Blues

[Max]

Cause we've got Reggae, Funk, Jazz and Oz Rock threads so why not?

This woman was a total badass.

[Max]

[Max]

[Dead Kid]

How bout country blues

[Max]

This is still quite disturbing, definitely not a fun party song like Pat Travers or George Thorogood say. Blues was all about writing about their own experience and keeping it real.

[Max]

There's probably a correlation between old age and appreciation of Billie Holiday... only singer who can make me cry. Damn she could sing the phone book and make me cry.

[Dead Kid]

Browsing RYM album charts (all genres) for 1965 at the moment. Liking this find:

[Dead Kid]

[Dead Kid]

My discovery for today is Barbara Dane's album On My Way. A bit of a mixed bag of genres, but there's some bluesy stuff on it:

[Max]

My discovery for today is Barbara Dane's album On My Way. A bit of a mixed bag of genres, but there's some bluesy stuff on it:

Damn she's good... still going at 91

[Max]

I have no idea what a wang dang doodle is, but it sounds very rude indeed.

[Max]

Not strictly blues but powerful as fuck.

[Dead Kid]

After finding the slow burners on Jimmy Witherspoon's album Evenin' Blues I've been looking for more 60s albums with a similar mood. Arbee Stidham - Tired of Wandering fits the bill. Not sure if singles could provide such a time:

[Dead Kid]

[Max]

[Drax]

Good soulful Chicgo blues.

There's something about the "production" on this record that's perfect too, like you easily imagine it being performed in a smoky, dingy bar back in the day.

[Dead Kid]

[Kerry]

Cat Iron rules.

[Kerry]

Really love Elizabeth Cotten too. She's a special one. Not strictly blues, more blues-folk.

[Dead Kid]

[Max]

It's rockin'... recorded in 1949, candidate for first rock n roll record, predates rocket 88 anyway

[Dead Kid]

RateYourMusic is a great source for seeing what genres people ascribe to various releases. Looks like the first with rock & roll voted as a primary genre is this:

(Roy Brown wrote and recorded a less rocking version of the song first.) Other older releases also have rock & roll voted as a secondary genre, for example:

[Max]

Used to think this was a rolling stones song. 1946.

white girls having a go.

[Kerry]

[Max]

what a grumpy old cunt he was... but he spoke truth.

[Dead Kid]

Some of her stuff is jazzier and even a bit naughty, eg.

[Dead Kid]