(Part 3) Best blues music according to redditors
We found 91 Reddit comments discussing the best blues music. We ranked the 87 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
![Never Born, Never Dead [Explicit]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61yUgR6yHSL.jpg)
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|name|Hugh Laurie|
|about artist|Hugh Laurie is an English actor and comedian. Originally part of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, he found fame playing various roles in the classic British comedy TV series "Blackadder." He is perhaps more famous for the legendary TV sketch show "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" where he performed with his Cambridge University chum, Stephen Fry. Since then he has appeared in various films (Maybe Baby, Girl from Rio, Flight of the Phoenix, Stuart Little) and television shows, and has done some theatre work in London's West End. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Hugh Laurie))|
|album|Let Them Talk, released Apr 2011|
|track|St. James Infirmary|
|about track|According to the Saint James Infirmary Songfacts, the song is based on an old English tune, "The Unfortunate Rake," that made its way over to America. The song's title is derived from St. James Hospital in London, a religious foundation for the treatment of leprosy. It was closed in 1532 when Henry VIII acquired the land to build St. James Palace. The lyrics tell the tale of a man explaining to the singer/narrator, at a bar, how he went down to St. James Infirmary and tragically found his girl (the so-called "baby") dead.|
|images|album image, artist image|
|links|wikipedia, lyrics, allmusic, discogs, official homepage, imdb, youtube, myspace, twitter, facebook, mp3 on amazon, album on amazon|
|tags|blues, british, jazz, fuckinggenius|
|similar|Hugh Laurie and Tom Jones, NEW Hugh Laurie, Georgia On My Mind, devil woman, Hugh Laurie, Band From TV, Eric Clapton, Professor Longhair, Robert Downey Jr., Ray Charles|
|found in|r/Jazz, r/listentothis|
|metrics|lastfm plays: 4,235,645, youtube plays: 621,765, lastfm listeners: 129,968, radd.it score: 20|
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Look for the blues compilation albums on Amazon. They usually have 15-20 songs that are pretty standard. Example "The Blues That Built America":
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005027NOY/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1370122300&sr=8-2&pi=SL75
http://www.amazon.com/Harmonica-Soul-Serenade-Paul-Harrington/dp/B003CZ4RR2 I found it on amazon
A great place to bridge the gap between listening and playing jazz chordal melody is to basically trade fours with yourself, and a metronome. Start the metronome around 45bm half-time and play through the melody. Begin a chorus with four bars of improvisation and then comp for four bars. Rinse and repeat. Doing this will instill an unwavering sense of time and rhythm. It's harder to keep time and count without a rhythm section. Then start to integrate chords into your melodies.
I assume that you play with a pick. Check this album out. Chord solos played with a pick. Give it a listen. Bridge the gap.
Frank Portolese is a guitarist and teacher from Chicago.
http://www.amazon.com/Plectrum-Jazz-Guitar-Solos/dp/B004DHUD94
Did you know he's also a real life musician? The scenes of him playing piano are actually him playing. He recently released an album of New Orleans blues, and it is most assuredly epic.