Who is the Next Great Blues Guitarist?
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Permalink Reply by Anthony Moreno on -
Zach Prather : www.zach-prather.com / www.myspace.com/zachprathersbluesexpress
Will Johns: www.willjohns.com /www.myspace.com/willjohnsmusic
Both these guitarists have had a wonderful history of tours and music writing that 2009 will be a trend that has come around again , have a listen.
Anthony Moreno
A.M.E. ENT./MGMT
www.myspace.com/morenomanagement
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Permalink Reply by Valentina Holub on -
Hi Anthony,
Zach is a excellent smart player and very good musicians,
i have seen him live and was very impressed,
i love his MUSIC and enjoy again and again "TOOLS OF THE TRADE"
best wishes
Valentina
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Permalink Reply by Anthony Moreno on
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Hello Valentina, thank you for your reply, Tools of the Trade is one fine cd and his previous cd releases are" Never my Love", and "Nothin' but the Blues". Look for Prather and his band to tour Europe this summer, and presently in Switzerland, his most recent cd release " FREAK" is being listened to and reviewed world wide. go to www.zach-prather.com / www.myspace.com/zachprathersbluesexpress for all info and tour dates, all the best, Anthony A.M.E. ENT. / MGMT
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Permalink Reply by Achiel on -
I'm leading the "Blues Artist of the Week" group on last.fm (and 4 other blues related groups). Each week the members can post 5 names as nominations, at the end of the week i count the votes and so we have an artist of the week. Every 10 weeks we have a special round. Last week we elected the "best blues guitar player". I would like to put here the top of that list:
Stevie Ray Vaughan 8 votes
Eric Clapton 6
Rory Gallagher 5
Duane Allman 4
Jimmi Hendrix 3
Peter Green 3
Popa Chubby 3
Robert Johnson 3
Warren Haynes 3
Alvin Lee 2
Jeff Healey 2
Joe Bonamassa 2
Lightnin' Hopkins 2
Sonny Landreth 2
For those of you who are on last.fm, my name there is purplezorro.
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Permalink Reply by Lezlea on -
Have any of you heard Guitar Shorty? He is a great guitarist that - like many has not gotten the attention/recognition he deserves. Texas Johnny Brown is another legendary Blues Guitarist that is still with us who has never received the accolades he deserves.
If you have never seen these men play... you should!
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Permalink Reply by Darren Watson on -
Who cares?
For me blues is about the song. It's been hijacked by 'noodly', long-winded guitarists for too long.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Porkchop Holder on -
Seconded.
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Permalink Reply by Rick Saunders on -
thirdededed
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Permalink Reply by Mark Porkchop Holder on
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Well saidededed, Husseinedededed.
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Permalink Reply by Ashwyn Smyth on -
It is interesting to read this thread as we were having a similar conversation on a UK mailing list about who was the 'best' guitarist. For me, I am not a guitarist nor a practising musician and so am in no way qualified to comment upon technical ability. Thus my measure has to be something more visceral, the tingle factor if you will. So it is an emotional response to the playing/player rather than an informed critique of technique. I can, of course, tell the difference between a no-hoper and an accomplished player but could not get into any informed discussion about use of pick-ups (it’s a small truck isn't it?) or any of the other minutiae that you hear when musicians gather together!
Technique alone is, of course, not a true measure of a musician. It has to be combined with a passion, a love for the music, emotion and all sorts of other complicated but indefinable gut things.
Surely it is for this reason that just about all guitarist have great gigs and also have mediocre gigs as well as lousy gigs!
I really like Clapton, as much for his variety of style and his apparently effortless playing as his ability. I also applaud him for what he has done & continues to do to try to bring blues & real r'n'b into the mainstream. Blues albums by the likes of Aerosmith, Robert Palmer and Chris Rea have also played their part.
Chris Rea is, imho, an underrated guitarist, especially when playing slide, listen to the 'Road to Hell' CD to see what I mean. His blues album, 'Dancing Down The Stony Road' was hard stuff lyrically, thoroughly depressing, but an excellent blues album with some gorgeous guitar. Listen to his various Blue Guitars and Hofner Bluenotes CDs for more great guitar. Yet he never seems to feature in any 'great guitarist' discussion. Neither is he new!
There are quite a few guitarists on the blues circuit who are criminally unsung, mostly unknown and yet absolutely wonderful to see/listen to. In particular I would pick out Mick Pini, Sherman Robertson, Timmy Moore & Daniel J Kyle (Nicki Moore's Blues Corporation), Sonny Black (the master), the late Big Pete Gale (Hair of the Dog), Tim Ainslie (the Groove Doctors), Little Toby Walker, Will Killeen, Tom Doughty, Jules Fothergill (funkydory), Sonny Landreth, Roy Mette - I could go on but for once will close the list with apologies to all the wonderful guitarists I have not mentioned!
So it really boils down to individual choice and taste which is why the Digital Blues Awards are all about your favourite musicians rather than the 'best'. If you have not voted yet why not visit the Digital Blues website - www.digitalblues.co.uk and vote in the 2008 awards?
As for who is the next great blues guitarist, try listening to Ian Parker (Ruf Recors). Now there is a man whose playing makes me tingle!
A bientot from rural France
Ashwyn
www.digitalblues.co.uk
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Permalink Reply by Steve Hill on -
I like Lurrie Bell for straight electric blues. He has his own style. Dave Spector does too, albeit a bit more jazzy. But I like what he does. Sonny Landreth is great as is Derek Trucks, both kind of rocking the blues along with Joe Bonamassa. Bob Brozman is great. Sue Foley too. There are a lot of very good players technically out there, but very few have their own discernible style I think, which is important to me. I mean, you could tell T-Bone from Alberts King and Collins from B.B., or Freddie or Hubert Sumlin, or John Lee Hooker, etc., etc., immediately. With a lot of today's white blues players, as good as many of them are, it is a little more difficult to do so, in my opinion.
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Permalink Reply by Sugar Blue on -
There's a tendency to be derivative but perhaps with age?????
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