Great blues soul songs share them if you got them !

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Here ya go BB he was blind and a hell of a guitar player so you know he was a good blues man lol !

Pete

 
It isnt blues but its good for the soul ! Chuck Berry just about invented some of the blues sound and founded rock and roll ! Elvis who !



 
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Never could figure out what is and isn't the blues. Just know that it ain't real blues if they have their eyes open.

Musically, there are a couple notes which are called "blue notes" - and you can feel them even if you don't know about them.
"In jazz and blues, a blue note (also "worried" note[1]) is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres."

I'm not much of a musician, but the whole scope of music is fascinating. The stuff resonates inside your brain and emotions - even if you don't know why or how it does.
Check out this vid....listen carefully to the notes. The string bending does the same thing...expression:
 
A real blues player can make a party out of 2 or 3 notes - well, at least the notes start as one note, but then they bend them up and down.

A lot of the famous riffs you hear from the days of rock are only a few notes - with expression!

Of course, there are a lot of exceptions to that rule - like "Yes", but that's not blues.

Real guitar players go their entire lives and are still amazed and confounded what you can do with 6 strings. There is no limit. Infinite.

The guy in the video mentions BB Kings vibrato - how he shakes the string. I've seen him do that in person and it's pretty amazing. He holds the one finger on the note while shaking his entire hand at a really fast rate. You hear the result, but very few people look at the mechanics. Sometimes he can make it sound like a bumblebees wings (that fast!)...

Watch the master himself:
 
Here's a nice slow one from Roy Buchanan.
 
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An oldie but a goodie from 1989 I have this on vinyl
 
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not the best he has but a good introduction to a great talent

plus protest music just gets me going

enjoy, the others were way longer ,I know we all got ADD here:rolleyes:
 
I have AD what was I saying o ya I have AD ooo look a cat !
 
 
all too much for me guys

first I find some of you like good beer

then I find you like Americana / blues

just keeps gettin' better here thanks Y'all
 
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