The Blues

[Avante]

Jimmie Rodgers is considered ....The Father of Country Music...he was born in Mississippi and talked about how the local blacks influensed him.

Elvis was also born in Mississippi and as we know he is ...The King. He listened to "race records" and was a big fan of Big Boy Crudup. When Elvis recorded for Sam Phillips (who was looking for a white blues singer) at Sun Records in Memphis in 1954 his first recording was...That's Alright Mama...a 1946 Big Boy Crudup tune. Crudup saw no $$$$$.


While those old ancient "prewar" recordings are pretty much for guys like me, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers, Woody Guthrie, John Mayall, Eric Burdon, Johnny Winter, those urban post war blues by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf. John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed are pretty well known by most.

The impact them old blues made on what we hear today is immense, it really is all about who influensed who. You take any band/performer and start back tracking and sooner or later you'll find some link back to the beginnings. Yep, them blues.

Big Boy Crudup


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxHQUvCkV20

[Avante]

If I were in charge of putting together a compilation CD dedicated to them old prewar blues it would have to be done by regions. These are the 8 that best represent the music.

Delta/Mississippi

Charley Patton
Robert Johnson
Son House
Skip James
Mississippi Sheiks
Willie Brown
Big Bill Broonzy
Tommy Johnson

Memphis/Tennessee

Furry Lewis
Memphis Jug Band
Frank Stokes
Cannon Jug Stompers
Slepy John Estes
Jim Jackson
Robert Wilkins
Sonny Boy Wiliamson

St. Louis

Lonnie Johnson
Peetie Wheatstraw
Roosevelt Sykes
Walter Davis
Henry Townsend
Charley Jordan
Clifford Gibson
Henry Spaulding

Alabama

Ed Bell
Bullet Wiliams
Walter Roland
Edward Thompson
Birmingham Jug Band
Sonny Scott
Jaybird Coleman
Peanut the Kidnapper

Texas

Blind Lemon Jefferson
Ramblin' Thomas
Willie Reed
Texas Alexander
Henry Thomas
Little Hat Jones
Funny Paper Smith

Georgia

Barbecue Bob
Charley Lincoln
Blind Willie McTell
Pegleg Howell
Williams & Anthony
Ed Andrews
Emery Glen
Kokomo Arnold

East Coast/Piedmont

Julius Daneils
Blind Blake
Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Willie Walker
Carl Martin
Josh White
Pink Anderson
Floyd Council....PINK FLOYD

Louisiana

Rabbit Brown
Oscar Woods
Ed Shaeffer
Lead Belly
Papa Charley Jackson
King Solomon Hill
Blind Willie Reynolds
Soleau & Robbin

The Ladies

Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith
Victoria Spivey
Bessie Tucker
Lottie Beamon
Lucile Bogan
Geechie Wiley
Memphis Minnie

Pale face

Frank Hutchison
Dock Boggs
Emmett Miller
Dick Justice
Skillet Lickers
Clarence Ashley
B.F.Shelton
Blind Alfred Reed

Can't ignore Leroy Carr out of Indy

[xmas1997]

If I were in charge of putting together a compilation CD dedicated to them old prewar blues it would have to be done by regions. These are the 8 that best represent the music.

Delta/Mississippi

Charley Patton
Robert Johnson
Son House
Skip James
Mississippi Sheiks
Willie Brown
Mississippi John Hurt
Tommy Johnson

Memphis/Tennessee

Furry Lewis
Memphis Jug Band
Frank Stokes
Cannon Jug Stompers
Slepy John Estes
Jim Jackson
Robert Wilkins
Mooch Richardson

St. Louis

Lonnie Johnson
Peetie Wheatstraw
Roosevelt Sykes
Walter Davis
Henry Townsend
Charley Jordan
Clifford Gibson
Henry Spaulding

Alabama

Ed Bell
Bullet Wiliams
Walter Roland
Edward Thompson
Birmingham Jug Band
Sonny Scott
Jaybird Coleman
Peanut the Kidnapper

Texas

Blind Lemon Jefferson
Ramblin' Thomas
Willie Reed
Texas Alexander
Henry Thomas
Little Hat Jones
Funny Paper Smith

Georgia

Barbecue Bob
Charley Lincoln
Blind Willie McTell
Pegleg Howell
Williams & Anthony
Ed Andrews
Emery Glen
Kokomo Arnold

East Coast/Piedmont

Julius Daneils
Blind Blake
Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Willie Walker
Carl Martin
Josh White
Pink Anderson
Floyd Council....PINK FLOYD

Louisiana

Rabbit Brown
Oscar Woods
Ed Shaeffer
Lead Belly
Papa Charley Jackson
King Solomon Hill
Blind Willie Reynolds
Soleau & Robbin

The Ladies

Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith
Victoria Spivey
Bessie Tucker
Lottie Beamon
Lucile Bogan
Geechie Wiley
Memphis Minnie

Pale face

Frank Hutchison
Dock Boggs
Emmett Miller
Dick Justice
Skillet Lickers
Clarence Ashley
B.F.Shelton
Blind Alfred Reed

I take it that the blues is your favorite music genre.
There is very little I do not appreciate in music.
I even really like symphonies too. I can go to a concert, close my eyes, and drift off into another world.

[Avante]

I take it that the blues is your favorite music genre.
There is very little I do not appreciate in music.
I even really like symphonies too. I can go to a concert, close my eyes, and drift off into another world.

I;m into the origins of things, I like to start at the beginning rather it;s music or sports, literature. Just something about knowing where it alll came from.

When it comes to them old blues I like to light a few candles, some incense, grab a beer and head south, ending up on some dusty southern road all alone. As some old black cat..."woke up this mornin', bout the break-a-day, lookin' for my baby, she done up and ran away.

I really don't have a favorite, it's more of a mood thing.

[xmas1997]

I;m into the origins of things, I like to start at the beginning rather it;s music or sports, literature. Just something about knowing where it alll came from.

When it comes to them old blues I like to light a few candles, some incense, grab a beer and head south, ending up on some dusty southern road all alone. As some old black cat..."woke up this mornin', bout the break-a-day, lookin' for my baby, she done up and ran away.

I really don't have a favorite, it's more of a mood thing.

I fully understand the "mood" thing. When I write a song, it usually conjures up a mood regardless of the genre of the song. It isn't usually a conscious thing either, it just develops itself from the ethers.

[Avante]

I fully understand the "mood" thing. When I write a song, it usually conjures up a mood regardless of the genre of the song. It isn't usually a conscious thing either, it just develops itself from the ethers.

You got it, it is all about the mood. Sometimes it's gotta be some old country, other times give me some Black Keys. Usually it's real late at night when I get in my blue mood. Hell. I've even got in a classical music mood, just not often.

[ohmwrecker]

:lol

[mrsmaalox]

Eww gross! This is like one of those "2 grandpas fellate each other" porn videos :vomit:

[Avante]

Eww gross! This is like one of those "2 grandpas fellate each other" porn videos :vomit:

I've never watched a porn video, are they entertaining?

[mrsmaalox]

I've never watched a porn video, are they entertaining?

Nah they really aren't.

[cantthinkofanything]

Eww gross! This is like one of those "2 grandpas fellate each other" porn videos :vomit:

what's grosser is that it's 2 middle age people pretending to be grandpas that are entering into a bromance

[ohmwrecker]

Lemon Party!

[Avante]

Nah they really aren't.

"They"....so yu watch stuff that doesn't entertain you?