White man blues

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My top 10.....in no particular order whatsoever....(sorry, all you E. Clapton & J. Page fans)

John Mayall
Paul Butterfield
Charlie Musselwhite
Peter Green
Johnny Winter
Rory Gallagher
Mike Bloomfield
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Duane Allman
Robben Ford

 

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My top 10.....in no particular order whatsoever....(sorry, all you E. Clapton & J. Page fans)

John Mayall
Paul Butterfield
Charlie Musselwhite
Peter Green
Johnny Winter
Rory Gallagher
Mike Bloomfield
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Duane Allman
Robben Ford

Good stuff!

I go with....

John Mayall
William Clarke
Johnny Winter
The Allman Bros
James Harman
Charlie Musselwhite
Paul Butterfield
Dr. John
SRV
Kenny Wayne Shephard
Eric Clapton
Walter Trout
Duke Robillard
Paul Oscher
Corey Stevens
Papa Chubby
JJ Grey
Papa Mali
Ry Cooder

I won;t ignore Frank Hutchison the roots to the tree from 1926 and Hank Williams or Bob Wills.

 

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Good stuff!

I go with....

John Mayall
William Clarke
Johnny Winter
The Allman Bros
James Harman
Charlie Musselwhite
Paul Butterfield
Dr. John
SRV
Kenny Wayne Shephard
Eric Clapton
Walter Trout
Duke Robillard
Paul Oscher
Corey Stevens
Papa Chubby
JJ Grey
Papa Mali
Ry Cooder

I won;t ignore Frank Hutchison the roots to the tree from 1926 and Hank Williams or Bob Wills.

Yep...and good call on Mac Rebbenack & Ryland Cooder.....no doubt.

 

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Those white blues cats pre 1930....

Frank Hutchison
Dock Boggs
Dick Justice
Darby & Tarlton
The Skillet Lickers......racist hicks!
Clarence Ashley
The Carter Family
Jimmie Rodgers
Emry Arthur
Charlie Poole
Earl Johnson
Uncle Dave Macon
Fiddlin' John Carson

Actually started something I;m too lazy to finish.

 

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Those white blues cats pre 1930....

Frank Hutchison
Dock Boggs
Dick Justice
Darby & Tarlton
The Skillet Lickers......racist hicks!
Clarence Ashley
The Carter Family
Jimmie Rodgers
Emry Arthur
Charlie Poole
Earl Johnson
Uncle Dave Macon
Fiddlin' John Carson

Actually started something I;m too lazy to finish.

Wasn't Charlie Poole the cat they said was so good at playing the blues back then, that many people thought he was really a black man?


Unrelated to this list ^
But I also want to give a shoutout for Nick Gravenites and John Hammond.

 

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Wasn't Charlie Poole the cat they said was so good at playing the blues back then, that many people thought he was really a black man?


Also, unrelated to this list....
But I just wanted to give a shoutout for Nick Gravenites.

That was true of a few early white blues cats especially the Allen Brothers, as ya know back then they had race records, black artists recording for a black audience. So when the Allen Brothers showed up in the race records being white there was a problem. Actually went to court.

Still debate over this cat, was he white or black?



Allen brothers, they sure sound white to me,



The thing about a lot of this old stuff is how few recordings some great talents had. What a shame.

 

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The great Hasil Adkins....




Charlie Feathers


Both Floyd and Feathers were there at Sun Records in the Elvis years.

Floyd the first guy I ever saw play a harmonica with his nose, and yep.....it can be done.

Feathers has a couple songs on the Kill Bill soundtrack.

 

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Ramblin' Jack Elliott

 

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Kelly Joe Phelps

 

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