big bill broonzy, lightin hopkins

rje66

just wondering what are the better/must buy albums, studio or live from these two blues ledgends. Searching the net is almost impossible as they have a lot out there.

Currently listening to muddy mississippi waters live, its just fantastic.

open to other suggestions of live stuff from any of the other greats.

thanks:cool::cool:

clonmahon

Any amount of stuff from both of them on youtube.

For other country blues artists check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Country_blues_musicians

With all of these artists try youtube, a world of great music waiting to discover

bdr529

Big Bill live in Amsterdam & Lightnin Hopkins live at Newport , you'll get both albumns on MP3panda.com

rje66

thanks for the info , will check it out.

With all of these artists try youtube, a world of great music waiting to discover

my laptop is so slow it takes an age to watch stuff on YT:mad::mad:, but will do

clonmahon

rje66 wrote: »

thanks for the info , will check it out.

my laptop is so slow it takes an age to watch stuff on YT:mad::mad:, but will do

Then avoid the video and look for files like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEC4OklodzA

which is Big Bill Broonzy doing the blues classic "Key to the Highway".

The same image is displayed all the way through and the file download is small maybe 8 mbs. A lot of the old time blues artists were never filmed so there are lots of old blues recordings on youtube in exactly this format, audio and stills. Look for them and download them to your hard drive.

To search Youtube for audio recordings by a particular Blues artist, use an address like

http://www.youtube.com/artist/Big_Bill_Broonzy?feature=watch_video_title

This will give you an album of original recordings by Bill Bill Broonzy on Youtube

Replace Big_Bill_Broonzy in the above address with Mississippi_John_Hurt and you will get a John Hurt album.

The old recordings were made in the 1920s and 30s so the quality is (by modern standards) piss poor. The recordings on Youtube are as good as you will get by buying a cd. All this material is out of copyright.

Artists to look for include
Mississippi John Hurt
Blind Blake
Blind Willie McTell
Skip James
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Robert Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson
Memphis Minnie
Charley Patton
Victoria Spivey
Laura Smith
Bessie Tucker
Bukka White
Sonny Terry
Brownie McGhee
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Son House
Lightnin' Hopkins
Reverend Gary Davis
Bo Carter
Etta Baker
Elizabeth Cotton
Sam Chatmon

And the first superstars of blues
Bessie Smith
Ma Rainey

If you exhaust this mountain of material, you can search the online audio archive of the US Library of Congress which is stuffed with country blues and other kinds of american folk music. All in very small files sizes.

If you want to learn how to play this kind of music google Stephan Grossman or Happy Traum and you will find a vast collection of instructional material.

rje66

thanks for detailed reply, lots to look up there.:)

The old recordings were made in the 1920s and 30s so the quality is (by modern standards) piss poor

Agree, got Robert Johnson -Contracted to the Devil , quality poor but still worth listening to.

Auvers

here is three that belong in every blues collection

rje66

thanks auvers,
hard again keeps popping up in classic blues albums, so I think its next on the list, trust its a lot different from 'electric mud':):)

will check out the others on you tube, thanks for that link clonmahon. im finding some good stuff, but havnt been able to down load, any tips?
ta

clonmahon

rje66 wrote: »

thanks auvers,
hard again keeps popping up in classic blues albums, so I think its next on the list, trust its a lot different from 'electric mud':):)

All good stuff auvers, my list was just acoustic blues, if you add electric I guess there must be damn near 100 artists to add to the list. Take care rje66 this music could take over your life.

rje66 wrote: »

will check out the others on you tube, thanks for that link clonmahon. im finding some good stuff, but havnt been able to down load, any tips?
ta

Use Real Player to browse on Youtube, it will allow you to download. Or google "download youtube videos", which will produce a bewildering array of options

Auvers

rje66 wrote: »

thanks auvers,
hard again keeps popping up in classic blues albums, so I think its next on the list, trust its a lot different from 'electric mud'

aye Electric Mud was a concept album that Muddy was never really happy about

Hard Again is just bare bone blues with Muddy back to his best, it also has one of the finest versions of Mannish Boy ever recorded imo

also anything with James Cotton on harp is usually pure gold

bdr529

if you like Hard again, then check out the 'Muddy waters woodstock album'

win2one

I would also suggest if you like Hard Again you'd like these 2 albums by Johnny Winter (who produced and played on Hard Again)

White Hot And Blue
Nothin But The Blues