Learn me some Blues...

I’m fairly well schooled for a newjack, but I’d like to hear some suggestions on stuff to dig up from the crypts.

The stuff that I like best tends to be relatively primitive, minimalist, and nasty, eg:

[ul]
[li]R.L. Burnside[/li][li]Fred McDowell[/li][li]Son House[/li][li]Blind Willie Johnson[/li][/ul]

I’m especially interested in slide-n’-harp stuff, either acoustic or electric.

Currently, I’m attempting to find some Tommy Johnson stuff. A guy who drank Sterno sounds like my kind of bluesman.

Thanks.

Oh, and I how did I forget T-Model Ford?

So yeah, T-Model Ford. Muddy. Etc.

I like the Black Keys and all, but they’re a little too, uh, refined for what I’m talking about.

Early Muddy Waters, Alfred King, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell.

Blind Willie Johnson’s Dark was the Night Cold was the Ground (or vice versa) is on the Voyager spacecraft recording that left our solar system.

Historically, Robert Johnson. Sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads for the ability to play the Blues. Died on his knees barking like a dog, his whiskey poisoned by a jealous husband. Cross Road Blues.

While I have you all here…While aligning a satellite antenna, I heard some blues lyrics:

You know I got a few bad habits, baby

and the one I’m gonna lose is you.

Can you name the song?

I got the spell checker bules.

Sonny Terry- he was blind and played the harp, how can you go wrong?