How do I get into blues?

Delta blues, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, all the Kings, RL Burnside

>>73774592
>all the kings
Kek

A LOT of blues is tedious dreck or unlistenable bilge because those guys were not paid royalties and were instead just paid X amount per release regardless of content (John Lee Hooker famously recorded the same songs at different labels using obvious terrible pseudonyms such as "John Lee Booker" or "Little Johnny Lee" etc.)

It is for this reason that actually, you're best not listening to original albums in most cases and listening to best ofs.

More city:

- Muddy Waters (Go for early chess era, ignore when he played with white people.)
-Little Walter
- Howlin' Wolf
- Etta James
- Canned Heat (good stepping stone from rock to blues)
- Early early early Rolling Stones & Fleetwood Mac
- Bo Diddley (His debut album is ace so you can just go with that)
-Champion Jack Dupree

More country:

-Skip James
- John Lee Hooker (very patchy discography, recorded millions of things but is my personal favourite.)
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Memphis Minnie
- Robert Johnson

The stuff older than Johnson and Memphis Minnie is not for everyone's tastes but I love it. Look up Robert Crumb's prewar blues collections and see.

Also Nina Simone's blues album is perfect.

>>73774803
Thanks a lot, anon

Delta

Charley Patton- The Best of Charley Patton
Robert Johnson- The Complete Recordings
Son House -Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions
Blind Willie Johnson- The Complete Willie Johnson
Leadbelly- Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1
Mississippi John Hurt- Rediscovered
John Lee Hooker- The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990

Electric

Howlin Wolf- Moanin in The Moonlight
Muddy Waters- Newport 1960
Willie Dixon- The Chess Box
BB King- Live at the Regal
Slim Harpo- I'm A King Bee: The Early Swamp Blues Classics
Freddie King- Getting Ready
Albert King- Born Under A Bad Sign
T Bone Walker- The Complete Recordings Of T-Bone Walker 1940-1954
Buddy Guy- Buddy Guy & Junior Wells: Buddy Guy And Junior Wells Play The Blues
Elmore James- Classic Early Recordings, 1951-1956

>>73774897
Excellent call on some I missed.

Elmore James is ace, this especially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQb5udtkI-E

Leadbelly is at times super inaccessible but I often find myself singing a leadbelly ssong to myself without thinking about it.

Buddy guy is a great guitarist and a lousy singer but he has the bonus that you could potentially see him play whilst the rest of the blues guys are dead.

>>73774803
Faggot

>>73774974
Elmore James is definitely my favourite blues artists, bar BB King he is easily the most accessible of all electric blues.

>>73774803
$10 this poster is a tranny

>>73774897
>Blind Willie Johnson
>Mississippi John Hurt
not delta blues

>>73775420
Not yet