Bob's Favorites Vol 3,4,5,6

Back in the 1970s when I was still living in Australia I had a bunch of good friends who shared my interest in raunchy blues & R&B music. We held frequent "Blooze & Booze" sessions when my pals dropped by and we sat around the kitchen table drinking beers, rolling up reefers, and listening to wild blues guitarists. It was at that time when I first began compiling compilations of the best tracks. Of course it was cassettes back then, and I was making up specialist collections of what we called "The Favorites". 

There were three main categories' of our favorites.

1) The wild blues guitarists: These were the best of the red hot black blues guitarists who played searing intense solos, artists like Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Pee Wee Crayton, Freddie, Albert & B.B. King, Johnny Guitar Watson, Pat Hare, Guitar Slim, Magic Sam and many others that have already been posted here in "Bob's Favorites - Red Hot, Down & Dirty Blues Guitar Tracks Vol 1 & Vol 2." 

2) Then there were the powerhouse singers, the early R&B shouters like Roy Brown, H-Bomb Ferguson, Nappy Brown, Big Joe Turner & Wynonie Harris, along with the most intense blues singers like Bobby Blue Bland, B.B. King, Elmore James, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. The best of the tracks we frequently listened to have gone into "Bob's Favorites Vol 3 & Vol 4 - The Great Blues & R&B Singers Part 1 & Part 2".

3) Although we were primarily into the black blues/R&B we did also listen to lots of the best white blues of the time, especially the great white blues guitar players: Eric Clapton, Roy Buchanan, Johnny Winter, Jimmy Page with Led Zeppelin, plus the best white blues bands such as Canned Heat, The Rolling Stones, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Charlie Musselwhite, and many others. The best of these tracks, that we were listening to around the kitchen table, have gone into two final compilations: "Bob's Favorites Vol 5 & Vol 6 - The Great Whites + Jimi Part 1 & Part 2". 

Now a note about Jimi. We unanimously agreed that Jimi Hendrix was the greatest electric guitar player of the lot. Our "Blooze & Booze" sessions generally culminated with the Live "Red House" from the Isle of Wight. There really wasn't anything that could top "Red House" cranked up to full volume, but although Jimi was a black American, stylistically he didn't quite fit in with the black bluesmen featured in Vol 1 & Vol 2 of the favorites; he was much closer to the heavy blues/rock players, which led me to naming volumes 5 & 6 "The Great Whites + Jimi".

So, presented here in six volumes are the cream of our "Favorites". Vols 1 & 2 have already been posted, and here for your listening pleasure are volumes 3,4,5,6. All I can say is to fully appreciate these favorites compilations you do need to play them loud, and if you're drinkers, then a couple of bottles of jolly lager beer or a bottle of nice chilled red wine certainly enhances the listening experience.