favorite BRITISH Blues albums

Green's also on the John Mayall Bluesbreakers' A Hard Road, so get that too. Oh and you'll have to get the two comps of Bluesbreakers singles and stray tracks, Thru the Years and Looking Back

I like the two Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation records I have, the self-titled one and Doctor Dunbar's Prescription. They were pretty stiff, but there is something endearing about them. I like the fact that they wrote all their own shit, and the songs are short. No pointless soloing mucking things up. They added little textures to the songs - some keyboards here, a cornet there - to nice effect.

Chicken Shack really sucked - they just couldn't play - but their Imagination Lady lp is great. But at that point they were a heavy metal band, not a blues band. Stripped down, bludgeoning power trio stuff, like a less hip Kings of Oblivion-era Pink Fairies, a year before the fact. I can only believe the reason it wasn't included in Eddy's book is that he hadn't heard it at the time.
I guess the earliest records are still worth getting if you're a fan of the erstwhile Christine Perfect. And I am.

I like the first five Groundhogs records and Savoy Brown's Looking In too.

Digging Raw Sienna by Savoy Brown right now.

Bought a 20th-Century Masters Savoy Brown compilation, first thing I've ever owned or even heard by them. I've seen their name for so long that, even though I expected it wasn't for me, thought I'd give it the once-over. Love "Train to Nowhere"! Someone needs to get that into a movie.

Savoy Brown's 60s and early 70s records are all pretty solid listens. 'Hellbound Train' is a great mesmerizing doom blues groove. It is pretty impressive that Kim Simmonds kept the sound working considering the band was kind of a revolving door.

They are not really original, but the Mike Vernon recorded Chicken Shack records are a bit better than I think advertised up thread. Not many places will you find Christine "McVie" singing blues. They are not songwriters like Peter Green, but if you like early and later Fleetwood Mac, they are worth checking out. Later on Stan Webb obviously tried to cash in on Zep. Pretty much two Cd sets and you got 'em all.

I think Rory Gallagher is slept on quite a bit more in the US than in Europe, as he seems to be pretty legendary in Ireland and on the continent. Deuce is a great record, quite a few styles of song on that LP. Really his 70s records are all ace, calling him a "bluesman" is kind of selling his talent short. The two Taste studio records are good too.

The best of the early Fleetwood Mac I think is the live record recorded in Boston, which has come out in a bunch of different versions. That record is really good, really better than even the studio albums to my ears for the Peter Green era.

The Groundhogs seem to me to be straddling both being blues purists and early heavy weirdos like the Edgar Broughton Band. Both those groups were some oddballs who did some interesting music.

Free isn't really a straight blues band, but they could do the smoldering slow blues like Zep just as well on their early records.

If you are end to early hard rock and how it evolved out of the blues in the mid to late 60s through early 70s, there is definitely a pretty deep well of music to get into from the Uk.

Steamhammer is one band I am just starting to check out for the next rung down. Lead singer reminds me a lot of Ian Anderson...which if you are talking this music you really need to include This Was and early Tull as they came out of the same scene.

Thanks for all the background.

I finished the CD, and, as I suspected, most of it's not for me--just not an electric blues fan. But I've played "Train to Nowhere" seven or eight times in the car. Such a weird song...not the Velvet Underground, but very drony (or "doom blues groove," as you say). Almost reminds me of Henry Flynt. The thing that makes the song so great and so unusual is the way the singer's voice goes up at the end of each line, when everything I've ever heard has trained me to expect it to go down.

Friend of mine in high school was big into Duster Bennett, who's not well-known Stateside at all. I didn't realize for the longest time that he wrote "Jumping at Shadows" and Fleetwood Mac covered it, rather than other way around. I've been listening to him a bunch today, and it's not all excellent, but some of it is. Love this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-ZdaNfBH4&list=PLCzJEzpax1gewXEoQnMrmIhE4DUSqF7eZ&index=8

Check out the wrap around cover on the LP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJnhdBpoBKM

Lotta great stuff on here, no doubt incl. some I haven't heard yet. Another by xpost Mayall and Bluesbreakers: Crusade, from '67. Think I wore that one out, gotta dig it up and check. Mick Taylor so fine, esp. on Albert King's "Oh, Pretty Woman", with McVie, Keef Hartley, Chris Mercer on tenor sax, Rip Kant on bari, Mayall's weird unique vocals all over, of course:

Oh, Pretty Woman 3:30
Stand Back Baby 1:43
My Time After Awhile 5:05
Snowy Wood 3:52
Man Of Stone 2:22
Tears In My Eyes 4:14
Driving Sideways 3:48
The Death Of J.B. Lenoir 4:21
I Can't Quit You Baby 4:28
Streamline 3:10
Me And My Woman 3:52
Checking Up On My Baby 3:46

i only know lookin in and raw sienna but they both kick major ass!