who would be the best selling blues artist of all time (let's not count people like Clapton)
maybe BB King?SRV?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:22 (one month ago) link
Robert Cray had that one huge album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:23 (one month ago) link
dan aykroyd and john belushi gotta be up there
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:28 (one month ago) link
Quick googling says SRV has sold over 15 million records, Blues Brothers sitting at about 8 million.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:34 (one month ago) link
Is SRV 'people like Clapton' though? People like Hendrix I suppose.
― doleful lundgren (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 February 2024 20:58 (one month ago) link
I guess my argument is that he was still perceived largely as a blues artist, where Clapton had Cream, Layla, Hendrix is too broad and creative to be a strictly blues artist.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:00 (one month ago) link
It's probably like "most Billboard Blues chart #1 albums" or something like that. No chance he's outsold SRV, probably hasn't even outsold Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:04 (one month ago) link
He's sold more dog blankets than the two of them combined.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:42 (one month ago) link
pbs subs want moar moar *clap mittens*
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:57 (one month ago) link
*gently shakes last year's pledge tote in subdued appreciation*
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 February 2024 22:12 (one month ago) link
Speaking of PBS pledge-time ubiquity, Andrea Bocelli is classical music’s Joe B.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 29 February 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link
the incredible rise of legendary guitarist Joe Bonamassa, whose hard work and determination have made him one of today’s top-selling Blues artists. … Guitar Man tells the incredible rise of legendary bluesman Joe Bonamassa, whose hard work and determination have made him the top-selling Blues artist of all time.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 29 February 2024 23:49 (one month ago) link
pbs is where I first encountered this dipshit, he was playing soulful acoustic shit in Denmark or something it was so bad, even worse than the blueshammer shit if you can believe it, like John Martyn taking a shit.
― brimstead, Friday, 1 March 2024 01:51 (one month ago) link
just want to be able to post “blackberry smoke” oncehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EpDkh5JYd8
― brimstead, Friday, 1 March 2024 01:54 (one month ago) link
PBS is showing a new special featuring JoBo backed by the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.
This is how Tár should have ended.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 March 2024 05:07 (one month ago) link
https://returnofrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Joe-Bonamassa-1360x765.jpghttps://compote.slate.com/images/54efccd7-da3a-4e22-b551-ac56e1824a59.jpeg
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 10 March 2024 08:03 (one month ago) link