What Blues are you Listening To Today?

[bart]

Originally Posted by PHC1

T-Bone Walker. Great album.

Serge, I've loved T-Bone Walker since almost 40 years.
I own a couple of CD boxes, but currently streaming your suggestion.

[bart]

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer
Qobuz 24/192




I play this at least half a dozen times a year.
It is not only a fantastic album, it also sounds terrific.
One the few audiophile blues records.

[PHC1]

Interesting listen. Dutch bluesman...

[Pau]

Dutch tv made a special about the band. There is a couple of tracks from the special on you tube. Good to see how well that band play even with cameras up close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2EnotzFgs&loop=0

Originally Posted by Pau

Carmen Gomes Inc. Up Jumped The Devil, ​Discovering the music of Robert Johnson.
A whole new take on these classic songs. Superb.

Superb in depth review here;https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/revie...ecording-r957/

Album is available from these distributeurs;

https://carmengomes.bandcamp.com/music (Redbook CD, Mp3, wav 44.1)


https://www.soundliaison.com/ (Flac, DXD, DSD)

https://soundliaison.bandcamp.com/music

Originally Posted by PHC1

It is a very well recorded and enjoyable album indeed. Sound Liaison continues to impress and are getting better with every album.

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by Pau

Dutch tv made a special about the band. There is a couple of tracks from the special on you tube. Good to see how well that band play even with cameras up close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2EnotzFgs&loop=0

Thanks for sharing. I enjoy listening to Carmen Gomez and especially the Sound Liaison recordings.

[miner]

Some Joe Bonamassa and Bet Hart - Seesaw

[bart]

Muddy Waters - Hard Again
via Qobuz




Unfortunately I've never seen McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters, live.
But James Cotton we did see live, on his 80th birthday concert in New York.

This here is straight, pure blues. Great album!

After a string of mediocre albums throughout most of the 1970s, Muddy Waters hooked up with Johnny Winter for 1977's Hard Again, a startling comeback and a gritty demonstration of the master's powers. Fronting a band that includes such luminaries as James Cotton and "Pine Top" Perkins, Waters is not only at the top of his game, but is having the time of his life while he's at it. The bits of studio chatter that close "Mannish Boy" and open "Bus Driver" show him to be relaxed and obviously excited about the proceedings. Part of this has to be because the record sounds so good. Winter has gone for an extremely bare production style, clearly aiming to capture Waters in conversation with a band in what sounds like a single studio room. This means that sometimes the songs threaten to explode in chaos as two or three musicians begin soloing simultaneously. Such messiness is actually perfect in keeping with the raw nature of this music; you simply couldn't have it any other way. There is something so incredibly gratifying about hearing Waters shout out for different soloists, about the band missing hits or messing with the tempos. Hey this isn't pop music, it's the blues, and a little dirt never hurt anybody. The unsung star of this session is drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, whose deep grooves make this record come alive. The five-minute, one-chord "Mannish Boy" wouldn't be nearly as compelling as it is if it weren't for Smith's colossal pocket. Great blues from one of the dominant voices of the genre.

© Daniel Gioffre /TiVo

[W9TR]

Hey Bart - check out Muddy ‘Mississippi’ Waters - Live. I was at Harry Hope’s for the live recording, August 25, 1978. Second row. I’ll never forget it.

[bart]

Originally Posted by W9TR

Hey Bart - check out Muddy ‘Mississippi’ Waters - Live. I was at Harry Hope’s for the live recording, August 25, 1978. Second row. I’ll never forget it.

Wow!
And yes, will do!

[Pau]

Originally Posted by chessman

Etta James - The Definitive Collection

The Queen of them all!