what do you think of white blues artists?

Question

some of them are amazing guitarists, but IMO black people have a certain charisma and energy in the voice that is missing in most white people?

ps can you recommend some white artists anyway for me to check out? I might change my mind...

Answer 1

There are a lot of great white blues artists. Here are just a few worth checking out.

Paul Butterfield
John Mayall
Jimmy Thackery
Tab Benoit
Tinsley Ellis
Tommy Castro
Rod Piazza
Little Charlie & The NIghtcats
Kim Wilson

Answer 2

I remember when I was in my teens, I listened to a lot of alternative music-for lack of a better term. Husker Du, Sonic Youth, etc. I found an article wherein Bob Mould, the singer/guitarist of Husker Du compared Bush (A 90's English alternative band, had hits with "Everything Zen" and "Swallowed" ) to a lot of the old alternative rock; he said they try to play riffs and things like that with kind of a "fine art" pretense. In comparison, the original bands were pretty much just "Screw you, this is how we play." The original Blues players used equipment that was cheap, loud, easy to use, etc. Now it gets reissued at an astronomical price. I find that personally asinine. Blues music can never be what it was-Muddy Waters, all those guys, when I hear Hootchie Cootchie Man, or Little Walters "Juke", it was right at the cutting edge then. I mean, I don't know if you get my analogy, they were just doing what they were doing. When I got into my twenties my tastes in music changed and I started playing blues music in bars. The original blues was just a soundtrack to life as it really lived then. Some white blues players get that same "Fine Art" pretense that modern alternative artists get. They don't understand that the original artists were just doing what came naturally. It was their lives, really. I'm sorry if my opinion offends anybody... also I admit my analogy is rather obscure.Original Blues music wasn't some recreation! It came from the lives of those guys.

Answer 3

Average White Band
John Hammond
Van Morrison
Jonny Lang
Joss Stone
Amy Winehouse
These artists are amazing.

Answer 4

Listen to " 1.FM Blues " on iTunes internet radio. The iTunes download is free, and there is a version for PCs.

White blues guitar players: Walter Trout, Joe Bonamassa (my current fave), Lance Lopez, Warren Haynes ("Government Mule" and "The Allman Brothers"), Popa Chubby, BB CHUNG KING, and lots more. A lot of them are featured on the internet radio station I mentioned. I am a blues-rock guitarist too, but I'm still trying to get something going. It always takes more time than you want it too - it seems like an unwritten rule in the music biz.

Answer 5

Chris Cain, Half Black, Half Greek.. He's the real deal! Great guitarist and singer.
Volker Strifler, Robben Ford, Garth Webber, Larry Carlton, Johnny Nitro.

Answer 6

Listen to the to following artists and then tell me that white guys cant play or sing blues

Peter Green (also 1960s Fleetwood Mac)
Robben Ford(Charles Ford Band, Robben Ford & the Blue Line and solo recordings)

Answer 7

Anyone can have the blues. It is a feeling that not many can channel through an instrument. I do believe any ethnicity can play blues if one is feeling it.

SRV is my number one choice. Clapton, Bonnasamma, and Gary Moore are favorites, too. Listen to Larry McCray. He's black and a wonderful artist that needs to be heard.

Answer 8

race doesn't matter,true blues harp was invented in the slave era by a black man,to voice the sorrow and pain within.that led to all forms of music.it's not what's outside,it's what's inside that comes out.
blues as simple as it may seem to play,is in my opinion the hardest.most every musician wants to add or create something new out of it,while attempting to keep it BLUES.it is not a technical form of music,but music that is played with heart and soul,which is the part that most over look.

Answer 9

Well man in my opinion black or white musician are the same, there be a good and bad, probably one of the difference between one and others (b & w) is the voice.

Ten years after
Paul Buterfly
John Mayall
Led Zepellin
and others

Answer 10

Blacks (and Latinos) tend to be more expressive than whites. More often than not, a group of blacks in conversation will be louder and more animated than a group of whites. This energy is put to good use in genres such as Blues/Rhythm & Blues, Funk and Jazz.