What's your tolerance for blues-rock?

1st "music for olds"

sleeve otm

fallacy of the excluded middle: Fleetwood Mac sucked after Danny Kirwan left.

I skip "Stormy Monday" on Fillmore East

this is the only unacceptable choice

Voted for 'zero tolerance for blues-rock' by Pat Metheny

fallacy of the excluded middle: Fleetwood Mac sucked after Danny Kirwan left.

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No way dogg

Electric Mud is pretty awesome. Would like some more like that.
Really like Ten Years After when the bebop's showing

Found a nice copy of Then Play On by FM on RSD I was well chuffed tbh

Picked up the remaster of that when it came out a few years back, a bit less overtly bluesy than the debut but great, great lp.

Stackwaddy are really great, do Buffalo fit?
Groundhogs had at least 3 fantastic lps.
Steve Miller's early stuff takes a blues influence to some great ends.
Gun Club are one of my favourite bands and reinvention of delta blues influenced stuff is one of their marked influences.
Same with Howard brothers era crime & The City Solution.

Beefheart's bluesier stuff is pretty cool too.

Was in a taxi the other day and the driver had some Calvin Russell in the CD player, was pretty sweet.

The less that blues/blues rock sounds like it was made with a stencil, the higher my tolerance.

The more it sounds like something a regional sales manager would grind out onstage at the corporate retreat, the lower my tolerance.

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Hot take: Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign album was simultaneously great and also the seed of all terrible blues rock

Booker T and the MGs as backing band innit?

I've been jamming "Boogie With Canned Heat" lately...feels good man

UK blues/rock albums i enjoy:

then play on; the pious bird of good omen; mr wonderful - fleetwood mac
cricklewood green; ssssh - ten years after
raw sienna; looking in - savoy brown
a hard road; blues from laurel canyon - john mayall

not sure i consider wishbone ash "blues rock" but i dig their s/t, pilgrimage, argus

future blues by canned is pretty cool but i'm rarely "in the mood" for those vocals

"Well I've been plowin' — pickin' cotton all day long!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaM6lTmhnak

Good songs vs. good solos wins the day. See: Robert Cray.

Steveo's list otm, love the Groundhogs/Tony McPhee.

antipodean blues:

Coloured Balls (Lobby Loyde!)
Rose Tattoo
Human Instinct
the Scientists

There's probably stuff out there that I like or tolerate, but zero-tolerance feels like the right option. I'm clearly not the only person who thought of that blues hammer clip when I saw the phrase "blues-rock".

no honestly anytime anything remotely blues rock comes up on ilm for like the last 15 years someone makes a blueshammer joke

blues hammer jokes seem like the only appropriate response

blues hammer is shameful cultural appropriation of authentic blues-rock

there is a spectrum of blueshammer bands, some are good, e.g. led zeppelin, some are bad, e.g. the original blueshammer

i like plenty of blues rock

george thorogood rules, the blues albini

http://www.theonion.com/article/bad-to-the-bone-to-be-used-in-film-3903

is blueshammer a strawman band? i've never really encountered a bar band like that ... i guess it's supposed to be kinda sub-par stevie ray vaughn.
anyway, my tolerance has probably risen over the years, i like canned heat, zz top, rory gallagher, peter green etc.

I am listening to 21st century Robin Trower albums today. (He's got a new one coming out next Friday.) Unfortunately, his US tour - which starts tomorrow - is all Midwest and West Coast dates, nothing on the East Coast.

growing up around Chicago, it was amazing how many terrible blues rock bands there were in the area. lots of corporate retreat type dudes who looked like jimmy buffet and thought the blues started with jake and elwood.

as far as a guy who does have a lot of the tendencies to overwrought blooze bluster that ppl tend to hate, rory gallagher is fucking amazing IMO

i mean i get why he might come across as a sorta overplaying white blooze dude, but he is actually great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_1vgh_X9w

yeah irish tour is what got me into him, that's the one

Robin Trower's last album was fucking GREAT.

is blueshammer a strawman band?

Oh no, the phenomenon is very real. I co-hosted a blues jam for a number of years, and the number of Stevie Ray Stratobators is really something.

I went to a local blues fest last summer, and this band was so overamped and awful I had to go have a couple drinks at a bar down the street until they were done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw9wvNi_EPI

This might not be the exact thread for it, but something I've been wondering: The kind of melodies that typify (for instance) Louis Armstrong's Hot Five recordings are considered blues, right? If that's the case, when did the idea of a typical blues melody transform from those kind of 32-bar things into the more familiar 12-bar I-IV-V form?

Pulled up behind this guy at a red light this afternoon and immediately thought of this topic. Of course I had to take a picture and show you guys.
http://i.imgur.com/1apP9Nt.jpg

...before you plowed into him?

"If that's the case, when did the idea of a typical blues melody transform from those kind of 32-bar things into the more familiar 12-bar I-IV-V form?"

I think it was kinda always there, you really got to look that alot of "rock and roll" kinda comes more out of the Mississippi blues tradition (like say Charlie Patton) which was way more stripped down both harmonically and instrumentation wise than jazz then got electrified in Chicago, Memphis and Detroit. That stuff including say the classic blues singers like Bessie Smith was happening same time that jazz happened too.

I had this early Small Faces compilation album when I was a teenager and am only seeing now that some of my favorite tracks on it (especially "Sorry She's Mine") were not singles or not A-sides.

https://www.discogs.com/Small-Faces-By-Appointment/release/2938339

Oh dear wrong thread

i mean i get why he might come across as a sorta overplaying white blooze dude, but he is actually great.

His cover of Tony Joe White's As The Crow Flies from the same album is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heD3siavZBg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i like harvey mandel. does that count?

harvey mandel rules

Resisting the temptation to once again post video of "Can Blue Men Sing The Whites."

https://assets.teamrock.com/image/10e8c0a9-6348-4e55-b5d8-599d360d9871?w=1280

They missed out on a goldmine by not licensing their name to other products.

Foghat's Hog Fat would've been a big seller.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/21/55/e3/2155e328a82f3e0765d40fd31061c335.jpg

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While I don't doubt that modern Foghat is probably a very professional live outfit, I tend to doubt it really can scratch on the original band with Lonesome Dave and Rod Price. You really can't go wrong with any old 70s Foghat or Savoy Brown.

I always loved those two pictures. The funny thing about the Rock and Roll Outlaws cover shot is the plane was a total prop for the record, they didn't tour in one.

Keep thinking thread title reminds me of that one Le TIgre song.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Damn right.

i call bs on the person who voted "I seek out and attend gigs by the surviving members of Blodwyn Pig." i don't think any of them still tour. though this would have been cool...

On 9 May 2016, Mick Abrahams, the legendary founding guitarist with Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig and the Mick Abrahams Band, brought together musical friends old and new, for a night of celebration of his music.

Mick was joined on stage at London’s Borderline by special guests, who included Mungo Jerry, Rick Wakeman, Geoff Whitehorn, Clive Bunker, Elliott Randall and more. Visit's Mick's Media for exclusive pictures from the night

as a member of Blodwyn Pig I take exception to your post

ANOTHER new album from Robin Trower??

Jump on it!

More Trower To Him!

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and there's another live set around.
All instrumental

don't skip "Stormy Monday"

More Trower To Him!

More Blueshammerism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF6yiV8N6G4

Kingfish (new blues trio) is opening for Vampire Weekend, so...is Hendrix-SRV-Buddy Guy Blues/Blues Rock to next Hipster Musical Crush?

Jeff Healey deep cuts

I love straight up blues. Most blues rock always sound like it was made for people that own faded "Fuck Disco" t-shirts.

Blues metal is great except when it isn't.

"Wade in the Water" by Harvey Mandel is a stone cold groove and awesome psychedelia with strings. Recent find for me and a great track.

yeah I just got a nice copy of Christo Redentor what an album!