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Newer Blues Artists or Recordings

Any suggestions for new’ish blues artists and/or recordings you have discovered and enjoyed over the past few years? Please include all types of blues music and artists - traditional blues, southern rock/blues (e.g., Allman Bros., etc.), blues/soul, slower blues (i.e., good for background music while working), and cross-overs such as blues recordings by well-known rock or popular artists such as Boz Scaggs, Robin Trower, Eric Clapton, and others. Let’s help each other discover new blues music.

I will start with a couple of newer, young artists that I enjoy...

  • Marcus King (try, Carolina Confessions or El Dorado)
  • Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (try, Live in London)
mitch2
mitch2 OP
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Thanks @rockadanny - a very good start!

I sort of remember hearing Rod Piazza with Honey and the Mighty Flyers at a blues fest years ago. I like his harmonica.

I look forward to some more great suggestions on this thread, and I encourage giving both the genre and the interpretation of "newer" a broad latitude so as not to restrict suggesting music that sounds good to you all.

Here are a few that may be a bit off the beaten path for some here:

  • Fleetwood Mac - Before the Beginning - 1968-1970 *
  • Dr. John - Duke Elegant
  • Muscle Shoals: Small Town Big Sound

* For a couple of well done Peter Green covers, check out Black Magic Woman and Man of the World on Eric Clapton’s - The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions (Live)

 

allenf1963
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Eric Gales never disappoints me when I see him live.

akgwhiz
176 posts
 

Kingfish,  good entry.  Not new but new to me this last year or two is Tab Benoit.  Mix of southern Delta /Zydeco blues guitar/vocal.  Some great Telarc recordings too once he hit his stride.  

 

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sidog1460
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Give it up to love- Sam McClain 

whiteknee
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Ronnie Earl especially Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads

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