Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Various - Broke, Black & Blue: An Anthology Of Blues Classics And Rarities

Styles: Delta Blues, Country Blues, Early American Blues
Released: 2005
Label: Proper
Art: full (booklet)

Broke, Black & Blue is an excellent combination of issues barrelhouse , boogie , vaudeville , and delta blues CDs gathered in four chronologically ordered and it also features a 40-page booklet filled with extensive data and multiple photos.
Edited by the label Proper , Broke, Black & Blue is divided into four parts: Volume 1, entitled "Up Country Blues", includes songs recorded between 1924 and 1928, stars like Frank Stokes and Tommy Johnson are with semi-strangers as Emery or Johnnie Glen Head. Also worth a mention the likes of Luke Jordan , Barbecue Bob, Sippie Wallace and Ishman Bracey .
The second volume, "Broke and Hungry Blues" begins with a theme of Rube Lacy dated in 1928 and continued until 1930, on this journey we find Henry Townsend , Peg Leg Howell , Joe Callicot, Son House and Lonnie Johnson and other not so well known artists to form a complete and wonderful repertoire.
Volume 3, "Good Whiskey Blues" is a good example of the blues in the decade of the 30: Blind Willie Reynolds, Carr & Blackwell, Big Joe Williams , Blind Boy Fuller, Jazz Gillum and Tommy McClennan , classics like "The Twelves (Dirty Dozens) "Kokomo Arnold, or" Back Door Blues "by Casey Bill Weldon rub shoulders with lesser-known topics such as "Never Mind Blues" (Georgia Boyd) or "Prisioners Blues" (George Clarke).
Finally, the fourth CD titled "Jumpin 'at the Club Blue Fame", contains the 40 issues. It is in this volume which includes unreleased tracks from Johnny Temple, the band of Jimmie Gordon and Lee Brown . Bukka White , Big Maceo and Memphis Slim are among those who complete the exquisite cast.
Broke, Black & Blue label is a true gem, many rarities only edited in the old 78's are just the icing for one of the best and most complete directories I can find a variety of blues. The information the script provides the theoretical note and data necessary for the set to become one of my most prized possessions labels.
This chronology of rare and authentic classic is absolutely essential for me and probably for scholars and lovers of country-blues. For the rest of us, this post and set of 4 CDs mentioned here is a diffuse cloud of unknown names, subjects with a horrible sound, voices from beyond the grave and tune instruments ... ~ bluescomentado

Oznake: Various, Delta Blues, Country Blues, Early American Blues

Guy Tortora - Footnote to the Blues

Styles: Contemporary Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues
Release: Apr 4, 2005
Label: Turtledove
File: mp3 @256K/s
Size: 102.7 MB
Time: 54:41
Art: Front

1. Long Slow Blues - 5:26
2. Hallowed Ground - 3:50
3. I Need a Car - 4:41
4. Late Starter - 4:13
5. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - 4:06
6. Did Somebody Make a Fool of You - 4:03
7. Love Nor Money - 5:45
8. Tough Love - 4:52
9. Crossroads Blues - 3:27
10. Sanctified Love - 5:53
11. Going Down Slow - 8:05

Personnel:
All songs performed by Guy Tortora Band
Guy Tortora - Guitar, Vocals
Brendan Canty - Bass
Neil Littman - Drums
Janos Bajtala - Keyboards

Notes: Guy's CD "Footnote To The Blues", a mixture of impressive original tunes and some standards, all given Guy Tortora's personal touch.
From 2002. This is definitely not an album of run-of-the- mill blues, and made a good first impression on the UK scene. This CD contains many fine songs, inc. I Need A Car, one of Guy’s originals (and often requested at acoustic performances) played solo on bottleneck guitar; also an outstanding solo interpretation of the Motown classic I Heard It Through The Grapevine, and a sideways look at Robert Johnson’s Crossroads Blues played solo on electric slide.
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Footnote to the Blues



• Guy Tortora - Jefferson Drive
• John Mooney - Telephone King

Oznake: Guy Tortora, Contemporary Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues

Pink Anderson - Pink Anderson Vol. 1: Carolina Bluesman

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Prewar Country Blues, Piedmont Blues
Recorded: 1961
Released: 1961/1992
Label: Prestige/Bluesville
File: mp3 @320
Size: 94.2 MB
Time: 34:12
Art: Front

1. My Baby Left Me This Morning - 3:22
2. Baby, Please Don't Go - 2:31
3. Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night - 2:44
4. Big House Blues - 3:38
5. Meet Me in the Bottom - 4:13
6. Weeping Willow Blues - 3:32
7. Baby I'm Going Away - 3:35
8. Thousand Woman Blues - 3:56
9. I Had My Fun - 3:02
10. Every Day in the Week - 3:34

Notes: Pink Anderson was never a big name on the blues circuit, yet he was perhaps the most polished and personal of all the rural bluesmen who recorded for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary. He was seldom recorded during his long career which began around 1915 with his first of many associations with traveling medicine shows and ended with his death in 1973. He cut three fine albums for Bluesville during the early Sixties, this 1960 date being the first. Anderson, who had a strong influence on folk guitarists Roy Bookbinder and Paul Geremina, specialized in interpretations of blues standards, bringing to each a gentle, uniquely plaintive quality.
A vast majority of the known professional recordings of Piedmont blues legend Pink Anderson were documented during 1961, the notable exception being the platter he split with Rev. Gary Davis -- Gospel, Blues and Street Songs -- which was documented in the spring of 1950. This is the first of three volumes that were cut for the Prestige Records subsidiary Bluesville. Carolina Blues Man finds Anderson performing solo -- with his own acoustic guitar accompaniment -- during a session cut on his home turf of Spartanburg, SC. Much -- if not all -- of the material Anderson plays has been filtered through and tempered by the unspoken blues edict of taking a familiar (read: traditional) standard and individualizing it enough to make it uniquely one's own creation. Anderson's approach is wholly inventive, as is the attention to detail in his vocal inflections, lyrical alterations, and, perhaps more importantly, Anderson's highly sophisticated implementation of tricky fretwork. His trademark style incorporates a combination of picking and strumming chords interchangeably. This nets Anderson an advanced, seemingly electronically enhanced sound. "Baby I'm Going Away" -- with its walkin' blues rhythms -- contains several notable examples of this technique, as does the introduction to "Every Day of the Week." The track also includes some of the most novel chord changes and progressions to be incorporated into the generally simple style of the street singer/minstrel tradition from which Pink Anderson participated in during the first half of the 20th Century. Listeners can practically hear Anderson crack a smile as he weaves an arid humor with overtly sexual connotations into his storytelling -- especially evident on "Try Some of That" and "Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night." Aficionados and most all students of the blues will inevitably consider this release an invaluable primer into the oft-overlooked southern East Coast Piedmont blues. ~ Lindsay Planer
PINK FLOYD - taken from the names of two Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council - from the early days when the band saw itself as a blues band. Just a little something extra for those of you who care.

Pink Anderson Vol. 1: Carolina Bluesman



• Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee - Hometown Blues
• Larry Johnson - Presenting The Country Blues

Oznake: Pink Anderson, Acoustic Blues, Prewar Blues, Country Blues, Piedmont Blues

Rev. Gary Davis & Pink Anderson - Gospel, Blues and Street Songs

Styles: Piedmont Blues
Label: Original Blues Classics
Released: 1961
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 112,3 MB
Time: 49:02
Art: full

1. John Henry - 5:25
2. Every Day In The Week - 3:30
3. The Ship Titanic - 3:15
4. Greasy Greens - 2:56
5. Wreck Of The Old 97 - 3:27
6. I've Got Mine - 3:06
7. He's In The Jailhouse Now - 3:43
8. Blow, Gabriel - 2:15
9. Twelve Gates To The City - 3:23
10. Samson And Delilah - 3:53
11. Oh Lord, Search My Heart - 3:04
12. Get Right Church - 3:04
13. You Got To Go Down - 2:40
14. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - 2:36
15. There Was A Time That I Was Blind - 2:37

Personnel:
Reverend Gary Davis - vocals, guitar (8-15)
Pink Anderson - vocals, guitar (1-7)
Jumbo Lewis - washboard (2)

Notes: Prior to the advent of the long-playing medium (read: LPs and/or CDs), the two collections presented here were available in separate packages. Stylistically, the works of both artists remain compelling evidence of the once fertile regional Piedmont Blues scene. In its late 19th and early 20th century heyday, the distinct folk-based music was a common presence throughout the Carolinas, stretching into Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. Tracks one through seven feature Pink Anderson (guitar/vocals) accompanying himself on vocals and guitar. Not only are his most notable songs given striking renderings, but also Anderson's utterly unique instrumentation is captured to great effect. What stands as most exemplary is the delivery, executed in a half-picking/half-sliding style, rumoured to have been accomplished by using a jack knife blade to bend and manipulate the strings. The derivation of the traditional "John Henry" examines this technique in perhaps the greatest detail. However, the robust tone -- from his trademark and inimitable well-worn Martin guitar -- is likewise capable of a more piercing precision as heard on "Every Day in the Week" and "Wreck of the Old 97." There are some prime examples of Anderson plying his sly wit and goodtime humor during "He's in the Jailhouse Now" and "I Got Mine." They also display otherwise lighthearted observations of the strictly enforced segregated communities in lyrics such as "I remember last election/The white folks was (sic) in action/Trying to get themselves a President... ." Perhaps this was an attempt to redirect any anti-Caucasian sentiment, as Anderson's tale recounts a black man who is "in the jailhouse now" for attempting to vote "not once, but twice." Keen-eared listeners may even pick up on brief verbal inflections and asides thrown in between the lines, further adding to any surreptitiously racial implications. ~ Lindsay Planer

Gospel, Blues and Street Songs



• Mr. Matthew James - Worried Blue
• Archie Edwards - Blues 'n Bones

Oznake: Rev. Gary Davis, Pink Anderson, Piedmont Blues

VA - Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers 1926-1949

Size: 173,2 MB
Time: 72:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Delta Blues, Pre-War Blues, String Bands, Old Timey
Label: Old Hat
Art: Front

01. Johnson Boys - Violin Blues (3:21)
02. Andrew & Jim Baxter - K.C. Railroad Blues (3:31)
03. Peg Leg Howell - Beaver Slide Rag (3:21)
04. Mississippi Mud Steppers - Alma Waltz (2:56)
05. Tommie Bradley - Window Pane Blues (3:16)
06. Alabama Sheiks - Travelin' Railroad Man Blues (3:01)
07. Whistler & His Jug Band - Pig Meat Blues (3:11)
08. Frank Stokes - Right Now Blues (3:07)
09. Bo Chatmon - East Jackson Blues (2:59)
10. Mobile Strugglers - Memphis Blues (2:53)
11. Tennessee Chocolate Drops - Vine Street Drag (2:51)
12. Kansas City Blues Strummers - Broken Bed Blues (2:34)
13. Eddie Anthony, Henry 'Rubberlegs' Williams - Lonesome Blues (2:53)
14. Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Shakedown (3:05)
15. Tommie Bradley - Adam And Eve (3:02)
16. Henry Son Sims - Tell Me Man Blues (3:19)
17. Tom Nelson - Blue Coat Blues (3:04)
18. Booker Orchestra - Salty Dog (2:42)
19. Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers - Baby, Please Don't Go (3:25)
20. Mississippi Sheiks - Stop And Listen Blues No. 2 (3:17)
21. Cow Cow Davenport - Stealin' Blues (2:32)
22. Andrew & Jim Baxter - The Moore Girl (3:00)
23. Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band - Highway 61 Blues (2:50)
24. Louie Bluie - Ted's Stomp (2:43)

As Marshall Wyatt's thorough liner notes explain in the accompanying 32-page booklet, the violin had a more prominent role in early blues than has often been supposed. Violins were far more apt to be played than guitars in the 19th century, and even when the blues began to be recorded in the 1920s, violins were still often used, although they weren't as apt to be featured on disc as the guitar and other instruments were. This 24-track compilation (with only one cut dating from after 1935) includes some fairly recognizable blues names like Peg Leg Howell, Howard Armstrong, Cow Cow Davenport, the Mississippi Sheiks, the Memphis Jug Band, Charley Patton (accompanying Henry Sims), and Big Joe Williams (a 1935 version of his signature tune "Baby Please Don't Go"), although many of the performers are far more obscure. The material tends toward the more good-timey and folky side of the rural blues tradition; the violins can get into a hoedown kick, as on Peg Leg Howell's "Beaver Slide Rag," or get into a rapid ragtime mode, as on Louie Bluie & Ted Bogan's "Ted's Stomp." Because of the chronological span and wide roster of artists represented, it's a good overview of violin-informed early blues, a subgenre that hasn't gotten a whole of attention. And check out Frank Stokes' "Right Now Blues" to get your head spun around when you hear a lyric that was repeated in Chuck Berry's classic "Reelin' and Rockin'." ~Review by Richie Unterberger

Thanks to DrPeak.
Violin, Sing The Blues For Me



• Lonnie Johnson - Blues Roots, Vol. 8: Swingin' With Lonnie •
• The Blue Rider Trio - Early Morning Blues •

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Oznake: Various, Prewar Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands

Greg Copeland & Martin Messing - Deep Down South: An Acoustic Journey To The Blues

Size: 119,9 MB
Time: 51:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Platina-Music
Art: Front

01. Goin' Home (3:16)
02. She's Gone (3:27)
03. Walking Blues (3:26)
04. Where Did You Sleep Last Night (4:38)
05. Willie & The Handjive (3:22)
06. Please Please (2:46)
07. I'm Gonna Hurt You (3:47)
08. Moonshine Whiskey Blues (2:53)
09. I Got To Ride (4:19)
10. Twenty Twenty Vision (2:42)
11. Crossroads (4:07)
12. I Got To Move (3:51)
13. Outside Woman (3:08)
14. Bbq Woman (2:59)
15. A Sinners Prayer (2:43)

The singer/songwriter Greg Copeland was born in Portsmouth, Virginia (USA). He knows how to use his pleasant, hoarse and slightly gravel voice to convey feelings to the listener. In other words, he is an expressive singer. Greg has just like his gospel singing mother a lot of emotions in his voice. James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Buddy Guy are some of the artists who have influenced him which is also clearly heard on this CD.

Martin Messing was born in 1964 near the border to Holland. He started playing guitar when he was 17 years old after he heard Albatross by Fleetwood Mac. He is an accomplished guitarist with a style of his own. Martin was influenced by the blues from the 20th and 30th. One of the things I like about his playing is varied playing and he is not just playing finger style, he is also strumming the strings on some of the songs. He is an expressive guitarist who makes it sound so easy.

Greg and Martin have written 11 of the 15 tracks on “Deep Down South” and I hope that they will release more albums in the future because they are doing a great job as a blues duo.

Deep Down South



• Jorma Kaukonen - The Land Of Heroes •
• Richard Bargel & Dead Slow Stampede - It's Crap! •

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Oznake: Greg Copeland, Martin Messing, Acoustic Blues, Germany

Lil' Red & The Roosters - Out Of The Coop!

Size: 111,8 MB
Time: 47:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Lil' Red & the Roosters
Art: Front

01. Sugar Coated Love (3:35)
02. The Come Back (3:25)
03. Shake Your Hips (2:49)
04. Don't Lose Your Cool (3:39)
05. Slow Down (1:58)
06. Hound Dog (3:54)
07. Trouble In My Way (3:16)
8. Gritty Pretty (3:35)
9. Fever (2:41)
10. Sneakin' Up On You (3:57)
11. Ain't Your Pet No More (3:52)
12. Keep On Lovin' You (3:51)
13. Trouble No More (2:52)
14. Why Don't You Do Right (4:05)

The line-up: Jen “Lil’ Red” Milligan vocals and percussion, Pascal Fouquet on guitar, Thomas Troussier on harmonica, Denis Agenet on drums, Jeff Vincendeau on upright bass. Denis leads all the Roosters on background vocals. Mix - Jen Milligan, Mastering - Blaise Barton, Cover Art - Jen Milligan, Photos - Maureen Piou.

“This CD was inspired by two acoustic CDs by Lurrie Bell, "The Devil Ain't Got No Music" and "Second Nature" with his father Carey Bell. It isn’t just the music that moves me in these CDs. The sound of the recording and mix has an atmosphere naked and natural that lets me sink into the beauty of the blues. I wanted to create the feeling that you’re in our home listening to us live. I also wanted the music to have a natural in the moment groove. We recorded songs when we were inspired and encompassed all aspects of our diverse international group. The simple duo & trio roots blues and the subtle edge between it and old jazz, as well as full band Electric and Jump Blues. We all stretched a little out of our comfort zones to give each artist a moment in their niche, the result being rich surprises. Given by the flexibility of an auto-production, we took risks in the recording process. “Trouble No More” was recorded at Twins Studio all live in one take, “Fever” was recorded sitting on the edge of the bathtub and you may hear an occasional train pass on “Slow Down”. We took our time to get it right with what we had to work with which was mostly creativity and experienced musicians. There were many doubts as to whether I could match the sounds of many spaces and microphones, put different genres of blues and jazz side by side or create a CD with songs in duo and trio with a very fat sounding band, but that’s what our group is, so I had faith. The mix took a lot of work, but I knew the mastering would be the key. By chance, Blaise Barton the Grammy winner who did the engineering, mixing and mastering for one of the CDs that inspired this process was available to bless our CD with his talents, and that he did. We learned a lot through this process. You have to take some risks to find rich surprises. “ Lil’ Red

We'd like to thank our friends and family for their never-ending love and support and a special thanks to Diunna Greenleaf & Lurrie Bell for paving a path of inspiration for this CD.

Out Of The Coop!



• Shari's 3 A.M. Sessions & The Nite Owls- Late Nite Specials •
• Half Deaf Clatch - A Road Less Travelled •

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Oznake: Lil' Red & The Roosters, Acoustic Blues, france

John Sebastian & David Grisman - Satisfied

Styles: Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Bluegrass, Old-Timey
Released: 2007
Label: Acoustic Disc
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 137.6 MB?
Time: 55:15
Art: front + back

1. I'm Satisfied - 2:41
2. Strings of Your Heart - 3:22
3. EMD - 4:02
4. Deep Purple - 4:39
5. John Henry - 5:03
6. Walk Right Back - 4:47
7. Passing Fantasy - 4:10
8. Coffee Blues - 2:53
9. Dawg's Waltz - 4:21
10. Lonely One in this Town - 3:58
11. It's Not Time Now - 3:20
12. Harmandola Blues - 2:38
13. Coconut Grove - 5:19
14. Jug Band Waltz - 3:56

Personnel:
David Grisman - Banjo, Mandolin, Vocals, Mandola
John Sebastian - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Guitar (Baritone), Whistle

Notes: The newest release from David Grisman’s Acoustic Disc label is a duo project featuring he and John Sebastian. Entitled Satisfied, it features these two on acoustic guitar, mandolin family instruments and harmonica on a mixed set of songs and tunes. The 14 selections are taken from the repertoire of blues, folk and traditional music, plus a couple of Dawg tunes and a few from the great American songbook of show music.
This is by no means a bluegrass recording (obligatory disclaimer), but fans of the music of these two genre-defining acoustic artists are sure to be satisfied with the result. My own bias towards this project comes from the twin facts that I was a huge Lovin’ Spoonful fan as a young boy in the 60’s, and the impact that Grisman’s first Quintet album had on me as a young student of bluegrass and acoustic music in 1977.
The Spoonful was a pop sensation at the time, with Sebastian front and center, the group’s name having come from a Mississippi John Hurt song, Coffee Blues, which is included here. Grisman, of course, charted new territory with his Dawg music, but has always betrayed the heart and soul of bluegrass in everything he has done.
John Sebastian and David GrismanOne of the great treats upon opening the CD case was finding photos of both Sebastian and Grisman from their “early days” not long after they met as students at New York University in the early 1960s. Grisman was deep into a study of bluegrass at the time while Sebastian was immersed in Delta blues, but the two became friends and even performed together as members of The Even Dozen Jug Band.
Though their careers went in different directions after college, they found themselves performing an impromptu duo set at a concert in 2005, an event that led directly to this new collaboration.
The tracks were cut a la Grisman’s Acoustic Disc formula – meaning everything was recorded live in the studio, sans overdubs. There is a very raw, and ultimately satisfying appeal to this CD, and this may be a big part of it. ~ from The Bluegrass Blog, John Lawless (10.31.07)

Satisfied



• Le Chat Mort - Le Chat Mort / Roses
• Mike Dowling - Beats Workin'

Oznake: John Sebastian, David Grisman, Contemporary Folk, Bluegrass

Emmett Miller - Minstrel Man From Georgia

Styles: Minstrel, Old-Timey, Early Jazz, Blues Jazz
Label: Legacy
Released: 1996
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 139,9 MB
Time: 61:04
Art: front

1. God's River - 3:19
2. I Ain't Got Nobody - 3:05
3. Lovesick Blues - 2:48
4. The Lion Tamers - 3:10
5. Anytime - 3:20
6. St. Louis Blues - 3:01
7. Take Your Tomorrow - 3:00
8. Dusky Stevedore - 2:50
9. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll - 2:53
10. (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way - 3:07
11. You Lose - 2:58
12. Right Or Wrong - 3:09
13. That's The Good Old Sunny South - 2:50
14. You're The Cream In My Coffee - 3:02
15. Lovin' Sam (The Sheik Of Alabam) - 2:48
16. Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now - 3:12
17. The Ghost Of The St. Louis Blues - 2:56
18. Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad) - 3:19
19. The Pickaninnies' Paradise - 3:08
20. The Blues Singer (From Alabam') - 2:59

Personnel:
Emmett Miller (vocals)
Phil Pavey (vocals)
Eddie Lang (guitar)
Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet, alto saxophone)
Manny Klein, Leo McConville (trumpet)
Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey (trombone)
Arthur Schutt (piano)
Gene Krupa, Stan King (drums)

Notes: Emmett Miller was a minstrel performer who had the good fortune to have top-notch Jazz musicians assigned to his Okeh sessions in the late 1920s. His records made between June of 1928 and September of 1929 where labeled Emmett Miller accompanied by his Georgia Crackers and are of Jazz interest only for the back-up musicians that accompany Miller on these sessions.
God knows what this is doing in Legacy's Roots N' Blues series; it's a long way from Blind Willie McTell and Bukka White to this. Anyway, this has 20 of his OKeh sides from the late '20s, including a "Lovesick Blues" that served as the model for Hank Williams' hit with the same song in 1949. The Georgia Crackers accompany Miller on every cut, with a cast including Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey (present on every track), Jack Teagarden, and Gene Krupa. More of historical interest and musical significance than anything else, with a thorough sleeve note from country music authority Charles Wolfe. ~ Richie Unterberger

Minstrel Man From Georgia



• Gus Cannon - Walk Right In
• Various - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows

Oznake: Minstrel, Old-Timey, Blues Jazz, Emmett Miller

Cisco Herzhaft - The Cisco's System

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Blues N' Trad
Released: 2010
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 108,2 MB
Time: 47:15
Art: front

1. Feel Like a Warrior - 4:33
2. The Cisco's System - 3:29
3. Apache - 3:41
4. Mean Dirty Street - 4:46
5. The Joggin' Boogie - 3:18
6. Summertime (feat. Vincent Galahad) - 3:59
7. Sixteen Tons - 3:17
8. Raggin' Bluegrass - 2:25
9. Slidin' Out My Soul - 4:18
10. Raggin' Guitar Man - 2:27
11. Walkin' Down My Lonesome Road - 2:40
12. Can the Circle Be Unbroken - 3:52
13. Feel Like a Warrior (feat. Vincent Galahad) - 4:23

Notes: A major guitarist, a singer, an author-composer, Cisco Herzhaft is a pioneer of blues in France. He is regarded as one of the last authentic acoustic “blues pickers”. He has been a professional musician for 30 years, getting his inspiration from Big Bill Broonzy or Muddy Waters, playing with John Lee Hooker in the sixties. He has developed a very personal acoustic folk blues music, a perfect mix of crazy ragtime and simple blues.The quality of his music, the originality of his composition, his well-known energy as well as his passion for music have made him one of the most acknowledged and wanted professionals of the blues scene. His real authenticity is a delight!

The Cisco's System



• Richard Bargel & Dead Slow Stampede - It's Crap!
• Robbin Thompson - One Step Ahead Of The Blues

Oznake: Cisco Herzhaft, Acoustic Blues

Various - White Country Blues 1926-1938

Styles: Country Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Country, Acoustic Blues, Traditional Bluegrass
Label: Legacy
Released: 1993
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 167,4 + 153,1 MB
Time: 73:07 + 66:54
Art: front + back

Disc 1
1. Frank Hutchinson/K.C. Blues - 3:04
2. Frank Hutchinson/Cannon Ball Blues - 3:23
3. Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers/Leaving Home - 3:04
4. Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers/If The River Was Whiskey - 3:07
5. Cauley Family/Duplin County Blues - 2:40
6. Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton/Sweet Sarah Blues - 3:01
7. Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton/Frankie Dean - 3:13
8. Riley Puckett/A Darkey's Wail - 2:55
9. Clarence Green/Johnson City Blues - 2:59
10. The Carolina Buddies/Mistreated Blues - 3:09
11. Tom Ashley/Haunted Road Blues - 3:15
12. Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans/Steel Guitar Blues - 2:52
13. Carlisle & Ball/Guitar Blues - 3:01
14. Carlisle & Ball/I Want A Good Woman - 3:21
15. Cliff Carlisle/Ash Can Blues - 2:58
16. Val & Pete/Yodel Blues (Part 1) - 3:14
17. Val & Pete/Yodel Blues (Part 2) - 2:51
18. Mr. & Mrs. Chris Bouchillion/Adam & Eve (Part 2) - 3:16
19. W.T. Narmour & S.W. Smith/Carroll County Blues - 3:01
20. Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers/Ramblin' Blues - 2:59
21. Frank Hutchinson/Worried Blues - 3:22
22. Frank Hutchinson/Train That Carried The Girl From Town - 3:01
23. Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland/Lonesome Weary Blues - 2:53
24. W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys/Bear Cat Mama - 2:19

Disc 2
1. Blue Ridge Ramblers/ Jug Rag - 2:52
2. Prairie Ramblers/ Deep Elem Blues - 3:19
3. Clayton McMichen/ Prohibition Blues - 3:03
4. Larry Hensley/ Match Box Blues - 2:55
5. Callahan Brothers/ Somebody's Been Using That Thing - 2:48
6. Homer Callahan/ Rattle Snake Daddy - 3:04
7. Homer Callahan/ My Good Gal Has Thrown Me Down - 2:42
8. W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys/ Dirty Hangover Blues - 2:20
9. W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys/ Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues - 2:32
10. Asa Martin & His Kentucky Hillbillies/ Lonesome, Broke And Weary - 2:28
11. Cliff Carlisle/ Chicken Roost Blues - 2:32
12. Cliif Carlisle/ Tom Cat Blues - 2:52
13. Bill Cox & Cliff Hobbs/ Oozlin' Daddy Blues - 2:55
14. Bill Cox & Cliff Hobbs/ Kansas City Blues - 2:47
15. Ramblin' Red Lowery/ Ramblin' Red's Memphis Yodel No. 1 - 2:48
16. Anglin Brothers/ Southern Whoopie Song - 2:26
17. Allen Brothers/ Drunk And Nutty Blues - 3:08
18. Allen Brothers/ Chattanooga Mama - 3:35
19. Smiling Bill Carlisle/ String Bean Mama - 2:25
20. Smiling Bill Carlisle/ Copper Head Mama - 2:26
21. Bill Cox/ Long Chain Charlie Blues - 2:47
22. Bill Cox/ Georgia Brown Blues - 2:47
23. Al Dexter/ New Jelly Roll Blues - 2:33
24. The Rhythm Wreckers/ Never No Mo' Blues - 2:39

Notes: White Country Blues 1926-1938: A Lighter Shade of Blue is an excellent, revealing 48-track, double-disc collection culled from the Columbia, American and OKeh vaults. All of the material on this double-disc set was recorded by country artists that drew heavily from the blues, whether it was incorporating the genre into their own compositions or covering blues and hokum songs. Though there are several stars, such as Roy Acuff, many of the performers on White Country Blues are obscure, especially for listeners whose knowledge of country music stops at Hank Williams. That is one of the many reasons why White Country Blues is invaluable. It's a thoughtfully compiled and thorough historical reissue that presents a wealth of rare, fascinating material. While it might not always be an easy listen, it's remains an essential purchase for any comprehensive country collection.

White Country Blues: 1926-1938 A Lighter Shad of Blue, Disc 1
White Country Blues: 1926-1938 A Lighter Shad of Blue, Disc 2



• Various Artists - Fonotone Records 1956-1969
• Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Bluegrass, Traditional Country, Various

Little Willie Littlefield - Paris Streetlights

Styles: Boogie-Woogie, Jump Blues, Piano Blues, West Coast Blues
Label: Auvidis/EPM
Released: 1992
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 101,0 MB
Time: 44:06
Art: front + back

1. Paris Streetlights - 3:01
2. I Got The Blues Over You - 4:47
3. Cours De Vincennes - 6:14
4. Sometimes - 4:17
5. Messin' Arround Town - 3:37
6. Dirty - 6:25
7. My Baby's Back in Town (And I Won't Be Lonely Now) - 3:37
8. Paris - 4:35
9. Little Willie's Boogie - 3:30
10. So Long - 3:59

Little Willie Littlefield Paris Streetlights (1980 French only 10-track LP recoded in Saint-Nom-La-Breteche on May 14th that year, glossy picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just the lightest shelfwear & the vinyl is immaculate - a great copy PLB228508)

Oznake: Boogie Woogie, Little Willie Littlefield, Piano Blues, West Coast Blues

Clifford Hayes - Clifford Hayes & The Dixieland Jug Blowers

Styles: Pre-War Country Blues, Jug Band, Early Jazz
Label: Yazoo
Released: 1991
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 100,0 MB
Time: 42:35
Art: front + back

1. Please Don't Holler Mama - 3:04
2. Try And Treat Her Right - 2:21
3. You're Ticklin' Me - Take 1 - 3:11
4. Love Blues - 3:09
5. Blue Guitar Stomp - 3:01
6. If You Can't Make It Easy, Sweet Mama - 2:41
7. National Blues - Take 3 - 2:43
8. Barefoot Stomp - 3:18
9. Bye Bye Blues - 2:55
10. Hey! I Am Blue - 2:53
11. Clef Club Stomp - 3:12
12. Dance Hall Shuffle - 3:14
13. You'd Better Leave Me Alone, Sweet Papa - 3:19
14. Everybody Wants My Tootelum - 3:25

1927-28 (rec); 1976 (comp); 1991 (reissue)

Personnel:
Clifford Hayes - Violin (all except 9,11), Alto Sax (9,11)
Cal Smith - Banjo (4,7,13), Guitar (all except 13)
Fred Smith - Guitar (1,2)
Johnny Gatewood - Piano (4,6,8,9,11,13)
Earl Hines - Piano (3,10,12,14)
Dan Briscoe - Piano (5,7)
Earl McDonald - Jug (1,2,4,6,7,13)
Hess Grundy - Trombone (3-5,7-14)
Lockwood Lewis - Alto Sax (4,7,13)
George Allen - Soprano Sax (4,7,13), Alto Sax (4,7,13), Clarinet (1,2)
Elizabeth Washington - Vocals (4,13)
William B. Ferguson - Vocal (1,2)
Prince LaVaughn - Vocals (6)

Notes: The Louisville, Kentucky-based Dixieland Jug Blowers were one of the first jug bands to record. Led by violinist Clifford Hayes and jug player Earl McDonald, the Chicago-based group, which featured clarinetist Johnny Dodds, left a legacy of twenty-three tracks, including "Boodle Am Shake", "Memphis Shake" and "Skit, Skat, Doodle-Do", recorded between December 1926 and June 1927. Recording as the Louisville Jug Band, they cut such tunes as "She's In The Graveyard Now".
South Carolina-born McDonald moved to Louisville, at the age of two, in 1885. He formed the Louisville Jug Band while still in high school. The product of a musical family, Glasgow, Kentucky-born Hayes moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana in his teens. He joined McDonald's band in 1913.
Although McDonald and Hayes formally separated, over financial conflicts, by 1919, they continued to hire each other to play on recordings and live performances. ~ Craig Harris

Clifford Hayes & The Dixieland Jug Blowers



• Gus Cannon - Walk Right In
• Various - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows

Oznake: Clifford Hayes, The Dixieland Jug Blowers, Prewar Blues, Jug Band

Blind Willie McTell - Blind Willie McTell 1927-1933: The Early Years

Styles: Prewar Country Blues, Piedmont Blues, East Coast Blues
Label: Yazoo
Released: 1989
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 99,0 MB
Time: 43:14
Art: full

1. Broke Down Engine Blues - 3:09
2. Mamma, Tain't Long Fo' Day - 3:01
3. Georgia Rag - 3:05
4. Love Changing Blues - 3:08
5. Statesboro Blues - 2:33
6. Stomp Down Rider - 3:08
7. Savannah Mama - 3:18
8. Travelin' Blues - 3:15
9. Drive Away Blues - 3:13
10. Warm It Up To Me - 2:57
11. Three Women Blues - 2:43
12. Writing Paper Blues - 3:12
13. Southern Can Is Mine - 3:15
14. Talkin' To Myself - 3:12

Personnel:
Guitar, Vocals – Blind Willie McTell
Artwork By, Mastered By – Nick Perls
Mastered By – Robert Vosgien
Liner Notes – David Evans

Notes: This album is here because I wanted to fill out a collection of the first ten issues of Yazoo Records that are posted by mark(fr) in the garret.
These issues are among those which explains how did we get here, 21st century Blues scene.
Unfortunately this is not a vinyl rip but Cd, edition of 1989.
More about this album you can read here

Blind Willie McTell 1927-1933: The Early Years (Yazoo L-1005)



• Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues: Secret History Of Rock 'n' Roll
• Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues

Oznake: Blind Willie McTell, Prewar Blues, Piedmont Blues, East Coast Blues

VA - Biddle Street Barrelhousin'

Size: 171,6 MB
Time: 73:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: Delmark
Art: Front

01. Speckled Red - Oh, Red! (2:30)
02. Speckled Red - Dad's Piece (4:47)
03. Speckled Red - Goin' Down Slow (3:24)
04. Henry Brown - 21st Street Stomp (4:14)
05. James Crutchfield - Levee Blues (5:01)
06. James Crutchfield - Blow North Wind (4:26)
07. James Crutchfield - How Long Blues (4:32)
08. Speckled Red - Mike Cow Blues (4:11)
09. Speckled Red - Black Gal (4:07)
10. James Crutchfield - Black Gal (4:54)
11. James Crutchfield - Ora-Nelle Blues (4:21)
12. James Crutchfield - Pearly May Blues (4:58)
13. James 'Stump' Johnson - Snitcher's Blues (1:47)
14. James 'Stump' Johnson - Blues For Lindy (2:30)
15. Lawrence Henry - St. Louis Blues (4:01)
16. Lawrence Henry - Memphis Blues (2:35)
17. Henry Brown - Goin' Down To Becky Thatcher (3:57)
18. Speckled Red - All On Account Of You (3:00)
19. Speckled Red - Wilkins Street Stomp (3:43)

By the late 1920s, Biddle Street was the site of most blues activity in St. Louis; 13 of the 19 songs here are never before released performances - features Speckled Red, Henry Brown, Stump Johnson, Jame Crutchfield & Lawrence Henry.

Biddle Street Barrelhousin'



• VA - Bukka White & Others: Blues At Home 7 •
• Memphis Piano Red - Blues At Home 4 •

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Oznake: Various

Les Blouzayeurs - Blues De La!

Size: 101,1 MB
Time: 42:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Les Blouzayeurs
Art: Front

01. B.B., Albert Et Freddie (2:21)
02. Blanc-Bec (3:53)
03. Mon Nez La-Dedans (2:36)
04. Pis C'est Tout (4:34)
05. Que Le Rose Nous Grise (3:52)
06. I'm Tore Down (3:39)
07. Bien Sur, C'est Facile (3:34)
08. Hector A Bien Raison (2:12)
09. Les Filles Septentrionales (4:16)
10. Ma Chopine (3:32)
11. Ok, Tu Te Casses (3:17)
12. On Ne Vit Qu'une Fois (5:06)

Les Blouzayeurs
Accordéon et guitares, duo de choc ! Les Blouzayeurs réveillent le blues made in France, dans la lignée de Benoît Blue Boy et de Bill Deraime... en voiture Simone !

Trempé dans le Zydeco, ce blues noir de Louisiane, Pascal Rosiak nous montre que l’accordéon est parfaitement ŕ l'aise en eaux troubles.
Car les créations de ZU balancent et remuent !
Avec le zuwing d’un blues original dans la langue de Bashung, Fauque ou Bergman, les Blouzayeurs ont ce petit quelque chose qui sait vous réjouir… Blues de lŕ !

Si ZU et Pascal Rosiak sont de solides briscards, le duo fęte bientôt sa premičre bougie.
Les compositions existent (et en nombre !), Les Blouzayeurs les font déjŕ sonner
sur de belles scčnes (Accordéons-Nous, Trentels - Jazz sur les Places, Lyon - Roubaix ŕ l'Accordéon
- Jazz en Revermont, Jura…) !
A suivre.

Blues De La!



• Sam Chatmon - Blues When It Rains •
• Ross Neilsen & The Sufferin' Bastards - Live At The Acoustic Grill •

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Oznake: Les Blouzayeurs, Acoustic Blues, france

The 2nd South Carolina String Band - Hard Road

Styles: Traditional Folk, String Bands
Label: Independent
Released: 2001
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 164,6 MB
Time: 71:43
Art: full

1. Tenting on the Old Camp Ground - 4:24
2. Battle Cry of Freedom - 3:25
3. Cavalier's Waltz - 1:42
4. When Johnny Comes Marching Home - 3:27
5. Cindy - 3:06
6. Oh! Susanna - 2:48
7. Invalid Corps - 2:42
8. Buffalo Gals - 2:53
9. Kingdom Coming - 2:50
10. Bonnie Blue Flag - 4:42
11. Jine the Calvary - 2:47
12. Ring de Banjo - 3:37
13. Rose of Alabama - 3:29
14. Camptown Races - 3:54
15. Goober Peas - 2:15
16. Cumberland Gap - 4:06
17. Sweet Betsey from Pike - 3:58
18. Lorena - 4:06
19. The Vacant Chair - 4:26
20. Richmond is a Hard Road - 6:14
21. Finish - 0:44

Notes: The 2nd South Carolina String Band recorded their first album; WE’RE TENTING TONIGHT, in 1991. Containing 15 of the most popular songs of the War Between the States, it was well received from the start and continues to be a strong seller. In fact, it was so well received that the band was encouraged to produce a second album, WE ARE A BAND OF BROTHERS, released two years later in 1993. This recording profited from the experience gained since the first – being produced in a better studio with better technology – as well as from two more years of performances together by a band whose reputation was already spreading rapidly. This second album contained another 15 of the most well known songs of the era, thus making the two together a sort of “Top 30? of the Civil War. Many years later, these two albums continue to attract listeners and fans, new and old. So much so that, pursuant to countless requests to bring them both out on CD, we have done just that! We are proud to offer the our first two albums together at last on one recording. The best of WE’RE TENTING TONIGHT and WE ARE A BAND OF BROTHERS, are here presented with a driving, spirited, and exciting sound worthy of the men whose memory and spirit we strive to honor and evoke. ~ civilwarband.com

Hard Road



• The 2nd South Carolina String Band - Southern Soldier
• Carolina Chocolate Drops - Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind

Oznake: The 2nd South Carolina String Band, Traditional Folk, String Bands

Doc MacLean - Narrow House

Styles: Contemporary Blues, Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues, Roots
Label: Independent
Released: 2006
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 102,5 MB
Time: 44:45
Art: front
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1. Bone Train - 4:21
2. By Degree - 4:01
3. Charlie James' Blues - 4:16
4. Johnson Terraplane - 4:01
5. Three Cards on a Coffin - 2:55
6. Angola Prison Rodeo - 4:28
7. Narrow House - 6:05
8. Dead Men Walking - 5:01
9. Ain't She Pretty - 4:00
10. Who's Gonna Love You - 5:32

Notes: Doc MacLean has recently completed a CD with bassist Larry Taylor and drummer percussionist Stephen Hodges, former section of the Tom Waits band. The album, Narrow House, was produced and recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville by Colin Linden. Other guests include Fats Kaplin and the Rev Joe Rice of the Fairfield Four. The disk was mastered by Ray Kennedy of Zen/Twangtrust- the guy who did those great sounding Steve Earle, Delbert McClinton projects, etc.
The year has also seen MacLean perform more than 200 shows including openers for Guy Davis, Big Bill Morganfield, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater, BB King, Duke Robillard, Lucky Peterson, Magic Slim, Tony Furtado, Downchild, Slick Ballinger, Lil’ Ed, Paul Reddick, and Colin Linden.
Son of a civil rights lawyer and a fiddle player, MacLean was by his early teens playing harmonica and washboard in coffeehouses and festivals, and was appearing on radio and television variety shows. In 1972 he formed a duo with another young musician, Colin Linden, and became a popular opener for Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and John Hammond.
In his travels Doc met and became friends with many older musicians including Son House, Tampa Red, 'Sippi Wallace, Yank Rachel, Robert Pete Williams, Rev Robert Wilkins and Bukka White. His work as an accompanist included tours and performances with Peg Leg Sam the Medicine Show Man, Blind John Davis, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Rev Pearly Brown, the Carter Family and Sam Chatmon.
MacLean, who now divides his time between Toronto and Atlanta, has appeared at significant North American folk and blues festivals from Winnipeg to New Orleans. Radio and television appearances have included national programming such as CNN Today, PBS Morning Pro Musica, CBC 90 Minutes Live, Touch the Earth, and Morningside. "Always on Tour." ~ cdbaby

Narrow House



• Various - Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues
• VA - Chicago Blues: The Chance Era

Oznake: Contemporary Blues, Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues, Roots, Doc MacLean

Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo - Mercy

Styles: Blues, Folk, Gospel
Released: 2008
Label: Ultra Sound Records
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 145.2 MB
Time: 62:50
Art: front

1. Mercy feat. Garth Hudson
2. Walkin’ blues feat. Rob Paparozzi
3. Needed time feat. Ponty Bone
4. You gotta move
5. Nobody’s fault but mine feat. Rob Paparozzi
6. Wyfaring stranger
7. Down by the riverside
8. People get ready
9. This train feat. Donnie Price
10. Will the circle be unbroken feat. Ponty Bone
11. Amazing Grace
12. Jesus on the mainline
13. I want Jesus to walk with me feat. Garth and Maud Hudson
14. Precious Lord
Bonus tracks:
15. John The Revelator (band version) feat. Garth and Maud Hudson
16. Cross road blues (new band version) feat. Seth Walker
17. The soul of a man (new band version)
18. Amazing Grace 1993

Notes: 2008 album from Italian harmonica maestro Fabrizio Poggi and his band Chicken Mambo. Three tracks recorded in Woodstock with Garth and Maud Hudson, after Poggi's 2007 tour of the US' South. Garth plays piano and organ on tracks 1 and 15, and accordion on track 13. Maud Hudson on vocals on tracks 13 and 15.
2008 Mercy was the best blues album in Italy
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Mercy



• Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo - Spirit Of Mercy
• Fabrizio Poggi & Francesco Garolfi - The Breath Of Soul

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Fabrizio Poggi, Chicken Mambo, Gospel, Italy, folk

Doug MacLeod & John 'Juke' Logan - Live As It Gets

Styles: Harmonica Blues, Contemporary Blues
Label: Mocombo
Released: 1999
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 156,7 MB
Time: 68:26
Art: front + back

1. Doola - 5:29
2. Hustler - 6:43
3. Tight White Pants - 2:01
4. Chill on Cold - 6:18
5. Doug's First Protest Song - 2:38
6. Grease in my Gravy - 5:12
7. Nosy Neighbors - 5:27
8. High Priced Woman - 8:45
9. Love Engineer - 7:02
10. The Chill - 4:58
11. Cold Rain - 4:29
12. Hey Bartender - 8:01
13. The Chill - 1:17

Notes: This live recording was done at one of their many gigs at B.B. King's in Universal Citywalk in California, but a listener could almost swear it was recorded on high-end equipment in the coziness of his or her Uncle Frank's living room. These gentlemen, known for their solo work, dissipate fears of swollen egos from such super ventures. With the exception of one standard, all selections come from either artist's pen and although not originally written for a duo setting, they seem tailor made for such an arrangement. If the listener thinks at the end that he or she has accidentally hit the "repeat" mode on the CD remote box when hearing strains of the first song, it's a prank by two kids at heart.

Live As It Gets



• Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy
• Jeff Lang - Half Seas Over

Oznake: Doug MacLeod, John 'Juke' Logan, Harmonica Blues, Contemporary Blues

Various - Roots of the Blues

Styles: Blues Revival, Country Blues, Delta Blues, Field Recordings, Traditional Folk, Work Songs
Label: New World Records
Released: 1977
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 113,9 MB
Time: 49:46
Art: front

1. Henry Ratcliff, Bakari-Badji - Louisiana/Field Song from Senegal - 2:46
2. John Dudley - Po' Boy Blues - 2:32
3. Tangle Eye - Katie Left Memphis - 2:11
4. Leroy Miller & a group of prisoners - Berta, Berta - 2:57
5. Fred McDowell & Miles Pratcher - Old Original Blues - 4:11
6. Ed Young & Lonnie Young - Jim and John - 2:15
7. Alec Askew - Emmaline, Take Your Time - 1:08
8. Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher - Buttermilk - 3:23
9. Leroy Gary - Mama Lucy - 1:37
10. Miles Pratcher & Bob Pratcher - I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Till I Die - 2:35
11. Tangle Eye & a Group of Prisoners - No More, My Lord - 2:48
12. Rev. Crenshaw & the Congregation of New Brown's Chapel (Memphis) - Lining Hymn and Prayer - 3:37
13. Fred McDowell - Death Comes a-Creepin' in my Room - 3:17
14. Congregation of New Brown's Chapel (Memphis) - Church-House Moan - 1:54
15. Bessie Jones - Beggin' the Blues - 2:13
16. Rose Hemphill & Fred McDowell - Rolled and Tumbled - 2:54
17. Fred McDowell, Miles Pratcher & Fannie Davis - Goin' Down the Races - 4:18
18. Forrest City Joe - You Gotta Cut that Out - 3:00

Notes: This fine concept recording by Alan Lomax compares an American and a Senegalese (Africa) holler. It also includes elements of work songs, Black string bands, church music, and other styles that fed into the blues before moving on to early blues styles themselves. The rarity of most of the cuts would make this a gem, even without Lomax's analysis. AMG
This title is no longer available from New World Records, but, however you may Download Liner Notes

Roots of the Blues



• Various - Angola Prison Spirtuals
• Mississippi John Hurt - The Complete Studio Recordings

Oznake: Various, Blues Revival, Country Blues, Delta Blues, Field Recordings, Traditional Folk, Work Songs

Various - Rural Blues Vol.1, 1934-56

Styles: Pre-War Blues, Country Blues
Label: Document
Released: 1993
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 170,1 MB
Time: 74:19
Art: full

1. Up and Down Building K.C. Line - Willie Lane - 2:57
2. Prowlin' Ground Hog - 2:44
3. Too Many Women Blues - 2:26
4. Howlin' Wolf - 2:47
5. Black Cat Rag - 2:39
6. Black Cat Rag [Alternate Take] - 3:00
7. T.P. Railer - 2:44
8. Lonesome Blues - 2:32
9. All My Money Is Gone - 2:48
10. Move It on Over - 2:40
11. Go 'Way from My Door - 3:01
12. Locked in Jail Blues - 2:28
13. You've Gotta Lay Down Mama - 2:38
14. Baby Blues - 3:26
15. Baby Please Don't Go - 3:05
16. Down at the Depot - 3:06
17. Alabama Boogie - 2:46
18. Blind's Blues - 2:15
19. Mississippi Boogie - 3:10
20. One O'Clock Boogie - 3:00
21. If You See Me Lover - 3:06
22. I Want a Slice of Your Pudding - 3:03
23. Lonesome Old Jail - 3:00
24. Greyhound Blues - 2:37
25. My Baby Ooo - 3:06
26. I Need a Hundred Dollars - 3:01

Personnel:
Guitar & Vocals
Black Diamond (7-8)
D.A. Hunt (23-24)
Monroe Moe Jackson (10-11)
Johnny Beck (12-13)
Willie 'Little Brother' Lane (1-6)
John Lee (14-18)
One String Sam (25-26)
Guitar, Vocals & Kazoo
Julius King (19-22)
Piano & Vocals
Goldrush (9)

Notes: Document's Rural Blues, Vol. 1 is a delightful collection of the complete recorded works of Willie Lane, Black Diamond, Goldrush, Monroe Moe Jackson, Johnny Beck, John Lee, Julius King, D.A. Hunt, and One String Sam, none of them exactly household names, drawn from rare and obscure 78s recorded between 1934 and 1956. That no one sticks around for more than a few tunes gives this collection a refreshing feel of variety and vitality, and Willie Lane and John Lee in particular prove to be real finds, both of them strong guitar players and able vocalists. Lee's take on the oft-covered "Baby Please Don't Go" is a gem, featuring the entirely unexpected accompaniment of a cane flute or whistle that gives the song a bright, surreal tone. The two selections from white country blues singer Monroe Moe Jackson, "Move It on Over" and "Go 'Way from My Door," are also revelations, as Jackson's jagged, gravel-packed voice hits places that would make Tom Waits jealous. It is interesting to note that the most recent recordings presented here, "My Baby Ooo" and "I Need a Hundred Dollars" by One String Sam, tracked in 1956, are the ones that sound the most ancient, with Sam's one string diddley bow giving both pieces an eerie, spooky resonance. This is a wonderful archival collection, and the rarity of the tracks it presents only makes it more valuable.

Rural Blues Vol.1, 1934-56



• Kokomo Arnold - Blues Classics Vol.1
• Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues

Oznake: Various, Pre-War Blues, Country Blues

David Grisman Bluegrass Experience - Muddy Roads

Styles: Bluegress
Label: Acoustic Oasis
Released: 2013
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 142,8 MB
Time: 61:53
Art: front

1. Muddy Roads (Old-Time) - 1:59
2. The Train That Carried My Gal - 2:21
3. The Lone Pelgrim - 4:21
4. Walkin Boss - 4:30
5. Handsome Molly - 2:58
6. Willie Moore - 3:51
7. The Cuckoo Bird - 3:09
8. I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows - 3:51
9. Omie Wise - 6:21
10. The Roving Gambler - 3:04
11. Crawdad - 3:44
12. Trouble in Mind - 5:03
13. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues - 3:25
14. Shady Grove - 4:13
15. Your Long Journey - 5:59
16. Muddy Roads - 2:58

Personnel:
The David Grisman Bluegrass Experience are
David Grisman - vocals, mandolin and mandola
Samson Grisman - vocals and bass
Keith Little - vocals, banjo, mandolin and mandola
Chad Manning - fiddle
Jim Nunally - vocals and guitar
Tracy Bigelow Grisman - vocals

Notes: “I've had a musical love affair with bluegrass music for over 50 years now,” David Grisman told me during a recent interview. “I also have my own concept of what bluegrass music is, and perhaps what people now refer to as that particular genre may be completely different than my definition, which would be the music created by Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Chubby Wise and other "first generation" musicians — the Stanley Brothers, Reno & Smiley, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers.”
Nevertheless, the legendary mandolin player has some reservations about how the genre seems to have strayed from its seminal style. “Recordings, live performances, and the ever evolving exposure process (from television to the internet) has certainly attracted more listeners, but what are they really listening to? Not ‘Molly and Tenbrooks’ by Bill Monroe or ‘Little Glass of Wine’ by the Stanley Brothers or ‘Someday We'll Meet Again Sweetheart’ by Flatt & Scruggs or countless other bluegrass masterpieces from the ‘golden era’ I'm afraid.”
Not surprisingly, Grisman is a purist when it comes to his particular passion. “Bluegrass is a perfect blend of many influences and innovations, which should be extremely appealing to any music lover,” he suggests. “Instrumentally you have the amazing 5-string banjo style of Earl Scruggs, combined with several unique approaches to mandolin playing developed by Bill Monroe, Bobby Osborne and Jesse McReynolds, plus the smooth bluesy fiddling of Chubby Wise and Vassar Clements, as well as numerous approaches to vocal harmonies which evolved from the Carter Family, the Monroe Brothers and others to the classic bluegrass artists of the first, second and even third generation. Then you have the songs themselves, many of which are grounded in the traditional folk music of England, Ireland and Scotland. Add a bit of swing, blues and country and you have a pretty heady musical brew.”
Grisman’s touting a forthcoming release recording from the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience), entitled Muddy Roads - Old-time Music of Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson, as well as a deluxe remastered edition of Doc & Dawg with many alternate previously-unissued tracks and a live recording from his archives, Doc & Dawg - Live in Watsonville (California.) In October, Grisman will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Old & in the Way with the complete Boarding House Tapes, from which all three of the band’s original releases were extracted. These albums and others can be found at AcousticOasis.com.
By Lee Zimmerman (the bluegrass situation)

Muddy Roads



• Old Crow Medicine Show - Carry Me Back
• Vassar Clements - Grass Routes

Oznake: David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, David Grisman, Bluegrass

Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends - Ugly Papa

Size: 105,7 MB
Time: 44:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: Jukebox Lil
Art: Front

01. Do You Want It? (2:34)
02. Dream Lucky Blues (3:07)
03. Lotus Blossom (3:22)
04. Ugly Papa (2:53)
05. Julia's Blues (2:38)
06. If You Hadn't Gone Away (I Wouldn't Be Where I Am) (2:41)
07. Bleeding Hearted Blues (2:48)
08. Oh , Chuck It (In A Bucket) (3:00)
09. It Won't Be Long (2:28)
10. Decent Woman Blues (2:44)
11. Scream In The Night (2:30)
12. I Know It's Wrong (The Die Song) (2:46)
13. Bop And Rock Lullaby (2:50)
14. Goin' To Chicago (2:33)
15. King Size Papa (2:53)
16. Scat You Cats (3:01)

Born in Boonville, Missouri, Lee was raised in Kansas City, and began her musical career around 1920, singing and playing piano in her brother George Lee’s band, which for a time also included Charlie Parker. She first recorded on the Merritt record label in 1927 with Jesse Stone as pianist and arranger, and launched a solo career in 1935.

In 1944 she won a recording contract with Capitol Records, and a string of R&B hits followed, including “Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got” (#3 R&B, 1946), “Snatch and Grab It” (#1 R&B for 12 weeks , 1947, selling over 500,000 copies), “King Size Papa” (#1 R&B for 9 weeks, 1948), “I Didn’t Like It The First Time (The Spinach Song)” (#4 R&B, 1949), and “My Man Stands Out”. As these titles suggest, she became best known for her trademark double entendre songs, or, as she once said, “the songs my mother taught me not to sing”. The records were credited to ‘Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends’, her session musicians including Jay McShann, Vic Dickenson, Benny Carter, Red Norvo, Nappy Lamare, and Red Nichols.

Although her hits dried up after 1949, she continued as one of the most popular performers in Kansas City until her death in San Diego, California, at the age of 56, from a heart attack.

Thanks to DrPeak.
Ugly Papa



• Edwin 'Buster' Pickens - The 1959 To 1961 Sessions •
• Leroy Carr - Complete Recorded Works Vols. 4-6 of 6 •

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Oznake: Julia Lee, Piano Blues

Jemima James - Book Me Back In Your Dreams / Nothing New

Album: Book Me Back In Your Dreams
Size: 148,5 MB
Time: 63:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues Folk
Label: Tomato
Art: Front

01. Tracking Through The Snow (3:19)
02. Emergency Call (3:38)
03. The Girl With The Long Dark Hair (5:24)
04. My Baby's Heart (4:01)
05. I'd Rather Say Goodbye Right Here (3:14)
06. You Weren't There (When Our Love Died) (3:10)
07. Walk All Over Georgia (4:48)
08. I Got Him Now (3:27)
09. Look At The Children Run (4:41)
10. The Boy Who Used To Be (3:04)
11. Dog Following Me (4:20)
12. Small Town Girls (4:09)
13. Let Me Make A Run For It (3:14)
14. There's Nothing More To Say (3:47)
15. Book Me Back In Your Dreams (3:42)
16. Takes A Man Like You (2:03)
17. Havana Cigar (2:55)

Personnel: Jemima James (vocals, guitar); Stuart Kimball (guitar, background vocals); Chris Berry, Gary Vogenson (guitar); Barry Lowenthal (drums).

Featuring: Michael Bloomfield, Cool John Ferguson, George Higgs

Jemima James had been writing songs and singing them for forty years. Through the years has played with greats Michael Bloomfield and George Higgs. She’s the mother of singer/songwriter Willy Mason and drummer/artist/film director Sam Mason. Jemima is about to release her third CD called “Nothing New”

Book Me Back In Your Dreams

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Album: Nothing New
Size: 73,0 MB
Time: 31:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues Folk
Label: Jemima James
Art: Front

01. It's You (2:40)
02. Wild Dog Blues (3:21)
03. Nothing New (3:11)
04. I'd Rather Say Goodbye (3:20)
05. American Boy (3:20)
06. Coastline Boy (2:42)
07. Cowboy Calling Card (3:19)
08. Coyote Knows What To Do (2:34)
09. Waiter At The Station (3:31)
10. Coal Miner's Blues (2:59)

"Sit back, get comfortable and prepare to receive the Real Deal. Jemima James will make you laugh, make you cry and make you glad you came to hear this embodiment of wisdom and wit. This gal has it all; chops, style and humanity all rolled up in a package just for you. Do not miss this singer and song slinger when she comes to your town. Then, yes, you can thank me for encouraging you to get there! I will happily say “I told you so!” - Kate Taylor

"... I can't think of another who writes so warmly, wittily, wearily, sexily and thoughtfully about the world and womanhood, and the merry/maddening dance between the two.”

I'm thrilled and honoured to have sung and played alongside such a unique voice, such a beautiful and original talent." - Mara Carlyle

Nothing New



• Sara K. & Chris Jones - Are We There Yet? Live in Concert •
• Shawn James - Shadows •

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Oznake: Jemima James, Folk-Blues

Various - Ragtime Blues Guitar 1927 - 1930

Styles: Pre-War Blues, East Coast Blues, Rag, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
Label: Document
Released: 1991
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 166,4 MB
Time: 72:41
Art: front + back

1. Blind Blake - Dry Bone Shuffle - 2:43
2. William (Bill) Moore - One Way Gal - 3:17
3. William (Bill) Moore - Ragtime Crazy - 3:03
4. William (Bill) Moore - Midnight Blues - 2:45
5. William (Bill) Moore - Ragtime Millionaire - 3:10
6. William (Bill) Moore - Tillie Lee - 3:03
7. William (Bill) Moore - Barbershop Rag - 2:58
8. William (Bill) Moore - Old Country Rock - 3:03
9. William (Bill) Moore - Raggin' The Blues - 3:01
10. Tarter and Gay - Brownie Blues - 3:00
11. Tarter and Gay - Unkown Blues - 3:05
12. Chicken Wilson and Skeeter Hinton - Myrtle Avenue Stomp - 2:57
13. Chicken Wilson and Skeeter Hinton - D.C. Rag - 3:19
14. Chicken Wilson and Skeeter Hinton - Chicken Wilson Blues - 3:08
15. Chicken Wilson and Skeeter Hinton - House Snake Blues - 3:06
16. Chicken Wilson and Skeeter Hinton - Frog Eye Stomp - 2:34
17. Chicken Wilson and Skeeter Hinton - Station House Rag - 2:35
18. Bayless Rose - Jamestown Exhibition - 2:49
19. Bayless Rose - Black Dog Blues - 3:09
20. Bayless Rose - Original Blues - 2:47
21. Bayless Rose - Frisco Blues - 3:09
22. Willie Walker - Dupree Blues - 3:30
23. Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (Take 1) - 3:11
24. Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (Take 2) - 3:08

Personnel:
Blind Blake - Guitar & Percussion (1)
William Moore - Guitar & Vocals (2-9)
Stephen Tarter - Guitar & Vocals (10-11)
Harry Gay - Guitar (10-11)
George 'Chicken' Wilson - Guitar (12-17), Kazoo (13,16,17)
Jimmy 'Skeeter' Hinton - Harmonica (14-17), Washboard (12,13,16,17)
Bayless Rose - Guitar (18-21), Vocals (19,20)
Willie Walker - Guitar & Vocals (22-24)
Sam Brooks - Guitar (22-24), Vocals (22)

Notes: This disc contains some of the classic recordings in the ragtime blues tradition.
The eight tracks by William Moore, his only issued recordings, have long been favourites with collectors of this genre. Moore (1894 - 1948) was a barber in Tappahannock, Virginia, and performed ragtime songs and gentle blues to his own beautiful guitar accompaniments. Tarter and Gay provide two sophisticated ragtime duets from 1930, while Chicken Wilson & Skeeter Hinton offer more rural entertainment with some lively ragtime numbers for guitar, harmonica & washboard from 1928. Bayless Rose performs three ragtime - influenced blues in the East Coast tradition & one classic rag, "Jamestown Exhibition".
The final performers are better known. The great Blind Blake is represented with a typically virtuoso rendition of "Dry Bone Shuffle", with appropriate percussion. The final three tracks are the only issued recordings by the legendary South Carolina guitar genius Willie Walker. His breathtaking guitar playing, which Josh White likened to Art Tatum's piano style, still impresses today.
This is a wonderful compilation, and showns clearly how ragtime influenced the East Coast guitar blues tradition. Anyone who buys this is guaranteed hours of enjoyment. ~ B.D. Tutt
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Ragtime Blues Guitar 1927 - 1930



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• Memphis Jug Band with Cannon's Jug Stompers

Oznake: Various, Prewar Blues, East Coast Blues, Rag, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues

Doug MacLeod - Dubb

Styles: Contemporary Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Blues
Released: Jan 4, 2005
Label: Black & Tan
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 132.59 MB
Time: 55:00
Art: full

1. (If You Going to The) Dog House (MacLeod) - 5:08
2. Walkin' While I Bleed (MacLeod) - 5:03
3. She Boogy'n (MacLeod) - 3:58
4. The Sun Shine Down My Way (MacLeod) - 5:37
5. Dubb's Talkin' Politician Blues (MacLeod) - 4:17
6. Miss Rita (MacLeod) - 4:23
7. One Fool Show (MacLeod) - 2:45
8. $50 Wig (MacLeod) - 4:15
9. Have a Little Taste (MacLeod) - 5:34
10. Nightwalking (MacLeod) - 5:24
11. North County Woman (MacLeod) - 3:33
12. The Devil Is Beating His Wife (MacLeod) - 5:03

Personnel:
Dennis Croy - Bass (Acoustic)
Dave Kida - Percussion, Drums
Carl Leyland - Piano
Doug MacLeod - Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals

Notes: Dubb is what George Harmonica Smith called Doug. He couldn't (or wouldn't) say Doug, so he called him Dubb. Like all the albums Doug has done since 1994 there are no over-dubs on this one. You hear a performance, a musical snapshot in time by one of the last torchbearers of the acoustic blues tradition. Doug doesn't like perfect records instead he likes the 'grease' and what he calls 'stretching of time'. To him, that's where feeling lives. This new record contains 12 original songs and like his previous records it is produced by sound guru Joe Harley.

Dubb



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• Taj Mahal - Recycling The Blues & Other Related Stuff

Oznake: Contemporary Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Blues, Doug MacLeod

Duster Bennett - Out In The Blue

Styles: British Blues, Acoustic Blues, Electric Blues
Released: 1995
Label: Indigo
File: 320 @320K/s
Size: 139. 06
Art: full
More info:
http://www.myspace.com/dusterbennett

01. Worried Mind - 2:51
02. I've Been a Fool - 3:20
03. I Wonder, I Wonder - 7:21
04. Down the Road - 6:34
05. Trying So Hard to Forget - 5:15
06. Kind Hearted Woman - 2:30
07. Coming, I'm Coming - 1:44
08. I'm Thinking About a Woman - 6:19
09. Two Harps - 1:40
10. Everybody's Got a Friend But Me - 3:17
11. Blues With a Feeling - 2:56
12. As Years Roll By - 3:21
13. I Don't Wanna Fuss - 3:35
14. Sleep With Myself - 4:11
15. Losing Love - 3:50
16. Everyday - 3:11

Recorded in Great Britain, 1966-1976
Compiled by Stella Bennett & Peter Moody
© 1995 Indigo Records

Personnel:
Duster Bennett - Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Percussion & Vocals
Peter Green - Guitar, Harmonica & Vocals
Keith Randall - Guitar, Harmonica & Vocals
Richard Ford - Bass, Drums & Vocals
Top Topham - Guitar

Notes: Duster Bennett (Anthony Bennett, 1946-1976) was a British blues singer and harmonica player. He signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label in 1967 and was backed on his debut album, Smiling Like I'm Happy (1968), by members of Fleetwood Mac. He was a session harmonica player and a member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. He was killed in a car accident in 1976.

Odds and ends, mostly from 1966-68, with a few tracks from 1975 and 1976, the year Bennett was killed in a car wreck. Two tracks feature fine lead guitar by Duster's longtime friend (and original Yardbird) Top Topham -- home tapes worthy of inclusion if only for Top's amazing and expressive vibrato. Five tracks feature Peter Green, including a demo of his "Trying So Hard to Forget" that's especially moody and the fascinating snippet "Two Harps" instrumental duet (unaccompanied harmonicas, as the title implies), showing the similarity in the pair's harp styles. The final cut, "Everyday," from 1976, sets one of Bennett's finest vocal performnces against a string backdrop. What a contrast to the one-man band shouting "Worried Mind" and it works. AMG

Out In The Blue



• Peter Green Splinter Group - Me And The Devil
• In loving memory of Cyril Davies

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, British Blues, Duster Bennett, Peter Green, England

Andreas Kilger - Phone Bell Blues

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Released: 1994
Label: Kilger & Sax Gbr
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 143.8 MB
Time: 62:49
Art: full

1. Phone Bell Blues - 4:36
2. Blood Red River - 2:27
3. The Jitter Jump - 3:18
4. Step It Up And Go - 3:25
5. Some These Days I'll Be Gone - 5:17
6. Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad - 3:21
7. Kassie Jones - 5:25
8. I'm Her Chauffeur - 2:53
9. Front Porch Blues - 3:09
10. New Backwater Blues - 6:08
11. Come On Over To My House Baby - 3:30
12. Crazy About You - 3:21
13. Get Away Old Woman - 3:03
14. All Arround Man - 4:38
15. Deep River Blues - 3:27
16. Intermezzo - 4:42

Notes: Andreas Kilger born 1965, Andreas has been playing the guitar since the age of 14. His love for blues and other forms of so called "root music" began when he heard the music of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, as well as Big Bill Broonzy and Tommy Johnson. Later, he discovered Lonnie Johnson, Charlie Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson and many other greats, too many to list here.
Andreas performing career began in 1981 when he teamed numerous bands as both guitar player and singer. Together with bass player Alexander Sax, he formed "LOWDOWN", acoustic group which released two CDs.
In the year 1994 Andreas met Louisiana Red. The two hit it off immediately, and were soon sitting in at many other gigs, each finding a special chemistry that they rarely experienced with others.
Andreas played or jammed with other well known artists including Paul Geremia, Roger Hubbard, King George, among others.
Nowdays he mostly performs with drummer Rochus Wede in an electric downhome-style, or with his own band LOWDOWN, acoustic Country-Blues with original instruments of the twenties and thirties.
Andreas Kilger plays with LOWDOWN blues of the `20s and `30s . Beside traditional titles, own compositions and own arrangements of the originals are located in the program of the band.
At Kilgers side, Karl Schlagenhaufer at the Slideguitar and Rochus Wede at the washboard. Further gladly-seen guests are the Harmonicaplayer Marko Jovanovic, Didi Neumann or Peter Krause, which forms a quartet occasionally.
Completely in the tradition of the former Jug - and Washboardbands, they play relaxed Rags, Dance-Tunes, Hokum-Songs, dance-songs of the `20s , but also Country blues, stamping archaic Grooves to ballads, swing and Kilgers own compositions. The palette is full from the Ragtime, over which classic delta blues and instrumentals to different Slideguitar-Technics in miscellaneous moods and the syncopated Picking of the Piedmont-Fingerstyles.
On these occasions, the roots and the possibilities of the acoustic blues-guitar become clear. Andreas Kilger uses the characteristic style of the prewar musicians, his own play creates wonderful rythems and melodies simultaneously. Whether he sings Blind Boy Fuller or Big Bill Broonzy , it always has a distinitive Andreas flavor.

Phone Bell Blues



• Steve James - Boom Chang
• Lisa Biales - Belle Of The Blues

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Andreas Kilger, Germany

Champion Jack Dupree - Live With The Big Town Playboys

Size: 171,0 MB
Time: 73:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: JSP Records
Art: Front

01. In The Evening (7:52)
02. I Used To Love You (5:40)
03. Sweet Little Baby (4:43)
04. Freedom Blues (7:37)
05. Wine, Wine, Wine (5:00)
06. Lawdy, Lawdy (3:58)
07. Junker Blues (7:26)
08. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (5:19)
09. Rock The Boogie Woogie (6:33)
10. Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living (7:33)
11. I Keep On Drifting (7:36)
12. She's Gone (4:25)

Recorded live in England in 1989. Live with the Big Town Playboys.

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. ~Biography by Bill Dahl

Thanks to DrPeak.
Live With The Big Town Playboys



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• Sue Keller - Ol' Muddy: Riverboat Ragtime-Era Piano Sounds •

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Oznake: Champion Jack Dupree, Piano Blues

Luke Winslow-King - Old/New Baby / Recorded Live At Tweed Recording EP

Album: Old/New Baby
Size: 81,7 MB
Time: 34:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Ragtime, Blues Jazz, Folk Blues, Americana
Label: Fox On A Hill Productions
Art: Front

01. As April Is To May (2:12)
02. Shoeshine (2:07)
03. Never Tired (2:49)
04. Below (1:07)
05. All The Same (2:29)
06. I'll See You When I Look At You (2:13)
07. Birthday Stomp (2:45)
08. Dragon Fly, Dragon Flower (3:06)
09. Bird Dog Blues (2:26)
10. Lost Soul (1:40)
11. Airplane (1:44)
12. The Sun Slamming The Highway (2:49)
13. St. Andrew's Ferry (1:41)
14. Searchlight Waltz (2:57)
15. Your Eyes, Your Eyes (2:23)

If your mind was caught up and mesmerized by the dancing pink elephants from Disney's Fantasia and the music that accompanied that mesmer, or your heart has a tendency towards the vaudevillian aspects of early American folk music, then have I got an album for you. Luke Winslow-King is an obviously talented lad who lends his hand to churning out tunes with a seemingly colorful history behind them. On his latest record Old/New Baby Winslow-King shows off his vocal abilities to great effect, all the while buoying the melodies with brilliant and classic instrumentation. The album starts off with a jazzy, hungover ditty called "As April Is To May" that recalls the great history of animated drunkenness. The song has a swing and mood that is very dark, yet lithesome and filled with syncopated bomp. Then Winslow-King sidesteps into more comfortable ground, picking up his dobro and invoking the spirit of American folk at its finest. "Shoeshine" has the kind of drooping rhythm and slippery guitar that makes players like Bill Morrisey so fantastic, and the song has horns that carry countermelodies through the background, imbuing the track with a surreal beauty. "Never Tired" is classic folk-hop, filled with snappy snare hits and great slide guitar work, as well as sing-songy lyrics that are almost silly in their earnestness. Winslow-King somehow takes the spirit of New Orleans and fuses it into his songs, imparting a ragtime breakdown into "Below" before dropping back to the matter-of-factness of "I'll See You When I Look At You", a song that is simple in its musical approach but contains an immense amount of folky beauty. Winslow-King's blending of slide guitar, horns, ukulele, and doghouse bass is instantly likeable and mostly traditional in its approach, fusing classic musical elements with a vigor that belies his Northern origins. Don't believe me? Take a listen to the cool jazz of "Birthday Stomp" or the gritty, delta-infused blues of "Bird Dog Blues" to form your own opinion of what this Michigan-born lad has in his musical blood. ~L. Keane

Old/New Baby

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Album: Recorded Live At Tweed Recording EP
Size: 29,4 MB
Time: 12:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Ragtime, Blues Jazz, Folk Blues, Americana
Label: Oxford Sounds
Art: Front

01. Miss The Mississippi And You (2:44)
02. I Know She'll Do Right By Me (2:27)
03. Ragtime Millionaire (2:32)
04. Mississippi Slow Drag (2:11)
05. The Coming Tide (2:40)

Winslow-King is from Cadillac, Michigan but he calls New Orleans home and has lived there since 2002 when his car was stolen in the French Quarter with all his musical equipment in it. At the time, the guitarist had already immersed himself in the academic study of jazz and composition. But, he found the emotional sterility and high-bandwidth musicality that informed so much bop and fusion jazz to be a dead- end, vapid and disconnected. He related instead to th folk music of the legendary Woody Guthrie and the cryptic deep blues of Mississippi John Hurt, music from, as writer Greil Marcus termed it, “the old, weird America.” Having his car stolen may, in fact, be one of the best things that ever happened to Luke Winslow-King.

He was quickly accepted into the music theory program at the University of New Orleans, and was eventually awarded a prestigious scholarship to study Czech classical music at St. Charles University in Prague. But while Winslow-King is certainly a heavy-hitter in terms of musical knowledge, instrumental prowess and compositional ability, his approach to the music of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta is never dry, never academic. His compositions are not musicological set pieces, nor do they ever reek of the dusty utility of the affected and dolorous purist. Luke Winslow-King pulled off the considerable feat of creating something beautiful and unaffected and new from the plump and thickly intertwined history of the great American musics — New Orleans jazz and Mississippi Delta blues. On these gorgeous and glowing recordings made for Oxford Sounds, you’ll hear Luke Winslow-King — accompanied by the lovely washboard percussionist and back-up singer Esther Rose and double-bassist Cassidy Holden — deliver a number of tunes that reference ragtime, dixieland jazz, minstrel tunes, and 1920’s pop. That none of this music ever sounds even remotely like a revival act is testament to his considerable skill as a songwriter, arranger, guitarist and singer. The lyrical themes, too, harmonize with a 1920’s New Orleans aesthetic but they thankfully never veer into the execrable kitsch of, say, Leon Redbone or the ham-fisted hippie humorousness of early David Bromberg or Jerry Garcia solo records. Recorded by Andrew Ratcliffe at his superlative Tweed Recording Studio in Oxford, the session features several songs taken mainly from Winslow-King’s recently released album “The Coming Tide”. “Ragtime Millionaire” is as infectious as the title suggests, totally engaging. The song “The Coming Tide” is a real classic, simple and lovely, a wonderful and contagious tune with excellent accompaniment from Esther Rose. “Mississippi Slow Drag” is nothing short of stunning, though, a great ambling dance number delivered with faint ennui and replete with cool slide guitar phrases that recall the legendary Ry Cooder as well as that other under-heralded guru of pre-rock American guitar music, David Lindley. Of course, those guys got their licks from the Delta, too. ~Pat Cochran

Recorded Live At Tweed Recording EP



• Sara K. & Chris Jones - Are We There Yet? Live in Concert •
• Charlie Parr - I Dreamed I Saw Paul Bunyan Last Night / Hollandale •

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Oznake: Luke Winslow-King, Folk-Blues, Blues Jazz, New Orleans Blues

Jorma Kaukonen - The Land Of Heroes

Styles: Folk-Rock, Acoustic Blues, Traditional Folk, Folk-Blues
Label: Relix
Released: 1995
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 87,5 MB
Time: 38:13
Art: front

1. Re-Enlistment Blues - 4:07
2. Trial By Fire - 4:00
3. Do Not Go Gentle - 3:29
4. From The Land Of Heroes - 2:50
5. It's A God Almighty World - 3:34
6. Follow The Drinking Gourd - 4:49
7. Banks Of The River - 3:31
8. Judge, I'm Not Sorry - 4:00
9. Dark Train - 5:04
10. Have More Faith In Jesus - 2:46

Personnel:
Jorma Kaukonen (Guitar (Acoustic & Electric), Dobro, )
Fred Bogert (Bass, Vocals (Background), Keyboards)
Cathryn Craig (Vocals (Background))
Michael Falzarano (Guitar, Mandolin)

Notes: His third album release of 1995, The Land Of Heroes was Jorma Kaukonen's first new solo studio album in a decade. In the meantime, he had been part of reunions of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, but The Land Of Heroes was in the tradition of Quah, Jorma, and Too Hot To Handle, mostly acoustic collections that combined new originals (vocal tunes and instrumentals) with remakes of older originals and covers of songs from the standard folk-blues repertoire. Kaukonen has largely shied away from doing solo work in his career, and even here he worked closely with Michael Falzarano, who co-produced, played guitar and mandolin, and had writing credits on three songs. The one new Kaukonen song with lyrics, "From The Land Of Heroes," was a moving tribute to his Finnish ancestors, making you wish that he would spend more time writing, even though it was nice to hear Airplane remakes like "Trial By Fire" and blues songs by the Reverend Gary Davis. The Falzarano material was pedestrian, however. ~ William Ruhlmann

The Land Of Heroes



• Babajack - The Maker
• Luther Dickinson And The Sons of Mudboy - Onward & Upward

Oznake: folk-rock, Acoustic Blues, Traditional Folk, Folk-Blues, Jorma Kaukonen

Corey Harris - Between Midnight And Day

Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues, Country BluesRecorded: 1994
Released: 1995
Label: Alligator
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 117.03 MB
Time: 41:57
Art: full

1. Roots Woman - 2:50
2. Pony Blues - 2:42
3. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - 2:54
4. Early In The Morning - 2:13
5. Feel Like Going Home - 4:32
6. I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy - 2:20
7. Between Midnight And Day - 3:34
8. Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - 2:01
9. Going To Brownsville - 5:01
10. Write Me A Few Lines - 2:08
11. She Moves Me - 2:10
12. Bound To Miss Me - 3:38
13. 61 Highway - 4:48
14. Catfish Blues - 2:40
15. I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More - 2:52
16. It Hurts Me Too - 3:20

Personnel:
Corey Harris - Guitar, Vocal

Notes: Born in Denver, Colorado, Corey Harris became a professional musician in New Orleans after attending college, conducting postgraduate anthropological research in West Africa and teaching French. The historical awareness of his debut CD has continued to inform his music, even as it has become increasingly original, and increasingly driven by a sense of the unity in diversity of black musics and cultures. His brings an acute intelligence to both words and music, and seems able to incorporate any influence that appeals to him, while never parading eclecticism or virtuosity for their own sake. If the blues needs someone to be the future of the blues, Corey Harris is probably the one.
Recorded in six hours, this album consists mostly of songs from the 78-rpm era; Fred McDowell is as up to date as the covers get, and the three originals are pastiches of bygone Delta blues styles. Harris's powerful baritone commands immediate attention, and he had already acquired an impressive mastery of a range of guitar styles. For one so young, coming to this music as an outsider by geography, history and social class, album is remarkably succesful, but it does present a musician finding his way into the idiom. Sometimes Harris doesn't know how to make the songs his own, and his attempts to do so by emotional 'force majeure' seem imposed and arbitrary; two covers of Muddy Waters suffer particularlyin respect. For all its merits, 'Between Midnight And Day' is valuable chiefly as hint at future possibilities.

Between Midnight And Day



• Little Miss Higgins - Live: Two Nights In March
• Robert Wilkins - Prodigal Son

Oznake: Corey Harris, Modern Acoustic Blues, Country Blues

Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher

Styles: Contemporary Folk, Neo - Traditional Folk, Neo - Traditional Bluegrass
Label: Nettwerk
Released: 2008
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 122,3 MB
Time: 53:00
Art: folk + back

1. Alabama High-Test - 2:25
2. Highway Halo - 3:42
3. The Greatest Hustler of All - 7:04
4. Methamphetamine - 5:27
5. Next Go 'Round - 3:38
6. Humdinger - 2:29
7. Motel in Memphis - 4:25
8. Evening Sun - 3:43
9. Mary's Kitchen - 2:43
10. Crazy Eyes - 4:17
11. Tunnessee Pusher - 5:30
12. Lift Him Up - 3:57
13. Caroline - 3:33

Notes: Old Crow Medicine Show release in 2008 their third Nettwerk album called Tennessee Pusher. Produced by the legendary Don Was (Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones), the album features the first single "Caroline" along with 11 other Old Crow originals and an American standard called "Lift Him Up" by Blind Alfred Reed. Having sold over 290K albums, OCMS can attribute much of their success to their relentless touring schedule. Between headlining shows and countless festivals (Bonnaroo, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, etc), the band lives on the road - they thrive on the communal experience of the live shows. OCMS have made a name for themselves as energetic performers with an unbridled spirit."as musicians, songwriters and singers, they are the smartest and finest purveyors of American music to come down the pike in decades." ~ Don Was

Tennessee Pusher



• Le Chat Mort - Le Chat Mort / Roses
• Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show

Oznake: Contemporary Folk, Old Crow Medicine Show, Traditional Folk, Bluegrass

Wolfgang Bernreuther & Rudi Bayer - Brothers & Friends

Styles: Contemporary Blues
Label: Clearaudio
Released: 2006
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 113,1 MB
Time: 49:23
Art: front

1. Mucky Pup - 3:27
2. Midnight Sun - 2:00
3. Sadie - 4:34
4. Bliss - 4:49
5. Just Another Night - 4:41
6. Where Did You Sleep Last Night - 3:43
7. Kansas City - 2:01
8. Liliana's Cafe - 4:02
9. Just Another Love Song - 4:01
10. Colours - 3:38
11. Red House - 4:42
12. Christo Redemptor - 5:15
13. Rockin' Through The Night - 2:25

Personnel:
Brothers:
Wolfgang Bernreuther - vocals, acoustic & electric guitar
Rudi Bayer - double bass

Friends:
Robert Seitz - fender rhodes (1), grand piano (4,9,12), organ (8)
Andy Stahl - snare drum (1,3,8)
Reinhard Fick - electric guitar (2)
Tom Feiner - vocals (3), harmonica (3,12)
Stefan Lamml - saxophone (5,11)
Roland Kopp - vocals (6), acoustic guitar (6)
Chris Herzberger - violin (9)
Rudi Beer - banjo (7)
Steiger Mich - vocal (10) banjo (10,13)

Notes: After their eminently respectable album “Brothers in Blues” the musical twins Wolfgang Bernreuther and Rudi Bayer follow up in cooperation with nine colleagues. The songs impressed through their three-dimensionality and dynamic. The repertoire vary from moving Boogie to deep melancholy BalladesThe songs rip directly into the heart. This album forced to hear the songs every time!

Brothers & Friends



• Michael Roach - Ain't Got Me No Home
• John Mooney - Telephone King

Oznake: Wolfgang Bernreuther, Rudi Bayer, Contemporary Blues, Germany

Kokomo Arnold - Blues Classics Vol.1: Old Original Kokomo Blues

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Chicago Blues, Country Blues, Pre-War Blues
Label: Wolf
Released: 1997
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 137,9 MB
Time: 60:14
Art: full

1. Rainy Night Blues - 2:57
2. Paddlin' Madeline Blues - 3:16
3. Milk Cow Blues - 3:08
4. Old Original Kokomo Blues - 2:53
5. Old Black Cat Blues - 3:22
6. Back Door Blues - 3:24
7. Hobo Blues - 3:11
8. Bo Weavil Blues - 3:06
9. Stop, Look and Listen - 3:06
10. Milk Cow Blues no. 3 - 2:52
11. Down and Out Blues - 3:04
12. Sundown Blues - 2:41
13. Shake That Thing - 2:39
14. Lonesome Road Blues - 2:58
15. Cold Winter Blues - 3:10
16. Black Mattie - 3:11
17. Rocky Road Blues - 2:45
18. Midnight Blues - 2:49
19. Back Luck Blues - 2:48
20. Kid Man Blues - 2:45

Notes: James 'Kokomo' Arnold (Born: February 15, 1901 in Lovejoys Station GA, Died: November 8, 1968 in Chicago IL)
Not only was left-handed slide guitarist James "Kokomo" Arnold an important early influence on artists like Robert Johnson and Elmore James that would follow, he was also, perhaps, the first "shredder" in guitar history. Arnold was known to be a fast player, and at times he would slide his bottleneck up and down the fretboard with such amazing speed that he'd struggle to keep up with his vocals. To further increase the dramatic effect of his songs, Arnold would also frequently drop into a haunting falsetto voice to accompany his fleet-fingered guitar playing.

Bootlegger's Blues
Born in Georgia, Arnold was taught the rudiments of blues guitar by a cousin named John Wiggs. Arnold moved north in his teens, playing guitar on the side while he worked as a farmhand in Buffalo, New York and as a steelworker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved to Chicago in 1929 and set up an illegal bootlegging operation, which he operated through the last few years of Prohibition. During this time, Arnold would move briefly to Mississippi, later returning to Illinois where he continued his bootlegging until the end of restrictions on alcohol in 1933.
While living in Mississippi Delta in 1930, Arnold traveled to Memphis and recorded two sides for the Victor label, "Rainy Night Blues" and "Paddlin' Madeline Blues," under the name "Gitfiddle Jim." The songs sold few copies, but show a distinctive guitar and vocal style that was unlike any of Arnold's contemporary artists. Forced by the Volstead Act to pursue music as a full-time job, Arnold would be signed by Mayo Williams of Decca Records to a contract, recording his first songs for the label in 1934.

The Decca Years
Between September 1934 and May 1938, Arnold recorded 88 sides for Decca, seven of which have been lost to the ages. Arnold's first single for the company, "Old Original Kokomo Blues," backed with "Milk Cow Blues," would become a minor hit and tag Arnold with his "Kokomo" nickname. Itself a re-working of Scrapper Blackwell's "Kokomo Blues," Arnold's version would be turned into "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson, who would also turn Arnold's "Milk Cow Blues" into his "Milkcow's Calf Blues." Arnold performed solo on most of his recordings, although he would be accompanied by pianist Peetie Wheatstraw on a handful of sides.
Arnold also provided his unique guitar talents to two tunes cut in July 1936 by Sam Theard's Oscar's Chicago Swingers. Songs like "How Long How Long Blues," "Sagefied Woman Blues," and "Front Door Blues" would lead to success as a recording artist for Arnold, who along with Wheatstraw and guitarist Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton) would be the leading figures in the Chicago blues scene during the 1930s. In 1938, however, Arnold would walk away from the music business in disgust and take a job in a Chicago factory. Although his recordings would be rediscovered during the folk-blues boom of the early 1960s, Arnold was less than interested in getting back into music, and he would die of a heart attack in 1968.

Recommended Albums: Kokomo Arnold's songs are some of the most popular of the early blues era, and have been reworked through the years and recorded by artists like Elvis Presley and Aerosmith. Arnold's recordings have been collected on a number of compilation albums, but for the interested that can endure the early, low-fidelity sound, Blues Classics, Vol. 1 features 20 songs from across the guitarist's brief career, including most of the favorites. Yazoo's Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters of the 1930s features seven tracks apiece from Arnold and Casey Bill Weldon. by Reverend Keith A. Gordon

Blues Classics Vol.1: Old Original Kokomo Blues



• Robert Wilkins - The Original Rolling Stone
• Tommy McClennan - I'm a Guitar King 1939-42

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Chicago Blues, Country Blues, Kokomo Arnold, Prewar Blues

Daddy Squeeze And The Doctor - Too Sweet To Die

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Prairie Dog Music
Released: 1997
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 101,0 MB
Time: 44:07
Art: front + back

1. Travelin' - 4:19
2. Windin' Boy Blues - 3:22
3. Papa Don't Sell It, Papa Don't Give It Away - 3:07
4. Wayfarin' Stranger - 3:11
5. The Journey - 5:28
6. Get Some Of This - 3:35
7. James Alley Blues - 3:42
8. Ol' Levis - 3:41
9. Hellhound On My Trail - 4:32
10. All Wore Out - 2:46
11. I Can't Be Satisfied - 3:54
12. Child Of God - 2:26

Personnel:
Daddy Squeeze (Dan Newton) - Accordion, Vocals
The Doctor (John Walker) - Guitars, Vocals

Notes: Daddy Squeeze and the Doctor play original and traditional country blues, rags, and Americana.
What makes them special, is not only their unique instrumentation, accordion with finger-style guitar and dobro, but also their great presentation of solid material.
As one fan put it, "listening to this CD is like listening to a conversation."
That's what's so good about the Daddy Squeeze and the Doctor sound. It's intimate, unpretentious, and soulful.
We hope you enjoy this, the third recording by this duo. If you want to learn more about them, visit www.daddysqueeze.com ~cdbaby

Too Sweet To Die



• Carl Leyland & Kim Cusack - Stompin' Upstairs
• The Blues Preachers - Next Stop Beulah Land

Oznake: Daddy Squeeze, The Doctor, Acoustic Blues

Jack Owens - Blues At Home 8: Recorded In Bentonia, Mississippi (1978-1982)

Size: 177,2 MB
Time: 76:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Country Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Mbirafon
Art: Front

01. Hard Times (Take 1) (2:47)
02. Hard Times (Take 2) (2:45)
03. Hard Times (Take 4) (3:25)
04. Catfish Blues (Take 1) (2:55)
05. Catfish Blues (Take 2) (3:25)
06. Cherry Ball (Take 1) (3:00)
07. Cherry Ball (Take 2) (3:48)
08. Cherry Ball (Take 3) (3:47)
09. Cherry Ball (Take 4) (6:32)
10. Don't Sell My Monkey (Take 1) (2:21)
11. Don't Sell My Monkey (Take 2) (3:19)
12. The Devil (Take 1) (4:40)
13. The Devil (Take 2) (3:53)
14. The Devil (Take 3) (3:46)
15. The Devil (Take 4) (3:34)
16. Keep On Grumbling (Take 1) (4:30)
17. Can't See, Baby (3:36)
18. Keep On Grumbling (Take 2) (3:46)
19. Keep On Grumbling (Take 3) (3:17)
20. Give Me Your Money, Baby (Take 2) (1:58)
21. Give Me Your Money, Baby (Take 3) (3:04)
22. Ain't No Loving, Ain't No Getting Along (Take 4) (1:50)

The eighth volume of the “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features one of the most important blues artists ever known. Born in 1904 in Bentonia, Mississippi, Jack Owens spent his whole life there farming. He was the master of a distinguished traditional blues style characterized by peculiar guitar tunings, vocal style, and repertoire. Along with his fellow-countryman Skip James and an old generation of Bentonian musicians, Owens represents the top-notch of the blues culture in the United States. Despite his importance, very little of his music has ever been recorded and released on record, leaving pieces that he used to play like “Baby Please Don't Go,” “Cypress Grove Blues,” or “Special Rider Blues” unrecorded. Discovered in 1966, Owens cut some outstanding material issued on Decca, Rounder, and Testament LP in the '60s and '70s, performing alone and with the accompaniment of the local harmonica player Benjamin “Bud” Spires. In 1978, 1980, and 1982, I had the chance to meet Owens at his home in Bentonia and to record, during several informal sessions, the material finally released on this CD, which mostly had remained unreleased for over 30 years. In 1978, Owens was also filmed by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax and appears in the documentary film The Land Where The Blues Began. From the early '80s until his death in 1997, Owens participated in several public events and folk festivals, also receiving a congratulatory letter from then U.S. president Bill Clinton. The 1982 interview is featured in volume 15 of the series. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered in 2013 from the original tapes. ~Giambattista Marcucci

Blues At Home 8



• Jack Owens and Bud Spires - It Must Have Been The Devil •
• Cary Tate & Alonzo Burks - Blues At Home 5 •

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Oznake: Jack Owens, Delta Blues, Country Blues

Richard Bargel & Dead Slow Stampede - It's Crap!

Size: 116,1 MB
Time: 49:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Meyer Records
Art: Front

01. It's Crap! (4:52)
02. Autumn Blues (4:54)
03. Slow Moving Woman (4:40)
04. You Got No Brains (3:44)
05. Devils Bar-B-Que (3:00)
06. Lady Of The Black Bamboo (5:30)
07. Bad Manners (2:33)
08. Stray Cat (5:25)
09. Done And Out (3:53)
10. Little Children Blues (3:06)
11. Out Of Tune (3:43)
12. Will Your House Be Blessed (4:19)

After saying goodbye to " Men In Blues" with Klaus 'Major' Heuser Richard Bargel presents a new production , with the participation of brilliant musicians such as Charlie Musselwhite and Freddy Koella (Willy DeVille / Bob Dylan ) have participated .

It almost seems as if the severe acute hearing loss , which unfortunately came to him in September 2012 and to say goodbye to the " Men In Blues " project with ex -BAP guitarist Klaus 'Major' Heuser led , unknown powers set free, the origin of which perhaps the desperate gasp of the musician is to be sought against the disaster of a lifelong hearing impairment . Sure, Richard Bargel is a fighter. His life Vita shows that he has already put away all other disasters.
The survival expert has super-fast, the new display within a few months : as writes and composes it again a whole range of great song titles , formed with the Dutch drummer Geert Roelofs , bassist Paul G. Ulrich and Cologne guitarist Roger Schaffrath his band " Dead Slow Stampede " and now presents with" It's Crap! " a self- conscious production before , with which he supported nationally and internationally to its prominent position as an original artist of high individual expression .

An excellent songwriter he has always been , but on "It's Crap! " Unfold Richard Bargel compositions even more sensuality , atmosphere and magic than before. The lyrics are witty , ironic, biting , sometimes absurd and ultimately touching - and : they mark a clean break from the clichés of popular blues lyric from .
Randy Newman would have loved it! Its bright pleasure certainly had Charlie Musselwhite . Recordings with the U.S. blues giants , one of the world's best harmonica players were planned years ago.
This time has come at last , because Charlie Musselwhite is with absolute enthusiasm and writes: ! ' It's Crap ' "I like I really get a kick out of listening to it. Great lyrics and you sing it with conviction and seeking humor " .

In 2010 met Freddy Koella , by critics as " the best electric lead guitarist Bob Dylan ever had " and years of guitarist Willy DeVille , Richard Bargel . Freddy and Richard were right for each other many musical similarities and sympathy , so that Freddy Koella same declared himself willing to participate in the production of "It's Crap! " . The special thing about it : not as a guitarist he shows here his excellent musicianship , but as a gifted violinist and mandolin player .

At the height of his creative power , Richard Bargel now presented on "It's Crap! " and thus also answers the same question as to why he is considered one of our best , most persuasive and most impressive artists in the genre of blues music.

Richard Bargel is a Bluespoet and innovative songwriter par excellence. The blues musician also has a strong personality and integrity, as well as the really big stage artists in the world. He has mastered together an unconventional and authentic playing on the slide guitar and with its sophisticated original compositions , he could earn as international recognition. Richard Bargel has a fascinating and beautiful rough bass voice , which he uses on stage, along with his incredible intensity and strong stage presence , to celebrate the blues. ~Google translation.

It's Crap!



• John Crampton - Blues Plus •
• Amos Garrett - Acoustic Album •

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Oznake: Richard Bargel, Germany, Acoustic Blues

Skip James - I'd Rather Be The Devil -The Legendary 1931 Session

Styles: Country Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Rev-Ola
Released: 2007
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 121,3 MB
Time: 52:58
Art: front

1. Devil Got My Woman - 2:58
2. Cypress Grove Blues - 3:11
3. Cherry Ball Blues - 2:49
4. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - 2:49
5. Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues - 2:51
6. If You Haven't Got Any Hay Get On Down The Road - 2:53
7. 22-20 Blues - 2:50
8. How Long Buck - 2:53
9. Be Ready When He Comes - 2:54
10. Drunken Spree - 2:38
11. I'm So Glad - 2:52
12. Special Rider Blues - 3:07
13. Hard Luck Child - 3:02
14. Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader - 3:00
15. Four O'clock Blues - 2:51
16. Illinois Blues - 3:02
17. Yola My Blues Away - 3:10
18. What Am I To Do Blues - 3:00

Notes: They've been reissued as a piece before, and no doubt they'll be reissued together in the future. But here they are again on this 2007 compilation: all 18 surviving tracks that Skip James recorded in February 1931 for Paramount Records, which in fact represented the totality of his output on disc before he was rediscovered in the '60s. It's gotten to the point that which iteration of these sessions you prefer is probably based on the art work and the liner notes, which are perfectly fine in the case of this anthology on the British Rev-Ola label. The music remains some of the most revered pre-World War II country blues, both for the quality of James' guitar work (though he occasionally backs himself on piano) and his haunting high vocals. "I'm So Glad" and, to a lesser degree, "Devil Got My Woman" remain the only songs familiar to a non-blues specialist audience, but many of the other tunes have similar qualities that will find favor with those who like those two classics. Alas, problems with surface noise remain, though on the whole it's not a significant distraction. That's not the fault of Rev-Ola; it's quite possible no one's ever going to figure out how to make some of the tracks sound crisp and clean with even the utmost state of the art remastering technology, such is the state of the only surviving source discs. But for all its unavoidable imperfections, this body of work is a cornerstone of the acoustic Delta blues form. AMG

I'd Rather Be The Devil: The Legendary 1931 Session



• Blind Arvella Gray - The Singing Drifter
• Cary Tate & Alonzo Burks - Blues At Home 5

Oznake: Skip James, Country Blues, Delta Blues

Molten Mike - Genuine Bluesman

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues
Released: 1998
Label: Ranluron
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 85.7 MB
Time: 40:13
Art: front

1. Southbound Train Blues - 4:34
2. Wish I Had A Nickel - 2:50
3. Love The Way You Do - 2:32
4. Special Rider Blues - 2:54
5. We All Got To Love Somebody - 3:13
6. Ain't Seen My Baby - 3:07
7. The Girl Is Mine - 3:01
8. Wouldn't Treat A Dog Like That - 4:47
9. You'd Be The First To Go - 3:38
10. She's My Little Angel - 3:15
11. My Good Time Gal - 2:44
12. Let It Rain - 3:31

Notes: Molten Mike has received or nominated for 18 music awards including Best Blues Singer, Best Blues Guitar Player, Best Entertainer, and Best Singer/Songwriter in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. Hes is a virtuoso player on National Steel Guitars and performs with a 1928 TriCone, a 1932 Duolean and a 1933 Style O National Steel Guitars.
He is also a Hot electric guitar player. His vocals are rich and the hooks are strong, telling stories of love gained, love lost, and other everyday events. He has a unique style that is completely his own. He has played over 70 engagements at the House of Blues in Orlando and Myrtle Beach and was the featured entertainment for the Millenium year 2000 New Years Eve Bash at the HOB in Orlando. Molten Mike has been the Pre Game Entertainment for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for 8 years in a row for all home games and recently played the World Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers parade party in Tampa, Fl in 2003 for an estimated crowd of 100,000,just prior to the Super Bowl Champs taking the stage to be revered by the fans.
His songs have been featured in the movie "Steal Wheels".
Molten Mike has produced 4 CD's: "Blues Meltdown", "Genuine Bluesman", "Molten Mike - The Movie" and his newest release in 2003 "Chameleon" His styles include Roots Blues, Electric Blues in the Chicago, Texas, Mississippi and Florida styles, Jazz, Pop, Latin, Rock and Love Songs.
The "Genuine Bluesman" Album is dedicated to Roots and Acoustic Blues afficiandos.He has received airtime in over 250 US markets as well as Japan, Australia, Belgium, Spain, France, England, Denmark, Sweden, and the Czech Republic. Molten Mike is available for Festivals Worldwide. ~ cdbaby.com

Genuine Bluesman



• Cat Iron - Jimmy Bell: The Blues Of Cat Iron
• Big Joe Williams - Big Joe Williams [Storyville]

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Molten Mike

Dave Kelly - When the Blues Come To Call

Styles: Blues-Rock, Acoustic Blues, Folk
Label: Hypertension
Released: 1994
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 99,3 MB
Time: 43:23
Art: front + back

1. You can't Judge A Book By The Cover - 3:35
2. The Duisberg Blues - 4:05
3. Let's Talk It Over - 3:27
4. Jim Canaan - 2:29
5. 32-20 - 3:39
6. Hoodoo Lady - 3:06
7. The River - 4:35
8. Oklahoma - 2:07
9. She's Funny That Way - 3:50
10. No More Doggin' - 3:34
11. When the Blues Come To Call - 4:37
12. Rooster Blues - 4:13

Personnel:
Dave Kelly - guitar, vocals
Ed Deane - guitar (1,9,11,12)
Bill Gautier - guitar (1,3)
Andy Brown - bass (1,7,9,11,12)
Marcus Cliffe - double bass (2,4,5,8)
Chuck Leavell - organ (1), piano (7,9)
Geraint Watkins - piano (11,12), organ (11)
Pick Withers - drums (1,7,9,11,12)
Sam Kelly Jr. - drums (2,8)
Liz Kitchen - percussion (1,5,7), spoons (4,8), washboard (4,8), vibes (8,9)
Christine Collister - vocals (3)
Gary Thomas - didgeridoo (5)
Peter Filleul - high string synth (5), piano (8)
John 'Lofty' Randall - cymbal (6)
John Hammond - harmonica (12)

Notes: David William 'Dave' Kelly (born 13 March 1947, Streatham, South London), is a British blues singer, guitarist and composer, who has been active on the British blues music scene since the 1960s. He has performed with the John Dummer Blues Band, Tramp, his own Dave Kelly Band and The Blues Band (read more about his latest work).
His sister, Jo Ann Kelly, was also a blues singer, and she and Dave participated in many musical projects together.
Kelly is a disciple of Fred McDowell.

When the Blues Come To Call



• Sam Mitchell - Follow You Down
• Tony McPhee & Friends - Two in One

Oznake: Dave Kelly, Acoustic Blues, folk, British Blues

Ramblin' Thomas - Hard Dallas

Size: 162,6 MB
Time: 67:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Texas Blues, Pre-War Country Blues
Label: Carfish
Art: Front

01. So Lonesome (2:45)
02. Hard To Rule Woman Blues (3:03)
03. Lock And Key Blues (2:36)
04. Sawmill Moan (2:55)
05. No Baby Blues (2:49)
06. Ramblin' Mind Blues (2:50)
07. No Job Blues (3:11)
08. Back Knawing Blues (3:02)
09. Jig Head Blues (3:17)
10. Hard Dallas Blues (3:03)
11. Hard Dallas Blues (2:59)
12. Ramblin' Man (3:07)
13. Poor Boy Blues (2:28)
14. Good Times Blues (3:06)
15. New Way Of Living Blues (3:04)
16. Ground Hog Blues (2:54)
17. Shake It Gal (2:42)
18. Ground Hog Blues No. 2 (3:14)
19. Little Old Mama Blues (3:05)
20. Down In Texas Blues (3:09)
21. My Hearts Like A Rolling Stone
22. Blue Goose Blues (2:35)
23. No Good Woman Blues (2:55)

The rediscovery of bluesman Jesse "Babyface" Thomas in the '70s was the equivalent of a blues archivist's two-for-one sale. It turned out that the mysterious and up-til-then totally obscure '20s recording artist known as Rambling Thomas was the brother of Jesse Thomas, and the latter man was able to spill the beans on just who the rambling man with the fascinating guitar style really was. The Thomas clan, which also included the guitar picking older brother Joe L. Thomas, were sons of an old-time fiddler and were raised in Louisiana close to the Texas border. The boys got into playing guitar after looking with admiration at various models in a Sears catalog. Jesse Thomas has recalled that the mail-order guitar purchased by his brother, Willard "Rambling" Thomas, came equipped with a metal bar for playing slide; indicating the tremendous popularity of country blues at the time or the possibility that someone at Sears knew the guitar was headed into the arms of a Southern bluesman.

Thomas rambled, indeed he did. He was discovered by recording scouts playing in Dallas, but prior to that had performed in San Antonio and Oklahoma. His style also seemed influenced by the double threat of blues guitarist and pianist Lonnie Johnson, suggesting a possible St. Louis sojourn as well. Thomas played quite a bit in the key of E, making him harmonically quite a typical Delta bluesman. His picking style is curious, however, and even more interesting is his timing. His rhythmic variations suggest that his nickname might have been handed out by a musician attempting to accompany him, and not just relate to his geographical roaming. On some of his recordings for Paramount and Victor, such as "Ground Hog Blues," he plays it a little straighter, going for an imitation of then current hitmaker Tampa Red. The Document label is among several blues record companies that have released collections of Thomas' material, usually in the form of either a compilation or a collection of several artists; since Thomas was apparently too busy rambling to record a full album's worth of material. Thomas reportedly died of tuberculosis in Memphis, circa 1945.
~Biography by Eugene Chadbourne

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Hard Dallas



• Baby Tate - See What You Done Done •
• Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues: Secret History Of Rock 'n' Roll •

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Oznake: Ramblin' Thomas, Country Blues, Texas Blues, Pre-War Blues

Catfish Keith - Honey Hole

Size: 129,0 MB
Time: 54:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Fish Tail Records
Art: Front

01. Sweet Honey Hole (3:22)
02. Best Jelly In The Neighborhood (3:32)
03. Jailbird Love Song (3:32)
04. Weed Smoker's Dream - Why Don't You Do Right (5:46)
05. Tomi Tomi (3:30)
06. Take Me Back (3:41)
07. Who's Been Here (4:05)
08. She Got Washed Away (4:09)
09. Someday Baby (3:50)
10. Rowdy Blues (3:50)
11. God Don't Like It (4:13)
12. Frisco Town (4:01)
13. Lotus Blossom (4:21)
14. Poor Howard - Green Corn (2:41)

CATFISH KEITH is back with his all-new album, HONEY HOLE. Catfish is a world touring acoustic blues master that has been on the forefront of delta blues and roots music for over 30 years. Singing and playing a foot-stomping style thoroughly his own, this is music soaked in tradition and innovation. Catfish is carrying and building on a quirky, weird and very deep music, making the whole musical universe with the sounds of guitar and voice.

Catfish has performed thousands of concerts throughout the world. He's had BLUES MUSIC AWARD Nominations for BEST ACOUSTIC BLUES ALBUM, BEST OVERSEAS ARTIST by the British Blues Connection, and is in the Iowa BLUES HALL OF FAME. Most of his albums have reached NUMBER ONE on radio charts around the globe.

On Honey Hole, world-touring acoustic blues pioneer Catfish Keith performs 14 songs from an endless repertoire, out of the deepest tradition of foot-stomping solo country blues and roots music. This new CD features his unique re-creations of works from such great artists as Blind Boy Fuller, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Mississippi Shieks, Frank Stokes, and Kid Bailey, to Julia Lee, Lil Green, The Harlem Hamfats and even Hawaiian artists Kanui & Lula.

His 15th album, Honey Hole presents Catfish at his peak, doing what he does best: spontaneous string-twanging, virtuoso picking and sliding, on an array of Nationals and acoustic guitars, with his most nuanced singing ever. Most of the songs are recorded totally live, solo, but this album also includes Catfish harmonizing and jamming with himself on Jailbird Love Song and Take Me Back.

Honey Hole



• Sam Chatmon - Blues When It Rains •
• James 'Son' Thomas - Mississippi Delta Blues Man •

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Oznake: Catfish Keith, Acoustic Blues

Bukka White - Mississippi Blues

Styles: Delta Blues
Label: Sonet
Released: 1963
File: mp3 @320K/s (from vinyl)
Size: 95,1 MB
Time: 41:33
Art: front +back

1. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - 4:09
2. Baby Please Don't Go - 4:47
3. New Orleans Streamline - 3:41
4. Parchman Farm Blues - 2:52
5. Poor Boy Long Way From Home - 2:19
6. Remembrance Of Charley Patton - 3:52
7. Shake 'Em On Down - 3:29
8. I Am In The Heavenly Way - 3:40
9. The Atlanta Special - 5:53
10. Drunk Man Blues (Piano) - 3:49
11. Army Blues - 3:00

Notes: There is not much information on this recording. Most of the back cover is taken up with a catalog listing, while the front cover photo is of a dried-up muddy riverbed, which actually looks like a blow-up of a small section of this artist's face. Bukka White is a name known to blues lovers since he was one of the group of early Delta blues recording artists that were rediscovered in the '60s. This album is one of the new recordings he made during this latter period. It is appropriate that White recorded a monologue at one point entitled "Mixed Water" for another label, because blues listeners tend to be mixed about this artist's output. The final analysis is usually in his favor, as he has a tremendously appealing voice, and while not a guitar virtuoso, he certainly creates an authentic Delta blues sound and keeps three or four rhythms that blues bar bands would die for. Sometimes listeners just expect too much from the man, such as a more extensive repertoire of styles or a more forceful guitar attack. Slide guitar and dobro playing have gone so far to the front and center in various types of music that some listeners are just used to hearing it that way, and won't comprehend why White's licks are sometimes simply chiming way in the background, like angels heard from a distance. Despite a lack of intensity -- he just sounds tired some of the time -- there are several classic performances on this recording. What is identified as "Parchman Farm" was actually recorded under the title of "Where Can I Change My Clothes" in the '40s for Vocalion. While he also recorded another song entitled "Parchman Farm" as well, neither is the blues song of this name that has become a standard. The incorrectly titled performance of "Where Can I Change My Clothes" here is brilliant, as is his intense "Army Blues." His "Baby Please Don't Go" and "Shake 'Em On Down" both display his unforced, calm method of delivery, the main point of focus being the twists and turns taken by his magnificently rich vocal as the guitar plays a very straightforward accompaniment. The distinctive plunk of the steel guitar or dobro is present here throughout; listeners that find this sound appealing will be in heaven, daydreaming of guitars with pictures of palm trees on their backs. The track consisting of stories about blues legend Charley Patton spoon-feeding him small amounts of whisky is amusing, but brings the side to a dead halt. by Eugene Chadbourne

Mississippi Blues



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

Oznake: Bukka White, Delta Blues

Michael Roach - Ain't Got Me No Home

Styles: Contemporary Blues
Label: Stella Records
Released: 1993
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 106,2 MB
Time: 46:23
Art: front

1. My black mama - 3:45
2. Ain't got me no home - 3:38
3. Take me back blues - 3:18
4. In my neighbourhood - 3:52
5. Bring it with you when you come - 3:50
6. Prison bound - 3:19
7. Freedom bound - 3:28
8. San Francisco bay blues - 3:10
9. Stop down - 3:39
10. Left handed blues - 3:07
11. Sure you're right - 3:31
12. Backbone - 3:55
13. Kassie Jones - 3:43

Personnel:
Michael Roach (acoustic guitar, vocals)
Mike Baytop (harmonica)
Richard "Mr Bones" Thomas (bones)

Notes: Michael Roach, one of thirteen children born to Ted and Sadie Roach of Washington, D.C., USA, sings and plays guitar in an East Coast style of blues that dates back to the 1920s. After spending several years learning directly from such well known figures as John Jackson, John Cephas and Jerry Ricks, Michael Roach has developed his own style and is now an exceptional performer. He interacts with his audience and he entertains as he plays. As a cultural arts performer, Michael has promoted African-American culture through the use of blues music. He has lectured for the American Smithsonian Institute and more recently at the Oxford University here in England. He has conducted workshops throughout the USA and Europe. It is through Michael's communication skills and his musicianship that has enabled him to bring about a greater understanding of blues music and the black experience.

Ain't Got Me No Home



• Terry Garland - Whistling in the Dark
• Salty Dog - Slap That Thing

Oznake: Michael Roach, Contemporary Blues

Gus Cannon - Walk Right In [Stax]

Styles: Jug Band, Pre-War Blues, Minstrel, Folk-Blues, Acoustic Memphis Blues
Recorded: 1963
Released: 1999
Label: Stax
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 72,2 MB
Time: 31:31
Art: full

1. Narration - 2:58
2. Kill It - 2:10
3. Walk Right In - 2:29
4. Salty Dog - 2:22
5. Going Around The Mountain - 1:58
6. Ol' Hen - 2:33
7. Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight - 2:19
8. Ain't Gonna Rain No More - 2:50
9. Boll-Weevil - 2:42
10. Come On Down To My House - 1:24
11. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - 3:07
12. Get Up In The Morning Soon - 2:06
13. Crawdad Hole - 2:26

Personnel:
Gus Cannon - Banjo, Vocals
Milton Roby - Washboard
Will Shade - Jug

Notes: In June of 1963, 79-year-old Gus Cannon went into the studio in Memphis to cut his first recording in close to seven years, all a result of the Rooftoop Singers having made his "Walk Right In" into a number one single. The producers didn't ask for too much out of Cannon, to judge from the results -- just that he sit there with his banjo and old friends Will Shade (jug) and Milton Roby (washboard) backing him, and do his favorite songs. He introduces a few of them in separately indexed spoken passages, and runs through them in leisurely if dedicated fashion: the title track (which is much bluesier than the hit in Cannon's hands), "Salty Dog" (the best track here), "Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight," "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor," 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. ~ Bruce Eder

Walk Right In [Stax]



• Gus Cannon - Jug Band Blues Essentials
• Various - Jugband Specials

Oznake: Folk-Blues, Gus Cannon, Jug Band, Memphis Blues, Minstrel, Pre-War Blues

Stainless Blues Band - Acoustic

Styles: Contemporary Blues
Label: Time Blues, Russia
Released: 1997
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 116,9 MB
Time: 51:04
Art: front + in

1. Crossroads - 4:36
2. Walkin' Blues - 3:38
3. I Can't Be Satisfied - 3:31
4. Sugar Mama - 4:03
5. I'm Gonna Leave You Baby - 2:52
6. All Your Love - 3:44
7. Lightnin' - 5:29
8. I Want To Be Loved - 2:57
9. Bright Light Big City - 3:37
10. Brown Stone - 2:52
11. Everyday I Have The Blues - 2:26
12. Sitting On Top Of The World - 3:27
13. Eyes Like A Cat - 3:08
14. Little Wing - 4:37

Personnel:
Boris Bulkin - guitar, vocals
Aleksei Popov - guitar bass, vocals
Pavel Zhdankin - drums
Mikhail Sokolov - harmonica, vocals

Notes: Book
Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times
by Michael Urban with Andrei Evdokimov

Chapter 3, Moskcow Blues: Musicians and Their Music
Pages 53 & 54

Acoustic



• John Mooney - Telephone King
• Brint Anderson - Notes From Clarksdale

Oznake: Stainless Blues Band, Russia, Contemporary Blues, Contemporary Country

Guitar Nick & Blue Al - Tribute To Robert Johnson

Styles: Moder Acoustic Blues
Label: Riva Sound Records, Bulgaria
Released: 2001
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 129,5 MB
Time: 56:33
Art: front + back

1. Springtime Boogie - 3:45
2. Love In Vain - 3:08
3. Sweet Home Chicago - 2:40
4. Ramblin' on My Mind - 6:01
5. Little Green Frogs - 2:22
6. Walking Blues - 3:41
7. Good Morning, Mr.Blues - 3:06
8. Come On In My Kitchen - 3:13
9. When You Got A Good Friend - 3:00
10. Country & Blues Fantasia - 8:26
11. Baby, Please Don't Go - 2:28
12. Harmonica Solo - 3:26
13. Hoochie Coochie Man - 4:24
14. Sofia Blues - 4:28
15. How Long Blues - 2:17

Notes: Guitar Nick (Nicolai Tanev) was born on 23.06.1962 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He started playing guitar when he was sixteen, but his real progress began after his meeting with the most famous Bulgarian classical guitar teacher Dimiter Deutschinoff. For about five years he took private lessons and worked on the music of composers such as Albeniz, Tarrega, Vila - Lobos, Bach and many others. Meantime he majored in French literature, worked as a translator and after getting his certificate for guitar - teacher from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture he started giving private lessons. He is a member of the American Blues Foundation.

Blue Al (Alexander Donchev) was born on 25.05.1972 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The first group where he played harmonica was "Montana". The group performed Country music and toured the whole country. For his exceptional abilities of bluesman he was invited and performed as a guest - musician in the albums of "Herman's Wolf Band" and "Djendema". Alexander Donchev plays mainly in clubs and gets many gigs with the groups "Cocomania", "Vasko Krapkata".

Recorded at "Silvia Music Studio", Sofia, Bulgaria, between February and April 2000, the style is acoustic blues. It consists of 15 tracks, 10 of which are songs - original blues standards by Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Joe Williams and Huddie Ledbetter, and the other 5 are instrumentals - 3 of them by Nicolai Tanev (Guitar Nick) and 2 by Alexander Donchev (Blue Al).
The characteristic acoustic sound of the music is defined by the wide use of classical nylon - stringed guitar, which can't be seen very often in the blues, combined with the typical blues sound of "Hohner Blues Harp" without effects. Full acoustic - this is the main sound idea in this album. Both musicians sound as if they were very close to you, without any amplification.
As the title suggests , this album is a reverence for Robert Johnson, but unlike the wonderful album of Peter Green it goes much farther - it includes others classics and presents the original blues conception of both young musicians.
More info

Tribute To Robert Johnson



• John Campbell - Tyler, Texas Session
• Bjorn Berge - Bjorn Berge

Oznake: Guitar Nick & Blue Al, Bulgaria, Modern Acoustic Blues

George Mitchell Collection, part 1

Styles: Various Acoustic Blues
Label: Fat Possum
Recorded: 60's & 70's
Released: late 00's

George Mitchell was born in Coral Gables, Florida in 1944. He was raised in Atlanta, Georgia and in 1958 discovered by accident the two radio stations in Atlanta that played black music, WAOK, and WERD, the first black-owned station in the US. Mitchell was drawn to black music, and as a teenager listened intently to Samuel B. Charters' anthology The Country Blues. He also went to blues and R&B shows and saw Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, and the Staple Singers with his grandmother in tow; they were the only white people at that performance.
Mitchell first recorded in Memphis in 1962 just to have something to listen to. He and some friends recorded Furry Lewis, Gus Canon, Will Shade, Charlie Burse, Laura Dukes, and Catherine Porter. This was the start of a career devoted to recording blues musicians.
In 1963, he located and recorded the early Atlanta legends, Peg Leg Howell and Buddy Moss. Also in 1963, he worked in Chicago for Delmark Records and, with Michael Bloomfield, produced concerts at the Fickle Pickle, bringing in both unknown blues artists and re-locating such bluesmen as Washboard Sam. Recordings of these concerts have been issued extensively.
In the summer of 1967 Mitchell traveled with his wife Cathy and Wollensack tape recorder and borrowed a 35mm camera from the University of Minnesota to document blues musicians in Mississippi. After returning to Minnesota Mitchell turned the trip into a master's thesis that also became his first book in 1971, Blow My Blues Away. They had recorded legends Fred McDowell and Houston Stackhouse, and at the time unknowns R.L. Burnside and Othar Turner.
Beginning in 1976 Mitchell took a job for the Bureau of Cultural Affairs in Atlanta to oversee the Georgia Grassroots Music Festival. Mitchell was able to travel across the state and document folk musicians native to the state and hire a staff to do field work. He curated the Festival for three years and in that time recorded such musicians as James Davis, Precious Bryant, James Lee Ziegler, and Willie Guy Raines.
From 1979 to 1981 he worked as a field researcher for the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Georgia, for In Celebration of a Legacy, a project initiated by folklorist Fred Fussell. A book by that name by Mitchell and a double record album from his field recordings were published by the Museum and re-published and currently available from the Chattahoochee Historic Commission.
In Atlanta in 1984 George Mitchell created the National Downhome Blues Festival which was held at the Moonshadow Saloon. The three-day festival was the largest gathering of old-time blues musicians before or since. A one-hour program of performances and interviews held on these three days was broadcast on PBS; in addition a 4 record LP was released by Southland.
After field recording Mitchell focused on his other passion, photography. He taught high school students in Atlanta helping them produce the photography book Sweet Auburn: the Many Faces of Atlanta's Most Historic Avenue.
George Mitchell resides in Atlanta with his wife Cathy.

Books by George Mitchell include:
Blow My Blues Away (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971)
I'm Somebody Important: Young Black Voices from Rural Georgia (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973)
Yessir, I've Been Here a Long Time: The Faces and Words of Americans Who Have Lived a Century (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1975)
Ponce de Leon: An Intimate Portrait of Atlanta's Most Famous Avenue (Atlanta: Argonne Books, 1982)
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Selected Recordings
Numerous record albums and CDs issued by a number of labels including Fat Possum, Arhoolie, Rounder, Testament, Hightone, Flyright, Southland and Swingmaster.
Fat Possum has issued 26 CDs of field recordings, including a boxed set, most of them listed under The George Mitchell Collection.

George Mitchell Collection - Lonzie Thomas @320
George Mitchell Collection - Various- Lower Chattahoochee Valley @320
George Mitchell Collection - Rosa Lee Hill And Friends @320
George Mitchell Collection - Cecil Barfield @320

These albums you can find in the Garret
Links provided by marc(fr)

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, George Mitchell

George Mitchell Collection, part 2

1. Shake Your Williams - 3:51
2. Everyone Got A Woman - 2:27
3. Sugar Mama - 2:48
4. Terraplane Blues - 1:47
5. Limousine Blues - 3:00
6. Baby Please Don't Go - 2:47
7. Who's Been Foolin' You - 2:13
8. What She Need With A Rooster - 2:33
9. Sink Or Swim - 2:38
10. Prison Bound - 2:21

File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 60,7 MB
Time: 26:30
Art: front

George Mitchell Collection - Big Joe Williams

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Big Joe Williams, Bud Grant, Buddy Moss, Jimmy Lee Harris

George Mitchell Collection, part 3

1. What Can God Do - 1:23
2. Only Believe - 2:33
3. Blessed Question - 2:21
4. I Have A Savior I Can Depend On - 1:58
5. Motherless Child - 2:14
6. Hush - Somebody Is Calling Me - 2:56
7. Search Me Lord - 2:11
8. Pray For Me - 2:14
9. What A Friend We Have In Jesus - 2:58
10. There's No Friend Like The Lonely Jesus - 3:36
11. Want To Die Easy When I Die - 2:09
12. He'll Understand And Say Well Done - 4:23

File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 71,0 MB
Time: 31:02
Art: front

George Mitchell Collection - Leon Pinson

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Gus Cannon, James Davis, John Lee Ziegler, Leon Pinson, Sleepy John Estes, Teddy Williams, Tom Turner, Walter 'Furry' Lewis, Will Shade, William Robertson

Frank Edwards - Georgia Country Blues

Size: 121,8 MB
Time: 51:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Country Blues
Label: Wolf Records
Art: Front

01. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (2:58)
02. Goin' Back And Get Her (4:01)
03. She Is Mine (2:43)
04. Mean Old Frisco (2:16)
05. Key To The Highway (2:29)
06. Throw Your Time Away (2:34)
07. Got To Get Together (2:35)
08. Chicken Raid (4:16)
09. Mini-Dress Wearer (2:56)
10. Alcatraz Blues (4:41)
11. Love Me Baby (2:27)
12. Put You Arms Around Me (4:10)
13. Terraplane Blues (2:46)
14. Sweet Man Blues (2:47)
15. Three Women Blues (2:57)
16. Terraplane Blues (2:45)
17. We Got To Get Together (2:32)

The eight sides country bluesman Frank Edwards recorded in Chicago in 1941 for OKeh Records stirred little interest at the time, and the four additional sides he made for Regal Records toward the end of that decade weren't even officially issued until the 1960s, so the album he recorded for blues researcher Pete Lowry's Trix Records label in 1972, Done Some Travelin', was a bit of a revelation in the blues community. Featuring a delightfully wry and ramshackle approach to his material, and singing in a soft, easy, and effortlessly pliant high tenor, Edwards brought a refreshing vitality to the country blues formula, making the album a sort of instant classic of the genre. Done Some Travelin' is reproduced here, minus one instrumental track, and with four of his 1941 OKeh sides added as bonus tracks. It may be difficult to think of the blues as joyous, but that's exactly how Edwards manages to make it sound on his covers of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning, Little School Girl" and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "Mean Old Frisco" and on his own humorous, shaggy dog tale "Chicken Raid," which details the problems of inviting a preacher to your house for Sunday dinner. The striking "Alcatraz Blues" (which was actually written about Attica State Prison in upstate New York) shows that Edwards had a focused and serious side, as well. Edwards only recorded once more, on March 24, 2002, in Greenville, SC, when he was 93 years old, which resulted in the similarly delightful Chicken Raid album for Music Maker Foundation. He died on his way back to his Atlanta home after the session. One of the last of the great country bluesmen to find an audience, Edwards is a true American original. ~Review by Steve Leggett

Thanks to DrPeak
Georgia Country Blues



• Juke Boy Bonner - Life Gave Me A Dirty Deal •
• Brownie McGhee - Brownie's Blues •

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Oznake: Frank Edwards, Country Blues

Bap Kennedy - Let's Start Again

Size: 85,4 MB
Time: 36:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues Country, Americana
Label: Proper Records
Art: Front

01. Let's Start Again (3:31)
02. Revelation Blues (3:23)
03. If Things Don't Change (3:05)
04. King Of Mexico (3:27)
05. Song Of Her Desire (3:52)
06. Radio Waves (3:18)
07. Heart Trouble (2:58)
08. Under My Wing (3:12)
09. Strange Kid (3:12)
10. Fool's Paradise (2:47)
11. Let It Go (3:40)

"Let's Start Again" is Bap Kennedy's 6th solo album of original material. His original encounter with the record business was as lead singer and primary songwriter for cult Belfast rockers Energy Orchard, with whom he recorded 5 albums.

While Bap usually records in England and America, this time he wanted to bring together some of the top musicians in his native Northern Ireland to play on "Let's Start Again". The most local of the local talents is bass player and harmony vocalist, Brenda Kennedy, Bap's wife. Brenda is also a regular member of Bap's live band, as are two of the album's other musicians - drummer Rabb Bennett and virtuoso guitarist Gordy McAllister.

After the Celtic melancholy of "The Sailor's Revenge", there is a more upbeat rootsy Americana feel to "Let's Start Again". The country-roots style of the record is something that Bap's co-producer, Mudd Wallace first realised would suit Bap as far back as the early 80's.

Let's Start Again



• Shawn James - Shadows •
• Los Lobos - Los Lobos Del Este De Los Angeles •

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Oznake: Bap Kennedy, Americana

Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - Dislocation Blues

Styles: Americana, Roots Rock, Modern Acoustic Blues, Slide Guitar Blues
Label: ABC Music
Released: 2006
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 156,2 MB
Time: 68:13
Art: full

1. Stagger Lee - 7:26
2. Twelve Thousand Miles - 4:36
3. When I Paint My Masterpiece - 5:00
4. Rocket House - 5:08
5. The Road Leads Down - 2:51
6. Dislocation Blues - 5:27
7. Forever In My Life - 3:54
8. Velocity Girl - 4:52
9. Ravenswood - 5:22
10. Underground - 4:18
11. Changing Of The Guard - 6:42
12. Motion Bride - 12:31

Personnel:
Chris Whitley: vocals, National guitar, bottleneck guitar, foot
Jeff Lange: amplified acoustic lap steel, national guitar, acoustic lap slide, acoustic guitar, loops, samples, electric guitar, fretless electric guitar, fretless banjo, bass pedals
Grant Cummerford: acoustic bass, electric bass, bowed bass
Ashley Davies: drums

Notes: Dislocation Blues is the work of kindred spirits in a sustained moment of inspiration. Recorded in April of 2005, months before guitarist/vocalist Chris Whitley's death from cancer, the album finds the late Texan united with his Australian cohort, guitarist Jeff Lang, as they confront their emotions and, by the alchemy that is music, transform that interaction into poetry instrumental and verbal.
Whitley and Lang achieve this transmogrification with a mix of originals, traditional songs and, not surprisingly, two songs of Bob Dylan's. "When I Paint My Masterpiece is a jaunty romp that nevertheless betrays a certain nagging uncertainty through its mix of electric and acoustic guitars combined with the halting gait in the rhythm. "Changing of the Guard finds Whitley and Lang trading verses of the Bard's apocalyptic vision, the fluidity of their tradeoffs making it all the more regrettable the world will never get to see the two perform together live (though the two did do some selected dates together in 2004, early in their collaboration).
Thankfully Dislocation Blues fully documents their chemistry as they interact with the deferential rhythm section of bassist Grant Cummerford and drummer Ashley Davies. Whitley and Lang, who produced the album and ensured its release in the United States, refuse to prettify their music but therein lies the very foundation of its beauty. The pair conjures an air of menace through the deliberate pace they apply to the traditional tune "Stagger Lee, Whitley's falsetto vocal and the electric slide guitar winding around the changes like a shadow of a stalker. The title song is a mesmerizing travel through time, revealing Whitley's beat poet roots as means of commentary on our post-9/11 world.
Lang plays the role of younger brother to Whitley here, a figure with less experience and thus more unabashed hope. His voice is less parched and his guitar playing brighter on "The Road Leads Down and "Ravenswood. Twelve Thousand Miles is an original blues by Lang, where he demonstrates how he exorcises his personal demons as much by playing as composing. Whitley's previously recorded "Rocket House is shorn of its previously-recorded production accouterments and enlivened as an acoustic dreamscape that's no less evocative.
What might seem an odd choice here is the inclusion of Prince's "Forever in My Life. Yet Whitley and Lang take this somewhat overstated expression of devotion and turn it into an ode to primal desire. Like the almost hidden track "Hellhound on My Trail, performed by Whitley alone, it becomes a personal statement that haunts long after the performance is over.
The same can be said about Dislocation Blues in its entirety.
Visit Chris Whitley and Jeff Lang on the web.

Dislocation Blues



• John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
• Andy Squint - Down By The River

Oznake: Chris Whitley, Jeff Lang, Modern Acoustic Blues, Slide Guitar Blues, Americana

Steve James - Boom Chang

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Released: 2000
Label: Burnside
File:mp3 @320K/s
Size: 111.8 MB
Art: Front

1. Galway Station Blues (James) - 3:48
2. The Gina Reel (James) - 3:19
3. Way Out on the Desert (Williams) - 3:03
4. Stack Lee's Blues (James) - 4:43
5. Born to Lose (Brown, Daffan) - 3:13
6. Country Fool (Carter) - 3:52
7. Squaw Teat Mountain Breakdown (James, Sarah) - 2:57
8. Willie's Place (James) - 2:14
9. Been All Around This World (Traditional) - 3:39
10. Voice Mail - 0:16
11. Sonny Payne (James) - 5:44
12. Saturday Night in Jail (James) - 3:46
13. Saturday Night in Jail (Chorus Reprise) (James) - 0:30
14. Seeds Faust - 4:59
15. No Title - 1:57

Personnel:
Cindy Cashdollar - Dobro, Hawaiian Guitar
Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart - Guitar, Mandolin
Steve James - Guitar, Arranger, Vocals, Producer, Adaptation
Gary Primich - Harmonica
Mark Rubin - Bass, Tuba

Notes:Boom Chang is guitarist Steve James' fourth release overall but his debut for Burnside Records. This acoustic roots and blues disc features guest appearances from bassist Mark Rubin of the Bad Livers (playing tuba!), Alvin Youngblood Hart on guitar and mandolin, Cindy Cashdollar on Hawaiian guitar and Dobro, and harp master Gary Primich. The mood on these 14 tracks is raw and fun from James' rewriting of Stack Lee's "Blues to Country Fool" originally by Delta bluesman Bo Carter to the jugband workout on the original "Saturday Night in Jail."

Boom Chang



• Moreland, Arbuckle & Floyd - Floyd's Market
• Nathan James & Ben Hernandez - Make A Change Sometime

Oznake: Steve James, Acoustic Blues

Barry McCabe - The Acoustic Album

Size: 71,5 MB
Time: 30:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Blues Folk
Label: Barry McCabe
Art: Front

01. Nobody's Girl (4:00)
02. Talkin' Woman Blues (2:03)
03. Arthur (2:52)
04. Adam & Eve (4:41)
05. Sheilagh (Live Version) (4:48)
06. I Wonder (Live Version With Pat Mc Manus) (4:36)
07. Mountains Of Mourne (Live Version) (4:59)
08. The Sunset Waltz (2:44)

The Acoustic Album came into being basically to give people a souvenir to bring home with them after Barry's acoustic concerts. However, word spread about this beautiful album and people around the world who have been unable to attend an acoustic show to date demanded that it be make available to the general public - and that's just what we've done.

It's a collection of previously released material and some never-before released material. Some of the tracks are live, which gives them a very special and intimate feeling. The styles covered are blues, Irish and singer-songwriter material. For example, Barry take one of his own favourite songs "Mountains of Mourne" (an old Irish song) and gives it his own interpretation and it is now a firm favourite in his acoustic shows. Likewise, he's taken one of his own songs "Sheilagh" and brought it back to it's more original setting (he writes all his songs on an acoustic guitar) and he also tells a short story about how the song came into being. He's joined on the song "I Wonder" by his cousin Pat McManus, well-known in his own right as a member of Mama's Boys & Celtus.

So from the opening track "Nobody's Girl" to the last piece of music "The Sunset Waltz" allow Barry to transport you magically to a place where an acoustic guitar and a human voice is all that is needed for him to tell you his stories.

The Acoustic Album



• Luther Dickinson And The Sons of Mudboy - Onward & Upward •
• Brian Blain - New Folk Blues •

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Oznake: Barry McCabe, Folk-Blues

Lisa Biales - Belle Of The Blues

Size: 91,7 MB
Time: 39:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Big Song Music
Art: Front

01. Belle Of The Blues (Feat. Pat Bergeson) (3:09)
02. Sad Sad Sunday (Feat. Tommy Talton & Randall Bramblett) (4:27)
03. Bad Things (Feat. Randall Bramblett, Ken Wynn, EG Kight & Tommy Talton) (4:00)
04. Mask (Feat. Tommy Talton, Paul Hornsby & Randall Bramblett) (3:08)
05. Graveyard Dead Blues (Feat. Tommy Talton, Paul Hornsby & Bill Stewart) (4:09)
06. Baby Won't You Please Come Home (Feat. Paul Hornsby) (3:09)
07. In My Girlish Days (Feat. EG Kight & Tommy Talton) (3:54)
08. Peach Pickin' Mama (Feat. Tommy Talton & Pat Bergeson) (2:58)
09. Black & White Blues (Feat. Tommy Talton & Paul Hornsby) (3:25)
10. Trouble (Feat. EG Kight, Ken Wynn & Paul Hornsby) (3:18)
11. Bad Girl (Feat. Randall Bramblett & Ken Wynn) (3:50)

Lisa Biales’ musical roots run deep. Her love and appreciation of singing came at an early age as she grew up in a musical family. Lisa started playing the guitar at the age of eleven, at age thirteen she was playing for church services, and when Lisa was seventeen, she was singing Jazz Standards in her parents Dixieland Band.

In 2003, Lisa earned a Masters Degree in Theater from Ohio University, her professors were encouraging her to continue with a PhD. After much soul searching, Lisa decided she had gone far enough in academia and decided to quit her day job to give her undivided attention to the music that had been calling her for so many years.

In 2006, Lisa turned her focus to songwriting and recording. She released an album of original music entitled, "Chasing Away The Blues" which was produced with Grammy Nominated Celeste Friedman. The album is receiving international attention on the folk and blues charts and her song “Where The Buckwheat Blooms” topped the International Folk Play list at #32 that year, right between Bill Monroe and Cat Stevens. . . not bad company. "A taste of soul, and the blues . . . elements that have ensured pure musical art." ~ NPR Music

In 2007, Lisa released “Come To Me” which was recorded with Nashville producer Gary Scott. "It is very exciting and inspiring to collaborate with such talent." Scott said. “Come To Me” showcases Lisa’s talent for writing a song that is perfect for her voice.”

In 2008, Lisa released a collection of folk, roots and traditional American tunes for children called “Yellow Shoes.” John Funnell of 88.9 WYN-FM, Australia says, “Yellow Shoes just proves that children's songs have a lot to offer adults, too.”

“Hey There” was also released in 2008. This CD was recorded in mostly one takes, at home with no fancy footwork or overdubs. “The Norman Rockwell of songwriters with a crystal pure voice.” - Marc Nolis, Mazzmuzika, Belgium

“Closet Hippie” released in 2010 is Lisa’s most honest and intimate work to date. As her writing continues to evolve, her performances are deeply moving and magical as she taps into the essence of each song. “Lisa’s version of the Jimi Hendrix song “Little Wing” ranks among those of John Mayer, Sting and Clapton.” ~ Brian O’Donnell, 89.7 WNKU-FM

In 2012, Lisa released “Just Like Honey” which was produced by EG Kight and Paul Hornsby. The album stayed on the roots music reports for over a year, and was played on Sirius XM’s Bluesville extensively. This introduction into the blues was met with enthusiasm from blues fans, DJ’s, and critics alike. "When I play your song PEACHES, the phone rings off the hook! - Linda Yohn, DJ WEMU "Lisa Biales has one of those great voices of our times." - Cascade Blues Association

In 2013, Lisa released “Singing In My Soul” with Ricky Nye & The Paris Blues Band further garnering her a place in the blues world. “I wanted to make a record of upbeat, happy early blues tunes.” All cover tunes with the exception of “Magic Garden,” showcasing Lisa’s incredible vocals and an uncanny ability to take a cover tune and make it fresh and new. "Lisa Biales has one of those great voices of our times." - Cascade Blues Association

In 2014, Lisa releases “Belle Of The Blues” a fitting moniker for someone who has spent her career making great music. Featuring seven songs from the EG Kight songbook. Kight and Paul Hornsby produce this CD with Tommy Talton on acoustic guitar, dobro and electric slide, Randall Bramblett on Hammond B3, Hornsby on Piano. The disc features a duet with Kight. The title cut was written by Kight and long time writing partner Tom Horner for the project. Tracks from Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie and a co-write with Biales, Kight and Horner is sure to put a smile on your face.

Lisa Biales is comfortable and makes you feel right at home when she’s on the stage. She presents her original early blues influenced music as effortlessly as if she were sitting at your dining room table drinking a cup of tea. “Like a great Zen Master, Lisa zones into each magical musical moment.” – Michael Kalter, Musician

Belle Of The Blues



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Oznake: Lisa Biales, Acoustic Blues

Richard Ray Farrell & Steve Guyger - Down Home Old School Country Blues

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Released: 2006
Label: Blue Beet
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 138.8
Time: 136:32
Art: Front

1. Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl - 4:02
2. Cool Cool Place to Go - 3:14
3. Rollin' and Tumblin' - 4:19
4. I Gotta Go - 3:54
5. Friar's Point Blues - 2:44
6. Oh Red - 2:38
7. Cocaine Blues - 4:08
8. Gimme Mine Now - 4:19
9. That's Alright - 3:43
10. Keep Your Hands off Her - 3:10
11. Sail On - 4:23
12. Big Road Blues - 3:52
13. Early in the Morning - 4:09
14. You Can't Get That Stuff No More - 3:23
15. Baby Please Don't Go - 2:45
16. Diggin' My Potatoes - 4:07

Notes:Blue Beet Music is proud to present Richard Ray Farrell & Steve Guyger's new CD titled Down Home Old School Country Blues.

"Depending on the musical genre, the term "old school" means different things to different people. To the aficionado of acoustic blues, it generally refersto the heyday of unamplified country blues between 1920 and 1960. The pantheonof influential blues artists from this period has cast a long shadow. The 16 coversherein showcase the diversity of this enduring genre. Contemporary duos like Santa Barbara's Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan, Virginia's John Cephas & Phil Wiggins, andBoston's Paul Rishell & Annie Raines, all cast in the mold of legendary country blues torchbearers Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, have performed and recorded this style of blues with substantial success for several decades. The Bucks County, PA based tandem of guitarist Richard Ray Farrell and harpist Steve Guyger, with a combined 65 years of performance experience and several critically acclaimed albums each, can now take their place with the aforementioned dynamic duos with this labor of love. There are so many surprises here as only five tunes on this old school musical classroom are familiar standards (John Lee Williamson's, a.k.a. Sonny Boy I, "Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl" and"Early in the Morning," Big Joe Williams', "Baby Please Don't Go," Tommy Johnson's "Big Road Blues," and Robert Lockwood's "That's Alright"). It takes veteran virtuosos like Farrell & Guyger to render this timeless music true to the spirit of its progenitors while keeping it fresh and personal with deft, fervid picking, fluid, wailing harmonica and unpretentious vocals. By doing so they maintain its sparse, soulful simplicity, pristine minimalism, and, most importantly, its emotional urgency. In this age of synthetic everything, savor the unadulterated real deal of Down Home Old School Country Blues." (Thomas J. Cullen III, cduniverse.com)

Down Home Old School Country Blues



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Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Richard Ray Farrell, Steve Guyger