Progressive blues - is such thing exist?

dr wu23 wrote: I'm not sure how one can sound like Robert Johnson, BB King, or Muddy Waters and be 'progessive' at the same time. Maybe some one else can cite an artist doing 'prog blues' ala the old timers...?

THIS

I just wanna see someone like Robert Johnson mixing in classical vibes and continually going further and further away from the beaten path. It would probably need to be a modern artist to have all those types of flavors.

Speaking of Robin Trower, I think you really have to look at Jimi Hendrix for the manner in which he stretched the blues into amazing soundscapes:



How about Baroque blues?



And if this can't be considered "progressive blues" I don't know what is:

Edited by Svetonio - July 03 2013 at 21:58

silverpot wrote: The first time BB King met and heard David Gilmour play, he asked, _ Sure you weren't born in Mississippi?  So, I guess Floyd must be a progressive blues band. And in that vein, some of their followers must be considered as prog blues as well. Like Porcupine Tree and Riverside.

Progressive Blues always seemed a contradiction in terminis to me. Nevertheless, blues lay at the roots of Pink Floyd: the band was named after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Edited by someone_else - July 04 2013 at 06:13

The version of King Crimson featuring Boz Burrell, Ian Wallace and Mel Collins became pretty saturated in jazz, blues and R&B - much more than Fripp wanted them to be, which contributed to the demise of that lineup. Some of the live recordings are definitely worth it if this interests you. There's a teasing excerpt at the end of Ladies of the Road (disc 1) where they play the opening bars of In The Court of the Crimson King as an electric blues in the style of John Lee Hooker. Would have loved to hear more of that!

Also of note is the Live at Summit Studios recording of this band - unusual because they played without mellotron and the resulting stripped-down sound is less 'proggy' and more jazzy / bluesy as a result. This recording also has them covering Pharaoh Sanders' The Creator Has A Master Plan which is something to hear.


Edited by Mascodagama - July 06 2013 at 08:52

The.Crimson.King wrote: The entire song can be heard on disc 2 of the King Crimson Collectors Club #18  "Live in Detroit - December 13, 1971".  Fripp introduces it with, "This is for our manager David".  At one point in his blues wailing, Boz sings, "I'm here and I've been caught with the crimson thing in my hand".  After the end, the audience is very quiet so Ian Wallace asks the crowd, "Are you satisfied?   Are you baffled?" Completely brilliant

Thanks very much for that information TCK!

The weird thing is that I've actually got that CD - it's in my pile of stuff waiting to be listened to . I'd not realised it had this version on it, though. So I'm off to listen to it now...

Cheers!

^...and what the hell was the thing with the 7 UP??

Overall that is the oddest Crimson live recording I've heard yet.

"Caught With The Crimson Thing" really deserves to be a track title, if not an album title

This is a good one...Kraut Blues???

Orange Peel

I still think we are missing an aspect of the original point of the thread......We have all named progressive blues rock bands but my impression was that the thread starter is interested  in progressive blues artists that embody the original bluesmen. I honestly can't think of any since if they were playing in that classic blues tradition, prog or not, would it still be considered blues..? This is why I mentioned Black Keys, Gary Clark, etc but these guys are not really progressive blues as much as an update on it. And the others mentioned are progressive  blues rock.

Edited by dr wu23 - July 08 2013 at 09:33