B.B.'s in his 80's, Buddy and James Cotton are in their 70's-who else is left and active?
We got a lotta white boys in their 60's bot what about black blues dudes around this age?

bb and james aren't very active...they just kinda sit there.

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bb and james aren't very active...they just kinda sit there.

True! But they still play the odd gig, no?

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bb and james aren't very active...they just kinda sit there.

True! But they still play the odd gig, no?

yes to your no....

SRV is a legend...he's still got it...

BB King........of all the kings to live......sigh

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BB King........of all the kings to live......sigh

Freddies my favourite by a mile.

Bobby Rush and Bobby Bland are still active but generally the blues guys are all dead or done like Otis Rush.....


man it was nice to see SunnyLand Slim every sunday or Otis Rush or Junior Wells for five sets regularly back in the 90s

Yes, there were some great Kings who didn't get the respect they deserved.
BB is amazing as a player at his age and with his health problems. He has also been good to other musicians financially and with advice...which hasn't always been true in the black music community.

Of course Buddy Guy!

BB King is also a legend, certainly more than Buddy Guy, but not very active those days...

Eric Clapton? I never really liked his music.

Do you know Joe Bonamassa? He is a future legend! One of the best guitar player in the world!

I also think that Lucky Peterson will be considered as a legend in the future.

Benjamin.

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BB King........of all the kings to live......sigh

Freddies my favourite by a mile.

gimme albert. no, wait. i'll take earl...everybody always forgets earl.

I think Brian would bitch slap a lot of these current players from the grave...

"The blues" is creating legends as we speak/type. There is a whole crop of young people who make a fine living playing the blues, but "Legend" status will not be annointed to them for a long long time... it is just the way things are.


Most every city and every town has a blues club... with blues jam nights (at least) weekly (I think jamming is one of the best things about the blues) so head on down there and check out the "kids" who can play the blues, it is, they are somewhat amazing.

Just typing "Young Blues player" into youtube brings up this 8 year old
blues man, I have no idea who he is... he just came up randomly... and WOW! as advertised





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bb and james aren't very active...they just kinda sit there.

True! But they still play the odd gig, no?

Yes BB King is here in Milwaukee May 31 but I plan on being in Chicago for the Stones. I was hoping it was an off date for the Stones so I could let know and hopefully they would show up for BB.

It's hard to believe James Cotton is only in his 70s. I saw him over 30 years ago and he looked tired and old even then.

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SRV is a legend...he's still got it...

Ummmm, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Stevie Ray Vaughn.....oh never mind.

Chuck Berry and Fats Domino are still active.


video: [www.chuckberry.de]

John Mayall

video: [www.johnmayall.com]

Johnny Winter


video: [www.johnnywinter.net]

When I was in Boston for the BB concert in Foxboro in 2006, there was a black Blues guitarist playing in the Boston Public Gardens who really impressed me a lot with his fluidity. He said he'd been playing for 30 years in Boston and Cambridge. His name is Manny.

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John Mayall
Johnny Winter

How hard is it to read the question in the original post?

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BB King........of all the kings to live......sigh

Freddies my favourite by a mile.

gimme albert. no, wait. i'll take earl...everybody always forgets earl.

I'm going, Freddie, Albert, Earl, Don and BB. I am not a fan of BB's cleaned up dressed up "white mans" blues. I can't hear the Delta for all the vibrato in the world.......I'm a Muddy/Wolf/John Lee guy. I maintain, with Hubert dead, Buddy Guy is about it as far as active goes. However "legend" may be kind.

Buddy is basically the last bridge to Muddy in my book. Probably Johnny Winter too.

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bb and james aren't very active...they just kinda sit there.

I saw the beebs in 1986 and he didn't move off his stool. He was 61 then and I'm sure I thought he was in his late 70s.

a great show though!

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bb and james aren't very active...they just kinda sit there.

I saw the beebs in 1986 and he didn't move off his stool. He was 61 then and I'm sure I thought he was in his late 70s.

a great show though!

he was standing in '79...so through exhaustive investigative research, we've determined that his stool moved into the act, thus rendering him inactive somewhere between the years 1979 and 1986.

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bb and james aren't very active...they just kinda sit there.

I saw the beebs in 1986 and he didn't move off his stool. He was 61 then and I'm sure I thought he was in his late 70s.

a great show though!

he was standing in '79...so through exhaustive investigative research, we've determined that his stool moved into the act, thus rendering him inactive somewhere between the years 1979 and 1986.

well, as far as I'm concerned then the thrill is gone.

Saw BB in '88 supporting U2-he did the encore"When Love Comes to Town" dressed in fully in leather! Would be funny to see it now! Looked like a butch shiny black beanbag that someone had dropped a guitar on.

Delbert Mcclinton

When the day comes that all of the remaining blues "legends" are white people, somebody be sure to just kill me.