The only white man who can play the blues

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

(And it AIN'T Eric Clapton!)

Johnny Winter



You ain't lived until you've heard him do Tobacco Road!

http://www.johnnywinter.net/

[lenidog]

1. White men can actually play the blues

but usually they have to be from England or Ireland.

[evlbstrd]

7. Van's the man!

[lenidog]

8. My thoughts exactly!!

:yourock:

[evlbstrd]

11. You are, indeed, a wise person.

:toast: :beer:

[noahmijo]

2. Actually I thought you were going to say Stevie Ray Vaughn

I'll check out this Johnny Winter guy though.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Stevie Ray was definitely up there

He died WAY too soon.

[pearl]

6. A Pretty new kid on the block

Johnny Lang (spelling may be wrong)

[ofrfxsk]

3. Stevie Ray?

[Radical Activist]

5. Oh i don't know. This guy is pretty good

[lenidog]

10. George Thorogood

[evlbstrd]

12. I had an argument about him with my sister-in-law.

I say George is R&B, and not bad, but not blues.

[lenidog]

19. He is more a Kansas City blues man

which is a bit more rocking than the standard blues.

[evlbstrd]

21. I grew up in and live in KC.

Count Basie jumped the blues.
Jay McShann still swings the blues.
Joe Turner shouted the blues.

I disagree.

[Radical Activist]

32. He's a cross-genre guy

but most often he does blues.

[evlbstrd]

38. That's evident.

Rock and roll, R & B, Country, it's all based on black blues.

edit to add: The banjo is an African instrument.

[Gemini Cat]

14. I hear that guy is bad to the bone and

when he drinks he drinks alone.

[Kenneth ken]

9. well, he isn't the ONLY white man who can play the blues

but he probably is the WHITEST man who can play the blues. :7

[Webster Green]

13. I miss Roy Buchanan...

He was a white man who damn sure could play the blues!

R.I.P. Roy!

[BikeWriter]

15. Bert Wills can play blues.

http://www.mnblues.com/cdreview/bertwills-ma.html

[Robeson]

16. Duane Allman - R.I.P.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. Johnny did it BEFORE SRV, but...

...like Johnny, Stevie also had the respect and admiration of "elders" like BB King, Albert King and Buddy Guy. That's really the test, whether or not a player is accepted into the community. Stevie WAS.

[Floogeldy]

18. Neither color nor race has anything to do with it.

Sick premise.

[elshiva]

20. AGREED! EVERYONE GETS THE BLUES!

[Floogeldy]

22. So true!

Elshiva. :loveya:

[elshiva]

39. Thanks!

:blush: :loveya:

[enigmatic]

23. John Mayall

"The Turning Point" is one of the greatest blues records ever made..

[Zuni]

25. A Hard Road

is his best, no doubt about it. The guitarist I wrote about just a minute ago plays on it

[enigmatic]

26. That's a great one, too...

I love Mayall; he's really underappreciated today, at least in the US..

[Zuni]

29. He is the man

I do like his earlier work the best though

I love to crank "I'm your witchdoctor" when I am driving---song puts me in a good mood.

[Zuni]

24. You obviously have never listened to Peter Green

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Green_%28musician%29

Best blues guitarist of all time in my opinion, Peter Green is, and I am a die hard blues fan---everything from the Delta to London's East End. I don't say "best guitarist" lightly---everyone from Robert Johnson to T-Bone Walker to Buddy Guy to Jimi Hendrix to John Fogerty to Stevie Ray Vaughn has been evaluated in their blues/rock playing by me.

Wilipedia on Green's playing:
The great bluesman B.B. King once referred to Peter Green as "the only guitarist who ever made me sweat", and with good reason. His blues style is not as histrionic as that of other noted British blues guitarists of that time, like Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, but is more profound, much nearer to what is commonly referred to among blues aficionados as "deep blues". If one listens to John Mayall's "Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton" and "A Hard Road" back to back, Clapton's playing is spectacular, white hot, and Green's, on the latter, is beautiful, understated, darkly bluesy. Peter Green got deeper into the spirit of the blues than any of his contemporaries, thus he has been called the "best white blues guitar player".



and I am sure you have never heard the black/white Chicago Blues playin maniacs-The Paul Butterfield Blues Band---Butterfield, who was white, was one of the sickest harp players ever----probably the best, really. Listen to his Harmonica on their cover of "Work Song" on their second album, East-West

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Butterfield

or Steve Cropper---the white country boy who wrote the book on funk and played on almost all of the great memphis soul records of the 1960s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cropper

I could go on and on :boring:

although this in no way takes away from the Black blues players:

these are two of the best: Howlin' Wolf and his excellent guitarist, Hubert Sumlin :thumbsup:

[enigmatic]

28. Green is incredible...

I love Jeremy Spencer, too; before he got swallowed up by The Children Of God. Phil Keaggy, too; his stuff w/ Glass Harp is more rock than blues, but he's got the chops..

[Zuni]

31. Jeremy Spencer can do the best impersonations

speaking of Mayall, have you ever heard his Mayall impersonation? I have it on a Fleetwood Mac disc where he goes through a medley of trashing other British blues guys---it is dead fucking on. :rofl:

He could do Elmore james better than any guy in the UK. But it is Green's intense guitar work, songwriting, harp playing and singing that I like the best. I especially like his "guitar duels" with the other guitarist in the early Mac, Danny Kirwan, on some songs.

Peter Green's '59 Les Paul is possibly the best sounding guitar I have ever heard. It's trademark tone was the result of Peter rigging it wrong and putting the pickups in upside down! It is still being used---Gary moore, another famous guitar player plays it to this day, still set up the way Green left it in 1970.

I have some of the new Green stuff with the splinter group---it is very tasteful. But Peter green's years of mental illness took their toll, and although he has recovered miraculously, his playing will never be the same.

[enigmatic]

33. Oh, that's incredible, isn't it?

Spencer had "it", you know? He really could have been one of the all-time greats, but I'm happy that he put out the stuff w/ Fleetwood Mac that he did.

I could talk about this stuff all night; I'll have to add some Mac and Mayall to the roation for my show..

[Zuni]

35. how do i listen to your show?

sounds like you have good taste. :thumbsup:

[enigmatic]

36. Ha! I even play The Louvin Brothers!

I'm not kiddiong, either;)

Click on my banner; then "Listen"..I play alot of DUer's songs as well..

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

27. Listen to Johnny on "Third Degree"...incredible album..fingers fly.

[leftofthedial]

30. he's amazing! And he's VERY white. (LOL)

but "only"?

Nah.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

34. Of COURSE he's not the only one.

But this is the best music thread I've seen here in a long time....

:evilgrin:

[enigmatic]

37. Talkin' music is always jake w/ me...

You always end up finding musical soulmates in the most unlikely places, and that's one of the cool things about being on a board like this..

[johnnie]

40. Johnny is great

Not a bad Dobro player either.

Ever hear of Joe Bonamassa? That cat can play.
http://www.jbonamassa.com/