What was your first Blues album?
 

My first album was Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Probably the best Blues album of all time. I still listen to it now after all the other albums I've purchased over the years and I still think nothing else can compare. He just had the best people in Blues on that album and it shows.

What was your first Blues album?

I'm not sure if this exactly counts but the first one I got was Stevie Ray Vaughan.. well actually it was Hendrix too but he does a whole variety

chet atkins "back home country hymns"
if that doesn't count, then i'd have to go with the cd that came with my guitar lesson book. it had a lot of blues.

It was in 1967.Paul Butterfield Blues Band. "In My Own Dream"
Recently bought it in CD.

It was a cassette by Peter Green's fleetwood mac called Looking back on fleetwood mac,that was swiftly followed by a double album by Canned heat and John Lee Hooker.

My first jazz album was Miles Davis-Round Midnight. My first blues album was Stevie Ray Vaughan- The Sky is Crying. Both albums rock!

mine would probably be the one my dad gave me a few months ago after seeing them play. It's a little more rockish than other blues bands but its still concidered blues. The album is called Good Day For Dying and its from Beau Kavanagh And The Broken Hearted. I'm not so much into blues but they are pretty good.

My dad gave me "Kind of Blue" when i was like 7,and i really got into it. one of the greatest albums all the way through

It was a tape with John Lee Hooker on one side, and Muddy Waters on the other. And i played that tape untill it disintegrated. Then I started listeinging to Taj Mahal and the like and I was hooked.

"Texas Flood" (SRV) Followed by "All these Blues" (The Russel Brothers)

kind of blue, miles davis, classic.. well it was my mum's and then i overplayed it so i had to but another copy, so it's the first that i actually bought

Roy Buchanan - Live Stock
Too bad ol' Roy never got his due.

I think my first real blues album was Hot Tuna in about 1972!! I already had all the Hendrix and Cream and Zeppelin by then, but I classed them more in the heavy metal (underground) in those days.

I dont rememeber the name, but it was the live BB King album of the show he did in a prison.

Ive also been listening to "Sweet Tea" by Buddy Guy lately which has very "psychedelic grunge" feel to it. Reminds me of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsies a litttle bit. Highly recommended.

Em Kenny Wayne Sheppard if he doesn't really count then SRV The Sky is crying or Tom Waits Mule Variations

Mo-Town Michael Mcdonald...my dad randomely put it in the car one day and i loved it..of coarse i didnt tell HIM that. :)

www.alltheabove.tk

BB King live at Cook County Jail, super good.

First was Live at Blue Cat Blues by Los Lonely Boys. :band:

B.B. King, Live At Cook County Jail. i stayed up all night trying to learn the songs, but i only know The Thrill Is Gone

it was either:
Fathers and Sons - Muddy Waters
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vauhgan
or
Riding With The King - B.B. King & Eric Clapton

From the Cradle - Eric Clapton and Spotlight on Lucille - BB King = awesome albums as well as anything from John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Memphis Slim and Tom Waits (if you consider tom waits blues)

stevie ray vaughns texas flood. its actually a tape, but who cares

My first ever BLUES record (Not Blues rock but BLUES) is probably GRAPE JAM (1968).....

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow/Grape_Jam

.....which is kind of a small album,not many songs but its excellent!! (I mostly have Blues Rock albums not Blues)


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I made a mistake guys.... My first blues album was BB KING - LA midnight on cassette (I got that several months ago @ a record store)

^ Yey! Someone other than me mentions Roy Buchanan! :tramp:
RB and Ten Years After were among my first blues albums, but I think this was my very first: not particularly cool to start with a Greatest Hits album, but that's how it was for me, as I transitioned from pop/rock to other genres:-

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...c_album%29.jpg

Roy Buchanan is good huh??

Might have to add him to my blues collection....... The BB KING album I have is ELECTRIC BLUES (Not just BLUES)

What exactly is the difference between BLUES and ELECTRIC BLUES??

^ Yes, I think so, Dude111. First time I heard this track from his first, self-titled album, I though, "Wow! Buying this was a mistake!" but by the end of the track, I had become a huge and instant fan. Maybe it'll do the same for you:-



His "Second Album" is a showcase of no-nonsense, guitar-driven blues. There is the occasional weak track, but get a load of the two opening tracks below. For once, the word "blistering" is not an exaggeration:-



"Blues" is the word for the whole genre. Sometimes people want to distinguish between early material, which was often one guy with an acoustic guitar and later stuff which highlights the elec guitar, plus band, so they call that "electric blues." Early acoustic stuff is also called Delta Blues because that's where it came from, while Elec Blues started a couple of decades later, in Detroit or Chicago I think.

Of course many artists do a bit of both: perhaps your BBKing album was his first try-out with an elec guitar and that's the reason for the album title. Psy-Fi would know!

I had a Gary Moore album for a short moment many many years ago. Didn't get along with it. So my return to blues and the first blues album I really liked would have to be this:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9SMZA5fMVI

Looking forward to her 2019 album too :)

Ya this was his first "ELECTRIC BLUES" album.. The ones before were just BLUES and some of the earlier albums had R&B and SOUL also........

This record said it was mixed in Stereo and Quad also.... How did they do that and not lose the sound quality? (Mix it 4 ways and have the record on a standard 1 or 2 channel system)

^ This song was pretty good, with some nice piano trills and surpisingly mean guitar. Surprising because Joanne Shaw Taylor is clearly not an old black guy, which makes me wonder again about the question put by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "Can blue men sing the whites?" I hope for her own sake that Joanne Shaw Taylor realises that "The day I lost my Hallo Kitty pencil case" isn't gonna cut it as a blues song. ;)

Maybe she really is an old black guy. Who am I to decide?

First blues album
 

My first blues album (it was an actual album) was Led Zeppelin I. That was about 40 years ago. I didn't realaize back then how it was a heavy blues album. Just thought it was rock. It still blows me away.

Wow is LZ1 a blues record?? (Sounds like Rock to me)

I have the record and cassette ans they are fabulous!!

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Your right buddy!!

Led Zeppelin (album)


Ah man!!

Started with this one and then bought two more by him ("Howlin' Wolf", and "The Real Folk Blues") all on vinyl.

Still have all three of them in my collection.

Thank you. Don't tell my wife. She hates it when I'm right.

"Riding with the King" by B.B. King and Eric Clapton is the first ever blues album i bought. Now i have a collection of blues album, 'TajMo' and 'cry No More' are my personal favorite.

The Blue Brothers was my first blues record. Kind of embarrassed by that but hey, in my defence, I was in elementary school when I bought it. =-)

Gary moore...still got the blues

Not sure there's a simple answer to that, Mindfulness. There are different types of blues, so perhaps you should start by asking what kind of sound appeals to you. Here are five approximate categories/answers:-

1. authentic, traditional, acoustic: the gentle Elizabeth Cotton (https://www.musicbanter.com/country-...th-cotten.html ) or the harsher sound of Son House



2. early electric: Psy-Fi's excellent rec of Moanin' in the Moonlight above

3. dirty driving elec blues: R.L. Burnside:-



4. blues that's been tidied up for a more pop/rock market: Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan, which is one of the most mentioned albums in this thread: clearly a starting point for many people. The Brit alternative might be Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits ( as per my post #24)

5. Extended blues jams: You'll need a couple of hours for Paul Butterfield Live at the Troubador , so here's just a taster:-



This list includes some of my favourites, and somehow fails to mention the whole Muddy Waters/ BB King /Eric Clapton school of blues, which, to my embarrassment, I don't know much about. For me, they are flawed by having a guitar sound that is too "plinky" and is not sad enough for the blues, but that's just me.

Great suggestions from Lisna.

Also, maybe start near the beginning with some Robert Johnson:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyKnEiv70Y

As for Clapton, he was at his pure blues best with John Mayall:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0tJhHlbxWo

...and another suggestion: ZZ Top. They're very much Texas Blues, and a precursor to SRV.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76kjd5nvMg

As far as SRV, there were a lotta people who copped his vibe, but none more so than Kenny Wayne Sheppard:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMJiHcfWRW0

And for more contemporary blues, there's Joe:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIs8DDrywvw

That mother****er can play.

And don't forget to check out John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf...