Whos your all time favorite blues artists?List as many as yould like.?
Here is a poem I wrote for a friend about my favorite blues artists. Life, Love, And The Blues for Viola a 9 year old feminist from Oakland, CA I was in a local music store recently browsing the anthologies of music and there amongst the tomes of recordings of the musical legacy of this great nation I saw a particular article I would like to bring to your attention. This particular article is entitled “The Only Blues Album You Will Ever Need.” Now on this particular compilation were such luminaries as; Johnny Copeland, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Wilson Pickett, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Lightin’ Slim, Robert Cray, Robert Johnson, Albert Collins, Albert King, and B.B. King. NowI will confess that men have had the blues at 3 O’clock, in the midnight hour, and after midnight. And it is also true that EVERY little red rooster born under a bad sign with a bad case of love has got their mojo workin’. I SAID has got their mojo workin’! But it JUST won’t work on me because I have SEEN the
Muddy Waters Howlin’ Wolf Little Walter Sonny Boy II Reverend Gary Davis Otis Spann -All well known John Hammond, in my opinion, is one of the most powerful, authentic, exciting performers playing the blues today. I’ve seen him perform more than fifty times. Rod Piazza/The Mighty Flyers-fortunately they live in my area, so I’ve had the chance to see them perhaps a hundred times or more. Rod has an ENOURMOUS ego, but he may be the true heir to Little Walter. Miss Honey is an incredible pianist, and the band has had a succession of great guitarists-Junior Watson, Alex Schultz, Rick Holmstrom, etc. Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan-based out of Santa Barbara, they are near enough for me to see regularly. Tom plays harp like no-one else. Think John Popper if he could actually play passages that made sense musically. He also plays guitar (mainly 14-17 centuries) as well as he plays harp. Kenny is a master of various fingerpicking styles. To see them at Cold Springs Tavern-an old stagecoach stop-on a
