Tag: 2000s Blues

Live Blues Albums Recorded In The 2000s

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.

Live Blues Albums In The 2000s

Robert Cray Live From Across The Pond 2005
Alan Haynes Live at The Big Easy 2001
Warren Haynes Live At Bonnaroo 2003
BB King Live (In Tennessee) 2006
John Mayall 70th Birthday Concert 2003
Pinetop Perkins On the 88s Live in Chicago 2001
Snooky Pryor Mojo Ramble 2001
Taj Mahal Live Catch 2002
Rhett Tyler Live At HomeGrownRadioNJ.com 2006

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What Are The All Time Best Live Blues Albums?

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

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70th Birthday Party is a live album or DVD by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Friends. The friends are Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and Chris Farlow.

It was recorded in Liverpool on July 19 2003. The celebration was a little premature since Mayall was born on 29 November 1933.

While former Rolling Stones lead guitarist Taylor returned to play with the Bluesbreakers in the early 1980s, this was the first time for nearly forty years that Clapton and Mayall had appeared together on stage. Back in early 1966 they had recorded the classic studio album John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Clapton reading the Beano comic on the cover.

This isn’t the over-the-top guitar album that you might have expected with younger versions of Clapton and Taylor. Both are aware that they are honouring the contribution that John Mayall has made to the British blues and are sharing the limelight with John Mayall rather than seizing it away.

The album therefore lies in the intersection of blues and blues rock.

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