All of my life I have been wanting some evil electric guitar blues music. I love the old blues from long ago, but want something more harsh and electric. Something that burns (and not in the Stevie Ray Vaughn way!)... Are there any current artists that are out there that I should check into? Thanks, Schuller -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Meet Singles http://corp.mail.com/lavalife
It's such an open-ended question - are you a strict constructionist, or does rock'n'roll roots destruction fit into "evil electric blues"? At 10:15 PM 1/20/2003 -0800, John Schuller wrote:
All of my life I have been wanting some evil electric guitar blues music.
I love the old blues from long ago, but want something more harsh and electric. Something that burns (and not in the Stevie Ray Vaughn way!)...
Are there any current artists that are out there that I should check into?
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on 1/20/03 10:15 PM, John Schuller at jschuller@email.com wrote:
All of my life I have been wanting some evil electric guitar blues music.
I love the old blues from long ago, but want something more harsh and electric. Something that burns (and not in the Stevie Ray Vaughn way!)...
Are there any current artists that are out there that I should check into?
RL Burnside and T-Model Ford and not without their charms. personally, it sounds to me like EXACTLY what you want are the two cuts Pat Hare did for Sun -- "Bonus Pay" and the incredible "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby". They're generally on Volume 1 of any Sun blues comp. Pat Hare died in prison. About two noted into "Murder My baby", you realize it had to be that way. I played it for Thurston Moore about twelve yrs ago, and he just flipped. And, by the way John, great to see such nice notices for you in WIRE. skip h NP: Donny Hathaway (s/t)
Yeah, John... now hurry up and get more copies to Downtown Music Gallery, before they pack everything up for their move! Denied. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - George Whitefield Chadwick, 'Euterpe' - Nashville SO / Schermerhorn (Naxos) -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of skip Heller Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:07 AM And, by the way John, great to see such nice notices for you in WIRE.
All of my life I have been wanting some evil electric guitar blues music. I love the old blues from long ago, but want something more harsh and electric. Something that burns (and not in the Stevie Ray Vaughn way!)... Are there any current artists that are out there that I should check into? Thanks, Schuller -- _ the most recent album from Elliott Sharp's Terraplane is pretty hot, and not in the Stevie Ray Vaughan way. one disc is his quartet (Sim Cain, Sam Furnace, E#, Dave Hofstra), the other disc is the quartet with guests: vocalists Eric Mingus and Dean Bowman, and the great Hubert Sumlin. Sharp really can play the blues, but the quartet disc gets into more Sharp-isms within a blues context. really good stuff, and way better than the first terraplane record on Homestead. more of a review here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=9:15:21|AM&sql=A0uq4g409tv1z sean
Hello, ...I'll parrot Chris' and Skip's comments on Hound Dog Taylor and Pat Hare. I'll add two cuts from Muddy Waters, "Still a Fool" and "Standing Around Crying". While I'm a big fan of nearly all of Muddy's stuff that I've heard, these two songs possess an edge that is unique to his stuff. The way Little Walter's whining harmonica combines w/ Muddy's guitar and his absolutely menacing vocals is a claustrophobic treat on "Standing...". Leonard Chess actually plays drums on "Still a Fool" and his playing is the embodiment of "simple". The MCA Muddy Waters 3 CD box is a great thing. Pat Hare is in his band for a dozen tracks. He's not as wild as on the Sun stuff he did, but he still sounds grand. There's just so much terrific stuff on that box. The original "Rolling Stone" and the wild-ass guitar of "Honey Bee", "She Moves Me" , which has more of Chess' drums ("all" he "does" here is thump a bass drum, but it sounds FANTASTIC), and too much more to go into right now. If it's in print (my god it SHOULD be) you may want to spring for it, or find a good comp of his '50s stuff. The good comps are usually on Chess records and will very likely include most if not all the songs mentioned above. I remain.... Joseph NP: Happy Go Licky- "Will Play" CD NR: Herman Melville- "Moby-Dick" -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of John Schuller Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:16 AM To: zorn-list@lists.xmission.com Subject: blues All of my life I have been wanting some evil electric guitar blues music. I love the old blues from long ago, but want something more harsh and electric. Something that burns (and not in the Stevie Ray Vaughn way!)... Are there any current artists that are out there that I should check into? Thanks, Schuller -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Meet Singles http://corp.mail.com/lavalife _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list
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The MCA Muddy Waters 3 CD box is a great thing.
Snagged a copy last year for about $20. It's great, although I'll probably end up buying all the '50s-'60's albums at some point. * David Beardsley * http://biink.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Schuller" <jschuller@email.com>
All of my life I have been wanting some evil electric guitar blues music.
I love the old blues from long ago, but want something more harsh and electric. Something that burns (and not in the Stevie Ray Vaughn way!)...
Are there any CURRENT artists that are out there that I should check into?
After everybody has listed their favorite OLD blues, I'll suggest the North Mississippi Allstars first album, Shake Hands With Shorty. It's an album of covers of tunes by Fred McDowell, RL Burnside, Furry Lewis, Jr. Kimbrough and others. They were nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category this year for their current CD Phantom 51. NMAS's guitarist: Luther Dickinson, says," When white kids play black music, it turns into rock 'n roll. Amen to that." When I first heard these guys on a MP3 file, I didn't like 'em, but later bought the CD and was blown away. Instead of the same old Chicago, Delta, and Hendrix influences (NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT!), the NMASs are influenced by the local roots music. After they played Stanhope House in NJ last Fall, I asked Luther how did he learn to play slide like that, he replied "I listened to Mississippi Fred McDowell". And now I listen to McDowell and hear how he'll slide from note to note without picking it. The North Mississippi style is really different from the Delta style and nobody has really brought it to public attention. * David Beardsley * http://biink.com
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