/help/ THE BLUES![views:1867][posts:16]________________________________________ [Oct 2,2008 11:15am - Grits n Gravy ""] Can anyone suggest blues artists that really have a low down, depressed, slower than normal, gritty sound? Just basically looking for extremely sad/depressed/hopeless blues. |
| _______________________________ [Oct 2,2008 11:28am - dftg ""] try leonard cohen or nick cave. Not exactly blues but whtever. |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 2,2008 11:46am - Grits n Gravy ""] i wasnt thinking of this when i started the thread, but... lets says tom waits' deep dark personality meets john lee hooker? down beat / beaten down blues is what i want. if i cant find any i'll just still to TW |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 2,2008 11:56am - corpus_colostomy ""] little walter and sonny boy williamson. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 2,2008 12:05pm - bradmann_nli ""] R.L. Burnside |
| __________________________________ [Oct 2,2008 12:06pm - darkwor ""] great thread, i'm after the same thing |
| __________________________________ [Oct 2,2008 12:08pm - brian_dc ""] not exactly in the mold you're looking for, but this dude is amazing William Elliot Whitmore http://www.myspace.com/williamewhitmore |
| ___________________________________________ [Oct 2,2008 12:12pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] i wanna do a blues project so bad |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 2,2008 2:28pm - Grits n Gravy ""] thanks for the suggestions. i'll have to check em all out |
| _______________________________ [Oct 2,2008 2:38pm - xmikex ""] posting in this thread so I can reference it later. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 3,2008 2:16pm - Grits n Gravy ""] up. any further suggestions??? |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 3,2008 11:12pm - aeroponix ""] brian_dc said:not exactly in the mold you're looking for, but this dude is amazing William Elliot Whitmore http://www.myspace.com/williamewhitmore holy fuck, yes he is! :BOW: |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 4,2008 12:01am - Nocuous_Fumes ""] Skip James |
| ________________________________ [Oct 4,2008 9:02am - Kadoog ""] Snooks Eaglin [old new orleans street singer] Ghost in My Basement [new stuff] |
| ________________________________ [Oct 4,2008 9:03am - Kadoog ""] The Dad Horse Experience! don't let the dumb name fool you, it's this crazy old german dude singing about jesus. |
| ________________________________ [Oct 4,2008 5:46pm - badman ""] Junior Kimbrough |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 4,2008 6:27pm - ThirdKnuckle ""] Buddy Guy/Sweet Tea excerpt from Rolling Stone review: "...Sweet Tea is a different matter altogether: It's nearly as stark, savage and unsettling as Guy's classic work for the Chess label in the Sixties. The new album is named after the studio in which it was recorded, in the heart of northern Mississippi hill country - the home of trance-boogie bluesmen such as T-Model Ford, Robert Cage and the late Junior Kimbrough. Guy covers their songs, taps into their sinister sound and rediscovers the world into which he was born in 1936, on a Louisiana sharecropper's farm. "I can't love like I used to," Guy sings, alone with his guitar on Kimbrough's "Done Got Old." The words are two steps from the grave, but the voice quivers with desire, and the album turns on this primordial tension between sex and death. The forbidding soundscapes comprise little more than one-chord drones and skeletal beats laid down by Ford's exquisitely elemental drummer, Spam. Guy roams over this spooky terrain like an outcast, wrenching notes from his guitar in fractured bursts and howling with anxiety on Davis' "She's Got the Devil in Her" and lust on Kimbrough's "I Gotta Try You Girl." It's a world full of temptation and cruelty, and on Sweet Tea, Buddy Guy's music once again sounds like it can't be satisfied." |