What made you stop, drop n start lovin' the blues?

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Permalink Reply by The Blacktop Rockets on January 7, 2009 at 3:44am

First time I heard the blues was in Tasmanian, little place called Mountain River. I had walked miles with my school buddy to go and see his hippy sister who lived a pretty hardcore life in an old farm house.
In the record collection there was a compilation album called Bluebird Blues, some old tracks off the Old Bluebird Label.
Well I can still hear the track I played over and over. "Bluebird Bluebird, Take a letter down south for me. I seem to think it was Blind Willie McTell and not Sonnyboy Williamson. But It is the very first record I couldn't stop playing. i would love to get my hands on a copy but I haye not seen it since.
It scarred me for life I am greatful to say. I guess I was 15 years old and the feeling I got then is still with me whenever i hear real deal Blues.
Thanks for this

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Permalink Reply by Janine Chuba on January 7, 2009 at 10:41am

Your welcome. It's always nice to think back, or sometimes not nice. For me it will be about 4 years, but for the bands I have seen and befriended its almost feels like a lifetime.
A lot of people tend to think that a bad relationship leads them into the blues ... maybe so, but anything can trigger it.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Stanley on January 13, 2009 at 1:24pm

The only versions I know from that time are by Sonny Boy and also Tommy McClennan.

They can be found on the CDs below:

Sonny Boy Williamson (I have this one)
The Bluebird Recordings 1937-1938
Bluebird/RCA

Tommy McClennan (he recorded it in 1942)
Cross Cut Saw Blues, Vol. 2 1940-1942

Bluebird Recordings 1939-1942 (Tommy McClennan's version)
RCA

Bluebird Blues 1933-46 (Tommy McClennan's version)

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Permalink Reply by Marty Mercer on January 7, 2009 at 10:58am

I was 11 , on my way to the U.P. of Michigan.
I was big into 60's music ( go figure).We stopped at a gas station & I saw a rack of cassettes .
I found one for 2 bucks
Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker - Turn Up The Heat

Turns out it was Canned Heat backing John Lee Hooker.
I listened to that tape till it broke !

It's all been downhill from there.
I'm comitted - or should be.

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Permalink Reply by Stacy Brooks on January 7, 2009 at 11:18am

I have been loving the blues since I was a child. I just didn't know it was called "The Blues", I knew it was music that made me dance and it touched something deep inside. I also paid allot of attention to lyrics in all music and the blues songs that I liked were always sassy. Growing up in southern Germany you could go into any Gasthasus and hear blues.

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Permalink Reply by Valerie Scotella on January 7, 2009 at 8:27pm

I just love the blues!! Somedays I just can't describe how special this music is to me and why,...like right now. But of course, there is a long story behind my love for the blues and especially,...for Ronnie Baker Brooks.

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Permalink Reply by Number 1 Fan on January 8, 2009 at 11:04am

I am the Official Ronnie Baker Brooks Fan Club President because of all of the Blues performers I have come to love (and there are many talented blues performers out there!), Ronnie's lyrics touch my heart like no one else's and I could simply sit and stare at his magical hands playing his lead guitars (or his acoustical guitar) forever! He is a phenomenal Blues musician and a sensational entertainer with such intense sincerity and emotion rolled up in his original music, it's no wonder I'm addicted to him and the band. They are all great guys who truly care about their fans!!! Thanks for keepin' those BLUES alive, Ronnie!

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Permalink Reply by Janine Chuba on January 8, 2009 at 12:40pm

So true about him caring about his fans. Though at the time, I was still looking at mug shots of a young black man, my friends truly didn't understand why I kept my sights on Ricco (RIP bless ya) and Daryl. Didn't want to mix up my mind. Ronnie just stayed true to form, with a hug here and there. Even with change ups in the band, he is always there for you!

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Permalink Reply by Innes Sibun on January 9, 2009 at 3:52pm

I was in the kitchen with my mum when I was around 10 years old & she was cooking biscuits when B.B King came on the radio, my life turned around, I didn't understand it but I knew I had to have it !!! I stole a vinyl copy of live at the regal from a second hand store in Bath & I wore it out, at night I would disconnect the speakers from the record player & just listen to it on the grooves so as not to wake anyone. I got a paper round & bought my first guitar for £8. I've never stopped loving or being obsessed with the blues since then, we are old friends ! ha ha

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Permalink Reply by Robert Stanley on January 13, 2009 at 10:09am

My favorite B.B. King song has always been "Five Long Years." I don't even really know why.

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Permalink Reply by The Rusty Wright Band on January 9, 2009 at 10:07pm

Well, I got hooked cause my dad used to play old Howlin Wolf records and I especially loved the stuff with Hubert Sumlin.
But I never got filled with THE fire until I saw "Jimi at Berkley" ( a live concert video)

I was 9 years old and I snuck down from the spare room at my grandparents house where I was staying cause my mom was a touring gospel artist and I wasn't old enough to join the band and the TV was in the basement so you could turn it on and crank it up without anybody hearin'.
God in Heaven!
I was utterly devastated!!! That was the moment when GOD came down from the mountain and I KNEW I had to do that! .....
I been a gee-tar player ever since and I guess nobody will ever know my name as well as his but I still fly just as high as the night I saw that piece of Heaven.
Check my thing here: http://www.rustywrightband.com
Someday, me an Mr. Hendrix will get to play together...but not too soon, I hope :-)

Thanks Grandma Edith and Grandpa Willy, I shall love you till I see you again and then I shall love you till there is no end.
Rusty Wright
Anyway, That's my story.

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Permalink Reply by allboutGuitar on January 10, 2009 at 11:28am

Believe me or not I started up with 70´English Pop-Rock to American Rock like Alice Cooper to Kiss! Frampton Comes Alive was the break!Cause I went back to Humble Pie´s Fillmore East Album .I discovered Muddy´s Rollin´ Stone and was addicted with the BLUES since then!I´ve been playin´the blues for over thirty years now and I hope the next thirty as well!! Blues & Gruß from Karlsruhe/Germany - Udo-!

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