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Possessed
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Musical Obsessions
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22-Aug-2018, 11:46 PM

Well for blues you should start with stevie ray vaughan. He’s very accessible while still being authentic but having just enough sense of pop to be easy to listen to. And he was one of the best guitarists to ever walk the face of the earth, and by all accounts super nice in person too. He’s got slow, painful blues as well as fast shuffles. Also has a little Rock influence. Pro tip: once you’re tired of his far too brief studio catalog look for life performances. Look for performances released posthumously. (There was only one actual live album put out while he was alive. Called Live Alive. It’s got a few good moments and starts on a high note but it’s a real mixed bag. It’s a compilation of several concerts but only one of them was recorded well. The common buzz was that the album sucked due to how messed up he was on drugs he was during the performance but further research points to it being more because they were recorded so poorly that most of the parts had to be overdubbed due to poor sound quality and with as spontaneous and fresh as his live performances always were, with large improvisational sections, trying to overdub specific live performances was a doomed process bound to sound lifeless. But all the performances from his 1985 appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival are great, but you don’t need the album for that as that performance was later released on its own at a later date. And there have been many posthumous live albums released from him and they are all fabulous, he was so good live the fact that he never made an actual good live album in his lifetime is a strange anomaly. But I REALLY recommend the live video “Live at the El Mocambo”. But something after he got a keyboard player would also be worth exploring as that provided a whole new layer that is worth hearing. But YouTube videos might be enough for you. If you want more specific performances I’d be happy to get you some.)

I also recommend Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Robert Cray as excellent blues artists.

If you want specific songs let me know.

Can’t help you with jazz.