What's your favourite blues track?
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I love a bit of Chicago style blues, and with that comes a love of this track, in particular this absolute belting live version of Sweet Home Chicago (albeit it is marred by the John Mayer presence, he doesn't belong in the same league as the others):
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Greg, I clicked on this thread knowing exactly which track I was going to pick but you've already done so! An absolute, all-time classic from the repetitive yet mesmerising rhythm and, as you say, the menace in the Wolf's voice. Other favourites include Muddy Waters' Hoochie Coochie Man and Mannish Boy, John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Boom, Leadbelly's Where Did You Sleep Last Night and Pick a Bale of Cotton and Robert Johnson's Crossroads, Sweet Home Chicago and They're Red Hot.
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This thread has inspired my musical listenings, I've had blues collections on in the office all morning 
Currently got some Big Joe Williams rattling the ear drums.
Currently got some Big Joe Williams rattling the ear drums.
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I love the syncopation in the rhythm of that track.
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That's new material for me and very good it is too. Thanks!
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'Dust my broom' and pretty much everything else he did - Elmore James
'That's alright Mama' - Arthur 'Big Boy' Cruddup
'This train' - Big Bill Broonzy
Any Howlin' Wolf / Little Walter.
'That's alright Mama' - Arthur 'Big Boy' Cruddup
'This train' - Big Bill Broonzy
Any Howlin' Wolf / Little Walter.
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Great choices guys, I spent most the 80s listening to Delta Blues.
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im not a massive blues fan, but love the early fleetwood mac stuff, when they were a blues band.
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What's the name of the dude who does the Premier Inn ads? Him - he has a programme about the blues o TV - well, about him with some blues thrown in. Some good stuff included. Channel? Time? Day? Dunno, sorry - I stumbled across it. I think it is a series or mini-series.
Geetan is giving me a hard time because it's past TV time so he can sleep on my lap. The problem with this new site is the amount of action and the time I'm giving it. Five Beanz on toast for supper because of it!
Geetan is giving me a hard time because it's past TV time so he can sleep on my lap. The problem with this new site is the amount of action and the time I'm giving it. Five Beanz on toast for supper because of it!
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Favourite track -
Ain't nobody buyin' raffle tickets - Big Bro Bechet
Ain't nobody buyin' raffle tickets - Big Bro Bechet
If I had to pick a track by a white blues band,then Need Your Love So Bad would be the one.
