These are my 10 classic jazz/blues guitar desert island records:

Wes Montgomery - Boss Guitar

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

Grant Green - Feelin' the Spirit

Pat Martino - El Hombre

Charlie Christian - Swing to Bop

B.B. King - His RPM Hits 1951-57

Freddie King - Blues Guitar Hero Vol. 1

Clarence Gatemouth Brown - The Original Peacock Recordings

Jimmie Rogers - Complete Chess Recordings

T-Bone Walker - Complete Imperial Recordings

Great Choices Jason! Yes, Robert Nighthalk and Houston Stackhouse is amazing! How about that Peck Curtis on drums, pots and pans! Eddie Taylor from that same series and also Big Walter and Johhny Shines, Flod Jones too Dark Road, Now THAT's the BLUES!

If I had to name one, I think it would be Masters of the Modern Blues: Robert Nighthawk and Houston Stackhouse. If I could get away with bringing 9 more, they would be

The Complete Trix Recordings, Robert Lockwood

His Best 1947 to 1956, Muddy Waters

The Blues World of Little Walter, Little Walter

Some Groovy Fours, Tiny Grimes

Playing With Strings, Lonnie Johnson

Remastered 1935-1938, Blind Boy Fuller

The Complete Imperial Recordings, T-Bone Walker

Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones

The Very Best of Otis Redding

OK I'm going to have to say 10 desert island records. Not in any order of importance. they are all the best! 

Best of Muddy Waters 

T-Bone walker complete imperial or B&W recordings

Duke Ellington at His Very Best

The best of Count Basie on Decca

Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue

The Complete Bille Holiday on Columbia

the Complete Robert Johnson

Organ Grinders Swing Jimmy Smith

The great 28 Chuck Berry

Blues is King BB King

OK TODAY my desert island choice would be Kenny Burrell's "Midnight Blue" but tomorrow it maybe "The Best of Muddy Waters!" Ha Ha Ha! I really is an impossible question Mike, shame on you!

Geez.  That's impossible, but-either Solo Flight by Charlie Christian, or the Complete Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and the Band.  The Charlie Christian is the wellspring for all future jazz guitar, but the Basement Tapes has a timeless quality that encompasses alot of Americana.

Still, an impossible question.

Slim

1 million dollar question!!!!! At first I'd rather say....Robert Johnson "The complete recordings" or maybe...."Legend" of Bob Marley!!! :DDD

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Thanks for the tip, Duke - I just bought one off Ebay - 10 bucks delivered, NM condition....any album by the Crusaders up to and including Royal Jam would be excellent company...after Stix left, not so much...Joe Sample's solo albums "Ashes to Ashes" comes to mind would be fine...Larry Carlton's solo on "Spiral" from the Crusaders' 'Southern Knights' might be one of the best constructed solos, in my opinion, of all timeses.....

I agree, that's really an unfair question. Today I will say it would have to be Freddie King's Just Pickin'. That album is just one great Blues guitar instrumental after another!

Bill

hmmmm.....can I have my Peerless 175 copy instead????    one album....Kenny Burrell's "'Round Midnight" or "God Bless the Child"...or a double Phil Upchurch's "Darkness, Darkness"....or Gabor Szabo andBobby Womack's "High Contrast"......and some thai stick.....thanks for the indulgence and the great lessons!

That's nearly imposible and definately not a fair question. It should be 10 desert island discs. Seeing it's just one disc i think my choice would differ every day but today I'd say Duke Ellington's "At his very Best" on RCA. The Ellington band of the early 1940s had some of the best jazz players ever and definately were the best big band ever. This is some of Ellington's best music although ALL his music was beyond comparison. Yeah, I could listen to that record evryday for the rest of my life no problem. Actually, I'm not even sure if it was ever released on CD. I have two vinyl copies. That's how much I like it and if I find a third in better comdition, I'll buy that too!

Just one? Probably one of those old R&B Stripper songs albums or an album that was made of something edible. LOL

I'd smuggle a box of the following:

• the original Roomful album (which I still have)
• Duke's Swing album
• Benny Goodman w/Charlie Christian
• Barney Kessell "To Swing or Not to Swing"
• Hank Garland, Jazz Winds from a New Direction
• Kenny Burrell, The Best of...
• Luiz Bonfa, just the Samba de Orfeu would do me fine just one track
• Mighty Sparrow (well I am stuck on an island and this IS the ultimate Caribbean island music)
• Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter...(and you can leave her there with me...we'll I'm stranded so I'll imagine she's there)
• and if I'm stranded in the Pacific, Keola Beamer, or a groovy Martin Denny exotica album
• Nat King Cole trio w/Oscar Moore
• An Otis Redding Album
• and for kicks an Amy Winehouse album (and when Anita O'Day is not with me she can be there)

Steve

Hard to choose but if I was shipwrecked today it would be Savane by Ali Farka Toure.  I dig how he makes the guitar sound like another instrument, the arrangements, the vocals...everything is hitting.  Ask tomorrow and get a different answer....

Only the Lonely--  just kidding...  do double albums count?  Then Electric Ladyland--  otherwise Axis Bold as Love--  because Hendrix was/is...  well, you know--  Thanks for the lessons!  

I realize this may be a bit of an odd choice for someone that plays a lot of blues guitar .. but for me, Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life is my desert island disc.  There's such great depth and variety on the disc ... the music is deep, fun, joyful, sad, reflective ...

If you were stranded on a desert island for the rest of your life and could only bring one disc / album ... what would it be?

... and why?

thank you duke. yea, i sort of got the amp without knowing what it does. took me years to figure out how to use the amp properly. to me amp, great amp is as much important as having great techniques or guitars.

by the way, does anyone ever played epiphone zephyr blues deluxe? how big is the neck on that particular model?

I have a 1972 (silverface) Fender Pro reverb amp that I bought in New Orleans years ago that I really dig.  Probably my favorite sounding amp, when it is working that is!

Your lucky Rwijaya, it's the hardest thing to find a great amp. I had to have a 65 Deluxe Reverb modded to get the sound I needed.

I would say its my fender tweed deluxe 5e3 circuit clone amp i have. I just seems can't makes that amp sounds bad!anything i play through sounds excelent,  and its my to go amp for shows if i could mic-ed it in.

"Fine and Mellow", a 1939 release from Commodore Records with "Strange Fruit" on the flipside. . .

Wow.  Never saw this clip before .. it is GREAT.  I always loved Ben Websters playing .. and seeing all the different views and approaches each of the Artist took was really cool.