Ultimate Blues Songs

[AnOminous]

Seriously beat this, I dare you to find a more blues song than this insane 20 minute jam from John Lee Hooker.

 

[Xolanite]

Johnnie Taylor

Robert Johnson (Fun fact: the guy who made Prison School has an unfinished/cancelled manga about Robert Johnson called Me n the Devil Blues.)

T.K. Soul (this is particularly southern soul, but whatever)

you can fall into a rabbit hole of blues/southern soul.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Its hard to tell people how much I love this scatman Crothers classic from coonskin.

Like the movie it more than just "lol nigger word" but it gets dismissed a lot and even called racist despite being made by 99% blacks and 1 jew.

 

[Idiotron]

If you want real blues, you have to check out Blues Hammer:

 

[AnOminous]

Robert Johnson (Fun fact: the guy who made Prison School has an unfinished/cancelled manga about Robert Johnson called Me n the Devil Blues.)

Impressive. If you're going to try to trump John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson is definitely in the short list of people who can do that.

 

[.iota.]

the nearest and dearest to my heart ...

Little Wing - YouTube Music

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[Chocolate Wombat]

Always loved Born Under a Bad Sign, this is a pretty good version:

 

[AnOminous]

Also since we got to Robert Johnson. There's also this.

 

[Botchy Galoop]

Champion Jack Dupree has always been one of my faves.
His "Blues From The Gutter" album is in my top 10 blues albums.

ETA
Howlin Wolf

 

[Big Al's Famous Pork]

Appalachian white man blues.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

Been slowly getting into blues. Picked up Eric Clapton & BB King's collaboration "Riding With The King" and its phenomenal.

Also, one of my coworkers is from Kenya and has played some African desert blues. Don't know the lyrics, but the music is great.

 

[AnOminous]

Also this would be in the all-time greats.