@@evozero905 RL Burnside is (was?) amazing live. He was on a particular record company that was always broke but always delivered amazing music. I’ll have to look them up. Ta for the suggestions.
No production, no big band, just a guitar, a harmonica and a voice that sounds like it’s lived a life. Instant human connection in the magical way that only music can. ✌️
Oh man, im from Australia, white as can be, but my dad loved the blues, and he educated me on it. He dided 10 years ago, and hearing this, brings me right back to him. Im crying like a child, in a good way, i feel like that little girl i was, up past my bedtime, listening to the blues with my daddy. Thankyou.
When I was at the Univ of Vermont, I was the blues DJ for the school's 50,000 watt radio station, WRUV. I was Mr. Mood and played the blues, mostly on vinyl. CDs were just starting to come in. My shows included Magic Slim, Magic Sam, Albert King, Freddy King, BB King, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sony Boy II, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Big Mama Thorton, Hound Dog Taylor (who was born with 6 fingers on each hand), Paul Butterfield, Junior Wells, Sonny Terry, James Cotton, Johnny Winter, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Clapton, Hendrix, Stevie Ray, Roy Buchanan, and hundreds more.
Luther Allison… I was at Legends in Chicago for an Alligator Records event…. Buddy Guy was there to play.. Luther got up and just scorched the place with his set… When they looked for Buddy one of his guys said “Buddy slipped out the back, no way he’s goin’ to go on after Luther” Find some Luther Allison…
If you ever want to know the roots and inspiration of ZZ Top, it's guys like Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and Robert Johnson. You can hear it in almost every thing they did.
If you wish to continue to explore the blues and connect the old school with the modern era, SRV did a TV appearance with Albert King, a legend of the genre and they produced an album from that meeting. Albert didn't know who Stevie was but two songs in, he realized that he was for real. You will love anything from this pairing, and if you can, play it with the video from the show.
This is an example of some the music that would inspire so many British guitar players who would become part of the musical British Invasion of the 1960's in the USA. 🎶✌️🍁
I'd love to see you do some Albert Collins! I saw him live, opening for The Allmann Brothers Band, and he completely STOLE THE SHOW! Those Dead-head kids that came to see The Allmann Bros. didn't expect Albert Collins. They had no idea. He took his 100ft guitar cable and walked out deep into the audience, still tearing it up on the guitar. They were in AWW! You gotta do something nice, live, and uptempo. Maybe Frosty?
Amber, did ya know the Pink from Pink Floyd is named after Pink Anderson, a bluesman from South Carolina who strummed the Piedmont Blues. The Floyd being Floyd Council, another blues player from Chapel Hill. You could try his (Pink’s) song “Meet Me in the Bottom.”
T-Bone Walker is another one of the great Texas bluesmen. Listen to "T-Bone Shuffle" for a hint of where Chuck Berry picked up some of his licks, and of course, T-Bone's oft-covered "Stormy Monday", then go back a generation to "Black Snake Moan" by Blind Lemon Jefferson, father of Texas blues . Then you've got Louisiana blues which splits off into a New Orleans jazzy branch (you've got to hear Professor Longhair's "Tipitina") and an earthier one flowing through bayous and swamps (one such is Robert 'Pete' Williams "I've Grown So Ugly"). In addition to the delta, head off northeast to the Mississippi hill country for some Junior Kimbrough "Meet Me in the City" and R.L. Burnside "See My Jumper Hanging On the Line", then further still into Tennessee to find Sleepy John Estes and "The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair". Don't think you've ever heard anything by Ry Cooder, and his interpretation of this Sleepy John Estes tune, "Goin' to Brownsville" is a keeper.
Jay you're my soul twin. The blues just gets down into my bones. Other kinds of music make me happy, or make me sad in a pleasing way, but the blues goes deep into my soul.
Lightnin' Hopkins was one of the most singular talents in a genre dominated by them. He does everything his own way, at his own pace, with his own rules, and in this fashion he never seems to run out of intricately varied and surprising ways to tell the standard country blues stories.
I am so glad you guys are liking blues music. Please check out Johnny Winter. Johnny is one of the all time great blues guitarists.. Rock Me Baby, Last Night, Sound The Bell, Don't Take Advantage Of Me are some of his best. I'm sure you will like him.
One of my local radio stations used to play this parody blues song back in the 80s. It never failed to crack me up: Well, I woke up this mornin' And I could not find my teef Where dose teef? Well, I woke up this mornin' And I could not find my teef Where dose teef? So I called up my baby and I said "Woog woog woog woog woog"
Martin Mull did a blues parody on Fernwood Tonight - theme was basically the rich get the blues too: Woke up this morning saw both cars were gone Yes I woke up this morning saw both cars were gone Felt so lowdown mean Threw my drink across the lawn
Martin was what I call an intellectual comedian, great vocabulary & quirky mind. Another one I think is Dennis Miller. If you can't define Diaspora off the cuff you might not understand or like his humor. Possibly too intellectual for much of America they are.
Charles Brown - To Someone That I Love, from the album "Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues" Charles smooth blues piano is legendary. There is a video duet of Charles Brown and Bonnie Raitt on Jay Leno performing the song "Some One To Love" .(Priceless !!!!)
I love where this takes me back too. Reminds me when i would spend my summer vacation with my cousin in Coldwater Ms and how we spend those summer nights after BBQ during day , sipping on some true moonshine at night looking up at stars.
Delta style is the way I like my Blues. The ambience of one guy stripped down to just a guitar and minimal accompaniment can be beautiful and/or haunting, but always carries such soulful emotion. Others to try out are Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Slim Harpo, and Charlie Patton.
There’s a Bluesfest every year in Byron Bay, Australia. There have been some great headliners like James Brown, but the few times I went there was always a few small stages with old men and sometimes women we’d never heard of playing Delta blues. They became the most popular sets. We don’t have access to the blues tradition here so it gives us (definitely me) goosebumps. So amazing. More please!
Great review on a great song. You’re just scratching the surface with ok lightin Hopkins. He had a lot of hits and was one of the premier Texas blues men of all time do more please.
“We were sitting there drinking and Jim comes in and he flops down. He said: “So, what’s up, man?” I replied: “Oh, I don’t know, man. I woke up this morning and got myself a beer," and while we’re talking he just writes that down. So they go in and they’re doing the song and the next thing I hear is ‘Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer’ and I went ‘I just said that a second ago!’” - Alice Cooper
His cousin, Billy Bizor, played harmonica on a lot of his albums, but I believe it's Don Crawford playing the harmonica on this one. I'd like to suggest Blind Willie McTell, "Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues" from his Last Sessions album for a reaction.
I remember the Rolling Stones started playing the Blues at the very beginning and you can hear Lightning in their music today :) 'I Am A Little Red Rooster' was the first Stones song that I heard!
am I remembering correctly, didn't Lightnin' Hopkins sing "Gotta bottle up and go"? Years ago, around 1975, I found his music... So good! Thanks for bring his music into the present!
Delta blues is considered Mississippi Delta however met guy while living I n Austin played Delta blues. Introduced me to both Vaughn brothers. OMAR AND Howlers band. Song. DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI. YOULOVE HIM DEEP VOICE. and a gal I know from Clarksdale, Ms we jammed online together during covid lock locks Ghalia Volt. On Down the road. Actual video not just her jamming on porch playing guitar and drums at same time
Wonderful! However, I'm still waiting for the King of the Delta Blues himself to appear on this channel, the man who inspired The Stones, ZZ Top, Zeppelin and many more bands, the legend who sold his soul at the crossroads to become the greatest Blues guitarist in the world, then died young, poisoned by the jealous husband of a lover, Robert Johnson!! "Cross Road Blues" "Sweet Home Chicago" "Devil On My Trail" "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and many more great songs, just Johnson and his guitar, recorded in a hotel room by some guys who made him famous after his death. The last song SRV ever played was "Sweet Home Chicago." He has a unique playing style and voice, but I believe you will love him, guys. ❤✌
"Crossroads" (1986), starring Ralph Macchio (from Karate Kid) has Macchio being a guitar student in the mid 1930's traveling the deep south looking for the legendary blues man Robert Johnson etc. This is a movie with some delta blues and delta blues drama that Jerome needs to watch some Saturday night whether he feels lonely or not. High audience rating.
Sweet Blues from 2 men who didn't really like each other but somehow managed to produce some of the warmest acoustic blues out there. In 1967 they were the rreason I started playing guitar and a college friend started playing harmonnica. Loved Sonny and Brownie but my own guitar inspiration was a mixture of Brownie and Lightnin' with a smattering of Robert Johnson. The next year we took over the college folk club and began to introduce some blues into the mix, mostly ourselves because nobody else was playing blues at that college. We were on a mission. We managed to grab Son House and Juke Boy Bonner at different times to come and play for us when they were touring Britain. Happy days.
Please try Howlin’ Wolf next! He’s considered as one of the blues men who introduced Electric guitars to Delta Blues. I would recommend ‘Built for Comfort’ as it’s a bit of fun as a song title. Howlin’ Wolf, (Chester Arthur Burnett), is mostly known for the songs Smokestack Lightnin’ and Killing Floor but he’s a brilliant Bluesman in any of his songs. Others great choices could be Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry or Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle.
Continue to R.I.P Mr Lightning Hopkins ❤. Here's some blues's suggestions Big Mama Thornton My Man Called Me (1957) Big J Mcnealy There's Something In Your Mind (1957) Bobby Bland I'll Take Care Of You (1961) Thanks again Jay and Amber 😊
John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillun Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child Elmore James - I Can't Stop Lovin' You Robert Plant & Alison Krause - Killing The Blues Frank Zappa - Advance Romance
Like your Blues kick! I’ve heard some of the old time blues but never heard this artist before; this is basic, raw blues! Kudos for this pick; much better kick to be on than 90s pop!🤪
Junior Kimbrough is a fantastic blues artist that unfortunately did not get enough love during his life but who inspired artists like The Black Keys and The White Stripes.
Said it before, I’ll say it gain. T-Bone Walker. The first man to record blues on an electric guitar, like his friend Charlie Christian did in jazz. His Stormy Monday is a classic, but also check out I Wanna See My Baby.
Oh and T-Bone Walker at the Philharmonic on YT is also a must and T-Bone is very important for electric blues as the inspiration/hero for BB King, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix etc
Thanks for this! Great song. Great reaction. Now you need to listen to some early bottleneck (a slide guitar style) blues. One of the early influences was Blind Willie Johnson, also from Texas. I recommend God Moves on the Water from 1929. It is a song about the Titanic. Alternatively you could try the first song he recorded - Nobody's Fault But Mine from 1927. You have reacted to Led Zeppelin's cover. There is no known video of him playing, so it os not known exactly how he made the guitar sound like that. What I do know is you will enjoy it.
Equal time for Blues Ladies. *The Swamp Boogie Queen - Katie Webster* *"Katie Webster - No Bread, No Meat"* *"Katie Webster - Hold On To What You Got"* *"Katie Webster - Black Satin"* (My Favourite)
The blues guitar guy, Howlin Wolf did an album with the song Little Red Rooster (and that may be the album name too). Anyway, there's a minute long cut on the album where Howlin Wolf is teaching a young Eric Clapton some blues riffs. Enjoy!
Rory Gallagher is a guitarist you guys should look into! Catch his song "A Million Miles Away" and his rockin' side of "Shadow Play" - all LIVE, please! I suggest from 1979 especially!
This is bourbon sippin’ music right here now! I can just picture Lightnin and the harmonica player sitting on the front porch with a jug between them. Check out the great old blues man John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison on Van’s classic song Gloria. THE best rendition of that often covered song EVER!!! (make sure to have your bourbon handy)
Us Texans love lightnin Hopkins this whole album is my favorite blues album of all time and im splitting image of Billy gibbons 😂😂 listen to watch my fingers it makes me laugh
You should check out John Lee Hooker another blues man who got his start in 40's from Mississippi. Some of his songs are boogie chillen’, crawling king snake, boom boom, one bourbon, one scotch, one beer, I’m in the mood (solo or with bonnie raitt), dimples, mr. lucky (w/robert cray).
There is a video of Eric Clapton with JJ kale and together. They do the song called the call me debris. JJK l, the dead planet guitar. He wrote the j kale wrote the song. He does it with Eric Clapton. At the crossroadscast vol, there is a video.
Lightnin Hopkins by far is my favorite blues singer. He just oozes muddy delta blues. Trouble in Mind and Hello Central are also great songs of his.
Agree, but he's from Texas, not the Miississippi Delta.
Malcolm McDowell, RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough as well
@@evozero905 RL Burnside is (was?) amazing live. He was on a particular record company that was always broke but always delivered amazing music. I’ll have to look them up. Ta for the suggestions.
East Texas is home to an absurd amount of classic blues greatness, but Lightnin is easily my favorite.@@johnsilva9139
@@littlecatfeet9064Fat Possum
No production, no big band, just a guitar, a harmonica and a voice that sounds like it’s lived a life. Instant human connection in the magical way that only music can. ✌️
...and drums and a big ol' double bass
Lol, no. Absolutely and masterfully produced at the Van Gelder Studio.
@@JoTracybrush on a snare
Oh man, im from Australia, white as can be, but my dad loved the blues, and he educated me on it. He dided 10 years ago, and hearing this, brings me right back to him. Im crying like a child, in a good way, i feel like that little girl i was, up past my bedtime, listening to the blues with my daddy. Thankyou.
When I was at the Univ of Vermont, I was the blues DJ for the school's 50,000 watt radio station, WRUV. I was Mr. Mood and played the blues, mostly on vinyl. CDs were just starting to come in. My shows included Magic Slim, Magic Sam, Albert King, Freddy King, BB King, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sony Boy II, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Big Mama Thorton, Hound Dog Taylor (who was born with 6 fingers on each hand), Paul Butterfield, Junior Wells, Sonny Terry, James Cotton, Johnny Winter, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Clapton, Hendrix, Stevie Ray, Roy Buchanan, and hundreds more.
amazing !
Luther Allison… I was at Legends in Chicago for an Alligator Records event…. Buddy Guy was there to play.. Luther got up and just scorched the place with his set… When they looked for Buddy one of his guys said “Buddy slipped out the back, no way he’s goin’ to go on after Luther” Find some Luther Allison…
@@vrvaughn I played him, too.
so cool. do you have any of your old shows up online?
@@rcweslowski609 This was around 1990. We didn't make tapes of the shows because that's a lot of tape to buy. WRUV was a poor student club.
If you ever want to know the roots and inspiration of ZZ Top, it's guys like Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and Robert Johnson. You can hear it in almost every thing they did.
Billy’s singing style borrows heavily from Lightnin’, and a little dollop of John Lee.
Oh my. Here we go. Lightnin' was probably my first blues deep dive. Make that guitar cry.. Thanks.
Take a listen to Elmore James on the slide. Peace out.
If you wish to continue to explore the blues and connect the old school with the modern era, SRV did a TV appearance with Albert King, a legend of the genre and they produced an album from that meeting. Albert didn't know who Stevie was but two songs in, he realized that he was for real.
You will love anything from this pairing, and if you can, play it with the video from the show.
Albert let srv get on stage with him at Antoine s Cliif had to beg him only 15 then. Thunderbirds were houseband. My second home when I lived there
It's the same with the Hooker 'n Heat album, with Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker. And a really good bridge between the old and new is Johnny Winter.
Some other good old timers: Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Sippie Wallace, Billie Holliday.
Son House, Bobby Blue Bland.
summer of '89 I saw John Lee Hooker open for Buddy Guy. All John Lee needed was a chair and his guitar.
Royalty!
This is an example of some the music that would inspire so many British guitar players who would become part of the musical British Invasion of the 1960's in the USA. 🎶✌️🍁
Yes, it was through Brit rock bands that I discovered blues music. The Stones, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zep - so many were really 'rock-blues' bands.
Saw Lightning Hopkins in September 1977. Acoustic blues.
Lightnin Hopkins is the most recorded blues artist in history. 35 albums to be exact. He is the influence behind Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Texas style blues
Absolutely !
I'd love to see you do some Albert Collins! I saw him live, opening for The Allmann Brothers Band, and he completely STOLE THE SHOW! Those Dead-head kids that came to see The Allmann Bros. didn't expect Albert Collins. They had no idea. He took his 100ft guitar cable and walked out deep into the audience, still tearing it up on the guitar. They were in AWW! You gotta do something nice, live, and uptempo. Maybe Frosty?
Great memory!
Amber, did ya know the Pink from Pink Floyd is named after Pink Anderson, a bluesman from South Carolina who strummed the Piedmont Blues. The Floyd being Floyd Council, another blues player from Chapel Hill. You could try his (Pink’s) song “Meet Me in the Bottom.”
Pure old school blues, you go on the journey with them...
Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues. Classic.
T-Bone Walker is another one of the great Texas bluesmen. Listen to "T-Bone Shuffle" for a hint of where Chuck Berry picked up some of his licks, and of course, T-Bone's oft-covered "Stormy Monday", then go back a generation to "Black Snake Moan" by Blind Lemon Jefferson, father of Texas blues . Then you've got Louisiana blues which splits off into a New Orleans jazzy branch (you've got to hear Professor Longhair's "Tipitina") and an earthier one flowing through bayous and swamps (one such is Robert 'Pete' Williams "I've Grown So Ugly"). In addition to the delta, head off northeast to the Mississippi hill country for some Junior Kimbrough "Meet Me in the City" and R.L. Burnside "See My Jumper Hanging On the Line", then further still into Tennessee to find Sleepy John Estes and "The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair". Don't think you've ever heard anything by Ry Cooder, and his interpretation of this Sleepy John Estes tune, "Goin' to Brownsville" is a keeper.
Jay you're my soul twin. The blues just gets down into my bones. Other kinds of music make me happy, or make me sad in a pleasing way, but the blues goes deep into my soul.
Lightnin' Hopkins was one of the most singular talents in a genre dominated by them. He does everything his own way, at his own pace, with his own rules, and in this fashion he never seems to run out of intricately varied and surprising ways to tell the standard country blues stories.
Ahhh. REAL Blues.
God loves me.
Now this is my type of music. Never heard him before but absolutely fantastic. This has made my day. Thank you so much.
Never thought I would ever see a Lightnin' Hopkins reaction but here we are. Nice.
Lightnin' is my favorite Blues man. He plays a hypnotic groove that few can do.
That was PERFECT!! Thank you for reacting to this song!!!!
Now THAT is music.
A few years back a 7 CD set of Lightnin' Hopkins came out including his concert at the 2nd Fret in Philadelphia, 1962.... Pure gold....
That was just a really cool blues song
Going on my playlist, too
My favorite blues man hands down!
The talent shines in the quiet moments.
Y’all goin deep now .. the real stuff
I love Lightnin' Hopkins wild rockin' blues tracks from the mid fifties
FINALLY! MY BLUES GUITAR HERO LIGHTNIN HOPKINS. I HAVE WAITED A LONG TIME FOR THIS.
THANK GOD Y'ALL LISTENING. 🙏
The blues ain't nothin' but a good man feeling bad. Cheers....
I am so glad you guys are liking blues music. Please check out Johnny Winter. Johnny is one of the all time great blues guitarists.. Rock Me Baby, Last Night, Sound The Bell, Don't Take Advantage Of Me are some of his best. I'm sure you will like him.
Be Careful with a Fool!
@@cshubs Agreed.
Wow! Never heard Lightnin Hopkins before. Wow
THIS is music for the soul !!
Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins, one of my favorite persons in music.
One of my local radio stations used to play this parody blues song back in the 80s. It never failed to crack me up:
Well, I woke up this mornin'
And I could not find my teef
Where dose teef?
Well, I woke up this mornin'
And I could not find my teef
Where dose teef?
So I called up my baby and I said
"Woog woog woog woog woog"
Martin Mull did a blues parody on Fernwood Tonight - theme was basically the rich get the blues too:
Woke up this morning
saw both cars were gone
Yes I woke up this morning
saw both cars were gone
Felt so lowdown mean
Threw my drink across the lawn
@@gregpeterson4348first thing that came to mind when I read his comment too. Love Martin Mull!
Martin was what I call an intellectual comedian, great vocabulary & quirky mind. Another one I think is Dennis Miller. If you can't define Diaspora off the cuff you might not understand or like his humor. Possibly too intellectual for much of America they are.
Charles Brown - To Someone That I Love, from the album "Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues" Charles smooth blues piano is legendary. There is a video duet of Charles Brown and Bonnie Raitt on Jay Leno performing the song "Some One To Love" .(Priceless !!!!)
There's been some great Texas bluesmen, but Lightnin' just stands out for me. Great reaction guys, cheers.
It's a sin to be rich ! And it's a low down shame to be poor!
the blues dont get any more real than ole lightnin. Coolest mutha to ever grace this planet
One of the finest blues guitarists ever. Baby Please Don't Go (Down to New Orleans) is a must. Automobile Blues another good one of his.
First time hearing this and I love it. The Blues for me is the best listening.
I love where this takes me back too. Reminds me when i would spend my summer vacation with my cousin in Coldwater Ms and how we spend those summer nights after BBQ during day , sipping on some true moonshine at night looking up at stars.
If you want to get some more delta blues listen to Skip James, “The Devil Got My Woman”. Pure Mississippi Delta blues.
Delta style is the way I like my Blues. The ambience of one guy stripped down to just a guitar and minimal accompaniment can be beautiful and/or haunting, but always carries such soulful emotion. Others to try out are Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Slim Harpo, and Charlie Patton.
There’s a Bluesfest every year in Byron Bay, Australia. There have been some great headliners like James Brown, but the few times I went there was always a few small stages with old men and sometimes women we’d never heard of playing Delta blues. They became the most popular sets. We don’t have access to the blues tradition here so it gives us (definitely me) goosebumps. So amazing. More please!
An OG of Delta Blues. The way acoustic Blues is supposed sound.
Great review on a great song. You’re just scratching the surface with ok lightin Hopkins. He had a lot of hits and was one of the premier Texas blues men of all time do more please.
Any track of his album Mojo Hand is definitely worth a listen.
You just landed on my favorite bluesman of all time. You should do an entire section dedicated to him. Most young people don't know him.
Understand that Jim Morrison's lyric in Roadhouse Blues "woke up this morning and got myself a beer" is almost certainly a Lightnin' reference.
“We were sitting there drinking and Jim comes in and he flops down. He said: “So, what’s up, man?” I replied: “Oh, I don’t know, man. I woke up this morning and got myself a beer," and while we’re talking he just writes that down. So they go in and they’re doing the song and the next thing I hear is ‘Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer’ and I went ‘I just said that a second ago!’” - Alice Cooper
Hop is pure Gold
His cousin, Billy Bizor, played harmonica on a lot of his albums, but I believe it's Don Crawford playing the harmonica on this one.
I'd like to suggest Blind Willie McTell, "Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues" from his Last Sessions album for a reaction.
I remember the Rolling Stones started playing the Blues at the very beginning and you can hear Lightning in their music today :) 'I Am A Little Red Rooster' was the first Stones song that I heard!
Lightnin Hopkins was named 71 of the 100 greatest guitar players in 2010.
Now we are honeing in on my favorite stuff.
Keep in mind, it was this music that inspired a bunch of Brit kids to take up blues, and germinated the bands that led the British Invasion!
"Mojo Hand" and "Shake That Thing" are also fun by Lightnin' Hopkins 🙂
am I remembering correctly, didn't Lightnin' Hopkins sing "Gotta bottle up and go"? Years ago, around 1975, I found his music... So good! Thanks for bring his music into the present!
I Was in jazz club in Rio de Janeiro and this was the first song I heard - in Portugese!
GLAD to be your Texan Neighbor!! Lightnin' Hopkins: inspiration for MANY! HUGS, YA'LL!!
Delta blues is considered Mississippi Delta however met guy while living I n Austin played Delta blues. Introduced me to both Vaughn brothers. OMAR AND Howlers band. Song. DOWN IN MISSISSIPPI. YOULOVE HIM DEEP VOICE. and a gal I know from Clarksdale, Ms we jammed online together during covid lock locks Ghalia Volt. On Down the road. Actual video not just her jamming on porch playing guitar and drums at same time
It's the first time I've heard this song. It was awesome!!!
You cannot beat some old school blues I’m telling ya gets in your blood!
This to me is pure ecstasy!!! Pure Blues.
Wonderful! However, I'm still waiting for the King of the Delta Blues himself to appear on this channel, the man who inspired The Stones, ZZ Top, Zeppelin and many more bands, the legend who sold his soul at the crossroads to become the greatest Blues guitarist in the world, then died young, poisoned by the jealous husband of a lover, Robert Johnson!!
"Cross Road Blues" "Sweet Home Chicago" "Devil On My Trail" "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and many more great songs, just Johnson and his guitar, recorded in a hotel room by some guys who made him famous after his death. The last song SRV ever played was "Sweet Home Chicago."
He has a unique playing style and voice, but I believe you will love him, guys. ❤✌
They need both Roberts--Robert Johnson then, and Robert Cray now.
The greatest Texas blues man!
This is music brought out of the very marrow. Sit on the back porch watching the summer breeze through the tall grass, bottle of whiskey at your feet.
"Crossroads" (1986), starring Ralph Macchio (from Karate Kid) has Macchio being a guitar student in the mid 1930's traveling the deep south looking for the legendary blues man Robert Johnson etc. This is a movie with some delta blues and delta blues drama that Jerome needs to watch some Saturday night whether he feels lonely or not. High audience rating.
All thumbs up - and many, many thanks from hamburg (germany) for this real blues 👍👍👍
If you love the harmonica, check out the catalog of Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcghee. Raw, pure blues!
Sweet Blues from 2 men who didn't really like each other but somehow managed to produce some of the warmest acoustic blues out there. In 1967 they were the rreason I started playing guitar and a college friend started playing harmonnica. Loved Sonny and Brownie but my own guitar inspiration was a mixture of Brownie and Lightnin' with a smattering of Robert Johnson. The next year we took over the college folk club and began to introduce some blues into the mix, mostly ourselves because nobody else was playing blues at that college. We were on a mission. We managed to grab Son House and Juke Boy Bonner at different times to come and play for us when they were touring Britain. Happy days.
Please try Howlin’ Wolf next! He’s considered as one of the blues men who introduced Electric guitars to Delta Blues. I would recommend ‘Built for Comfort’ as it’s a bit of fun as a song title. Howlin’ Wolf, (Chester Arthur Burnett), is mostly known for the songs Smokestack Lightnin’ and Killing Floor but he’s a brilliant Bluesman in any of his songs.
Others great choices could be Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry or Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle.
Continue to R.I.P Mr Lightning Hopkins ❤. Here's some blues's suggestions
Big Mama Thornton My Man Called Me (1957)
Big J Mcnealy There's Something In Your Mind (1957)
Bobby Bland I'll Take Care Of You (1961)
Thanks again Jay and Amber 😊
John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillun
Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child
Elmore James - I Can't Stop Lovin' You
Robert Plant & Alison Krause - Killing The Blues
Frank Zappa - Advance Romance
Like your Blues kick! I’ve heard some of the old time blues but never heard this artist before; this is basic, raw blues! Kudos for this pick; much better kick to be on than 90s pop!🤪
Greatest blues man ever!
Absolutely beautiful 🙌🏻 ❤️ Pure music
Play that mean and evil blues, man!
Love it.
Junior Kimbrough is a fantastic blues artist that unfortunately did not get enough love during his life but who inspired artists like The Black Keys and The White Stripes.
I like Junior Kimbraugh. Also Jimmy Dawkins and Byther Smith.
Females Bessie Smith and Koko Taylor.
Said it before, I’ll say it gain. T-Bone Walker. The first man to record blues on an electric guitar, like his friend Charlie Christian did in jazz. His Stormy Monday is a classic, but also check out I Wanna See My Baby.
great reaction! another one to listen to is Nehemiah Skip James singing Devil got my woman, and Hard Times killing floor blues.
“Cotton” and “hurricane Betsy” are worth listening to.
Oh and T-Bone Walker at the Philharmonic on YT is also a must and T-Bone is very important for electric blues as the inspiration/hero for BB King, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix etc
That deep down blues. I don’t know it,( my parents never played the blues), but I can feel it.
Lightnin' was born in Centerville Texas. Named beacuse it is the geographic center of Leon County. It is about 120 miles south of Dallas.
Very very old School Cool 😎 LOVE it!!!
TEXAS 🇨🇱 blues is just different....SRV🔥, Johnny Copeland🔥, JANIS🔥, Edgar & Johnny Winter🔥, Z Z TOP🔥, just to mention a few.🤗❤️✌️
Sticking with the blues, you need to check out Koko Taylor. My favorites are "Wang Dang Doodle" and "That's Why I'm Crying".
Thanks for this! Great song. Great reaction. Now you need to listen to some early bottleneck (a slide guitar style) blues. One of the early influences was Blind Willie Johnson, also from Texas. I recommend God Moves on the Water from 1929. It is a song about the Titanic. Alternatively you could try the first song he recorded - Nobody's Fault But Mine from 1927. You have reacted to Led Zeppelin's cover. There is no known video of him playing, so it os not known exactly how he made the guitar sound like that. What I do know is you will enjoy it.
Equal time for Blues Ladies. *The Swamp Boogie Queen - Katie Webster*
*"Katie Webster - No Bread, No Meat"*
*"Katie Webster - Hold On To What You Got"*
*"Katie Webster - Black Satin"* (My Favourite)
The blues guitar guy, Howlin Wolf did an album with the song Little Red Rooster (and that may be the album name too). Anyway, there's a minute long cut on the album where Howlin Wolf is teaching a young Eric Clapton some blues riffs. Enjoy!
This is authentic Texas blues
For Delta Blues - Tab Benoit "Medicine"
Rory Gallagher is a guitarist you guys should look into! Catch his song "A Million Miles Away" and his rockin' side of "Shadow Play" - all LIVE, please! I suggest from 1979 especially!
I love it!!! A Texas legend.
If you own this album, you ain't kidding around.
This is bourbon sippin’ music right here now! I can just picture Lightnin and the harmonica player sitting on the front porch with a jug between them.
Check out the great old blues man John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison on Van’s classic song Gloria. THE best rendition of that often covered song EVER!!! (make sure to have your bourbon handy)
Us Texans love lightnin Hopkins this whole album is my favorite blues album of all time and im splitting image of Billy gibbons 😂😂 listen to watch my fingers it makes me laugh
You should check out John Lee Hooker another blues man who got his start in 40's from Mississippi. Some of his songs are boogie chillen’, crawling king snake, boom boom, one bourbon, one scotch, one beer, I’m in the mood (solo or with bonnie raitt), dimples, mr. lucky (w/robert cray).
There is a video of Eric Clapton with JJ kale and together. They do the song called the call me debris. JJK l, the dead planet guitar. He wrote the j kale wrote the song. He does it with Eric Clapton. At the crossroadscast vol, there is a video.