Lately, I've been listening to a selection of swamp blues in Youtube. Very stiff, but at the same time relaxing music.

You mean BigFoot Blues?

or more like this?

 

Like second

 

Fleetwood Mac's origins go back to high-quality Blues:

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/lindsey-buckingham-leaves-fleetwood-mac-again-n864221

Rolling Stone and Variety, without naming their sources, reported that Buckingham had been fired — a not-implausible development in light of the band's tumultuous 50-year history.

 

Another one of the greats is gone:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/09/entertainment/danny-kirwan-fleetwood-mac-death/index.html

Danny Kirwan, a guitarist who appeared on five of Fleetwood Mac's albums, died in London on Friday, according to the band. He was 68.

 

Another one of the greats is gone:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/09/entertainment/danny-kirwan-fleetwood-mac-death/index.html

Makes me wonder if I should retire at 65 or 62, but then what was his life style? and what are his genetics. Most men on my fathers side die in their 80's, my moms side are late 60's early 70's.

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The blues ain't all guitar and vocals.

 

I have been trying to find something worth posting from Steve Vai because, technically, he is absolutely amazing. Alas, it just doesn't do it for me like it should...so...with apologies...

...and if you want to hear what the Karate Kid plays (Paganini caprice #5) as his winning move, when played a bit more conservatively by a 19 year old...

..not too shabby eh? But, that is another thread.

Edited to add: I never actually saw the movie Crossroads, from which the top video is from. That is Steve Vai as the bad guy and I understand that he did play on the soundtrack, but Ry Cooder seems to be credited for a lot of the soundtrack, including in that last duel..if I am to believe what I read. Below he is playing "Feeling Bad Blues".

 

The Winter brothers, 1970.

 

You might associate Larry Coryell with only Jazz and he was one of the best in my opinion (saw him once - outstanding), but he could also play some pretty nasty blues, like here...

One more..."Blues in the Closet" with Philip Catherine and that is Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen playing the upright...they look like they are having a blast!

Larry Coryell died on February 19, last year, and on that day we lost a great one.

 

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells - The Honeydripper

 

I guess one belongs here - George Thorogood, Madison Blues (remember Parents, don't send your kids to college with too much discretionary beer money because this is where it goes

 

I was never that into Chicago (what were all those horns about?) and it is Rock, but Blues-inspired, I think. Regardless, I was listening to this tonight - from 1970, and the solo at about 3:00 in here is very impressive. Tragically, Terry Kath died 8 years later of accidental, self-inflicted, high-speed, lead poisoning.

 

Going Down (Written by Don Nix, but I also see Leon Russel credited to some degree)

Freddie King 1970

Recorded a year earlier by these guys:

...and a tasty treatment by Jeff Beck and Beth Hart (I kind of like her).

Edited to add : and a tip of the hat to @shortbus for telling me about Beth Hart in this thread.

 

Joe Walsh playing Les Paul's, Les Paul

 

Roy Buchanon - Royz Bluz

 

We have, in this thread, sometimes expressed some...dissatisfaction with young people not demanding more from their music....so what happens when they regress back to earlier times (remember this Fleetwood Mac Tune from an earlier post)...do they pull it off? Not so much I think.

 

Orianthi playing Voodoo Chile

(well, she looks good...better than she sounds or is that too harsh considering all I could do with a stratocaster is maybe scare some cats but never come to close what she is doing here). But it just looks and sounds so...I don't know, contrived?

 

Pacific Gas and Electric, (with Glenn Schwarz / James Gang), Wade in the Water - has to be around 1970 - Gospel/Blues-Rock