The Evolution of Blues Guitar Playing (1937-1990)

Ok so here's another repost from my TikTok, I promise I'll start working on more ~KZbin exclusive~ content for y'all very soon. With much love,
- Mikey

[@kurtcobain3872]

I think kingfish is killing it in modern times

[@bluesbyluca4272]

Hell yeah

[@nolancook4801]

Hell yeah

[@deroman2314]

Hell yeah

[@Alan-su5bg]

Not just him but marcus king too

[@skrobie]

I’m not huge in the blues scenes but what are y’all’s thoughts on John Mayer in this context?

[@saucysos]

I own the entirety of Robert Johnson’s discography, and absolutely nothing he made sounds like that, even discounting the electricity.

[@pooblus1726]

Kinda sounds like They’re Red Hot I guess

[@Cody_Cigar]

Yeah he played Blind Willie Mctell - Southern can of mine

[@jakewhitmore6046]

He did though.

[@savageclasher1014]

What does it sound like

[@jegr3398]

That's not how Robert Johnson played but nice try

[@RandomTingi]

It's really not even close

[@themuzzfuzz7045]

Listen to their red hot

[@AustinPierce7526]

Yeah wtf record was he listing to?

[@frankymcdonald7176]

@@AustinPierce7526 theyre red hot

[@JT_Grogan]

Give him a break, he's only a mere mortal

[@lunk5155]

Robert Johnson played absolutely nothing like that.

[@musicbyclay4919]

He's playing a Robert Johnson song though..🤣 "they're red hot"

[@Big_Boy_Baguette]

It's actually pretty spot on if u actually listen to the record

[@PROD1_2]

@@Big_Boy_Baguette uhh not really.

[@Big_Boy_Baguette]

@@PROD1_2 well I don't know, I'm a beginner on guitar so I'm not really sure on this stuff, sounded quite close to me😄

[@jacobcousins4234]

@@Big_Boy_Baguette its really not close at all, bobby johnson is notorious for being one of the hardest guitar players to imitate and this dude absolutely was not playing it correctly. Im not even hating cause i think i could do better because i know i will never play bobby johnsons stuff

[@mateusgumiero]

albert king? buddy guy? muddy waters? even mayer or kingfish

[@monguito]

Muddy waters with his style of music he completely changed music and was the father of rock and roll

[@alc3062]

Howlin wolf

[@pierfrancescovalente]

... Jeff Healey

[@TheRansyn]

Fuck even Kenny Wayne shepherd man

[@namesecondname5933]

Eric clapton???

[@ethanburns8209]

That was the weirdest Robert Johnson ever.

[@operationhighschoolshenani4828]

Bro, Robert Johnson didn’t get his influence from John Mayer

[@mjbvr678]

Damn😂😂😂😂

[@TheWaveGoodbye-Music]

It's a song called they're red hot by Robert Johnson, it's a blues standard...

[@Norego.Newzealand]

😂😂😂

[@boopsnoot2807]

Albert King, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Duane Alman, Billy Gibbons, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr, and Kingfish. But sure, let’s just forget about them.

[@b.michael7275]

Also Elmore James, Lightnin Hopkins, Charlie Patton, and John Lee Hooker

[@limbo3299]

Bro makes shorts all them would take to long, he went with the highlights lmao

[@joakobm60]

Yeah let’s put them all in a 1 min video it’s gonna be just enough

[@babyvenatus6795]

You forgot about Les Paul

[@Big_betty2]

Duane Altman fs

[@starwarzsmoker]

When you order John Mayer from wish

[@barsultra]

Underrated comment

[@makkerfelix]

Walmart at least, this guys pretty good

[@antonioflorgonza1897]

Hah!

[@moonwalkerkop4479]

When you hate on people for no reason

[@Kevin12321]

That’s so dumb. The kids just playing guitar. 98% of guitar players in the world you could say the same thing. Probably even higher percentage. You def don’t play. You’re a corny little hater

[@al6347]

SRV the GOAT

[@jegr3398]

That's not how BB King played either. Like not even close.

[@NS-er1gd]

Man you are on a roll complaining today huh?

[@starcatto2486]

I love the brightness of the blues

[@CasuallyJapan]

Tell me you don’t know blues with telling me you don’t know blues

[@henryweiland7761]

Then why don't you make your own video big boy

[@peterluck3154]

That is misinformation, either you dont know blues either you are trolling people

[@jipke7430]

Yeah... Where was living on a prayer and don't stop me now

[@swaz986]

@@jipke7430 I was waiting on periphery bruh

[@LiquidSun62]

@@swaz986 I wish he didnt stop right when the next one was gonna be Bleed by Meshuggah

[@CoachSludge]

Or fred mcdowel even one of the forerunners of blues

[@crunchking9931]

Dudes only reference to the blues is srv sounds like he’s not really knowledgeable on anything other than later electric blues

[@fiy_qusyairi]

Always love the chords and the progression

[@RandomPerson-ui3xv]

Bro just learned a bunch of blues riffs and licks,pressed record,and mention famous blues players

[@devaux1904]

Annnnd missed the delta blues entirely.. including living legends he likely doesnt know .

[@Baldchoppa]

Yeah, probably not what happened but sure! Keep wasting your time hating on a guy that did nothing wrong

[@L154N4LG4IB]

No Jimi Hendrix??

[@thebottles2684]

@@kerrick7975 I know he's more physecdelic rock but like he does do alot of blues as well

[@s550danny]

@@kerrick7975 jimi hendrix did blues better than albert king

[@thebottles2684]

@@kerrick7975 he was really good at the genre though?

[@jegr3398]

@@kerrick7975 Yes he is

[@Alan-su5bg]

Hendrix isnt a blues player?, he didnt even play blues to begin with, one flaw about hendrix playing blues was him not using feel. He just used big marshall stacks and distorted the hell out of it then plays a solo that just sticks to bends.

[@TDo280199]

I didn't know that Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, BB King, and SRV only lived for 1, 4, 15, and 7 years, respectively. Man these guys sure were genius just imagine what they could've done had they lived longer.

[@patrickgarrett1734]

You mean they were children?! Impressive.

[@TDo280199]

@@patrickgarrett1734 I know right they passed too young

[@UltraMagaFan]

ZZ Top and Stevie Ray Vaughan are my favorite. I love good ole Texas blues.

[@frunejacman9707]

How about Gary Moore, Peter Green, Eric Clapton, come now bruv…

[@wavycrockett9351]

No, no and no 👎🏾

[@bolbol2580]

The electric guitar wasn’t even invented when Robert Johnson played

[@Unluckyfawn]

Everyone: “YOU FORGOT *insert killer player here*” Without realizing this is a fuckin YT Short smh. I’m sure he would have included far more in a full length video

[@Throckmorton_the_great]

Actually he doesn't. He has a tendency to do the same 5 guitar players in every single video, short and tik tok he makes. We all just want variation.

[@natalielastname1022]

Yeah but he could at least actually play like the guitarists

[@mateirodequintal]

Oh man ... The sound! 👏👏👏👏

[@iggy9955]

Kid. You are awesome!!! 👍💖💯🎸

[@user-ol7bt4wp1j]

Fun fact: Black Sabbath originally was supposed to be a Blues Rock Band but then the thing with iommis fingers happened Meaning Metal is just heavy and distorted blues

[@zakkmylde1712]

While the accident did help form his play style that had nothing to do with them moving away from the blues. The bands practice space was across the street from a cinema, then one day they were watching people go in and out of the theater while Black Sabbath starring Vincent Price was playing. Then then question was asked. if people like going to the movies to be scared why wouldn't they like to hear scary music?

[@user-ol7bt4wp1j]

@@zakkmylde1712 but I never said they moved away from blues

[@zakkmylde1712]

@@user-ol7bt4wp1j you don't have to say it considering they actually did move their sound away from the blues into something new.

[@user-ol7bt4wp1j]

@@zakkmylde1712 Eh not really Sabbath stuff from the 70’s was very bluesy specifically songs with Ozzy’s Just more darker and and sinister sounding Paranoid, Black Sabbath, Vol 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath all are really bluesy I mean the band basically was just the dark mirror image of Led Zeppelin.

[@zakkmylde1712]

@@user-ol7bt4wp1j what is the point you are trying to make? That Sabbath is a blues band? Just because the music is based off of blues principles in places does not make them a blues band. How in the hell is Sabbath a mirror to Zeppelin? The only thing they have in common is roots in blues and you can say that about literally any rock or metal band.

[@steveholt5115]

How you can play these riffs so well but consistently ruin them with attaching someone else name to it that doesn’t fit

[@declanosullivan8770]

Because thats how he plays jimmy doesnt play like king he plays like jimmy

[@barrithen]

“the last true bluesman” my brother in christ there are so many good blues musicians still popping up, you just aren’t searching hard enough for the gems

[@jamesbeegen8926]

Tune the SRV part down a half step and you’re golden

[@progrockmorelikefrogc0ck157]

These are all incredibly wrong

[@dougrose7334]

so for SRV he played an SRV song and it's wrong? lmao. Go back to blues school little boy.

[@jackcannon5160]

u forgot albert king 😞

[@jordanmarksberry6462]

BB King > Albert King

[@jackcannon5160]

@@jordanmarksberry6462 b b king overrated

[@Alan-su5bg]

@@jackcannon5160 thats ur opinion tho :/

[@jackcannon5160]

that’s a fact not opinion

[@Alan-su5bg]

@@jackcannon5160 its a opinion tho🤓, otherwise the internet would say what you just said, learn the difference

[@nathrob2437]

There's KING in B.B's name for a reason.

[@Isa_puggy]

HOLY FUCK I NEED THOSE LITTLE GUITATS

[@default6960]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe?

[@Alan-su5bg]

She does gosepl more tho than blues

[@majkistyle]

What is Charlie Puth doing with that guitar lmao 😂

[@sanavthecardist1666]

I am a metal player but still can agree SRV was the GOAT at blues

[@steeveewuzzheer1992]

I take issue with “last true blues man”. I’d say Jack White is someone I would define as blues guitarist

[@sabotaj18]

The best of our generation id say

[@yoosh9034]

You’re a great player. That said, that sounded literally nothing like Robert Johnson.

[@lucasm4640]

But it's literally one of his songs he played

[@yoosh9034]

@@lucasm4640Yep, sure is

[@carrolleaslat3964]

Whatever TF that was it wasn't Robert Johnson!

[@nerfytheclown]

Yeah.

[@keremstoyshop8734]

This guy knows nothing about music

[@petukhofice]

@@keremstoyshop8734 oh he's offended((( get a life

[@keremstoyshop8734]

@@petukhofice I'm not

[@keremstoyshop8734]

@@petukhofice look at what the guy is playing for Robert Johnson

[@pikneo]

Amazing!

[@jacobwarfield3022]

Sounds good bro. Keep it up

[@christiandaniel8400]

I’ve only been playing and learning about guitar for a few years and I know this ain’t all the way right lmaoo. How do you skip over Hendrix???

[@pwh567]

this means practically nothing

[@andyvasquez5954]

That chuck berry tone tho😍😍

[@scottavery9108]

The last true bluesman Mr Buddy Guy

[@daroachdoggjr.5546]

Jack White is still killing it

[@nasapayrollsystem8701]

Nah ..not Rob Johnson . Not that strumming pattern. And BB ... to many notes, not enough feel ..all you need to start is the root, and a great sound .. Then maybe a b7 ... and that's all ..

[@TheArtofBlues]

Take your time son.

[@al.cabooo]

80s 90s win 🏆

[@roguecheddar]

Joe Bonamassa: The fuck you say?!

[@Qwik14]

Ahh yes Robert Johnson playing blues on a Fender Strat with gain set to 2. Makes perfect sense.

[@danrandall3302]

Great playing!

[@sairamr6886]

Solid tones on that beautiful pastel strat

[@periachi4961]

No Clapton? Muddy Waters? And what about John Mayer? The man slays the blues.

[@Alan-su5bg]

Clapton was just a guy who loved blues and played it during the british invasion but played more psychedelic blues rock

[@cc3366]

@@Alan-su5bg his solos on the blues breakers album was the greatest blues solos you’ll ever hear

[@Alan-su5bg]

@@cc3366 ever heard the term "British blues" ?, don't get me wrong i know john mayall and the bluesbreakers era clapton and its astonishing but clearly everyone's ignoring that era of Clapton and not mentioning john mayall to this day but rather knowing cream, derek and the domino's era Clapton.

[@periachi4961]

@@Alan-su5bg yeah but to me Clapton is the one guitarist besides SRV that comes to mind when you think of the blues.

[@Alan-su5bg]

@@periachi4961 there's nothing wrong but when you talk about blues you can't just sum up british blues guitarists in the 60s because that was just them loving it and influenced by it and was so called "rock" when it was just them covering blues songs. Real blues would've been just delta and then chicago electric blues which is the real deal

[@DannyKellyMusic]

Should have added in Rory Gallagher

[@mikesimonian484]

Absolutely!

[@Alan-su5bg]

Gallagher did more blues rock than standard blues stuff like bb king and srv etc.

[@DannyKellyMusic]

@@Alan-su5bg still did quite a bit of old blues too during his day and his amp sound was epic

[@Alan-su5bg]

@@DannyKellyMusic that's true and all but the unfortunate reality is he didn't get to be that public in the guitar world, he was just mostly seen around England but didn't give the same credibility among like other British guitarists we all love. Hes sort of in the same league, players like paul kossof, peter green, etc.till now in the 21st century some mention him but as to share their opinions on rory himself.

[@DannyKellyMusic]

@@Alan-su5bg you’re right, regarded in England and surprisingly very big in Germany and France, good fame in Ireland but if he had broken America more people would revere him for what his was capable of

[@deebefree]

Found you in the shorts but I dig your content bro. Keep it going, your playing is fantastic through the styles.

[@ryanmacinnes1930]

nice playing, you have a lovely jaguar

[@psl109]

Oh boy that's a one-percenter of what Robert Johnson did, the fella played like he had four fucking hands

[@drdre4397]

You didn't emulate any of the players and also do you really think bb king started in 1965 and ended in 1980? And what do you mean SRV was the last great bluesman? Maybe take some time and actually learn how to play their songs...

[@georgeprice4212]

Popular years…hello! Did YOU see B B King on the charts under his own name anytime after 1980? (Not including his appearance on U2’s 1987 track When Love Came To Town, as HE was on THEIR song.) And, as far as his SRV comment, that is HIS opinion. Now, as far as actually learning their songs, COPYRIGHT CLAIMS, remember?

[@georgewalker3702]

@@georgeprice4212 the what about him playing Johnny B. Goode? By your logic, he's already lost, except he's playing it in a different key, so it isn't detected. That's where your argument falls apart, he could have simply played the songs in a different key if he really wanted to.

[@georgewalker3702]

@@georgeprice4212 and as far as I'm concerned, BB King was still selling out shows until the day he died, so I think you're probably wrong about that. And also, you aren't right about SRV. It's fact that he's not the last bluesman because if he is, then that means Kingfish isn't a bluesman.

[@georgewalker3702]

@@georgeprice4212 also adding on to what I was saying about the player's songs, he didn't even have to learn their songs, he could have written licks in their styles, but he didn't. Definitely not the BB King one. He was playing too many notes. He wasn't known for playing very many notes, he played good notes.

[@georgeprice4212]

@@georgewalker3702 DAMN YALL ARE FUCKING PICKY!

[@btherron5]

You can’t play early blues without some slide. Too many influential players to name while giving the proper respect to each of them in a short. Each generation has had someone to help revive the blues. Let’s keep the tradition alive and experience living.

[@elgeralto]

And now we have Kaleo. One of the great bands in this age.

[@mikerobertson]

Bizarre to not include Gary Moore, probably the finest electric blues player who ever lived 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@paulyvee]

You need to go back to school dude.

[@NylonLover06100]

Guys guys, he hasn’t sold his soul to the Devil, that’s why he couldn’t attempt Robert Johnson

[@zman3871]

Yoooo….Mikey my man. Your a killer player bro, very smooth and accurate, ignore the haters bro.

[@ajporter7487]

Lol Don’t get your info from the internet. BB was before Chuck Berry , way before. Muddy Waters rest my case

[@gregoriodecker2692]

If you're going to rest your case.. learn about it first.. Charlie Patton was inspiration for them all.. go look.. thank me later

[@chriscreed6410]

@@gregoriodecker2692 wtf Did that have to do with what he said? 😂.

[@brandonmcarthur2600]

Bb King and srv are the kind of blues I like

[@EastDetroitMusic-Sirens3000A]

You need to go back to 1927, where the blues really began. Motherless Child written by Barbacue Bob in 1927. It was covered and released in Eric Clapton’s 1994 album From The Cradle.

[@danielbaksa93]

Omh these sounds. Good job🖤

[@santiagovictor2004]

Love how he threw honey bee in there, a SRV song not many ppl know

[@sadisticseven2479]

Clean playing man

[@the-boone5161]

Dont be fooled by the rockin tone blues is a feelin in the hearrt

[@timothymaine4084]

BUDDY GUY! Among countless others missed

[@ilovemaccaroni]

I love chuck berry! Roll over Beethoven is one of my favorite songs!! I just discovered this channel and immediately subbed! You are so talented!

[@austintaylor7117]

robert johnson lived like really close to where i live, mississippi delta is the heart of the blues

[@liljimitwofeatherz9735]

GREENVILLE

[@DannisTheManace]

The blues existed before Robert Johnson

[@growskull]

Robert johnson and B.B are easily the best blues players to ever live

[@user-uy5jx1gj8x]

I didn't know Robert johnson was a hendrix fan too

[@overanDownUnder]

Saw buddy guy in 2008 red butte gardens just by happenstance. Best post break up walk I ever went on.

[@kohlerinvestigations1806]

You forgot one of the most important people, Muddy Waters, the father of Chicago electric blues

[@bigbillmontgomeryjr2346]

Yep stevie ray vaughan the greatest of all time. Your tone on the chuck berry part was fucking awsome man!

[@JoNas-ku4xy]

Nope

[@jelly_swoosh]

Chuck is so good

[@breckencorp3195]

BB King said john mayer is the man. I think he deserves a chance as the last real bluesman

[@dasonhandjr]

John Mayer is definitely a blues man.

[@calebbromley9648]

SRV “last true bluesman?” Let’s forget John Mayor to name one shall we.

[@JoaoAlmeida-ge3hy]

This list could be huge!

[@unknown6390]

Blues goes way back before 1937

[@lowcursedmg]

Such a beautiful boy

[@inasvids4747]

Blues is basically sweeter rock

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

Hurt my heart to see you start with Robert Johnson as if he were the start of blues. Son House, Fred McDowell, Rosa Lee Hill.

[@viscottyhottie]

Sweet vid.

[@tystys19]

For every body saying that’s not Robert Johnson played you are wrong when he went to play on stage after sun house Robert played a song called “ they’re red hot” which is the song he plays at the start of the video.

[@pretendwilliams3525]

i think jack white would deserve a spot as a modern blues player

[@cactusnathaniel3119]

killer playing bruv 👌

[@DefinitelyNotAlexK]

“I now present to you, Mr. BB King…. Chairman of the board of all the blues singers” - Live from Cook County jail intro 🔥

[@fredmertz1791]

SNOOZER QUINN ? One of the best guitarists in history.

[@ilikedamoon8768]

I’m pretty sure the second song was actually Marty McFly

[@marly1017]

Buddy Guy is still preforming, the blues is alive and well smh

[@christiancirone7847]

“last true blues man” enter: kingfish

[@chancemusicyt]

i need these tone settings asap

[@TonySoprano44]

Kingfish & John Mayer modern day bluesmen still standing!