Music before 1960

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Which are some of /mu/'s favorite bluesmen from before 1960?
Charley Patton - Shake it and Break it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsAh2jx6JA
Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink of Water blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC3tTwURIL8
>>69024163
His 1939 album "The Blues" is my favorite by him.

>>69024120
Because /mu/ only talks about the same >100 artists/albums over and over

Some other anon showed me this
https://youtu.be/-BkPm8JIJJQ

>>69024207
Meant to say <100

>>69024207
Are you the anon from the "Rate the last album you've listened for the FIRST TIME" thread?
I was the one who recommended you that song if so, I'm glad you liked it.
You probably will also enjoy Devil Got My Woman, by Skip James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZ6DoeimP4
Robert Johnson was influenced by it.

>>69024296
Yeah lol. I'll check that out too thank you.

>>69024194
>>69024207

Good choices. I'm going to have to add the following:

Mississippi John Hurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlniDmj10u8

Skip James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mmZFox4Rkg

Jimmie Rodgers (the "father of country music" but heavily steeped in the blues): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9Y9FkxJZo

>>69024296
>>69024373

Looks like I recommended the same Skip James song, so I'll offer up this early Lightnin' Hopkins as a replacement!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPjd_oQby_c

>>69024373
All good choices as well.
If you would like a more "feelsy" Jimmie Rodgers, I recommend you Riley Puckett, the guitar player from Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers. Presumably the first country musician to implement yodeling in his songs as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Flyy_FcMc

>>69024296
>>69024373
Really amazing song

>>69024454
I've actually never heard of him! Thanks for the rec.

>>69024454
>>69024532

I'm definitely hearing that old British Isles folk influence. It reminds me a lot of traditional Irish songs.

Some more Jimmie Rodgers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH0R4x3NL2o

Most of the music I like didn't start coming around til the mid 60s.

Of crouse I still like some older stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNuqKB6H3Iw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ3rXbFn8qE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4rY52SWklc

A lot of 50s music too but eh.

How about some more early rock n roll in here too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjrQWU2EcsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XxGUIbYjmY

>>69024194
John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf are the bee's knees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQlRQRGdfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcfTzw9BRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5lQPhPbh-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockRygPYHXY

>>69024120
A classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpnWuk3RjU

Link Wray's Rumble from 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTg6rZJCu4

Crazy influential.

Lot of groundbreaking jazz in the late 50's

In 1959 alone:
Coltrane's Countdown was all over the place with placing a drum solo first and then slowly workin towards the theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ7QTRzV9RM
Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman set the scene for playing free with no harmony instrument to provide the chords or steady rhythm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbD1JIH344
Miles Davis' Kind of Blue brought in the modal jazz -age . chord progressions didn't need to resolve through the traditional pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c

shoutout to Les Paul

he might be best known for the Gibson guitar model named after him, but he was an innovator on multi-track recording techniques and studio effects - the upcoming revolution of studio driven music that gave us Beach Boys' Pet Sounds or Beatles' Revolver owes much of it to multi-track recording and effects pioneers like Paul.

Les Paul has been for good reason inducted to both the Rock and Roll and National Invetor Halls of Fame. He has pretty much shaped the course of modern music as much as anyone else living or dear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkGf1GHAxhE