I encourage all my students to live a blues life ... be willing to take the tough with the rough with the smooth with the easy ... and learn to roll with everyone they have the good fortune to meet along the road.
To get them started, I introduce a short, short list of great blues musicians. These are in no particular order ... just go and explore!
Here is the Blues Starting List:
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Django Reinhadt
Charlie Musselwhite
Ellen McIlwaine
Oscar Peterson
Old Crow Medicine Show
Taj Mahal
Ivan Rebroff
Maria Muldaur
Queen Latifah
Ray Charles
Keely Smith
And there are a few others thrown in just for fun ...
Mark Kroos
Wettestreit Zu Viert (combat classical quartet)
Then there is the best Blues show on the radio ...l the CBC's fabulous Saturday Night Blues Show (from Edmonton). http://www.cbc.ca/snb/
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