Live & Burning is a live album by Son Seals.
It was recorded at Wise Fools Pub in Chicago in 1978.
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Tag: 1970s Blues
Live Blues Albums Recorded In The 1970s
I’ve tried to distinguish between blues and blues rock.
Wikipedia defines blues as:
“Blues is a genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the ‘Deep South’ of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre is a fusion of traditional African music and European folk music spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll, is characterized by the call-and-response pattern and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common.”
In contrast, blues rock as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s emphasises more instrumental improvisations and a stronger beat but inevitably there is a crossover between the two genres.
To help understand the development, I’ve a post on the history of the blues through the birth, deaths and careers of the major blues artists.
Blues Live Albums Of The 1970s
Luther Allison Where Have You Been Live in Montreux 1976-1994
Luther Allison Live in Paris 1979
Luther Allison Power Wire Blues 1979
Luther Allison South Side Safari Live 1979
Luther Allison Sweet Home Chicago Charly Blues Masterworks Vol 37 1979
Albert Collins Deep Freeze 1969 1973
Albert Collins Funky Blues Live 1973
Albert Collins & Barrelhouse Live 1978
Robben Ford Discovering The Blues 1972
Buddy Guy Live At The Checkerboard Lounge 1979
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Live In Montreux 1974
John Lee Hooker Live At The Café Au Go-Go 1966 & 1972
Howlin’ Wolf Killing Floor Live 1964 1973
Howlin’ Wolf Live & Cookin’ At Alice’s Revisited 1972
Howlin’ Wolf Evil Live at Joe’s Place 1973
Albert King Live In The 70’s 1971 to 1978
Albert King Live at the Fabulous Forum 1972
Albert King Blues At Sunset Live At Wattstax And Montreux 1972 1973
Albert King Blues At Sunrise 1973
Albert King Purple Carriage St Charles Il 02-02-74
Albert King Blues From The Road 1975
Albert King Live Charly Blues Masterworks 18 1977
Albert King Talkin’ Blues 1978
BB King Live In Cook County Jail 1970
BB King Live In Japan 1971
BB King King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents BB King Live! 1978
BB King Live At The BBC 1978 to 1998
BB King Now Appearing At Ole Miss 1979
BB King & Bobby Bland Together For The First Time Live 1974
Bobby Bland and BB King Together Again Live 1976
Freddie King Live At The Electric Ballroom 1974
Freddie King The Blues Live!
Freddie King Live In Europe 1975
Little Milton Grits Ain’t Groceries 1972
John Mayall Jazz Blues Fusion 1971
John Mayall Ten Years Are Gone 1972
Van Morrison It’s Too Late To Stop Now 1973
Muddy Waters Live At Mister Kellys 1971
Muddy Waters Mojo The Live Collection 1971 1976
Muddy Waters Blues Band Ft BB King Live at Ebbets Field 1973
Muddy Waters Muddy Mississippi Waters Live 1977 1978
Muddy Waters Breakin It Up Breakin It Down 1977 with Johnny Winter and James Cotton
Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George Ultrasonic Studios 1972
Bonnie Raitt Under The Falling Sky 1972 1973
Bonnie Raitt Angel From Montgomery Radio Broadcast 1976
Bonnie Raitt Same Old Song 1979
Otis Rush Double Trouble Live Cambridge 1973
Otis Rush So Many Roads Live in Concert 1975
Otis Rush All Your Love I Miss Loving Live at The Wise Fools Pub Chicago 1976
Son Seals Live & Burning 1978
Otis Spann Last Call Live at The Boston Tea Party 1970
Taj Mahal The Real Thing 1971
Taj Mahal Main Point Bryn Mawr Pa 14th March 1972
Eddie Taylor Long Way From Home 1977
Hound Dog Taylor Beware Of The Dog 1974
Big Mama Thornton Jail 1975
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What Are The All Time Best Live Blues Albums?
I don’t have a readers poll to find the best blues live albums of the decade but I do have an all-time poll which will help to guide you.
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Blues Live Albums By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Blues Rock By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Albert King Blues From The Road 1975
Blues From The Road is a live album by Albert King.
It was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland in 1975. The concert has previously been covered by another album, Albert Live or just Live.
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Muddy Waters Muddy Mississippi Waters Live 1977 1978
Muddy Mississippi Waters Live is a live album by Muddy Waters.
The songs were recorded in 1977 and 1978 when Muddy Waters was going through a revival in his career thanks to the Hard Again studio album for Johnny Winter’s Blue Sky label. In 1978, Waters released the I’m Ready studio album.
It was originally issued as a seven track single album in 1979 which was then issued as a CD in 1991. In 2003, a second CD was added to create the Legacy Edition while the shorter album also stayed in print.
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Albert King Blues At Sunrise 1973
Blues At Sunrise is a live album by Albert King.
It was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland on 1 July 1973.
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Taj Mahal The Real Thing 1971
The Real Thing is a live album by Taj Mahal.
It was recorded at the Fillmore East, New York on February 13, 1971.
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Little Milton Grits Ain’t Groceries 1972
Grits Ain’t Groceries is a live album by Little Milton.
It was recorded at the Summit Club in Los Angeles in 1972.
Little Milton is one of those artists that is quite hard to classify. Is it blues or soul or R&B or all three?
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Muddy Waters Live At Mister Kellys 1971
Live At Mister Kellys is a live album by Muddy Waters.
It was recorded at Mr. Kelly’s club in Chicago on June 11 and 12, 1971.
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Bonnie Raitt The Lost Broadcast Philadelphia 1972
The Lost Broadcast Philadelphia 1972 is an early recording of Bonnie Raitt performing live in concert.
It was recorded at the Sigma Sound Studios’ Rainbow Room in Philadelphia on 22 February 1972 but wasn’t released as a live album until 2011.
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live 1970
I’ve seen The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live album offered for sale as a single digital download or two individual CDs called Live and Live volume 2.
It was recorded live at The Troubadour in Los Angeles on March 21–22, 1970 and was released later the same year.
The original Live in itself was a double album when it was originally issued on vinyl.
I should warn you that by this time Mike Bloomfield had left the group and Butterfield had designed to change his sound to a more horn based approach.
Wikipedia describes it as a “blues-jazz-rock-R&B hybrid sound” and I agree. It is NOT dominated by surging guitar solos in the way that many, more traditional, blues rock live albums are. I recommend that you hear the mp3 samples at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Continue reading The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live 1970
John Mayall Jazz Blues Fusion 1971
Jazz Blues Fusion is a live album by John Mayall.
It was recorded in Boston in November 1971 and in New York in December 1971.
After the success of The Turning Point when Mayall turned his back on traditional electric blues and worked with an acoustic band without a drummer, he continued to innovate.
The electric guitar is back as he worked on the connecting areas of blues and jazz.
