Showing posts with label electric blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electric blues. Show all posts

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Blues rock, electric blues, Texas blues

In Session (1999) Live '83, with Albert King
The Fire Meets the Fury: The Radio Broadcasts 1989 (2012)

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble:
Texas Flood (1983) 2009 Rem.
Couldn't Stand the Weather (1984) 2010 Rem.
Soul to Soul (1985) 2005 Rem.
Live Alive (1986)
In Step (1989) 2005 Rem.
The Sky Is Crying (1991)
In the Beginning (1992) Live '80
Greatest Hits (1995)
Live at Carnegie Hall (1997) rec.'84, 2009 Rem.
SRV (2000) BoxSet
Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985 (2001)
A Legend in the Making: Live at the El Mocambo 1983 (2014)

The Vaughan Brothers (with Jimmie Vaughan):
Family Style (1990)

tribute albums:
A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (1996)
Pickin' on Stevie Ray Vaughan: A Bluegrass Tribute (2001)
Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute: Lenny (2009)
The House Is Rockin': A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (2015)

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins
aka: Lightning Hopkins *
Centerville, Texas, U.S.
Electric blues, country blues, Texas Blues

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
The musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins is "the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".


Lightnin Hopkins (1959)
Autobiography in Blues (1960)
Country Blues (1960)
Lightnin' (The Blues of Lightnin' Hopkins) (1960)
Lightnin' and the Blues (1960)
Lightnin' in New York (1960) Live
Blues in My Bottle (1961)
Last Night Blues (1961) with Sonny Terry
Lightnin' Strikes (1962) 2003 Rem.
Lightnin' Strikes Back (1962) Live
Mojo Hand (1962)
Sings the Blues (1962) rec.'46/'48, 2016 Rem.
Walkin' This Road By Myself (1962)
Blues Hoot: Live Recording at the Ash Grove (1963) with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Goin' Away (1963)
Smokes Like Lightning (1963)
Hootin the Blues (1964) Live '62
Soul Blues (1965)
Free Form Patterns * (1968)
Houston Gold * (1968)
California Mudslide (and Earthquake) * (1969)
The Great Electric Show and Dance (1969)
A Legend in His Own Time (1970) rec.'50/'51
Double Blues (1972) rec.'64
Dirty Blues * (1973)
Po' Lightnin' * (1983) rec.'61/'69
Lightnin' Hopkins (1989) rec.'46-'60
The Texas Bluesman (1989) rec.'61/'65/'67
From the Vaults of Everest Records (1990)
Blues Train * (1991) rec.'50/'51
Joel, Lightnin' & John Henry (1991) rec.'65, The Hopkins Brothers
Sittin in with Lightnin' Hopkins (1991) rec.'53
It's a Sin to Be Rich (1992) rec.'72
Morning Blues (1992) rec.'65/'69
The Swarthmore Concert (1993) Live '64
Lightning Hopkins - Texas Blues (1994) rec.'61-'69
Forever: Last Recording (1996) Live '81
Lightnin' Hopkins (1996) Comp.
Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me (1996) rec.'64, with Barbara Dane
The Remaining Titles, Volume 1 (1998) rec.'50-'61
Straight Blues (1999) rec.'61/'64
Live! At the Berkeley (2000) rec.'66, with Clifton Chenier and Mance Lipscomb
Lightning Hopkins and the Blues Summit (2001) rec.'60, with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Big Joe Williams
In the Key of Lightnin' (2002) rec.May 20,'69
Live at Newport (2002) rec.'65
All the Classics 1946-1951 (2003)
The Sonet Blues Story (2005) rec.'74
The Acoustic Years 1959-1960 (2014)

appears on:
American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1965 (1995)

Friday, April 23, 2004

Robert Jr. Lockwood

Robert Jr. Lockwood
aka: Robert Lockwood *, Robert Lockwood Jr. **
Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, United States
Delta blues, Electric blues, Chicago blues, Country blues

Robert Lockwood Jr. (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist, who recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only guitarist to have learned to play directly from Robert Johnson. Lockwood is known for his longtime collaboration with Sonny Boy Williamson II and for his work in the mid-1950s with Little Walter.


Steady Rollin' Man (1973) rec.'70
Contrasts (1974)
Blues Live! (1975) Robert Jr. Lockwood & The Aces
...Does 12 (1977)
I Got to Find Me a Woman ** (1997)
Just the Blues (1999)
Delta Crossroads ** (2000)
Ramblin' on My Mind ** (2000) rec.'82
Sweet Home Chicago: The JOB Sessions 1951-1955 (2001) with Johnny Shines
The Legend Live ** (2003)
The Blues of... ** (2004) with Boogie Bill Webb

Wednesday, June 03, 1992

Larry Davis

Larry Davis
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States
Texas blues, soul blues, electric blues

Larry Davis (December 4, 1936 – April 19, 1994) was an American electric Texas blues and soul blues musician. He is best known for co-writing the song "Texas Flood", later recorded to greater commercial success by Stevie Ray Vaughan.


Live at J.B. Hutto's (1979)
Funny Stuff (1982)
Sooner or Later (1992)

Friday, June 01, 1990

T-Bone Walker

T-Bone Walker
Linden, Texas, U.S.
Blues, electric blues, Texas blues, Chicago blues, jump blues, West Coast blues

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was an influential pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".


Sings the Blues (1959)
Singing the Blues (1960)
Feelin' the Blues (1969)
Good Feelin' (1969)
Every Day I Have the Blues (1970) 2014 Rem.
The Complete Recordings (1990) 1940-1954

appears on:
American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1965 (1995)
American Folk Blues Festival '72 (1972)

Monday, June 07, 1976

Good Rockin' Charles

Good Rockin' Charles
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Chicago blues, electric blues

Good Rockin' Charles (March 4, 1933 – May 17, 1989) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter. He released one album in his lifetime and is best known for his work with Johnny "Man" Young, Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, Arthur "Big Boy" Spires and Jimmy Rogers.


Good Rockin' Charles (1976)