Who owns the Blues, today ?

me ^ | today | me

[Zeneta]

I think there was a time in which the left owned the blues but things have come full circle to a point in which we own the blues.

The Blues will never go away and conservatives need to push this into our culture. IMHO

The "Blues" cuts to the core of virtually everything that matters.

I will put forth my modern and somewhat obscure samples, as I hope to see yours.

[a fool in paradise]

Howlin’ Wolf live in Toronto 1970 (footage), the man knows how to make an entrance

Highway 49
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwkiy9QnD80

[GeronL]

bump

[a fool in paradise]

Hey Bo Diddley (opening sequence from DA Pennebaker’s Sweet Toronto, 1969)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVE0wuh8BXw

The Doors can be seen in one of the limos (they also played as did Alice Cooper and Gene Vincent).

[a fool in paradise]

No One Owns The Blues
Josh Alan Friedman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1i1A8a-SwA

[a fool in paradise]

The last Blues song I wrote was “Stuck here at Walmart”

Was it big in Reno?

Rain Delays Burning Man Voyagers at Reno Wal-Mart (People of Wal-Mart just got weirder) (Aug 26, 2014)

[FlyingEagle]

No, but you just gave me a great idea for my next blues hit song, Burning Man Blues!! By Smokey Cottonmouth Nixon.

[MarDav]

Got to catch Johnny Winter in a 3 piece band at (I want to say) The Lonestar Cafe in NYC, July 4th 1979 (or so)...the man wore out his guitar. Every song played had a 3 minute-plus riff.

Here’s “I Wonder” from Humble Pie (Steve Marriot’s voice makes it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVu-MMLdoII

And here’s the Pie doing “For Your Love” acoustic, set to a bluesy motif (again, Marriot blows it out of the water)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0gkMzies2U

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, I should have provided credit:
“Who Owns You” Lyrics
by White Heart
from the album Tales Of Wonder

[Yardstick]

Not sure about today but in 1970 Albert King owned the blues:

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Hw-kPkdrajU

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Charlie Patton owns the blues - everybody else just rents from him.

[WorkingClassFilth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVtYKVaz9xY

Albert King, a former bulldozer operator, is still my vote for the King. Well, he’s actually dead but you know what I mean.

[Yardstick]

I posted a clip from that same concert earlier in the thread. He sounded fantastic that night.

[Dr. Pritchett]

I prefer as much harmonic as possible in my blues...

[citizen]

Tom Stillman and his wife.

[EternalVigilance]

Outstanding.

[Lurker]

Thank you for that. Amazing.

[BreezyDog]

I’m going to see him live or the first time at Constitution Hall in DC in November...

[WorkingClassFilth]

Fingers like bananas but he sure could pick the blues.

[Fresh Wind]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGsq1K7f_yc

[Beowulf9]

I had to put this song on here. If it’s not the blues, it aught to be.

Jeff Beck/Diamond Dust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N5jo2Vovpo