(Part 3) Best blues music according to redditors

Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts, and Hip Hop

The Stax/Volt box set would be a great intro to the genre in general if you have access to it.

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|name|Clarence Carter|
|about artist|Clarence Carter (born 14 January 1936, Montgomery, Alabama) is a singer and musician. Carter's earliest releases were as half of the duo Clarence And Calvin. Also known as the "C And C Boys", the blind duo made seven singles, the last of which was recorded at Fame's Muscle Shoals studio. When his partner, Calvin Thomas (aka Scott), suffered serious injuries in a car accident in 1966, Carter became a solo act (Calvin himself later reappeared as a solo act to record two Dave Crawford-produced Atco Records singles in 1969/70 and a Clarence Paul-produced 1971 album for Stax Records... ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Clarence Carter))|
|album|Testifyin' / This Is Clarence Carter, released Sep 1998|
|track|Slip Away|
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|tags|soul, rhythmandblues, blues, oldies|
|similar|Arthur Conley, Don Covay, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, William Bell|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 173,635, lastfm plays: 729,374, youtube plays: 130,087, radd.it score: 4|


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Maybe Dinosaur Rock? My little sister had it when we were kids, and the words sound familiar but I tried to tune it out since I was a too-cool teen by then.

I have this great collection which is called An Anthology of Big Band Swing 1930-1955 and I really like it. It's sort of obscure though. Here's a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Big-Band-Swing-1930-1955/dp/B000003N3T

There are some great recordings on there.

Thanks! You can find it easily on Amazon:https://www.amazon.it/Inspiration-Information-Shuggie-Otis/dp/B000059TLS

I would just look for compilations like:

Great American Big Bands

Big Band Era Vol. 2

Anthology Of Big Band Swing 1930-1955

A Big Band Christmas

Obligatory Clarence Carter reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVnH39UzI8

Speaking of which, if you haven't heard it's other stuff... well, it's amazing. http://www.amazon.com/Snatching-Back-Clarence-Carter/dp/B0000032DS

Three boxed sets to start with. This is some of the best stuff around:

James Brown: Star Time

The Temptations: Emperors of Soul

The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968

Also, more on the early R&B/soul tip (rather than the funk stuff that would follow a little later), check out the Hot Slop Podcast.

Hope that helps.

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Or Dinosaur Rock by the same group

Wish it had the Wipeout XL tracks. And soundtrack:

https://www.amazon.com/Wipeout-Xl-Various-Artists/dp/B000003RYJ/

$11.45 at Amazon. Worth every penny!

I'm not going to buy any of their records, so any links you could include would be helpful.

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Wait, are you talking about this?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00000098O001004/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_004

and this?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00000098O001005/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_005

Where he can't hit a solid note to save his life? His voice is horribly flat and almost completely void of any emotion at all. Not to mention just plain... bad. He sounds like a 3rd rate bar band singer at the very best.

The one lyric that particularly grabbed me as extremely poor was the word "eyes" in the first song near the very beginning of the clip. Fucking ouch. That sounded so just... flat and totally out of tune that it made the rest of that clip and the next nearly physically painful to listen to. How incredibly unprofessional.

Because its an overlooked album; hes an overlooked producer; the album title is perfect & because this album just simply fucking kills:

Diamond D & The Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop

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Besides this having some of the best beats from the Golden 90's and beyond, it also features very early appearances by Big L & Fat Joe and guest production by Large Professor, Q-Tip & Jazzy Jay.

Now-a-days we have cats like Knaye who get in the door via production then turn rapper, well shit here is the original cat. I know our theme is instrumental but I still submit this because his beats are the stars of this entire album. I've listen to the album countless times and few lines, but I can tell you about every break.

Three that spring to mind are:

Johnny Winter with The Return of Johnny Guitar

John Campbell with A Man And His Blues

Freddie King with King Of The Blues

This covers a range of styles and some fantastic music.

And just as a wildcard here is some French blues - Johnny Hallyday with Le Coeur d'un Homme. Some great songs really well sung.

Enjoy the blues and keep exploring.

I feel like someone needs to say:

• WipeOut
  
• WipeOut XL
  
  So...I'm saying it.
  
  I love the good ol' Nintendo classics also - but this was one of the first game soundtracks that I bought in a retail store.

Resonance Records finds a lot of excellent but previously unreleased recordings and issues them in nice sets. For instance, they have this Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra set as well as this Jaco Pastorius big band set.

For a more recent big bands/large ensemble recording, there's Maria Schneider's The Thompson Fields.

If considering them, take a listen to the samples to see how it compares to what you know he likes. For instance, if his big band tastes are more in line with 30s/40s swing, these may not be a big hit.

Finally, I was mainly thinking of releases from the last few years to reduce tha chance he already has them. If you want a couple classic big band albums, there are The Complete Atomic Basie and Ellington at Newport.

He did a very good job with a certain sort of relaxing jazz. Good stuff. And there's Brubeck and Goodman and Ellington and Basie and others. For some fine stuff that's more energizing than relaxing, check out Neal Hefti's arrangements for Count Basie in The Complete Atomic Basie or, even perhaps better, Count Basie and His Orchestra Play Neal Hefti. Indeed, these same arrangements are well done by The Frank Capp Juggernaut in In a Hefti Bag. Great stuff.

You can buy it off Amazon

Is this the right cd? If so it links to a few sellers on amazon that have it.

He also released a album way earlier if I'm not mistaken.

EDIT: LINK http://www.amazon.com/Be-Here-Soon-Jeff-Bridges/dp/B00004RI61