Music recommendations: dirty blues with great guitar

[Frank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwMh5rg8xC4

[AndyR]

I can't follow the links at work, so I don't know what all of the suggestions are. But I do know what she's after :D

Things that float my boat in this area are:

The first two Led Zeppelin albums, and the original Howlin Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters stuff they were influenced by. Good that she already knows about Howlin Wolf - he was the man :D

Also, the early ZZ Top stuff (ignore everything post-Eliminator from this "dirty blues" point of view - you want the raw stuff off the first few albums).

Possibly she might like Rory Gallagher's approach as well - try Live in Europe and Irish Tour as starting places.

Oh yeah, and early Fleetwood Mac.

And there's a girl that's making music at the moment, plays a tele - she's fab, got her album, can't remember her name, curses.... she'd love that (you'll have to get a humbucker in the neck of her tele if you let hear that girl though!)

EDIT: I think the album might be called White Sugar - can't remember the girl's name though...

[Frank]

EDIT: I think the album might be called White Sugar - can't remember the girl's name though...

Jo Shaw Taylor, I already linked one of her videos

[AndyR]

EDIT: I think the album might be called White Sugar - can't remember the girl's name though...

Jo Shaw Taylor, I already linked one of her videos

That's the girl :D

(And I had a feeling one of your links might be to her - can't go near them on this work PC. I'm pretty much convinced that Mrs Nadz needs to check her out, though...)

[richard]

A couple of years back I was playing guitar with a guy called Will 'Harmonica' Wilde who also played harp in his sister Dani Wilde's band.  We got to play on part of a tour called the Blues Caravan organised by Ruf Records. This particular caravan was mainly for female blues players. I got to play with Dani, Jo Shaw Taylor, Debbie Coleman and others.  Check these ladies out - just punch Blues Caravan into Youtube and see some some great lady blues players. Standing behind Jo Shaw Taylor while she strutted her stuff is an experience I'll never forget.

[Elliot]

Like Jerry Donahue, I wouldn't personally say that Jo Shaw Taylor plays blues, let alone dirty blues.  He sounds like country and she sounds like 70s rock to me - but then I reckon Jo Anne Kelly was blues...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GMyLNOeYCI

[TheyCallMeVolume]

All the Kings, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson are definitely great places to start IMO. Then dig into the deeper and really old stuff.

[Philly Q]

Eric Gales.  Philip Sayce.

(Again, more on the rock side but I'm not really into proper blues)

[Lezard]

Possibly she might like Rory Gallagher's approach as well - try Live in Europe and Irish Tour as starting places.

I  support this proposal^

[lulusg]

There is a program on live stream... www.highway61radio.org , that comes out on saturdays 10:00 pm central time USA. Music is haunting on this one.

[Johnny Mac]

Here's a few that do it for me

Click the link below to listen to Testify by Stevie Ray Vaughan;Double Trouble on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/track/5hGnrFoe2bv3iVeEbmBUxH

Click the link below to listen to Honey Bee by Muddy Waters on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/track/5B50wuy1lSPYS4ZFKI6cyf

Not blues in the traditional sense but Hendrix playing Killing Floor live at Monterray has that single coil tone that
I love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQpkZlk8o4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is my favorite Black Keys track and bought the Rubber Factory album after hearing this years ago when this forum started.

Click the link below to listen to Grown So Ugly by The Black Keys on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/track/1fDcAiEpjwXeTc1iMhcxDN

[breadfan]

Dare I suggest the source of Jack Black, Elmore (via Robert Johnson) and Howling Woolf = Son House

This is a late recording (1965), but it is a great place to start before tackling the 1930 Grafton recordings (now very scratchy and hissy, but, to me at least THE BLUES)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Father-Delta-Blues-1965-Re/dp/B001GTJUQO/ref=sr_1_1_digr?ie=UTF8&qid=1337537638&sr=8-1

Another of the greats of the 30s was Skip James - this is about the best restored recording:

http://www.pristineclassical.com/LargeWorks/Jazz/PABL009.php

Muddy Waters:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/His-Best-1947-To-1955/dp/B001KULC2Y/ref=sr_1_3_digr?ie=UTF8&qid=1337538463&sr=8-3

Mississippi Fred McDowell

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001J666Z2/ref=sr_1_album_56_rd?ie=UTF8&child=B001J6492O&qid=1337538830&sr=1-56

RL Burnside

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wish-Was-Heaven-Sitting-Down/dp/B002MKFLR8/ref=sr_shvl_album_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1337538846&sr=301-5

Add to that some token White boys:

Paul Butterfield/Mike Bloomfield?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/An-Anthology-The-Elektra-Years/dp/B001F2TJ0E/ref=sr_shvl_album_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337538225&sr=301-2

There's some great stuff here!

I'm a big Lightnin' Hopkins fan too

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lightnin-Blues-Herald-Sessions-Hopkins/dp/B00005B1FN/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1337773107&sr=1-8

[Elliot]

Yeah dude - how could I forget Sam Hopkins from my list - learn his licks and you have the source of most of electric blues.  The Ernie Hawkins DVDs on Lightning Hopkins' style are really good if you are into that kinda thing.

[breadfan]

I hadn't seen that DVD - it looks excellent. I'm sure it would probably just gather dust along with my pile of lick library DVDs, but I'll have to pick it up! Cheers!

[Ratrod]

Forget about the fancy stuff.

Seasick Steve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keMbjwBzWYw&feature=related