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? by heartlessromantic

Evening all...

I'm looking for some vaguely bluesy music with a lot of slide guitar that's kinda contemporary and doesn't sound too inbred and american...

Does such a thing exist?
Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks!

heartlessromantic | 19 Apr '08, 21:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

ZZ Top

lemonbrickcombo | 19 Apr '08, 21:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I belieeeeeeeeeve,

I believe I'll dust my broom!

wrightylew | 19 Apr '08, 21:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Dust My Broom is easily in my top 5 songs of all tym.

wrightylew | 19 Apr '08, 21:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

o u sed contemporary

o well :'(

wrightylew | 19 Apr '08, 21:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

graham coxon's early solo stuff

has a bit great slide guitar on it but interspersed with some crap ballads

Mornin' Blues off The Sky Is Too High is some of my favourite playing ever

bill-bones | 19 Apr '08, 22:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Ry Cooder

The 'Paris, Texas' soundtrack is amazing. It is fairly steeped in Americana but theres not much getting away from that with slide guitar & the blues.

also (not contemporary either, but still)
Captain Beefheart- The Clear Spot/Spotlight Kid/Safe As Milk albums.

IWornMyElbows | 19 Apr '08, 22:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

..

Try the tracks 'Cancion Mixteca' & 'Houston in Two Seconds' from the Ry Cooder record.

IWornMyElbows | 19 Apr '08, 22:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

also..

Canyon, 'Empty Rooms' lp

IWornMyElbows | 20 Apr '08, 14:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The John Butler Trio

do some pretty cool slide stuff.

hip_young_gunslinger | 20 Apr '08, 14:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Ben Andrews

Is a fantastic contemporary bluesman. I've never found his records in any shops, but he should be pretty easy to order from the internet. His album 'Stones in my Passway' is essential.
Seriously, the best white blues musician that I've heard.

Jakc | 20 Apr '08, 14:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i was going to suggest richmond fontaine

but it depends on your definition of 'inbred and american'

83746725 | 20 Apr '08, 15:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Thanks guys...

It's for my dad's birthday present, so I'm struggling to work out exactly what he wants...shall test the water with the above and see how it goes!

Cheers...

heartlessromantic | 20 Apr '08, 15:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

buy

him howl by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. If he hasnt got it youl make his day

aharps | 20 Apr '08, 21:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The Dodos

ftw.

oceanRain | 20 Apr '08, 19:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

shit!

just remembered how ridiculously talented Ben Harper is a slide guitar, well lap-style slide but all the same

Yoblonski | 20 Apr '08, 19:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Obvious

Chris Rea - Blue Guitars. Massive 11 CD collection of every type of blues ever. Either that or the new Hofner Bluenotes stuff. His blues stuff is amazing.

justanothersheeldz | 20 Apr '08, 19:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

A really cool one

is The Big Country by Talking Heads

ashstreath85 | 20 Apr '08, 19:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Mojave 3

Yeah.

therapyrock | 20 Apr '08, 19:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Not particularly bluesy

but give Kaki King a listen, espeically the album, Legs To Make Us Longer.

thephotobooth | 20 Apr '08, 21:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Neil Young?

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals?

stwerewolf | 20 Apr '08, 21:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

What you want is the

the Soledad Brothers.

JoeDiddly | 20 Apr '08, 21:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply