Monday, July 28, 2008

The best live blues albums?

1. Live at The Regal - B.B. King
2. Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live - Muddy Waters
3. Live at Cafe Au Go Go (& Soledad Prison) - John Lee Hooker
4. 1964 Live On Maxwell Street - Robert Nighthawk
5. Thursday Night in San Francisco - Albert King
6. At Newport 1960 - Muddy Waters
7. Live and Cookin' (at Alice's Revisited) - Howlin' Wolf
8. Drinkin' TNT 'N' Smokin Dynamite - Buddy Guy/Junior Wells
9. Live Wire/Blues Power - Albert King
10. Live in Cook County Jail - B.B. King

Unless you know better.........

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Luther Allison, Live in Paris is at least as good as Robert Nighthawk's record. A great bluesman in the classic tradition.

Also, there are two live tracks at the end of Muddy Waters' Blues Sky (produced by and featuring Johnny Winter) that are phenomenal including Streamline Woman and Deep Down in Florida.

Anonymous said...

Pretty solid lineup there, except you forgot two gems:

1) Mike Bloomfield - Live at Record Plant 1974 (via Wolfgang's Vault)

2) Walter Trout and the Free Radicals - Live Trout (2000)