TOPS is a live album by Otis Rush.
It was recorded at the San Francisco Blues Festival on September 15, 1985.
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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 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.
Luther Allison Where Have You Been Live in Montreux 1976-1994
Luther Allison Live ’89 Let’s Try It Again
Lonnie Brooks Live From Chicago Bayou Lightning Strikes 1988
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Real Life 1985
Albert Collins Live At Rockpalast 1980
Albert Collins Frozen Alive 1981
Albert Collins Live in Japan 1982
Robert Cray Live At The BBC 1988 1991
Snooks Eaglin Live in Concert 1985
Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session 1983
Little Milton Live at Westville Prison 1983
Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones Live at the Checkerboard Lounge Chicago 1981
Otis Rush TOPS 1985
Otis Rush & Friends Live at Montreux 1986
Taj Mahal Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1988
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I don’t have a readers poll to find the vest 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
Other Helpful Webpages About Live Blues Albums In The 1980s
Big Beat Music Blues Of The ’80s
https://www.bluebeat.com/playlist/info/14082/Blues-Of-The-80s
TOPS is a live album by Otis Rush.
It was recorded at the San Francisco Blues Festival on September 15, 1985.
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Live At Rockpalast is a live album and DVD by Albert Collins & The Icebreakers.
It was recorded at the Westfalenhalle 2 studio in Dortmund in Germany on November 26th 1980 for television.
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Live in Concert is a live recording by Snooks Eaglin.
According to a reviewer at Amazon.com, it was recorded at the Storyville Jazz Hal in New Orleans,Louisiana on October 23, 1985.
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Live ’89 Let’s Try It Again is a live album by Luther Allison.
It was recorded at Quasimodo in West Berlin, Germany between May 22 and 25, 1989.
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In Session is a live album and DVD by Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan.
This 1983 jam session was recorded for the Canadian TV program called In Session.
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Live at Ronnie Scott’s is a live album and DVD by Taj Mahal.
It was recorded in 1988 at the famous jazz club in London.
Live at Montreux 1986 is a live album and DVD credited to Otis Rush & Friends.
The friends were Eric Clapton and Luther Allison but the main part of the album is just Otis Rush and his band.
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Live at the Checkerboard Lounge Chicago 1981 is a live album and DVD by Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones.
It was recorded on November 22nd, 1981 after the Stones went to the club the new before their concerts started.
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Live From Chicago: Bayou Lightning Strikes is a live album by Lonnie Brooks.
It was recorded at B.L.U.E.S. in Chicago in 1988.
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Live at Westville Prison is a live album by Little Milton.
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