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Blues and Slide

Post by Matty » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:36 am

I'm a big fan of blues, both listening to and playing, and bottleneck/slide guitar in particular floats my boat no end.
Who are your favourite blues artists or tracks/YT vids?

A few starters featuring my personal favourites. Mostly of the more contemporary slide work or acoustic variety , i'll be back with an electric blues selection later on. as will i with a classics selction

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I'll be revisiting derek trucks later. oh yes.

a couple from one of my personal favourites Kelly Joe Phelps



the master, ry cooder

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIwYGZlB ... re=related[/youtube]

seasick steve
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3rzgpr ... re=related[/youtube]


that'll do for starters. i'll be back. 8-)
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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Robert_S » Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:20 am

What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by laklak » Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:43 am

He may be a blind, alcoholic albino but the man can play. I love watching Derek Trucks watching Johnny. From the 2010 Crossroads festival, Highway 61 Revisited.

Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Tero » Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:46 am



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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Matty » Wed Sep 21, 2011 12:57 pm

yeah i reckon he gets overlooked in favour of the possibly more charismatic Peter Green a lot. That and the weird culty thing actively bumped him off the radar, but he has a sweet tone nevertheless.
winter and landreth are both, of course, epic.

the last crossroads dvd introduced me to Robert Randolph and the family band. I seriously like his/their feel.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kABK_CDZ ... re=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F8PLsV2 ... re=related[/youtube]

this was the track that kinda opened my eyes, with daniele and bonammassa, both of who are pretty fucking epic in their own right of course.
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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by FBM » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:11 pm

Oh, hells yeah!

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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Matty » Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:24 pm

^^ Like. Lots

I also adore bonnie raitt's slide tone, and think in this example paired with her and norah jones' vocals its positively goose bump inducing.
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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by FBM » Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:32 pm

^^ Awesome, awesome.

Different mood (and it's a dobro), but...

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Re: Blues and Slide

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NrAA8GW ... re=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tew_fIhz ... re=related[/youtube]



Not slide, but my favourite bluesman of all time:

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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Tero » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:07 pm

Kottke has gone off slide quite a bit, but he still does play it. Here is a cover where you can see the slide better than Kottke videos
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyuuYqST ... e=youtu.be[/youtube]

he is pretty close but here is the original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma0Fa9t6 ... re=related
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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Matty » Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:15 pm

yeah Kottke is insanely good. that slide plus 12 string sound is BIG for one guy and an acoustic eh.

I love Burnside as well, i posted his cover of SKip James Hard Times Killing Floor blues in the "epics covers" thread.
a tasty selection of tunes itt peeps. top notch. loving it.

i also meant to post this nice bit of acoustic Jimi.


and more trucks doing his slide magic
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyxwBPAJ ... re=related[/youtube]

then his buddy Haynes doing his amazing thing shred style.


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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by The Red Fox » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:48 pm



Ok, it's lip-synched but that's British TV for you, and it's still a great song






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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Robert_S » Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:54 pm

Please people!

Limit it to one or two vids per post, my poor little netbook is getting overwhelmed by dozens of embedded vids. :tears:
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Matty » Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:30 pm

really? i didnt think it would matter if it were per post or per page?

anyway okay, here are a couple of electric slides from seasick steve.


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Re: Blues and Slide

Post by Matty » Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:32 pm

and a couple of regular electric


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