If you listen to my Thursday morning Breakfast with the Blues show very much you know that I generally like to play my favorite artists with a mixture of classic recordings, popular cuts and a sprinkling of new music. We’ve been getting so much great new (and some not so great) music in that its fun to dig through the blues cabinet to see what has arrived since my last show. This week highlights were a new release from Detroit jazz / blues drummer RJ Spangler “You know I can’t refuse” featuring a great cast of Detroit bluesmen including Bill Heid on keyboard. This is an excellent recording with great renditions of classic tunes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie Dixon Jimmy Weatherspoon and many others. I also enjoyed spinning the new Debbie Davies all instrumental album called Holdin’ Court, along with Pete Anderson’s “Even things up” and I’m looking forward to hearing more from the new CD from Quintus McCormick “Hey Jodie. So much new stuff… so little time.
With that said, let’s not forget some of the more solid classic recordings that set the bar and withstood the test of time.
How do you really pick a best or favorite recording for someone like BB King? I mean really. He’s produced so much good music over his career.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite blues albums of the last 50 years.
Junior Wells Hoo Doo Man Blues 1966 Delmark
Elmore James The Sky is Crying 1993 Compilation
Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign 1967 Stax
Freddy King Hideawy Best of
My Feeling for the Blues
Magic Sam West Side Soul 1967 Delmark
Otis Rush Right Place Wrong Time 1976 Hightone
T-Bone Walker T-Bone Blues
Muddy Waters Real Folk Blues & More Real Folk Blues
Best of the Chess years
Howlin Wolf Real Folk Blues & More Real Folk Blues
Best of the Chess years
BB King My kind of Blues 1961 EMI
Completely Well 1969 MCA
Little Walter Hate to see you go 1969 Chess
Best of the Chess years 1988 Chess
Sonny Boy Best of the Chess Years 2001 Chess
Williamson
Gatemouth Brown Just Got Lucky 1993 Evidence
Today’s playlist
Gatemouth Brown / Taking my chances
Carol Fran & Clarence Holliman / Mean & Evil
Long John Hunter / Beggar Man
Professor Longhair / Everyday Every night
Professor Longhair / If only I knew
Larry Garner / Slow traffic keep right
Pat Pepin / Why me
Jimmy Johnson / Cold, cold feeling
Muddy Waters / Can’t loose what you ain’t never had
Albert King / Bad Luck
Johnny Moore / She hit me from the blind side
Otis Rush / She’s a good’un
Howlin’ Wolf / What a woman
Johnnie Basset / I’m lost
RJ Spangler / Baby let’s go down on the woods
Snooks Eaglin / Josephine
Anthony Paule & Mrs. Dee / Hiding in plain sight
Darrel Nulisch / It’s a shame
Howlin Wolf / I ain’t superstitious
Albert King / Lovingest woman in town
Murali Coryell / Sugar lips
Dave Keyes / Bye bye baby
Long John Hunter / What’s come over you
Debbie Davies / Tryin’ to keep it real
Alvin Youngblood Hart / France Blues
RJ Spangler / Times are getting tougher than tough
Pete Anderson / Even things up
John Nemeth / She’s an angel
Quintus McCormick / Hey Jodie
Debbie Davies / If you love me like you say
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