Blues Recommendations?

cmy330go
cmy330go Posts: 2,341
edited January 2007 in Music & Movies
Just wondering if there are any big Blues fans here that could offer some suggestions. I'm actually asking because I would like to pick up some albums as a gift for my uncle. I'm primarily looking for older classic blues that I could obtain of vinyl since he was just recently given a Music Hall MMF-5 by his wife.

So any older "must haves" that I should look for?
I also wouldn't be opposed to one or two hard to find collectibles.

Thanks in advance!:)
Dave
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  • Refefer
    Refefer Posts: 1,280
    edited January 2007
    Simply put, You can't go wrong with Eric Clapton. He is an excellent blues guitarist, as most people know and then I'd work myself over to Muddy Waters, and grab his live album Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live... which is truly excellent.
    Lovin that music year after year.

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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2007
    Ma Rainey - S/T double album
    Blind Lemon Jefferson - S/T double album
    Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues
    Robert "Jr." Lockwood - anything on vinyl
    T-Bone Walker - I Want a Little Girl
    Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - anything on vinyl
    Lightning Hopkins - anything on vinyl
    John Lee Hooker - Endless Boogie
    Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
    B.B. King - Live at Cook County Jail, Live at the Regal
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2007
    Freddie King - Getting Ready, Texas Cannonball, 1934-1976
    Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin'
    Big Maceo - Chicago Breakdown
    Big Mama Thornton - anything on vinyl
    Roosevelt Sykes - anything on vinyl
    Robert Nighthawk - anything on vinyl
    Professor Longhair - anything on vinyl
    Buddy Guy - anything on vinyl
    Son Seals - Bad Axe
    The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Butt Rockin', What's the Word
    Roomfull of Blues - The First Album, Dressed Up to Get Messed Up, Let's Have a Party
    Albert Collins - anything on vinyl
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited January 2007
    Thanks for the recommendations guys!!! I'll have to hit the local record shop this weekend and see if I can find any of these.

    Feel free to keep 'em coming!

    Thanks again!!!!
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited January 2007
    I think BlueMDPicker captured a lot of the good ones. BB King Live at the Regal is one of my favorites. Robert Johnson is about as classic as they come. My pick for Buddy Guy albums is Buddy and the Juniors. Has Buddy, Junior Wells and Junior Mance playing together in a real intimate atmosphere. Also: Willie Dixon- I Am the Blues
    Hooker and Heat (not quite as classic, though)
    Wristwatch--->Crisco
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2007
    Papa John Creach - Filthy, I'm the Fiddle Man
    Canned Heat - anything on vinyl
    John Mayall - Back to the Roots, Jazz/Blues Fusion, Looking Back, the "Beano" album
    Mississippi Fred McDowell - anything on vinyl
    Etta James - anything on vinyl
    Bonnie Raitt - anything on vinyl
    Little Feat - anything on vinyl
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited January 2007
    wow some really great replys there. im not sure if eric claptons crossroads album is avilable on vinyl but if it is, then that would be a great choice. it has many of those mentioned earlier here. REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited January 2007
    Mike is the man for Blues.

    I especially like a copy of Count Basie and the Kansas City 6 I have on vinyl.

    RT1
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited January 2007
    You want blues on vinyl that sounds good, look for stuff on Alligator Records. Try Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers. About ten years ago, me and my 76 year old neighbor Ted Jackson (a REAL, dyed in the wool R & B man, we are just white boys playing make-believe) were in my stereo room. I had found an unopened copy of one of Hound Dog's LP's and put it on. The music JUMPED off that vinyl, and one look at Teddy told me he was going home with that album. I had to tape it onto cassette for myself before he left.

    Some of the guys here were fortunate enough to meet Ted at my home. Doro, F1nut, Antny, and Lou.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2007
    Yeah, Alligator is good for blues vinyl as are Blind Pig, Arhoolie, Rounder, Stax, Northern, and Trixx.

    BTW - I have a mint copy of that Hound Dog Taylor album, George.
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  • fbwinners
    fbwinners Posts: 26
    edited January 2007
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  • seo
    seo Posts: 305
    edited January 2007
    Second on any Hound Dog Taylor or Albert Collins LP.
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited January 2007
    I can't believe no one mentioned Robert Cray.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,729
    edited January 2007
    Robert Lucas, Luke and the Locomotives
    Lonnie Mack, Attack of the Killer V
    Otis Rush, Lost in the Blues
    Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows, s/t
    Jeff Beck (Group), his early stuff
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  • edwardm10
    edwardm10 Posts: 104
    edited January 2007
    One of my personal faves is "Showdown" with Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland and Robert Cray.
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  • seo
    seo Posts: 305
    edited January 2007
    edwardm10 wrote:
    One of my personal faves is "Showdown" with Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland and Robert Cray.

    I have to agree, great album
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited January 2007
    roy buchanan

    clapton

    keb mo

    buddy guy

    john lee hooker

    albert king

    bb king

    any alligator records compilaton

    muddy waters

    albert collins

    rory gallagher

    gary moore

    robin trower (i know)

    david gilmour (ditto)

    ton's of others, i'm sure;)
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited January 2007
    Lonnie Mack, Attack of the Killer V (quote from F1Nut)


    This is a GREAT album!!! all of it! nothing like a bigsby tremelo!:D
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