Mississippi Delta Blues

Graves

Graves

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Any fellow fans on here?

I’ve been listening to some classics this week.

I spent a month or so in Mississippi and you could feel something in the earth…It amazes me that songs from a people and culture so far away and so long ago can feel relevant to my life and feelings, even today. That’s the universality of music, I suppose.

Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, are some of my particular favourites.

Who are yours?
 
Graves said:
Any fellow fans on here?

I’ve been listening to some classics this week.

I spent a month or so in Mississippi and you could feel something in the earth…It amazes me that songs from a people and culture so far away and so long ago can feel relevant to my life and feelings, even today. That’s the universality of music, I suppose.

Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, are some of my particular favourites.

Who are yours?
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Agree. Great stuff. I do prefer modern interpretations of Robert Johnson (eg. Cream's live Crossroads) and on CD I have The Robert Johnson Songbook performed by Peter Green with Nigel Watson - mainly acoustic stuff. Thinking on, I've also got a vinyl LP, Muddy 'Mississippi' Waters Live, featuring Johnny Winter on guitar.
 
Mississippi John Hurt was great in the Elephant Man, how he managed to fingerpick his guitar while wearing that big hood.....
 
I dip in to the blues and always enjoy it when I do. I remember seeing The Butler Twins upstairs at The Raikes about 25 years ago, they were full on Delta Blues and were really impressive. Last year saw Walter Trout at The Picturedome in Holmfirth, he was brilliant.
 
I prefer the rocky blues versions personally. But this is where they originated from. That said I’ve heard quite a few really good players/singers make their guitars sound like a full band almost. Thumb baseline finger picking and slide rhythms & slapping the body for percussion & singing at the same time, plus with a gob iron round their neck a little simple occasional blast from that too.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Agree. Great stuff. I do prefer modern interpretations of Robert Johnson (eg. Cream's live Crossroads) and on CD I have The Robert Johnson Songbook performed by Peter Green with Nigel Watson - mainly acoustic stuff. Thinking on, I've also got a vinyl LP, Muddy 'Mississippi' Waters Live, featuring Johnny Winter on guitar.
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I will definitely check out the Green and Watson CD. The live Muddy LP I’ve heard with JW and enjoyed it.

Big influence on Led Zeppelin, The Stones and the legacy still lives on.
 
Sooty59 said:
I prefer the rocky blues versions personally. But this is where they originated from. That said I’ve heard quite a few really good players/singers make their guitars sound like a full band almost. Thumb baseline finger picking and slide rhythms & slapping the body for percussion & singing at the same time, plus with a gob iron round their neck a little simple occasional blast from that too.
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I enjoy the rocky/electric stuff too. Though I’ve always admired a ‘one man/woman and his/her guitar’ approach a lot. The thumb rhythm on some of these guys is insane. I’m going to give it a try on the guitar and get out of my comfort zone with some alternate tunings too.
 
I got into Rock n Roll in my early teens , (late 70s) and as the years have passed I’ve got into other types of music from where Rock n Roll came, Gospel, Blues etc, I don’t really know a lot about it but I do love listening when I’m driving or stuck in a field camping.
 
This is Ska said:
I dip in to the blues and always enjoy it when I do. I remember seeing The Butler Twins upstairs at The Raikes about 25 years ago, they were full on Delta Blues and were really impressive. Last year saw Walter Trout at The Picturedome in Holmfirth, he was brilliant.
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Fantastic. I wish I could’ve seen either of these gigs.

Around 16 years ago, David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards played at ‘The Luminaire’ in Kilburn, London before he passed away and I’m kicking myself I didn’t go. Ditto for Wanda Jackson.
 
Graves said:
I enjoy the rocky/electric stuff too. Though I’ve always admired a ‘one man/woman and his/her guitar’ approach a lot. The thumb rhythm on some of these guys is insane. I’m going to give it a try on the guitar and get out of my comfort zone with some alternate tunings too.
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I get lost with the alternate tunings I’m bad enough in standard 😬
 
Fatboy said:
I got into Rock n Roll in my early teens , (late 70s) and as the years have passed I’ve got into other types of music from where Rock n Roll came, Gospel, Blues etc, I don’t really know a lot about it but I do love listening when I’m driving or stuck in a field camping.
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Agree Fatboy. I inherited my parents record and went from there. Always loved Rock N Roll, Soul, Doo Wop etc since I searched for Beatles and Elvis influences.

I remember you’ve mentioned some of my favourite old songs on some of these music threads.
 
This is Ska said:
I dip in to the blues and always enjoy it when I do. I remember seeing The Butler Twins upstairs at The Raikes about 25 years ago, they were full on Delta Blues and were really impressive. Last year saw Walter Trout at The Picturedome in Holmfirth, he was brilliant.
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This is Ska said:
I dip in to the blues and always enjoy it when I do. I remember seeing The Butler Twins upstairs at The Raikes about 25 years ago, they were full on Delta Blues and were really impressive. Last year saw Walter Trout at The Picturedome in Holmfirth, he was brilliant.
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Im In the same boat as yourself. Was well into the blues late 80’s / early 90’s, when Mick Schofield had his Kite Club Blues nights upstairs at The Raikes.
One guy who stood out was UP Wilson (I think that was his name), who looked like Chuck Berry. His party piece was holding a bottle of whiskey in one hand while he played his guitar with the other.
Also saw Walter Trout on his 1st visit at a Club opposite Central Pier (name escapes me). He was absolutely awesome.
But tops for me was BB King at The Apollo in Manchester. He had the whole crowd floating.
He really was King of The Blues .
 
This is Ska said:
I dip in to the blues and always enjoy it when I do. I remember seeing The Butler Twins upstairs at The Raikes about 25 years ago, they were full on Delta Blues and were really impressive. Last year saw Walter Trout at The Picturedome in Holmfirth, he was brilliant.
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Walter Trout was a regular back in the day at the Kite Club in Blackpool
 
Sooty59 said:
Not seen him since he almost died & they had a whip round or something to pay for a liver transplant I think. Thank goodness for the NHS. Sweet as a Flower still one of my favourites a Santana tribute.
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In Holmfirth he spoke of his battle to recover. He lost the ability to play and had to re teach himself to play again. He’s awesome.
 
Fatboy said:
I got into Rock n Roll in my early teens , (late 70s) and as the years have passed I’ve got into other types of music from where Rock n Roll came, Gospel, Blues etc, I don’t really know a lot about it but I do love listening when I’m driving or stuck in a field camping.
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You know your Elvis lyrics word perfect, I’ll give you that Steve 👍
 
I have an excellent collection of four CD's with 73 tracks of various blues recordings, from Tommy Tucker, Isaac Scot, Jimmy Reed & Louisiana Red to the well known Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker etc
 
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