Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Al Cook - Mississippi 1930: A Fictional Journey To The Land Where The Blues Began

Size: 171,2 MB
Time: 70:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Country Blues
Label: Wolf Records
Art: Front

01. Mississippi 1930 Intro (1:36)
02. Comment 1 (0:25)
03. Mississippi Blues Part 1 (2:50)
04. Race Horse Blues (4:22)
05. Comment 2 (0:20)
06. Cannonball Blues (3:29)
07. Comment 3 (0:17)
08. Jake Liquor Blues (4:19)
09. Comment 4 (0:17)
10. Mississippi Women Blues (2:39)
11. Mississippi Blues Part 2 (3:33)
12. Comment 5 (0:38)
13. Death Bell Blues (4:11)
14. Comment 6 (0:16)
15. Hard Delta Blues (3:18)
16. Comment 7 (0:18)
17. Magnolia Blues (2:20)
18. Comment 8 (0:33)
19. Magnum 45 Blues (4:57)
20. Comment 9 (0:30)
21. I'm Wild About You Baby (3:54)
22. Comment 10 (0:27)
23. Black Hearted Woman Blues (3:28)
24. Comment 11 (0:33)
25. Reckless Woman Blues (3:14)
26. Comment 12 (0:32)
27. Southbound Train Blues (4:26)
28. Comment 13 (0:36)
29. That's Allright (3:10)
30. Comment 14 (0:22)
31. Piney Wood Blues (3:26)
32. Comment 15 (0:47)
33. No More Good Water (4:27)
34. Farewell (0:06)

Al Cook, Pioneer and longest-serving legend of the Austrian Blues scene is celebrating 2014 his 50 years stage anniversary. A half century authentic Blues, without making the slightest concession to the contemporary taste in music.

On this CD he processes for example in music the life of Charley Patton, together with Tommy Johnsons alcohol problem and arouse their personality in self composed songs.

Al Cook is always himself and catches on with his strong voice power. Additionally as long Elvis Fan he attends to the universally known Big Boy Crudup composition “That’s Allright Mama” and moves them from the late 40ies directly to Mississippi of the early 30ies. Finally there are also songs which are dealing with archaic Barrelhouse-Piano and Hard Delta Blues. This CD is a must for fans, which are into the real Blues!

Mississippi 1930

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Oznake: Al Cook, Country Blues

Eddie Martin - Blues Took Me By The Hand Vol. 1: Acoustic Sessions

Size: 126,8 MB
Time: 53:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Blueblood Records
Art: Front

01. Blues Took Me By The Hand (3:41)
02. Flowers To The Desert (3:35)
03. Keep On Working (3:44)
04. The Devil's Joker (5:26)
05. Canada - Remix (3:58)
06. Month Of Mondays (Help Me Through) (5:05)
07. One Man Band Rag (2:56)
08. It's A Mystery To Me 3 (2:57)
09. Kind Lady Moon - Remix (4:57)
10. Funny Bone Blues (3:38)
11. Too Many Red Lights (3:39)
12. Key To The Highway (3:45)
13. Yo Yo Blues (2:59)
14. Lazy Monday (3:33)

There are songs of love and loss, work and hardship with soulful and scintillating guitar and harmonica flourishes, one-man-band tracks displaying his instrumental virtuosity and band arrangements which draw upon expert musicians from both sides of the Atlantic All-in all this collection encompasses the tough and tender sides of this award-winning blues performer over the course of his prolific career.

Volume 1, out today, is a re-mastering of acoustic songs recorded 1989 – 2012. With 2 remixes, there are 2 traditional blues (“Key to the Highway” and the previously unreleased “Yo Yo Blues”), and the rest are original songs drawn from 3 previous solo releases and 2 band albums.

Blues Took Me By The Hand Vol. 1

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Oznake: Eddie Martin, Acoustic Blues, Holland

Call for help!

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Micky Moody & Paul Williams - Smokestacks, Broom Dusters & Hoochie Coochie Men

Size: 119,7 MB
Time: 49:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Armadillo
Art: Front & Back

01. Look On Yonder's Wall (2:22)
02. Down In The Bottom (3:09)
03. Who's Been Talkin' (2:39)
04. I'm Ready (3:46)
05. Honey Bee (4:11)
06. Dust My Broom (2:52)
07. Down On Maxwell Street (2:02)
08. Built For Comfort (4:03)
09. It Hurts Me Too (3:45)
10. Baby Please Don't Go (3:02)
11. Little Red Rooster (3:21)
12. Shake Your Moneymaker (3:01)
13. I Can't Be Satisfied (3:55)
14. Mississippi Lightning (1:33)
15. Done Somebody Wrong (3:07)
16. Shake For Me (3:07)

Guitarist Micky Moody needs little introduction. He first came to prominence in the early seventies as the youngest member, of the highly acclaimed, Juicy Lucy. Afterwards, he co-founded Snafu and enjoyed similar success. A telephone call from Deep Purple’s David Coverdale resulted in a performer or writing partnership on the superstar’s two solo LP’s. This led to the formation of Whitesnake, and yes the rest really is history.

Micky’s first solo album I Eat Them For Breakfast was released by Armadillo Music in 2000, following this his collaboration with ex-Juicy Lucy member Paul Williams came about in 2002 Smokestacks, Broom Dusters & Hoochie Coochie Men.

Paul’s phenomenal vocal style was nurtured during the great blues boom of the sixties working alongside Alexis Korner, Zoot Money and John Mayall, before joining Micky in Juicy Lucy.

Smokestacks, Broom Dusters & Hoochie Coochie Men is their 16 track celebration of the music of Elmore James, Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf.

Thanks to DrPeak.
Smokestacks, Broom Dusters & Hoochie Coochie Men

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Oznake: Micky Moody, Paul Williams, Acoustic Blues

James King - Three Chords & The Truth

Size: 95,6 MB
Time: 40:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Country, Bluegrass
Label: Rounder Records
Art: Front

01. The Devil's Train (3:16)
02. Jason's Farm (3:37)
03. Chiseled In Stone (4:07)
04. Highway To Nowhere (2:35)
05. Talkin' To The Wall (2:46)
06. He Stopped Loving Her Today (3:54)
07. Blue Blue Day (2:03)
08. Riding With Private Malone (4:31)
09. Things Have Gone To Pieces (3:55)
10. Sunday Morning Christian (2:59)
11. Shadows Of My Mind (3:16)
12. Old Five And Dimers (3:11)

All Hail King James

The title of bluegrass storyteller James King’s latest disc comes from a quote by the legendary country songwriter, Harlan Howard. A good country song, Howard explained, was “three chords and the truth.” Now that’s just bullshit. Country music has always been as authentic as a three-dollar bill. Johnny Cash did not really served time in prison. Tammy Wynette never stood by her man. The lack of reality is a good thing. A good country song requires magic and imagination. King takes on 12 solid country tunes from the past written by masters such as Hank Williams and Billy Joe Shaver and originally recorded by mavens as George Jones and Vern Gosdin, and King does them bluegrass style.

The results showcase King’s vocal talents. He has a warm tone that sounds a bit smoky, as in the Great Smoky Mountains. Okay, so technically he’s a Virginian, but the results are pure Appalachian. Remember, there’s no reason to get too hung up on bona fides. He sings in a quiet manner, pronouncing each word carefully and with a slight twang. He’s ably aided by his pals Dudley Connell and Don Rigsby, who are also members with King in the group Longview.
The bluegrass musicians behind him—fiddler Jimmy Mattingly, banjoist and harmony fiddler Ronnie Stewart, mandolinist Jesse Brock, bassist Jason Moore, and guitarist Josh Williams—make sure not to step out in front of him. They propel the music without getting in King’s way.

While the similarities between country and bluegrass are clear, King and company illustrate the differences in their delivery. Consider their superb rendition of David Ball’s ghostly “Riding with Private Malone”. King emphasizes the details of the tale such as “had her shining like a diamond” or “the buttons on the radio didn’t seem to work quite right” to embellish the narrative. The backing vocalists take on the chorus and let their voices ring together like a bell to add beauty to the simple tale. The instrumentalists keep the pace moving forward like a steam train, fast enough to propel the listener without ever being a distraction. Compared with Ball’s original which was more in a country singer-songwriter vein, King’s version sounds almost like chamber music.

King and company turn all of these country classics into sweet bluegrass. Some, like Don Gibson’s “Blue Blue Day” and Cal Smith’s “Jason’s Farm” seem born to be turned into bluegrass. They fit the new form like a glove. And while some, like Shaver’s “Old Five and Dimers” may seem more forced, King’s rendition reveals the Georgia side of the Texan Billy Joe’s past. King slurs the lyrics into two-word phrases so that “good luck” becomes “gooluk” and such, which suggests the meanings of the terms lie in their Southern geography.

Although modern country audiences probably won’t enjoy this album, “the old farts and jackasses” Blake Shelton famously referred to certainly will. The takes the old school back to an older school to a tradition that hearkens back to the Scotch-Irish music of King James’s time. James King’s melodious bluegrass honors its folkloric roots. ~Steve Horowitz

Three Chords & The Truth

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Oznake: James King, Country, Bluegrass

Mojo Medicine Show - No Strings Attached

Size: 86,2 MB
Time: 36:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Label: Mojo Medicine Show
Art: Front

01. Bring It On Home (4:32)
02. Well Babe (2:47)
03. Breaking Up With The Blues (5:06)
04. Pass My Hat (4:35)
05. Harmonica Cadillac (3:56)
06. Every Morning (2:21)
07. Hear Me Crying (Why Won't You Love Me No More) (6:34)
08. Ten Pan Folly (4:41)
09. Good Morning Blues (2:20)

Mad Dog Friedman - harmonica, & vocals
Dan "Mojo Man" Crecco - washboard, percussion & vocals

The Mojo Medicine Show is psychedelic, back porch blues at its best!

The Mojo Medicine Show is a unique blues duo that blends the jug juice of 1930's juke band music with the electric kool-aid jams of the 1960's.
The original Mojo Medicine Show toured the western slopes of Colorado in the summer of 1976. This ragged and hairy troupe of musicians, Gypsy fortune tellers and belly dancers performed their way into the hearts of many a mountain town. It is in this tradition of Colorado’s own home grown, psychedelic, back porch blues that the Mojo Medicine founder, Mad Dog Friedman, decided to create a unique blues duo that captures the spirit of those amazing times. This new incarnation of the Mojo Medicine Show features Mad Dog Friedman on harp, vocals and Theremin and Dan Crecco on washboard, percussion and iPad synth. The modern Mojo Medicine Show puts down the real deal, hippy trippy blues seldom heard in this day and age. From their contemporary, simple, heartfelt, rural-rooted blues to their vintage, analog, improvisational, experimental, aleatory 'lectronica, the Mojo Medicine Show offers a unique alternative to today's throwback, retro-folk and refracted root music scene.

No Strings Attached

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Oznake: Mojo Medicine Show, Harmonica Blues

VA - Tight Women & Loose Bands: Classic Female Vaudeville Blues Singers 1921-1931

Size: 181,5 MB
Time: 76:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Vaudeville Blues
Label: Timeless
Art: Front & Back

01. Essie Whitman & Jazz Masters - Sweet Daddy It's You I Love (2:52)
02. Essie Whitman & Jazz Masters - If You Don't Believe I Love You (3:01)
03. Essie Whitman & Jazz Masters - Memphis, Tennessee (3:10)
04. Essie Whitman & Jazz Masters - If Anybody Here Wants A Real Kind Mamma (Here's Your Opportunity) (2:34)
05. Maggie Jones & Henderson's Hot Six - Cheatin' On Me (3:17)
06. Maggie Jones & Henderson's Hot Six - Mamma (Won't You Come And Ma-Ma Me) (3:00)
07. Bessie Smith & Henderson's Hot Six - Cake Walking Babies (From Home) (3:09)
08. Julia Moody - That Chicago Wiggle (2:42)
09. Julia Moody - Midnight Dan (3:31)
10. Julia Moody - Police Blues (2:42)
11. Julia Moody - He'll Do You Wrong (3:02)
12. Clara Smith & Her Jazz Band - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street (3:04)
13. Clara Smith & Her Jazz Band - Sweet Man (2:54)
14. Ethel Waters & Her Jazz Band - Heebie Jeebies (2:46)
15. Ethel Waters & Her Jazz Band - Ev'rybody Mess Aroun' (2:45)
16. Mary Dixon - Dusky Stevedore (2:29)
17. Mary Dixon - I Can't Give You Anything But Love (2:36)
18. Bessie Brown - Song From The Cotton Field (2:45)
19. Bessie Brown - He Just Don't Appeal To Me (3:15)
20. Bessie Brown - Tain't Nobody's Fault But My Own (2:51)
21. Bessie Brown - The Blues Singer From Alabama (3:06)
22. Sophie Tucker - Some Of These Days (2:23)
23. Edith Wilson - Black And Blue (What Did I Do To Be So) (3:03)
24. Edith Wilson - My Man Is Good For Nothing But Love (3:08)
25. Mamie Smith - Golfing Papa (2:46)
26. Mamie Smith - Jenny's Ball (3:08)

26 track compilation features classic female vaudeville blues singers with hot accompaniment by classic jazz players. Features Bessie Smith, Fletcher Henderson, Ethel Waters, Coleman Hawkins, Sophie Tucker, Mary Dixon, Bessie Brown, Henderson's Hot Six & others.

Thanks to DrPeak.
Tight Women & Loose Bands

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Oznake: Various Artists

Brett Wellman & The Stone Cold Blues Band - Rooted In The Blues

Size: 156,0 MB
Time: 66:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Stone Cold Music
Art: Front

01. All I Had Was Gone (4:33)
02. That's Alright Mama (3:39)
03. Heart Of Gold (5:28)
04. Walkin' Blues (3:53)
05. Folsom Prison Blues (5:37)
06. I Just Got To Know (4:37)
07. Crossroads (3:42)
08. Blues Before Sunrise/Dust My Broom/Highway 49 (4:52)
09. Little Red Rooster (3:44)
10. Flip, Flop, & Fly (4:04)
11. My Babe (3:38)
12. Kind Hearted Woman/Me & The Devil (4:34)
13. Hoodoo Man Blues (8:53)
14. Got My Mojo Working (4:59)

Brett Wellman & the Stone Cold Blues Band are thrilling audiences whenever they take the stage!

Born from the influences of Chicago blues greats Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Little Milton to the Mississippi Delta of Robert Johnson, Ledbelly, and Honey Boy Edwards their sound covers 100 years of down and dirty American blues.

The band's performances have been called "engrossing" and "high energy", especially when the harmonica player walks the crowd while playing one of his signature solos.

This band is a guarantee for providing a great show and an evening of fun music!

Personnel:
Brett Wellman - guitar and vocals
Chris Balding - harmonica and vocals
Mick Metz - bass
Deb Berlinger - drums

Rooted In The Blues

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Oznake: Brett Wellman, Acoustic Blues

Victoria Spivey - The Blues Is Life

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 34:21
Size: 78.7 MB
Styles: Classic female blues vocals
Year: 1976
Art: Front

[2:19] 1. By Yourself - A Lonely Woman Blues
[3:00] 2. Eagle And Hawk - Jealousy Blues
[4:34] 3. You're My Man - Slick Chick Blues
[3:15] 4. Don't Worry About It - Two-Timer Blues
[2:08] 5. Low Friends - No Friends Blues
[2:50] 6. Kazoo Papa Blues - Kazoo Blues
[1:53] 7. Don't Care - Angry Blues
[2:13] 8. My Head Is Bad - An Alcohol Blues
[4:42] 9. Six Foot Daddy - Incendiary Blues
[2:40] 10. Can I Wash Your Clothes - Humble Blues
[1:49] 11. Good Sissages - A Sausage Blues
[2:53] 12. Big Black Belt - Simple Minded Woman Blues

“The Blues is life and life is the Blues. It covers from the first cry of a newborn to the last gasp of a dying man. It’s the very existence.” And Victoria Spivey took the blues business very seriously, from her many recording contracts to her performance schedule. These twelve original compositions were written specifically for this recording, and range from a “No Friends Blues” or a “Slick Chick Blues” to a “Humble Blues” and even “A Sausage Blues.”

The Blues Is Life

Oznake: Victoria Spivey, Classic Female Blues

Matt Walsh & Christian Bleiming - MC Shuffle

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:40
Size: 109.2 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[2:37] 1. MC Shuffle
[3:19] 2. Gold Train
[4:11] 3. Ask Me Where I've Been
[3:14] 4. King Of The Jungle
[2:50] 5. Trouble In Mind
[2:41] 6. Coldfinger
[3:19] 7. Cc Rider
[3:25] 8. Checking Out
[3:31] 9. You Can't Trust Your Neighbour
[3:07] 10. Some Day, Some Way
[3:31] 11. St. James Infirmary
[2:43] 12. Polk Salad Annie
[4:53] 13. Reefer Smoker
[4:12] 14. One Last Favor

Two old friends who have often shared the stage now make their first recording together. Piano and harmonica is an unusual pairing but German blues and boogie pianist Christian Bleiming and Matt Walsh, the Irish singer and harp blower, show how well they get along musically.

It’s their first CD together. But they have known each other for more than 20 years and have often shared the stage. Just how well Christian Bleiming and Matt Walsh get along is evidenced on "MC Shuffle." Song, piano and harp meet up here for a blues session. Blues in their best form, that is, traditional and idiosyncratic, filled with feelings and perfectly identifiable at the same time. For decades, already, Walsh has been considered a convincing singer and creative harp player. A man for whom the common epithet "personal style" is no platitude, and who received, among others, the German Record Critics' Prize in 2007. Christian Bleiming has been at home on German stages for years. He has played with the likes of Chuck Berry, Louisiana Red, Aron and Larry Burton, Hazy Osterwald, Angela Brown, and many more.

MC Shuffle

Oznake: Christian Bleiming, Germany, Ireland, Matt Walsh, Acoustic Blues

Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson - Do Tell

Size: 88,0 MB
Time: 37:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues
Label: Manhaton Records
Art: Front

01. Friday Night (3:20)
02. Stray Hat (3:29)
03. Gotta Love (4:23)
04. Do Tell (4:59)
05. Long Dark Cloud (4:32)
06. Excuse Me (2:09)
07. 99.9 (3:26)
08. Sister Sister (4:12)
09. Shakedown (3:42)
10. Coming Home (3:03)

Formerly just Hat Fitz and Cara, Irish singer Cara Robinson now gets a full name check alongside her Australian partner Hat Fitz on ‘Do Tell’, an album of well crafted songs brought to life by a passionate performance.

Cara sings the lead track on 10 songs embedded in traditional roots, but given a contemporary edge by an unobtrusive co-production by Jeff Lang, a fine singer songwriter his own right, who doubles on bass and knows when to emphasize a feel or lyric.

Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson are minimalists who repudiate clutter. The songs have a simplicity of expression and are imbued with a musical depth explored on a folk based album, full of feel and spontaneous interplay that has the ability to shift from the deep roots of ‘Long Dark Cloud’ to the explosive jump blues of ‘Excuse Me’.

It’s also an album that refuses to be constrained by genres or musical trends. It’s full of variety and intricate musicianship that always supports the songs rather than dominates them. Hat Fitz’s deep-toned harp for example, is used to great effect on ‘Stray Hat’, while Cara’s uplifting flute brightens ‘Sister Sister’, but both are used sparingly after that, suggesting that the music is there to add emphasis and feel, rather than being simply virtuosic.

The opening ‘Friday Night’ is a country tinged Delaney & Bonnie meets Bonnie Rait style southern piece, with a fine vocal from Cara, potent bv’s and aching slide from Hat Fitz, on an open-ended finish. And Hat Fitz’s baritone makes a startling impact on ‘Stray Hat’, a shuffling piece with an insistent percussive backing track and a role reversal of bv’s on the chorus.

‘Gotta Love’ is a red-raw blues on which Cara extends her range like a younger Maggie Bell, over a dirt sounding slide-guitar on some heartfelt lyrics: ‘Been walking through the myer, (sic) in them big old boots again, I’m up way past my waist now, I ain’t ever going under again’. It’s also a track that revels in the use of space, as her impassioned phrasing rings out loud and clear on track that generates its dynamics through a stop-time break and an unexpected tempo change. Cara’s celebratory whoop at the end of the track suggests a job well done!

Her fiery performance is cleverly juxtaposed with Hat Fitz’s laid back Howlin’ Wolf style voice that fills the beer drinking title track with just enough gravitas, as Cara joins him on the chorus. The guitar parts jangle in the background in counterpoint to his earthy phrasing, before a tension breaking guitar-break on a beautifully paced track. Jeff Lang obviously knows the value of a slow build, as he adds another layer of Jason Bunn’s strings to achieve an eastern sounding finish to a notable album highlight.

‘Long Dark Cloud’ is remarkable in the way the music evokes the claustrophobic lyrical depression, on a track movingly sung by Hat Fitz, before he’s joined by Cara on the last verse for added effect. ‘All the clouds have gone to bed, but the cyclone’s blown round my head. Oh I feel like I, I’m being pushed down’.

The duo perfectly coalesce on the duet ‘99.9’ – all resonator and washboard – while there’s a some nice brushed strokes, more resonator and sudden flute on the folky Cara led ‘Sister Sister’. The infectious ‘Shakedown’ makes clever use harmony vocals to emphasize the song’s rhythmic intensity and they head for a hillbilly finish on ‘Coming Home’.

Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson manage to keep their music fresh, vibrant and real, not an easy job when you are constantly working together with your partner. There’s a naturalistic feel to their songs with engaging narratives that never feel forced or clichéd.

The thoughtful sequencing, deft pacing and contrasting vocal parts ensure the 10 tracks sound like album in the old fashioned sense of the word. ‘Do Tell’ is the duo’s essential musical vision. It’s filtered through producer Jeff Lang’s colander to smooth out the edges and refine their essential oeuvre.

From Rob Roy’s wonderful cover painting to the duo’s ebullient mix of story telling and expressive musical language, this album is a celebration of everything that is good about contemporary roots music, so forget the labels and just enjoy. ***** ~Review by Pete Feenstra

Do Tell

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Oznake: Hat Fitz, Cara Robinson, Acoustic Blues, australia

Bukka White - Mississippi Blues Giant

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 56:27
Size: 129.2 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[2:57] 1. The New 'frisco Train
[3:07] 2. The Panama Limited
[3:01] 3. I Am In The Heavenly Way
[3:01] 4. Promise True And Grand
[3:00] 5. Shake 'em On Down
[2:51] 6. Pinebluff Arkansas
[2:53] 7. Po' Boy
[2:23] 8. Sic 'em Dogs On
[2:57] 9. Black Train Blues
[2:39] 10. Parchman Farm Blues
[2:52] 11. Strange Place Blues
[2:48] 12. Fixin' To Die Blues
[2:35] 13. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
[2:51] 14. Sleepy Man Blues
[2:23] 15. Good Gin Blues
[2:51] 16. Special Stream Line
[2:40] 17. District Attorney Blues
[2:59] 18. When Can I Change My Clothes
[2:38] 19. Bukka's Jitterbug Swing
[2:51] 20. High Fever Blues

Oznake: Bukka White, Delta Blues

Andy Hall - Sound Of The Slide Guitar

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:33
Size: 92.8 MB
Styles: Country blues slide guitar
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:51] 1. Resurrection Bay
[3:09] 2. The Chase
[3:56] 3. Paples Blue
[4:41] 4. Circle The Sun
[4:24] 5. Deep Elem Blues
[3:17] 6. Velocity
[3:45] 7. Fresh Flowers
[2:40] 8. C-Bops (Special Ops)
[4:02] 9. Always You
[3:10] 10. One More Moment Here With You
[3:33] 11. Green Light On The Southern Bony Crossing The Alps

Oznake: Andy Hall, Country Blues

Big Al Blake - Blues According To Blake: ...A Road Less Traveled

Size: 84,4 MB
Time: 35:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Soul Sanctuary
Art: Full

01. Hummingbird (3:19)
02. Precious Time (3:40)
03. Papa's Boogie (3:13)
04. Old Time Boogie (3:07)
05. King Bee (3:41)
06. City of Angels (3:25)
07. Rock Me (3:23)
08. Music Man (5:36)
09. Big Fat Mama (3:05)
10. Easy (3:13)

Al Blake has had a decades long career playing blues the right way... from his early recordings with the HOLLYWOOD FATS BAND thru his later solo sides and recordings with the MANNISH BOYS & THE HOLLYWOOD BLUE FLAMES, Al has always maintained a deep understanding and respect for the original sound and players of the genre. This release covers recordings from the last few years and feature him on guitar, harmonica & vocals with help from the remaining members of the HOLLYWOOD FATS BAND (Richard Innes- Fred Kaplan & Larry Taylor) as well as multi instrumentalist NATHAN JAMES... The sound is traditional downhome blues with age old themes and stellar musicianship... what more could you ask for?...

Blues According To Blake

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Oznake: Big Al Blake, Acoustic Blues

Cherry Lee Mewis - Catch My Drift

Size: 73,9 MB
Time: 31:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Country Blues
Label: Cherryjam
Art: Front

01. It's Cool (3:07)
02. Hey, Hey, Hey (3:16)
03. I Can't Stand To Say Goodbye (3:40)
04. Love Can Wait (3:02)
05. Nobody's Fault But Mine (2:27)
06. Get Right Church (2:14)
07. Love Told Me To (3:18)
08. Stay Here With You (3:44)
09. Old Shoes (3:07)
10. Bride Ain't Me (3:14)

Cherry Lee Mewis has a story to tell. She has something to say, and she tells it through her music, her way.

The 5ft-nothing, power-house singer songwriter has grabbed the musical bull by the horns, and together with her long time co-writer and guitarist Max Milligan, has produced her most personal album to date; Catch My Drift - a 10 track, hair-raising declaration of refreshing honesty. This album takes the teasing hint of vulnerability of 2012's Heard It Here First, and the quirky puns and energy-a-plenty vibe of last year's Cherry Pickin' EP, then pushes the boundaries even further, taking in the best of musical influences while still keeping that elusive Cherry Lee Mewis treatment that gives the record a real punch.

“Catch My Drift is the name of my new album because I really want people to connect with me and get just what i'm saying, hear my story. I really grew up on this record...just going through life's progressions," explains Cherry. "The writing on this record has evolved from my previous recordings and fans will find a flavour of something different, I haven't changed too much but if this is the first record of mine that someone buys then it's a great album to learn more about me too."

With this new release Cherry has reinvented herself artistically yet stayed true to the classic Cherry Lee Mewis sound which is the 'be yourself', good-time, fist-pumping, barn-burning songs that her audiences have come to love.

"I try to write both lyrics and music of at least two or three songs on each record totally by myself, because I want to keep digging and finding that close connection to telling my story in my music, so i picked up my guitar and dug deep! Once again Max my co-writer and guitarist of 9 years totally helped bring my vision to life. In fact it's our vision and I feel so blessed to have him around me and great people like my band too, we're family."

"I've always been honest in my songwriting but with this album I feel i've really dug in deep and touched on subjects that people don’t usually talk about. First and foremost, I just wanted to write about things that I really knew about – subjects that hit close to home and I just took the time to really write. I know who I am musically and that is so important."

Catch My Drift

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Oznake: Cherry Lee Mewis, Country Blues

Tiny Legs Tim - TLT

Size: 100,4 MB
Time: 43:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues
Label: TLT-Productions
Art: Front

01. Can't Win Them All (4:27)
02. Breakin' Down (4:13)
03. Please Dr. Please (4:48)
04. Can't Let Go (3:45)
05. When I Fall (4:44)
06. One Of These Days (4:01)
07. Standing On The Sideline (3:57)
08. Pressure (5:27)
09. Backbone Blues (4:01)
10. Victory (3:47)

If the artist name Tiny Legs Tim reminds you of the bluesmen of old, then you’re immediately on the right track. Tiny Legs Tim (Tim De Graeve, °1978) is nicely on his way to become one of the Belgian blues musicians of the moment. The rambling old guitar of his grandfather, a bottleneck, a footstomp and the necessary scratches in body and soul ensure a personal style and endurance. After 6 years of inactivity because of illness, the blues he discovered as a child is more alive than ever.

The past few years, Tiny Legs Tim travelled with his One Man Blues Band through nearly the entire European continent, played the opening act for Peter Doherty, John Mayall and Ian Siegal, performed at many blues festivals and was invited last year by no-one less than Kurt Overbergh (Ancienne Belgique) to play during STOEMP v/d Chef.

Read what Roland van Campenhout has to tell about this young bluesman: “Ever since dah blues crawled out of the southern muddy waters, the men spreading the word had special names. We had a Blind Lemon, a Sleepy John, there was a giant human being called Leadbelly, and many more…. Their 78 rpm disk recordings went all over the globe, influencing popular music and young musicians from London to Singapore, From India to Africa… So now we have from Belgium a young man who names himself Tiny Legs Tim, and just with his six strings and a stomping foottapboard he brings back the ghost and magic from Bukka White and Robert Johnson. Sit back and let the ol’ magic take hold. Those tiny legs sure take a lot o’ burning blues around!”

TLT

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Oznake: Tiny Legs Tim, Acoustic Blues

Charlie Sangster - Blues At Home 9: Recorded In Brownsville, Tennessee (1976-1979)

Size: 171,4 MB
Time: 73:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Country Blues
Label: Mbirafon
Art: Front

01. Moaning The Blues (2:15)
02. The Dirty Dozen (Take 1) (2:05)
03. The Dirty Dozen (Take 2) (1:36)
04. Old Bull Cow (Take 1) (1:59)
05. Old Bull Cow (Take 3) (2:10)
06. Sweet Old Kokomo (2:45)
07. Dreamy-Eyed Woman (3:11)
08. Kansas City Blues (Take 2) (2:56)
09. Kansas City Blues (Take 3) (3:30)
10. Hesitation Blues (Take 2) (1:59)
11. Hesitation Blues (Take 3) (1:51)
12. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (3:28)
13. A Year And Six Months Old Blues (Take 3) (3:02)
14. Selling That Stuff (1:56)
15. Crawdad Song (1:36)
16. It's Tight Like That (4:04)
17. Two White Horses In A Line (Take 2) (2:47)
18. Careless Love (Take 2) (1:50)
19. Stop That Thing (2:25)
20. Bluebird Blues (1:54)
21. Early Morning Blues (Take 3) (3:54)
22. Skinny Woman Blues (Take 4) (3:19)
23. Step It Up And Go (Take 3) (3:13)
24. One Cold Night (1:31)
25. Weeping Willow Blues (Take 2) (1:24)
26. Drop Down Mama (2:04)
27. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (2:50)
28. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed (2:03)
29. I'm Gonna Tell God How You Treat Me (1:47)
30. When I Lay My Burden Down (1:50)

The ninth volume of the “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD introduces a little known artist of Brownsville, Tennessee. Charlie Sangster, born in this small Tennessee town in 1917, earned his living as a farmer. Belonging to a musical family, he learned how to play mandolin and guitar at the age of 12. His father, Samuel Ellis Sangster, was a blues guitarist who used to play with Sleepy John Estes and Hambone Willie Newbern; his mother, Victoria, was a gospel singer. Charlie played at the fish market and in other social situations with a circle of local musicians, including Charlie Pickett, Brownsville Son Bonds, Hammie Nixon, Yank Rachel, Sleepy John Estes, and Walter Cooper. He also knew and performed with Hambone Willie Newbern during the last part of Newbern’s life. Deeply rooted in the local blues guitar style in the key of G, but also stylistically characterized by his familiarity with mandolin, Charlie Sangster, by his own admission, learned his whole repertoire by listening to 78rpm records mainly, but not exclusively, composed of African-American titles. He enjoyed playing gospel pieces as well as traditional white country music. With only the exclusion of five years in Indiana and a period of time in Europe serving with the U.S. Army during World War II, he spent most of his life in Brownsville, living in the house where he was born, where I discovered him through referral by Hammie Nixon. A person of exquisite kindness and willingness, Charlie Sangster allowed me to record eight sessions between 1976 and 1980, plus an interview in 1982, just one year before his death. The CD features the most meaningful examples of his repertoire. The 1982 interview can be found in volume 15 of the series. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered in 2013 from the original tapes.
—Giambattista Marcucci

Blues At Home 9

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Oznake: Charlie Sangster, Country Blues

Asylum Street Spankers - The Last Laugh

Size: 99,3 MB
Time: 42:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues Folk, Americana
Label: Yellow Dog Records
Art: Front & Back

01. Didn't It Rain (3:09)
02. Never Goin' Back (3:52)
03. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (4:59)
04. Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan (3:12)
05. Ludicrous Heart (4:09)
06. She Texted Me Goodbye (3:28)
07. Make It Rain (3:51)
08. The Swan (2:17)
09. Savor Every Day (4:41)
10. Fuck Work (3:18)
11. The Final Song (0:51)
12. Coffee Grindin' Blues (4:21)

If you've read the bio or heard the story of the Asylum Street Spankers, you probably know that the group was founded in 1994 at a booze-filled party at the Dabbs Hotel along the river in Llano, Texas, and for the next seventeen years left a swath of astounded audiences in its wake. Well, it appears that America's favorite old-time hellraisers have once again musically triumphed over overindulgence and memory loss. Or have they?

Christina Marrs, Nevada Newman, Charlie King and the other Spankers do recall getting together to play their final shows ever in April of 2011. They all remember setting up the three-day "Last Laugh" finale in their hometown of Austin, Texas at the Cactus Café, Ruta Maya and Spider House Ballroom. But, honestly, that's the last thing any of them remember.

Look: it's embarrassing for such an acclaimed band as this to have to admit that they honestly don't remember where their final album came from. What becomes clear upon listening to these recordings is that none of these songs has ever been recorded by the Asylum Street Spankers before. What's even clearer is this: the band is in their finest form ever here, living up to their firmly cemented reputation as an acoustic powerhouse. Who else can blend string-band virtuosity, multi-instrumental skills, tight vocal harmonies and counterculture wit like this?

Clearly, these were unforgettable nights for all those who packed the clubs and cheered on their internationally beloved hometown heroes. Hazily, the Spankers figure these must have been some of the most treasured personal moments of their 17-year career. Imagine the satisfaction of taking their fans through one last journey together, from the Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville echoes of their sound, through the country, blues, jazz and swing songs they've borrowed and created, all filtered through the punk-rock ethos at their core. "It must really have been something," Christina muses.

The Last Laugh

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Oznake: Asylum Street Spankers, Folk-Blues, Americana

Hans Theessink - 65 Birthday Bash

Size: 167,6 MB
Time: 71:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Blue Groove
Art: Full

01. Welcome (0:44)
02. Tears Are Rolling (5:15)
03. He's On The Road Again (4:46)
04. New Home Upon The Hill (7:18)
05. Call Me (5:14)
06. Der Zug (3:41)
07. Brief Von Lukas (2:38)
08. Deportees (6:17)
09. Honest I Do (6:03)
10. Love You Baby (4:20)
11. Leaving At Daybreak (5:54)
12. No Expectations (8:09)
13. Gö, Du Bleibst Heut Nacht Bei Mir (4:05)
14. May The Road (3:38)
15. Ring Of Fire (3:44)

On April 5th 2013 the legendary Hans Theessink Birthday Bash concert was recorded in the Metropol in Vienna. Fans and musical friends came from near and far to celebrate Hans' 65th birthday. The atmosphere was splendid and the performers took us on a marvelous musical journey. This CD is a unique 65th Birthday Bash document full of great moments and unusual sessions.

This CD is a unique document full of great moments and unusual sessions. Cast of the night : Hans Theessink, Ernst Molden, Willi Resetarits, Schiffkowitz, Champagne Charlie, Knud Mřller, Meena Cryle, Chris Fillmore, Roland & Brigitte Guggenbichler

Thanks to Bagger.
65 Birthday Bash



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Oznake: Hans Theessink, acoustic