Must own in your blues vinyl collection.
1968 – Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac So you say you’ve heard of Fleetwood Mac? That five piece mega hit factory of the 70’s and 80’s? Well I say, this ain’t that. This is the blues baby, so sit back and let me tell you how this story goes. Fleetwood Mac was born out of the “British Blues” or the British interpretation of the real deep south American blues. You see once upon a time in 1963, there was a blues…
1981 – Buddy Guy So, to follow up my bit on Junior Wells, why not segue right into his partner in crime who happens to be one of the greatest blues singers and guitarists in the world, Mr. Buddy Guy? When I need some aggressively insane blues guitar solos – Stone Crazy! is my go to! This record packs a punch, a punch of blues that is. George Buddy Guy is the trifecta of blues musicians – he has the…
1965 – Junior Wells First of all, Junior Wells is freakin’ amazing. Second of all, it says “with Buddy Guy” right on the cover. I could just end this post on those two facts alone but, maybe you need a little more convincing so please, allow me to elaborate. This is Chicago blues. What is that you say? Well, Chicago blues can be described in many ways. We can say that this particular form of music was the result of…