[Irishcocacola]

Hey Gang. Im looking for some blues songs I can play on the acoustic guitar, but that sound pretty cool. I don't know, any ideas?

Maybe a little jazzy feel but whatever you find is good. I'm looking for something I can blast out a harmonica with too...

[metalhead204]

look for songs by B.B. King, Led Zeppelin acoustic songs, or just try and write your own.



sry, i don't know that many jazz artists

[mrbreeze]

stormy monday blues has a jazz/blues feel...i can't remember who plays it originally

*waits for gzregorz, dadfad, bb hudson, and the rest of the gtu blues gang to beat me up*


bring it on home - willie dixon (led zeppelin does a nice cover also)

[acousticblues]

here is a list that was posted before of some blues people i also added some others i know........

Robert Johnson, Muddy waters, Son House, Bb king, Buddy guy, Wes Montgomery, Freddy king, John lee hooker, Hownlin' Wolf, Skip James, Earl King, Albert King, Otis Rush, Luther Allison, Albert Collins, Smokin' Joe Kubek, T Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Peter Green, Robben Ford, Micheal Bloomfield, Rory Gallagher, Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Winter, Vance Kelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Pete Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Leadbelly, Big Joe Williams, John Lee Hooker, Lightning Hopkins, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississipi John Hurt, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey...

well wes montgomery is more jazz but check him out too

if you want specific album titles from some not all of them then i could help you too maybe....

This post has been edited by acousticblues: 07 August 2004 - 07:03 AM

[BrotherStone&TheFamilySoul]

try "before u accuse" from clapton unplugged.

[grzegorz_panek]

It depends how deep you want to get into acoustic blues.

All the old country blues was acoustic. That's something Dadfad excels at, I'm only learning it seriously now, after mainly city stuff with separate rythm and lead.

Country blues has some techniques you'll probably have to learn from the scratch, like alternate bass and playing two parts at the same time, rather than just strumming. It takes quite a different approach from electric Chicago or city blues, but if you're devoted, I can only strongly recommend that path.

I'm learning a couple of different tunes right now. Robert Johnson is great to start the adventure with country blues. Songs like Sweet Home Chicago, Love in Vain, Crossroads.

Skip James, things like Midnight Blues.

Mississipi John Hurt is great to learn fingerstyle in open tunings, like Frankie is not so difficult a tune in open G.