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VonBonfire
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I'm not an expert or historian I just dig around until I find stuff I like. I don't wanna get into this discussion further or I'll get myself into trouble and create offense or get offended. If innovation and transcendence is what you are after, which seems to be the case, I can tell you it's not going to be worth your time. If you want high quality contemporary electric blues there is a world out there waiting for you to discover but gauging your posts you are after something else that is foreign to me and I don't have the ability to help you with that.list of who I could remember hearing; and covers of some of their songs. I'm not a blues historian, just not that interested in it. like I said, pre-1960 blues was innovating, the people I listed were the real blues guitarists who were innovating...unless you include UK blues guitarists as real blues not derivatives. Hendrix played on the chitlin circuit, unlike British blues guitarists. So, the Rolling Stones covered a lot of blues in the early days...are they the blues masters, or Rory Gallagher?
Who are the blues masters you keep referencing but not naming? What are the "world class level blues" you mention? At least I provided a list of names who I know about, and listened to, and who I consider the creators, originators and innovators of blues in the early days, before British guitarists commandeered it. Blues goes back even further, but much of that was never recorded, pre 1930s/1920s and earlier, but their influences were mentioned by many blues guitarists in the 19450s and later.
you're the blues expert...I'm not. I'm also not a historian of the blues; like I said, I heard some of it when I was young because guitarists I liked would mention their influences, and many were early bluesmen. I listened, and moved on to music I found more interesting, while others never escaped beyond the blues - like Clpaton, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, etc.
I'd consider modern blues anyone who started playing the blues in the mid to late 70s and beyond, after the originators and innovators were dead or old. I asked you who the blues masters you keep mentioning are? You keep saying blues masters, and I don't understand the blues yet never mention who they are, or what "world class level blues" are?
I mentioned George Benson because I liked his early work with Brother Jack McDuff, Lonnie Smith, George Benson Quartet (The George Benson Cookbook, mid-60s music)...but it's more jazz than blues IMO...again, I was asking you who these blues masters you mention are? what is "world class level blues"?
