Blues for Aficionados

Hey rok, when I saw this thread listed in the "suggested" list on the right side of my screen, I figured "Oh no, here's another source of fantastic music I've been unaware of." Very happy to see you just started this one and there are only 28 posts.  Easier to stay current with than JFA.  Thanks!

For me, this may still the most amazing blues performance ever.  100% Delta.  Sheer passion, abandon, unbridled emotion:

Son House "Death Letter Blues" (live in Europe about 60 years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdgrQoZHnNY

Keegiam, 

Son House - Death Letter Blues

Very Poignant Lyrics.  He didn't receive a phone call, he didn't get in his car or board a bus.  He got a letter and took off down the road.  Speaks volumes about how some people lived.

Cheers

Solomon Burke

SOUL OF THE BLUES

Black Top Records   1993

Solomon Vincent McDonald Burke was an American preacher and singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s.  -- wiki

Great Soul Singer, just talks too much.  I guess that's the Preacher in him.

Along About Midnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dHWdhHUysQ

Good Rockin' Tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoyV3ySzMlQ

Cheers

Solomon Burke

LIVE AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES

Black Top Records  1994

with / Souls Alive Orchestra

No More Nights By Myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJBh-ojdrI0

Ain't Nobody's Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7mGme_n-s

Medley: If You Need Me, Tonight's The Night, I Almost Lost My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAPUIzr2Vuo

Good Rockin' Tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRTE09wBlOY

Cheers

John Cephas & Phil Wiggins

GUITAR MAN

Flying Fish Records   1989

Notes: "For more than a dozen years, Bowling Green John Cephas and Harmonica Phil Wiggins have been performing, preaching and teaching a brand of traditional music known as Piedmont Blues.  Geographically, the Piedmont stretches from Richmond to Atlanta.  Musically, it refers to a recognizable regional sound, a combination of repertoire and instrumental approaches shared among Black musicians in the Southeast."

Guitar Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTM-Vo8z1CQ

Corrine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OEVP8KsrAw

Careless Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLGV0r0bohQ

Richmond Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxh0abE84bY

Cheers