The Blues! Chicago or Delta? (Styles listed alphabetically as to not skew results. Heh.)

[BethCA66]

Tell me what you like. If you're feeling it, link to your favorite blues song or list it if it's not available online

[hippywife]

1. I gotta go with both.

Cannot choose. :hi:

[abq e streeter]

2. depends on my mood... although having spent hundreds of drunken ( and then some) nights

in Chicago blues bars ( mainly in the '70's), I gotta say that when it's really cookin', there's nothing like some hard core Chicago blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn77rGEV6XM----one of dozens I could list as favorite blues song, but this just about sums up that Chicago sound and feel.

[BethCA66]

3. I like! Have you heard Sunny War? Venice, CA street musician..

This young woman is beyond amazing. Tiny Town

And check out how tiny she is compared to the Jumbo.

[abq e streeter]

9. Actually I checked her out from your link yesterday on Old Mark's thread...she's GREAT

[BethCA66]

10. Cool. Cool. Whatever happened to Old Mark? He called me out for being a noob...

and then he went AWOL. Harumph.

[enigmatic]

4. Country Blues

As practiced by Lightnin' Hopkins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d49m6G9vOrI

[BethCA66]

5. LOVE! See, I'd call that Delta.

Did you check out Sunny War upthread?

She's 16 in this video.

[Shell Beau]

6. Robert Johnson!! Hello!

Many delta blues guys moved to Chicago later on. Delta blues baby. All day long.

[Lionel Mandrake]

7. "The Boogie Woogie Blues" by Albert Ammons

This is the Chicago style of long ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhLCwoOrUJc

[BethCA66]

8. Love! And thanks to you all -- I'm enjoying the links! n/t

[flvegan]

11. Damn, I thought this would be a thread about my Chelsea FC.

[BethCA66]

12. Soccer? Seriously? Although Cristiano Ronaldo is quite hot

[flvegan]

13. We call it football.

And Ronaldo is our Mel Gibson, thanks.

[BethCA66]

14. You call it football. We call it silly. :-P n/t

[flvegan]

17. According to the world, you are very much in the minority. n/t

[BethCA66]

18. Meh. I've been brainwashed into thinking the world revolves around America...

which is the US, not Mexico or Canada or Central and South America. It's cuz of those dumb maps we had but no longer do according to Miss Teen South Carolina.

I'm sure soccer is a great sport. Tosh.0

[flvegan]

19. That's an odd and dismissive answer.

Welcome to DU regardless, I guess.

:shrug:

[BethCA66]

21. My tongue is firmly lodged in my cheek...

and my soccer football comments were intentionally provocative. I'm a Philly ghetto rat, and soccer wasn't something I was exposed to. I mean no harm -- just a little rib poking. Call me cheeky.

[flvegan]

22. Provocative? Let us then talk about your Micheal Vick's Eagles.

I mean if you want provocative, you should go to the extreme, and talk about embracing a dogfighting douchebag to your throwball team.

Now you can call me cheeky.

[BethCA66]

25. Don't get me started on that bastard. I switched over to the Steellers until their QB...

got all rapey. I have no team. Ima cry now.

[BethCA66]

24. Oh, and the maps thing...

When I was in school, we used skewed maps where the US was disproportionately large, South America was disproportionately small, and the Americas were in the center of the map. That was the US centric business I was talking about that kind of reflected the We're #1 rah rah US mindset I rail against. South Carolina's Miss Teen USA pageant contestant is this chick.

Thanks for the welcome!

[hobbit709]

15. Texas

[BethCA66]

16. Are we talking Austin and Stevie Ray Vaughn? n/t

[hobbit709]

20. Lightning Hopkins, Freddie King, Gatemouth Brown

Henry Thomas, Albert Collins, Mance Lipscomb, Big Mama Thornton, Blind Lemon Jefferson all influenced people like Stevie, ZZ Top, johnny Winter.

[old mark]

30. T-bone Walker?

Like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1xvx0UHa0A

Great player, one of the jazzier uptown guitarists.

mark

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. Any kind of Blues. Period.

[pepperbear]

26. delta, if for no other reason because it came first. without it, chicago blues wouldn't exist.

I tend to put alot of stock in origins. it's the same reason why citizen kane is one of the best films ever made...whether it is or not.

[old mark]

27. Give me an option for "Both", and I'm in- I played and sang electric blues for over 15 years,

but I love Son House, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Hambone Willie Newbern, Memphis Minnie, and many more..there are so many I have yet to hear...My "Favorite" changes from time to time...it is all wonderful creative music, simple but not easy.

Remember - Eric Clapron said that Buddy Guy's the best, Buddy Guy says Magic Sam's the best....it goes on a long way.

enjoy it all.

mark

[Brickbat]

28. Delta. So much so, in fact, that Chicago blues sorta drives me up the wall.

[tigereye]

29. not sure i can choose...