Can anyone recommend me some really nice guitar based blues albums please?

Slow stuff that can make you weep.

Townes Van Zandt Live at the old quarter. Maybe more country/folk than blues, but with a couple of proper blues… Will certainly make you weep.

Not all slow but Joe Bonamassa is ok.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLI1FCrssg[/video]

Edit – the record of his I’m thinking of is called Blues Dream.

Skip James

[video]http://youtu.be/ytVww5r4Nk0[/video]

Thanks, you just inspired me to listen to my Muddy Waters album.

Rory Gallagher – Calling Card
John Lee Hooker – Never Get Out of These Blues Alive

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Get your ears around ‘rancho texacano’ by ZZ Top, just before they sold out 😥 …You won’t correlate the then and now…. Seriously good sheeet!

Get your ears around ‘rancho texacano’ by ZZ Top

oh man, now you’re talking! snippets of that sound amazing.

Glad you enjoyed it! When it was first recommend to me I couldn’t believe it was the same trio that became the 80’s commercial dross that ‘made them’…that album and pretty much anything by SRV are my fave blues plays 8)

Worth checking out Tres Hombres by ZZ Top too

If we’re going all JLH – this will always well up..
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAqFQfqavDg[/video]

I bought ‘Road Tested’ – Bonnie Raitt live – yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed listening to it today. Kim Wilson, Brian Adams and Bruce Hornsby feature on it as well, among others.

Bonnie Raitt is ace.

Gotta love JJ Cale, too.

Axis : Bold as Love by Jimi Hendrix. Can’t pick out a track as they’re all sooooooo good. (Esp, Little Wing, castles Made of Sand, If 6 were 9, Spanish…. no really they’re all good). Then you might get sidetracked into similar by John Mayer and Ducks can Groove who do tributes, then Prince, Zappa etc.

Holds up well for a 46 year old album.