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71Tele
I know it's sacrilege, but although BB's a master lead guitarist he is not who I would choose to exemplify the blues. He doesn't play chords or rhythm ever, and the arrangements with big band-style horns he has used for years really overwhelm blues music, imo.
For a more complete blues guitar master, I would put forth someone like Muddy Waters or Hubert Sumlin. BB plays kind of a "Vegas" blues, unfortunately.
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71Tele
I know it's sacrilege, but although BB's a master lead guitarist he is not who I would choose to exemplify the blues. He doesn't play chords or rhythm ever, and the arrangements with big band-style horns he has used for years really overwhelm blues music, imo.
For a more complete blues guitar master, I would put forth someone like Muddy Waters or Hubert Sumlin. BB plays kind of a "Vegas" blues, unfortunately.
I fully agree. and for the best slide guitar blues, get some Blind Willie Johnson's singles!
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CBII
71Tele, Amused...
Points well taken however, when I was a kid the local night clubs and pubs had stuff just like this. A musician explaining just how bad off he was and a drunk guy like Sun House (to the right sitting down) nearly falling off his bar stool!
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71Tele
I know it's sacrilege, but although BB's a master lead guitarist he is not who I would choose to exemplify the blues. He doesn't play chords or rhythm ever, and the arrangements with big band-style horns he has used for years really overwhelm blues music, imo.
For a more complete blues guitar master, I would put forth someone like Muddy Waters or Hubert Sumlin. BB plays kind of a "Vegas" blues, unfortunately.
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71Tele
I know it's sacrilege, but although BB's a master lead guitarist he is not who I would choose to exemplify the blues. He doesn't play chords or rhythm ever, and the arrangements with big band-style horns he has used for years really overwhelm blues music, imo.
For a more complete blues guitar master, I would put forth someone like Muddy Waters or Hubert Sumlin. BB plays kind of a "Vegas" blues, unfortunately.
Of the "Three Kings", I by far prefer Freddie and Albert over BB (although I do like BB's music a lot). I think that the stuff BB recorded in the 50s was his best stuff.
I love Hubert Sumlin's playing. Just got the Howlin' Wolf tab book and have really been digging it.
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CBII
71Tele, Amused...
Points well taken however, when I was a kid the local night clubs and pubs had stuff just like this. A musician explaining just how bad off he was and a drunk guy like Sun House (to the right sitting down) nearly falling off his bar stool!
Thanks for posting CBII! I am not sure if your point was critical of Howlin' Wolf here, but The Wolf is The Man! Compare this to the polished BB King clip above.
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bernardanderson
do we truly know how good of a guitar player robert johnson was? apart from the recordings he made and from witness accounts, we have absolutely no tangible evidence of how he performed in a live setting.
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71Tele
I know it's sacrilege, but although BB's a master lead guitarist he is not who I would choose to exemplify the blues. He doesn't play chords or rhythm ever, and the arrangements with big band-style horns he has used for years really overwhelm blues music, imo.
For a more complete blues guitar master, I would put forth someone like Muddy Waters or Hubert Sumlin. BB plays kind of a "Vegas" blues, unfortunately.
Of the "Three Kings", I by far prefer Freddie and Albert over BB (although I do like BB's music a lot). I think that the stuff BB recorded in the 50s was his best stuff.
I love Hubert Sumlin's playing. Just got the Howlin' Wolf tab book and have really been digging it.
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71Tele, Amused...
Points well taken however, when I was a kid the local night clubs and pubs had stuff just like this. A musician explaining just how bad off he was and a drunk guy like Sun House (to the right sitting down) nearly falling off his bar stool!
Thanks for posting CBII! I am not sure if your point was critical of Howlin' Wolf here, but The Wolf is The Man! Compare this to the polished BB King clip above.
Not being critical of the Wolf one bit. He was the REAL DEAL and laid down the law. That clip personifies the blues genre.
Son House had a come back of sorts (like many others) around the late 50's and early 60's. By then unfortunately, the alcohol had torn him up. Lucky for us that Delta style blues he was doing still managed to get out of his brain and make it to his fingers. What's even better, some of his material was captured on acetate before he checked out.
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OpenG
MT and Albert King - check out MT solo starts at 3.20
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DandelionPowderman
BB King´s lead playing is so wonderful that I forget the Vegas package in an instant.