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Great Blues recordings by rock-n-rollers
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Well –
as long as this thread is still warm,
and since we’re doubling up on artists – here we go.
Jung – you opened the floodgates here 🙂
Grateful Dead – Little Red Rooster Jerry & Bob on slide guitar
More to follow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gspGPBijYFU
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Stephen Stills – Black Queen
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Grateful Dead – Walking Blues (I know i’m a shameless Deadhead) 🙂
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Damn – i forgot Love In Vain by the Stones (:
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I don’t know if anyone will receive this but here is a great blues song by Alvin Lee
(with George Harrison)
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Loved Ten Years After and then some of Alvin Lee’s solo work…the song you posted being one of my favorites. Here’s a great blues instrumental from Carlos Santana, Samba Pa Ti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWO_eojWezg
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As an added touch I believe the organ used is a Hammond!!
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One further item…I would argue that John Sebastian could play the harmonica with anyone…he was fantastic.
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For sure I have to add something Dutch, it something old 1968, one of my older susters boyfriends had this music. Maybe more a “real” blues band
Love all the great blues songs mentioned.
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The list of old time rockers who didn’t play a blues song is probably shorter than those who did. A lot of songs fell in both categories.
Led Zeppelin I had 2 Willie Dixon Songs on it. “I Can’t Quit You Baby”
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and “You Shook Me”.
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In addition to the Cream song that Jung mentioned, they also covered Robert Johnson’s Crossroads. And Clapton played in the rock band Yardbirds, before playing with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
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A lot of people would call Johnny Winter a bluesman
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Hi Chris, I really liked Johnny and his brother Edgar back in the day, Edgar mostly when I was a teenager. I think the Edgar Winter Group was really a “super group” with Dan Hartman, Ronnie Montrose and later Rick Derringer. They had a lot of great tunes. I really got into Johnny and more bluesy stuff recently. Yeah he was a great blues player. His version of Johnny B. Goode on YouTube was my favorite until I seen the Twins version at the Cavern in the MLT Club. Thanks for posting the video.
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Edgar was great. I have They Only Come Out at Night album that I got around when it was released in the early ’70s. That might have been his biggest album; all the local bands were covering tunes like Free Ride back then.
A musician friend of mine invited me to go see Edgar long ago; he had a backstage pass since he knew some people. My day gig was a ton of hours in those days so I didn’t go, but I wish I had.
I saw Johnny play around 1974 in a big basketball arena. James Cotton opened for him and then he came out blazing. Great stuff.
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But he spent time rocking out too, which opened him up to a much bigger audience.
I think I need a hat and some shoes like that. Here he’s covering Rick Derringer.
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From my favorite band and favorite LP. I think John Fogerty should be up there with the best rockers of all time and he could also deliver some gut wrenching blues. Cool thing is John is still out playing, recently in the UK and after 50 years finally got the rights back to his CCR songs.https://youtu.be/Lb3ppp_RoT0
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