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So every year I end up making CD mixes for my sister & father for the holidaze. This year, my father had two requests: one disc of new Delta blues acts, and one of post-Duane Allman "rock / southern rock / blues" acts.

I will be hitting up Teh Google and Teh Amazon and Teh iTunes, but wanted to see if anyone here had suggestions for good new acts to feature. Devnulljp - you've got JLH as your avatar, you must have a suggestion! (I hope!)

Howlin' Wolf. Not new, but unbelievably awesome. Your dad probably likes him already, but if not get the Chess 50th Anniversary collection. Spooky and heavy. I wish the Wolf was my dad.

Not very american but:

Rory Gallagher

A bit biased due to the fact that despite my love of all things fuzz, experimental, progressive etc. he is one of my favourite musicians ever.

Has done most any blues style. Delta to Bluesrock and back via a little bit of jazz.

Otherwise maybe Nine Below Zero or The Blues Brothers might be cool due to the large amount of covers and therefore a large variety in blues tunes.

Nice! Thanks for the suggestions - he's definitely got plenty of Howlin' Wolf and the better-known classics. I think that Rory Gallagher and Nine Below Zero would be new to him though - just picked up a couple of tracks from each. Definitely welcoming more ideas...

Ive been listening to Charlie Patton and Blind Willie McTell quite a bit lately. Def some good delta blues but they're pretty famous so your prob already heard of them. Especially Blind Willie McTell, he was amhuge influence on jack white.

you prob already know about these guys but (if not) you could check out :
north mississippi allstars : bluesy rock stuffin with awesome slide guitar
blackberry smoke : southern rock done in a southern rock kinda way
and of coarse there's : sonny landreth : slide guitar king
and : john campbell : another incredible dead guy...

they might fit the bill...but more rock than blues....

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jump to 1 minute in for the song......

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Hey jrmz, did you ever listen to Susan Tedeschi? She's got a fantastic voice, check out "It Hurt So Bad", she really fuckin belts it out.

Morphine is hella bluesy and super underrated.

Black Keys of course

and probably the bawlsiest blues rock band ever: Birds of Maya

Muddy Waters - Still A Fool
Freddie King - Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Howling Wolf - smokestack lightning
John Lee Hooker - Tupelo
ZZ Top - Vincent Price Blues
Son House - Death Letter Blues
BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON - Nobody's Fault But Mine
Albert King - Blues Power

YOU GUYS ARE ALL AWESOME!!!!

Elwood - definitely the most hits that my pop won't know: I shall indeed be picking up some of each.

BCBC - good one on Susan Tedeschi. She's local to these here parts, isn't she?

Gearmond - I loves me some Morphine. Will definitely check out Birds of Maya. And Black Keys: hell yeah!

Muddeh - all excellent choices, my friend, but unfortunately within my father's record collection (though I don't know about that particular ZZ Top tune - that might be left field enough for him).

Keep 'em comin' if you got 'em!

Well I was picking more "normal" stuff... I'll do some thinking on some more off the beaten path stuff

Oh Vincent Price Blues is off my favorite ZZ top album Rhythmeen, a real masterpiece!
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kool.

"rhythmeen" is my fave zz top recording....well, that and "mescalero" ... both are fine examples of extreme distortion.

Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Leadbelly
Bessie Smith
Son House
Big Joe Williams
Sonny Boy Williamson

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More to come at a later time...

jrmy wrote:YOU GUYS ARE ALL AWESOME!!!!

BCBC - good one on Susan Tedeschi. She's local to these here parts, isn't she?

Yup, she's from Boston. She's from the same family that owns Tedeschi's foodstores.

I just really dig her voice; when she starts screaming, she's got a bit of Joplin in her, but her singing voice can get really sweet too.