[rajacat]

COOL DOWN
 John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
sampleshttp://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B000000A15/ref=pd_krex_dp_a
Nice sound quality.

[geowak]

Stevie Ray Vaughan "Live In Tokyo"

http://www.amazon.com/Live-Tokyo-Stevie-Ray-Vaughan/dp/B000GDI25G

here is a youtube sample. UNBELIEVABLE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9oymWJXp68

[R_burke]

What about women? Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Rait, Jessie May Hemphill Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Memphis Minnie and a host of others. I've never been fond of men crying in their beer no matter how well they play their guitars. Women have a way of singing about gettin' even that appeals to me.Doc

Appeals to you and scares the beejeszus out of me - they got a mean streak in those blues songs 

[jimdgoulding]

Stevie Ray Vaughan "Live In Tokyo"

http://www.amazon.com/Live-Tokyo-Stevie-Ray-Vaughan/dp/B000GDI25G

here is a youtube sample. UNBELIEVABLE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9oymWJXp68

Ouuu.  That's tasty.  Thanks.

[jarcher]

Would be hard to pick just one favorite blues album, but among the ladies of blues, this would be up near the top for me:





MAN can she belt them out - and the other musicians rock (Buddy Guy / Carey Bell / etc).

[low.pfile]

It's great to get exposed to all these different and new to me Blues albums. Junior Kimbrough's  seems to be always spinning on my hard drive...

You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough



It's a bit more raw than than many of the blues albums already posted. And I like that.


and R.L. Burnside - First Recordings, is a very close second.

[jackman]

Stevie Ray Vaughan "Live In Tokyo"

http://www.amazon.com/Live-Tokyo-Stevie-Ray-Vaughan/dp/B000GDI25G

here is a youtube sample. UNBELIEVABLE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9oymWJXp68

Great show and great guitar clips.  One of my favorite SRV live numbers of all time.  Here are two additional clips from a show in Austin.  I love Stevie's playing but this show was exceptionally good.  I believe it's available on DVD, SRV Live in Austin.   Lots of awesome Blues Axe Men from the state of Texas including Freddie King, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Billy Gibbons and the great Johnny Winter.   That is a Blues guitar version of the 1927 New York Yankees. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6lq0sRon0k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ovT4g-6IM8&feature=related


Another show...another good one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5D7s-TiUWM

[jackman]

I'd like to throw in another favorite because I have a few.  The GREAT Albert King's "King of the Blues Guitar".  Albert was a very cool dude who played a right handed strung guitar, left handed.  Here is a clip of Albert playing in Studio with Stevie Ray, one of his greatest admirers.  Everyone knows Stevie was a deciple of Jimi Hendrix (although they never met) but when I hear Stevie's leads, to me, they are all Albert.  Also, check out the size of Albert Kings hands.  He's got fingers like Andre the Giant to go with his giant talent as a Blues man.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZB57b3lPQE&feature=related

[Diamond Dog]

The Power & The Glory, Forever & Ever...Amen.

 I said: " CAN I GET AN AMEN ?"

D.D.

[kenreau]

I see a lot of great albums in this thread. 

A few more that I'll toss out;