Who is your favorite blues artist?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Poll question: Who is your favorite blues artist?

Mine is Muddy Waters

[TexasProgresive]

1. Lightenin’ Hopkins! nt

[BeatleBoot]

2. Son House

with his National Resonator Guitar

[ThomWV]

3. White Man's List

That's a white man's list.

[Bridget Burke]

4. So let's see your list!

I'm sure everybody would like information from another viewpoint.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. Surprise- I'm white - rather than call me "the man" tell me what you think

That's pretty divisive. I love all music so tell me who I should listen to

Plus I added other to it for discussion.

[NewHampster]

6. Sonny Boy Williamson II (Alex "Rice" Miller )

You have a husband
I have a wife
If you start to talk that will mess up our lives
Please, please, baby
Keep our business to yourself



And where are

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee

and others too early in the AM to recall

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. Unfortunately I only have nine choices if I'm including "other"

I love Sonny & Brownie!

[NewHampster]

8. Well then Rewrite the Software

:toast:

Seriously, I saw Muddy and B.B. but the greatest and most unknown is Sonny Boy Williamson II. The best Blues Harp Player of all.

If this was a "real" vote then I would think anyone would have to acknowledge Muddy for his influence if nothing else.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. How do you feel about Junior Wells?

Wondering

[NewHampster]

12. I love them all but I started with Sonny II

as I was trying to learn the harp. turns out you have to drink too much beer to sound good. :beer:

I do have to say I own no Junior Wells and have only listened to him briefly at my brothers.

Which reminds me, I have to call my big bro.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. You should - check out Hoodoo Man Blues

That guy could play the harp. Plus a young Buddy Guy rocks out!

[NewHampster]

18. I will thanks

now off to play with nieces and nephews.

have a good day

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. You too - cheers!

[NewHampster]

10. ChavezSpeakstheTruth did you see my Album covers last night?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x939807

I think you'll appreciate it

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. I didn't - that's beautiful!

:toast:

[corporatewhore]

11. Robert Johnson!!!King of the Delta Blues and the first muscian on record

to sell his soul to the devil to gain his talent!!!

[cryofan]

17. "Ah went to dah crossroads...baby...fell down on mah knees...."

Yep, he was the best.....and from his fecund brain was born the genesis of much of the work of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Yardbirds/Eric Clapton, etc.

[mitchum]

41. A nonsensical myth created by beady-eyed "blues scholars"

Johnson never claimed any such thing. None of his contemporaries (playing and non-playing) ever heard ANYONE make this claim/accusation during Johnson's lifetime. This myth had it's genesis in an offhand remark made by Son House in the 1960s. House certainly didn't think/believe that Johnson had sold his soul, but just try telling breathless whiteboys that...

[mitchum]

42. Tie between Son House and Howlin' Wolf...

as always

[madrchsod]

13. Luther Allison

best "contemporary" blues guitar player.

[Intelsucks]

14. Lightnin' Hopkins - From Centerville, Texas

"If you would just shut your mouth babe, I'd buy you a coffee house".:D

[xchrom]

20. i voted bessie smith

i love vocal arrangements.
but i'd break it down a little differently
a: accoustic blues
b: electric blues
c: vocalists
and then i might break it out by era
there is a great resurgence in the blues today and some of those guys should get a list and some of the sixties and seventies stars are carrrying on a legacy of much earlier artists and that gets hard to compare.
but i'm glad to share company with other blues fans!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. Agreed

There's no way to please everybody with these 10 choice polls.

[pansypoo53219]

21. ooh, hard choices

but i would have to say Mississippi John Hurt.
the robert J, Son House, Chris smithers, and the missississppi shieks.

[T Roosevelt]

22. Buddy Guy

Though John Lee is close...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. If you look up a bit I spoke of Junior Wells's album Hoodoo Man Blues

With Buddy Guy - stellar!

[LastKnight]

36. another Buddy Guy vote.

huge influence on Hendrix too.

-LK

[HuckleB]

24. T-Bone Walker, no, wait, Otis Spann. Yeah! OTIS SPANN!

I just like T-Bone's subtlety, and it's all there with OTIS!

Great list, by the way. Other faves of mine include: Big Bill Broonzy, Mickey Baker, Curtis Jones, Jack Dupree, Memphis Slim and Buddy Guy.

[grannylib]

26. I love Etta.....and where're Clapton and Stevie Ray???

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

27. They are in your post! Nice choices indeed!

:toast:

[blindpig]

28. speaking of white boys

what about the "whitest" of them all, The Fabulous Albino, Johnny Winter? Progressive Blues Experiment & 2nd Winter are as good as it gets. Shame what's happened to him.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Did he fall off like Stevie Wonder?

[Zomby Woof]

29. Johnny is just fine!

http://www.johnnywinter.net/

New album in mid-June!

Saw him live at a dive in Norfolk VA called the Boathouse back in '86. He shredded.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. Incidentally - is that Picasso in your signature?

Looks like his sketch of Quixote

[Zomby Woof]

34. you are correct!

I am a huge fan of both Cervantes and Picasso. I have a large copy of Guernica on our living room wall. I have the Quixote painting on a tall glass.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. Guernica in your living room? Not life size is it?

wondering

[Zomby Woof]

39. no

A copy... about 2 1/2 by 4 feet or so.

[blindpig]

33. Really? thats encouraging

I'd heard that he's just a shadow of himself. Saw him with Derringer back in 71. WOO WOO!!

[TahitiNut]

30. Lucille!!

No contest! (Although there would be if Robert Johnson had been around a little longer.)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

32. All of the above!

:D

[Zomby Woof]

35. there ya go!

Hard enough to choose, since I love Wolf and Muddy equally. And Johnson, and Blind Willie McTell...

[Bundbuster]

37. Best living artists - Buddy Guy, Luther Allison, Taj Mahal

Hall of Fame:

Muddy Waters
Elmore James
Lightnin' Hopkins
T-Bone Walker
Albert King
Robert Johnson
Big Bill Broonzy
Albert Collins
Big Mamma Thornton

Told you I couldn't eat just one.

[VOX]

40. Little Walter, one of the best Chicago-style blues-harp players ever!

He influenced the hell out of some great harp players that followed, such as Paul Butterfield and Charly Musselwhite.

:toast:

[Zorra]

43. SRV

I like Otis Rush, and Freddie and Albert King.

[elperromagico]

44. Robert Johnson - The King of the Delta Blues.