What is the greatest blues song ever recorded?

skip james - devil got my woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZ6DoeimP4

or

booker white - aberdeen blues

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

i could go on forever. but these are two of my very favorites.

Let's go by artist.

Eric Clapton:

-Have you ever loved a woman

-Further down the road

Check out his album Me & Mr. Johnson where he covers Robert Johnson.

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

-Walking Blues

Jimi Hendrix

-Jelly 292

-Red House

-Hear my train a comin'

Stevie Ray Vaughn...use Pandora with him as the feed.

Everyone has their opinion but if you are starting out listening to the blues, you should go way back and then move forward to today's artists, many who cover the old songs.

With that being said, you will get a slew of songs suggested as "the greatest blues song ever recorded." Some, like me, would say many of the songs by Robert Johnson, such as Cross Road Blues or Sweet Home Chicago. I would suggest you get 'The Complete Recordings' of RJ but there are many others such as Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy to name a few of my faves.

Also, there are different types of blues such as Delta or Chicago blues, for example.

Do a google search and you will find tons of info. You can even visit the Blues Museum

http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/

for more history and suggestions.

Hope this helps you to appreciate a wonderful musical expression.

a female POV wrote:

skip james - devil got my woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZ6DoeimP4

or

booker white - aberdeen blues

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

i could go on forever. but these are two of my very favorites.

Excellent choices. I'd go with "High Water Everywhere" by Charley Patton:

pt. 1:

pt. 2:

and "Mississippi Boweavil Blues" by the Masked Marvel, who was actually also Charley Patton:

Red house and one bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

gotta include Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Son House, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Albert King, etc etc etc

Ask someone who knows . . .

RL Burnside:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V9mb__6yVY

Shake it on down!

Junior Kimbrough . . . the badest MFr of our time . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tubf6j9TBJI

Just a start. So much more!

The Sky is Crying

My favorite versions are from Hound Dog Taylor and the live version from George Thorogood. Amazing.

Boogie Chillin' - John Lee Hooker

Gotta try Johnny "Clyde" Copeland's music, too.

I love that Hill Country stuff. Hypnotic.

Jeri is a Jedi wrote:

Ask someone who knows . . .

RL Burnside:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V9mb__6yVY

Shake it on down!

Junior Kimbrough . . . the badest MFr of our time . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tubf6j9TBJI

Just a start. So much more!

I LOVE R.L.'s Poor Black Mattie. That man can play the guitar.

Son House - "Grinnin' In Your Face"

Hellhound on my trail.

Agreed. Gotta love Robert Johnson.

Traveling Riverside Blues

If your man gets personal, want to have your fun

If your man gets personal, want to have your fun

Just come on back to Friar's Point, mama, and barrelhouse all night long

I got womens in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee

I got womens in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee

But my Friar's Point rider, now, hops all over me

I ain't gon' to state no color, but her front teeth is crowned with gold

I ain't gon' to state no color, but her front teeth is crowned with gold

She got a mortgage on my body, now, lien on my soul

Lord, I'm goin' to Rosedale, gon' take my rider by my side

Lord, I'm goin' to Rosedale, gon' take my rider by my side

We can still barrelhouse, baby, 'cause it's on the river side

Now you can squeeze my lemon till the juice run down my...

(Spoken: till the juice run down my leg, baby, you know what I'm talkin' 'bout)

You can squeeze my lemon till the juice run down my leg

(that's what Im talkin about now)

But I'm goin' back to Friar's Point, if I be rockin' to my head

Like somebody else said, how do you pick the best? I put some of Muddy Waters' recordings at the top of that list...Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy, and Got My Mojo Working. I think he really captured the real heart and soul of the blues in some those records.

Big John wrote:

Like somebody else said, how do you pick the best? I put some of Muddy Waters' recordings at the top of that list...Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy, and Got My Mojo Working. I think he really captured the real heart and soul of the blues in some those records.

add from Muddy: I'm Ready, Baby Please Don't Go, I Can't Be Satisfied, I Just Want To Make Love To You, Rollin' Stone, She's Nineteen Years Old

and some from Howlin Wolf: Spoonful, Smokestack Lightnin, Back Door Man, Red Rooster

what should I listen to?[/quote]

Can't say what's the greatest ever, but here's something you should listen to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy8Am4ZQ-gM&playnext=1&list=PLA00CA1C182715BD1&index=11

[quote]sighted orange geoff wrote: