Who is your favourite BLUES Bass Player?

Greg Hagger

Greg Hagger

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#1
I’m really interested in hearing who your favourite blues bass player is.

Bass players often get overlooked for the more famous guitarists or singers in Blues so it would be great if any one can come up with the lesser known ones as well.

I am planning a bass video course with a mixture of history and how to play Blues, and am interested in bass players right back from the upright players of the Chicago scene onwards.

Thanks in advanced for your feedback and if there is anything aside from the obvious that might be good in the course then please let me know.
 
#3
It's so hard to name just one. Lately I really like the stuff I hear Michael Rhodes playing with Joe Bonamassa:

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JTE said:
Keith Ferguson, original bassist with The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Johnny B. Gayden, most known for working with Albert Collins.

Billy Rich, on Paul Butterfield's Better Days.

Richard Cousins, long-time bassist with Robert Cray.
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I've had the Better Days album since it was new, great bass player, the whole band was unbelievable.
 
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Willie Dixon, in spite of being an upright player, is, as the Brits say, the Guv’nor(for all electric players that followed). However, Jack Myers seems to be the first substantial electric blues bass player, historically. I admired Johnny B. Gayden(with Albert Collins)for injecting some modernity into the bedrock time honored moves, but before that, Jerry Jemmott, known more as an R&B/soul player, did the same thing on BB King’s “Completely Well” album, featuring The Thrill Is Gone. That left an impression on me, but also in that time period was the work of Electric Flag/Super Session bassist Harvey Brooks, and Canned Heat’s Larry Taylor, which I got a lot out of. Jerome Arnold of the earlier Paul Butterfield Blues Band, as well.
 
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Pretty hard to consider anyone but Willie Dixon at the number one spot. He was so intensely influential and creative.

When it comes to electric bassists, there aren't a whole bunch who I love in the "strictly blues" genre. Most of my top electric players played in the more broad category of "R&B" (which basically just means music whose target audience was the African-American community: soul, funk, black pop, blues, some disco, electronic, dance, rap, hip hop, etc.).
 
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