Blues Very Best

Blues Very Best

What are the best Blues instrumental Music tracks? It's a great question. Blues and lyrics go hand in hand, but what if you want just the blues without all the words? With that question in mind I set out to find the best instrumentals buried amongst the blues musical landscape. Here is my list of the best blues instrumentals and a little background on the musicians that gave them life.

The #1 spot on my blues instrumental Music chart goes to "Juke" by Little Walker. Little Walker, whose real name is Marion Walter Jacobs, is a well known and respected blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist. He is one of the greats and has been compared to other great artists like Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. He changed people's views on what they expected from a harmonica player by showing them what was possible. In March of 2008 he was placed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the sideman category and was the only artist to get in for his work with a harmonica.

The #2 spot on my blues instrumental Music chart goes to "Hide Away" by Freddie King. Freddie King, also known as "The Texas Cannonball", was a great blues guitarist and singer. His guitar style was based off of Texas and Chicago influences that he developed over his twenty year recording career. He has inspired many great musicians such as Bill Freeman, Denny Campbell, and Jimmie Vaughan. He also was one of the first artists to have a multi-racial band on stage with him. Sadly, at the young age of 42, King passed away due to heart failure on December 28, 1979.

The #3 spot on my blues instrumental music chart goes to "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green. Fleetwood Mac is a British/American rock band started back in 1967. Through the years the band members came and went, but they still were able to gain some success. The only band member to stay throughout was drummer Mick Fleetwood. Their most successful period is when they were led by guitarist Peter Green in the late 1960s.

These are just a few of my favorite instrumental music tracks and they are just skimming the surface of all the great blues instrumentals out there. I hope you enjoyed reading about them and challenge you to get out there and find some of your own and share them with the world. Until next time.

Aaron is a freelance writer that enjoys both listening and writing on the subject of instrumental music. He delves even further into the world of instrumentals on his blog Instrumental Music HQ His blog contains his views, opinions and reviews on a variety of topics including instrumental beats and instrumental songs.

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Please quote your age against your choice...I want to see if there is a corralation between good taste and age (yes yes yes this is subjective research)

I like mine "à point" - that's French medium which is rarer than English medium.

The French ways of cooking are:
bleu (blue, raw)
saignant (bloody, more rare than English rare)
à point (French medium, English rare)
bien cuit (French well done, English medium)
comme un soulier (French ready for the bin, English well done, lit. "like a shoe")

...and I'm 53

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