Who are the good new blues players?

I know all the old ones, the King family, etc. Who are the up-and-comers that really have something to say?

Joe Bonamassa,Aynsley Lister, Henrik Freischlader,Olli Brown....

Joe Bonamassa,Aynsley Lister, Henrik Freischlader,Olli Brown....

Joe Bonamassa is not really new, nor is he a blues player, although he pretends to be. I have heard Aynsley Lister and he's interesting. I just listened to Freischlader and he's pretty good, but has a tendency to overplay. Oli Brown seems all right, too. Any more suggestions?

Joe Bonamassa is not really new, nor is he a blues player, although he pretends to be. I have heard Aynsley Lister and he's interesting. I just listened to Freischlader and he's pretty good, but has a tendency to overplay. Oli Brown seems all right, too. Any more suggestions?

Good way to shut down getting any more responses.

Back in the 60s, one guy that tried to play gazillions of notes and call it blues was Alvin Lee. I remember reading a commentary by a guy that said he would rather hear one expressive note from BB King than 10,000 notes from Alvin Lee. It's a perennial problem. Joe Bonamassa could play real blues, but he chooses to shred instead.

For great blues today i think Tab Benoit is awesome as is Ana Popovic and Susan Tedeschi and of course Anthony Gomes, all brilliant..

Mike Zito - from song to song.

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Joe Bonamassa is not really new, nor is he a blues player, although he pretends to be. I have heard Aynsley Lister and he's interesting. I just listened to Freischlader and he's pretty good, but has a tendency to overplay. Oli Brown seems all right, too. Any more suggestions?

Considering most blues musicians live to be 112, Joe being maybe mid 30's, I'd call him new.

Susan Tedeschi Of course, I'm a big fan of her and her husband.

Mike Zito - from song to song.
Hey, I'm impressed by this guy - very soulful. And bonus points for playing a Tele.

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Enjoyed that teal-tasty player.

I like Alvin Youngblood Hart for something a bit different.

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Gary Clark Jr.

Ana Popovic

Initially I thought she was mainly getting over on her hot looks, but every now and then I hear some hot licks as well.

I actually think this little dude has a very grown-up feel for the blues. He knows that sometimes coming up for air is more expressive then generating what Frank Zappa used to call "clouds of gnat-notes."

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Joe Bonamassa is not really new...

Sorry, but do you mean by new?
Someone who started playing last week?

. Joe Bonamassa could play real blues, but he chooses to shred instead.

Don´t really know what you´re talking about...Shred?!

Ryan McGarvey from Albuquerque is getting a lot of good press.

Nick Curran

Nick Moss

Gary Clark Jr.

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+3 Gary Clark Jr.

And Nick Curran is a pretty fair Rockabilly guy too, having played with the late Ronnie Dawson.

I think Anders Osborne has the gift.

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Didn't Zappa also say that the blues guys sit on one note and go squirm, squirm, squirm? :lol:

Don´t really know what you´re talking about...Shred?!

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+3 Gary Clark Jr.
Didn't Zappa also say that the blues guys sit on one note and go squirm, squirm, squirm? :lol: Probably. I don't like Zappa's own guitar playing, although he's a great impresario.

I liked the Gary Clark Jr. at the White House performance, although I must say that Obama is hilarious. "Camera on me... must bob head and smile."

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Joe Bonamassa's..String bending?...."Talk Backs"?...Pentatonics?....equals "shred" and does not equal "Blues"?

Joe Bonamassa's..String bending?...."Talk Backs"?...Pentatonics?....equals "shred" and does not equal "Blues"?

His machine-drill-like phrasing and gazillions of redundant/superfluous notes. In blues, the guitar tone and phrasing emulates the human voice. Joe's tone is nice enough, but his phrasing is more like an auctioneer who just drank a couple of Red Bulls.

I liked the Gary Clark Jr. at the White House performance, although I must say that Obama is hilarious. "Camera on me... must bob head and smile."

I'm hilarious when I listen to good music, too. Sometimes I move other parts of my body in rhythm, as well. A real laugh riot.

Not exactly a "new" player, but, Kenny Neal. He also plays a Tele...

Not exactly a "new" player, but, Kenny Neal. He also plays a Tele... He's new to me, and I like him. His tone and style are a bit like mine, so I'm prejudiced in his direction. I also recently learned about this guy:

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He occasionally crosses the line into shredding, but he's generally a very tasteful and jazzy player.

Sean Costello

He's pass away quite awhile back. But yes, he was young.

Matt Schofield

John Mayer

Gary Clark Jr. as above

Dan Auerbach & the Black Keys

Seasick Steve - He's not young but rather new to most people. A true modern blues story.

Some shouts for Tomo Fujita, Enrico Crivellaro, Derek Trucks. Derek's still very young on a scale vs his talent, which should be aged at 147 years old.

I'm hilarious when I listen to good music, too. Sometimes I move other parts of my body in rhythm, as well. A real laugh riot.

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Big +1 for Matt Schofield. I've seen him live twice and he always brings the goods. And he's a helluva nice kid to boot. (Yes, I said kid...anyone under 40 is a kid to me!)

More in the blues/rock vein, but I think Mato Nanja's an exceptional guitarist.

John Mayer I like John Mayer's playing. He's not a newcomer, though -- he's big enough to play at Crossroads (so is Gary Clark Jr.)

This group may be new enough for you. Singer/guitar is 19, Bass 17, Drummer 13. Dad is on the harmonica. I bought their CD 10 minutes after hearing them and I really enjoy it.

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Back in the 60s, one guy that tried to play gazillions of notes and call it blues was Alvin Lee. I remember reading a commentary by a guy that said he would rather hear one expressive note from BB King than 10,000 notes from Alvin Lee. It's a perennial problem. Joe Bonamassa could play real blues, but he chooses to shred instead.

I remember Alvin Lee singing, "I'm Goin' Home" which was a classic blues lyric, and then he ripped a tasteless, ten thousand note lead that was a real stretch to be defined as blues. (The Yardbirds with Jeff Beck were much closer with HEART FULL OF SOUL in 1965)

Of course, it could be argued that most if not all British (and American) Caucasian guitarists were attempting to rip off the art form, with varying levels of success.

These days Americans such as Coco Montoya, Michael Burks (who is African American) and Pete Anderson (who was quite the Tele kat playing for Dwight Yoakam, especially his killer solo on "Little Sister" in the 80's) are playing killer blues.

When I was a kid a local "blues singer" said, "You'd be a great blues player if you'd stop playing all that... (black deux deux)", which I found ironic since he believed that the only blues artists were Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield, Canned Heat, etc.,. (He didn't like Otis Redding, The Isley Bros and other soul stuff I played along with Hendrix, Cream, The Rascals and Top 40 stuff) That critic was a dilettante that I felt comfy ignoring and I never saw him play a live gig before or after that chat while I turned pro for over 20 years.

Except for early 'Stones' albums I found that few Brit artists met my definition of blues players. ("Lord, I swear, your perfume girl, smells like turnip greens...and every time I kiss you, girl, it tastes like pork an' beans"...Jagger)

I still don't look to Europe for BLOOZ KATZ. Ireland's Gary Moore (deceased) and UK-born Australian David Hole are notable exceptions- both monster players in fact.

For my money Americans like Tommy Castro and Pete Anderson are two great blues guitarists-players who aren't presumed to be "culturally predisposed" to the art form. Heck, I'd rather be kicked by Montoya, Burks, Castro, or Anderson than knighted by The Queen of England! Those boys musta signed contracts in blood with 'Ol' Legba at the Crossroads! :cool:

Some scattered thoughts there, ROUNDOAK.

I consider Ten Years After to be a rock band that was blues influenced because that's how it was marketed to me here in the States. Over in England it was likely marketed as Pop (as in the BBC's long running program Top of the Pops). So for TYA to be judged as blues seems a bit like comparing apples and oranges. I remember as a kid being excited by the solo in I'm Going Home because of it's speed. But because of it's lack of content (for me) it had no staying power. I soon moved on to something else. But i still like Alvin's soloing in I'd Love to Change the World because it's melodic and appropriate-reminds me of Mick Taylor. They both used too many notes sometimes imo. :lol:

I think there's more merit in your "Caucasian guitarist's ripping off the art form" statement. Nobody can deny the genesis of blues as being a product of the Black experience in America. And the institution of slavery up to the 1860's is a huge part of that. But the British vs. American thing? It's my opinion that no white guitarist could touch Peter Green in 1969. That was the year Fleetwood Mac sold more albums in the UK than the Beatles and the Stones combined.

Totally agree with you on Michael Burks. He was a very talented guy who unfortunately passed away this year. Let's make him better known-spread the word. He deserves not to be forgotten. Coco Montoya is a great player too. I watched his replacement in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers grow up. Buddy Whittington's style is now too busy for my taste but when he settles in and plays the stuff he cut his teeth on his guitar suddenly cuts a path straight into me. Wish my tele sounded like this.

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Has anyone mentioned Rick Holmstrom yet?

This group may be new enough for you. Singer/guitar is 19, Bass 17, Drummer 13. Dad is on the harmonica. I bought their CD 10 minutes after hearing them and I really enjoy it.
Nice. But what are those things they are playing? Mufflers?

Of course, it could be argued that most if not all British (and American) Caucasian guitarists were attempting to rip off the art form, with varying levels of success...

Except for early 'Stones' albums I found that few Brit artists met my definition of blues players. ("Lord, I swear, your perfume girl, smells like turnip greens...and every time I kiss you, girl, it tastes like pork an' beans"...Jagger)

I still don't look to Europe for BLOOZ KATZ. Ireland's Gary Moore (deceased) and UK-born Australian David Hole are notable exceptions- both monster players in fact. Actually, I would tend to denounce Gary Moore for the same reason I denounced Joe Bonamassa -- they go into a high-speed machine mode that is more appropriate to an 80s hair band than to blues. And I saw a video with Gary Moore that made me cringe, where he had BB King sit in with his band, and he hardly let BB play. BB just sat there while Moore played some awesomely terrible ****.

There was a PBS special on British blues. Some of it was embarrassing -- after all these years, Jeff Beck still can play some godawful tasteless crap. But the big revelation to me was Lulu -- do you remember "To Sir With Love"? -- she is a damn fine blues singer.

Cool thread! I was just about to start a similar one, but not blues specific. Love the Alvin Youngblood Hart stuff. Never heard of him. Can't wait to check out some of the other stuff.

Been a Gary Clark Jr fan for a couple of years now. He's the man. Still haven't been able to see him live, but I can't wait for the next time he comes to Atlanta. Missed the last two. :sad:

Alvin on acoustic...a 1930's O sized Stella he bought for $62 at a flea market in Oakland. I put him up there with Taj on this stuff...

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and i just like this...primal in the best way.

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I think AYH is (or was) a member here. Motivational Speaker and Starts With the Soul are great records. Don't really know about any of his other stuff.

I dig Guy King - very tasty player, clean sound all thumbs and fingers.
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Also worth checking out are Josh Smith and Kirk Fletcher. From my country I was impressed with Kai Strauss and Jimi Reiter.

I know hes probably not new too some, but Stacy Mitchhart is great. I saw him in Nashville couple years ago. A real entertainer.


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I dig Guy King - very tasty player, clean sound all thumbs and fingers.

Wow, BB King from a Tele!!

Buddy Whittington.

This guy is great :

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(Look back before ya look forward...)

Kirk Fletcher, Check out his Shades of Blue EP, this guy smokes & gets no love

This guy is great :

She's no slouch either...

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But you gotta point. It's a pretty well defined type of music that's easy to go overboard with-then it ceases to be blues. But you could say the same with other types of music. The trick is finding ways to push it forward while acknowledging what came before-gives the listener a reference point. Which leads me to Rick Holmstrom. The guy sounds traditional and modern at the same time.

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Nosuch, Guy King is slick!

Another guy to check out is Damon Fowler... also known to play telecasters from time to time...
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Also, Sean Carney...
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Both are friends of mine, so I'm kinda biased... :mrgreen:

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Bonamassa
Tedeschi/Trucks
Occasionally Black Keys

Another Sean Carney, this time playing a telecaster (actually, I believe it was a Broadcaster reissue that Fender did)... I HAD to put in an obligatory telly post!!!

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Franc Robert

Some great new names ive never heard of and enjoying looking up and listening to now..There are some great female blues guitarists ive never heard of which are awesome ive now found thanks to youtube as well...

Kirk Fletcher, Check out his Shades of Blue EP, this guy smokes & gets no love

I checked him out, and he's all right with me:
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Which leads me to Rick Holmstrom. The guy sounds traditional and modern at the same time.


That brings to mind Oz Noy, who sounds traditional and very modern. I love this guy, although I'm not putting him forward as a blues purist.

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The Black Keys are pretty bluesy and are quite new and awesome!

here's some more fletcher madness:
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very young guy king backing up willie kent:
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Franc Robert-Sean Carney has got all the bases covered. Good singer/player and entertainer.

Loved the Oz Noy vid Mr. Perch...twisted is right.

And Kirk Fletcher is a real go-for-the-jugular guy. Gotta love that.

I like that other guitarist in your Kirk Fletcher vid Nosuch. Alex Schultz does the blues-jazz thing well. He did a seven year stent in Rod Piazza's Mighty Flyers before being replaced by Holmstrom so he's got that West Coast/Jump style down. Alex also does more traditional styles really well imo-very tasteful. Gonna shuffle off to work now...

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I like that other guitarist in your Kirk Fletcher vid Nosuch. Alex Schultz does the blues-jazz thing well.

Yes, nice collaboration between the two guitarists on that vid.

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Gary Clark Jr.

YES ! ...and Matt Schofield, Tab Benoit, Susan Tedeschi and the late, great Sean Costello...

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Sean Costello was a monster JohnK24-there's a guy on this board (Stephen2) who knew and played with Sean. He's contributed on some threads about Sean...search 'em out for some good info.

Another guy i like is Johnny Moeller, currently the guitarist of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. A Fort Worth guy, he was good enough to be sitting in at Antone's at sixteen years of age with his half brother Jay (currently the Fab T-birds drummer).

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i like his singing too...

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Johnny Moeller, YES!
In this clip he seems to play the ultimate solo for a slow blues:
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Chris Cain.....

Oregon's own Ty Curtis (25 years young and a monster player).

Starting to get some good stuff on this post.
Here are a couple more...

THE RHYTHM CHIEFS
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VINCE LEE
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I'll be so bold to mention my buddy Thilo Hornschild from Cologne Blues Club
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Extended and super-tasty Tele workout by Alex Schultz:

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Starting to get some good stuff on this post.
Here are a couple more...

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Good stuff...keep 'em coming. The guitarist in the Rhythm Chiefs is manic and i liked Vince's guitar tone and singing.

Nick Curran is a guy that's never boring. Got his start playing Rockabilly with Ronnie Dawson and Kim Lenz and then did a stent in the T-birds. Terrific roots player that does a lot of things well.

Texas blues...

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Great singer too.

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Not new but I don't thimnk many have heard of him, Melvin Taylor. Might be to "shreddy" for some but he has good technique and also knows his chords very well.

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Chris Cain.....

He's actually been around a long time but has never gotten the recognition he deserves. He has an amazing knack for the unexpected, never boring, just a monster player.

I like Alvin Youngblood Hart for something a bit different.
just got up...nice morning jam, there.

Not new but I don't thimnk many have heard of him, Melvin Taylor. Might be to "shreddy" for some but he has good technique and also knows his chords very well.
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I'm hilarious when I listen to good music, too. Sometimes I move other parts of my body in rhythm, as well. A real laugh riot.
+1 for you.
check the Brad Paisley performance at the WH.
i think the President is or has had some kind of American Music presentations going on. great stuff.

Samantha Fish. I just recently saw her live. Great show. She's only 22.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUVygOwz3ig&feature=related

Here's another one by Samantha Fish. She's really got a great bluesy voice.http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1DDg-vNQTc&feature=related

For great blues today i think Tab Benoit is awesome as is Ana Popovic and Susan Tedeschi and of course Anthony Gomes, all brilliant..
I would have to agree

Here's a guy you may not know as a blues player, but he's one of the absolute best. The fun starts at 2:50 --

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1DDg-vNQTc

Speakin' of a great voice, have you heard Sister Ruthie? Voice as big as Texas...

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Dang, she is good. Good enough to play with Robben Ford:

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....Matt Schoefield who has already been mentioned and one of my favourites, Ian Siegal who bought my TDPRI 2003 Prize "Broadcaster" replica from me:

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:smile: Peter

I was surfing YouTube looking for more Ruthie Foster and I discovered this gal:

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I was surfing YouTube looking for more Ruthie Foster and I discovered this gal:

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Wow, that was excellent!

Cory Harris is in his forties but sounds like he's a hundred years old....the guy should be better known. Here he does a Skip James tune. :shock:

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just wonderful imo.

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One of my favourites recently. Soulful playing and a nice basic telecaster sound:

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Two other Bay area players:

Johnny Cat (Soubrand)
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Laura Chavez, who is in Candye Kane's band. She usually scares off the guys, when she shows up at the local jams.
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Can't forget Kid Anderson, too.

Matthew Stubbs. Great guitar player.

Jan Pasternoster. Great Belgian guitar player.

Joe McMurrian. Phenominal player and historian. Keeping the old ways alive.

And Anders Lewén of Knock Out Greg from Sweden
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I was surfing YouTube looking for more Ruthie Foster and I discovered this gal:

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+1. That first song is off her last CD called Peace Meal, great record.

no one mentioned him yet?
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no one mentioned him yet?
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Well, I hope Jimmie Vaughan is getting royalties for that one...:shock:

Well, I hope Jimmie Vaughan is getting royalties for that one...:shock:

No kidding

JV was the first to play them licks?
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Interesting question...how much copying-or influence is too much? It seems to be a matter of degree. Many people i know are okay with SRV playing Albert King licks but decry early Kenny Wayne Shepherd as an SRV ripoff.

I think the answer is a personal choice and you vote with your wallet. Jimmie's always been candid with his influences-Gatemouth, Guitar Slim, Johnny Guitar Watson, Jimmy Reed etc. and i hear that. But one important thing to remember is that Jimmie didn't stop there.

Yeah, that JW Jones vid screams Jimmie to me too. But it's done well. And it tells me that Mr. Vaughn has achieved his goal of having a recognizable style. We'll have to wait to see if JW develops one.

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Hey Bugbiteaudio...Knockout Greg was cool.

Hm, I wouldn't judge JW-Jones based on one song, one video. I think he pretty much does his own thing, mainly as a songwriter - sure he borrows some licks, but he shows good taste by stealing from the best. And then who doesn't?

Ive just found out about Anni Piper, shes an awesome aussie blues singer/bass guitarist..Check her out.

I learned of this dude at the "Guitarists you have just discovered" thread:

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This British gal is entertaining:
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To conclude Alvin Lee is not a blues players is simply uninformed. His career has been Blues centered and he still plays lots of Blues Clubs worldwide.

Goin' Home was a rock song that incorporated just about every famous rock riff done to that point. Slow Blues in C was on the same album and Ten Years After was only a small slice of a long career. One of the best Blues Guitar players out there if you look at his work since Woodstock.

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I finally heard this guy, and he's great.
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Here's a very good and talented friend of mine from Germany. He's definitely the best blues player I've heard live. Unfortunately, I don't believe he's even ever touched a tele. :sad:

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+1 for Guy King, Rick Holmstrom and Mathew Stubbs. Also been diggin' Kid Ramos, Junior Watson alot. Two of the best LA based blues guitar slingers, you can still catch at small local gigs... if you're lucky.
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Hey Steveareno!

+1 on Junior...not exactly new but man, he's good. Like Holmstrom he's got one foot firmly in tradition and the the other steppin' foward. Fat tone, manic solo, never boring...:cool:

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How about the winner of the “Best Blues Guitarist” in the 2012 International Blues Challenge? Bart Walker is hardly something for the Blues purists, but if you think players that seldom records a 12-bar still may fit the bill (Matt Schofield etc.), and don’t disapprove of the technical side of blues guitar, you may well enjoy SRVoid Bart Walker. I know I do and can’t wait for his next album.
If you visit his site you get to listen to 6 of the songs from his debut album.

http://www.thebartwalkerband.com/

May I suggest giving some thought to Tab Benoit over Joe B? I have seen him twice live and I have enjoyed his music for a couple of years. The Tedeschi/Trucks band is worth listening to.

Talking about the British influence and the blues, there is this one guitarrist that used to sound excellent, now he languishes in the world of "women" tone. He tried to be the blues, but I think sobering up took something away from his playing.

Great thread - loads and loads of unfamiliar names for me to catch up on.
Brilliant. Sorry I don't have any suggestions to bring to the table.

I do wonder what 'blues' is meant to mean in 2012?
I see John Mayer mentioned somewhere above. For my sins, I have his Continuum CD and it is blues-y in places as is his playing style, but I could not call it a Blues record.
In fact it is probably the most 'pop' record I own.
The guy can play - and write a great pop tune though ..

Joe Bonamassa - great player, but surely he plays rock music - no?, with a blues orientated approach? Is that Blues or rock with an influence (as almost all Rock does have)?
Phillip Sayce. Same deal.

Unrelated to the above and just because it always makes me laugh, I'm going to sing : Yeaha-h, I got me the middle income , middle aged, middle manager, not much to moan about, carefully polished Strat, white maaaaan bluuuuues ;)

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Joe Bonamassa - great player, but surely he plays rock music - no?, with a blues orientated approach? That is indeed the way I see it, although there has been some heated debate on this topic.

Interesting question...how much copying-or influence is too much? It seems to be a matter of degree. Many people i know are okay with SRV playing Albert King licks but decry early Kenny Wayne Shepherd as an SRV ripoff.

I think the answer is a personal choice and you vote with your wallet. Jimmie's always been candid with his influences-Gatemouth, Guitar Slim, Johnny Guitar Watson, Jimmy Reed etc. and i hear that. But one important thing to remember is that Jimmie didn't stop there.

Yeah, that JW Jones vid screams Jimmie to me too. But it's done well. And it tells me that Mr. Vaughn has achieved his goal of having a recognizable style. We'll have to wait to see if JW develops one.

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Hey Bugbiteaudio...Knockout Greg was cool.

Cool video!

Can any of you recommend good Jimmie Vaughan albums?

(Sorry to hijack the thread momentarily...)

Can any of you recommend good Jimmie Vaughan albums?

I like the first two Fabulous Thunderbirds releases...Girls Go Wild and What's The Word.

Another guy to check out is Damon Fowler... also known to play telecasters from time to time...
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Also, Sean Carney...
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Both are friends of mine, so I'm kinda biased... :mrgreen:

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+1, Got both of Damons albums, great variety.

A couple of ladies who might qualify as "new";
Bex Marshall
Dani Wilde

He's new to me, and I like him. His tone and style are a bit like mine, so I'm prejudiced in his direction. I also recently learned about this guy:

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He occasionally crosses the line into shredding, but he's generally a very tasteful and jazzy player.

+1 for John Wedemeyer. Quality guy, phenomenal guitarist. This video does not do him justice. My band was fortunate enough to open for him earlier this year, and I was completely blown away. He is a master of the instrument.

I just discovered Criss Johnson. Terrific player!

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Thank me later.

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