My two absolute favourite Buddy Guy albums . . .
Posted on 02/05/2010 7:55:13 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat
OK. So which male artists NOT associated with duo, group etc would make your top 10. Here's mine..in no particular order..Non opera please!
Don’t know if I missed this name but in the 50’s/60’s he was big Little Richard....Was one R & B singers that didn’t try to strenthen his hair...Parents were scared shi*less of him, but I loved his singing..
if I had to pick out something that could have been great, I would go with the old original Muddy Waters band staying together longer and see what they could have become...With Muddy's vintage band you could anchor it to Otis Spann. As a matter of fact, if you want to hear what they sounded like live, hunt down Muddy Waters at Newport and, believe it or not, John Lee Hooker's Live at Cafe Au Go-Go---Muddy was playing the same shows and his band backed Hooker for his sets. I grant you that James Cotton wasn't the harmonica player Little Walter was (nobody really was, except maybe for Big Walter Horton and Sonny Boy Williamson if you're talking the vintage Chess players), but the band was still pretty tight and, considering Hooker's idiosyncratic style, they held their own with Hooker very well.
What? No Johnny Cash?
Lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys sounds just like him.
Damn he could belt it out.
What? No Neil Diamond? (be still my heart) LOL
Bloomfield and don’t mention Butterfield’s Band? SHAME!Read again.
And, anyway, throw in The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw and The Butterfield Blues Band Live next to The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and East-West for Butterfield's best music . . .
Sorry...you did mention Butter in there...didn’t see it...but what about his wok? Done a Lot of Wrong Things is still in my top ten list for vocals and harp playing...
My two absolute favourite Buddy Guy albums . . .
In no particular order: The Big 5
Nat King Cole
Robert Plant
Johny Matthis
Sinatra
Valle
Got all of those...I played harp a little bit when I was a kid...and I think he was as good a white harp player as Jerry Portnoy, Charlie Musselwhite or William Clarke...right until the end...well, until the FIRST Better Days album...saw him once at the Ash grove (before the first fires) so f’d up he couldn’t make the second set and he was STILL great.
One not yet mentioned,Al Hibbler, but I’m Olde!
Silent Night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB6—5VHaHw&feature=related
He: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Wi5vgTe7Y&feature=related
Unchained Melody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7obNtXLYU&feature=related
All are olde classics! But then so am I. ;>}
Matt Monro
Josh Groban( the VOICE)
Neil Diamond( the versatile showman, charisma +)
Tommy Shaw- of Styx. His solo album showed he was the voice of that group.
Sammy Davis Jr- he could SING, best showman ever IMO
Billy Joel- talent+
Buddy Miller’s Italian Davoli Guitar gets honorable mention ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPDwrQtR9n0
Prince is amazing. It’s ridiculous that it took until post #132 to mention him.
No William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
He is certainly among the top-ten "artists" of all time.
ML/NJ
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