Show Me the Way Home, Honey

R.L. Burnside - Mississippi Hill Country Blues

Styles: Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues
Label: Fat Possum
Released: 1984
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 131,4 MB
Time: 57:21
Art: front + back

1. Miss Maybelle - 2:20
2. House upon the Hill - 2:46
3. Gone So Long - 3:21
4. Skinny Woman - 2:23
5. See What My Buddy Done - 3:11
6. Don't Care How Long You're Gone - 2:22
7. Lost Without Your Love - 3:15
8. Shake 'Em on Down - 2:49
9. Bad Luck and Trouble - 3:40
10. Just Like a Woman - 2:46
11. Greyhound Bus Station - 3:45
12. Crying Won't Make Me Stay - 3:00
13. Rollin' and Tumblin' - 2:45
14. Mellow Peaches - 2:57
15. I Believe - 2:25
16. Poor Boy - 3:02
17. Poor Black Mattie - 2:53
18. Jumper on the Line - 2:50
19. Long Haired Doney - 4:42

Oznake: R.L. Burnside, Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues

Robert Wilkins - Prodigal Son

Styles: Country Blues
Label: Blues International
Released: 2009
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 122,0 MB
Time: 53:16
Art: full

1. Rolling Stone Part 1 - 2:54
2. Rolling Stone Part 2 - 3:30
3. Jail House Blues - 3:33
4. I Do Blues - 3:39
5. That's No Way To Get Along (Prodigal Son) - 2:55
6. Alabama Blues - 2:39
7. Long Train Blues - 3:07
8. Falling Down Blues - 2:39
9. Nashville Stonewall Blues - 3:24
10. Police Sergeant Blues - 3:03
11. Get Away Blues - 3:33
12. I'll Go With Her Blues - 3:07
13. Dirty Deal Blues - 3:15
14. Black Rat Blues - 2:50
15. New Stock Yard Blues - 2:50
16. Old Jim Canan's - 3:00
17. Losin' Out Blues - 3:10


Notes: Robert Timothy Wilkins (January 16, 1896 – May 26, 1987) was an American country blues guitarist and vocalist, of African American and Cherokee descent.
His distinction was his versatility; he could play ragtime, blues, minstrel songs, and gospel with equal facility.
Wilkins was born in Hernando, Mississippi, 21 miles from Memphis. He worked in Memphis during the 1920s at the same time as Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie (whom he claimed to have tutored), and Son House. He also organized a jug band to capitalize on the "jug band craze" then in vogue. Though never attaining success comparable to the Memphis Jug Band, Wilkins reinforced his local popularity with a 1927 appearance on a Memphis radio station. Like Sleepy John Estes (and unlike Gus Cannon of Cannon's Jug Stompers) he recorded alone or with a single accompanist. He sometimes performed as Tom Wilkins or as Tim Oliver (his stepfather's name).
His best known songs are "That's No Way To Get Along" (to which he – an ordained minister since the 1930s – had changed the 'unholy' words to a biblical theme and since titled it "The Prodigal Son", covered under that title by The Rolling Stones), "Rolling Stone", and "Old Jim Canan's". Led Zeppelin also wrote "Poor Tom", which was believed to have been influenced by "That's No Way To Get Along".
Alarmed by fighting at a party where he was playing, he deserted secular music and he took up the twin careers of herbalist and minister in the Church of God in Christ in the 1930s, and began playing gospel music with a blues feel.
During the 1960s blues revival, the "Reverend" Robert Wilkins was "rediscovered" by blues enthusiasts Dick and Louisa Spottswood, making appearances at folk festivals and recording his gospel blues for a new audience.[3] These include the 1964 Newport Folk Festival; his performance of "Prodigal Son" there was included on the Vanguard album Blues at Newport, Volume 2.
Wikins died on May 26, 1987 in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 91.

Prodigal Son



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Oznake: Robert Wilkins, Country Blues

VA - Blues Blues Christmas Vol. 1 (1925-1955)

Size: 178,3+181,0 MB
Time: 75:20+76:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Country Blues, Gospel Blues, Piano Blues, Others
Label: Document Records
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - Christ Was Born On Christmas Morn (3:25)
02 Titus Turner - Christmas Morning Blues (2:31)
03 The Cats & The Fiddle - Hep Cat's Holiday (2:31)
04 Ralph Willis - Christmas Blues (2:36)
05 Willie Blackwell - Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus (4:55)
06 Butterbeans & Susie - Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) (3:16)
07 Jimmy Butler - Trim Your Tree (1:54)
08 Gatemouth Moore - Christmas Blues (2:54)
09 Harry Crafton With Doc Bagby Orchestra - Bring That Cadillac Back (2:38)
10 Bertha 'Chippie' Hill - Christmas Man Blues (2:57)
11 Cecil Gant - Hello Santa Claus (2:52)
12 Bumble Bee Slim - Christmas And No Santa Claus (3:04)
13 Felix Gross - Love For Christmas (2:35)
14 Lonnie Johnson - Happy New Year Darling (2:36)
15 Tampa Red - Christmas & New Year's Blues (3:22)
16 Amos Milburn - Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby (2:52)
17 Julie Lee & Her Boyfriends - Christmas Spirit (2:45)
18 Bessie Smith - At The Christmas Ball (3:23)
19 Rev. A. W. Nix - How Will You Spend Christmas (3:20)
20 Harmon Ray - Xmas Blues (2:40)
21 Jimmy Witherspoon - How I Hate To See Xmas Come Around (3:01)
22 Joe Turner With Pete Johnson & His Orchestra - Christmas Date Boogie (2:32)
23 Sugar Chile Robinson - Christmas Boogie (2:12)
24 Leadbelly - The Christmas Song (2:41)
25 Lighnin' Hopkins - Happy New Year (3:12)
26 Rev. Edward Clayborn - The Wrong Way To Celebrate Xmas (2:25)

CD 2:
01 Bo Carter - Santa Claus (3:12)
02 Black Ace - Christmas Time Blues (Beggin' Santa Claus) (2:44)
03 Mary Harris - Happy New Year Blues (3:08)
04 Charlie Jordan - Christmas Christmas Blues (3:23)
05 Johnny Otis Orchestra - Happy New Year, Baby (2:43)
06 Little Esther & Mel Walker With Johnny Otis - Faraway Christmas Blues (3:18)
07 Sonny Boy Williamson I - Christmas Morning Blues (3:22)
08 Leroy Carr - Christmas In Jail (3:10)
09 Kansas City Kitty - Christmas Mornin' Blues (3:08)
10 Rev. J.M. Gates - Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail (2:52)
11 Rev. J.M. Gates - Death Might Be Your Santa Claus (2:59)
12 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Happy New Year Blues (2:53)
13 Smokey Hogg - New Year's Eve Blues (2:40)
14 Larry Darnell - Christmas Blues (2:52)
15 Sons Of Heaven - When Was Jesus Born (2:39)
16 J.B. Summers With Doc Bagby's Orchestra - I Want A Present For Christmas (2:28)
17 Sonny Parker With Lionel Hampton Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (2:41)
18 Roy Milton Solid Serenaders - New Year's Resolution Blues (2:27)
19 Sonny Boy Williamson Ii, His Harmonica & Houserockers - Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues (2:32)
20 Roosevelt Sykes - Let Me Hang My Stockings In Your Christmas Tree (2:53)
21 Elzadie Robinson - The Santa Claus Crave (3:18)
22 Walter Davis - Santa Claus (3:00)
23 Victoria Spivey - Christmas Morning Blues (3:24)
24 Boll Weevil - Christmas Time Blues (3:09)
25 Floyd Dixon - Empty Stocking Blues (3:01)
26 Mabel Scott With Les Welch & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (2:13)

Christmas and the blues might seem at first like a strange combination, given that the music of the holiday season is usually joyful, hopeful, and bright, but no other time of the year is so good at showing you what you don't have, and what you can't get, and if you have the blues at Christmas, well, it's going to be a pretty heavy dose. This generous two-disc set from Document Records features 52 tracks of vintage African-American Christmas-themed blues and gospel pieces (with a couple of street sermons thrown in) recorded between 1925 and 1955, ranging from down-and-out laments and jailhouse moans to surprising (and occasionally risqué) requests for what Santa can bring down the chimney. Highlights on the first disc include the opening track, the joyous "Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn," recorded in 1925 by comedian and female impersonator Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon; Harry Crafton's "Bring That Cadillac Back" (a Cadillac might not be the best gift if your girlfriend likes to ramble) from 1947; Tampa Red's amazing, ringing slide guitar tone on "Christmas and New Year's Blues" from 1936; and the bizarre, disturbing field recording of "Junior's a Jap Girl's Christmas for His Santa Claus," sung by Willie Blackwell for Alan Lomax in Arkansas in 1942. Other high points include the charming "Christmas Boogie," recorded in 1950 by piano prodigy (he was only ten years old when this recording was made) Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson and the intense, bottled-up street-corner sermon "The Wrong Way to Celebrate Xmas," recorded by Rev. Edward Clayborn in 1928. The second disc yields even more holiday gems, including the bottleneck guitar attack of Black Ace (Babe Karo Lemon Turner) on 1937's "Christmas Time Blues (Beggin' Santa Claus)"; Leroy Carr's stark and brilliant "Christmas in Jail" from 1929; a breezy, bouncing "When Jesus Was Born" by gospel harmony quartet the Sons of Heaven (who were really the Selah Jubilee Singers doing a little moonlighting -- which they did often, also recording as the Jubilators, the Southern Harmonaires, and the Larks) from 1948; and the sparse, stunning "Christmas Time Blues" by the mysterious Boll Weavil (Willie McNeil), also from 1948. A marvelous collection, Blues, Blues Christmas is a refreshing addition to the more standard holiday material that prevails during the season. ~Review by Steve Leggett

Blues Blues Christmas Vol. 1 (1925-1955) CD 1
Blues Blues Christmas Vol. 1 (1925-1955) CD 2



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Oznake: Various, Country Blues, Gospel, Piano Blues

John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters

Styles: Heartland Rock, Americana, Folk-Rock, Acoustic Blues
Released: 2000
Label: Sanctuary
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 86.3 MB
Time: 37:41
Art: full

1. Lincoln Town - 4:01
2. Crossing Muddy Waters - 4:02
3. What Do We Do Now - 2:56
4. Only The Song Survives - 3:58
5. Lift Up Every Stone - 3:13
6. Take It Down - 3:58
7. Gone - 2:55
8. Take It Back - 3:02
9. Mr. Stanley - 3:31
10. God's Golden Eyes - 2:26
11. Before I Go - 3:35

Personnel:
John Hiatt - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Harmonium, Vocals
Davey Faragher - Bass, Tambourine, Foot Stomping, Vocal Harmony
David Immerglück - Mandolin, Slide Guitar, Electronic Mandolin, Guitar (12 String Acoustic)

Notes: Two and a half decades into a career that's never delivered the stardom forecast by legions of champions, John Hiatt has settled into a niche that's about as comfortable as a maturing singer-songwriter could ask for. No longer a major-label priority, Hiatt has hooked up with the stalwart folk label Vanguard for his 15th release. Crossing Muddy Waters adroitly captures Hiatt's comfort and confidence. Not so much blues as blusey, Crossing Muddy Waters features 11 new Hiatt compositions, half of which feel instantly familiar. The rambunctious "Lift Up Every Stone" sounds a little like some of Tom Waits's more accessible recent efforts, while "Take It Down" is a love-lost lament that's as heavy as a foggy evening. Crossing Muddy Waters was cut in three days and features only two accompanists--the uncommonly sympathetic Davey Faragher and David Immerglück. Just goes to show that Hiatt moves just fine when he's not dragging a lot of added weight and heavy expectations behind him. --Steven Stolder

John Hiatt's 16th effort is a marked departure from his work of the previous 25 years, and a vast improvement over 1997's disappointing Little Head. Hiatt retrenched and recorded his first drummer-less, predominantly acoustic record for Vanguard. It's a sympathetic match and a smart move, since the company has a long, rich history working in the unplugged medium before it became trendy. The result is the most natural and relaxed John Hiatt album in years, and a welcome addition to his extensive catalog. With just a duo of acoustic multi-instrumentalists, Davey Faragher and David Immergluck (both longtime associates), Hiatt pulls out some of the most earnest, down-to-earth songs of his career. He sings like a man rejuvenated, totally at ease with his surroundings, and plays with the laid-back, homespun honesty that has infused his best work. Although some comical lyrical touches remain, the majority of the album is a sober reflection on lost love ("What Do We Do Now," the title track) and the resulting psychological scars. Hiatt's voice has never sounded better; its coarse edges sometimes straining for high notes works perfectly with this craggy, unpolished music. The mandolin is the most distinctive instrument here, and its brittle, trebly, crisp tone gives the disc an underlying tension, especially on the ballads that comprise the majority of the album. Heart-rending, sincere, stripped down yet multi-faceted, John Hiatt has taken a step forward by taking a small step back. Although not quite in a class with career highlights like Bring the Family or Slow Turning, Crossing Muddy Waters is a subtle treat and an album whose watercolor brush strokes paint a vibrant picture of stirring delicacy. ~ Hal Horowitz

Crossing Muddy Waters



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Oznake: John Hiatt, Americana, folk-rock, Acoustic Blues

Sleepy John Estes - Broke And Hungry

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:23
Size: 97.0 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1964/1995
Art: Front

[4:32] 1. Broke And Hungry
[4:25] 2. Black Mattie
[2:49] 3. 300 Morning Blues
[3:54] 4. Beale Street Sugar
[3:53] 5. Everybody Oughta Change
[4:26] 6. Olie Blues
[2:37] 7. So Glad I'm Livin'
[4:47] 8. Freedom Loan
[3:56] 9. The Girl I Love
[4:14] 10. Electric Chair
[2:45] 11. Sleepy John's Twist


Nothing on this set rivals his best '60s-era recordings for the Delmark label (those can be found on The Legend of Sleepy John Estes), but this album is still worthwhile. Estes is joined by the most sympathetic accompanists he would ever know: Hammie Nixon on harmonica and Yank Rachell on mandolin and second guitar. Michael Bloomfield, then a fiery young guitarist just appearing on the Chicago scene, joins in on a few tunes, too. But not even his presence can rouse the somnolent Estes. ~ Brian Beatty

John Adam Estes (Sleepy John) known as The Tennesse Blues Poet, plays guitar & sings on 12 tracks w. The Tennesse Jug Busters, Hammie Nixon-harmonica, Yank Rachell-mandolin & gtr, & Mike Bloomfield-gtr, 1964.

Recorded at Sound Studios, Chicago, Illinois on March 3, 1964.

Sleepy John Estes (vocals, guitar); Yank Rachell (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Michael Bloomfield (guitar); Hammie Nixon (harmonica).

Broke And Hungry

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Oznake: Hammie Nixon, Michael Bloomfield, Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell, Chicago Blues

Los Super Seven - Los Super Seven

Styles: Tex-Mex, Americana, Latin Folk, Mexican Traditions
Released: 1998
Label: RCA
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 95.2 MB
Time: 41:35
Art: front

1. El Canoero (ft Cesar Rosas And Ruben Ramos) - 3:20
2. Piensa En Mí (ft Freddie Fender) - 3:54
3. Mi Ranchito (ft Rick Trevino) - 3:51
4. Un Beso Al Viento (ft Cesar Rosas) - 2:31
5. La Sirena (ft David Hidalgo) - 2:53
6. Un Lunes Por La Mańana (ft Freddy Fender) - 3:18
7. Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)(ft Joe Ely) - 3:38
8. La Morena (ft Ruben Ramos) - 2:56
9. Margarita (ft Flaco Jimenez And Cesar Rosas) - 3:26
10. La Madrugada (ft Ruben Ramos) - 2:40
11. El Ausente (ft Rick Trevino With Campanas De America) - 3:39
12. Río De Tenampa (ft David Hidalgo, Rick Trevino And Doug Sahm) - 4:22
13. Las Norteńitas (ft Flaco Jimenez) - 1:00


Personnel:
David Hidalgo (vocals, guitar, drums, bass, percussion, requinto, hidalguera)
Rick Trevino, Joe Ely (vocals, guitar)
Flaco Jimenez (vocals, accordion)
Cesar Rosas (vocals, six-string bass, guitar, guitarron, jarana)
Freddy Fender (vocals, acoustic bass)
Ruben Ramos (vocals)
and
Joel Guzman (vocals, percussion, accordion, piano, organ, background vocals); Doug Sahm (vocals); Campanas De America (violin, trumpet, jarana, guitarron, background vocals); Megan Levin (harp); Ricardo Ramirez (acoustic bass); Max Baca (four & six string basses, drums, background vocals); Gilbert Isais (electric bass); Sarah Fox (background vocals)

Notes: This southwestern super session brings together Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Chicano country stars Freddy Fender and Rick Trevińo, Texas rocker Joe Ely, norteńo accordion wizard Flaco Jimenez, and Tejano bandleader Ruben Ramos to pay homage to the Texan-Mexican tradition. The music is acoustic and generally string-driven, with guitars and violins recalling early mariachi and dancing accordion lines. There are some great party tunes, but ballads are the rule, and Trevińo and Fender both show superb grace in their vocals. Ely turns in a heartfelt version of Woody Guthrie's "Deportee," but almost all the songs are in Spanish (with translations in the booklet). Each features only one or two of the headlining singers and there is none of the crowded feel of some all-star efforts, just a relaxed and swinging exploration of the classic Tejano sound. ~ Elijah Wald

Los Super Seven



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Oznake: Los Super Seven, Americana, Mexican Traditions

Guy Davis - On Air

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 66:51
Size: 153.0 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:05] 1. Drop Down Mama
[3:48] 2. When You´ve Got A Good Friend
[3:44] 3. Waitin´on The Cards To Fall
[4:35] 4. Train Story
[6:02] 5. Drifting Blues
[3:46] 6. Godd Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down
[6:24] 7. Sweetheart Like You
[4:34] 8. Back Door Man
[3:58] 9. Dust My Broom
[7:17] 10. Loneliest Road Tha I Know
[4:27] 11. Limetown
[2:30] 12. Step It Up And Go
[3:58] 13. Saturday Blues
[8:37] 14. Joppatown


New York City-based blues singer/guitarist Guy Davis (the son of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee) played a sizzling show at Radio Bremen Concert Hall, which was broadcast on Radio Bremen and recorded for this 2007 live album. The singer growls and croons with the best of them, on blues standards and originals. Bluesman Guy Davis & The High Flying' Rockets (Nerak Roth Patterson, electric guitar; Mark Murphy, bass) in a spirited and inspired performance from July 2003. Recorded on a hot summer-night at Radio Bremen concert hall, this is New Acoustic Blues at its best.

Guy Davis (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Nerak Roth Patterson (electric guitar); Mark Murphy (background vocals).

Recording information: Radio Bremen, Bremen, Germany (07/22/2003).

On Air

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Champion Jack Dupree - Champion Of The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 36:21
Size: 83.2 MB
Styles: Piano blues, New Orleans blues
Year: 1961/2005
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. I Had A Dream
[3:23] 2. Roll Me Over Roll Me Slow
[3:39] 3. Reminiscin' With Champion Jack
[2:51] 4. That's All Right
[2:56] 5. Daybreak Stomp
[3:03] 6. House Rent Party
[2:45] 7. Snaps Drinking Woman
[3:29] 8. One Sweet Letter From You
[3:02] 9. New Vicksburg Blues
[2:39] 10. When Things Go Wrong
[2:33] 11. Johnson Street Boogie Woogie
[3:06] 12. Misery Blues


A formidable contender in the ring before he shifted his focus to pounding the piano instead, Champion Jack Dupree often injected his lyrics with a rowdy sense of down-home humor. But there was nothing lighthearted about his rock-solid way with a boogie; when he shouted "Shake Baby Shake," the entire room had no choice but to acquiesce.

Dupree was notoriously vague about his beginnings, claiming in some interviews that his parents died in a fire set by the Ku Klux Klan, at other times saying that the blaze was accidental. Whatever the circumstances of the tragic conflagration, Dupree grew up in New Orleans' Colored Waifs' Home for Boys (Louis Armstrong also spent his formative years there). Learning his trade from barrelhouse 88s ace Willie "Drive 'em Down" Hall, Dupree left the Crescent City in 1930 for Chicago and then Detroit. By 1935, he was boxing professionally in Indianapolis, battling in an estimated 107 bouts.

In 1940, Dupree made his recording debut for Chicago A&R man extraordinaire Lester Melrose and OKeh Records. Dupree's 1940-1941 output for the Columbia subsidiary exhibited a strong New Orleans tinge despite the Chicago surroundings; his driving "Junker's Blues" was later cleaned up as Fats Domino's 1949 debut, "The Fat Man." After a stretch in the Navy during World War II (he was a Japanese P.O.W. for two years), Dupree decided tickling the 88s beat pugilism any old day. He spent most of his time in New York and quickly became a prolific recording artist, cutting for Continental, Joe Davis, Alert, Apollo, and Red Robin (where he cut a blasting "Shim Sham Shimmy" in 1953), often in the company of Brownie McGhee. Contracts meant little; Dupree masqueraded as Brother Blues on Abbey, Lightnin' Jr. on Empire, and the truly imaginative Meat Head Johnson for Gotham and Apex.

King Records corralled Dupree in 1953 and held onto him through 1955 (the year he enjoyed his only R&B chart hit, the relaxed "Walking the Blues.") Dupree's King output rates with his very best; the romping "Mail Order Woman," "Let the Doorbell Ring," and "Big Leg Emma's" contrasting with the rural "Me and My Mule" (Dupree's vocal on the latter emphasizing a harelip speech impediment for politically incorrect pseudo-comic effect).

After a year on RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries, Dupree made a masterpiece LP for Atlantic. 1958's Blues From the Gutter is a magnificent testament to Dupree's barrelhouse background, boasting marvelous readings of "Stack-O-Lee," "Junker's Blues," and "Frankie & Johnny" beside the risqué "Nasty Boogie." Dupree was one of the first bluesmen to leave his native country for a less racially polarized European existence in 1959. He lived in a variety of countries overseas, continuing to record prolifically for Storyville, British Decca (with John Mayall and Eric Clapton lending a hand at a 1966 date), and many other firms.

Perhaps sensing his own mortality, Dupree returned to New Orleans in 1990 for his first visit in 36 years. While there, he played the Jazz & Heritage Festival and laid down a zesty album for Bullseye Blues, Back Home in New Orleans. Two more albums of new material were captured by the company the next year prior to the pianist's death in January of 1992. Jack Dupree was a champ to the very end. ~bio by Bill Dahl

"The percussive sounds heard on several of the tracks are made by stomping of Champion Jack's feet."

Recorded at: Storyville Records in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Champion Of The Blues

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Memphis Jug Band with Cannon's Jug Stompers (4 Disc Box set)

Styles: Jug Band, Pre-War Country Blues, Acoustic Memphis Blues
Recorded: 1927-1930
Released: 2005
Label: JSP
Art: full


Among the recorded members were (at various times) Will Shade (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Charlie Burse (pronounced Bursey) (guitar, mandolin, and vocals), Charlie Nickerson (piano and vocals), Charlie Pierce (violin), Charlie Polk (jug), Tewee Blackman (vocals, guitar), “Hambone” Lewis (jug), Jab Jones (jug), Johnny Hodges/Hardge (piano), Ben Ramey (vocals and kazoo), Casey Bill Weldon (guitar and vocals), Memphis Minnie (guitar and vocals), Vol Stevens (vocals, violin, and mandolin), Milton Robie (violin), Otto Gilmore/Gilmer (drums and woodblocks), and Robert Burse (drums). Vocals were also provided by Hattie Hart, Memphis Minnie, Jennie Mae Clayton (Shade’s wife), and Minnie Wallace, with Charlie Burse often contributing beautiful harmony parts to Shade’s lead vocal lines. In the case of Memphis Minnie, the Memphis Blues Band accompanied her on two sides for Victor Records, recorded in 1930 when the band's career was "winding down".
The attributed names of the group led by Will Shade on various recording labels vary quite a bit, but recent scholarly consensus has led writers to compile all of these works under the over-arching rubric of the Memphis Jug Band. In addition to that name, alternative names found on record labels include the Picaninny Jug Band, Memphis Sanctified Singers, the Carolina Peanut Boys, the Dallas Jug Band, the Memphis Sheiks, the Jolly Jug Band and recordings credited to the individual performers Hattie Hart, Minnie Wallace, Casey Bill Weldon, Charlie Nickerson, Vol Stevens, Charlie Burse, “Poor Jab” Jones, and Will Shade, but actually performed with accompaniment by other Memphis Jug Band members.
The Memphis Jug Band played wherever they could find engagements, and busked in local parks. They were popular among white as well as black audiences. Musically they were flexible, playing a mixture of ballads, dance tunes, knock-about novelty numbers, and blues. Some of their songs mention hoodoo magical beliefs, and some members also contributed to gospel recordings, either uncredited or as part of the Memphis Sanctified Singers. In total, they made more than eighty recordings, first for Victor Records, then—as the Picaninny Jug Band—for the Champion-Gennett label, and finally for OKeh Records. The Victor recordings were made in Memphis and Atlanta, Georgia between 1927 and 1930, the Champion-Gennetts in Richmond, Indiana in August 1932, while the final sessions on Okeh were held in Chicago in November 1934. By that time, their style of music was no longer in demand, and Will Shade was no longer able to keep the musicians assembled as a group, although many of the individuals carried on working around Memphis until the 1940s.
In 1963 Will Shade recorded one last time with another Memphian, 79-year-old Gus Cannon, former leader of Cannon’s Jug Stompers, another popular jug band. They recorded the album Walk Right In, on Stax Records, a result of The Rooftop Singers having made Cannon's "Walk Right In" into a number one single. Will Shade on jug and Milton Roby on washboard perform a series of thirteen traditional songs, plus Cannon's great hit "Walk Right In," including "Narration," "Kill It," "Salty Dog," "Going Around," "The Mountain," "Ol' Hen", "Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight," "Ain't Gonna Rain No More," "Boll-Weevil," "Come On Down To My House," "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor," "Get Up In The Morning Soon," and "Crawdad Hole." The album is almost an audio documentary tour through different corners of Cannon's life and career that, ideally, might've run to several volumes.

Booklet

Oznake: Cannon's Jug Stompers, Country Blues, Jug Band, Memphis Blues, Memphis Jug Band, Prewar Blues

Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman Blues

Styles: Folk-Blues
Released: 2001
Label: Stony Plain
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 102.2 MB
Time: 46:32
Art: front + back

1. Richland Woman Blues - 4:32
2. Grasshoppers In My Pillow - 3:24
3. It's A Blessing - 3:48
4. Me And My Chauffeur Blues - 3:15
5. Put It Right Here - 3:19
6. I'm Goin' Back Home - 2:58
7. My Man Blues - 4:05
8. In My Girlish Days - 2:19
9. Far Away Blues - 2:57
10. I Got To Move - 4:52
11. Lonesome Desert Blues - 3:04
12. Soul Of A Man - 2:51
13. I Belong To That Band - 4:18
14. It's A Blessing (Reprise) - 0:45


Personnel:
Maria Muldaur - vocals
and
Amos Garrett - 12-string guitar (2)
Angela Strehli - vocals (6,7)
David Wilkie - mandocello (2)
Ernie Hawkins - guitar (13)
Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart - vocals, guitar (10)
Taj Mahal - vocals, guitar (12)
Bonnie Raitt - vocals, slide guitar (3)
Roy Rogers - guitar, slide guitar (4,8)
John Sebastian - guitar (1)
Dave Matthews - piano (5,7,11)
Tracy Nelson - vocals (9)

Notes: Richland Woman Blues was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.
Best known for that ditty about camels, Maria Muldaur has since established herself as one of the finest folk/country/jazz/blues/gospel interpreters ever to have a Top Five single. After 26 years and 24 solo albums, Muldaur -- inspired by a trip to Memphis' Beale Street -- digs deep into her roots and pays tribute to the classic blues women of the '20s and '30s. Aided by the similarly inclined Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and Alvin "Youngblood" Hart, Muldaur breezes through 14 tunes from icons Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie, as well as obscurities from the Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, and Blind Willie Johnson. Keeping the unplugged accompaniment stripped way down to a single guitar or piano and occasional bass, Muldaur has room to maneuver her evocative vocals that shift from gritty groans to a high-pitched edgy trill. Far from a dry history lesson, these songs are performed with the strength and tenacity of the women who originally sang them. Whether spinning saucy, double entendre lyrics in "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" ("the way you ride so easy, I can't turn you down") or longing for her Southern home after moving north during the Depression in Bessie Smith's "Far Away Blues," the singer remains invigorated and inspired throughout. By returning to her late-'60s Jim Kweskin Jug Band coffeehouse days, Maria Muldaur has discovered her middle-aged oasis with Richland Woman Blues. And there's not a camel in sight. ~ Hal Horowitz

Richland Woman Blues



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Gordon Smith - Out Of The Bottleneck

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Mastermix
Released: 1999
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 111,2 MB
Time: 48:33
Art: front

1. blues in a bottle - 2:48
2. kind hearted woman - 3:37
3. write me a few short lines - 6:10
4. hey hey daddy - 2:50
5. goodnight Irene - 3:26
6. going down slow - 5:21
7. furry's warm up blues - 2:30
8. lone wolf blues - 3:34
9. keep your lamp trimmed & burning - 2:57
10. police dog blues - 3:26
11. things about coming my way - 2:19
12. honey babe - 2:08
13. blues for wes end - 4:05
14. in the evening - 3:15

Oznake: Gordon Smith, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, England

Harlem Slim - Delta Blues & Piedmont Ragtime

Styles: Delta Blues, Piedmont Blues, Rag
Label: Independent
Released: 1999
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 104,8 MB
Time: 45:46
Art: full

1. Delta Thug Shakedown - 3:33
2. Cross Road Blues - 4:41
3. Harlem Rag - 2:03
4. Poor Boy - 3:04
5. Walkin Blues - 3:58
6. St. Louis Blues - 1:42
7. Milk Cow Troubles - 2:56
8. Me & The Devil Blues - 4:41
9. Amazing Grace - 1:50
10. Dyin Crapshooters Blues - 3:56
11. When You Got A Good Friend - 4:27
12. Bicycle Built For Two - 2:26
13. Pal O' Mine - 3:59
14. Trailer Park Rag - 2:25

Oznake: Harlem Slim, Delta Blues, Piedmont Blues, Rag

John Dee Holeman - John Dee Holeman & The Waifs Band

Styles: Piedmont Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Texas Blues
Label: Music Maker
Released: 2007
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 118,3 MB
Time: 51:41
Art: full

1. John Henry - 2:31
2. Country Gal - 7:22
3. Mojo Hand - 3:05
4. Give Me Back My Wig - 5:36
5. I'm A Pilgrim - 2:28
6. Comin' Home To You - 7:39
7. Dust My Broom - 4:29
8. Little Queenie - 4:24
9. I Miss You Huggin' - 6:03
10. Looking Yonder Comin' - 3:21
11. Baby Please Don't Go - 4:38


Personnel:
John Dee Holeman - Guitar, Vocals
Josh Cunningham - Guitar
Ben Franz - Bass, Guitar (Bass)
Dave MacDonald - Drums
Donna Simpson - Drums (10)
Vikki Thorn - Harp, Vocals

Notes: "All you have to do is start listening to the music the Waifs and John Dee recorded and you’ll see how special a player and singer Mr. Holeman is." -Richard Marcus, Blogcritics

"The Waifs had converged at Music Maker studios in North Carolina for a week’s rehearsal before our US tour started. Toward the end of the week Tim Duffy suggested he invite some of the Foundations artists over to make some music. John Dee Holeman turned up. He's a real gentleman, very gracious & after a quick round of introductions he picked up an old guitar and started to play like ...well like he'd been doing it all his life.
We were in awe. There are rare occasions when one sits in the presence of living legend and experiences one of the last true forms of authentic music. Tentatively we joined in. I remember being nervous about playing harmonica. I was trying to play Sonny Terry licks, to be bluesy, to feel it. You can hear that...me trying.
That’s the thing you see. All week we had been going over songs, arrangements. Arguing over this and that. Trying to create our final version. When John Dee picked up that guitar and started playing it was the most natural thing in the world. Not something you thought about, or planned, or crafted. Just something you felt, as natural and easy as taking a walk.
So here it is. That afternoon at Music Maker studios when John Dee Holeman took a walk with his guitar and the Waifs tagged along, sometimes in step, sometimes a step behind. But the closest step we'd ever taken toward the blues.
We wish to thank John Dee Holeman for the music and Tim & Denise Duffy for putting us up & bringing it together." -Vikki Thorn
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John Dee Holeman & The Waifs Band



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Mountain Men - Hope

Styles: Contemporary Blues, Harmonica Blues
Released: 2012
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 142,4 MB
Time: 62:02
Art: front

1. Egoistical - 4:06
2. Tick Tock - 4:21
3. Imidiouane - 4:00
4. Give It Back To Me - 5:12
5. Sefore I Sleep - 3:53
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit - 3:41
7. Kiss Me - 6:18
8. I Believe In Me - 6:25
9. I Hope - 4:37
10. Nothing Zero None - 5:35
11. Travailler C'est Trop Dur - 5:34
12. Move Up To The Door - 8:13


Notes: 'Hope’ is the second-album by Mountain Men. A duo featuring one man on guitar and vocals, and another member playing the harmonica, I’d argue that Mountain Men are one of the most underrated acts in the world today. Their country music has such an original slant on it, drawing on all the formalities of country music, but expressed in their own style. What makes Mountain Men’s music so great to listen to is the complete chemistry between its two and only members. Whilst the foreground of the music is occupied by the vocals, it is the instrumentation in the background that makes their music so impressive.
The harmonica playing on each song is at an insanely talented level. It acts like a voice of its own, and accompanies the acoustic riffs perfectly helping to add a dense layer to each and every song. This was present on the first album ‘Spring Time Coming’, and there was a wonderful mixture of upbeat songs and more slower songs. It was a highly impressive début album, that seemingly went unnoticed in the musical world.
With ‘Hope’, we see Mountain Men continuing to do what they do best. Their music is still twinged with the dense layers of harmonica, which helps to add so much more emotion to the music. The album feels as though it is split into two parts, with the first half containing more darker and slightly more aggressive songs, and the second half featuring much lighter and delicate songs. There’s a few surprises on this album, including a rather unconventional cover of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. It is an interesting version, and it is interesting to hear the band putting their unique slant on the song, using their own style to present it in a much different way.
Musically, this album is wonderful. The delicate songs feature beautiful acoustic riffs, accompanied by incredibly impressive harmonica playing. The vocals are as strong as they’ve always been, and in these delicate songs the lyrics are crooned compassionately and emotionally, giving the songs depth and emotion. The harmonica adds to this depth, as like I said, it feels like its own voice in the song, singing its own parts. The harmonica in Mountain Men’s music has always been highly impressive, and it hasn’t faltered for a second on this album.
‘Hope’ is a very impressive second album. From a band who remains relatively unknown, their music is still of such a high quality, with lots of effort being put into the writing, recording and presentation of each song. The band uses their strengths very well on this album, and you can see it in the songs that are the highlights on the album. As it is, I feel that the inclusion of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ is an unnecessary one, as whilst it has merit of its own, I feel that it personally draws the listener out of the album due to awareness of the song itself. When the album plays its songs by Mountain Men, it draws you in and you can get lost in the dense layers of harmonica and guitar. I felt that as soon as I heard and recognised Nirvana’s lyrics on the album, that I was drawn out of this immersion quite suddenly. The awareness of the song was too much, and it is a shame because the music Mountain Men write are good enough in their own merit. That being said though the cover is good, don’t get me wrong. In conclusion, I feel that ‘Hope’ is a worthy second album, being every bit as good as ‘Spring Time Coming’. It is a shame with a band so unknown that not enough people know of them, as Mountain Men are a band worthy of recognition. ~ Cd Critic
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Hope



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Cora Fluker - Look How The World Has Made A Change

Size: 108,3 MB
Time: 46:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Country Blues, Gospel Blues
Label: Ndh Music
Art: Front

01. Move, Daniel ( 1:50)
02. Look How The World Has Made A Change ( 7:46)
03. Shotgun Boogie ( 5:18)
04. Out In The Woods ( 4:37)
05. Dry Bones In The Valley ( 3:05)
06. Come On Jesus ( 4:44)
07. Pray For Me ( 2:28)
08. Talkin' 'bout Jesus (With Ola Mae Bell) (10:45)
09. Yonder Comes Jesus ( 3:10)
10. The World, She's Windin' Up (With Ola Mae Bell) ( 2:51)

Cora Fluker was born in Livingston, Alabama, around 1920. When Denise and I visited her in 1997 it was a deeply moving experience. She told us of a childhood growing up sharecropping with her family. The conditions were so hard that she tried to run away at the age of nine only to be caught by the white landowner and beaten nearly to death. She showed us the scars on her back and seemed deeply haunted by this awful memory. She then broke out a testimony about her life and what led her to her praying ground under a pecan tree where she had a vision of Jesus and since devoted her life to preaching. When she sang and preached her voice had the power of a saxophone. The last time I visited Cora, who has since passed, she was in ill health and unable to sing. She told me of how all music came from the air and if I lived right we would meet again in heaven.

Look How The World Has Made A Change



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Oznake: Cora Fluker, Ola Mae Bell, Country Blues, Gospel

Sonny Boy Williamson - The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson II (2-disc set)

Rice Miller, "Sonny Boy II", began his association with Chess Records in 1955, when he was already at least 45 years old. His exuberant yet dynamic and intricate playing brought the harmonica from the Delta to Chicago, influencing every harp blower since. He developed his rough and wild, hard-swinging, juke-joint style during extensive travels throughout the South. These 45 potent Chess recordings are more refined and urbanized than his earlier Trumpet work, but still capture the excitement of those early sides. Included are remakes of Trumpet classics such as "Eyesight to the Blind" (re-titled "Born Blind") as well as classic gems including "One Way Out" and "Bring It On Home." --Marc Greilsamer

Album: The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson II (Disc 1)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:55
Size: 150.9 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Harmonica blues
Year: 2013

[2:33] 1. Good Evening Everybody
[2:35] 2. Don't Start Me Talking (Single Version)
[2:50] 3. All My Love In Vain
[3:30] 4. You Killing Me
[2:55] 5. Let Me Explain
[3:00] 6. Your Imagination
[3:04] 7. Don't Lose Your Eye
[2:50] 8. Keep It To Yourself (Single Version)
[2:33] 9. The Key (To Your Door) (Alternate)
[2:55] 10. Have You Ever Been In Love
[2:22] 11. Fattening Frogs For Snakes (Single Version)
[2:27] 12. I Don't Know
[2:53] 13. Like Wolf
[3:23] 14. Cross My Heart
[2:39] 15. Ninety Nine
[2:34] 16. Born Blind
[4:06] 17. Little Village (With False Start And Dialog)
[3:00] 18. Unseen Eye
[2:32] 19. Your Funeral And My Trial (Single Version)
[2:50] 20. Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pocket
[3:07] 21. Unseeing Eye
[2:19] 22. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
[2:46] 23. The Goat (Mono Instrumental Version)

The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson II (Disc 1)

Oznake: Sonny Boy Williamson, Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues

Jessie Mae Hemphill, Hezekiah & The House Rockers - Mississippi Blues Festival

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:06
Size: 107.8 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Eagle Bird
[6:02] 2. My Daddys Blues
[4:24] 3. I'm So Glad You Dont Know Whats On My Mind (Take(1)
[3:04] 4. Go Back To Your Used To Be
[4:20] 5. Streamline Train
[4:20] 6. I'm So Glad You Dont Know Whats On My Mind (Take 2)
[5:09] 7. My Daddys Blues 2
[3:49] 8. Roll Me Baby
[3:04] 9. She Used To Be Your Woman
[3:05] 10. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
[3:03] 11. Saint Louis Blues
[2:32] 12. Dont Mess With My Toot Toot


A live set recorded March 19, 1986 in Paris, France, Mississippi Blues Festival includes seven tracks by North Mississippi folk-blues artist Jessie Mae Hemphill followed by five tracks by Hezekiah & the House Rockers.

Hemphill plays her trademark ragged, modal North Mississippi juke joint guitar style, and is joined by folklorist Dave Evans on guitar and Hezekiah Early on drums on three cuts, including a wonderfully ramshackle and fiery version of "Streamline Train," Hemphill's interpretation of Junior Parker's "Mystery Train." Early leads his band through five fairly blues rockers to close the disc, but the band's unusual instrumentation keeps things interesting, since one seldom hears a trombone (played by Pee Wee Whittaker) featured so prominently in a juke setting. Truthfully, the trombone takes some getting used to, but Early is a capable singer (Whittaker also shares the singing chores) and a wonderfully loose-as-a-goose drummer, so the set works in spite of some pitch problems. Hardly essential, Mississippi Blues Festival will be best appreciated by serious fans of the North Mississippi blues style looking to round out their collections. ~Steve Leggett

Mississippi Blues Festival

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Mr. Matthew James - Worried Blue

Size: 96,7 MB
Time: 41:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues, Folk Blues
Label: Get Bent Records
Art: Front

01. The Definite Blues (3:00)
02. 2012 Sidestreet Blues (2:49)
03. Grow Cold (4:39)
04. I Wish I Was In Heaven (2:56)
05. Knocking At My Door (3:18)
06. Solid Ground (4:42)
07. God Moves On The Water (3:20)
08. The Prodigal Son (3:58)
09. Pyramid Blues (3:35)
10. Delia (5:00)
11. Water Runs Dry (4:10)

Members: Matthew Sullivan, Sean Simpson on harmonicas, washboards, various percussions. Luke Molica on the bass drum and sticks from time to time.

Equipped with resonaters, finger picks, stomp boxes and harmonicas, one may expect a night of dancin', good ol dancin.

Mr. Matthew James resides one hour East of Toronto, Ontario. HHe’s influenced by a wide range of genres, specifically early folk-blues including artists like Charlie Parr, Fred McDowell, and Blind Willie McTell. With a style that forces ones foot to stomp, his music is easy to listen to. Fast pickin' rolls like one would see on a banjo, played on a steel guitar. Mr. Matthew James gains inspiration from everything around him, writing folks tales of loss, tragedy and happiness.

Worried Blue



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Oznake: Mr. Matthew James, Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues, Folk-Blues, Canada

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Lion's In The Den

Styles: Blues-Gospel, Country Blues, Acoustic Blues
Released: 1994
Label: Time & Strike Music
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 122,1 MB
Time: 53:20
Art: full

1. Quabbin - 4:24
2. Slavery Chain - 2:36
3. Where Would I Be - 3:57
4. Lion's In The Den - 2:59
5. Whole Night Through - 3:02
6. Letter of the Law - 2:40
7. I Belong To The Band - 2:25
8. Last Farthing - 2:32
9. Sing It - 4:53
10. Connecticut River Valley Blues - 2:31
11. Statesboro Blues - 2:57
12. Blue Plate Special - 2:55
13. Drink Deep - 4:25
14. Weakness Of The Flesh - 2:54
15. Swing The Choir - 1:55
16. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed & Burnin' - 2:57
17. Colonel Mustard - 3:08

Notes: If, after his 1993 CD debut, there were any questions about who Michael Hakanson-Stacy is and what he stands for, they are answered in no uncertain terms upon listening to his follow-up album, Lion's in the Den. He is an incredibly adept acoustic guitarist with a preference for the resonator and bottleneck types. He takes his songwriting and playing cues from the old-timey blues, folk and gospel giants like Muddy Waters, Blind Willie Johnson and Rev. Gary Davis, as well as contemporaries like John Fahey and Peter Case. Despite the wealth of material those artists have given us, Hakanson-Stacy prefers to write his own material. Like Bottle on my Finger. . .Blues to my Toes the lion's share of songs on this album are originals with nods to those other artists. And of his own compositions Hakanson-Stacy seems particularly gifted at the gentler, more tuneful folk pieces like "Where Would I Be?" a confessional love song, and "Letter of the Law," a piece rejecting legalism -- an original which sounds like The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan-era Dylan.

Lion's In The Den



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Steve James & Del Rey - Tonight

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Finger-Picked Guitar, Country Blues
Released: 2004
Label: Hobemian Records
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 98.8 MB
Time: 43:31
Art: full

1. Nadine - 3:27
2. Baltimore - 2:56
3. Precious Five - 3:52
4. Tappin' That Thing - 2:24
5. Truck Driver's Roll - 2:56
6. Changette - 2:25
7. I Love My Guitar - 2:45
8. Alta Vista Serenade - 2:24
9. As Long As I Can See You Smile - 2:38
10. I'm Sailing - 3:06
11. Black Stick - 2:42
12. Josie Bush - 2:46
13. The Real Guitar Rag - 5:25
14. Little Baby - 3:36


Notes: Steve James, songsmith and bottleneck guitarist from Austin Texas, is "a true Americana hero...his intensity and focus always reminds me of James Coburn's character in the Magnificent Seven"(Third Coast Magazine).
Del Rey, from Seattle Washington, is a complex, pianistic guitarist, described as "a combination of Bo Carter and the Andrews Sisters"(Observant Fan).
These two powerful exponents of American vernacular guitar-playing, have joined forces to make music testament to the hillbilly/smarty-pants/country blues aesthetic. Sharing a sense of humor and a similar manic intensity, their duets are smart, funny and full of instrumental virtuosity. Del Rey doubles on resonator ukulele and Steve James is known for his "noble savage" mandolin style.
Longtime colleagues and collaborators at festivals and workshops worldwide, they met in 1992 in Santa Cruz,. Their friendship developed over many years in different places around the world, as they exchanged stories and hot tips in various hotel bars. They kept running into one another, sharing double-bills in Belgium, at the Gloucester Blues Festival in England, until 2001, at the Port Townsend Country Blues Workshop they got serious about playing and recording together. Audiences and critics have responded so favorably that they've been spending the majority of their time on the road playing as a duet.
With nine solo albums between them, they have recorded a two cds together, "Tonight" (2004) and "Twins" (2002).They have enjoyed critical acclaim for their work with singer Maria Muldaur as well. They channel Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe (plus Joe's mandolin playing brother, Charlie McCoy) on her 2005 release "Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul". Recent shows include King Biscuit Blues Festival. Merlefest, Waterfront Blues Festival and A Prairie Home Companion.

Tonight



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Oznake: Steve James, Del Rey, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues

Adam Gussow - Kick & Stomp

Size: 146,5 MB
Time: 63:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010/2013
Styles: Modern Blues Harmonica
Label: Right Recordings
Art: Front

01. Kick And Stomp (3:43)
02. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (2:54)
03. Sunshine Of Your Love (6:36)
04. Every Day I Have The Blues (4:53)
05. Poor Boy (4:08)
06. Shaun's Song (4:43)
07. Goin' Down South (4:42)
08. Buford Chapel Breakdown (3:40)
09. Crossroads Blues (5:45)
10. Mr Cantrell (5:56)
11. Down Ain't Out (5:58)
12. My Baby's So Sweet (4:11)
13. Sugar (3:50)
14. The Entertainer (2:23)

A celebrated harmonica teacher as well as player, New York native Adam Gussow has been “kicking and stomping” in Oxford, Mississippi for more than a decade now. He is best known for his long partnership with guitarist/one-man-band Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, a Mississippi native with whom Gussow teamed up in 1986. The unlikely pair worked the streets of Harlem for five years before renaming themselves “Satan and Adam,” releasing their W. C. Handy Award nominated debut CD, Harlem Blues, and becoming a national touring act, working the club and festival circuit throughout the 1990s.

In recent years, Gussow has reinvented himself as a harmonica-powered one-man band, releasing a pair of solo CDs, Kick and Stomp (2010) and Southbound (2011). “Think James Cotton's warbling excitement and R.L. Burnside's grifter stomp, tied up with Lightnin' Hopkins' dustbowl charm,” wrote a reviewer for Living Blues, “and you've got the Adam Gussow sound.”

Kick & Stomp



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Oznake: Adam Gussow, Harmonica Blues

Jazz Gillum - Key To The Highway 1935 - 1942

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 73:07
Size: 167.4 MB
Styles: Acoustic Chicago blues
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[3:02] 1. Crazy About You
[3:08] 2. Sarah Jane
[2:24] 3. Don't You Scandalize My Name
[3:23] 4. My Old Lizzie
[3:02] 5. Reefer Head Woman
[2:28] 6. Gillum's Windy Blues
[2:54] 7. Sweet Sweet Woman
[2:52] 8. Boar Hog Blues
[3:22] 9. Worried And Bothered
[2:57] 10. Let Her Go
[2:43] 11. Stavin' Chain
[2:37] 12. She Won't Treat Me Kind
[3:07] 13. Against My Will
[3:04] 14. Got To Reap What You So
[2:32] 15. It Shure Had A Kick
[2:43] 16. Key To The Highway
[3:04] 17. Muddy Pond Blues
[3:10] 18. Riley Springs Blues
[2:49] 19. It Looks Bad For You
[3:00] 20. I Go Somebody Else
[2:52] 21. You Are Doing Me Wrong
[3:14] 22. Down South Blues
[2:38] 23. From Now On
[2:58] 24. I Couldn't Help It
[2:54] 25. I'm Gonna Leave You On The Out


One of the pre-eminent Chicago harpists of the pre-war era, Bill "Jazz" Gillum was born September 11, 1904 in Indianola, Mississippi. He picked up the harmonica at the age of six, and five years later ran away from home to live with relatives in nearby Charleston; after spending his formative years playing street corners and house parties for spare change, Gillum moved to Chicago in 1923, and before long he hooked up with guitarist Big Bill Broonzy, often playing together as a duo in area clubs. Following a few sideman dates for ARC, he signed with RCA Victor's Bluebird imprint in 1934 to record as a solo artist; his strong relationship with producer Lester Melrose also resulted in a steady stream of session work, and he was a fixture of the "Bluebird Beat" house band. Gillum was drafted into the Army in 1942, and when he returned from duty, his high, reedy harmonica sound had been largely eclipsed by the harder-edged style of John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson; he recorded a few more sides for Bluebird, but drifted into obscurity by the 1950s, dying after a gunshot wound to the head on March 29, 1966. ~bio by Jason Ankeny

Key To The Highway 1935 - 1942

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Barbara Dane - Anthology Of American Folk Songs

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:58
Size: 110.8 MB
Styles: Folk
Year: 1959/2006
Art: Front

[3:42] 1. When I Was A Young Girl
[2:09] 2. Little Maggie
[2:21] 3. Nine Hundred Miles
[4:44] 4. Turkey Reveille
[3:44] 5. Who's Gonna' Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
[2:56] 6. Ramblin'
[4:06] 7. Girl Of Constant Sorrow
[2:18] 8. Gypsy Davy
[2:13] 9. Single Girl
[2:35] 10. I Know Where I'm Going
[3:05] 11. The Danville Girl
[2:23] 12. Stung Right
[4:21] 13. Greensleeves
[3:17] 14. La Lee Too Dum
[3:57] 15. Don't Sing Love Songs


Barbara Dane presented 15 traditional songs on this acoustic outing, accompanied by her guitar and by Tom Paley of the New Lost City Ramblers on guitar and banjo. Dane sings in a low, rich voice on this stark but effective collection, and it's easy to hear how she might have been an influence on, or at least an ancestor of, 1960s bluesy white folk and folk-rock singers such as Judy Henske and Tracy Nelson. Although some of the songs had been and would go around the block many times -- "Nine Hundred Miles," "Girl of Constant Sorrow," "Gypsy Davy," and "Greensleeves," for instance -- Dane's interpretations are committed and somberly moving. It's a good folk album for the era, well above the average in terms of guts and feeling. ~ Richie Unterberger

Barbara Dane (vocals, guitar); Tom Paley (guitar, banjo).

Anthology Of American Folk Songs

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Toby Walker - What You See Is What You Get

Size: 123,1 MB
Time: 52:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Finger-Picked Guitar, Acoustic Blues, Folk
Label: Loose Truth Music
Art: Front

01. Baby, Please Don't Go (3:08)
02. She's Into Something (4:47)
03. Everything I Want (3:53)
04. Glory, Glory (2:47)
05. God Moves On The Water (3:45)
06. Swing Bean (2:34)
07. Dead Stray Dog (3:12)
08. Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl (3:32)
09. Statesboro Blues (3:48)
10. Putting On The Blakes (3:31)
11. Ham Hound Crave (2:22)
12. Roaches And Bedbugs (2:51)
13. Highway (3:41)
14. Put Something Stupid On The Tube (2:47)
15. Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied (2:34)
16. Custard Pie (3:00)

Internationally and nationally acclaimed Toby Walker has been hailed as a roots music fingerstyle guitar virtuoso who has toured the US, England, Wales, France, Germany, Belgium and Holland. Walker has been featured in the New York Times, the London Sunday Times, the London BBC, Sirius-XM radio and was the 1st place recipient of the International Blues Challenge Award given out by the Blues Foundation in Memphis TN.

Walker combines the styles of blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, rock and old time jazz into his own unique style. Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna and the Jefferson Airplane says "Flat out... you have to hear this great musician... I'm blown away" and has employed Walker to teach at his famous Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp for 6 years. In 2010 Walker won the NY Music Award for 'Best Instrumental CD,' sharing the honors with Mariah Carey, Rufus Wainwright and Judy Collins among many others.

Walker has recently released three instructional guitar DVD's for the world famous company Homespun Tapes, both of which have been getting rave reviews and his latest CD release 'Shake Shake Mama' has been hailed as a shining success in the genre of traditional blues recordings.
Carnegie Hall acknowledged his rare talents and hired him to augment and teach in their "American Roots" program aimed at honor level middle school students.

Toby’s passion for blues, rags, folk, and other traditional American music drove him to leave an apartment crammed full of recordings, books and instruments for the Mississippi Delta, Virginia and the Carolinas where he tracked down some of the more obscure - but immensely talented - music makers of an earlier era. He learned directly from Eugene Powell, James "Son" Thomas,Etta Baker, and R.L Burnside, among others.

What You See Is What You Get



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Oznake: Toby Walker, Acoustic Blues, folk, Folk-Blues

Gus Cannon - Jug Band Blues Essentials

Styles: Jug Band, Pre-War Blues
Label: Master Classics Records
Released: 2010
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 178.0 MB
Time: 77:46
Art: front

1. Wolf River Blues - 2:38
2. Ripley Blues - 3:02
3. Hollywood Rag - 3:04
4. Minglewood Blues - 3:45
5. Cairo Rag - 2:58
6. Mule Gets Up In The Alley - 2:49
7. Tired Chicken Blues - 2:55
8. Prison Wall Blues - 2:37
9. Heart Breakin' Blues - 3:04
10. Pig Ankle Strut - 3:03
11. Bugle Call Rag - 3:01
12. Noah's Blues - 2:52
13. Pretty Mama Blues - 2:40
14. Big Railroad Blues - 3:18
15. Viola Lee Blues - 3:05
16. Feather Bed - 3:12
17. Going To Germany - 2:33
18. Walk Right In - 2:57
19. Riley's Waggon - 2:57
20. Jonestown Blues - 2:50
21. Money Never Runs Out - 2:49
22. Madison Street Rag - 3:14
23. Springdale Blues - 3:06
24. Bring It With You When Come - 2:45
25. The Rooster's Crowing Blues - 3:01
26. Last Chane Blues - 3:16


Notes: A remarkable musician (he could play five-string banjo and jug simultaneously), Gus Cannon bridged the gap between early blues and the minstrel and folk styles that preceded it. His band of the '20s and '30s, Cannon's Jug Stompers, represents the apogee of the jug band style. Songs they recorded, notably the raggy "Walk Right In," were staples of the folk repertoire decades later, and Cannon himself continued to record and perform into the 1970s.
Self-taught on an instrument made from a frying pan and a raccoon skin, he learned early repertoire in the 1890s from older musicians, notably Mississippian Alec Lee. The early 1900s found him playing around Memphis with songster Jim Jackson and forming a partnership with Noah Lewis, whose harmonica wizardry would be basic to the Jug Stompers' sound. In 1914, Cannon began work with a succession of medicine shows that would continue into the 1940s, and where he further developed his style and repertoire.
His recording career began with Paramount sessions in 1927. He continued to record into the '30s as a soloist and with his incredible trio, which included Noah Lewis along with guitarists Hosea Woods or Ashley Thompson. (Side projects included duets with Blind Blake and the first ever recordings of slide banjo.) Often obliged to find employment in other fields than music, Cannon continued to play anyway, mostly around Memphis. He resumed his stalled recording efforts in 1956 with sessions for Folkways. Subsequent sessions paired him with other Memphis survivors like Furry Lewis. Advancing age curtailed his activities in the '70s, but he still played the occasional cameo, sometimes from a wheelchair, until shortly before his death. ~ AMG

Jug Band Blues Essentials



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• Various - Jugband Specials: 25 Great Original Recordings 1926-1935 •

Oznake: Gus Cannon, Jug Band, Prewar Blues

Various Artists - Fonotone Records 1956-1969 (5 Disc Box set)

Styles: Folk, Blues, Gospel, Traditional, Old-Time Music, Country, Bluegrass, Spirituals, Jug Bands, String Bands
Recorded: 1956-1969
Released: 2005
Label: Dust-to-Digital
File: mp3; 320 Kbps
Size: 886.0 MB
Time: 354:00 min.
Art: full


Joe Bussard (born Joseph E. Bussard, Jr. in Frederick, Maryland, July 11, 1936) is an American collector of 78-rpm records.
Based in Frederick, Maryland, Bussard maintains a collection of more than 25,000 records, primarily of American folk, gospel, and blues from the 1920s and 1930s, believed to be the largest in the world.
He was the subject of a documentary film, Desperate Man Blues, and his collection was mined for a compilation CD, Down in the Basement. He has gleefully shared his collection, which includes many only-known-copies of records (not to mention best-known-copies) with numerous reissue labels as well as with individuals for whom he has taped recordings from his collection for a nominal sum for decades.
From 1956 until 1970, he ran the last 78 rpm record label, Fonotone, which was dedicated to the release of new recordings of old-time music. Among these were the first-ever recordings by guitarist John Fahey, as well as hundreds of other performers.

In 1956 teenaged record collector Joe Bussard decided to track some of his guitar-playing National Guard buddies in his parent's basement in Frederick, MD, and Fonotone Records, America's last operating 78 rpm label, was born. Deliberately anachronistic, Bussard sought to emulate the jug band, blues, and early country 78s that he so treasured (and collected) from the 1920s and 1930s, and he and his friends took on pseudonyms that echoed the names of the artists who recorded during that fabled era at the very dawn of the American recording industry, essentially creating a mythical musical landscape that was stubbornly (even defiantly) out of touch with the technology and musical trends of the 1950s. Part hobby, part hoax, and partly a statement on what Bussard saw as the ongoing degradation of pop music, Fonotone released an impressive number of handmade 78s before Bussard finally officially folded the label in 1969. This elaborate five-disc box set, it comes housed in a cigar box with postcards, an extensive booklet, and even a Fonotone church key bottle opener, finally brings the work of Bussard's little lost label into the digital light of the 21st century. It has to be viewed as a little ironic, given Bussard's aversion to the technological advancements of the recording industry and his complete disgust at almost anything recorded after 1934, but here you have it, all laid out in zeros and ones, and what emerges is an at times brilliant facsimile of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. But where Smith's anthology, which collects actual 78s from the 1920s and 1930s (the 1997 reissue of the anthology on CD actually drew on nearly pristine 78s from Bussard's vast personal collection), shines with the mysterious glow of a half-remembered vernacular past, the Fonotone set, which attempts to re-create that era, replaces the mystery with what amounts to cleverness and creative mischief. That doesn't mean that the music presented here isn't interesting, it frequently bursts forth with a wonderfully chaotic energy, but it is a bit like building a scale model of the Grand Coulee Dam out of Popsicle sticks. The end result is fascinating to look at, but being a re-creation, it lacks the intangible presence (and no doubt the utility) of the original. Still, the Fonotone records were a lot of fun, and discovering the real identities behind the pseudonyms is a big part of that fun. Birmingham Bill is actually Mike Seeger. Kid Future is a young Stefan Grossman. B. Sam Firk is Mike Stewart. Blind Robert Ward is Bob Coltman. And the first recordings of iconoclast John Fahey are here, under the name Blind Thomas, in what is a sort of dress rehearsal for his Blind Joe Death persona. Bussard himself appears as part of a whole range of jug and string band groups with names like the Mississippi Swampers, the Tennessee Mess Arounders, the Back Alley Boys, and so on. There are some actual field recordings here, as well, including a pair of tracks from black Appalachian banjo player Clarence Fross that could slip undetected into any Alan Lomax collection. There is also a good deal of bluegrass music, the only postwar musical style ever allowed on a Fonotone record, which is a further irony, since bluegrass probably did more than even rock & roll to kill off the jug and string band tradition that Bussard so admired. Arguably the most effective cuts are a trio of songs that drop the old-time façade long enough to comment directly on contemporary events. Bussard and Bob Coltman's "The Death of John Kennedy," recorded immediately after Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, is particularly arresting, as is Bussard's "The Flight of Astronaut John Glenn" and Coltman's (as Blind Robert Ward) "The Voyage of Apollo 8" (which Bussard mischievously couples with "Don't Ask for the Moon" on the flip side). By stepping out of the 1920s and addressing the present (yet in a manner and style that mimics the past), Bussard and company actually accomplish what they had been after all along, making the old-time music speak in a contemporary context. In the end, though, most of the music in this fascinating box fails to match its template, but as a stubborn attempt to turn back the musical hands of time, Bussard and Fonotone Records created a brilliant faux universe that works much like that replica of an 18th century schooner perfectly re-created to scale inside a clear glass bottle. The marvel is in the attention to detail, and by default, the imaginary sea it conjures. So here you have it, a mythical 78 rpm universe that mimics a real one, all set forth under the glass of 21st century digital technology. Just suspend belief, add some imagination, and sail away. Don't expect sonar, though, or, heaven forbid, an electric guitar. Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Booklet

Oznake: Bluegrass, Gospel, Jug Band, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Country, Traditional Folk, Various

Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Piedmont Blues, Pre-War Blues, Songster
Label: Pristone Audio
Released: 2009
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 182,3 MB
Time: 79:36
Art: front

1. Stole Rider Blues - 3:12
2. Mama, Tain't Long Fo' Day - 3:06
3. Mr. McTell Got The Blues (take 2) - 2:18
4. Three Women Blues - 2:49
5. Dark Night Blues - 2:53
6. Statesboro Blues - 2:39
7. Loving Talking Blues - 2:41
8. Come On Around To My House Mama - 3:07
9. Kind Mama - 2:59
10. Drive Away Blues - 3:21
11. Talkin' To Myself - 3:12
12. Southern Can Is Mine - 3:16
13. Broke Down Engine Blues - 3:10
14. Painful Blues - 3:01
15. Scarey Day Blues - 3:08
16. Low Rider's Blues - 3:18
17. Georgia Rag - 3:06
18. Rollin' Mama Blues - 3:04
19. Lonesome Day Blues - 3:12
20. Mama Let Me Scoop For You - 3:17
21. Searching The Desert For The Blues - 3:11
22. Warm It Up To Me - 2:54
23. Savannah Mama - 3:21
24. Love-Makin' Mama - 2:59
25. Lord, Send Me An Angel - 2:50
26. Lay Some Flowers On My Grave - 3:19


Notes: The king of 12-string acoustic blues - 26 of the very best.
In astonishing newly XR-remastered sound quality - surely the best ever!

Like many pre-war Blues artists, Blind Willie McTell recorded for a number of record companies, often at the same time, under a variety of pseudonyms. Fortunately for the lover of vintage blues, none of these was the notorious Paramount record company, and as a result we have a body of work which not only stands up musically, but in terms of recording and pressing quality as well - unlike the recordings of the likes of Charley Patton, Blind Blake and Blind Lemon Jefferson, for example.
In some respects this ought to make the audio restorer's job easier, you might think. Alas, life is rarely that simple - with higher quality originals to begin with, one inevitably aims higher and is less able to settle for anything less than excellence.
In compiling this CD, I initially worked on some 40 tracks by Blind Willie McTell, in many cases from two or three different sources. Each was taken a considerable way along the road of restoration and remastering in order that a judgment could be made (a) between different copies of the same recording, and then (b) between the complete set to narrow it down to a full CD (and I apologise here both for having to leave some excellent material out, and for leaving some rather small gaps between tracks in order to squeeze as much on as possible).
Then comes the painstaking job of "finishing" - a near-forensic examination of each track, looking for individual clicks, surface swishes and other extraneous noises, and attempting to remove or reduce them, one by one, as well as varrying out further final noise and hiss reduction. For a set such as this, which had already taken several weeks to assemble, this finishing work took a further three full days of intensive effort to complete.
What do I hope to achieve with all this effort? The finest-sounding a most representative collection of pre-war recordings by McTell ever assembled. No doubt some will dispute the track selections - especially some are here on musical merit., others on sonic merit - but put together as a whole I do feel this considerably improves on all previous issues of this material that it's been my pleasure to listen to over the years. I hope you'll feel similarly!

Searching The Desert For The Blues

Covers pdf



• Leadbelly - Take This Hammer •
• Mance Lipscomb - Texas Songster •

Oznake: Blind Willie McTell, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Piedmont Blues, Prewar Blues, Songster

The Fried Okra Band - There's A World Outside My Door

Size: 98,5 MB
Time: 42:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues
Label: Morten Lunn Via
Art: Front

01. Chicago Stage (3:02)
02. I'm Going Down (3:17)
03. One String Love (3:14)
04. I Tried (3:22)
05. Fake Rag Okra (2:37)
06. Unpack (2:40)
07. Hey A Da Hoh (4:48)
08. Followed My Baby (4:22)
09. Shopkeeper (3:58)
10. Bo Diddley Baby (3:57)
11. Holler For Help (3:25)
12. Copenhagen Coppola (3:51)

The band was formed as a electric/acoustic duo by Morten Lunn and Thomas Foldberg in 2003.
Together they soon developed a love for the raw and stripped down sounds of RL Burnside, Jr. Kimbrough, Kenny Brown, Asie Payton , T-Model Ford and Robert Belfour! The duo started as a warm up act for bigger Danish Blues names.

Under a year later they turned into a quartet (adding bass and drums) and during a trip to Chicago Mr. Lunn gave the band it´s name while sitting in a south-side restaurant (that was eventually closed).. The Fried Okra Band.
Most of the material was borrowed from the giants of the North Mississippi Hills and reworked blues-classics.
The "new" band played several gigs around Denmark, Norway and Sweden - from small clubs to festivals. With that approach they released their first album "This is Your Chance, France Baby"
Gradually the band´s repetoire changed from covers to mostly original stuff developing a very personal style. A style that was captured on the second album: "Black Cherry"

In the fall of 2011 the band took on a new approach by turning the quartet into a trio consisting of M. Lunn on guitar/vocals/diddley Bo,
T. Foldberg on guitar/harmonica and T. Crawfurd drums/perc/mandolin!
Occasionally a forth member is added - Henrik Silver playing the bass horn - the sousaphone!

The third release from The Fried Okra Band "There's A World Outside My Door" boasts the raw sound of a trio concentrated around vocals, two guitars and drums. Further spice is added by the one string Diddley Bo, harmonica, mandolin, banjo-mandolin, a variety of percussion and last but not least, fat sousaphone bass lines laid down by the occasional fourth member of the band.

The Fried Okra Band is:
Morten Lunn : Vocals and guitar
Thomas Foldberg : Guitar and harmonica
Thomas Crawfurd : Drums, mandolin, percussion
and Henrik Silver (the occasional fourth member) : Sousaphone

There's A World Outside My Door



• Sir Oliver Mally & Frank Schwinn - Devils Monkeys Aliens •
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Oznake: Fried Okra Band, Acoustic Blues, Denmark

Gordon Smith - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Released: 1968/2008
Label: Blue Horizon
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 174.3 MB
Time: 76:08
Art: full

1. Diving Duck Blues - 3:31
2. Highway 51 - 2:21
3. One Dime Blues - 2:55
4. Having A Good Time - 2:56
5. Instrumental No 2 - 1:59
6. Walking Blues - 3:52
7. Rolling And Tumbling - 5:03
8. I Been Down So Long - 3:33
9. Instrumental No 4 - 1:12
10. Pearlie Blues - 3:00
11. Woman Down The Hall - 1:16
12. Big Road Blues - 3:16
13. Instrumental No 3 - 1:30
14. Worried Life Blues - 4:28
15. Nobody's Fault But Mine - 1:30
16. One Dime Blues - 2:54
17. Instrumental No 2 - 1:43
18. Walking Blues - 2:51
19. Rolling And Tumbling - 3:28
20. Walking Blues - 2:56
21. Pearlie Blues - 2:35
22. I'm So Glad - 2:23
23. Instrumental No 1 - 1:40
24. When You Got A Good Friend - 2:18
25. I'm So Glad - 2:15
26. Too Long - 2:46
27. Funk Pedal - 2:59
28. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World - 2:45


Notes: GORDON SMITH is the REAL DEAL.
Described by John Peel as " The foremost white Blues guitarist in the world ", Gordon is also one of the country's greatest Blues vocalists.
His 1968 debut album 'Long Overdue' was produced by Mike Vernon for the legendary Blue Horizon label, and featured members of Fleetwood Mac, including Peter Green. For years this album has been a collector's classic, but it is now it has been re-released by Mike Vernon along with other vintage Blue Horizon recordings.
During the 70's,Gordon was a member of 'The Kevin Coyne Band' with whom he recorded several albums for Virgin, as well as a couple of his own for the Italian label Appaloosa, and in the 90's a solo country Blues album 'Out of the Bottleneck'.
Gordon is now back with these re released recordings. He also has a brand-new recordings made for Note Records, on which he is accompanied by some of London's finest Blues musicians. These tracks reflect his passion for both country and electric traditions, and really are 'Essential' for all lovers of quality Blues.
Gordon Smith is one of the unsung heros of British Blues. A real treasure who should be nurtured.
His recordings have great merit and should not be missed by any serious Blues lover. ~ B. Powell

Complete Blue Horizon Sessions



• Nathan James - This Road Is Mine •
• Harrison Kennedy - Soulscape •

Oznake: Gordon Smith, England, Acoustic Blues

Steve James - Art and Grit

Styles:Contemporary Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Country Blues
Recorded:Jun-Sep 1995
Released:Sep 9, 1996
Label:Discovery
File:mp3 @320kbps
Size:94.6 MB
Time:40:06
Art:full

1. Ooze It to Me, Mama (Tarlton) - 3:03
2. Wet Laundry Blues (Easton) - 2:56
3. Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight (Mertz) - 3:39
4. Blues Widow (James) - 3:31
5. Downbound Train (Berry) - 4:52
6. Viola Lee Blues (Lewis) - 3:18
7. Liberty (Traditional) - 2:42
8. Monkey Man Swing (James) - 2:27
9. Farewell the Roses (James) - 3:14
10. Juanita Stomp (Williams) - 4:06
11. Lookit Th' Dog (James) - 3:14
12. Buddy Bolden's Blues (Traditional) - 3:04

Notes: James' first album was a solo effort; his second added a small combo. Art and Grit, his third, is a virtual celebration of acoustic string instruments. The Austin "jug band" of American Primitive -- James, Danny Barnes, Mark Rubin, and Gary Primich -- reunites on three cuts and forms the nucleus of three others. Guitar virtuoso Rob Brozman and Asleep at the Wheel's Cindy Cashdollar make guest appearances, and all told there are no fewer than eleven different instrument lineups on the disc, with guitars of many types (standard, slide, Hawaiian, and tenor), banjos (6- and 4-string), and mandolins presented solo and in various combinations. Most memorable cuts are James' delightfully archaic banjo rendition of the century-old "Buddy Bolden's Blues" and the joyfully clanging triple guitar attack on "Downbound Train" (an obscure Chuck Berry album cut, based on an old temperance song). Recording quality is exceptionally vivid, capturing the distinctive timbre of each instrument and making Art and Grit an old-timey blues lovers' delight.

Art and Grit



• Michael Jerome Browne - Drive On •
• Tracy Nelson - The Best Of Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth •

Oznake: Steve James, Contemporary Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Country Blues

Mick Martin - Revelator

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:53
Size: 89.0 MB
Styles: Country blues, Piedmont blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:57] 1. Pay Day
[4:32] 2. Bye Bye Blackbird
[4:52] 3. St. James Infirmary
[3:41] 4. Broke Down Engine
[2:59] 5. Parchman Farm
[5:33] 6. Ramblin' On My Mind
[4:25] 7. John The Revelator
[3:06] 8. Whinin' Boy Blues
[2:58] 9. My Babe
[2:47] 10. Mama, 't'ain't Long 'fore Day


Mick Martin is an acoustic guitar solo artist. He plays "Traditional American Folk", music on an acoustic guitar. The styles that Mick plays include "Country Blues" and "Appalachain Folk" music. Mick has shared the stage with Sonny Terry and Brownie Mc Gee, Bill Monroe, Keith Whitley, Tom Rush, Noman Blake, Robin and Linda Williams, Barbra Mandrell, Vince Gill and many others in the music industry over the years. Since then, Mick had taken a hiatus from music and performing to persue a career in education- Now he's back! He's back with his first CD/Instructional DVD entitled, "REVELATOR".

Revelator

Mo' Albums...
• Rick Randlett - Nothing To Do
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Oznake: Mick Martin, Country Blues, Piedmont Blues

Terry Garland - The One To Blame

Time: 50:36
Size: 118.0 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 1996
Bitrate: 320K/s
Art: Front

[4:18] 1. Good Time Blues
[5:41] 2. The One To Blame
[4:41] 3. Stagger Lee
[4:19] 4. Phonograph Blues
[5:00] 5. Nasty Boogie Woogie
[4:28] 6. A Closer Walk With Thee
[4:34] 7. Rollin' And Tumblin'
[3:31] 8. Goin' Down Slow
[2:15] 9. It'll Be Me
[5:36] 10. When A Brother Dies
[6:09] 11. All Aboard


Like Terry Garland's two albums for RCA, The One to Blame is an engaging collection of contemporary country-blues and rock & roll reconfigured to sound like country-blues. Among the highlights are "Stagger Lee," "Closer Walk with Thee," "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and "It'll Be Me." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Terry Garland (vocals, acoustic guitar, National guitar); Gary Shaver (clarinet); Mark Wenner (harmonica); Dave Tripplet (trumpet); Rich Moncure (trombone); Bruce Courson (piano).

The One To Blame

Mo' Albums...
• Paul Zunno - Solo Acoustic
• Kaz Simmons - Different Smile

Oznake: Terry Garland, Contemporary Blues

Cotton Belly's - This Day...

Size: 97,8 MB
Time: 42:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Blues Folk
Label: Believe Digital
Art: Front

01. Greatness (3:30)
02. Uncle And Aunty (3:20)
03. Nothing (3:19)
04. Nineteen Forty Nine (4:39)
05. Wild Camels (4:22)
06. Mr. Bedman (3:47)
07. Three Times (2:54)
08. Feel Down (4:39)
09. Old Blossom (4:39)
10. This Day... (7:18)

The group "Cotton Belly's" is a formation of acoustic / electric "festive" blues. Their approach is to highlight the jovial facet of blues.

Grooving between old old blues and rock n 'roll of the 70’s, this young band was schooled by the street, bars and jam sessions. The Cotton Belly’s know how to play with talent and originality old standards by providing them with colors and freshness specific to the young generation. The "Cottons" also create their own songs… by the way you’re currently listening to them.

With their original compositions, between Blues and modern music, the Cotton Belly’s make every age dance. Their concerts bring happiness; as soon as « the little fellows of cotton » start playing, a great vibe radiates from the audience thrilling to the sounds of guitars and a gut-wrenching harmonica play.

Being among the eight finalists of the « Blues sur Seine » springboard 2007, the Cotton Belly's won three awards, including the Montreal OFQJ FestiBlues which enabled them to go play in Montreal in August 2008 and in many prestigious blues festivals in France (Cahors Blues festival, Blues sur Seine, Rendez-vous de l’Erdre, etc.)

The year 2009 was full of events since the group performed over 50 concerts of which famous openings (Calvin Russel, Mac Arnold…) and prestigious festivals (Montereau Confluence, Jazz ŕ Vannes, l’Europa Jazz). They recorded their first album in October.

This Day...



• Harrison Kennedy - Soulscape •
• Steve Howell & The Mighty Men - Yes, I Believe I Will •

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Oznake: Cotton Belly's, Acoustic Blues, Folk-Blues, france

Guitar Red - Lightnin' In A Bottle

Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues
Label: Back Space Records
Released: 2008
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 75,0 MB
Time: 32:17
Art: full

1. Box Car No. 9 - 2:27
2. Lips Poked Out - 2:30
3. Ain't Got Nobody But Myself - 2:27
4. Three Legged Dog Blues - 2:51
5. Chain Gang Blues - 4:18
6. Lightnin' In A Bottle - 2:08
7. Out My Mind - 3:36
8. Decatur Boy Blues - 2:18
9. I Believe - 2:56
10. Song About A Jimi Hendrix Song - 3:47
11. Monologue - 2:52


Personnel:
Billy Christian Walls - Guirar, Clavinet, Vocals
Chris Francisco - Bass

Notes: Guitar Red has lived as a street musician for as long as people can remember, and on most days can be found playing his unique style of acoustic blues in and around the square in Decatur, GA.

The thing that strikes me immediately about this album is that it's hard to believe just one guy is producing the sound. In that regard, he is a lot like Mississippi John Hurt. "Box Car No. 9" is a tune that features some excellent guitar picking and it is bound to get your feet stompin'.
Something about Guitar Red reminds me of another Georgia blues man: Blind Willie McTell. I think more than anything it's the way Red picks his guitar. He gets an incredibly clean sound.
"Three Legged Dog Blues" is a lowdown blues tune that wouldn't sound out of place on a back porch anywhere. "My old lady treats me like a three-legged dog." Now, that is the blues.
What is even more astounding about Guitar Red is that he has long been a street musician in Decatur, Georgia. He is an incredibly talented musician. He also plays the clavinet on the title track. You don't need to listen to much of the album to know that the blues comes from deep inside Guitar Red.
"Lightnin' in a Bottle" is a classic blues album, with songs about trains, drinking, ("Ain't Got Nobody but Myself"), prison ("Chain Gang Blues"), and having the blues. For a debut album, this is really strong. It's hard for me to believe that no one noticed Red's obvious talent before now. If you are in the area of Decatur, Georgia, I advise you to seek out Guitar Red and take in some of his tunes. If you are an old-time blues fan, this is an album you really should add to your collection.

Lightnin' In A Bottle



• John Hammond - John Hammond Live •
• John Dee Holeman - Bull Durham Blues •

Oznake: Guitar Red, Modern Acoustic Blues

Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee - Hometown Blues

Styles: Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Folk-Blues, Piedmont Blues
Label: Mainstream/Legacy
Released: 1993
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 112,4 MB
Time: 49:04
Art: front

1. Mean Old Frisco - 2:44
2. Man Ain't Nothin' But A Fool - 3:06
3. The Woman Is Killing Me - 2:44
4. Meet You In The Morning - 2:35
5. Stranger Blues - 2:24
6. Feel So Good - 2:33
7. Forgive Me - 2:20
8. Sittin' On Top Of The World - 2:47
9. Crying The Blues - 3:05
10. Key To The Highway - 2:17
11. Ease My Worried Mind - 2:49
12. Bulldog Blues - 2:31
13. C.C. Rider - Where Did She Go - 2:14
14. Going Down Slow - 3:18
15. Bad Blood - 3:20
16. Lightnin's Blues - 3:04
17. Dissatisfied Woman - 2:27
18. Pawn Shop Blues - 2:37


Notes: Harmonica player Sonny Terry and guitarist Brownie McGhee formed one of the most enduring partnerships in the blues, lasting from before the second world war into the 1970's. Although their partnership had some ups and downs, they were certainly on an upswing when they recorded these sides for the Sittin' In With label during the years 1948-1952. Later re-released on the Mainstream label on compact disc and mp3 this compilation finds the duo playing a nice mix of electric R&B and acoustic duo tracks. They draw on traditional blues standards for the bulk of the material on this album, but with Terry's swooping harp and distinctive yodel and McGhee's deftly plucked guitar, they add a new spin on tracks like “Mean Old Frisco" and “Sittin' On Top of the World." After years of just knowing this partnership as an acoustic duo, it is fascinating to hear them play in an electric blues context with with addition of bass, drums and occasionally piano. It turns them into a rollicking little combo that could have held their own at any juke joint in post-war Chicago. This is a great introductory album for those who are interested in the duo as it presents them in a couple of different contexts and allows the listener to enjoy the full range of their talents. Definitely one to keep an eye out for. ~ allaboutjazz.com
Plenty of delightful interplay between McGhee and Terry recommends these 18 1948-1951 sides for producer Bobby Shad for his Sittin' in With label, but they predate the duo's later folk period by a longshot. Back then, they were still aiming their output solely at the R&B crowd -- meaning "Man Ain't Nothin' But a Fool," "Bad Blood," "The Woman Is Killing Me," and "Dissatisfied Woman" are straightahead, uncompromising New York-style blues. ~ AMG

This album has so many issues
Mainstream Records – S/6049 (1965) (first one)
Ace Of Hearts - AHT 182 (1969)
Festival Records - L 35074 (1974)
Decca - ND 472 (1974)
BGO Records - BGOLP 75 (1989)
Mainstream Records - JK 53625 (1993)

Hometown Blues



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Oznake: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Folk-Blues, Piedmont Blues

Celso Salim & Rodrigo Mantovani - Diggin' The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 74:48
Size: 171.2 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[ 3:14] 1. East St. Louis Blues
[ 3:26] 2. 300 Pounds Of Joy
[38:54] 3. All By Myself
[ 4:55] 4. Money Tree Blues
[ 2:34] 5. Truckin' My Blues Away
[ 3:30] 6. Weeping Willow
[ 2:45] 7. 16 Tons
[ 4:56] 8. Travelin' Girl
[ 3:39] 9. No Man Can Trust
[ 3:04] 10. You're Gonna Miss Me
[ 3:47] 11. Weak Brain, Narrow Mind


Result of years of playing together and a deep research, “Diggin’ the Blues” is the debut album of the acoustic duo made of by Celso Salim (dobro, vocals) and Rodrigo Mantovani(upright bass, harmony vocals). It contains interpretations of old Blues artists including Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie McTell, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Blind Boy Fuller and a few originals songs too. As special guest: Sérgio Duarte(harp).

The Duo is made of by two of top Brazilian Blues players. Celso Salim has 3 solo albums and during his career opened for B.B. King, worked with Larry McCray, participated in concerts of Magic Slim and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and won the Independent Music Awards 2008 – Best Blues song “Big City Blues”.

Rodrigo Mantovani recorded albums with Lynwood Slim, Igor Prado Band and Nuno Mindelis. He also played with Blues artists like Rick Estrin, Mark Hummel, Steve Guyger, Deacon Jones, James Wheeler and Muddy Jr.

Celso Salim: Dobro & Vocals; Rodrigo Mantovani: Upright Bass and harmony vocals; Special guests: Sérgio Duarte on harp, Ari Borger(piano and Hammond)

Diggin' The Blues

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Various - Canned Heat Blues: Masters Of The Delta Blues

Styles: Country Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Bluebird
Released: 1992
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 161,0 MB
Time: 70:20
Art: front

1. Furry's Blues - 3:14
2. I Will Turn Your Momney Green - 3:13
3. Mistreatin' Mama - 3:09
4. Dry Land Blues - 3:08
5. Cannon Ball Blues - 3:05
6. Kassie Jones Part 1 - 3:08
7. Kassie Jones Part 2 - 3:04
8. Judge Harsh Blues - 3:06
9. Cool Drink Of Water Blues - 3:37
10. Big Road Blues - 3:24
11. Bye Bye Blues - 3:12
12. Maggie Campbell Blues - 3:40
13. Canned Heat Blues - 3:39
14. Lonesome Home Blues - 3:23
15. Big Fat Mama Blues - 3:14
16. Saturday Blues - 3:30
17. Left Alone Blues - 3:31
18. Leavin' Town Blues - 3:30
19. Brown Mama Blues - 3:35
20. Trouble Hearted Blues - 3:27
21. The Four Day Blues - 3:22


Personnel:
Walter 'Furry' Lewis tracks 1-8
Tommy Johnson tracks 9-15
Ishman Bracey tracks 16-21

Notes: Of these tracks from 1928-eight by Furry Lewis, seven by Tommy Johnson, six by Ishman Bracey-the Johnsons are among the great events in American music. With Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson was one of the three leading Mississippi bluesmen, featuring a pure, aristocratic tenor voice, a sweet, shimmering vibrato, near-yodel octave leaps and a busy guitar style. His 'Canned Heat Blues' is a classic, with, unusually, a sustained lyric theme, while 'Cool Drink of Water Blues,' 'Big Road Blues' and 'Maggie Campbell Blues' have probably been even more influential. Bracey, almost as fluent and stylized as Johnson, is an intriguing eclectic who ranges from near-private intimacy to a preaching manner; his lyrics are the most surreal of these three singers. The utterly engaging Lewis is the most old-fashioned singer of this threesome, with a taste for vivid, idiosyncratic lyrics. In 'Cannon Ball Blues' he claims, 'I can't play no music, and I sure can't sing no blues.' Don't believe a word of it. ~ chicago tribune (11.06.1992)

Canned Heat Blues: Masters Of The Delta Blues



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Fabrizio Poggi & Francesco Garolfi - The Breath Of Soul

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Ultra Sound Records
Released: 2006
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 119,1 MB
Time: 51:42
Art: front

1. The Soul Of A Man - 4:41
2. Dust My Broom - 5:08
3. John The Revelator - 4:36
4. Diving Duck Blues - 4:30
5. Song For Angelina - 3:54
6. Cross Road Blues - 4:05
7. Pay Day - 2:53
8. Beefsteak Blues - 5:07
9. Glory Glory - 3:33
10. Another Man Done Gone - 4:27
11. Checkin' Up On My Baby - 2:45
12. The Breath Of Soul - 3:37
13. Sitting On Top Of The World - 2:18


Personnel:
Fabrizio Poggi - Harmonica, Vocals
Francesco Garolfi - Guitars, Vocals

Notes: Many years ago a young man from Voghera, Italy, decided it was time to bring to life a dream that he had carried safely in his heart for most of his life. With that decision, his band FABRIZIO POGGI & CHICKEN MAMBO was born.
FABRIZIO POGGI singer, Hohner Award harmonica player, traveller, musicologist, writer, journalist and amazing performer began to give birth, with music and words, to his musical inspiration: the blues and the amazing folk music of the Southern United States. From the delta blues of Mississippi to gospel and spirituals, to american folk ballads, his musical future was easily decided. Today that dream is not only still alive and well but is being loved by audiences in Italy, Europe and America.
FABRIZIO POGGI has recorded twelve albums and has written two great books about blues and folk harmonica history. His latest works, a cd titled "Mercy" and a book titled "Il soffio dell'anima: armoniche e armonicisti blues" (The breath of soul: harmonica and blues harmonica players) have enjoyed tremendous critical acclaim all around the world.
On the folk music side, Fabrizio Poggi, after a period of sickness, as he did for the American music, started the meticulous and passionate research of words of songs, lyrics, old books and records almost lost and forgotten. Fabrizio Poggi discovered the magical world of the Lombard folklore: the rice weeders songs and the troubadors repertoire. He recorded with the band named Turututela three cds, "Canzoni popolari", "Il violino dei poveri", "La storia si canta". He wrote also a book about folk harmonica history in his country, that was a best seller in Italy.

The Breath Of Soul



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Oznake: Fabrizio Poggi, Francesco Garolfi, Acoustic Blues, Italy

Little Doc Thornton - Hurricane

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
Label: Red Ripe Recordings
Released: 2002
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 88,9 MB
Time: 38:16
Art: front

1. Hurricane - 4:26
2. My Punishment - 4:54
3. Three Mouths to Feed - 3:23
4. You Don't Want Me Anymore - 4:03
5. On My Way Back To Georgia - 3:38
6. This House - 3:17
7. On The Move - 3:10
8. Needing You Tonight - 3:41
9. Better Days - 2:50
10. It's Been A Long Time - 4:50


Notes: In the Fall of 1989 Hurricane Hugo swept through the Carolinas. Fortunately it came through during the night when most people were in bed which minimized the number of people injured or killed.
The path of the hurricane reached deep into the piedmont area of the Carolinas where the threat of a hurricane was largely ignored. If you did not listen to the radio or TV that evening chances are you went to bed unaware of the bad conditions coming, much less the threat of a hurricane. It is doubtful that anyone slept soundly through it though.
Stepping out the next morning into the havoc it created was a sobering experience. So many trees and telephone poles were knocked over and debri scattered about. Yet most of it fell near but not onto the houses and spared the homes and lives of many people. That was something to be thankful for.
The title song of this album came from the memory of that hurricane and the devastation it brought.
-Little Doc-

Hurricane



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Oznake: Little Doc Thornton, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues

James Booker - Classified: Remixed And Expanded

Size: 166,7 MB
Time: 72:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1982/2013
Styles: Piano Blues, Boogie Woogie, New Orleans Blues
Label: Rounder Records
Art: Front

01. Classified (3:59)
02. If You're Lonely (2:55)
03. Warsaw Concerto (2:44)
04. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Solo Piano Alternate Take) (1:49)
05. Medley Tico Tico - Papa Was A Rascal - So Swell When You're Well (4:51)
06. All Around The World (3:32)
07. Angel Eyes (3:43)
08. Lonely Avenue (3:34)
09. Professor Longhair Medley Tipitina - Bald Head (3:37)
10. King Of The Road (3:06)
11. Theme From The Godfather (1:42)
12. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (3:26)
13. I'm Not Sayin' (5:14)
14. Hound Dog (2:25)
15. All These Things (2:40)
16. Yes Sir, That's My Baby (3:31)
17. Baby Face (3:18)
18. If You're Lonely (Solo Piano Alternate Take) (3:02)
19. Madame X (2:08)
20. One For The Highway (2:31)
21. Three Keys (3:18)
22. Amen (4:45)

The late, great James Booker’s recording career was just as mysterious and inconsistent as his troubled life would allow. Some of his earliest studio recordings got lost, he’d often back up or collaborate with other major artists, many of whom he inspired greatly – like Jerry Garcia and Doctor John. Or Booker simply opted to release a bevy of live recordings of his own throughout the ‘70s.

He only made a few studio recordings in his entire career. And one of them was Classified, recorded in October of 1982, just a year before his untimely death. These sessions are newly remixed and re-released on Rounder Records.

Although Booker’s New Orleans boogie-woogie piano and blues and soul stylings were slightly inspired by artists such as Professor Longhair, Jelly Roll Morton, and Ray Charles, Booker’s music became a genre and life-force onto itself, influencing generations of musicians from Doctor John to Harry Connick Jr. And his influence and genius are certainly prevalent throughout all 22 tracks of Classified: Remixed And Expanded.

The title track “Classified,” “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” and Titus Turner’s r&b classic “All Around The World” feature Booker’s soulfully cocky, jive-filled vocals, along with piano playing that isn’t quite New Orleans Creole, and not quite boogie- woogie or blues, It’s all James Booker. At times Booker blends classical scales and chordal voicings with rhythm and blues in a truly virtuosic manner. “Warsaw Concerto” and “Madame X” explore Booker’s ability to incorporate classical piano with raw soul, even more strongly than Ray Charles had done shortly before him.

“If You’re Lonely, “Angel Eyes” and Doc Pomus’s masterpiece “Lonely Avenue” (popularized by Ray Charles) are Booker’s twist on blues and soul ballads which are destined to bring first time listeners and older fans to tears.

Sometimes Booker accompanies himself on piano or is backed by a tight and non- intrusive band consisting of Alvin “Red” Tyler on sax, James Singleton on bass, and Johnny Vidacovich on drums.

There is a brutal and haunting quality to all of these recordings, even on the up-tempo medleys like: “Tico Tico /Papa Was A Rascal/ So Swell When You’re Well” and Professor Longhair’s “Tipitina /Bald Head.” Booker’s wonderfully strange use of majors chords against minors is awe inspiring and sounds like no one else.

Sometimes Booker will move slightly behind the beat, right on top of it, and use space and syncopation like a jazz musician’s approach to piano. Just check out “I’m Not Sayin’.” Booker was the Thelonious Monk of New Orleans soul.

Booker was also fearless and never doubted his choice of material on these sessions as he conquers Roger Miller’s “King Of The Road,” Leiber and Stoller’s “Hound Dog,” Fats Domino’s “One For The Highway,” and even Nino Rota and Parti Siae’s “Theme From The Godfather.” Booker swings hardest here when he takes those daring risks, and he never fails to create something completely original each time.

A mournful reading of Allen Toussaint’s “All These Things” is harrowing in its intensity and easily one of the album’s many highlights.

Booker’s rendition of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn’s “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” features some humorous and funky Hammond B3 playing . And a gospel version of Edward Buzell, Bert Kalmar, and Harry Ruby’s standard “Baby Face” shows off Booker’s more playfully humorous side – a side that is often overshadowed by his tragic life and death.

The compilation ends with the rollicking instrumental “Three Keys” and a slow and pleading cover of the gospel standard “Amen.” Booker’s voice sounds as if he’s on his knees crying out to the heavens in pain.

The remixed sound is stellar throughout this compilation and extra takes of “If You’re Lonely” and “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” help make Classified: Remixed And Expanded an essential glimpse into the mind and soul of one of American music’s greatest, influential, and most original musicians of all time. ~By Devon Wendell

Classified: Remixed And Expanded



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Oznake: James Booker, Piano Blues

Johnny Shines - S/T

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:58
Size: 82.4 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 1991/2012
Art: Front

[2:43] 1. Give My Heart A Break
[2:55] 2. Too Lazy
[3:22] 3. Moaning And Groaning
[3:45] 4. Just A Little Tenderness
[2:49] 5. I Know The Winds Are Blowing
[3:41] 6. Just Call Me
[3:34] 7. My Love Can't Hide
[2:49] 8. Skull And Crossbones Blues
[3:10] 9. Vallie Lee
[2:49] 10. Can't Get Along With You
[4:17] 11. Have To Pay The Cost


When his friend the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson died, Johnny Shines decided to visit Africa to see if everything he had heard about it was true. He got sidetracked and ended up in Chicago where his musical career languished for two decades until he was rediscovered in the '60s. This 1970 recording catches Shines at his best as he alternates between traditional Delta-styled acoustic blues numbers and hard-rocking Chicago-flavored tunes. The haunting "My Love Can't Hide," with its baritone sax moaning in background, provides but one highlight. --Percy Keegan

No less than a founding father of modern blues, James 'Johnny" Shines was a valued singer/slide guitarist whose creative impulses, technical command, and expressive candor were at an extraordinarily high level in the decade or so following his mid-1960s "rediscovery." This 1970 session includes several inspired solo performances that hark back to his prewar Delta and Memphis country blues years, another elevated period in his venerable career. Of the five songs made with a tipsy West Coast ensemble, "My Love Can't Hide" drops your jaw for the ardency of his heartsick vocalization. ~ Frank John Hadley

Johnny Shines

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Maria Muldaur - Barnyard Dance: Jug Band Music For Kids

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:26
Size: 88.0 MB
Styles: Jug Band
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:58] 1. Mama Don't Allow No Jugband Music 'round Here
[2:55] 2. I Like To Ride A Camel
[2:28] 3. The Barnyard Dance
[2:59] 4. Don't Let It Bother You
[3:02] 5. Threw It Out The Window
[3:10] 6. Singing In The Bathtub
[3:33] 7. All By Myself
[2:55] 8. Under The Chicken Tree
[3:04] 9. Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
[3:22] 10. The Circus Song
[2:54] 11. Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor
[5:01] 12. Relax Your Mind


As Maria Muldaur puts it in her liner notes, jug band music is, by its very nature, a "happy, snappy, lighthearted, humorous, goofy, wacky, high-spirited" sound, which certainly would appeal to any child. Why this now-marginalized genre -- born in the '20s and popularized in the '60s via acts such as the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and the Even Dozen Jug Band (of which Muldaur was a member) -- was never marketed with kids in mind is a good question, but Muldaur hits the perfect note with this collection. Played on washboards, spoons, kazoo, and other fun instruments -- as well as guitar, banjo, bass, fiddle, etc. -- these old songs, with titles like "I Love to Ride My Camel" (wonder if it's the same camel Muldaur sent to bed on her '70s hit "Midnight at the Oasis"), "Under the Chicken Tree," and "Singing in the Bathtub" are whimsical and silly, yet never condescending as so much children's music tends to be. Muldaur's voice is huskier than it was back when she was making her popular albums in the '70s, but it's well-suited to these tunes. This is what she started out doing half-a-century ago, and adults with a soft spot for the jug band-folk style, and for Muldaur's output in recent years, will undoubtedly enjoy this music -- much of it from the traditional folk canon -- as much as their little ones. ~ Jeff Tamarkin

Maria Muldaur (vocals, kazoo); Kit Stovepipe (guitar); Devin Champlin (banjo, mandolin); Suzy Thompson (fiddle); Lucas Hicks (whistle, washboard, spoons, pans, bells); Jim Rothermel (pennywhistle, horns).

Recording information: Dragonfly Studios; Laughing Tiger Studios; Toolshed Sound Lab.

Barnyard Dance: Jug Band Music For Kids

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Nathan James - This Road Is Mine

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Pacific Blues
Released: 2003
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 104,1 MB
Time: 44:56
Art: full

1. Don'tcha Feel So Good - 3:26
2. Sugar Mountain Blues - 3:55
3. Sweet Lovin' Kind - 3:02
4. Hip Shakin' Mama - 2:07
5. Please Slow Down - 4:21
6. Promenade Breakdown - 4:01
7. Woke Up With Blues In My Fingers - 3:09
8. This Road Is Mine - 4:25
9. Good Thing Blues - 3:55
10. Ain't This A Comeback - 5:16
11. Took My Saviors Hand - 2:52
12. If I Let You Get Away With It Once - 4:22


Personnel:
Nathan James - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Foot Percussion
Ben Hernández - Harmonica, Vocals, Washtub Bass, Kazoo
James Harman - Harmonica, Vocals, Shaker, Producer

Notes: Drawing from a deep well of influences from many early roots artists and styles, James was quickly attracted to the individuality of self made music and artistic expression. While simultaneously discovering the guitar and the blues at age 13, Nathan James has since been in complete focus as to where his life goal would lead. Growing up in the small town of Fallbrook Ca, has been influential in deciding to choose this path. "There wasn't a lot to do here, so you either got in trouble, or found something productive to do!" Having supportive parents that didn't force him into the usual college after high school allowed Nathan to go straight into the 'real working world' of playing music. "Part of it was luck that I was able to get paying gigs right off the bat!" Local San Diego blues bands the Blues Pharaohs and Billy Watson gave Nathan a chance to get his feet wet with enough local gigs to support himself literally a month after graduating high school! This led to also working with well known Southern California blues acts Jamie Wood, and Johnny Dyer. At age 19 Nathan got the call from internationally known blues veteran James Harman to join his band and tour the country. With Harman is where he gained the experience that has shaped most of his own career.

After touring and recording nonstop with Harman for 3 1/2 years, Nathan decided to have a go at literally a solo career- that is playing one man acoustic based blues. This was instantly successful, leading to playing over 30 gigs a month at times!! With the strain of carrying the entire show by yourself all the time, Nathan met up with harmonica player/vocalist Ben Hernandez, a like minded young blues roots musician aficionado, and together they started working as a duo. As word spread of these two and their ability to bring back to life the spirit of duos like Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcghee country blues, they gained international notoriety while traveling all over the West Coast and; In 2007, they entered the International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN, and took 1st place! This really has made their reputation spread like wildfire. That year alone the duo traveled to Denmark, Italy and Taiwan. During his career Nathan has worked with other many well known artists including: Kim Wilson, Pinetop Perkins, Billy Boy Arnold, Lazy Lester, Johnny Dyer, Janiva Magness, Rick Holmstrom, Mark Hummel and Gary Primich.

Currently Nathan’s three piece band is forging a cumulative sound that combines elements of 1920's acoustic blues, amplified juke joint hill country, and 1950's uptown blues mixed with 1960's soulful R&B! Influences range from Tampa Red, to B.B. King, to James Brown and the Famous Flames. This is not your average blues power trio that leans towards the much abused "blues rock" formula. Instead each member in the band knows all the nuances of the different feels and tones. Knowing how to get people's attention, Nathan will often go out solo from the bandstand and burst into a frenzied ragtime breakdown that can lead to a washboard solo on his custom LED lit 'Washtar Gitboard'! Another unique aspect of a live show is band mate Troy Sandow. He may start off the set on upright bass while Nathan will play an uptown lead guitar style in the vein of B.B. or T-bone Walker. Then he will switch over to amplified harmonica and Nathan will fingerpick a driving groove on his baritone guitar in the style of R.L. Burnside or Lightnin' Hopkins. Although Nathan's band pays homage to these traditions and has the same quality of musicianship, there is an original and fresh new energy coming from musicians of a much younger generation.
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This Road Is Mine



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John Dee Holeman - Bull Durham Blues

Styles: Piedmont Blues, Acoustic Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Texas Blues
Released: Jun 8, 1999
Label: Music Maker
File: mp3 @320k/s
Size: 103 MB
Art: full

1. Give Me Back My Wig (Hopkins, Taylor) - 4:12
2. Step It up and Go (Traditional) - 3:11
3. Little Country Gal (Spann) - 3:15
4. Sweet Home Chicago (Johnson) - 3:53
5. Hello Central (Hopkins) - 3:12
6. Early Morning Blues (Morganfield) - 3:06
7. Crow Jane (Traditional) - 2:26
8. Mistreated Blues (Traditional) - 4:51
9. Big Boss Man (Dixon, Smith) - 3:40
10. Stranger Blues (Traditional) - 3:16
11. Hambone (Traditional) - 2:20
12. God Loves His Children (Flatt, Scruggs) - 2:48
13. Chapel Hill Boogie (Holeman) - 2:56

Personnel:
All songs performed by
John Dee Holeman - Guitar, Vocals, Hambone
Täj Mähäl - Bass (4), Guitar (13), Piano (8), Hambone (11)

Notes: Piedmont bluesman John Dee Holeman mixes a little Texas into his North Carolina guitar approach, even covering Lightnin' Hopkins' "Give Me Back My Wig" as the first track of Bull Durham Blues, his debut album. Holeman isn't as irascible as Hopkins, with a gentle vocal approach that's closer to Mississippi John Hurt in demeanor, and his guitar playing isn't as distinctive as either Hopkins or Hurt, but he gets the job done with a good deal of charm. On songs like the easy, relaxed "Crow Jane" (a wonderful example of how to use the floating verses that are in every good bluesman's tool kit), the gentle "Little Country Gal," and the slightly paranoid "Stranger Blues," Holeman conjures up a timeless, back porch feel without getting too about it. The half-spoken, half-rapped "Hambone" is a clear highlight, with Holeman doing the hambone with a buckdancer's grace. Recorded in 1998 in Pinnacle, N.C., Bull Durham features Taj Mahal on several tracks helping out on bass, guitar, piano and the hambone, too.

Bull Durham Blues



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Oznake: John Dee Holeman, Piedmont Blues, Acoustic Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Texas Blues

VA - Arhoolie 40th Anniversary: The Journey

This 5 Compact Disc, Grammy winning set of 106 songs, by 96 artists clocks in at over 6 hours, all recorded by our President and founder Chris Strachwitz. It comes in a large format 12 x 12 inch box. Inside, we put together a big 68 page color book, filled with over 120 photos from the Arhoolie Archives, and a 41,000 word history of Arhoolie Records by music writer Elijah Wald. Each song has it's own description detailing Chris' fascinating journey through America's musical landscape. This is 40+ years of authentic, raw, down home roots music, all in one amazing package.

Album: Arhoolie 40th Anniversary: The Journey CD A 1954-1965
Size: 180,4 MB
Time: 78:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Label: Arhoolie
Art: Full

01 Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (3:44)
02 K.C. Douglas - Mercury Blues (2:49)
03 Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake Mama (2:52)
04 Lil' Son Jackson - Cairo Blues (2:31)
05 Robert Curtis Smith & Wade Walton - Barbershop Rhythm (2:26)
06 Willie Thomas & Butch Cage - One Thin Dime (4:47)
07 Hodges Brothers, The - Charmin' Betsy (2:54)
08 Alex Moore - Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues (3:07)
09 Black Ace - I Am The Black Ace (4:16)
10 Big Joe Williams - Brother James (3:38)
11 Mercy Dee - Lady Luck (2:48)
12 R.C. Smith - Don't Drive Me Away (2:27)
13 Zydeco Announcer - Zydeco Introduction (0:54)
14 Albert Chevalier - Bernadette Chere (3:57)
15 Lightnin' Hopkins - Bald Headed Woman (3:51)
16 Blind James Campbell - Baby Please Don't Go (2:20)
17 Rev. Louis Overstreet - Believe On Me (2:41)
18 George Lewis - Low Down Blues (5:12)
19 J.E. Mainer - The Country Blues (3:02)
20 Hackberry Ramblers - Crowley Waltz (2:14)
21 Booker T. Washington White - She'll Be Comin' 'round The Mountain (3:03)
22 Clifton Chenier - Ay, Ai Ai (2:26)
23 Mississippi Fred McDowell - Write Me A Few Lines (3:37)
24 Mance Lipscomb - James, Charlie (3:35)
25 Clifton Chenier - Louisiana Blues (3:04)

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Album: Arhoolie 40th Anniversary: The Journey CD B 1965-1971
Size: 182,2 MB
Time: 78:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Label: Arhoolie
Art: Full

01 John Jackson - Cindy (2:10)
02 Big Mama Thornton - Little Red Rooster (4:27)
03 Isom Fontenot - La Betaille (1:34)
04 Balfa Brothers & Nathan Abshire - Calcasieu Waltz (3:29)
05 Eibisberger Duo - Almlied (2:30)
06 Del McCoury - I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (2:41)
07 Jerry Hahn Quintet - In The Breeze (6:29)
08 Juke Boy Bonner - Going Back To The Country (2:59)
09 Johnny Young - Sometimes I Cry (2:54)
10 Earl Hooker - Two Bugs And A Roach (4:20)
11 John Littlejohn - Dream (4:48)
12 Bee Houston - Things Gonna Get Better (3:11)
13 Sonny Simmons - Visions (6:09)
14 Bongo Joe - I Wish I Could Sing (3:15)
15 Whistlin' Alex Moore - Boogieing In Strasbourg (5:07)
16 Big Joe Williams - The Death Of Doctor King (2:53)
17 Lightnin' Hopkins - Please Settle In Vietnam (4:14)
18 Johnny Woods & Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'em On Down (3:09)
19 Los Pinguinos Del Norte - El Desesperado (5:17)
20 New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, The - Creole Belles (3:03)
21 Charlie Musselwhite - Finger Lickin' Good (3:56)

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Album: Arhoolie 40th Anniversary: The Journey CD C 1971-1979
Size: 170,0 MB
Time: 73:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Label: Arhoolie
Art: Full

01 Austin Pitre - Church Point Breakdown (3:13)
02 Original Herberstein Trio - Gstanzelm Aus Dem Freistriztal (3:36)
03 Charles Ford Band - Gibson Creek Shuffle (3:48)
04 L.C. 'Good Rockin' Robinson - Ups And Downs (6:20)
05 Willie Perryman - You Ain't Got A Chance (2:56)
06 Alphonse 'Bois Sec' Ardoin & Sons - Home Sweet Home (3:19)
07 Bill Neely - Satan's Burning Hell (2:43)
08 Narciso Martínez - Luzita (2:02)
09 Trio San Antonio - Yo Me Enamore (3:47)
10 Trio San Antonio - Borracho Perdido (2:22)
11 J.C. Burris - One Of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) (3:50)
12 Clifton Chenier - Allons A Grand Coteau (Let's Go To Grand Coteau) (3:15)
13 D.L. Menard - Under The Green Oak Tree (En Bas Du Chene Vert) (4:19)
14 Chavela Ortiz - Besos y Copas (3:54)
15 Robert Shaw - Fast Santa Fe (Bear Cat) (1:57)
16 Any Old Time String Band - I'll See You In C-U-B-A (4:50)
17 Conjunto Alma Jarocha - El Balaj (2:08)
18 Los Caporales de Panuco - La Gata (3:37)
19 Klezmorim, The - Beym Rebns Sude (At The Rebbe's Meal) (3:07)
20 Cheese Reed - J'ai Laisse De La Maison (2:25)
21 Don Santiago Jimenez, Sr. - Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio (2:52)
22 Lydia Mendoza - Mi Problema (2:50)

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Album: Arhoolie 40th Anniversary: The Journey CD D 1979-1991
Size: 165,9 MB
Time: 71:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Label: Arhoolie
Art: Full

01 Flaco Jimenez - Grítenme Piedras Del Campo (3:35)
02 John Delafose - Co-Fe (Why) (2:13)
03 Rose Maddox - Single Girl (2:10)
04 Canray Fontenot - Bee De La Manche (2:24)
05 Hector Duhon & Octa Clark - Bosco Stomp (3:15)
06 Santiago Jimenez, Jr. - Negra Ausencia (2:43)
07 Michael Doucet - La Chanson De Cinquante Sous (3:27)
08 Preston Frank - Shake What You Got (2:21)
09 Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band - 'Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) (3:53)
10 Wade Fruge - The Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon (2:11)
11 Chuck Guillory - Jolie Blonde (3:34)
12 Rebirth Brass Band - Here To Stay (P.I.E.) (3:54)
13 Katie Webster - I Know That's Right (3:49)
14 Lawrence 'Black' Ardoin - I've Been There (3:06)
15 Flaco Jimenez - Mentiste Cuando Dijiste (3:25)
16 Los Campesinos De Michoacan - Aguililla (2:25)
17 Odile Falcon - La Reine De La Salle (The Queen Of The Dance Hall) (0:58)
18 Michael Doucet - Chanson De La Sagesse (Ballad Of Wisdom) (2:29)
19 Beausoleil - Hot Chili Mama (3:39)
20 C.J. Chenier - Check Out The Zydeco (3:20)
21 Valerio Longoria, Sr. - El Canoero (4:31)
22 Los Gavilanes De Oakland - Corrido Del Mono (Ballad Of 'The Monkey') (3:27)
23 Omar Shariff - San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town (4:27)

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Album: Arhoolie 40th Anniversary: The Journey CD E 1992-2000
Size: 160,8 MB
Time: 69:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Label: Arhoolie
Art: Full

01 Paramount Singers, The - Mother (3:22)
02 Chatuye - Gumagarrugu (4:39)
03 Aziz Herawi - Khandan-E Amaturi III (4:36)
04 Ivan Cuesta - A Ti, Colombia (3:05)
05 Treme Brass Band - Food Stamp Blues (9:17)
06 Roma Wilson - Ain't It A Shame (2:23)
07 Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band - J'ai Ete Au Bal (6:47)
08 Los Cenzontles - La Mal Sentada (2:21)
09 Rose Maddox - Falling For You (2:50)
10 Paomares Del Bravo - Los Traficantes Del Bravo (3:48)
11 Sonny Treadway - Jesus Will Fix It For You (4:21)
12 Csokolom - Medved Na Lancu (The Bear On The Chain) (1:43)
13 Jose Antonio Moreno - Jale Griego (2:21)
14 Santiago Jimenez, Jr. - El Corrido De Esquiel Hernandez (5:03)
15 Campbell Brothers, The - What's His Name... Jesus! (8:22)
16 Aubrey Ghent - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (4:28)

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Oznake: Various

The 2nd South Carolina String Band - Southern Soldier: Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War

Styles: Old-Timey, String Bands
Label: Independent
Released: 1997
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 167,7 MB
Time: 73:14
Art: full

1. Ol' Dan Tucker - 4:49
2. McLeod's Reel - 2:35
3. Oh! Lud Gals - 3:58
4. Boatman's Dance - 4:29
5. Fisher's Hornpipe/Rickett's Hornpipe - 2:53
6. Zip Coon - 4:16
7. Hard Times, Come Again No More - 3:37
8. John Brown's March - 2:40
9. John Brown's Dream - 1:34
10. Oh, I'm a Good Old Rebel - 3:07
11. Palmetto Quickstep - 4:46
12. Keemo Kimo - 3:33
13. Jackson in the Valley - 3:25
14. Johnny Booker, Circus Jig, Jim Along Josie - 5:37
15. Rock the Cradle, Julie - 4:09
16. Jenny, Get Your Hoecake Done - 3:29
17. The Arkansas Traveller - 2:36
18. Southern Soldier - 5:26
19. Dixie's Land - 6:05


Notes: SOUTHERN SOLDIER is a collection of songs and melodies which were well known to Southerners and Northerners alike; tunes that were a familiar and comfortable part of life in the years leading up to the War Between the States. Many of these compositions were written by the likes of Stephen Foster and Daniel Emmett, who were giants of the popular music industry of their day.
Some of the titles, OL' DAN TUCKER, DIXIE'S LAND and ARKANSAS TRAVELER are still familiar to the modern-day ear. Other titles on this album, though not familiar to the eye, will be quickly recognizable to the ear. ALL selections on this album are performed on authentic instruments of the period and were chosen for the appealing nature of their rhythms and melodies. They are presented with as unique and individual a spirit as one might expect from a true Confederate camp band of the era.
Over the years since 1989, when the band was formed, we have made a concerted effort to grow in the music and the history of those times. This collection of songs and melodies that the soldiers brought with them from home to the war represents the fruit of that growth. It was and continues to be our intent as a group of musicians and living historians to try to capture the spirit and emotion of those tumultuous years. We believe that this album, SOUTHERN SOLDIER, has succeeded in that effort.
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Southern Soldier: Favorite Camp Songs of the Civil War



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Oznake: The 2nd South Carolina String Band, Old-Timey, String Bands

Harrison Kennedy - Soulscape

Size: 123,6 MB
Time: 53:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Harmonica Blues, Folk Blues
Label: Electro-Fi Records
Art: Front

01. Voodoo (4:36)
02. Cat And Mouse Thang (2:46)
03. Back Alley Moan (5:35)
04. Crap Shooter Blues (3:17)
05. Lookin' For Happy (2:47)
06. Tight Grip (2:48)
07. Chain Gang Holler (4:40)
08. Sport Fishin' (3:19)
09. Chairman Of The Board (3:35)
10. Nothin' To Lose (3:33)
11. 2 Bullets Later (3:06)
12. Caught You Creepin' (3:45)
13. Nappy's Metaphysical Rag (2:24)
14. Tragedy (6:56)

Soulscape is 2013 Blues Music Award Nominee Harrison Kennedy's newest offering. Once best known as a founding member of The Chairmen of the Board, Holland Dozier Holland's million selling 70's Soul supergroup, Harrison, by going back to his roots, has now established himself as one of the most original and innovative Blues singer/songwriters on the modern day Blues scene. The fourteen songs (13 originals) on Soulscape showcase both Harrison's ultra soulful voice and his stellar song writing abilities.

Soulscape



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Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Harmonica Blues, Folk-Blues, Harrison Kennedy

Paul Zunno - Solo Acoustic

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:32
Size: 97.4 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:08] 1. Sweet Charity
[2:33] 2. Hold Me Up
[3:10] 3. Rosa
[1:37] 4. Mexico
[4:42] 5. Baby Please
[2:44] 6. Lonely Avenue
[2:37] 7. Love Me Two Times
[2:30] 8. My Girl
[1:49] 9. Buzzin'
[2:21] 10. Jolene
[3:37] 11. Roll Away
[2:35] 12. Jesus Gonna Be Here
[3:07] 13. Slowly And Softly
[2:39] 14. Chyosan
[3:16] 15. All Along The Watchtower


Paul Zunno, renowned for his lighting fast hands on the guitar and soulful singing, grew up in East Northport, Long Island. The self-taught blues/rock guitarist has led a sterling career performing with giants of the music world. In addition to playing alongside some of the music industry's top professionals his songs can be heard in film and television. Zunno held the distinct honor of playing lead guitar for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Wilson Pickett. He appeared on 'The Late Show with David Letterman' in support of Pickett's last album and performed in the Miramax film, 'Only the Strong Survive'; a movie about legendary soul singers. Zunno toured throughout the U. S., Europe and Australia with Wilson Pickett for seven years until his passing in 2006.

Paul Zunno has also written and recorded songs for Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame inductee Gary U.S Bonds including 'Christmas is On', featured in 2007's holiday film 'A Merry Little Christmas'. His music has been licensed for television, including MTV's 'The Real World' and most recently on Fox's 'So You Think You Can Dance'Zunno has released three diverse albums for Charm City Records that incorporate blues, rock and authentic roots music; 'The Honeybee', 'Black & White and Blues All Over' and 'Paul Zunno - Solo Acoustic'. Americana Homeplace included the "Solo Acoustic" CD in their top picks for 2008. His music receives international radio airplay. In 2008, he released the single, 'Hold Me Up - Benefit for 9/11 First Responders' with all proceeds from the sale of the song being donated to the FealGood Foundation. The FealGood Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to ill 9/11 first responders. 'Hold Me Up' was hand picked from his solo acoustic CD and re-worked into a full band version.

Paul Zunno has performed at festivals and theaters throughout the United States and Canada as a solo artist and with his band. He has truly earned his reputation as an outstanding live performer with his combination of 'stories behind the music' and a downright blow-the-roof-off-joint execution and technique as a guitarist. Southland Blues Magazine describes him as, "Borne from the blues, tempered by rock with gritty vocals and a magic guitar." Zunno has lived in New York City for the past 20 years and is currently performing his solo acoustic concert in a residency at New York City Center Studios in Manhattan.

Solo Acoustic

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Oznake: Paul Zunno, Acoustic Blues

Little Willie Littlefield - Yellow Boogie & Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:02
Size: 148.9 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Jump blues, Boogie woogie
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[3:37] 1. Everyday I Have The Blues
[3:44] 2. New Orleans Blues
[3:33] 3. Goodmorning Judge
[3:25] 4. The Last Date
[2:07] 5. Do You Want To Boogie
[4:20] 6. Georgia On My Mind
[2:18] 7. Rancho Grande
[3:26] 8. Lowdown Shame
[5:00] 9. Me And My Bobby McGee
[2:51] 10. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[5:20] 11. Stormy Monday Blues
[2:34] 12. Rocking Chair Boogie
[4:58] 13. Chief And Job Blues
[2:22] 14. Rockin' The Blues
[3:12] 15. Gonna Tell My Mama
[3:59] 16. Lucky Old Sun
[2:22] 17. Trembling
[3:59] 18. Wampie Blues
[2:35] 19. Those Kansas City Nights


Before he was 21 years old, Texas-born pianist Little Willie Littlefield had etched an all-time classic into the blues lexicon. Only trouble was, his original 1952 waxing of "Kansas City" (titled "K.C. Loving") didn't sell sufficiently to show up on the charts (thus leaving the door open for Wilbert Harrison to invade the airwaves with the ubiquitous Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition seven years later).

Influenced by Albert Ammons, Charles Brown, and Amos Milburn, Little Willie was already a veteran of the R&B recording wars by the time he waxed "K.C. Loving," having made his debut 78 in 1948 for Houston-based Eddie's Records while still in his teens. After a few sides for Eddie's and Freedom, he moved over to the Bihari brothers' Los Angeles-headquartered Modern logo in 1949. There he immediately hit paydirt with two major R&B hits, "It's Midnight" and "Farewell" (he added another chart entry, "I've Been Lost," in 1951).

Littlefield proved a sensation upon moving to L.A. during his Modern tenure, playing at area clubs and touring with a band that included saxist Maxwell Davis. At Littlefield's first L.A. session for King's Federal subsidiary in 1952, he cut "K.C. Loving" (with Davis on sax), but neither it nor several fine Federal follow-ups returned the boogie piano specialist to the charts.

Other than a few 1957-58 singles for Oakland's's Rhythm logo, little was heard from Little Willie Littlefield until the late '70s, when he began to mount a comeback at various festivals and on the European circuit. While overseas, he met a Dutch woman, married her, and settled in the Netherlands, where he remains active musically. ~ Bill Dahl

Yellow Boogie & Blues

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Oznake: Little Willie Littlefield, Piano Blues

John Hammond - John Hammond Live

Size: 170,2 MB
Time: 72:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1983/1991
Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues, Blues Folk
Label: Rounder
Art: Full

01. I Wish You Would (4:41)
02. Saddle My Pony (3:29)
03. Cat Man Blues (4:07)
04. Custard Pie (3:10)
05. One Kind Favor (4:00)
06. I Can't Be Satisfied (4:09)
07. Dust My Broom (4:30)
08. Low Down Dog (4:25)
09. Little School Girl (3:23)
10. Shake For Me (3:18)
11. Drop Down Mama (4:40)
12. Texas Tornado (4:02)
13. Steady Rollin' Man (4:37)
14. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby (3:19)
15. Sail On (4:20)
16. Wang Dang Doodle (3:37)
17. Honeymoon Blues (3:26)
18. I'm Movin' On (5:01)

John Hammond has dealt with issues of authenticity and origin, both musical and personal, and moved beyond them. This 18-song session, recorded live in 1983 and recently reissued on CD, may have been his definitive session. It was certainly a masterpiece, with Hammond doing confident, thoroughly distinctive versions of signature Delta and Chicago blues classics by Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Son House and others. While "Dust My Broom," "Drop Down Mama," "Wang Dang Doodle" and all the rest have certainly been done to death, Hammond's spirited vocals, riveting guitar work on acoustic or bottleneck and his overall charismatic performances made them seem like fresh discoveries. ~Review by Ron Wynn

John Hammond Live



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Oznake: John Hammond, Modern Acoustic Blues, Folk-Blues

Bob Brozman Orchestra - Lumiere

Styles: World, Hawaiian Traditional, Acoustic Blues
Label: Riverboat
Released: 2007
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 95,6 MB
Time: 41:32
Art: front

1. Tango Medzinarodny [International Tango] - 4:58
2. Lumiere - 3:12
3. Mars Over Sorrento - 4:24
4. N'Oubliez Pas La Réunion - 5:12
5. Calypso Calaloo - 4:07
6. Chaturangui Gazal - 3:47
7. Mazurka Maracaibo - 2:44
8. Aloha Laie - 1:32
9. Bamako Blues - 4:09
10. Ska Waltz Train - 3:10
11. Afro Mada - 4:42
12. Yaeyama Okinawa - 2:44


Personnel:
Daniel Thomas (guitar, snare drum, bongos, ghatam, kanjira, talking drum, surdo, timbales, triangle, gong)
Bob Brozman (guitars, slide guitar, National guitar, baritone guitar, baglama, charango, kantele, ukulele, marimba, cajon drums, claves, rattle, temple blocks, triangle, wood block, ron roco)
Bruce Maurier, Stanley Poplin (bass)

Notes: The Bob Brozman Orchestra is both a misnomer and the absolute truth, since the "orchestra" is made up of Brozman himself, multi-track on a multiplicity of plucked and percussion instruments. Anyone familiar with his playing knows he's a whiz in all manner of styles from around the globe, and he illustrates that perfectly here, on compositions that allow a lot of improvisation -- no mean feat when you consider the number of instruments here. In many ways, this is a culmination of all he's done before, bringing together the strands of his previous work, whether it's the Indian Ocean influence so evident on "N'Oubliez Pas La Reunion," the gorgeous ghazal of "Chaturangui Gazal," or the eerie Eastern lullaby of "Yaeyama Okinawa." The sheer variety of styles here is staggering, with Brozman masterful in them all. But, in typical fashion, everything comes with a slight twist. His ska, "Ska Waltz Train" is in 3/4 time, while the opening cut, "Lumiere de La Mer," brings together a mishmash of island styles that seem to blend perfectly. It's a masterwork, from someone who knows his stuff, and the pleasure he takes in his playing is palpable.

Lumiere



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Oznake: Bob Brozman, World, Acoustic Blues

Habib Koité & Eric Bibb - Brothers in Bamako

Styles: World, African-West, Acoustic Blues, Contemporary Blues
Label: Stony Plain
Released: 2012
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 120,6 MB
Time: 52:40
Art: front + back

1. On My Way To Bamako - 3:15
2. L.A. - 5:37
3. Touma Ni Kelen ~ Needed Time - 4:40
4. Tombouctou - 4:03
5. We Don't Care - 4:00
6. Send Us Brighter Days - 3:58
7. Nani Le - 2:31
8. Khafole - 4:18
9. With My Maker Iam One - 4:26
10. Foro Bana - 5:24
11. Mami Wata - 1:35
12. Blowin' In The Wind - 4:45
13. Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad - 4:00


Notes: The Stony Plain label, justly famed for myriad expositions of roots music via a cascade of legendary long-timers and incandescent newcomers is, in Brothers in Bamako by Habib Koité and Eric Bibb, lately giving the excellent Putamayo label a run for the money by releasing this compendium of mellifluous, enchanting, sigh-filled evocations of beauty, reminiscence, reflection, and humane commentary. Chiefly just the two gents Koité and Bibb singing and fingerpicking, with some session work added in here and there, the sound field is magically filled with delicate scintillating guitar work and light flowing vocals. Once the amber tones of Bamako disc start wafting through the room, everyone's gonna lighten up and smile.
The affinities between this blend of South African, folk, and blues musics is strongly mirrored in South American strains as well, in the gentler, easier-going selections from the samba / bossa / etc. catalogue. More than once, I was also reminded of recent excellent releases by James Lee Stanley and John Batdorf, and a number of times I found my fingers snapping oh so coolly, just like a Djavan LP was playing. The threads to Nick Drake are just as evident as there's a consummate ethereality running throughout the CD—whether you care to attribute it to a more cosmic mindset or not is your decision, but Donovan had a number of cuts that still ring down the years and are extremely kindred to Bamako atmospheres.
Taj Mahal and the like have sewn this kind of highly attractive strain into their repertoires, but Koité & Bibb present an entire 13-cut delicacy before us, and one can very easily drift off to sleep while listening, carried away from the clamor and insistence of the wearying world. Bamako reminds us that not everything is stress, furious intensity, and callousness, the disc gently beckoning one and all back to their human sides, where we live for the pleasure of living alone. Listeners know that any CD can be a risk—it might be 30% good, 50%, whatever—but this is one is a 100%-er, plain pure heaven. You might even call it medicine.
A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark S. Tucker

“It’s my first trip to West Africa. But I’m pretty sure, in some kind of way, it’s gonna feel like coming home”
Renowned blues musician, Eric Bibb, sings that revelation in the title track of his new disc with fellow renowned musician Habib Koite, On My Way to Bamako, and joining Habib in the capital city of Mali with his family. This warm and inviting blend of blues and world music is a delight to hear and experience as two songwriters journey to each other’s worlds. Habib praises ‘tequila time’ making him happy in “L.A” as he follows a hilarious line about taking five shots of the liquor.
Many of the tracks like fall under the category of spiritual awareness, but not tied to particular religious dogma. It’s more about reconnecting to each other and the land. “We Don’t Care” and “Send Us Brighter Days” are like a supplication to a deeper, interconnected life in two parts. Eric makes it very plain how intertwined both sinner and saint are to the Higher Power or God on the track, “With My Maker I am One”. Overall, a solid folk/blues treat that does indeed feel to coming home to me.

Brothers in Bamako



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Oznake: Habib Koité, Eric Bibb, World, African-West, Acoustic Blues, Contemporary Blues, mali

Sam Mitchell - Follow You Down

Styles: British Blues, Acoustic Blues
Label: Kicking Mule
Released: 1978
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 83,9 MB
Time: 36:39
Art: front + back

1. Part Time Love - 3:01
2. Travelling Riverside Blues - 2:32
3. Chasing Chickens - 2:18
4. Twice The Man - 3:30
5. Blues In The Bottle - 2:26
6. Lumbar Puncture - 2:41
7. Preachin' Blues - 2:51
8. (Baby Let Me) Follow You Down - 2:27
9. Bad Little Girl - 2:58
10. Cat's Eyes - 2:39
11. Broke Down And Hungry - 3:20
12. Hellhound On My Trail - 3:05
13. Why Get Worried - 2:44


Personnel:
Steve York - bass
Jeff Rich - drums
Charlie Musselwhite - harmonica

Notes: This album was recorded in London 1978 during the same sessions as ¨The Harmonica According to Charlie Musselwhite¨. Charlie plays on some tracks. It is out of print but the tracks are on the compilation CD ¨The Art Of Bottleneck Guitar¨
Sam Mitchell’s imaginative slide playing has appeared on works by an incredible range of artists, including Jim Capaldi, Rod Stewart, Uncle Dog (featuring Carol Grimes) and The Who (the full list is much more extensive), while in his lifetime he was called the UK’s finest slide guitarist.
Born April 21 1950 in Liverpool, where he grew up, his dad was a professional Hawaiian/jazz guitarist, and a member of Felix Mendelssohn’s Hawaiian Serenaders. Sammy began his career in 1966 playing folk clubs in Liverpool and then Brighton, before gravitating to London. He was inspired by the sound of Robert Johnson to take up slide guitar, and while playing in a London folk club he was discovered by Rod Stewart and Long John Baldry.
His slide style reached an international audience with appearances on Rod Stewart’s albums “Gasoline Alley” (1970) and “Every Picture Tells A Story” (1971). A foreshortened live set by The Sam Mitchell Blues Band featured in BBC TV’s “Sight and Sound in Concert”

Follow You Down



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Oznake: Sam Mitchell, British Blues, Acoustic Blues, England

Pierce Crask - Live At The Shaved Duck

Size: 100,0 MB
Time: 43:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Folk
Label: Pierce Crask
Art: Front

01. West End Blues (3:40)
02. Long Hot Summer (3:38)
03. Loser's Game (2:51)
04. Especially You (3:15)
05. Cocaine Eyes (2:45)
06. Everything That Glitters (2:48)
07. Fading Fast (3:47)
08. Smile (4:38)
09. Look On Your Face (3:39)
10. Bring the Pain (3:05)
11. Walking Blues (3:54)
12. City of New Orleans (4:59)

"Live at The Shaved Duck", recorded in one night in November of 2012, showcases Pierce Crask on vocals, guitar, harmonica, and foot-taps, burning through 10 original numbers drawing from every phase of his career, and closing with 2 choice covers: an energetic version of Robert Johnson's "Walkin' Blues" and Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans".

A great recorded portrait of a solo singer-songwriter in a very intimate club setting.

Live At The Shaved Duck



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Oznake: Pierce Crask, Acoustic Blues, Country Folk

Smoky Babe & Herman E. Johnson - Louisiana Country Blues

Styles: Louisiana Blues, Country Blues, Acoustic Blues
Label: Arhoolie
Released: 1996
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 183,4 MB
Time: 78:47
Art: full

1. I'm Broke And I'm Hungry - 2:57
2. Too Many Women - 2:46
3. Two Wings - 2:13
4. Mississippi River - 3:16
5. My Baby She Told Me - 2:36
6. Rabbit Blues - 3:25
7. Black Ghost - 5:02
8. Ain't Got No Rabbit Dog - 3:18
9. Bad Whiskey - 2:42
10. Black Gal - 3:50
11. My Baby Put Me Down - 3:14
12. Going Back Home - 2:50
13. Regular Blues - 2:34
14. I Just Keeps On Wanting You - 2:48
15. You Don't Know My Mind - 3:52
16. Motherless Children - 4:04
17. Depression Blues - 4:45
18. She's A-Looking For Me - 3:20
19. She Had Been Drinking - 2:31
20. I'm Growing Older - 5:09
21. Po' Boy - 3:21
22. Leavin' Blues - 3:14
23. Piano Blues - 2:19
24. Where The Mansion's Prepared For Me - 2:30

Oznake: Smoky Babe, Herman E. Johnson, Louisiana Blues, Country Blues, Acoustic Blues

Eric Bibb, Rory Block & Maria Muldaur - Sisters & Brothers

Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Contemporary Blues, Folk-Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues
Label: Telarc
Released: 2004
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 120,4 MB
Time: 52:35
Art: full

1. Rock Daniel - 2:09
2. Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - 3:27
3. Get Up Get Ready - 4:28
4. Lean On Me - 4:06
5. Bessie's Advice - 7:17
6. Good Stuff - 3:02
7. Rolling Log - 2:49
8. Gotta Serve Somebody - 5:34
9. Travelin' Woman Blues - 4:29
10. Little Rain - 4:06
11. Maggie Campbell - 2:58
12. Give A Little More - 3:20
13. My Sisters And Brothers - 4:44

Personnel:
Eric Bibb - Guitar, Vocals
Rory Block - Guitar, Vocals
Maria Muldaur - Vocals
Chris Burns - Piano, Wurlitzer, Wurlitzer Piano
Per Hanson - Drums
Mudcat Ward - Bass (Upright), Double Bass

Notes: Sisters and Brothers is a dynamic collection of blues. There isn't a bad track to be found, each one taking you in a new direction. This threesome gives their very best, never once overshadowing someone else. Each artists expressive originality truly compliments the other, highlighting their strengths and creativity. This trio opens the door to a different side of the blues, the hopeful, uplifting, inspiring side. You'll be pleasantly surprised just how infectious this recording becomes, as you play it again and again. It's a genuine "feel good" album with lots of toe-tappin' energy. I highly recommend you dive right into this one.
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Sisters & Brothers



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Oznake: Eric Bibb, Rory Block, Maria Muldaur, Contemporary Blues, Folk-Blues, Acoustic Blues

Skip James - Vanguard Visionaries

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:10
Size: 87.4 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[1:52] 1. I'm So Glad
[5:11] 2. Devil Got My Woman
[3:52] 3. 22-20 Blues
[3:19] 4. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
[3:15] 5. Look Down The Road
[4:07] 6. Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues
[4:20] 7. Cypress Grove Blues
[5:07] 8. Special Rider Blues
[2:57] 9. Look At The People Standing At The Judgement
[4:04] 10. Sickbed Blues


Legendary bluesman Skip James might not be a familiar name for many music fans, yet he's influenced countless artists from Ry Cooder and John Fahey to Jon Spencer and the North Mississippi All-Stars. Here, James is given the budget comp treatment with a collection of songs that include standards such as "Devil Got My Woman" and "Hard Time Killin Floor Blues." If you're not familiar with Skip, the Vanguard set works as a solid introduction.

Vanguard Visionaries

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Oznake: Skip James, Delta Blues

Little Joe Ayers - Backatchya

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:03
Size: 116.9 MB
Styles: Hill Country blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:20] 1. Don't Leave Me Baby
[4:17] 2. I'm Sorry
[3:22] 3. Anywhere I Go
[4:01] 4. Train
[4:47] 5. Do The Romp
[4:26] 6. Feel Alright
[3:32] 7. Do The Bump
[3:21] 8. Keep Your Hands Off Her
[3:59] 9. Got My Eyes On You
[3:36] 10. Two Trains Running
[3:55] 11. I Asked For Water
[3:15] 12. .44
[4:06] 13. Made The Boy Love You


Now that blues legends R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough are no longer with us, I am certain most fans would agree that the North Mississippi Hill Country scene just isn't the same. And this style as a whole would no doubt be in jeopardy of finding itself shelved somewhere in the vast archives of music history, if not for the few remaining artists whose time has come to step forward from the backing bands of the greats to becoming greats themselves. Devil Down Records knows the importance of the continuation of Hill Country blues, as evidenced by the release of two particular albums over the course of this year, first with Can't Stay Long, the two-disc set by blues veteran Kenny Brown, who is known for having played in R.L. Burnside's band, and more recently with Backatchya, an album by Little Joe Ayers, talented bluesman and longtime member of Junior Kimbrough's Soul Blues Boys.

It was only recently that I got my hands on Little Joe Ayers' Backatchya album. Made up of both previously unreleased originals and Hill Country classics, Backatchya isn't just a remarkable collection of songs, it's also a statement of sorts, telling those of us who value this style of music and lament its extinction that the last of the true bluesmen have not gone, that Little Joe Ayers is still here to lay it down with as much soul and grit as they always have.

Speaking of the way it's always been done, while listening to the thirteen songs on Backatchya, one can definitely take note of the way Ayers' sound holds certain similarities to that of the late Junior Kimbrough, along with something altogether his own. In other words, his sound is still a unique version of country blues, with minimial chord changes and unorthodox song structures, the repetition and catchy note work, and a steady groove throughout, coupled with his soulful Southern vocals, cool attitude, and plenty of heart. As with most blues material, Ayers' lyrical content is often centered on real life. The entire album is just Little Joe Ayers playing acoustic guitar and singing; no additional instrumentation, no studio effects, and nothing unnatural to the live song. Indeed these are the type of blues songs that can be played while sitting on the front porch by oneself. Backatchya might as well be an old field recording from the late '50s or early '60s. ~James Carlson

Recording information: Kenny Brown's Front Porch, MS.

Little Joe Ayers (vocals, guitar).

Backatchya

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Oznake: Little Joe Ayers, Country Blues

Larry Johnson - Presenting The Country Blues

Styles: Delta Blues, East Coast Blues, Acoustic Blues
Recorded: 1964
Released: 1969
Label: Blue Horizont
File: mp3 @320K/s (from vinyl)
Size: 73.5 MB
Time: 32:13
Art: front + back

1. Catfish Blues - 2:32
2. Southern Train - 2:39
3. Lonesome Town Blues - 2:29
4. Southern Carolina Boogie - 2:08
5. Sail On Baby - 2:29
6. When I Go Home - 2:26
7. Trouble In MInd - 2:21
8. So Sweet - 2:10
9. Cherry Red - 2:34
10. Step It Up And Go - 1:44
11. When Things Go Wrong - 2:01
12. Troubles Just Begun - 2:39
13. Lovin' Machine - 1:58
14. Say What You Mean - 1:56

rec. in New York City, 1964 [cover says 1966]; prod. by Bobby Robinson

Personnel:
Larry Johnson - Guitar, Vocals

Notes: Among the postwar generation of blues artists, Larry Johnson -- from Riceville, GA -- is one of the most devoted to the pure Delta and Texas styles of the '20s. He was born on May 5, 1938, in Fulton County, GA. His father was a preacher and his son would often travel with him from town to town. In this environment, Johnson was exposed to early blues records and he especially loved those of Blind Boy Fuller. It was Fuller's records that made Johnson pick up a guitar. After a stint in the Navy from 1955 to 1959, Johnson moved to New York and befriended Brownie and Sticks McGhee and began playing on records by Big Joe Williams, Harry Atkins, and Alec Seward (aka Guitar Slim). It was Seward who introduced Johnson to his future mentor, Rev. Gary Davis. He released his first single, "Catfish Blues"/"So Sweet," in 1962 and appeared on numerous live dates with Davis. By 1970, Johnson began releasing albums on small labels, including a date with John Hammond called Fast & Funky reissued on CD as Midnight Hour Blues. After years of living from gig to gig, Johnson retreated from the grind of the road. He still played ocassionally, but only on his own terms. He did, however, manage to release two albums, Johnson! Where Did You Get That Sound? in 1983 and Basin Free with Nat Riddles in 1984. By the '90s, Johnson began receiving better offers for live performances, especially in Europe. While abroad, he recorded Railroad Man released in 1990 on JSP and Blues for Harlem in 1999 on the Armadillo label. Two years later, Johnson collaborated with National slide guitar extrodonaire Brian Kramer and his band the Couch Lizards, resulting in the relaxed, yet mainly up-tempo, Two Gun Green on Armadillo. Johnson's excellent fingerpicking and acoustic blues have brought him to creating an approachment that remains timeless.

Presenting The Country Blues



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Oznake: Larry Johnson, Delta Blues, East Coast Blues, Acoustic Blues

Bo Carter - Twist It Baby: Bo Carter 1931-1940

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Yazoo
Released:
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 92,3 MB
Time: 40:19
Art: front

1. The Law Gonna Step On You - 2:40
2. Honey - 2:44
3. Shake 'Em On Down - 3:10
4. Rolling Blues - 2:37
5. Howling Tom Cat Blues - 2:28
6. Policy Blues - 3:03
7. My Baby - 3:00
8. Twist It, Baby - 3:17
9. Some Day - 2:47
10. Doubled Up In A Knot - 2:50
11. I Get The Blues - 2:53
12. Let Me Roll You Lemon - 2:54
13. Pussy Cat Blues - 2:48
14. Bo Carter Special - 3:03


Notes: This Yazoo release compiles fourteen sides by Bo Carter recorded between 1931 and 1940. Carter was an extremely prolific recording artist, and "Twist it Babe" is a solid introduction to his body of solo work. His originality and virtousity on the guitar, often overlooked due to his propensity for double entendre, put him technically on par with other "uncopyable" bluesmen such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Robert Pete Williams.
If you have a problem with "dirty blues", then this album, and Bo Carter all together, are really not for you, however, he is a master of country blues guitar and this album is a great place to start. The production and sound are as clean and clear as you will find in the 1930's.
The listener of this album will witness his utter disregard for standard blues phrasing and cliched licks. You will discover through repeated listening that his seemingly simple and catchy songs are actually quite complex arrangements, featuring skills and techniques that remain absolutely unique within the blues vernacular. The combination of melodic, harmonic genius and command of counterpoint, and polyrhythmic bass lines are facilitated by the use of all five fingers of his picking hand, and five different tunings on the guitar.

Twist It Baby: Bo Carter 1931-1940



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Oznake: Bo Carter, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues

Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin'

Styles: Acoustic Country Blues, Piedmont Blues
Recorded: 1961
Released: 1989
Label: Prestige/Bluesville
File: mp3 @256kbps
Size: 77.62 MB
Time: 42:01
Art: Front

1. Now Your Man Done Gone - 3:12
2. Hottest Brand Goin' - 4:04
3. Something Wrong With My Machine - 3:37
4. Insect Blues - 3:50
5. Long Way From Home - 3:14
6. I'm Goin' Back To Mississippi - 3:19
7. Melvanie Blues - 2:34
8. Locomotive Blues - 3:58
9. Ocean Blues - 3:09
10. Boogy Woogy Rag - 2:34
11. Coon Hunt - 3:41
12. Cold, Cold Snow - 4:00

Personnel:
Robert Brown 'Smoky Babe' - Guitar, Vocals
Clyde Causey - Harmonica tr.8,11
Henry Thomas - Harmonica tr.3

Notes: Born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, Robert Brown had found his way by the age of 20 to Scotlandville, Louisiana. The folklorist Harry Oster recorded him on numerous occasions in 1959-61 for his own Folk-Lyric label and for Storyville and Prestige/Bluesville. His subseguent life is obscure.
In 'Hottest Brand Goin'', a song that provided the title for the original LP issue of 'The Blues Of Smoky Babe' Smoky cheerfully promotes the Cocono gas station where he was employed. As Harry Oster remarks in his notes, 'his lyrics follow the natural flow of talk...he shifts smoothly back and forth between speaking and singing'. Autobiography is also the impulse behind 'Long Way From Home' and 'I'm Goin' Back To Mississippi', and even blues with less specific resonance like 'Cold, Cold Snow' or 'Insect Blues' blend the commonplace and the personal to striking effect, emphasized by guitar playing that is unfailingly muscular, confident and rhythmically sure.

Hottest Brand Goin'

Originally posted by Bluebird Jun 2009 at 'On muddy Sava riverbank'



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Oznake: Smoky Babe, Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues

Dan Baker - Pistol In My Pocket

Size: 76,3 MB
Time: 32:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Alt. Country, Folk, Americana
Label: Dan Baker
Art: Front

01. Pistol In My Pocket (2:06)
02. Threw Me Down The Well (3:21)
03. Never Alone (2:32)
04. What I'm Looking For (3:40)
05. Up On The Roof (2:09)
06. Down In The Canyon (4:39)
07. One Of Them (3:50)
08. She's Not Gonna Call (2:30)
09. Coming Home (5:08)
10. Not Gonna Say It (2:44)

Dan Baker was living in Chelsea MA, during the recording of his new record. A small city on the outskirts of Boston, Baker describes the city as "A place littered with factories, oil tanks, and pot holes! surrounded by great heaps of salt and scrap metal". Being influenced by his surroundings Baker wrote many songs about the town, one even making it onto the record, the title track "Pistol in my Pocket", Baker states, "That song came about from a conversation I had. I was talking to the clerk at the 7-Eleven down the street. He was telling me about all the times his store had been held up! at one point he said pistol in my pocket and I guess that just got stuck in my head".
The city of Chelsea, luckily for Baker, is also where 1867 Recording Studio is located. A former Masonic Temple, the studio boasts 60 foot vaulted ceilings with walls still equipped with their masonic images and moldings. Baker knew he had found the right place so he called in his band and they got to work. The recording process was fairly straightforward; they all set up in the middle of the temple/live-room and cut everything live.
The result is Dan Baker's third record, "Pistol in my Pocket". A record that finds Baker more matured and in command of his craft. With songs of betrayal and revenge as well as songs of love-lost and love-regained. A small record with a big punch: gritty, raw, but heartfelt and nostalgic, and much like Baker's first two records you'll be hanging onto every word. This is a great record, with everything you've come to expect and more from this great New England based singer/songwriter.

Pistol In My Pocket



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Oznake: Dan Baker, folk, Country, Americana

Dave Arcari & The Hellsinki Hellraisers - Whisky In My Blood

Size: 86,3 MB
Time: 37:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Blue North Records
Art: Front

01. Whisky In My Blood (2:26)
02. Cherry Wine (3:33)
03. Tell Me, Baby (2:06)
04. Travelling Riverside Blues (3:04)
05. Rough Justice (2:03)
06. Day Job (1:30)
07. Still Friends (2:36)
08. Wherever I Go (2:38)
09. See Me Laughing (2:29)
10. Jitterbug Swing (2:51)
11. Third Time Lucky (1:49)
12. Heat Is Rising (3:58)
13. Preachin' Blues (3:31)
14. Get Outta My Way (2:28)

Scottish ‘rabble-rouser’ and all-round good guy Dave Arcari has teamed his ‘take no prisoners’ guitar and vocals with two Finnish musicians on this latest release, “Whisky In My Blood”, on the Finnish record lace, Blue North. He is accompanied on all tracks, bar one, by The Hellsinki Hellraisers – namely Juuso Haapasalo (upright & electric bass) and Honey Aaltonen (snare drum, cymbal, and rub-board).

As ever Dave’s roaring, growling vocals and his flailing National steel guitar are to the fore on the 11 orginals and three covers, but two standout tracks – “Still Friends” and “Third Time Lucky” see a switch to banjo. “Tell Me” has definite rockabilly flavours, and another gem is the driving blues, “Get Outta My Way”.

The Finnish musicians contribute fully to the glorious sound throughout the album, complementing Dave Arcari’s input. The three cover versions present are a brace of Robert Johnson classics, “Walkin’ Blues” and “Preachin’ Blues” – both given a ‘good kicking’ here, as is the oft-recorded “Jitterbug Swing”, from the pen of Bukka White, with the aforementioned ‘swing’ of the title firmly in place!

The raucous title cut “Whisky In My Blood”, is an ode to the ‘fire water’ itself; “Wherever I Go” is another highlight and swaggers along in its own sweet way! The whole collection was recorded live in the studio in Helsinki, and gives the album a great feel . . . with the mixing done in Arcari’s native Glasgow, and mastered in Chicago.

It’s easy to see why Dave Arcari is never off the road, with his never less than 100% commitment and energy to the music and performances he’s certainly the ‘real deal’ . . . . catch him on the road near you somewhere soon I’m sure! ~Review by Graham Rhodes

Whisky In My Blood



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Oznake: Dave Arcari, UK, Finland, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men - Yes, I Believe I Will

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:40
Size: 97.7 MB
Styles: Roots, Folk-blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:24] 1. I Had A Notion
[2:56] 2. Walk On Boy
[3:45] 3. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
[6:15] 4. Country Blues (Hustling Gamblers)
[4:20] 5. Future Blues
[4:34] 6. Wasted Mind
[4:05] 7. Mr. Blue
[4:07] 8. Devil's Side
[4:03] 9. I Know You Rider
[4:07] 10. Rake And Rambling Blade


Steve Howell has created a gentle, Deep South-inspired acoustic troubadour daydream that is sure to appeal to a diverse set of country, blues and roots music fans. ~Living Blues

The blues evolved from solo acoustic music to include a wide stylistic umbrella. It is therefore cause for celebration when a contemporary artist opts to stake his emotional investment in timeless traditions resulting in deeply nuanced music. Initially inspired by Mississippi John Hurt, master Texas acoustic guitarist and singer Steve Howell performs a range of soulful music burning with an inner flame growing brighter with each listening, while revealing layers of expression often lost in high decibel electric blues.

His fourth release finds him in the estimable company of his friends Chris Michaels (electric and acoustic guitars, bass), Dave Hoffpauir (drums) and Jason Weinheimer (keyboards) who once backed the late, renowned Jim Dickinson. A unique set of ten modern and prewar covers constitutes an extraordinary musical ramble. The mid-tempo country blues “I Had a Notion” (1976) immediately confirms his true blues creds as a guitarist and singer as he casts an evocative rural spell on the Terry Garthwaite tune containing the line “Yes, I believe I will.” “Walk on Boy” (1960) by Mel Tillis has a lilting, olde tyme feel enhanced by nimble picking , the uncommonly supple groove of Hoffpauir and the fluid electric licks from Michaels in a classic country boast with lyrics like “Well, I left my mammy and pappy, just about the age of ten. I got me a job, workin’ on the levee, totin’ water for the hard workin’ men.” A somber mood is evinced on the shuffling “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning” (1928) by the legendary bottlenecker Blind Willie Johnson who sang sacred and secular music. Howell burrows into the profound Bible lyrics with his richly expressive tenor while Michaels first echoes the melody before improvising a raw, distortedsolo in dynamic contrast. On the“lonesome” lyrics of Dock Boggs’ melancholy, minor key “Country Blues” (1927), Howell “lives” through the dark temptations of life, the intertwining acoustic and electric guitars producing a web of swirling feelings.

Yes, I Believe I Will

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Oznake: Steve Howell and The Mighty Men, Roots, Folk-Blues