Thread: Best Live Blues Albums

^ Not a live album in terms of audience, but JLH's Bluesway Sessions is a great live-in-the-studio album, where the musicians only met for the recording session. Knocked out in one night if memory serves.

I have a vinyl copy of this double album, but can't find any reference to its' current availability...

Originally Posted by trbc08

Does anyone know of any good Howlin' Wolf or John Lee Hooker live albums?

'The Cream' is an excellent JLH live album from '77.

Heres a few from my personal collection:



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^ Can't go wrong with any of them man! (Need any help locating any give us a shout)

ive just had a look around the 'www' for about 30mins to places i go to for hard to find albums, and tiggi, i cant find 'bluesway sessions' either, ebay is always last resort for me to search, and its not even on there. i dont want the album, just trying to get info from places i go to. for you, do you ever go to www.eil.com ?they usually source hard to get vinyl, ive had success with them in the past, but not today with 'bluesway', sorry.

I already have a pristine copy, Crazy man. It's just here as a recommendation, but it doesn't seem to have a current release.

Haven't bought any vinyl for years, although my vinyl records still see very regular service.

Originally Posted by Tiggi

I already have a pristine copy, Crazy man. It's just here as a recommendation, but it doesn't seem to have a current release.

Haven't bought any vinyl for years, although my vinyl records still see very regular service.

Well, there's two of us left anyway.

Good job in reviving this thread, chaps.

Of the recommendations from above that I have, or have bought as a result of the recommendations, I can second:

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
BB King - Live at The Regal
BB King - Live in Cook County Jail
Gary moore - Blues Alive

I'd also add:

Eric Clapton - E.C. Was here
Eric Clapton - Just One Night
Cream - Wheels of Fire (Only half live)
Peter Green Splinter Group - Soho: Live at Ronnie Scott's
Taj Mahal - The Real Thing
Bonnie Raitt - Road Tested (Not entirely Blues)
Muddy Waters - At Newport
Muddy Waters - Live
Muddy Waters - Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live
The Yardbirds - Five Live Yardbirds

Originally Posted by Music Head

Well, there's two of us left anyway.

Three, I think. Crazy Horse is another vinyl user.

Oh bollocks, I just went a forgot one of my favourites from what is probably the best 'supergroup' I've ever heard period:

BBM (Bruce,Baker,Moore)-Live At Glasgow Barrowlands 1994:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WSHE557D

Got this one of an american site called 'ioffer.com'. I think I must own one of the only copies available and plus it includes an excellent interview with Jack Bruce & Gary Moore right at the end. Enjoy guys, it truly is a cracker.

Not from the same live performance but still a worthy inclusion:

I have to say that I like it,even though Pedal Steel Blues is a new one on me!!!!!!!!!!!

I was lucky enough to see a bunch of the greats, and it's hard to find a lot of live albums because they didn't make many. And yet, across the board the blues bands would complain about having to record in a studio, where there was no audience, no feel, no nuthin that they were used to, and the albums sometimes came out flat.
The difference between Muddy at Montreaux, or in some backwoods club, was huge. There's only a few minutes footage somewhere on youtube praps, that is just crazily intense Muddy live, right off the wall, and that's how it was every show, as long as it was in a good room.
If a lot of those shows had been recorded, rock musicians may have never got off the ground, because the shows were almost always better than the studio recording, which is the opposite of most rock music, with many exceptions.
Live Hooker at Cafeau Go~Go, but other tracks scattered. He could be great anywhere.