What is one of the best blues band?

Answer 1

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Opinion:

Although it is a fact that Jimi Hendrix was the first of his kind. Oh boy I said the H-word. Ya I went there, Hendrix is the "father of Electric Guitar blues". Now if you want to hear where blues began, listen to Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter. He's the, well, "grandfather of blues". And he's incredible.

Opinion:

George Swaney is the best blues guitarist. He is 29 years old and lives in Scottsdale PA. Info on his music can be found at myspace.com.Muffy and the SHARK. He was influenced by great Guitarists like Joe Perry,Jimmy Page,Dan Kroftcheck,and Robert Johnson.

Opinion:

Without a doubt; the best Blues Guitarists are all "Texas Rockin' Bluesicians!" Especially a man from Fort Worth...he plays upside down and backwards. Like playing a piano in the mirror. And plays it world class. Voted the best guitarist in Texas..and plays all styles. Blues is played no better. That genius is Rusty Burns. He has gone on world tours with The Eagles and Bob Dylan!

Opinion:

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN. You can't be better than STEVIE it's just not possible. If you want proof, listen to Voodoo Child, PRIDE AND JOY, Tin Pan Alley on the From Austin to Amsterdam CD.

Opinion:

Well Stevie Ray Vaughan is a great guitarist, and there are a few others, but I disagree that it's not possible to go better - and if YOU WANT PROOF go listen [and watch] CHRIS DAIR play NO REASON BLUES on YouTube (see link below in related links section).

Then check out In the Clouds on the same channel - there isn't a guitarist alive that can better it, for blistering technique, precision, passion, fluidity - this guy HAS IT ALL...I CHALLENGE ANYONE to disagree.

Opinion:

Has no one listed B.B. King, yet? Eric Clapton? Roy Buchanan? *blink blink*

Stevie Ray belongs in the list, of course, but also Robert Johnson, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf. Although quality recordings of them are hard to find, they are some of the best of the best. (Chris Dair, is worth a listen at the link below in the related links section. Very nice addition by the prior answerer).

There is now also a great guitarist in TX named Johnny Vibrato. See the link to his site below in the related links section.

Opinion:

Sorry people but there is a new blue's rock god on the scene these days who even Eric Clapton rates as now the best guitarist ever and it is JOE BONAMMASSA, he is awesome.

Opinion:

1.) Music is NOT A COMPETITION.

2.) Blues Guitar Playing is FAR TOO SUBJECTIVE to claim ANYONE as "King of the Blues Guitar"

3.) The "Best" is whoever YOU feel like sounds "Best" to YOU that day. Some say Clapton in April 1966 when he cut his masterpiece the "Beeno" Album with John Mayall. (In the process it was CLAPTON who introduced ALL of us to the sound of a Les Paul Standard with PAF's run through a Marshall amp on TEN.) Suddenly 1958-59 & 60 Les Pauls became Priceless!

4.) Some (Including Eric Clapton) say Joe Bonamassa is today. (Using a 59 Les Paul Standard with PAF's run through Marshall amps)

5.) Listen to the original studio version of "Red House" (off "Smash Hits") through headphones. Remember that this was recorded on a FOUR TRACK RECORDER in early 1967! Hendrixwas so far ahead of his time that it's STILL RIDICULOUS TODAY!

Opinion:

Every one of the better known Texas Blues guitarists who are active today will be happy to inform you that they ALL bow down to ANSON FUNDERBURGH from Plano, Texas and recognize him as the very best of the best of Texas Blues Guitarists. Anson is a true Master of phrasing and subtle nuances. Anson is also the King of "Less is More" and can say more with six notes than all the rest of these cats do with 600 (myself included). If Anson were to clip off the fingernail on the pinky finger of his left hand and let it fall on the stage, there would be more TONE AND BLUES MOJOin that nail clipping than ALL of the Blues shredders & SRV copycats in Texas put together.

Just take a listen to his guitar work on I Don't Want You Cutting off Your Hair on of the "That's what they want" album. It just doesn't get any better than this PERIOD. Listen to it yourself, and then try to copy his phrasingnote-for-note....HA!

If that's not enough...Try to get the same TONE he is getting from the 57 Stratocaster & 64 Super Reverb Amphe is playing on this recording. There is NOTHINGbetween him and the Amp but a Guitar Cord. NO Compressors, NO Tube Screamers, NO Tone exciters or Fuzz boxes....Just a Guitar cord.

"Hand Wired, Soul Inspired,

Guitar and Amp is all Required"

I don't know ANYONE in Texas that even comes close. Anson Funderburgh is on the top of the heap of Texas Blues Guitarists as far as I and every Texas Blues Guitar Player I know is concerned. How many W.C. Handy awards has Anson won for "Best Blues Guitarist" now? Is it three or five? Check him out....He's Tops!

I have been playing Blues Guitar in North Texas for 47 years, met and played with Stevie Ray Vaughan starting when he was 15, currently sell a "Texas Blues Guitar" instructional DVD on the net, and run a school for Texas Blues Guitarists in Fort Worth. I don't claim to be anywhere near as good as Anson, BUT....I knowwhat I'm talking about.

These are some great Texas Rockin' Blues Recording Artists mostly from the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX area: "Bugs Henderson," "Dennis Dullea" (AKA "Rev. Muddy") "Smokin' Joe Kubek," "Mike Morgan," "Anson Funderburgh," "Sumter Bruton," "Steven Bruton," "Jim Colegrove," "Doyle Bramhall II," "Johnny Moller," "Derek O'Brian," "Van Wilks," "Rocky Hill," "Rusty Burns," "chris Durante'," The Late "Dave Altice," "Ronnie 'Mouse' Weiss," "Shawn Pittman," and last but not least, "Rocky Athas!" Check out all of the aforementioned "Plank Spankers' Records!"

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Answer 2

definatley

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Little Elliott Lloyd and the Big Deal Blues Band is a great band hailing from New York's Hudson Valley!

Answer 3

the blues brothers is 1

Answer 4

B.B. King