Dear members,
I am pretty sure that your wide knowledge about Blues can help me.
I am looking for blues albums ( old or contemporary) featuring piano, guitars and harp, drums ,bass and vocals .No horns.
I have many CD's from JL Hooker, Howlin Wolf, Muddy,Sonny Boy etc...which are basically guitar based .None of them contain the "weaving" guitar/piano.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers!

Check out Charles Brown

Leroy Carr ....



ROCKMAN

Super Black Blues with T-Bone Walker, Otis Spann and a few others. Ernie Watts is on it as well, although not sure if its the same guy who played (excellently I might add) on the Stones 1981 tour.

Tampa Red with Big Maceo ....



ROCKMAN

the "weaving" guitar/piano ?

don't look too far ...

how about Johnnie Johnson and his guitar player, Charles Edward Berry ? (and with Eric and Keith...)





plus Chuck Leavell





weave, brothers

resotele

For the Piano 'Bessie Smith's albums, and for the wild guitar 'Hound Dog Taylor' and for the Harmonica 'Little Walter'...

Don't forget Gus Cannon or Johnny Winter either...



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Taj Mahal's first album is a must, imo.









For more contemporary blues, Vidar Busk and Amund Maarud are worth checking out:

Amund Maarud




Vidar Busk




Together

Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign

This was one of the main albums that inspired the late 60s blues boom. Hendrix and Clapton had it in their collections and I'm sure Peter Green., Keith, Mick Taylor, Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher and Paul Kossoff did too.

Besides the stunning title track it has Cross Cut Saw, The Hunter, and As The Years Go Passing By.

This 1971 album is killer diller.

I have always turned to this album. Great stuff!

From Anthology Of British Blues

one of the best live blues albums...and a Stones connection as well

One of my favourites. Fantastic album (My Feeling For The Blues)!

Charlie Patton(5 disk set)
Lightnin Hopkins(5 disk or 7 disk sets)
Smithsonian Blues boxsets

Piano and Blues?

Champion Jack Dupree.

Magic Sam. "Black Magic" album.

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells: Play The Blues
Muddy Waters: Hard Again
Muddy Waters: Electric Mud
John Hammond Jnr: Wicked Grin
Muddy Waters: Live At Newport

check out Junior Kimbrough recordings.

RL Burnside: A Ass Pocket Full of Whisky

One of the best albums of this year was Valerie June's album, beautifull blues album, check it out:

[www.southernliving.com]

Muddy and Pinetop Perkins are a pretty good combo

ROCKMAN

get the live album released a few years ago with muddy, pinetop and johnny winter

Check this, Freddy King playing Going Down:

The 1977 reunion album of the original Animals, Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted, often gets overlooked--even by Animals fans, but it still has a great feel and warm atmosphere with an excellent mix of guitar and piano/keyboards.

Love all the great suggestions! Anyone have any thoughts on the Alligator Records collections? I am thinking about suggesting their 40th anniversary double CD as a Christmas present for my son.

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duke richardson
one of the best live blues albums...and a Stones connection as well

Agreed, love this album. Just recently picked up the 180gm vinyl version mastered from the original analog tapes, a must have!

If you don't already have them you need these:

"Hooker 'n' Heat"-John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat
"Live At Soledad Prison"-John Lee Hooker

Vidar Busk looks interesting