[QUOTE=Euthanasiast] Love Fredie King, and Hideaway is one of my all time favorite blues numbers. I also like most musician’s take on that song. I particularly love SRV (big surprise there) and Jeff Healey’s version of that song.
Excellent recommendation.
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Ah, geekiness - is there anything you won’t do?
Here (YouTube link) is an interview with SRV on UK TV. About 1 minute in he plays snippets of both Freddie King’s and Eric Clapton’s approach to Hide Away. Very insightful, and sounds amazing, even though the interviewer is a git (yeah, SRV was really influenced by the Mersey beat, right… :rolleyes: )…
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Ah, geekiness - is there anything you won’t do?
Here (YouTube link) is an interview with SRV on UK TV. About 1 minute in he plays snippets of both Freddie King’s and Eric Clapton’s approach to Hide Away. Very insightful, and sounds amazing, even though the interviewer is a git (yeah, SRV was really influenced by the Mersey beat, right… :rolleyes: )…
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I saw that before, and I thought the interviewer should have been shot, consider that in retrospect there were so few interviews with Stevie.
I swear to Og, if I could just play like Vaughan and Healey and a handful of other blues greats, I’d give up just about every other happiness.
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I feel like a complete moron for admitting this – but I don’t own a single one of his albums. His discography is intimidating – where should I start?
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Just curious here but WHY do you feel like a complete moron for admitting this? I don’t know why you would feel like a moron for not owning something that didn’t interest you until this moment. Why would you? Do you feel like a moron for not owning the million other “must-haves” out there in other genres like metal or country or even rap?
Heh. Good question. Because I have such great taste in music (sic)? I don’t feel bad about not having the “classics” in crappy (sic) genres, so my ignorance about country, rap, and metal bothers me not a whit.
Are you up on your blues from other musicians and just lacking with B.B, or is your lack of experience ‘across the board’? If so I would like to recommend you a couple of must haves from more contemporary blues artists as well.
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at the El Mocambo is a must have DVD for starters.
Jeff Healey’s See The Light album is particularly excellent and has an awesome Hideaway cover.
I’m sure Wordman and I can put together a must have blues catalog spanning the history if you get froggy.
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Just curious here but WHY do you feel like a complete moron for admitting this? I don’t know why you would feel like a moron for not owning something that didn’t interest you until this moment. Why would you? Do you feel like a moron for not owning the million other “must-haves” out there in other genres like metal or country or even rap?
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Hmm - I guess I got **twick’s **comment instinctively. I love music, but recognize that there is too much out there to take in, so a lot of stuff slips through the cracks. I regularly go back and check out neglected-by-me artists from years ago when I get a ping - some reference on the SDMB or in an article…
Because I actively do this, I have started to get a feel, based on how they were written about, how they interview and how their songs and music are described whether I will like them. When I finally listen - and it turns out I do, in fact, really enjoy their music - I can feel like a moron, because I always had a feeling I would like them. Darn it - I could’ve had more time with them!
Out of 20 artists, maybe 2 - 3 become heavy-rotation faves - definitely a ratio I am okay with…
I’m sure Wordman and I can put together a must have blues catalog spanning the history if you get froggy.
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Didn’t ultrafilter have his series of “best of” lists in each genre, including blues? That would be a great place to start.
Also - it depends on the type of blues we are discussing. Although the structures are the same, there is a wide chasm between scratchy, fingerpicked, primitive acoustic country blues and super-cool, 17-piece-including-horn-section urban jump blues. Both are wonderful, but really are chalk and cheese…
[QUOTE=twickster] Listen to the blues – baby, I’m living the blues today.
Well, as best as a middle-aged white woman with a professional job can…
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[B.B. King - well if he was a woman]
I’m a middle-aged white gal - havin’ to work on the holidays
Yes, I’m a middle-aged white gal - havin’ to work on the holidays
I can’t be Dopin’ on the blues - I’m too busy livin’ them today…
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…why I listen and critique, and don’t actually write original stuff…
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I’ve always thought it would be fun to come see you perform. If that should ever happen, I will demand – loudly – that you do this song.
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My rhythm section would protest (say “no more ‘boo-gie’ numbers!” with a strong Brit accent, and you’ll sound like them) so we’d have to work around that!
And believe me - you wouldn’t have wanted to see us last week. We played a private holiday party (about 250 people) and I was cut off at the knees by a stomach virus. I was literally draped over a toilet a few hours before going on. But what can you do? We were the entertainment! So I bucked up and played. The end of the night was not pretty…
