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From: floyd@burdvax.UUCP (Floyd Miller)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: The Blues
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Date: Sat, 23-Jul-83 23:18:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 23 23:18:28 1983
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Yeah, B.B.  I'm listenin' to wxpn's blues show right now.
B.B.'s great, certainly the most popular and celebrated blues
artists in the history of the genre.  Three albums I can reccommend
would be, "Indianola Missisppi Seeds" (with a watermelon guitar on the
front and back - Carol King plays piano on some tunes), "Live at the Regal"
(recently re-issued) and his brand new album (I forget the name) which is
a heart warming return to the blues from his previous album which was not
blues for the most part.

There are many other blues singers and guitarists that are also great and
different.  To drop a few names, Albert King (the major blues influence
in 60's rock music - compare "Cross-Cut Saw" on Albert's album, 
"Born Under a Bad Sign", to "Stange Brew" on "Disraeli Gears", by Cream),
Howlin' Wolf, T. Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Son Seals are also great.
Of course there's Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters, Otis Spann and other
legends.  Luther Allison, Hound Dog Taylor, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King,
......

How about some Brittish 1960's blues like the original Fleetwood Mac with
Peter Green ("Black Magic Woman"), 1st generation Yardbirds, and John Mayal,
in whose bands, most of the others started.

I've left a lot out, included all of the pre-war and country blues.
Discovering all these musicians has awakened the blues-lover in me.