If you were going to buy one BLUES album, what would it be??

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I think mine would be Skip James - Document collection

― meister, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine would be King of the Delta Blues Singers by Robert Johnson.

― Unknown User, Monday, 7 June 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe the Charley Patton?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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― frankE (frankE), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

too difficult.. "blues" que?

Id have to chose something from Chicago Blues I think.. can I chose the WIllie Dixon box set?

if not then hmmm Otis Spann- The Blues Never Die

― nothingleft (nothingleft), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Either the Skip James or Robert Johnson's Complete Recordings. But that feels stupidly reductive.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe this one?

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I dunno, an impossible question to answer. Who could possibly live with only one blues album?

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Slim Harpo - Tip On In

― briania (briania), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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But yes, this is like asking which one rock album you would buy.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

noodle said what I was going to say.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

To really understand the blues you need to see it live. Check your local listings -- if you are lucky there will be a local band playing live blues.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Any of Otha Turner's output.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll even boil it down to a song. "Last Night." Little Walter.

― rumple, Monday, 7 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I think to really understand the blues, you need to read Pitchfork. They do excellent musicological work over there. They really get inside the wide range of musics they cover, and interrogate them with a rigorous critical approach.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

take away the s.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Seeing the blues live? more like seeing the blues still on a respirator or seeing the blues freezed dried as it has been for the last 30 plus years.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my favourite records ever
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― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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This, or that Otis Rush disc listed above.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Crikey. What a question. I mean a blues top 10 would be easier, relative neophyte that I am. Still, I'll just make a recommendation:
the Blind Willie McTell box set, 1927-1940 "The Classic Years" on Jsp records. I'm really digging that at the mo. But then I like the old-time blues.

― de, Monday, 7 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

'Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929' - Henry Thomas

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Jazzbo OTM

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Blues for the Red Sun" by Kyuss

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Something by Calhoun Tubbs most probably

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Rediscovered by Mississippi John Hurt for gentle, Howlin' Wolf- Memphis Days or Elmore James -- The Sky is Crying for rough.
Corry Harris -- Greens From the Garden or Downhome Sophisticate for modern.

*To really understand the blues you need to see it live. Check your local listings -- if you are lucky there will be a local band playing live blues.* -- Ghost World to thread.

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i would go with just about any blind willie mctell, i'm partial to later recordings myself (it's unbearable when he sings with his wife on the classic years), or "avalon blues" by mississippi john hurt are the most compulsively listenable for all circumstances. early bukka white recordings (fixin' to die blues, parchman farm blues) and robert pete williams (free again, robert pete williams) for fucked-up prison blues.
rev. gary davis and blind willie johnson for gravelly spirituals. blind lemon jefferson and furry lewis for good-timey pickin'. magic sam, west side soul for soul and r&b influenced electric blues.

― naturemorte, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

nobody got my joke :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

if anyone wants to hear modern rural, acoustic, non-wanky, non-keb mo/robert cray blues, check out otis taylor. hes one of the few (at least, that i know of) genuinely current bluesmen and he doesnt sound shit. and no, jack white does not count in this category.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim Belushi and the Sacred Hearts S/T

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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