Recommended for rock fans too! — A classic album of modern blues

M&O BluesWillie Brown

Willie Brown – M & O Blues – Paramount 13090, Champion 50023 blues

Willie Brown, born in 1900 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was an American guitarist and singer.

He is known for having taught Robert Johnson guitar and also performed with artists such as Charley Patton and Son House.

He recorded sessions for Paramount in 1930, including M&O Blues and Future Blues.

Brown SugerZZ Top

ZZ Top – Brown Sugar

ZZ Top is widely remembered as an electric boogie band that took the 1980s by storm, but few people accurately recognize that their roots are in a hard-core blues band.

Billy Gibbons, the guitarist, is also a superb blues player, and his technique is highly regarded by connoisseurs.

wild women don’t have the bluesIda Cox

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Ida Cox was a female classic blues singer who was active in the 1920s.

Hailing from the state of Georgia in the United States, she wrote many of her own songs and also produced shows.

This piece, too, was entirely her creation—lyrics, composition, and vocals.

That’s All RightJimmy Rogers

That’s all right – Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers, born in 1924 in Ruleville, Mississippi, was a blues musician who rose to prominence in the early 1950s as Muddy Waters’ second guitarist.

His powerful bass lines and precise rhythms were considered indispensable to Muddy’s sound.

As a bluesman on the legendary Chicago blues label Chess Records, he produced what was regarded as the quintessential Chicago blues sound.

He scored hits with many blues numbers, including “That’s All Right” and “You’re the One.”

its hurts me tooJohn Mayall

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers – It Hurts Me Too

A godfather-like figure of British white blues.

As the first guitarist of his band, the Bluesbreakers, a young Eric Clapton also made his debut (the second guitarist was Peter Green).

Now 83 years old, he is still alive and active as a bluesman.

Catfish bluesLightnin’ Hopkins

LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS ~ Catfish Blues

A great bluesman who still commands immense respect.

His trademark cigarette and sunglasses, and that instantly recognizable “Lightnin’ style” vocal—where a single growl gives him away—stand shoulder to shoulder with John Lee Hooker.

This blues standard, too, is masterfully rendered in his own style.

Poor Boy Long Way from HomeBukka White

Booker White – Poor Boy Long Way from Home

Among pre-war acoustic blues musicians, there were many master slide guitarists, and one of the most representative is Bukka White.

Slide guitar is sometimes played with special tunings, which contributes to the distinctive sound of pre-war blues.