio engineering can transform a pretender into a contender.
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Mighty Sam McClain, especially “Give it up For Love”
Rocky Athas, especially “Shakin’ the Dust”.
Walter Trout
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Recorded on the Telarc lable, Junior Wells, Come On In This House, and Everybody Getting Some, represent one of the masters of Chicago Blues at his finest. Absolute musts for anyone who loves the blues. Also, Johnny Winter's LP Roots is a classic.
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The Empress of the Blues; The Complete Bessie Smith on Frog Records.
https://www.frog-records.co.uk/
Columbia released a Complete Bessie Smith box set years ago. If you own the Columbia box set, sell it and start collecting these Frog volumes instead!
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RL Burnside: Let My Baby Ride (for a break from the depression)
Blodwyn Pig: Dear Jill
Samantha Fish: Go To Hell
The Jayhawks: Blue (obvious....)
Blue Rodeo: Hasn't Hit Me Yet, What Is This Love (mind your subs....)
A Great Big World (w/C. Aguilera): Say Something
...and for an ending *G*...
Grant Hart: Nobody Rides For Free
Blues; contemporary and contemptuous....:)
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tuberist,
You're a lucky man; that was an amazing band and a great performance.
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...and, for the Daily Drag....
Harry Nilsson: Driving Along
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Rory Gallagher - Blues Rock. An absolute legend. A lot of decent quality recordings, but regardless, he will git you rockin’ with blues rock. Some of his songs have an Irish flair. But then, Rory was an Irish lad.
24/96 hi-res album on Qobuz; ‘Rory Gallagher 50th Anniversary Edition’
http://open.qobuz.com/album/v4qf46odwhhjc
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Savoy Brown last 2 lps - City Nights and Ain’t Done Yet. Fantastic playing and recording. Full analog sound. Also,Analogue Productions has a series of live blues direct to disc. The Diunna Greenleaf one is super.
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Muddy Waters: Hard Again. Amazing in every way
”Mannish Boy” is so good, it’s just spooky
(RL Burnside, “A Ass Pocket of Whiskey”, for the title alone. Album is great fun)
Great thread! A ton of music to go listen to
Have a great day, everyone
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Keb Mo & Taj Mahah is a great listen. Music is great and dynamics are outstanding from low end to top. I listen to it often. I downloaded a version from a high resolution service stored on my laptop with USB filtering devices and a high end USB cable. I have a dedicated hybrid tube DAC I use just for high res downloads. I also stream from Tidal and Spotify. But, still I enjoy the hi-res downloaded file best and, never tire of listening to these classic blues artists. Enjoy!
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Johnny Winter 3rd Degree, Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown The Devil to Pay and Buddy Guy The Blues is Alive and Well
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