Comments on: Jumpin’ the Blues

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:28:18 +0000

Hi Luke,
There is a lot of “guitar drivers”in this Jump-Blues mood. I ‘ve written a book about them: Gene Phillips, Pee WeeCrayton, Charle Norris, Junior Rogers, Tiny Grimes, Ike Perkins, Ollie Crawford, Clarence Garlow, Harry Crafton,Oscar & Johnny Moore, Robert Kelton, Lafayette Thomas, saunders King, teddy Bunn, Pete Lewis, Bill Jennings, Billy Butler, Matt Murphy, Goree Carter, edgar Rice, Mitchell Tiny Webb, Clifton Best, Lee Cooper… many many more !…

By: admin

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:12:01 +0000

Thanks, Luke… I’ve always considered T-Bone Walker’s recordings for Black & White and Capital records to be prime jump blues — and guitar doesn’t get much better than that. Same with Gatemouth Brown’s stuff on the Peacock label. But you’ll also come across a lot of one-offs where the guitar player isn’t even credited, like Little Willie John’s You Hurt Me (wonderful playing on that one). You’ll find great posts on Gatemouth and unsung R&B guitar heroes like Jimmy Nolen over at Hound’s site (link at right).

By: Luke Herranen

Luke Herranen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:59:06 +0000

Great article – I don’t know anything about music from before the 60′s but I’m learning fast. I particularly liked Wynonie Harris and the 5 Royales, can you recommend any more guitar-driven jump blues?

By: Kiat Huang

Kiat Huang — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:20:50 +0000

Great to read about Jump Blues, my first deep love in music. Found this site trying to track down CD versions of old LP compilations (King, Chess) which had Wynonie Harris, Earl Bostic and others – the best rawest sax around, which turned me onto King Curtis bigtime, my first musical hero and someone I tried to emulate a little with my sax playing.