Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Nigel Egg - The Blues Is Personal

Size: 121,0 MB
Time: 51:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Spiff Key
Art: Front

01. Back To The Blues (4:56)
02. The Blues Is Personal (4:29)
03. Imagining You Naked (3:10)
04. The Truth Of You And Me (3:27)
05. Tax On The Blues (4:57)
06. Occupy The Blues Museum (4:49)
07. I've Never Missed You More (4:56)
08. Que Sera, Sera (3:55)
09. Hoo My My My! (3:25)
10. Music Man (3:29)
11. You Can't Have A Fan On (5:34)
12. Jam Til The Day I Die (4:39)

Carl Unbehaun, KSRQ Minnesota: "Nigel Egg takes blues to a new level with unique subject matter, gritty vocals, and melodies that won't leave you alone--an incomparable effort by a rising blues artist!"

This is a singer-songwriter album - a singer-songwriter who loves the blues. It is no coincidence that the release date (7/1/2014) coincides with the 99th anniversary of Willie Dixon's birthday.
Nigel Egg believes that the Blues could be as popular as Country music if we would just make great music that connects with how people live in the 21st century. He says, “Let’s move beyond ‘Keep The Blues Alive’. It’s time for the Blues to prosper and multiply! Willie Dixon made it happen fifty years ago by writing new kinds of blues songs. His music became the new blues tradition because it fit the times. The times haven’t stopped changing.
"Somewhere out there is a teenager who has the talent and courage to blaze a new path in the blues that resonates with other young people. If we really want to keep the blues alive, I hope we give her a big welcome and lots of encouragement. Blues has become the province of the Baby-Boomers and let's face it, we're all going to die soon. We need to let go of the power to define what is, and what is not Blues and give that power to the kids."

You can read and download all lyrics to these songs from nigelegg.com along with CD art and liner notes with comments and background for each song.

Only acoustic instruments were used in recording this album. You'll hear some unusual tonal features. When you hear Tony Balluff's clarinet, you may wonder why the clarinet isn't used more for blues - it has just as much expressive potential as the blues harp. The horn arrangements on three tracks were written by trumpeter Zack Lozier and performed by Balluff, Lozier and trombonist Steve Sandberg. The horn ending on "Imagining You Naked" evokes classic burlesque and benefits from Lozier's experience as a trumpet player in the Doc Severinsen Big Band.
The electric guitar has become a dominant blues instrument of the 20th and 21st centuries. The electric guitar has the sustain and dynamics to evoke the human voice and beyond. Bob Ekstrand's acoustic guitar playing on this album shows how the more percussive nature of the acoustic has its own voice to add. Ekstrand is a master and his soloing puts wood and steel at the center of the mix.
Greg Schutte and Tom Lewis lay down solid rhythms on eight of the twelve tracks. Lewis is a particularly inventive bassist and there are instances on this record that hint he can play free jazz with the same fluidity he applies to this album. Schutte is an all-around percussionist who tours with the Mickey Hart band as well as playing with modern dance troupes and rock outfits. Dale Peterson's piano brings a little Otis Spann to the table on three tracks. David Stenshoel, World Music master of the violin provides flavor and pizzazz to three tracks, blending with the horns and providing counterpoint to Egg's harp playing. Egg credits Tony Glover as his main harmonica influence. "I got Tony's blues harp instruction book many, many years ago and he said the main thing is to play from your heart. I don't play a lot of hot licks, I just try to play what fits and what I'm feeling at the time."

The Blues Is Personal

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Oznake: Nigel Egg, UK, Acoustic Blues

Richard Henderson - Seventh Day: Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar

Size: 104,0 MB
Time: 45:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Slide Acoustic Blues
Label: Richard Henderson
Art: Front

01. I Just Want To Make Love To You (2:39)
02. Judgment Day (3:05)
03. You Can't Catch Me (3:41)
04. Honky Tonk Blues (2:18)
05. Little Red Rooster (3:37)
06. Whiskey Annie (3:19)
07. Nadine (Is It You?) (2:32)
08. I'm Ready (2:33)
09. You Gotta Move (2:37)
10. Prodigal Son (2:34)
11. Your Papa Don't Know (3:08)
12. Who Do You Love (3:35)
13. I'm A King Bee (2:14)
14. Seventh Day (3:08)
15. Don't Tell Me (4:16)

Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic resurgence in roots music and many have taken up the acoustic lap steel guitar. There are, however, remarkably few solo lap steel guitarists. Richard Henderson is one of those few. He has developed a characteristic edgy style based on the traditions of the blues, country and rock ‘n roll, and the result is compelling. Attesting to that, Richard was named Instrumentalist of the Year for 2010 at the Durham Region Music Awards and First Runner Up in The Toronto Blues Society's 2011 Talent Search. Richard was also invited to showcase at the 2011 International Blues Summit in Toronto and the 2011 Ontario Council of Folk Festivals in Niagara Falls, and showcased for Mariposa and Winterfolk Festivals. Also, Maverick, the UK’s leading independent country music magazine, selected one of Richard’s original songs for its covermount CD for the June, 2013 edition.

The acoustic lap steel guitar is an interesting and uncommon instrument, particularly when played with only vocal accompaniment. It was developed in Hawaii in the 19th century and is the direct ancestor of both the dobro, played in traditional Americana music, and the pedal steel guitar, so characteristic of American country music. It was also instrumental in the development of the slide guitar blues styles played in the southern United States beginning in the early 20th century. Richard's performances give a unique perspective on the convergence of the historical development and the continuing evolution of acoustic traditional music.

Richard’s first solo CD, “Seventh Day: Acoustic Lap Steel Guitar”, has aired on over 70 radio stations in Canada, the United States and Europe and has received critical acclaim here at home and overseas. “Seventh Day” documents the evolution of traditional roots music from the 20th century into the 21st, all rather unconventionally adapted for the acoustic lap steel guitar. We hear the metamorphosis of gospel, country, and blues into early rock ‘n roll, thematically underpinned by a handful of original songs. The result, while evocative of roots and folk traditions, is transformational; leading to a vibrant reconstruction of acoustic roots music.

Seventh Day

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Oznake: Richard Henderson, Acoustic Blues

The Hobblers - Travelin' Light

Size: 120,9 MB
Time: 51:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: The Hobblers
Art: Front

01. Chasing Shadows (3:52)
02. No Turning Back (4:47)
03. Long Time Gone (3:16)
04. Jenny Diamond's Thigh (3:30)
05. Full Grown Woman (3:57)
06. Empty Heart (4:23)
07. Good Man Down (5:57)
08. Runaway Train (3:25)
09. Time Is On The Run (3:30)
10. 'lectric Car (3:02)
11. Quiet Thunder (4:13)
12. Tout Tout Bas (4:08)
13. My Last Ride (3:27)

The Hobblers, un Ecossais et un Américain avec leurs racines ancrées dans le blues, le folk et le jazz arrivent en France avec leurs chants et leurs histoires, leurs bagages, et la vie devant.

Bio:
Deux hommes, deux guitares, les harmonicas, les chansons. Comment voyager plus léger ? The Hobblers, un Ecossais et un Américain avec leurs racines ancrées dans le blues, le folk et le jazz arrivent en France avec leurs chants et leurs histoires, leurs bagages, et la vie devant. Impregnés de leurs traditions, de leur modernité, et une énergie bouleversante sur scčne, née de la musique qui les suit partout oů ils voyagent.
Malcolm McCallum et Tim McGlue nous emmčnent avec eux, comme lors d'une soirée devant le feu, au travers des treize chansons de leur nouveau CD, Travelin' Light, mélées au blues noir, blanc, celte, amerindien et finalement...parisien.
La rencontre ŕ Paris avec des copains, et c'est parti. Ils jouent ensemble en France depuis treize ans. Avant, Malcolm jouait avec ses groupes électriques blues-rock des années 1980 ŕ Paris, Tim aussi de son côté, les deux toujours fidčles ŕ leur premier amour, le blues. Ils forment avec des amis le groupe les Magnitoz qui sort un premier album électrique en 2009, et qui roule encore sur la scčne parisienne, en Normandie et plus loin. Un principe : on fait du blues en live, on aime ça, mais on n'enregistre que les compos. Et les deux songwriters sont toujours poursuivis par une idée—le retour aux sources. Leurs guitares acoustiques, l'harmo, et leurs paroles, unplugged. The Hobblers, leur duo acoustique, en est né. Et nous allons les suivre, Travelin' Light...

Trouble

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Oznake: Hobblers, Acoustic Blues, Scotland

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

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

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

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

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

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

Franc Robert - Ride The Iron Road

Size: 94,0 MB
Time: 39:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Blue Chihuahua Records
Art: Front

01. Honey What's Wrong (1:33)
02. Ride The Iron Road (2:37)
03. These Low Down Blues (3:00)
04. Chihuahua Blues (2:27)
05. Dem Devil Bones (2:39)
06. Mississippi On My Mind (2:30)
07. Railroad Blues (2:13)
08. Tax Time Blues (2:48)
09. Traveling Bluesman (8:56)
10. Treat Me Right (2:05)
11. Mississippi Blues (3:02)
12. Never Felt More Alone (2:36)
13. Sunday Morning (3:07)

Ride The Iron Road finds Franc Robert going back to the basics…man and guitar facing an audience, no back-up, no second chances and no apologies. This is blues the way it was in the beginning and this is how Franc Robert has chosen to present himself now…raw, hardcore and real as the day is long. Robert is as good as any I’ve heard when it comes to slide guitar better than the vast majority. While I hate to draw comparisons I hear elements of John Hammond and more. This cat, great as he is, draws his strength from past experience and from the excitement of the moment. He is one of those guys who have honestly been around the block more than once. This is not some schoolboy “wannabe,” wanting to be the next Robert Johnson. This is someone who had been through the school of hard knocks, has had his share of bad times and a few good ones as well. He is an exceptional storyteller, telling his stories as only a man who has been there and done that can he weaves his tales in music and word, painting a vivid picture that stays with the audience long after the performance is over. The compositions on the disc are all written by Franc Robert with the exception of three traditional tunes reworked to fit his style with care taken to do justice to the originals. Robert plays with power and passion, telling his stories in such a way that the listener takes part in the memories, both good and bad. He sings of sin, redemption and social issues that take their toll on each and every one of us. What I ultimately find most interesting is the sheer honesty as he opens his heart, exposing his most private thoughts and feelings to the entire world. This is a true bluesman, one who sings from the deepest regions of his heart and soul. Seldom does an artist open himself up to this point but it is this honesty that gives his work its power and the ability to cut straight to the heart of his audience. With that said, I urge all of you who like blues in its purest form to look into it, give the samples listed below a listen and judge for yourself. This is one recording I can recommend highly and without reservation. From “Honey What’s Wrong?” which has a sound not unlike the early “field hollers” which were rhythmic and sung in the field to make the work move more smoothly, to the closing number, “Sunday Morning” which is an instrumental piece that says so very much without the use of words. I grow more impressed with Franc Robert with each new release. Whether solo or with his band, The Boxcar Tourists, this is blues through and through. – Bill Wilson

Ride The Iron Road



• Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - Dislocation Blues •
• Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night •

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Oznake: Franc Robert, Acoustic Blues

Beige Fish - Beige Fish

Styles: Roots, Acoustic Country Blues
Label: Sky Productions
Released: 2010
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 105,4 MB
Time: 45:04
Art: front

1. Beige Fish - 3:37
2. The Sad Bag Of Shakey Jake - 3:52
3. Bootleg Booze - 2:43
4. Lonely - 5:21
5. Chain Gang - 4:13
6. Lay You Down - 4:05
7. Looking For Venus - 3:15
8. I Tip My Hat - 4:15
9. No Bad Guys Here - 2:58
10. China White - 3:19
11. Life´s Lonely Road - 4:27
12. Teepee Flats - 2:54

Notes: The first Beige Fish album includes several genres of acoustic slide guitar, blues and folk-rock tunes. Great song writing and lyrics written by various lyricists, soulful vocals, three part harmony and excellent slide guitar playing, is what you definitely will hear on this outstanding debut album.
John H. Schiessler produced and mixed this album at DEJOHN Studio / Munich - mastered by Bobby Altvater at Sky Studio for Sky Productions. John began playing acoustic and slide guitar at age 12 and worked his way through blues, folk and rock music, influenced by Fred McDowell, Ry Cooder or Stephen Stills.

Beige Fish



• Beige Fish - Wildcat Cafe
• Ramblin' Thomas - Hard Dallas

Oznake: Beige Fish, Roots, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues

Steve James - Fast Texas

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Burnside Distribution
Released: 2003/2008
File: mp3 @256K/s
Size: 94,5 MB
Time: 51:34
Art: front

1. Fast Texas - 5:19
2. Texas Tommy - 3:27
3. Sukey - 3:22
4. Jack O' Diamonds - 5:16
5. Freestone County Blues - 3:19
6. Where Shall I Be - 1:20
7. Day's Lonesome - 3:34
8. Cocaine Blues - 3:09
9. Chicken Stuff - 3:01
10. Blues Come To Stay - 3:28
11. Fisherman's Reel - 2:48
12. 4 or 5 Times - 2:27
13. Rain Done Fell On Me - 3:06
14. Waiting For A Train - 2:09
15. Bye Bye Babie Blues - 3:14
16. Rain Done Fell On Me (Reprise) - 2:28

Personnel:
Steve James - vocals, 6- & 12-string acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin
Ruthie Foster - vocals
Cindy Cashdollar - acoustic & electric guitars, dobro
Del Rey - guitar
Cyd Cassone - vocals

Notes: With his new album "Fast Texas", Steve James pays tribute to the state that has been his home for over 25 years. The Texas experience is chronicled in James' original songs-from the animated title track to the brooding "Freestone County Blues". Also included are adaptations of songs by Lone Star roots regents like Hop Wilson, Milton Brown and Little Hat Jones.
To get his characteristic bare bones production values realized, Steve once again enlisted the help of some of Austin's best recording and mastering engineers, and used a small arsenal of acoustic and resophonic instruments (including a new custom-made 12 string guitar). "Best instrumental and vocal sounds I've gotten in the studio to date." opines James; whose guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals are augmented on selected tracks by the sonorous string-work of Del Rey, the sinewy steel and Dobro of Cindy Cashdollar, and the soulful voices of Ruthie Foster and Cyd Cassone. Enjoy "Fast Texas"...and take your time doing it.
Since the release of his "Boom Chang" CD in the summer of 2000, Steve James has toured the US coast to coast with side trips to Mexico and Canada for festival dates, and three tours of Europe, which took him from the UK to Hungary and from Scandinavia to Italy and most recently, a month long tour in Australia. In June of 2001, he was heard on over 450 radio stations worldwide when he appeared on "A Prairie Home Companion" in Minneapolis, MN.
Acoustic Guitar/String Letter Press published "Inside blues Guitar", Steve's second book from them, along with several articles and lessons. "Learn to Play Blues Mandolin", featuring Steve with guitar support from john Sebastian, was added to the Homespun Tapes catalog alongside his previous guitar video. In addition, Steve taught at numerous guitar clinics and music camps including The Swannanoa Gathering Guitar week, Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch, the Centrum country blues and Heritage Week…and as host of his own guitar program at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Austin Texas even gave Steve his own "official Steve James day".
Steve James' guitar, slide guitar, mandolin and banjo were heard - live and in the studio - in support of artists as various as Kevin Russell of The Gourds and Howard Armstrong, senior inventor of Afro-American string band music. Steve appeared on compilations including the Grammy nominated "Preachin' the Blues… The Music of Mississippi Fred McDowell" (for which Steve also wrote the liner notes). His own retrospective CD, "Not For Highway Use… Austin Sessions 1988-95" is also now available from his website.
Steve's tour calendar for the coming year already includes multiple tours of Europe and North America and another West Coast tour with stage and studio duet partner Del Rey. The duo played to packed houses in Texas and on the West coast during spring/summer of 2002 and has recently recorded a 9-song (do-it-yourself) CD entitled "Twins", featuring a blend of classic and original tunes with guitar, slide guitar, uke and mandolin aplenty. ~ burnside records

Fast Texas



• Steve James - Art and Grit
• Maria Muldaur - Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul

Oznake: Steve James, Acoustic Blues

Salty Dog - Jack Of Diamonds

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
Label: Black Market Music
Released: 2008
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 108,9 MB
Time: 47:33
Art: front + back

1. Jack Of Diamonds - 2:31
2. Killin' Floor - 3:07
3. Rollin' And Tumblin' - 3:41
4. Chicago Breakdown - 3:24
5. Drop Down - 2:42
6. Rolling Stone - 3:32
7. Jumper On The Line - 3:10
8. Queen Bee - 3:28
9. Write Me A Few Lines - 3:09
10. He's Gone - 3:20
11. Poor Girl - 2:27
12. Last Night - 3:49
13. Come In This House - 3:15
14. Can't Be Satisfied - 2:39
15. The Things You Do - 3:11

Personnel:
Steve Plater: guitars, dobro, mandolin, banjo, stomp-box, fiddle, harmonica, vocals
Marion Turner: vocals, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, washboard, tub bass, percussion

Notes: I just stumbled on this CD and I'm really impressed! I don't know much about the artists (From Australia, I gather)but it is well worth a listen if you like your blues vintage & straight ahead. ~ BOZ

Jack Of Diamonds



• Salty Dog - Steel to Steel
• Salty Dog - Slap That Thing

Oznake: Salty Dog, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, australia

VA - Blues On My Radio

Size: 116,8 MB
Time: 49:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Southwest Musical Arts Foundation Records
Art: Full

01. Lowell Fulson - Worried Life Blues (2:05)
02. Lazy Lester - Made Up My Mind (2:40)
03. Louisiana Red - Goin' Train Blues (3:34)
04. Johnny Dyer - Nine Below Zero (4:15)
05. Charlie Musselwhite - Baby-O (Blues On My Radio) (3:44)
06. Rick Estrin - Sonny Boy Jump (2:59)
07. Bernie Pearl & Harmonica Fats - You Got Your Mouth Stuck Out (3:40)
08. Lazy Lester - Jambalaya (1:56)
09. Lazy Lester - Nothin' But The Devil (2:44)
10. Robert Lockwood Jr. - Dust My Broom - Ramblin' On My Mind (3:06)
11. Lowell Fulson - Big Leg Woman (Boar Hog Grind) (2:22)
12. Lowell Fulson - You Don't Know My Mind (2:33)
13. Lil' Ed - Midnight Burning (3:07)
14. Lazy Lester - Patrol Wagon Blues (3:53)
15. Louisiana Red - Sad Night (5:27)
16. Lowell Fulson - Those Lowdown Blues Theme (0:58)

Bob Corritore has worn a lot of hats. First off, he's a world-class blues harmonica player and blues scholar. He runs his own small record label. He books blues musicians for Phoenix, AZ's finest blues club, the Rhythm Room, and for the purposes of this wonderful little CD collection, he also hosts a blues show called Those Lowdown Blues on Sunday nights from Phoenix's KJZZ 91.5 FM, often bringing in the very touring artists he books for the club to play studio sets on his show, which is where these 16 tracks came from. Each one is an informal, intimate gem, and performances here like Louisiana Red's version of "Goin' Train Blues," Lazy Lester's harmonica rendition of Hank Williams' "Jambalaya," and Lowell Fulson's stately take on "Worried Life Blues" all have a casual urgency about them. This is simply a delightful set. ~Review by Steve Leggett

Blues On My Radio



• Flávio Guimaraes - Flávio Guimaraes & Friends •
• Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Members Edition •

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Oznake: Various Artists, Lowel Fulson, Bob Corritore, Acoustic Blues, Louisiana Red, Lazy Lester

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 8

Styles: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Piedmont Blues, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 2003
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 157,0 MB
Time: 68:36
Art: full

1. Vaughan Quartet - It's Just Like Heaven - 3:12
2. Red Headed Fiddler - The Steeley Rag - 2:36
3. Gitfiddle Jim - Paddlin' Blues - 3:19
4. Dilly & His Dill Pickles - Sand Mountain Drag - 3:23
5. Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby - 3:00
6. King Solomon Hill - My Buddy Blind Papa Lemon - 3:11
7. Stripling Brothers - The Lost Child - 3:07
8. Frank Hutchinson - The Train That Carried My Girl From Town - 3:04
9. Bo Weavil Jackson - You Can't Keep No Brown - 2:52
10. Wright Brothers Quartet - Mother Is With The Angels - 2:59
11. Dick Reinhart - Rambling Lover - 2:53
12. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues - 2:52
13. Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters - Yellow Rose Of Texas - 2:53
14. Johnny Barfield - Gonna Ride Till The Sun Goes Down - 2:54
15. Ed Bell - Mamlish Blues - 2:36
16. Ted Sharp, Hinman and Sharp - Robinson County - 3:10
17. Dennis McGee - Valse Des Vachers - 2:39
18. David Miller - Jailhouse Rag - 2:43
19. Tommy Johnson - I Want Someone To Love Me - 2:57
20. Uncle Dave Macon and McGee Bros. - Tennessee Tornado - 3:16
21. Frank Jenkins - Roving Cowboy - 2:59
22. Shelor Family - Big Bend Gal - 2:49
23. Rev. W.M. Mosley - Yes Tis Me - 3:01

Notes: Each volume in Yazoo Records' Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series (this one is the eighth installment) collects 1920s and '30s commercial 78s that, taken together, project a vital and energetic rural, early 20th century America of jug and string bands, country blues players, fiddlers, banjoists, sacred singers, and musical roustabouts of every conceivable rustic style imaginable. This process makes each volume remarkably similar even as the particular artists and songs included on each may be tremendously different. Volume 8 is a little heavier on the blues side of things and includes such rare gems as Dock Boggs' banjo blues set piece "Sugar Baby," Skip James' haunting rendering of "4 O'Clock Blues" (made especially precious by sounding like it was recorded in a hail storm), Frank Hutchison's sleek and timeless "The Train That Carried My Girl from Town," and Francis Jenkins' ancient sounding fiddle ballad, "Roving Cowboy," which sounds a bit like an inland sea shanty. Since everything is drawn from exceedingly rare 78s, many of which were played to death by their original owners, there is a fair amount of ambient needle noise on most of these tracks, but that only adds to the overall feel of history actually coming alive that is inherent to these kinds of compilations. Well selected, varied, and artfully sequenced, Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 8 is a welcome addition to a hopefully never-ending series.

Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 8



• Pink Anderson - Pink Anderson Vol. 3: Ballad & Folksinger
• Blind Willie McTell - Blind Willie McTell 1927-1933

Oznake: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Piedmont Blues, Traditional Folk, Various

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 7 of 8

Styles: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 2003
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 160,5 MB
Time: 70:07
Art: full

1. Dilly & His Dill Pickles - Bust Down Stomp - 3:18
2. Jimmie Tarlton - Dixie Mail - 3:22
3. King Solomon Hill - Times Has Done Got Hard - 3:14
4. East Texas Serenaders - Mineola Rag - 2:44
5. Sheffield Male Quartet - Christ Arose - 3:03
6. 'Gitfiddle Jim' - Rainy Night Blues - 3:14
7. Three Tobacco Tags - Good Gal Remember Me - 3:01
8. Red Headed Fiddlers - Texas Quickstep - 2:53
9. Ed Bell - Ham Bone Blues - 2:49
10. David Miller - Cannonball Rag - 2:48
11. Fiddlin John Carson & His Virginia Reelers - Little More Sugar medley - 3:07
12. Bo Weavil Jackson - Devil and my Brown Blues - 2:57
13. Stripling Brothers - Horseshoe Bend - 3:00
14. Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Primrose Hill - 2:56
15. Skip James - Hard Luck child - 3:06
16. Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee - Go On, Nora Lee - 3:09
17. Dennis McGee - Jeunes Gens Campagnard - 2:44
18. Jay Bird Coleman - I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordon Some Of These Days - 3:09
19. Uncle Pete & Louise - Only A Tramp - 3:01
20. Ben Jarrell & Frank Jenkins - Jack of Diamnds - 2:48
21. Son House - Dry Spell Blues, part 1 - 3:11
22. 'Ted' Sharp, Hinman & Sharp - Pike's Peak - 3:10
23. Old Southern Sacred Singers - I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go - 3:15

Notes: Each volume in Yazoo Records' Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series (this one is the seventh installment) collects 1920s and '30s commercial 78s, and taken together they project a vital and energetic rural, early 20th century America of jug and string bands, country blues players, fiddlers, banjoists, sacred singers, and musical roustabouts of every conceivable rustic style imaginable. This process makes each volume remarkably similar even as the particular artists and songs included on each may be tremendously different. Volume 7 includes such rare gems as Jimmie Tarlton's impressive "Dixie Mail," Skip James' haunting "Hard Luck Child," an unhinged fiddle and banjo duet by Ben Jarrell and Francis Jenkins on "Jack of Diamonds" and the first part of Son House's classic two-part 78 rpm recording of "Dry Spell Blues." Since everything is drawn from exceedingly rare 78s, many of which were played to death by their original owners, there is a fair amount of ambient needle noise on most of these tracks, but that only adds to the overall feel of history actually coming alive that is inherent to these kinds of compilations. Well selected, varied, and artfully sequenced, Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 7 is a welcome addition to a hopefully never-ending series.

Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 7



• Alan Lomax - Texas Folk Songs
• The 2nd South Carolina String Band - Hard Road

Oznake: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk, Various

Rick Taylor - Lucky Room

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Dirty Blues
Label: Voluteer Records
Released: 2010
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 88,2 MB
Time: 37:51
Art: front

1. By Myself - 2:33
2. Murmur Low - 3:00
3. Six Cold Feet Of Ground - 3:40
4. I See My Baby - 3:42
5. Tough Times - 2:56
6. Blind Fiddler - 4:24
7. Monday Morning Blues - 3:58
8. Rattlesnake - 3:23
9. You Can't Live Long - 3:24
10. Drop Down Mama - 2:39
11. Baby Please Don't Go - 4:06

Notes: Not content to rest on his laurels, and on the heals of his critically acclaimed 2008 release “The Wonky Years”, and the moving finger style guitar work on his 2005 release “Clown River”, Rick Taylor has returned home; to the blues. This gritty solo collection of 11 songs is recorded in the spirit of the 20’s and 50’s blues masters. It covers the road from Mississippi to Chicago in a stirring tribute to the roots of the music that has driven pop music for decades. With a bourbon stained voice that sounds as if it could be coming through the torn radio speaker of a 1927 Buick, Lucky Room was recorded on vintage acoustic and electric guitars and amplifiers. Close your eyes and you will find yourself sitting at a table in a juke joint, somewhere along Highway 61.
Selected by The Great Lakes Blues Society to showcase at the 2010 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee and long regarded as one of Canada’s finest blues and finger style guitarists, Rick Taylor brings a high level of energy to the stage and recording studio. A 40 year veteran of the guitar, Rick cut his teeth on early delta and Chicago blues and immersed himself in the genre. As a young musician Rick got the chance to see many of the early blues masters first hand and developed his own unique style and syncopated voicings on the guitar. He is often in demand as a studio musician and sideman and has two solo CD’s to his credit. His rich, expressive baritone voice, quirky and novel songwriting styles and unforgettable “guitarnastics" has made Rick a crowd favorite at festivals and clubs for many years. ~ cdbaby
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Lucky Room



• Celso Salim & Rodrigo Mantovani - Diggin' The Blues
• Bjorn Berge - Live In Europe

Oznake: Rick Taylor, Acoustic Blues

Luther Dickinson - Rock 'N Roll Blues

Size: 81,7 MB
Time: 34:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Blues Rock, Folk Rock
Label: New West Records
Art: Full

01. Vandalize (2:53)
02. Blood 'N Guts (3:19)
03. Yard Man (3:07)
04. Goin' Country (3:18)
05. Mojo, Mojo (5:18)
06. Rock 'N Roll Blues (2:46)
07. Bar Band (2:43)
08. Stone's Throw (4:15)
09. Some Ol' Day (3:20)
10. Karmic Debt (3:30)

Luther Dickinson enters a new phase of his storied musical career with his rollicking and raw new solo album, Rock ‘n Roll Blues. From the propulsive beat and unbridled sound of opener Vandalize, to the insanely catchy Bar Band, it’s clear this is a unique chapter in the acclaimed Southern musician’s songbook. More informed by a youth spent listening to punk rock than the blues and boogie rock of his revered band North Mississippi Allstars, the record consists mostly of acoustic guitar, stand up bass and drums and although not punk in sound, it is in spirit and the DIY ethos. In essence, an autobiography set to music, the 10-track LP traces Luther’s journey from excitable teen to tour-van vet and offers a side of himself seldom seen before.

The son of the late great producer and musician Jim Dickinson, Luther made his recording debut at age 14 and has recorded with a who’s who of musicians including The Replacements, Beck, Jon Spencer, John Hiatt, Levon Helm, Mavis Staples, Ry Cooder and Patty Griffin. He is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the North Mississippi Allstars and widely known as both a talented musician and producer with four Grammy® nominations to prove it - three in the contemporary blues category and one in traditional folk.

Thanks to MapleBlues.
Rock 'N Roll Blues



• Jorma Kaukonen - The Land Of Heroes •
• John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters •

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Oznake: Luther Dickinson, Acoustic Blues, folk-rock, blues-rock

Steve James - Two Track Mind

Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Country Blues
Released: 1993
Label: Discovery
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 86,2 MB
Time: 37:38
Art: full

1. Milwaukee Blues (Poole) - 3:06
2. Rocks and Gravel (Lipscomb) - 3:15
3. Guitar Rag (Weaver) - 3:10
4. Frankie and Albert (Traditional) - 3:15
5. Huggin' and Chalkin' (Goell) - 1:28
6. Amos Johnson Rag (McGee) - 2:24
7. Bachelor Blues (Moore) - 4:20
8. Railroad Blues (McGee) - 2:24
9. Blues in the Bottle (Hunt) - 2:26
10. Variations on the Saturday Night Rub (Broonzy) - 2:21
11. Don't Seem Right (Faust) - 3:08
12. County Line Road (James) - 3:38
13. Spanish Fandango (Traditional) - 2:01

Note: A rarity in today's field of acoustic blues pickers; a guitarist with encyclopedic knowledge who never sounds academic. James embraces a wide scope of fingerpicking styles -- Piedmont school ragtime, hokum ("Huggin' and Chalkin'"), country (Sam McGee is the source of two tunes here), and slide (his showstopping take on Sylvester Weaver's "Guitar Rag") with super technique, humor, and a relaxed ease that borders on cockiness. Only one original here, but that situation was to be rectified on Steve's follow-up.

Two Track Mind



• The Chicago Kingsnakes - Grassroots
• Nico Wayne Toussaint & Michel Foizon - On The Go

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Steve James

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 6 of 8

Styles: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Piedmont Blues, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 2002
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 157,5 MB
Time: 68:47
Art: full

1. Birkhead & Lane - Robinson County - 3:06
2. Floyd County Ramblers - Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party - 3:09
3. Mississippi Moaner - It's Cold In China - 2:51
4. Parker & Dodd - Sail Away Lady - 2:59
5. Uncle Dave Macon & The Fruit Jar Drinkers - I'm Goin' Away In The Morn - 3:08
6. Tenderfoot Edwards - Seven Sister Blues - 2:55
7. Virginia Mountain Boomers - Cousin Sally Brown - 2:54
8. Girls Of The Golden West - Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo Git Along Little Doggies - 2:46
9. Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues - 2:50
10. Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston - Milwaukee Blues - 3:20
11. Weems String Band - Davy - 2:55
12. Eli Framer - God Didn't Make Me No Monkey Man - 3:13
13. Eck Robertson - Sally Gooden - 3:11
14. Jess Johnston & Byrd Moore - My Trouble Blues - 3:10
15. Charley Patton - Prayer Of Death - Part 2 - 2:49
16. Red Headed Fiddlers - Cheat 'Em - 2:33
17. Dewey & Gassie Bassett - Jesus Paved The Way - 2:42
18. Louie Lasky - Caroline - 2:51
19. The Swamp Rooters - Swamp Cat Rag - 3:07
20. Reaves White County Ramblers - Ten Cent Piece - 3:03
21. Blind Joe Reynolds - Ninety Nine Blues - 2:40
22. Jess Hillard & His West Virginia Hillbillies - Rolling River - 3:27
23. Turney Brothers - At The Cross - 2:56

Notes: Each volume in Yazoo Records' Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series (this one is the sixth installment) collects 1920s and '30s commercial 78s, and taken together they project a vital and energetic early-20th century rural America of jug and string bands, country blues players, fiddlers, banjoists, sacred singers, and musical roustabouts of every conceivable rustic style imaginable. This process makes each volume remarkably similar even as the particular artists and songs included on each may be tremendously different. Vol. 6 includes such rare gems as Isaiah Nettles' (listed here under his moniker "the Mississippi Moaner") quirky "It's Cold in China Blues," Skip James' haunting "Cherry Ball Blues," an energetic "Davy" by the Weems String Band, and the second part of Charley Patton's two-part 78-rpm recording of "Prayer of Death." Since everything is drawn from exceedingly rare 78s, many of which were played to death by their original owners, there is a fair amount of ambient needle noise on several of these tracks, but that only adds to the overall feel of history actually coming alive that is inherent to these kinds of compilations. Well selected, varied, and artfully sequenced, Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 6 is another welcome addition to a hopefully never-ending series.

Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 6



• Violin, Sing The Blues For Me: African-American Fiddlers 1926-1949
• Emmett Miller - Minstrel Man From Georgia

Oznake: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Piedmont Blues, Traditional Folk, Various

Bad Temper Joe - Sometimes A Sinner

Size: 143,5 MB
Time: 62:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Timezone Records
Art: Front

01. Why Do I Choose To Suffer (5:11)
02. Lead Me, Great Jehova (4:00)
03. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (6:59)
04. Next To You (3:06)
05. Where Is Home (5:16)
06. Waiting For Jimmy (7:24)
07. That Is That (4:04)
08. Love Is Evil (4:21)
09. True-Hearted (6:48)
10. Broken Bottle Top (6:07)
11. Sleeping Giant Blues (3:47)
12. Where My Sorrow Goes (5:02)

Slide guitar, blues harp and a rough, memorable voice - that's Bad Temper Joe .

The 21 year old artist has already made a name within a short time on the blues stage. Powerful guitar and harmonica playing with expressive voice combining knows Joe to pull through his extraordinary stage presence every blues and folk audience under his spell.

A wide repertoire of original compositions that have to hide not from the songs of his idols , Robert Johnson, Leadbelly , or even Bob Dylan, he presents in his concerts. Here, Joe relies on the simplicity of his songs . What counts is the deliberately kept simple music because complicated arrangements you will not find in the minimalist instrumented songs. These texts , influenced by whiskey, women and the Bible , sometimes ironic , sometimes inviting for reflection, little stories from the life and about life telling . This leaves the listener in particular , to engage in the deep , gravelly voice and skillful guitar playing.
Bad Temper Joe is without question one of the most promising young talents in the region. And he lives a music which is quite a young face to shame.

Sometimes A Sinner



• Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - Dislocation Blues •
• Doug Cox & Friends - BoneBottleBrassOrSteel •

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Oznake: Bad Temper Joe, Acoustic Blues, Germany

Ash Grunwald - I Don't Believe

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues
Released: 2004
Label: Phantom
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 114.8 MB
Time: 50:08
Art: front

1. Everyday - 3:35
2. Hey Baby - 2:51
3. Whispering voice - 2:44
4. 1976 Coaster - 2:51
5. Keep it real - 4:09
6. Going out west - 5:45
7. How many more years - 4:44
8. Cross Roads - 5:01
9. I don't believe - 3:06
10. Empire State - 2:34
11. Dangerous Ground - 3:51
12. Jesus gonna be here - 2:49
13. Walking Blues - 3:57
14. Everyday Reprise - 2:05

Notes: Ash Grunwald is an inimitable modern blues talent, with soulful vocals and acoustic blues guitar. 'I Don't Believe' is a modern blues and roots album, featuring percussion, using a foot controlled sampler, guitars, tambourine, beat boxing and claps. Over this Ash layers his trademark guitar grooves and stunning vocals. In his usual style, Ash recorded this album completely live in the studio, capturing the essence of his live show.Head Recor. 2006

I Don't Believe



• Ash Grunwald - Introducing Ash Grunwald
• Salty Dog - Steel to Steel

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Ash Grunwald, australia, Delta Blues

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 5

Styles: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, Regional Blues, String Bands, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 2002
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 158,6 MB
Time: 69:16
Art: full

1. Sam McGee - Railroad Blues - 3:17
2. Floyd County Rambler - Step Stone - 3:02
3. Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - 2:50
4. Weems String Band - Greenback Dollar - 3:10
5. Jimmie Davis - Doggone That Train - 2:48
6. Eli Framer - Famer's Blues - 3:06
7. Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston - No Room For A Tramp - 3:15
8. Garland Brothers & Grinstead - Just Over The River - 2:49
9. Ben Covington - Mule Skinner Moan - 3:03
10. Reaves White County Ramblers - Shortening Bread - 2:54
11. J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds - Black-Eyed Susie - 2:59
12. Buddy Boy Hawkins - A Rag Blues - 3:00
13. Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston - Railroad Blues - 3:22
14. Grayson County Railsplitters - Way Down In North Carolina - 2:31
15. The Swamp Rooters - Citaco - 3:04
16. Unknown - Pistol Blues - 3:02
17. Murphy Brothers Harp Band - Boat Song March - 3:02
18. Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers - I've Got No Honey - 2:59
19. Wilmer Watts & Lonley Eagles - Bonnie Bess - 2:57
20. Blind Joe Reynolds - Cold Woman Blues - 2:57
21. Wyzee, Tucker & Lecroy - Hamilton's Special Breakdown - 2:54
22. Bull Mountain Moonshiners - Johnny Goodwin - 2:56
23. Charley Patton - Some Happy Day - 3:09

Notes: Each volume in Yazoo Records' Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series (this one is the fifth installment) collects 1920s and '30s commercial 78s, and taken together they project a vital and energetic early-20th century rural America of jug and string bands, country blues players, fiddlers, banjoists, sacred singers, and musical roustabouts of every conceivable rustic style imaginable. This process makes each volume remarkably similar even as the particular artists and songs included on each may be tremendously different. Vol. 5 includes such gems as Sam McGee's bright "Railroad Blues," Skip James' classic and striking "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues," a breakneck version of "Black-Eyed Susie" by string band great J.P. Nestor, and a unusually hopeful blues treatment of "Some Happy Day" from Charley Patton. Since everything is drawn from exceedingly rare 78s, many of which were played to death by their original owners, there is a fair amount of ambient needle noise on several of these tracks, but that only adds to the overall feel of history actually coming alive that is inherent to these kinds of compilations. Well selected, varied, and artfully sequenced, Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 5 is yet another welcome addition to a hopefully never-ending

Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 5



• Various - Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 1 of 8
• Various Artists - Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 2 of 8

Oznake: Various, Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, Regional Blues, String Bands, Traditional Folk

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 4 of 8

Styles: Prewar Blues, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Blues Revival, Country Blues, Old-Timey, Traditional Country, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 1999
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 161,7 MB
Time: 70:37
Art: full

1. Jimmie Tarlton - Lowe Bonnie - 3:24
2. William Harris - Early Morning Blues - 2:51
3. Burnett & Rutherford - Billy In The Lowground - 3:10
4. Dixon Brothers - Rambling - 3:13
5. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Every Day In The Week Blues - 2:57
6. Sweet Brothers - I Got A Bulldog - 2:52
7. Cliff Carlisle - Tom Cat Blues - 2:54
8. Hi Henry Brown - Preacher Blues - 3:29
9. Kessinger Brothers - Salt River - 3:09
10. Golden Melody Boys - Blushing Bride - 2:31
11. Georgia Yellow Hammers - Kiss Me Quick - 2:52
12. Charlie Patton - Magnolia Blues - 3:13
13. Anglelas Le Jeunne - Perrodin Two Step - 3:02
14. Fiddling John Carson - Bachelor's Hall - 3:08
15. Tommy Johnson - Walking Shoes - 3:06
16. Stripling Brothers - Wolves Howling - 3:28
17. James Cole & His Washboard Band - Mistreated The Only Friend You Had - 3:12
18. Martin & Hobbs - Havana River Guide - 3:08
19. Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers - I Want Two Wings To Veil My Face - 2:46
20. Jess Hillard & His West Virginia Hillbillies - Make Down The Bed And We'll Sleep Together - 3:15
21. Skip James - Special Rider Blues - 3:03
22. Watts & Wilson - Walk Right In - 2:45
23. Rev. Rice & Congregation - Leaving All To Follow Jesus - 2:57

Notes: A collection of classic recordings from the 1920s and 30s featuring many all-time great performances of early American traditional music. This series is a fascinating overview of traditional American musical styles from the Civil War to the 1920s, including fiddle tunes, rags banjo songs, religious selections, old ballads, blues, etc.

Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 4



• The 2nd South Carolina String Band - Hard Road
• Luther Dickinson And The Sons of Mudboy - Onward & Upward

Oznake: Prewar Blues, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Blues Revival, Country Blues, Old-Timey, Traditional Country, Traditional Folk, Various

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 3 of 8

Styles: Delta Blues, Prewar Blues, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Blues Revival, Country Blues, Old-Timey, Traditional Country, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazzoo
Released: 1999
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 159,9 MB
Time: 69:52
Art: full

1. Blind Willie Johnson - I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole - 3:06
2. Ashley's Melody Men - Bath House Blues - 2:53
3. Frank Hutchison - Worried Blues - 3:18
4. Jelly Jaw Short - Snake Doctor Blues - 3:26
5. East Texas Serenaders - Acorn Stomp - 2:53
6. Carlisle Brothers - Sal Got a Meatskin - 2:53
7. Sleepy John Estes - Streetcar Blues - 3:16
8. Luke Highnight & His Ozark Strutters - Fort Smith Breakdown - 2:47
9. Wilmer Watts & His Lonely Eagles - Sleepy Desert - 3:06
10. Son House - Walking Blues - 2:56
11. Allison's Sacred Harp Singers - Sweet Rivers - 3:11
12. Williamson Brothers - Gonna Die With My Hammer in My Hand - 3:26
13. Charlie Patton - Mean Black Cat - 2:57
14. Lowe Stokes - Billy in the Lowground - 3:04
15. Jelly Roll Anderson - Good Time Blues - 2:44
16. Fiddling John Carson - Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - 2:53
17. Fruit Jar Guzzlers - Steel Driving Man - 3:05
18. Skip James - I'm So Glad - 2:50
19. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Rok About My Sara Jane - 3:23
20. Cap, Andy & Flip - I'm Taking My Audition to Sing Up in the Sky - 3:11
21. Buster Johnson & James Cole's Washboard Band - Undertaker Blues - 3:03
22. Oscar Harper's Texas String Band - Sally Johnson - 2:34
23. Fa Sol La Singers - I'll Stay on the Right Road Now - 2:49

Notes: The beauty of the anthologies in this series is that the fine music is accompanied by liner notes that help the uninitiated to understand and savor the performers as well as the performances. When I was no longer able to stomach the latest packaged acts being spoon-fed to us by the music industry, I stopped listening to recorded music. Then, on a hunch, I started to explore roots music, much of it on the wonderful Yazoo label. These songs reward repeated listening accompanied by liner note reading and biographical books on favorite performers. So much of what is best in life is hidden, because when it becomes too popular, the commerce machine rushes in and spoils it. These recordings are immune to that phenomenon and will never be stripped of their human warmth, artistry, sincerity and emotional power. Newcomers should keep in mind that "blues" music as performed in most bars and clubs is far removed from its origins -- stripped down, rehashed, sanitized, electrified -- and ruined. I hate that kind of music, but I love the old recordings, where the soul still shines through on each performance. There are numerous sub-genres in roots music that are almost completely unknown to most people today. Shocking, even weird at first listen, they provoke the attentive listener's curiosity and present an opportunity for an adventure in personal exploration. Enjoy. ~ amazon
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Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 3



• Alan Lomax - Texas Folk Songs
• Various - White Country Blues 1926-1938

Oznake: Delta Blues, Prewar Blues, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Blues Revival, Country Blues, Old-Timey, Traditional Country, Traditional Folk, Various

Various Artists - Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 2 of 8

Styles: Country Blues, Pre-War Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 1997
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 159,6 MB
Time: 69:44
Art: full

1. Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers - John Henry Blues - 3:13
2. Allen Shaw - Moanin' the Blues - 3:01
3. Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer - Lonesome Road Blues - 3:00
4. Bobby Leecan & His Need More Band - Washboard Cut Out - 2:56
5. Henry Thomas - Bob McKinney - 2:57
6. Fiddling John Carson & His Virginia Reelers - Swanee River - 3:18
7. Richard 'Rabbit' Brown - James Alley Blues - 3:08
8. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Sail Away Ladies - 2:59
9. Cannon's Jug Stompers - The Rooster's Crowing Blues - 3:03
10. A.A. Grey & Seven Foot Dilly - Tallapoosa Bound - 3:13
11. The Shelor Family - Billy Grimes the Rover - 2:46
12. The Massey Family - Brown Skin Girl Down the Lane - 2:45
13. Joe McCoy - You Know You Done Me Wrong - 3:14
14. Sid Harkreader & Gradey Moore - Old Joe - 2:53
15. Blind Alfred Reed - Beware - 3:11
16. Wilmer Watts & The Lonely - Knocking Down Casey Jones - 3:12
17. Tommy Bradley - Four Day Blues - 3:13
18. Georgia Crackers - Riley the Furniture Man - 3:06
19. Emmett Lundy & Ernest Stoneman - Piney Woods Girl - 2:46
20. Louie Blue - State Street Rag - 2:49
21. Tweedy Brothers - Sugar In The Ground - 3:07
22. Southern Moonlight Entertainers - Then I'll Move To Town - 2:51
23. Rev. D.C. Rice - Lord Keep Me With A Mind - 2:51

Notes: Like volume one, this presents 23 examples of early American rural music, mastered from rare 78s of the 1920s and 1930s. And like volume one, the names here will challenge the expertise of all but the most fanatical collector; only Uncle Dave Macon, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Henry Thomas, and maybe Blind Alfred Reed will be familiar. It's a valuable sampler of non-urban sounds as captured in the early days of the recording industry, when primitive technology and marketing naivete ensured that the music was virtually unadulterated. Fiddles, banjos, and plaintive, spirited vocals abound. Bobby Leecan's jugband romp "Washboard Cut Out" is the most exuberant track; Rev. D.C. Rice's gospel number "Lord Keep Me with a Mind" starts off in a more somber mood, but soon evolves into a jubilant New Orleans-styled arrangement.
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Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 2



• Various - Oh Brother, Best Of Southern Blues
• Corey Harris & Henry Butler - Vü-Dü Menž

Oznake: Country Blues, Pre-War Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk, Various

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 1 of 8

Styles: Country Blues, Pre-War Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 1997
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 162,7 MB
Time: 71:04
Art: full

1. Prince Albert Hunt - Blues In A Bottle - 3:26
2. Charlie Jordan - Dollar Bill Blues - 3:00
3. Bascom Lamar Lundsford - Lost John Dean - 2:48
4. A.A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly - Streak of Lean, Streak of Fat - 3:05
5. Richard 'Rabbit' Brown - Sinking Of The Titanic - 3:49
6. Dykes Magic City Trio - Tennessee Girls - 3:04
7. Bob Campbell - Shotgun Blues - 2:56
8. J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds - Train On The Island - 2:58
9. The Four Wanderers - The Fault's In Me - 3:13
10. Happy Hayseeds - The Tail Of Halley's Comet - 2:43
11. Oaks Family - Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper - 2:58
12. Louie Lasky - How You Want Your Rollin' Done - 2:49
13. Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers - Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - 3:03
14. Memphis Jug Band - On The Road Again - 2:51
15. Buell Kazee - The Dying Soldier - 3:09
16. Buddy Boy Hawkins - Voice Throwin' Blues - 3:03
17. Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles - Been On The Job Too Long - 3:13
18. Ken Maynard - Fannie Moore - 3:34
19. Nugrape Twins - I Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape - 2:57
20. Carson Brothers & Sprinkle - The Old Miller's Will - 3:02
21. Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner - Skinner - 2:50
22. Southern Moonlight Entertainers - How To Make Love - 3:15
23. Grayson & Whitter - Old Jimmie Sutton - 3:07

Notes: These are 23 rare 78s from the 1920s and 1930s, chosen to illustrate the wide range of "early American rural music" that made its way onto disc in the early days of the recording industry. This will not get nearly as much press as Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music box, yet it's on par with that ballyhooed re-release as an overview of the roots of American roots music, so to speak. Styles vary from country blues and fiddle hoedowns to banjo music and jug bands. The Memphis Jug Band is the only name here that might be familiar to more than the most well-versed folk historians. Highlights include J.P. Nestor and Norman Edmonds' "Train on the Island," a frenetic string band gallop; the Four Wanderers' eerie gospel tune, "The Fault's in Me"; and Ken Maynard's "Fannie Moore," a direct predecessor of country music in its vocal phrasing.
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Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 1



• Various - Roots of the Blues
• Jack Owens - Blues At Home 8: Recorded In Bentonia, Mississippi (1978-1982)

Oznake: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk, Various

Pink Anderson - Pink Anderson Vol. 3: Ballad & Folksinger

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Prewar Country Blues, Piedmont Blues
Label: Original Blues Classics
Released: 1963
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 79,6 MB
Time: 34:46
Art: full

1. The Titanic - 4:09
2. Boweevil - 4:03
3. John Henry - 5:03
4. Betty and Dupree - 4:46
5. Sugar Babe - 2:46
6. The Wreck of the Old 97 - 4:42
7. I Will Fly Away - 3:48
8. The Kaiser - 2:07
9. In The Evening - 3:18

Notes: This release contains what is sadly the final volume in Bluesville's trilogy of long-players featuring the highly original Piedmont blues of Pink Anderson. As with the two previous discs, Ballad & Folk Singer was recorded in 1961. It is also notable that Anderson returns to his native South Carolina to document this set. The second installment -- Medicine Show Man -- had been compiled from a New York City session held earlier the same year. Astute listeners will note that three of the titles -- "The Titanic," "John Henry," and "The Wreck of the Old 97" -- were duplicated from Anderson's side-long contribution to Gospel, Blues & Street Songs. The other side featured another Piedmont native, Rev. Gary Davis. However Anderson's delivery is notably different when comparing the two performances. One of the primary discrepancies lies in the pacing. Here, the readings are more definite and seemingly less rushed. The same is true for the phrasing of Anderson's vocals, most notably on "John Henry." The intricate and somewhat advanced guitar-playing -- that became one of Anderson's trademarks -- is arguably more pronounced on these recordings as well. Again, "John Henry" displays the picking and strumming techniques that give his decidedly un-amplified vintage Martin acoustic guitar such a full resonance that it practically sounds electric. The instrumental introduction to "Betty and Dupree" exemplifies the walking blues or stride motif particularly evident and notable among Piedmont blues artists. Enthusiasts should also note that in addition to these latter recordings, Anderson also performed on four tracks with his mentor Simmie Dooley in the late '20s for Columbia Records. Those pieces can be found on the compilation Georgia String Bands (1928-1930). Anderson actively toured until a debilitating stroke forced him to retire in 1964.

Pink Anderson Vol. 3: Ballad & Folksinger



• Various - Ragtime Blues Guitar 1927 - 1930
• Baby Tate - See What You Done Done

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

The Chicago Kingsnakes - Grassroots

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Musicking
Released: 2003
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 88,0 MB
Time: 38:25
Art: front

1. Downtown Train - 2:46
2. Best Friend Blues - 5:12
3. Goodbye Louise - 3:08
4. Chili Con Queso - 5:07
5. Wolf In Sheep's Clothes - 4:25
6. I Remember - 5:10
7. One Turns Into Two - 4:57
8. Morning Booze Flu - 4:25
9. Tonti Train Wreck - 3:11

Personnel:
James 'Ang' Anderson - guitar, vocals
Ron Berry - bass
Nelson Keaton - harmonica
Tom King - percussions

Notes: The Chicago Kingsnakes Grass Roots Music King (2003) 60654 Recommended. This has all the elements of a Southern afternoon front porch jam and party with everything but the sound of friends whooping it up while dancing around the yard. The Chicago Kingsnakes may not be known far outside of their territory, but their latest, Grass Roots, is a follow-up to Blues Island and another winner. Consisting of James Anderson's superb guitar work and potent vocals, Nelson Keaton's solid harp, and Ron Berry's bass along with Tom King's uncluttered drumming, this stripped-back. all-acoustic affair is without a blemish (unless you consider the short playing time). Anderson dishes out fine work, whether on his National, Gibson, or Supro, and vocally, he's got a relaxing style. The Delta feel of Wolf In Sheep's Clothes is stunning while the instrumental, Chili Con Queso, works off a romping Latin groove, and Berry's Morning Booze Flu is a stark reminder to the after effects of a bit too much of the night before. Whether the hand-clapping fun of Downtown Train or the backwoods dirt of Best Friend Blues, this unplugged gem has plenty for fans of acoustic blues and roots music. (Blues On Stage - Review Date April 2004, by Craig Ruskey) Read more

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• Les Blouzayeurs - Blues De La!
• Molten Mike - Genuine Bluesman

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, The Chicago Kingsnakes

Nico Wayne Toussaint & Michel Foizon - On The Go

Size: 92,2 MB
Time: 39:16
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues
Label: Gaztelupeko Hotsak
Art: Front

01. Go On Greyhound (3:56)
02. Don't Let Nobody Bring You Down (2:19)
03. Give Me Back The Key (2:44)
04. How Long To Heal (4:17)
05. Burning Light (3:07)
06. Lonely Number (3:14)
07. Shining Through (3:10)
08. You Can Leave Your Hat On (3:23)
09. Saint James Infirmary (4:05)
10. Alberta (3:01)
11. Can't You Tell (3:33)
12. When Will It Be (2:22)

Our French-American harp player and showman Nico Wayne Toussaint just realesed a damn roots and cracking bones blues with his pal Michel Foizon, a fantastic and very fine french guitarist. Both of them are inviting us in the deep south for a journey in the real big country and under a real "blue" sky… Harp playing, great singing, blue guitars and footstomping are the elements you'll find in this superb moment recorded in Miami by those great musicians!

On The Go



• Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - Dislocation Blues •
• Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night •

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Oznake: Nico Wayne Toussaint, Michel Foizon, Acoustic Blues

Pink Anderson - Pink Anderson Vol. 2: Medicine Show Man

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Prewar Country Blues, Piedmont Blues
Recorded: 1961
Released: 1962/1999
Label: Prestige/Bluesville
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 85.5 MB
Time: 39:34
Art: Front

1. I Got Mine - 4:05
2. Greasy Greens - 4:43
3. I Got A Woman 'Way Cross Town - 3:06
4. Travelin' Man - 4:40
5. Ain't Nobody Home But Me - 4:19
6. That's No Way To Do - 2:36
7. In The Jailhouse Now - 4:41
8. South Forest Boogie - 4:04
9. Chicken - 4:18
10. I'm Going To Walk Through The Streets Of The City - 2:58

Notes:Like volume one and three of the series of LP's Anderson did for Bluesville, this was recorded in 1961 (though it was recorded in New York City whereas the others were recorded in Spartanburg, SC). Volumes one and three were mostly traditional songs; this is all traditional songs in the public domain. It follows that if you liked volumes one and three, you'd probably like this too; if you want to choose just one, you're about as well off with any of the individual volumes. If you had to split hairs, it seems that Anderson sounds a bit more comfortable in the studio/recording setting on this one than on the others, and a tad less countrified and more urbane. The tone is cheerful and easygoing, like that of a well-loved man entertaining his neighbors. Which is not to say this is a throwaway; the phrasing and rhythms are crisp, and the ragtime-speckled folk/blues guitar accomplished. ~ Richie Unterberger

Pink Anderson Vol. 2: Medicine Show Man



• Lonnie Johnson - Blues Roots, Vol. 8: Swingin' With Lonnie
• Baby Tate - See What You Done Done

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

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

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

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

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

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



• John Henry Barbee - I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton
• 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



• Colin James - National Steel
• 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
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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)
Read more

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

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

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



• Shari's 3 A.M. Sessions & The Nite Owls- Late Nite Specials •
• The Blues Preachers - Next Stop Beulah Land •

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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



• Various - Back Porch Blues [King Snake]
• Harrison Kennedy - Shame The Devil

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Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Richard Ray Farrell, Steve Guyger

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - News From The Corner Store

Styles: Country Blues, Acoustic Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues
Released: 1994
Label: Time & Strike
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 115,0 MB
Time: 50:15
Art: full

1. Georgia 12 String - 3:43
2. Long Winter Blues - 3:11
3. Step by Step - 3:02
4. Lily on Horseback - 1:20
5. News from the Corner Store - 2:50
6. SMall Talk - 3:18
7. Hard Times - 3:42
8. Dawn - 2:06
9. Shake It On Down - 4:19
10. The Rooster - 3:54
11. Education - 4:23
12. Whitingham Revisited - 2:34
13. God Don't Like It - 3:04
14. Gonna Go With Jesus - 3:11
15. Bullrush Blues - 3:11
16. G.K.'s Teetotaler's Blooze - 2:20

Notes: Michael Hakanson-Stacy has surely spent a lot of time playing music. From high school bands to his solo work, he has done his share of picking and sliding. His latest album is entitled "Two Bit Blues." What's unusual about this one is that he plays everything! From a truckload of resonator guitars to various mandolins, electric guitars and harmonica, this one is all him.
Many are updated versions of crowd favorites and some are brand spanking new like the title track and others. This one comes in a cardboard, factory sealed sleeve (eco-friendly) and notes on the songs are available upon request. We hope you like it real nice! Be sure to book Michael for a rootsy concert in your neighborhood. He's produced 27 projects for the Time & Strike label, many before roots music was cool.

News From The Corner Store



• Eugene Powell - Blues At Home 3
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Oznake: Michael Hakanson-Stacy, Country Blues, Acoustic Blues

Paul Jones & Dave Kelly - Live in London

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Carinco
Released: 2011
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 143,5 MB
Time: 62:40
Art: front

1. Drop Down Mama - 4:51
2. Come On In My Kitchen - 4:05
3. Room And Board - 3:16
4. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - 4:54
5. Key To The Highway - 4:23
6. I Can't Be Satisfied - 4:12
7. When The Leevee Breaks - 4:22
8. Noah Lewis Blues - 3:45
9. Come Back Baby - 4:05
10. Sonny Boy Williamson - 3:48
11. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live - 5:13
12. Workin' - 3:07
13. I Feel So Good - 3:55
14. Resting On Jesus - 4:14
15. You Got Me Running - 4:23

Personnel:
Paul Jones (born Paul Pond, 24 February 1942, Portsmouth, England) is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, and radio personality and television presenter.

David '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, The Blues Band, and his own Dave Kelly Band.
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.

Live in London



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• In loving memory of Jo Ann Kelly

Oznake: Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Acoustic Blues

Dry River - Lost In The World

Size: 86,2 MB
Time: 36:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Harmonica Blues
Label: Dry River
Art: Front

01. Lost In The World (3:30)
02. I Got A Thing (3:32)
03. Death Comes Knocking (5:24)
04. Breakfast (2:38)
05. Lay Down And Die (4:46)
06. Shine Your Light On Me (3:19)
07. Tryin' (2:36)
08. Free Man (3:41)
09. Lightning Rod (1:49)
10. Lovesick Blues (5:03)

Dry River is a guitar-harmonica duo from Southern California, featuring Oliver Althoen on guitar and vocals, and Dave Scriven on harmonica. "Lost in the World" is their first effort together. All the songs on this album are originals, composed by Oliver. The style ranges from blues to folk and country; and the mood goes from brooding and desperate to exuberant, and ultimately to transcendent.

Lost In The World



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Oznake: Dry River, Harmonica Blues, Acoustic Blues

Eddie Lee Jones And Family - Yonder Go That Old Black Dog

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Testament
Released: 1995
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 88,5 MB
Time: 38:41
Art: full

1. Yonder Go That Old Black Dog - 2:15
2. Baby, Please Don't Go - 1:56
3. She's Mine, She's Yours - 3:55
4. Oh Graveyard, You Can't Hold Me Always - 1:56
5. You're Gonna Need My Help Someday - 2:23
6. Slide Instrumental - 1:20
7. Stop And Listen - 2:52
8. I May Never See You Anymore - 2:29
9. I Got A Yellow Gal - 1:59
10. John Henry - 4:31
11. I Won't Be Troubled No More - 2:49
12. I'm Talking 'Bout You - 1:26
13. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - 3:06
14. Instrumental - 1:37
15. Let That Liar Alone - 1:44
16. Which Way Does The Blood Red River Flow - 2:15

Notes: In 1965 folklorist Bill Koon was out for a walk near Lexington, GA, when he happened across Eddie Lee "Mustright" Jones playing guitar on a porch. Intrigued, Koon walked up and introduced himself, quickly realizing that Jones' archaic song repertoire, which bounced between old black spirituals, early blues, and interpretations of fiddle dance tunes, was something special. He returned with a reel-to-reel recorder and taped several hours of Jones singing and playing, often with interjections and unsolicited vocals from Jones' family and friends. The results were released on Pete Welding's Testament label. Little else is known about Jones, but his music has a wonderful, ragged charm.

Yonder Go That Old Black Dog is a very special album, perhaps more important for the atmosphere it sets than for the quality of the actual recordings. Compiled by folklorist Bill Koon from field recordings he made after encountering Eddie Lee "Mustright" Jones playing guitar on a porch in Lexington, GA, in 1965, the album has the feel of an early 19th century African-American singalong, with Jones' family and friends adding spoken interjections and impromptu background vocals to whatever Jones is singing. The material isn't blues as such, although Jones' guitar playing and slide work definitely has a bluesy tone to it, but tends to drift closer to folk spirituals and guitar renditions of fiddle dance tunes. Nothing here is slick or polished, but the easy, communal intimacy of hearing Jones and his family tackle "Yonder Go That Old Black Dog," "I May Never See You Anymore," "I'm Talking 'Bout You," "Let That Liar Alone," the blues spiritual "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning," and the folk chestnut "John Henry" makes this a valuable document of how families entertained themselves before radio, television, and computers came along to alter everything. Insular, gentle, amateur, and endearing, Yonder Go That Old Black Dog is a fascinating album, intended mostly for music scholars, but with an undeniable charm that should appeal to the casual listener.

Yonder Go That Old Black Dog



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Oznake: Eddie Lee Jones, Acoustic Blues

Braithwaite & Whiteley - Sugar & Gold

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 39:41
Size: 90.9 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[4:33] 1. Freedom Train
[5:19] 2. Sugar And Gold
[3:55] 3. Children Go Where I Send Thee
[3:44] 4. Woke Up This Morning
[3:33] 5. Mary Ann Shadd
[3:03] 6. The Ballad Of Alexander Milton Ross
[1:31] 7. Pioneer Medley
[3:15] 8. The Road Is Long
[3:35] 9. By The Shores Of Lake Huron
[2:16] 10. Woke Up This Morning (Reprise)
[4:52] 11. Go Down Moses

Diana Braithwaite's personal history as the direct descendant of American Blacks that were able to escape to freedom in Canada through the Underground Railroad lead to the creation of a multimedia musical history workshop that Braithwaite and Whiteley have taken to primary and middle schools across North America. This Underground Railroad workshop has been performed over 5 years to more than 60,000 students and community groups across the country.

Braithwaite was dubbed a "national treasure" by Bluz FM radio host Danny Marks. Toronto born and raised, her ancestors traveled to Canada from Virginia, via the Underground Railroad. A gifted and captivating performer, Diana was chosen by Sarah McLachlan to open Lilith Fair at the Molson Amphitheatre, before 18,000 people, Her talent, and authentic blues shows have led her into the company of such stalwarts as Mel Brown, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker and Jeff Healey. Appearances at shows in North America, U.K. and Europe led to her reputation as a world-class blues singer.

Kansas born Whiteley moved with his family to Toronto, where as a teen-age performer he met blues legend Lonnie Johnson, who taught and encouraged him. During the late 70's he toured and recorded with Leon Redbone, appearing with him on Saturday Night Live. He also met a great mentor in legendary Chicago piano player Blind John Davis, who had been the house piano player at Bluebird Records, Whiteley toured and recorded with Davis, as well as building a solid reputation as a multi-instrumental session player, appearing on over 200 recordings, and as a solo artist, leading to numerous Canadian Maple Blues Awards as both songwriter and horn player of the year, and a Jazz Report Magazine Blues Album of the Year Award. In 2010 Whiteley was awarded the prestigious BLUES WITH A FEELING AWARD, for lifetime achievement in the blues.

Together, Braithwaite and Whiteley continue to expand their horizons, and please audiences young and old.

Sugar & Gold

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Oznake: Braithwaite & Whiteley, Acoustic Blues

46 Long - Time's Right

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 54:03
Size: 123.8 MB
Styles: Acoustic/electric blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[ 3:26] 1. Time's Right
[ 3:19] 2. Aberdeen
[ 3:59] 3. My Baby's Away
[ 6:37] 4. Drop Down Mama
[ 4:41] 5. East 13
[ 3:03] 6. Shame On Me
[ 5:32] 7. Death Letter
[ 3:43] 8. Midnight Special
[ 5:09] 9. Put A Spell On You
[ 4:05] 10. Arzikin Wuta
[10:22] 11. Music For Murder

46 Long (Jonathan Reynolds – Guitar/Vocals, and Blake Taylor - Harmonica / Vocals) has been supplying the greater Cincinnati area with high-energy semi-acoustic Blues since the spring of 2001. The duo released "Savor Every Second" in January 2003 to critical acclaim and eventually went on to be nominated for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award (CEA) for Best Blues 2003.

Once dubbed "the finest dancing White Boy in all of Boston" by Luther Guitar Junior Johnson, Jonathan's musical roots trace mainly to Knoxville where he played with Defenders of the Faith, the late Sarah Jordan's "Jordan Project," and hosted the regionally famous Sassy Ann's Blue Jam. He also spent several years playing guitar (among other things) in West Africa. Blake, a native New Yorker, left his classical voice and piano training behind to play Rock and Blues for tipsy dancing babes in late-night smoky clubs. Nice work if you can get it. Along the way Blake has fronted Smokestack Lightning in northern England, Blues Cult in Cincinnati, and various other "hired harp" work along the way, most recently with Blues goddesses Mary Ann Kindel and Cheryl Renee, as well as with Jon Justice. Blake has also flirted with rock stardom by sitting in with Jason Ricci and with Spoon.

"Time's Right" represents four years of loving, careful, and sometimes agonizingly slow work. We’re confident that you don’t have anything quite like it in your record collection. We sure don’t. Sure, there are other guitar/harp Blues duos out there, but somewhere since our beginnings in 2001 as an acoustic Blues group, we’ve become something different. We hope you like it. We may be over-educated middle class white boys, but somewhere along the line we learned to throw down anyway. Come on out - just give us a shot... if we don't deliver, we'll buy you a beer.

Oh, and the name? Put it this way, at 6'3" and 215 lbs, Blake is the little one.

Time's Right

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Oznake: 46 Long, Acoustic Blues

Half Deaf Clatch - A Road Less Travelled

Size: 94,7 MB
Time: 40:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Half Deaf Clatch
Art: Front

01. Hard Times Just Got Harder (4:15)
02. A Road Less Travelled (4:44)
03. It Ain't About The Money (3:13)
04. A Place To Stay (3:26)
05. Summer Moon (3:46)
06. Can't Do Right (For Doing Wrong) (4:52)
07. Counting Kisses (4:17)
08. Seeing Red (3:58)
09. Roja Blue (3:45)
10. Your Choice (4:36)

I’ve known Andrew – “Half Deaf Clatch” for a while now, have seen him perform several times and we’ve even played on the same bill together. And every time he performs, he grabs the audience, who cannot help but be transfixed by his passionate vocals, his foot stomping butcher’s block and his haunting slide guitar playing.

I know the Blues are meant to be moody, but man, is this collection of songs moody!? And here the emphasis is on the songs, rather than Clatch’s trademark sound. Sure, the songs feature resonators with slide – and Clatch’s Butcher Block stomper is definitely in attendance, but it is the words and themes of the songs that impress here – I particularly like the way that Clatch’s baritone voice sounds right at home in this collection.

Hard Times Just Got Harder kicks this collection off, and for fans of Clatch we have the trademark sounds straight away; stomping feet and slide guitars back up a mournful take of a song steeped in blues tradition – with Clatch in unison on the chorus. The mood is set for the rest of the album right here – “Beg Borrow Steal, to get where you want to be”

Title track A Road Less Travelled continues the feeling of despair that hangs over this collection – “Sold up the river, shiny pennies for your dreams” “Darkness is falling – the end is drawing near” – familiar blues themes, but with a slight wisp of hope that might be found by taking “The Road Less Travelled”.

It Ain’t About The Money is where Clatch seems to set out his raison d’etre for playing the blues – “it’s all about the music, fame will come and go, it’s gonna be alright now, cos the blues is what you know” A low tuned resonator and butcher block stomper drive this song which, like any of the songs in this collection, could have been written anytime in the past 100 years. Keep on slidin’ and doin’ what you do Clatch!

A Place To Stay features banjo as well as Clatch’s usual resonator and butcher’s block stomper. And we have Clatch singing with himself too. A mournful, minor key plea for escape from day to day drudgery.

Summer Moon – a reflective piece about the end of a summer’s day “I’m down with the setting sun”

Can’t Do Right (For Doing Wrong) has a feeling of resignation that “try as you might, you can’t do right for doing wrong” – but there is a slight hint of hope “you won’t know until you take that chance”

Counting Kisses – here we have a Clatch chorus filling out the “yeah yeah” of the chorus and call and response slide guitar and vocals, and the uptempo stomping bring a sense of urgency to this song “don’t be late, no time to wait”

Seeing Red – and yet, amongst all of this gloom and doom, here we have a love song! Red is Clatch’s partner, manager and, most importantly, his muse for these blues. I can imagine that Red’s face will blush to match the colour of her hair when Clatch sings this song: ”Seeing Red I lose my head, she makes me feel insane!”

Roja Blue is a mournful instrumental that adds to the overall mood of this collection – simple, but very effective.

Your Choice with the vintage sound of crackling lets us know the origin of these blues, but Clatch’s arrangements are timeless here and are very current, as strange as that may seem for such a primitive sound.

Clatch has released several albums and e.p. collections, and has given away almost as much music as he has sold, but this collection shows the maturity that he has gained over the last couple of years – it deserves a place in any blues collection, on any blues radio show, and on the bill of any blues festival worthy of the name – a serious contender for Album Of The Year. ~Review by aycliffevillage

A Road Less Travelled



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Oznake: Half Deaf Clatch, Acoustic Blues, UK

Robbin Thompson - One Step Ahead Of The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 46:25
Size: 106.3 MB
Styles: Roots, Electric/acoustic blues/rock
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[4:53] 1. It's Hit The Fan
[4:38] 2. A Little Taste
[4:44] 3. One Step Ahead Of The Blues
[4:29] 4. Orange Moon
[5:05] 5. Wouldn't Wanna Be You
[5:01] 6. Get Together
[4:49] 7. Cheapeake Moon
[2:28] 8. That Old Country Song
[4:53] 9. You Can't Do That
[5:20] 10. Train Song

Robbin Thompson has a unique claim to history. He was one of the only performers to ever actually sing in front of Bruce Springsteen. That was in the early '70's when he was lead singer in an early Springsteen group called Steel Mill. Thompson's career and noteworthiness, however, extend far beyond those roots. In the years since, he has released 8 albums, won THE AMERICAN SONG FESTIVAL twice, written songs with EAGLES bassist Timothy B. Schmit, and established himself as a gifted performer, songwriter, and studio vocalist. He is also an Equity actor.

Currently, Robbin is the Vice President and co-founder of IN YOUR EAR MUSIC AND RECORDING SERVICES in Richmond, Virginia. A company that writes and produces music for commercials and films. ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE BLUES includes songs with backing vocals by TIMOTHY B. SCHMIT OF THE EAGLES, performances by DAVE MATTHEWS BAND keyboardist BUTCH TAYLOR and a song called ORANGE MOON that was recorded in SHANGHAI CHINA featuring traditional chinese instruments. Also included is a previously unreleased song by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN called TRAIN SONG.

One Step Ahead Of The Blues

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Oznake: Robbin Thompson, Roots, Acoustic Blues

Sam Chatmon - Blues When It Rains

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues
Released: 1977/2006
Label: Albatros
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 69,7 MB
Time: 30:27
Art: full Lp + Cd

1. St. Louis Blues - 2:25
2. That's All Right - 3:41
3. Stoop Down Girl - 3:02
4. Baby Please Come Back To Me - 4:06
5. I'm Foll About Her Loving - 2:07
6. Prowling Ground Dog - 3:22
7. Go Back Old Devil - 2:33
8. Used To Be - 3:08
9. Blues When It Rains - 1:09
10. Good Eating Meat - 3:23
11. Let's get Drunk Again - 2:19

rec. at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale Aug. 6 or 7, 1976

Notes: Sam Chatmon (c. 1899-1983), a celebrated singer and guitarist who spent most of his life in Hollandale, sometimes performed with his brothers in a renowned family string band billed as the Mississippi Sheiks. He embarked on a new solo career after coming out of musical retirement in the 1960s. Many local musicians have performed here on Simmons Street, known as “the Blue Front, ”once one of the most vibrant centers of blues activity in the Delta.
Hollandale Blues history dates back at least to the 1920s, when the Mississippi Sheiks, Sam Chatmon, Bo Chatmon (aka Bo Carter), Eugene Powell, Robert Nighthawk, and Houston Stackhouse performed at local drug stores, cafes, and other businesses, in addition to jukehouse parties and dances on nearby plantations. Most of the Mississippi Sheiks, a popular string band known for their hit recording “Sitting on Top of the World” (1930), were members of the Chatmon family, several of whom moved from their native Hinds County to the Hollandale area around 1928 and worked here as cotton farmers as well as musicians. In later years Sam Chatmon moved into town and took a job as a night watchman, while his brother Bo settled in Anguilla.
After blues enthusiasts began to seek Sam out in the 1960s, he traveled to play concerts and festivals around the country, most often in the San Diego area, and recorded several albums including Hollandale Blues and The Mississippi Sheik. He grew a long beard, as his fiddle-playing father had done, and endeared himself to new audiences who were entertained by his risqué double-entendre songs. In 2009 the city of Hollandale purchased Chatmon’s house at 818 Sherman Street to move it here to “Blue Front,” an area once famed for blues, liquor, and gambling. Chatmon sang about Blue Front in his song “Hollandale Blues,” but told friends he preferred less rowdy surroundings.
Author Kathy Starr, whose grandmother operated the Fair Deal café on Blue Front, wrote in The Soul of Southern Cooking: “Blue Front was a string of little cafes where everybody gathered on the weekend. It was the only place blacks had to go, to get rid of the blues after a week’s hard work in the cotton fields. Everybody lived for Saturday night to go to Blue Front. . . . if you wanted a half-pint or a pint of whiskey or corn liquor, you could get it at Fair Deal because Grandmama and the chief of police had an ‘understanding.’ . . . The Seabirds (Seeburg juke boxes) would be jammin’ all up and down Blue Front with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and B. B. King. Sometimes they would be there in person over at the Day and Night Café. The great blues singer Sam Chatman [sic] came to Fair Deal often. People danced, ate, drank, and partied till the break of day. Saturday night without a fight was not known.”
Among other former Hollandale area residents, Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones went on to the greatest fame in the 1950s after moving to New Orleans. Others include bluesmen William Warren, Willie Harris, Mott Willis, J. D. Short, James Earl “Blue” Franklin, and Joseph C. Moore (“J. C. Rico”); Eugene Powell’s wife Mississippi Matilda; the Buckhanna (Buchanan) Brothers string band; and soul singer Ruby Stackhouse, better known as Ruby Andrews. ~ Mississippi Blues Trail

Blues When It Rains



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Oznake: Sam Chatmon, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues

Ross Neilsen & The Sufferin' Bastards - Live At The Acoustic Grill

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:38
Size: 109.0 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[0:39] 1. Intro
[5:52] 2. Devil Knows You're Dead
[4:08] 3. Afflicted
[8:21] 4. Walk In The Sun
[1:38] 5. Talking
[3:55] 6. Jellybean
[5:15] 7. Don't Need Love
[4:35] 8. Mailman
[2:47] 9. Talking
[5:44] 10. Daddy Taught Me
[4:10] 11. Badlands
[0:26] 12. Call Me Gone

"Live At The Acoustic Grill" is part of the Bands Official Bootleg Series and marks the third such release since 2009, the first being Ross Neilsen And The Sufferin' Bastards "What You Need Vol. 1" (2009) and the second being Ross Neilsen "Alone Vol. 1" (2009). As the name implies, this Album was recorded at The Acoustic Grill in Picton, Ontario, in the Fall of 2009 and like "What You Need Vol. 1", it consists of the full band. I must say that when I realized that this was a Bootleg, I thought I might be in for perhaps a little less then a top notch production, but I was wrong. This one comes across bright and clear with the only noticeable imperfection being the odd off/on approach to a few tracks instead of a more fade out/fade in approach. Other then that microscopic thing this, Album really is a very good production for a Bootleg.

One thing I really noticed on "Live At The Acoustic Grill", was how musically tight everyone was, and I am guessing this comes from the Monster Canadian Tours they have been on over the last few years, with 2011 being no exception with a 60+ date Summer Tour, which started May 26th and runs till September 18th, from coast to coast to coast. With all that touring, there really is no excuse not to have seen Ross Neilsen And The Sufferin' Bastards, at a venue close to you. ~John Vermilyea

Live At The Acoustic Grill

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Shari's 3 A.M. Sessions & The Nite Owls- Late Nite Specials

Size: 133,9 MB
Time: 57:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues
Label: Nite Owl Records
Art: Front & Back

01. You're Gonna Go Away (5:44)
02. Into The Mystic (4:43)
03. Sure (4:49)
04. Come Together (4:58)
05. If I Had Possession Of Judgement Day (6:37)
06. Going Out To Portland (4:29)
07. Little Wing (4:17)
08. Keep Portland Weird (4:39)
09. Fallin' (4:13)
10. Rice And Chicken (3:57)
11. Norwegian Wood (1:57)
12. Nothing Can Change This Love (3:31)
13. Tortillas Beans And Rice (3:10)

Now an all-night restaurant is not really the place you’re going to expect to run into live music.. Especially if it’s well after midnight, more on this side of the crack of dawn. But there amongst the insomniacs, the truck drivers and those that are just up all night type of folks, at various Portland area Shari’s Restaurants, a group of musicians will occasionally pop in, instruments in hand and have a little jam session along with their coffee and pie. Maybe they’re just a bit restless as these usually take place after gigs, or maybe it’s because they’re musicians and working until late at night that they need to go someplace on their nights off, too.

It all started with buddies Chad Rupp and Ryan McKenzie heading down the street from their home late nights with Chad bringing in his guitar, ukulele or harmonica. Ryan had the idea to shoot video on his camera phone, which found their way to YouTube and Facebook. People seemed to be enjoying this short films and other musicians were invited to drop on by until they got to be a tight little grouping of players and Ryan’s phone became more elaborate equipment. And they collected enough prime recordings that the idea to put out a CD came to mind.

Shari’s 3am Sessions: Late Nite Specials features a handful of these friends playing alongside Chad or with others in the group. Guitar players Ben Rice, Josh Makosky and Richard Staats, bassist Calen Uhlig, vocalist Naomi Tatsuoka and keyboardist Bill Heston make up the core. Twelve tracks featuring a handful of originals and favorite covers ranging from songwriters like John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Alicia Keys are offered here.

Tatsuoka soars on her original “Sure,” displaying quite a vocal range, which is also highlighted on The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood” accompanied by tasteful piano from Heston. Rupp gives quite a down in the Bayou type of feel to his take on The Beatles’ “Come Together,” enhanced by resonator guitar by Rice. Makosky proves that he can pen clever lyrics with his originals “Rice and Chicken” that tells the woes of musicians and those reminiscing how things once were, “Going Out To Portland” and “Keep Portland Weird’ that he co-wrote with Mark Didier. That last track also sizzles with Makosky on cigarbox while Richard Staats keeps pace on guitar. Throughout the disc Uhlig is rock solid on his bass lines and Rice’s guitar work is extraordinary. The disc opens and closes with Rice. His original “You’re Gonna Go Away” is quite remindful of the type of music that Sean Costello put out on his last recording and the final track finds Rice doing justice to Sam Cooke. He also plays driving resonator on Robert Johnson’s “If I Had Possesion Of Judgement Day” with Makosky on second guitar, Uhlig on bass and Rupp playing rolling harmonica.

You may have thoughts to what the sound of this album is going to be like having been recorded in a restaurant setting. But you need not worry, McKenzie and the crack sharp duo of Makosky & Staats worked magic in the mixing and you cannot even tell it was done in a public place. There may be an occasional imperfection here or there, but remember this is a live recording and that is bound to happen. But Shari’s 3am Sessions: Late Nite Specials is a very well-produced recording. Once again considering the live setting and the time of night these guys have done a masterful job with bringing it all together. And I’m sure the customers dining in the wee hours probably didn’t mind the entertainment either.

Late Nite Specials



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Oznake: Shari's 3 A.M. Sessions, Nite Owls, Acoustic Blues

Various - Angola Prisoners' Blues

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Early American Blues, Acoustic Louisiana Blues, Blues Revival
Label: Arhoolie
Released: 1952-1958
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 180,9 MB
Time: 78:58
Art: front

1. Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams
2. Stagolee - Hogman Maxey
3. Electric Chair Blues - Guitar Welch
4. Black Night Is Fallin' - Hogman Maxey
5. Some Got Six Months - Robert Pete Williams
6. I'm Gonna Leave You Mama - Guitar Welch
7. I'm Lonesome Blues - Robert Pete Williams
8. Angola Bound - A Capella Group
9. Worried Blues - Hogman Maxey
10. Josephine - Guitar Welch
11. Soldier's Plea - Clara Young
12. Moon Is Rising, The - Odea Mathews
13. I'm Still In Love With You - Thelma Mae Joseph
14. I Miss You So - Vocal Group
15. Hello, Sue - Butterbeans
16. Fast Life Woman - Hogman Maxey
17. Careless Love - Otis Webster
18. Have You Ever Heard The Church Bells Tone - Roosevelt Charles/Otis Webster
19. 61 Highway - Guitar Welch
20. Strike At Camp I - Roosevelt Charles


Notes: Among the 3800 convicts in the desolate flatland of the prison farm at Angola, Louisiana, there were a surprising number of talented performers. Several of them were recorded and interviewed by folklorist Dr. Harry Oster between 1952 and 1960, and some of this material was originally issued on his Folklyric label. These are raw, powerful, largely improvised personal blues stories, as well as traditional songs. This CD features many previously unreleased items including the haunting monologue from Roosevelt Charles which ends the record, as well as unreleased tracks by women singers Odea Mathews, Clara Young and Thelma Mae Joseph.
All previously unreleased, except 1 - 7 which were on Arhoolie LP 2011

Blues doesn't get more authentic than this.... Odea Mathews echoes Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey in a surprisingly delicate voice while her sewing machine keeps time. Thelma Mae Joseph brings a bleak, desolate quality to her warbling of the pop tune 'Since I Fell for You' while the prison laundry machines rumble away behind her. But the star of the stunning set is unquestionably murderer Robert Pete Williams. This disc starts with his 'Prisoner's Talking Blues,' a rambling rumination on the state of his health and the deprivation of his family. Williams lightly strums Oster's guitar under this grim, unself-conscious monologue, climaxed by his breaking into sullen song: 'Sometimes I feel like committing suicide.
(Joel Selvin — San Francisco Chronicle)

Angola Prisoners' Blues



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John Crampton - Blues Plus

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Released: 2008
Label: Independent
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 110.7 MB
Time: 48:22
Art: front + back

1. Micklepage Stomp - 5:32
2. Do The Do - 2:28
3. Little Red Rooster - 3:58
4. Maxies Gargle - 3:06
5. Stone Dead - 5:07
6. Leaving Day - 3:39
7. Skin 'n' Bone - 5:43
8. Spoonfull - 3:50
9. Just A Feeling - 4:06
10. Train I Ride - 3:14
11. No Shoes - 4:41
12. So Shy - 2:55

Oznake: John Crampton, Acoustic Blues, England

Amos Garrett - Acoustic Album

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Stony Plain
Released: 2004
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 92,9 MB
Time: 40:34
Art: front

1. She Don't Go Nowhere (till the stars come out at night) - 2:34
2. Sam's Song - 5:04
3. Perfume and Tobacco - 4:06
4. Judgement Day - 3:16
5. Hong Kong Blues - 2:55
6. Michigan Water Blues - 3:08
7. I Hate Myself - 3:08
8. Bailey Hill Requiem - 2:45
9. Always Got Your Hands on That Guitar - 3:28
10. Grasshoppers in My Pillow - 3:03
11. Small Fry - 3:20
12. Some Musician Was to Blame - 3:43


Notes: In his career, guitarist/singer Amos Garrett has played country, folk, rock & roll, jug music, and some jazz. Born in Detroit, he has primarily worked in Canada, being a busy studio guitarist in addition to having his own solo projects. Acoustic Album lives up to its name, featuring Garrett on a variety of good-time music that includes some swing (including a couple Hoagy Carmichael tunes), country, folk, and roots music. Garrett's easygoing and warm baritone voice, friendly style, and fluent guitar picking make Acoustic Album a delightful set, one well worth savoring. ~Scott Yanow

Acoustic Album



• Big Joe Williams - Walking Blues •
• David Graybeard - One More Shot Of The Blues •

Oznake: Amos Garrett, Acoustic Blues

Markus James - Where You Wanna Be

Styles: African-West, New Acoustic, Acoustic Blues
Label: Firenze Records
Released: 2001
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 85,0 MB
Time: 37:07
Art: front

1. Desert Flower - 4:24
2. Where You Wanna Be - 3:37
3. Way To Go - 4:52
4. In The Sun - 3:59
5. Cross The River - 3:27
6. Some Things(You Never Shake) - 6:00
7. Sunlight And Zero - 3:35
8. Oh My - 3:29
9. Endless - 3:40


Notes: Markus James is originally from Virginia and the DC area, where his first musical memory, from the age of four, is of a blind blues singer he saw many times playing on a sidewalk. Markus first encountered West African stringed music at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival when he was mesmerized by the Gambian Kora player and singer, Alhaji Bai Konte. After playing in various rock and R&B groups, Markus moved to the SF Bay Area where he pursued his interests in African, Indian, and Gamelan music, while also writing and recording original music in various rock styles. He travelled in West Africa and also Haiti, studying traditional ensemble drumming, before first visiting Mali in 1994, when he made his way to the village of Niafounke to meet Ali Farka Toure. It was then that he first recorded with Wassoulou musician Solo Sidibe, and this became the "where you wanna be" album, released 6 years later. He has produced several programs for PRI's Afropop Worldwide, notably "Ali Farka Toure: Live From Niafounke". Markus has returned to Mali many times, where he has written and recorded blues-influenced music with traditional Malian musicians, notably his 2002 release "nightbird", which has been warmly received by critics in the US and Europe.
His collaborations in Timbuktu with Hamma Sankare (Calabash player on Ali Farka Toure's tours and albums), Hassi Sare (master of the one-stringed Njarka violin), and Solo Sidibe (who plays the Kamele N'Goni, the hunter's harp of the Wassoulou people) are the subject of the documentary film and upcoming CD / DVD release "Timbuktoubab". This group has performed at the Festival In The Desert in 2003 and 2004, as well as in Timbuktu and other towns and villages in Northern Mali.
In the US, Markus tours with a group featuring Wassoulou musician Mamadou Sidibe. They have performed on numerous radio shows, including PRI / BBC's "The World", at festivals, and in clubs, and have an album due in early 2005.

Where You Wanna Be



• Markus James - Snakeskin Violin •
• Habib Koité & Eric Bibb - Brothers in Bamako •

Oznake: Markus James, African-West, New Acoustic, Acoustic Blues

BabaJack - Exercising Demons

Styles: Acoustic Blues, British Folk, Traditional Folk
Label: Independent
Released: 2010
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 118,8 MB
Time: 51:53
Art: full

1. Big Man Blues - 4:22
2. Sweet Jelly Love - 5:00
3. Going Down - 5:17
4. Parade - 4:49
5. Big Summer Rising - 5:02
6. Dog Tired - 4:41
7. The Last Train - 3:50
8. Religion - 6:21
9. I Walk on Diamonds - 4:05
10. The Well Song - 8:20


Notes: This is a CD that is going to grab you by the shoulders and shake you around for a bit, resettling your mind into a new locale on a wide-open range. It can seem serene and be flowing smoothly and in a blink erupt with a power and energy you never saw sneaking up on you. It is folky and then goes to almost violent tribal rhythms that display the sheer power of the music being generated. There are gypsy rhythms intertwined with African beats, drone, blues, and folk music. BabaJack is comprised of Trevor Steger on acoustic Dobro and wine box guitars, harmonica and vocals; Becky Tate vocals, drum, and stomp, with Aron Attwood on drums, bass, percussion and vocals (he also produced the disc) and they are joined by about five of their cohorts on various tracks on various instruments. The songs they unleash on the unsuspecting—they did write all of them—are well written and show the versatility of this group with their friends.
The singing, mostly done by Becky, is always full of emotion and very evocative and expressive. Though her voice comes very close to the level of surrender to the song, it is the musical rhythms that carry them. It is as much as what they don't play, the spaces they create and don't play into, as what they do play that creates the tension in the songs. Becky's voice has a gritty edge to it that gives it added texture along with Trevor's percussive guitar playing, particularly when he is using his slide. Though it might sound as if it could be hibildy gibbery it is a very cohesive disc that earns repeated listenings with its musicianship.

Exercising Demons



• Babajack - The Maker •
• Moreland, Arbuckle & Floyd - Floyd's Market •

Oznake: Babajack, Acoustic Blues, British Folk, Traditional Folk

Eden & John's East River String Band - Drunken Barrel House Blues

Styles: String Band, Acoustic Blues
Label: East River Records
Released: 2009
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 97,8 MB
Time: 42:42
Art: front

1. Drunken Barrel House Blues - 3:32
2. The Rain Don't Fall On Me - 3:40
3. Johnson Boys - 2:58
4. The Fate of Talmadge Osborne - 3:02
5. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues - 3:34
6. Last Kind Words Blues - 3:31
7. Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight - 3:13
8. I Wish I Were A Mole In the Ground - 2:43
9. Yellow Bee - 3:16
10. Too Tight Blues - 3:26
11. Corrina Blues - 3:18
12. Devilish Mary - 3:02
13. The Spasm - 3:21


Notes: Eden and John's East River String Band are white city folk - singer/ukulele player Eden Brower and singer/guitarist John Heneghan from New York's East Village - who cover black country blues from the 78-rpm era with crisp fervor and a natural flair that suggests loving study and a respect for the hard lives and fight for joy on the original records. ~David Fricke, Rolling Stone

The 3rd release from the New York City based duo Eden & John's East River String Band (Eden Brower - vocals, ukulele and guitar/John Heneghan - vocals, guitar,mandolin and kazoo). It features their 2nd cover by underground comic legend Robert Crumb (The Book Of Genesis, Heroes Of The Blues, American Splendor). This record includes performances from special guests Dom Flemons (The Carolina Chocolate Drops), Eli Smith (Down Home Radio Show, The Dust Busters) and Pat Conte ( The Otis Brothers, The Secret Museum Of Mankind). Their previous CD/LP release "Some Cold Rainy Day also featured a cover by R. Crumb and received critical acclaim which led to tours of the U.S. and Europe. "Drunken Barrel House Blues" features classic Country and Blues masterpieces by legends such as Charlie Patton, Memphis Minnie and Ernest V. Stoneman.

Drunken Barrel House Blues



• Eden & John's East River String Band - Take A Look At That Baby •
• Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show •

Oznake: Eden & John's East River String Band, String Band, Acoustic Blues

Various - Classic Appalachian Blues From Smithsonian Folkways

Styles: Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues, Folk-Blues Folk
Label: Folkways
Released: 2010
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 152,0 MB
Time: 66:23
Art: full

1. Sticks McGhee - My Baby's Gone - 3:45
2. Big Chief Ellis with Cephas and Wiggins - Louise Blues - 5:14
3. Doc Watson - Sitting on Top of the World - 2:57
4. John Jackson - Railroad Bill - 3:34
5. Bill Williams - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - 2:15
6. Pink Anderson - You Don't Know My Mind - 2:35
7. J. C. Burris - Blues Around My Bed - 2:54
8. Reverend Gary Davis - Hesitation Blues - 3:15
9. Brownie McGhee - Pawn Shop Blues - 3:01
10. Archie Edwards - The Road is Rough and Rocky - 3:23
11. Carl Martin, Ted Bogan and Tommy Armstrong - Hoodoo Blues - 5:13
12. Lesley Riddle - Red River Blues - 2:04
13. Sam Jackson - Walking Cane Peg Leg - 2:30
14. Etta Baker - One Dime Blues - 3:43
15. Roscoe Holcomb - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - 2:13
16. Josh White - Outskirts of Town - 3:02
17. Baby Tate - See What You Done Done - 2:31
18. Marvin and Turner Foddrell - I Got a Woman - 2:50
19. John Tinsley - Girl Dressed in Green - 1:56
20. E.C. Ball - Blues in the Morning - 3:36
21. Sticks McGhee - Wine Blues (Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee) - 3:42


Credits

Notes: The "mountain cousin" of the Delta blues, Appalachian blues bears the stamp of a distinctive regional blend of European and African styles and sounds born at the cultural crossroads of railroad camps, mines, and rural settlements. Drawn from deep within the Folkways collection and from historic live recordings at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the music of bedrock blues performers such as Pink Anderson, Lesley Riddle, Etta Baker, John Jackson, and Doc Watson shines bright, claiming Appalachia as a key cradle of American acoustic blues. 21 tracks, 66 minutes, 40-page booklet.
This is the 18th release overall and the fourth blues release in the Classic series from Smithsonian Folkways. Click here to learn more about this enjoyable introduction to the diverse repertoire of American music.

Classic Appalachian Blues From Smithsonian Folkways



• Brian Blain - New Folk Blues •
• Shawn James - Shadows •

Oznake: Various, Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues, Folk-Blues, folk

Various - Back Porch Blues [King Snake]

Styles: Contemporary Blues, Acoustic Blues, Swamp Blues, Acoustic Harmonica Blues
Released: Jun 3, 1997
Label: King Snake
File: mp3 @320kbps
Size: 115 MB
Time: 48:57

1. Sugar Mama Blues performed by Bob Nelson
2. Arthritis performed by Floyd Miles
3. Standing in the Fire performed by Bill Wharton
4. Credit Card Blues performed by Smokehouse
5. Dead Cat Luck performed by Eric Culberson
6. Head in the Bottle performed by Ace Moreland
7. Whole Lotta Ash performed by Troy Turner
8. Flyright performed by Mark Hodgson
9. Short Hair Woman performed by Bob Nelson
10. Way off in That Jazz performed by Jeff Howell
11. Cocky Rooster performed by Floyd Miles
12. Screamin' Woman performed by Bill Wharton
13. Them Jelly Blues performed by Smokehouse
14. Big Foot Woman performed by Mark Hodgson
15. Gates of Hell performed by Ace Moreland

Notes: Great find if you can get it because it is a lot of rare songs on it that's just beautiful to hear haven't seen in 20 years ago and it still is important today as it was then totally awesome everybody should have it.

Back Porch Blues



• Kat Danser - Baptized By The Mud •
• Mountain Men - Hope •

Oznake: Various, Contemporary Blues, Acoustic Blues, Swamp Blues, Harmonica Blues

Dean Haitani - Guitar And Harmonica Blues (feat. Kenny Sutherland)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:34
Size: 111.2 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, Harmonica blues, Roots
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[5:52] 1. Strong Persuader
[4:07] 2. A Letter From Nashville
[5:21] 3. Muddy Waters
[5:07] 4. Kenny's Bag
[7:49] 5. The House Of The Rising Sun
[4:07] 6. Time
[4:06] 7. Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms
[5:10] 8. Multiply
[4:05] 9. Starting Time
[2:45] 10. Isn't She Lovely


Australian Dean Haitani's first introduction to blues music and a big influence on Dean’s blues guitar style was B.B. King’s “Live In Cook County” Album. Practicing 10 hours a day, Dean submerged himself in B.B. and any other music he could get his hands on. Major music influences include: Mark Knofler, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tommy Emmanuel, Albert Collins, Johnny Winter, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Billy Joel, Les Paul, Charlie Christian, Miles Davis, George Benson, The Gypsie Kings and The Bondi Cigars.

Dean’s solo acoustic shows comprise of foot percussion, a variety of guitars (plus octave, delay, distortion, phaser & wah effects), vocals & harmonica. Dean’s band shows range from raw 3 piece to full band (Keys, backup vocals, horn sections). Stylistically, Dean’s music is Roots Music (a melting pot of funky rhythms, jazzy influenced progressions, folk subtleties, country flavours & blues grit.) His music is contemporary, forever pushing the musical envelope, his tasteful, original songs are stories are from the heart & mind, with compassion for humanity. “I always try to look at the world in a positive way with all it’s marvels and flaws”, he says.

Guitar And Harmonica Blues

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Oznake: australia, Dean Haitani, Kenny Sutherland, Acoustic Blues, Harmonica Blues, Roots

Bjorn Berge & Jan Flaaten - Berge/Flaaten

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Released: 1994
Label: Bonnier Amigo Music
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 88 MB
Time: 38:50
Art: Front

1. Nobody's Fault But Mine - 4:17
2. Why Did I Do It - 3:00
3. Driftin' Blues - 4:27
4. My Way Or The Highway - 2:21
5. Devil's Waltz - 3:19
6. Just A Kid - 4:53
7. Rattlesnake Tounge - 3:13
8. Twilight To Dark - 5:33
9. Too Bad - 4:33
10. Dark Is The Night - 3:09

Personnel:
Bjorn Berge - guitar, vocals
Jan Flaaten - harmonica, vocals


Notes:Bjřrn Berge is a locomotive of an artist, and this evening there will be tough bein fingerpicking with one of the hottest guitarists. Vocalist, guitarist and composer, b. 23.09.1968 in Sveio, but resident in Haugesund. The foremost interpreters of the "delta blues". His unique playing style - which is to turn both rhythm and play the melody lines on the guitar while he tramper with your feet on a box - have given him the label of "one-man band." Bjřrn Berge started his career so far with the electric guitar, but switched this quickly against a banjo after hearing bluegrass band Gone At Last practice in the neighborhood. He was completely hooked on acoustic blues when he heard Robert Johnson. Then purchased a 12-string National steel guitar, and succeeded in a short time to make his mark as a musician out of the ordinary. Joined with Jan Flĺten (vocals, harmonica) in 1994, and debuted on record with him. After the cooperation with Jan Flĺten was completed in 1996, Berge has focused on a solo career. This has led him beyond the borders of the country, including to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, where he enjoys great respect. All of the discs to Bjřrn Berge contains a mixture of own and others songs.

Berge/Flaaten



• Big Joe Williams - Walking Blues •
• The Blues Preachers - Next Stop Beulah Land •

Oznake: Bjorn Berge, Jan Flaaten, Acoustic Blues, Norway

Moreland, Arbuckle & Floyd - Floyd's Market

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:12
Size: 110.4 MB
Styles: Acoustic/electric blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[4:39] 1. Locomotive
[4:59] 2. Long Past Midnight
[4:37] 3. Fo'
[2:54] 4. Place To Be
[1:37] 5. Unsung
[4:56] 6. So Low
[5:26] 7. Meet Me In The City
[3:45] 8. Variations On Juke
[3:46] 9. Future Blues
[3:39] 10. Date With The Devil
[3:57] 11. Long Way Home
[3:52] 12. Meltdown


Second record release from Moreland, Arbuckle & Floyd. Their debut effort "Caney Valley Blues (2005)" was hailed around the globe as an instant success.

"Floyd's Market" finds this trio in the hottest shape to date. Strong songwriting, immpeccable taste, grooves galore and several superb special guests make this record a must for the blues enthusiast. "Floyd's Market" is primarily an electric record with focus on the group's authentic and persuasive Mississippi blues stylings. Nevertheless, listeners have been delighted to enjoy several acoustic tracks.. keeping the spirit alive in both realms.

One of the very few blues acts out there able to fully grasp electric AND acoustic blues.

Floyd's Market

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Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Moreland Arbuckle & Floyd

Memphis Sheiks - Diamond In The Bluff

Styles: Country Blues, Acoustic Blues
Released: 1995
Label: Inside Sounds
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 96.2 MB
Time: 42:01
Art: full

1. Send Me An Angel Down - 3:47
2. I Watch My Stuff - 3:15
3. Memories - 3:07
4. Head To My Shoes - 4:30
5. Mr. Crump Don't Like It - 3:56
6. Don't Feel Like Talkin' Today - 4:30
7. Cheese 'N Eggs - 5:13
8. 21st Century Blues Man - 2:55
9. Tons Of Love - 2:19
10. Land Of Make Believe - 3:43
11. Diamond In The Bluff - 4:42

Personnel:
Robert Nighthawk II - Harmonica, Organ, Piano
Delta Joe Sanders - Guitar, Vocals
Richard James Hite - Bass
Daren Doltin - Drums

Notes: Delta Joe Sanders grew up on Glover Plantation in Desoto County, Mississippi. His father ran the 10,000 acre peration where the family lived and at an early age, Joe developed a kinship with the help, who also lived on the plantation.
"My first [musical] influence was the farm help playing the blues. When I was about ten I remember one day out walking in the cold. I came upon one of the houses on the plantation. They invited me in to get warm. The kitchen was smelling right. Everyone was sitting around the table."
His lyrics, often deceptively simple, range from humourous anectdotes of love-gone-wrong to insightful reflections of the struggle to survive in a fast pace world far removed from the earthiness of the Mississippi Delta. Joe describes his songwriting this way: "A song starts working on me, sort of how pearls are made. They just start agitating. . . "
In 1980, Joe began playing professionallly in a country band in Mississippi. It was only a matter of time before he decided to follow his heart and get back to the blues. For most of the 80's he played solo gigs in Memphis, where he resided until his father's death while Joe wa in high school. Knowing the difficulty of finding musicians dedicated to traditional delta blues, Joe was content to play acoustic solo gigs until one night in 1991 when Robert Nighthawk II asked to sit in on harmonica. The chemistry between the bluesman was so strong that they have been playing together ever since. A high profile musician in the Memphis blues scene, Robert Nighthawk II has fronted The Wampus Cats since forming the band in 1978. Having recorded at Inside Sounds with The Wampus Cats, Robert invited Joe to the studio in 1993 to cut a few tracks. The result was Slow-Cooked Pig Meat, the debut recording of The Memphis Sheiks. Two more CD's are already near completion and scheduled for release in 1995. The Memphis Sheiks are on a mission: when Robert Nighthawk II is heard saying (as he often does) "let's go forth and make a joyful noise," he's not just whistling Dixie

Diamond In The Bluff



• Eugene Powell - Blues At Home 3 •
• Robert Wilkins - The Original Rolling Stone •

Oznake: Memphis Sheiks, Country Blues, Acoustic Blues

John Jackson - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down

Styles:Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Prewar Country Blues, Piedmont Blues
Recorded: Apr 19, 1965-Oct 23, 1969
Release: 1995
Label: Arhoolie
File: mp3 @320kbps
Size: 166 MB
Time: 69:56
Art: front + back

1. Going Down in Georgia on a Horn (Odum) - 2:34
2. Black Snake Moan - 2:13
3. John Henry (Traditional) - 3:56
4. If Hattie Wants to Lu, Let Her Lu Like a Man - 2:03
5. Nobody's Business But My Own - 3:02
6. John's Rag (Jackson ) - 2:35
7. Boat's Up the River - 3:31
8. Rattlesnakin' Daddy - 2:30
9. Flat Foot and Buck Dance (Traditional) - 3:05
10. Bear Cat Blues (Public Domain) - 2:41
11. Reuben (Public Domain) - 1:51
12. Rocks and Gravel (Carter) - 3:20
13. Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad - 3:53
14. Police Dog Blues (Blind Blake, Jackson) - 3:33
15. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (Jackson) - 2:07
16. Mule Skinner Blues (Jackson) - 3:29
17. I Bring My Money (Jackson) - 2:14
18. John's Ragtime (Jackson) - 1:55
19. Red River Blues (Jackson) - 3:05
20. Knife Blues (Jackson) - 2:14
21. Trucking Little Baby (Jackson) - 3:09
22. Blind Blake's Rag (Blind Blake, Jackson) - 2:26
23. Goodbye Booze (Jackson) - 2:04
24. Graveyard Blues (Jackson) - 2:50
25. Early Morning Blues (Jackson) - 3:42
26. You Ain't No Woman (Jackson) - 1:54


Notes: Twenty-six tracks running over 70 minutes, recorded by John Jackson between 1965 and 1969 and featuring the rural blues legend at the very top of his form on vocals, guitar, and even banjo on one instrumental ("If Hattie Wants to Lu, Let Her Lu Like a Man"). Jackson's repertory here includes standards like "John Henry" (in one of the most exciting versions ever done, with some killer slide) and "Muleskinner Blues," established parts of other bluesmen's repertories (Blind Boy Fuller's "Rattlesnakin' Daddy," Blind Arthur Blake's "Police Dog Blues" and "Early Morning Blues"), as well as originals, such as the dazzling acoustic pyrotechnic displays on "John's Rag," "Graveyard Blues," and "Knife Blues" (the latter a slide guitar showcase worth the price of the disc by itself), and adaptations of popular songs ("Blind Blake's Rag," which borrows at one point from "Has Anybody Seen My Gal"). Good as his playing is, Jackson's singing is also to be admired, as his baritone voice surges with a quiet power and forcefulness, and a rich tone -- "Boats Up the River," a children's song adapted from various traditional sources, is probably the vocal standout on this collection. The fidelity is excellent, these being modern recordings, and overall this CD is the best single overview of John Jackson's music, its value enhanced by the presence of detailed notes that have been updated to the 1990s. It's records like this that humble lots of young white bluesmen.

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down



• Harlem Slim - Delta Blues & Piedmont Ragtime •
• Mick Martin - Revelator •

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, John Jackson, Piedmont Blues, Prewar Blues

Big Joe Williams - Walking Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 74:42
Size: 171.0 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, Delta blues, Pre-war blues
Year: 1961/1992/2007
Art: Front

[5:05] 1. Levee Camp Blues
[2:56] 2. Low Down Dirty Shame
[4:45] 3. Gambling Man
[2:13] 4. Ain't Gonna Rain No More
[4:02] 5. Feel So Good
[3:35] 6. Prowling Ground Hog
[3:23] 7. Back Home Again
[4:10] 8. Sugar Babe
[3:01] 9. Tell Me Mama
[3:14] 10. Studio Blues
[3:01] 11. I'm A Fool About My Baby
[2:42] 12. 38 Pistol Blues
[2:42] 13. Pearly Mae
[2:41] 14. Walking Blues
[4:13] 15. Highway 45
[3:29] 16. Meet Me At The Bottom
[2:54] 17. Skinny Mama
[2:50] 18. Jockey Ride Blues
[3:22] 19. Coal And Iceman Blues
[3:08] 20. Army Man Blues
[4:09] 21. Black Gal You're Sure Looking Warm
[2:58] 22. Pallet On The Floor


Unless you are a serious blues historian or blues aficionado, this 22-track collection of tracks by Big Joe Williams is all you are ever going to need. All of these tunes were recorded in New York on October 7, 1961, and issued as two separate LPs on Prestige's Bluesville imprint. The first ten tracks here were released as Studio Blues (catalog number 1083) and the rest as Blues for 9 Strings (catalog number 1056). Right, they are presented here in reverse release order, but they were all recorded during the same session. Williams is accompanied throughout by Willie Dixon on bass and Larry Johnson on harmonica. Williams plays his trademark nine-string guitar with its wild tuning on all but three tunes here. All of his well-known numbers are presented, though they are obviously later dates, but they lack no passion or proficiency given that this was the real beginning of the blues revival on this side of the Atlantic. The folk revival had not yet begun to wane, and many young men were heading for the East Coast in station wagons to find the bluesmen they had heard on either Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music or similar recordings. Williams and his friends show incredible stamina in running through these songs, and producer Kenneth S. Goldstein does a great job of presenting them raw and rugged. This is a party record if there ever was one. ~Thom Jurek

Walking Blues

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Oznake: Big Joe Williams, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Prewar Blues

The Blues Preachers - Next Stop Beulah Land

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Prewar Blues, Rag
Label: Independent
Released: 2007
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 150,5 MB
Time: 54:08
Art: front

1. Daniel - 3:52
2. Wabash Rag - 3:15
3. Louis Collins - 2:43
4. Sittin' On Top Of The World - 4:16
5. Saint James Infirmary - 5:41
6. Plant The Seed - 3:29
7. Goin' Up The Country - 3:58
8. Nobody's Fault But Mine - 7:03
9. Trimmed & Burning - 3:58
10. Trouble - 3:56
11. Chump Man Blues - 3:53
12. Mystery Train - 3:16
13. Prodigal Son - 4:41


Notes: The Blues Preachers began their traditional Delta/country blues journey in the early 1990s. A highlight of the project was their performance at the Byron Bay Blues Festival in 1993, which was featured on ABC TVs Blue Moon Over Byron.
The Blues Preachers will take you to another place & time, somewhere between 1920 & 1940. Their music paints a landscape of pre-war struggle & determination with sounds reminiscent of the Deep South.
The Blues Preachers perform blues, rags, gospel & hillbilly folk music. The powerful simplicity of driving finger style guitar, slide guitar & harmonica combined with old school vocal harmonies create a traditional un-tarnished sound that will have you on the edge of your seats.
The Blues Preachers will make you dance with their joyful country and ragtime blues and send a shiver up your spine with their atmospheric feels which echo & pay homage to the sacred sounds of early artists such as Blind Willie Johnson.
The Preachers are: Brother John on guitar, banjo and vocals, and Captain Bluetongue on harmonica, mountain dulcimer and vocals.
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Next Stop Beulah Land



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Oznake: The Blues Preachers, Acoustic Blues, Prewar Blues, Rag, australia

Bex Marshall - Kitchen Table

Styles: Contemporary blues-country, Roots
Label: House of Mercy
Released: 2008
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 83,5 MB
Time: 36:29
Art: full

 1. Kitchen Table - 3:53
 2. Red Light - 2:32
 3. Hot Headed Man - 3:24
 4. Black Curtain - 3:53
 5. Stand Up - 4:40
 6. Here Is My Heart - 4:29
 7. Little Bird - 3:36
 8. Bad Bad Girl - 3:29
 9. Too Much Rock & Roll - 3:14
10. Head In The Clouds - 3:13


Personnel:
Bex Marshall (vocals)
Don Wayne Reno (banjo)
Dale Reno (mandolin)
Josh Hillman (violin)
Seymour Milton (piano, keyboards)
Barry Payne (bass guitar)
Gary Johnston (drums)

Recording information:
Boogieback Studios, North London, England (2007)
Deluxe Studios, North London, England (2007)
House Of Mercy, North London, England (2007).

Notes: This is a superb collection of 10 self penned tracks. Its blues with a country and folk tinge and is a very authentic and well crafted set of songs. Marshall has been likened to a range of different artists including Janis Joplin and Maggie Bell for her vocal prowess and Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George and Rory Gallagher for her guitar playing amongst others.
Kitchen Table is Bex's second UK album and her first international release, yet she sounds so assured in her guitar playing, vocals and her song writing.
The two guitars that Marshall plays on the album are her 1973 Gibson Hummingbird and 2006 Ozark resonator with often a slide on her little finger. The title track is the opener and is an upbeat number featuring Bex on both electric and acoustic guitar and lyrically it is a call for the return of the kitchen table as the traditional meeting place of the family - no TV dinners on this album! Red Light is a slow acoustic delta blues song, just Bex and her guitar. Hot Headed Man starts slow but becomes a frantically paced slide guitar number, in which she is backed with Don and Dale Reno from the band Hayseed Dixie. The song is about a man and too much whisky! The same drink is mentioned in Black Guitar, but this is a very different type of song, and it's a stunner. A tale of a man in a failed relationship - "every night he drinks whatever he can afford, he takes a black guitar ... plays it for the Lord".
Musically it is superb with Marshall's haunting slide guitar.
A far more lyrically positive song is the playful Bad Bad Girl, while Little Bird is a standout track where she speaks of the emotion of letting someone go, from the initial sadness of the lyrics comes quite an uplifting feeling. Stand Up combines gospel with blues, while Here Is My Heart is extremely soulful. Too Much Rock n Roll is where the likeness to Rory Gallagher is most apparent and lyrically it refers to the self inflicted passing of a friend.
Simon J Alpin produced the album with Bex and he adds some mandolin to Head in the Clouds the closing and most commercial track on the album. Highly recommended!

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Oznake: Bex Marshall, Acoustic Blues, Roots, England

David Graybeard - One More Shot Of The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 34:45
Size: 79.6 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, Roots
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:48] 1. Walking Away
[3:29] 2. Sweet Roll
[2:24] 3. Bushwhacking
[3:16] 4. Just One
[2:58] 5. Tweet That
[3:27] 6. Tossing And Turning
[3:46] 7. One More Shot
[2:33] 8. Up Time Blues
[1:49] 9. Not So Blues
[3:37] 10. Little Bit Of Heaven
[2:28] 11. One More New Years
[2:05] 12. Take Me Mama

Oznake: David Graybeard, Acoustic Blues, Roots

Marshall Lawrence - Blues Intervention

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Independent
Released: 2010
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 95,2 MB
Time: 41:34
Art: full

1. So Long Rosalee - 3:42
2. Traveling Blues - 2:39
3. Your're Gonna Find The Blues - 3:21
4. Lay Down My Sorrow - 3:35
5. If I Had A Nickel - 3:52
6. Your Woman Quit You - 3:02
7. Going Down To Louisiana - 2:22
8. Going To The River - 1:59
9. Detroit "Motor City" Blues - 3:57
10. Love Like Heroin - 3:39
11. Once Loved A Cowgirl - 3:37
12. Walking Blues - 3:01
13. Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - 2:41


Notes: When spring looks like it is going to stick and stay on the prairies, what comes with it is almost a feeling of salvation for those of us who plodded through another long winter. As calendar pages flip to the last weekend of April, many fine roots music practitioners and fans descend on a charming place slightly off the beaten path. The place is East Coulee, Alberta and the East Coulee Spring Festival announces the arrival of everything that isn't snow or bone chilling winds blowing across everything east of the Rocky Mountains. Arriving in East Coulee is like being transported back to 1958. An old hotel, an old schoolhouse and store fronts from another era stand a few hundred metres from a lazy and beautiful river.
On this late April day bluesman Marshall Lawrence brought his brand of acoustic blues to East Coulee. With resonator guitar in hand, perched on a stool with one leg resting comfortably on a vintage suitcase, Lawrence dug into a batch of new original tunes, many of which are tied to decade's old Delta grooves, yet sewn to his lyrics embracing timeless themes. It was a memorable evening, in a year that had been remarkably memorable for Marshall Lawrence. The singer-songwriter, interpreter and performer had, a few months earlier, received the nod from the national blues community through being nominated for a prestigious and national Maple Blues Award. This nomination pushed this hard working and passionate musician’s profile up a couple of plateaus, and deservedly so.
Lawrence had also been working hard in the studio with two of his respected peers, harmonica player Sherman Doucette and onetime B.B. King bassist Russell Jackson. At those Edmonton recording sessions Lawrence captured his best recorded performances to date, which is what you are listening to now. Assisted by award-winning engineer Barry Allen, Lawrence found his comfort zone and dispensed his acoustic blues with conviction, and a voice that is distinctly his own. The four participants also produced a disc with fine dynamics where the instrumental interplay was given room to breath.
While listening to this disc, picture an old, character school house in a magical prairie hamlet, and an attentive audience soaking up the sounds of a prairie bluesman who for an hour or so owns the stage, and that all involved are loving this traditional sound that is announcing a new beginning.
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Blues Intervention



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Oznake: Marshall Lawrence, Acoustic Blues, Canada

Buddy Moss - Essential Blues Masters

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 60:58
Size: 139.6 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:27] 1. Bye Bye Mama (Future Blues Mix)
[3:14] 2. Bye Bye Mama
[2:49] 3. Broke Down Engine
[3:25] 4. Cold Country Blues
[3:15] 5. Daddy Don't Care
[2:43] 6. Midnight Rambler
[2:53] 7. Red River Blues
[2:55] 8. T.B.'s Killing Me
[2:58] 9. When I'm Dead And Gone
[3:03] 10. B & O Blues, No. 2
[3:05] 11. Broke Down Engine No. 2
[2:40] 12. Dough Rolling Papa
[2:34] 13. Insane Blues
[2:36] 14. Love Me, Baby, Love Me
[2:35] 15. New Lovin' Blues
[2:41] 16. Oh Lordy Mama
[2:54] 17. Shake It All Night Long
[2:33] 18. Sleepless Night
[2:42] 19. Some Lonesome Day
[2:52] 20. Tricks Ain't Walking No More
[2:54] 21. When The Hearse Roll Me From My Door


Eugene "Buddy" Moss was, in the estimation of many blues scholars, the most influential East Coast blues guitarist to record in the period between Blind Blake's final sessions in 1932 and Blind Boy Fuller's debut in 1935. A younger contemporary of Blind Willie McTell and Curley Weaver, Moss was part of a near-legendary coterie of Atlanta bluesmen, and one of the few of his era lucky enough to work into the blues revival of the '60s and '70s. A guitarist of uncommon skill and dexterity, he was a musical disciple of Blind Blake, and may well have served as an influence on Piedmont-style guitarist Blind Boy Fuller. Although his career was halted in 1935 by a six-year jail term, and then by the Second World War, he lived long enough to be rediscovered in the '60s, when he revealed a talent undamaged by time or adversity.

Moss was one of 12 children born to a sharecropper in Jewel, a town in Warren County, Georgia, midway between Atlanta and Augusta. There is some disagreement about his date of birth, some sources indicating 1906 and many others a more recent vintage, 1914. He began teaching himself the harmonica at a very early age, and he played at local parties around Augusta, where the family moved when he was four and remained for the next ten years. By 1928, he was busking around the streets of Atlanta. "Nobody was my influence," he told Robert Springer of his harmonica playing, in a 1975 interview. "I just kept hearing people, so I listen and I listen, and listen, and it finally come to me."

By the time he arrived in Atlanta, he was good enough to be noticed by Curley Weaver and Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks, who began working with the younger Moss. It was Weaver and Hicks who got him his first recording date at the age of 16, as a member of their group the Georgia Cotton Pickers. On December 7, 1930 at the Campbell Hotel in Atlanta, the group did four songs for Columbia: "I'm on My Way Down Home," "Diddle-Da-Diddle," "She Looks so Good," and "She's Comin' Back Some Cold Rainy Day." The group that day consisted of Barbecue Bob and Curley Weaver on guitars and Moss on harmonica. Nothing more was heard from Moss on record until three years later. In January of 1933, however, he made his debut as a recording artist in his own right for the American Record Company in New York, accompanied by Fred McMullen and Curley Weaver, cutting three songs cut that first day, "Bye Bye Mama," "Daddy Don't Care," and "Red River Blues." ~Excerpt from the bio by Bruce Eder

Essential Blues Masters

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Nathan James & Ben Hernandez - Make A Change Sometime

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Country Blues
Label: Independent
Released: 2005
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 138,4 MB
Time: 60:10
Art: full

1. Get Right Church - 3:52
2. Everybody Make A Change Sometime - 5:12
3. Hard Time Here - 4:35
4. Lonesome - 3:58
5. Mama Let Me Lay It On You - 3:01
6. Curley's Clues - 2:58
7. Please Baby - 3:49
8. Keepin' To Herself - 3:15
9. Europe Blues - 3:39
10. Pains My Heart To Love You - 3:11
11. Rub-A-Dub - 3:10
12. Here's Your Breakthrough - 2:00
13. Mistreatin' Mama - 3:28
14. Converted - 3:59
15. The Well - 3:45
16. Finished Last - 6:10


Personnel:
Nathan James (vocals, guitar, foot percussion)
Ben Hernandez (vocals, harmonica, kazoo, washtub bass, jug, spoons)
Gene Taylor (piano - tracks 4, 16)
Sara Watkins (fiddle – tracks 7, 15)
James Harman (vocal, harmonica track 12)

Notes: Everybody who loves country blues will welcome the arrival of a great acoustic duo from southern California. Nathan James and Ben Hernandez introduce their debut album Make A Change Sometime this month.
The new CD runs the gamut from a bit of gospel, jug and string band styles with the emphasis on Delta blues. The songs include material from Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sleepy John Estes plus a half dozen penned by the duo.
Guitarist Nathan James is a California native who has spent a decade playing the country blues. Joining the James Harman band as a teenager, Nathan James gained a truckload of experience, not only in playing the blues, but also in business management of a band. The Harman outfit toured widely and recorded often. His old boss joins the duo on this debut recording with his original song aptly titled "Here's Your Breakthrough."
Ben Hernandez is a musical "jack of all trades." Still in his twenties, the young musician entertains on harmonica, spoons, washtub bass and kazoo. His jug playing is second only to the style of the venerable Fritz Richmond. Hernandez cites Sonny Terry and Sonny Boy Williamson as his first influences. The young musician penned three tunes for this project, "Europe Blues", "Pains My Heart To Love You" and the remarkable "Finished Last." The latter features the piano of Gene Taylor of Fabulous Thunderbirds fame. Nathan James lends some beautiful guitar licks and Taylor lays down a Jimmy Yancey style bass figure, plus his usual treble attack. Ben Hernandez offers a lowdown kazoo solo and handles the vocal. It's a great track!
Violinist Sara Watkins of the bluegrass trio Nickel Creek lends a hand on Nathan James' tune, "The Well," and on a Mississippi Sheiks number titled "Please Baby." The young fiddler reminds this reviewer of the veteran Richard Green who played with Jim Kweskin, Seatrain, Maria Muldaur and The Blues Project. Watkins is a truly gifted performer.
The duo of James and Hernandez planned this release carefully and the result is a notch above many self-produced debut recordings. Our favorites are "Everybody Make a Change Sometime", "Please Baby", "Finished Last" and "Here's Your Breakthrough." Nathan James and Ben Hernandez deserve your attention. Checkout the sound samples at their website. It's good blues! ~ jazzreview.com

Make A Change Sometime



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Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden - Blues And Ballads

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 43:59
Size: 100.7 MB
Styles: Pre-war blues, Acoustic blues
Year: 1960/1991
Art: Front

[5:02] 1. Haunted House
[4:21] 2. Memories Of You
[5:07] 3. Blues For Chris
[4:36] 4. I Found A Dream
[3:05] 5. St. Louis Blues
[4:33] 6. I'll Get Along Somehow
[4:14] 7. Savoy Blues
[5:07] 8. Backwater Blues
[3:35] 9. Elmer's Blues
[4:15] 10. He's A Jelly Roll Baker


This beautiful album was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder in his Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home studio where so much jazz history was made. It features guitar innovators Lonnie Johnson and Elmer Snowden together for the first time--despite a friendship going back to the 1920s when both appeared on some of the earliest jazz and blues 78s. Johnson, the father of single-note six-string soloing, is in marvelous voice on this selection of blues, ballads, and jazz, crooning the double-entendre "Jelly Roll Baker" and the heartache-laden "Back Water Blues" (a Bessie Smith tune he first cut in 1927) with a marksman's sense of pitch and chilling nuance. Snowden serves mostly as accompanist. But these men play so closely that they seem to be sharing every breath. --Ted Drozdowski

Blues And Ballads

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Harrison Kennedy - Shame The Devil

Size: 119,7 MB
Time: 51:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Country Blues, Blues Soul
Label: Electro-Fi Records
Art: Front

01. Cats In The Window (2:58)
02. Trouble (4:26)
03. Hound And Rabbit (4:39)
04. Shame The Devil (3:47)
05. That's Just Stupid (4:39)
06. How Long (3:20)
07. Musta Bin The Devil (3:21)
08. Hard Time Blues (3:14)
09. Snakes Lie (3:09)
10. Music To My Ears (3:04)
11. Fo' Day Train (4:52)
12. Stay (2:54)
13. Shake Em Free (4:12)
14. You Don't Know Me (3:18)

Personnel:
Harrison Kennedy - Vocals, guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, percussion
Keith 'Happy' Lindsay - Keyboards, accordian, percussion
Alec Fraser - Bass
Matt King - Electric guitar

Harrison Kennedy has always been seen as being 'different'. Different - but in a good way. While riding high as part of Chairmen of the Board - one of Detroit's smoothest soul acts of the early '70s - no less than Edward Holland, Jr. of famed writing & production trio, Holland-Dozier-Holland, singled Kennedy out, had him buy a $75 guitar and asked him to write some 'story songs'.

“Write what you feel”, he told him. Kennedy's been indebted to him since, as this detour has taken him down a lifelong path of mastering 3-4 minute story songs, evidenced over the past six releases. He won't admit to it, but he's on a personal mission. Harrison writes to serve others. Regular people, working people, people dealing with their own problems and people in need of help or, at least, a moment of personal reflection. He loves the blues but he also loves country music and he often equates the two as both lean heavily on storytelling, revolving around real folks & their problems - but his pedigree includes the R&B, gospel, funk and soul he grew up with - with an emphasis on the soul. A prolific songwriter, everything here is his own save a cover by his hero, Ray Charles. Nothing he does sounds repetitive, each song driven by its message, his messages driven by a big-hearted desire to help. He's honed a rich, deep-down blues yet he prefers to think of what he does as real roots music because of where it comes from. You won't find exhaustive guitar solos or power chords here - or anything handed down by way of Chicago. Instead, you'll find something to identify with and this, coupled with Kennedy's high-energy, rhythmic, always upbeat delivery, will make you feel good all over for the listening. His contemporary blues is always rooted in current events, just as all great blues was about what was happening then. An urban street poet, his secret is found in a relentless ability to achieve intimacy despite the passion and uncommon soulfulness that fires each song. He's incapable of casting negativity on his subject matter - there's real love in his love songs and sincere hope in his darkest hour. His songs are never about him. They're about you and me. His is an irrepressible voice whose soulful assault on the blues begins with everyday observations transformed into positive, uplifting teachings, chipping away at one's conscience, showing a better way. Across these 14 tracks you get it all, with varying degrees of accompaniment. Kennedy plays guitar, slide guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin & percussion while long-time keyboard wizard, Keith Lindsay, adds B3, accordion and percussion. Alec Fraser plays bass while Matt King adds a modicum of electric guitar as required.

Shame The Devil



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Babajack - The Maker

Styles: Acoustic Blues, British Folk, Traditional Folk
Label: Independent
Released: 2008
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 95,4 MB
Time: 41:40
Art: full

1. Life Is A Struggle - 5:14
2. Standing On The Corner - 4:04
3. Coming Home - 5:02
4. A Thousand Angels - 3:25
5. Mary - 4:09
6. Daddy's Gone - 4:11
7. Stones In My Shoes - 3:09
8. I Wish - 4:21
9. The Lady baby Stomp - 4:16
10. But I'm Happy - 3:46


Notes: 'The Maker' finds Trevor Steger laying down guitar, dobro, harmonica and vocals and Becky Tate providing drum, percussion, stompbox and vocals; two become one, Steger and Tate are BabaJack! This is a ten track work that's right up there with the best; well crafted songs delivered with complete unity and mutual understanding of exactly what's required to produce the goods. BabaJack absolutely nail it! I reviewed a demo from this duo earlier in the year which showed great potential but possibly also showed a little recording naivety - 'The Maker', however, is well recorded and is blessed with great clarity and just the right balance throughout. BabaJack's 'The Maker' is a little gem in fact!
'The Maker' brings together several facets of roots blues and suggests that BabaJack can be a force to reckoned with on the blues circuit. BabaJack keep it all relatively simple but make the most of their stripped back approach; there's nothing at all showy about BabaJack and their subtle style only emphasises their nicely syncopated way. The songs are nicely crafted and Steger and Tate seem more than a little happy in each others musical company - their strength is in their 'compact' approach and their unified belief in each other - oh, and the fact that they can write, play and sing to a very high standard .
With 'The Maker', BabaJack have seriously impressed me - I already knew that they were capable but 'The Maker' takes BabaJack to the next level and makes them very competitive and majorly saleable. I can only offer praise to this tasty duo and hope that others will see the bigger picture through this excellent album. 'The Maker' by BabaJack puts Steger and Tate fully in the frame - hopefully BabaJack will continue to grow and get themselves on the road with some serious belief in themselves and show that roots blues is fully workable in this stripped down, two 'man' form. Impressive work this from a truly dedicated twosome - and I can't help but feel that this is just the start of much bigger things from the excellent BabaJack.
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The Maker



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Abbie Gardner - Hope

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 36:58
Size: 86.5 MB
Styles: Electric/acoustic blues, Modern folk
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:12] 1. Break it Slow
[3:30] 2. Liar
[3:08] 3. Comes Love
[3:26] 4. I Can't Be Good for You
[4:41] 5. Hope
[3:14] 6. It's You
[2:38] 7. Bang Bang
[2:02] 8. Do It (feat. Craig Akin)
[3:02] 9. Nellie
[3:35] 10. Walkin' Cane
[3:24] 11. Too Soon


Coming five years and three Red Molly albums after her last solo CD, Hope is Abbie Gardner's latest solo recording. The CD features her versatile voice backed by 3 types of slide guitar (dobro, lap steel, and National bottleneck) and a band comprised of not only her father, Herb Gardner (piano), but also her sister, Sarah Gardner, on organ. Ben Wittman (the drummer on Red Molly's James) locks in with upright bassist Craig Akin, who is featured on the first instrumental Abbie has ever recorded (a bass and dobro duet). The songs range from heartache to hope, from gritty lap steel to singing cellos, courtesy of Emily Hope Price. Folk sweetheart Robby Hecht lends his voice to three tracks and fellow member of Red Molly, Laurie MacAllister, is heard throughout. Longtime friends and collaborators Fred Gillen, Jr. and Beaucoup Blue also lend their voices.

"I feel like the songs revolve around Hope, both the song and the idea. Rather than having all hopeful songs, this CD reflects the glimmer of hope we all look for when in the midst of darkness."-Abbie Gardner, talking about her new solo CD Hope.

Hope

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Celso Salim & Rodrigo Mantovani - Diggin' The Blues

Size: 91,3 MB
Time: 38:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: GRV
Art: Front

01. East St. Louis Blues (3:14)
02. 300 Pounds Of Joy (3:26)
03. All By Myself (3:04)
04. Money Tree Blues (4:55)
05. Truckin' My Blues Away (2:33)
06. Weeping Willow (3:29)
07. 16 Tons (2:44)
08. Travelin' Girl (Feat. Sergio Duarte) (4:55)
09. No Man Can Trust (3:39)
10. You're Gonna Miss Me (3:04)
11. Weak Brain, Narrow Mind (3:48)

Após uma intensa pesquisa nas raízes do Blues, além de seis anos dividindo palcos, sendo tręs destes anos no formato dobro, baixo acústico e voz, Celso Salim e Rodrigo Mantovani preparam sua primeira parceria: o disco Diggin’the Blues. O Trabalho é inteiramente acústico e teve sua maior parte gravada ao vivo, com um estúdio móvel montado na casa do próprio guitarrista Celso Salim. No repertório estăo cançőes compostas entre as décadas de 30 a 60 de autores como Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters e Blind Boy Fuller entre outros. O CD conta também com algumas composiçőes próprias.

Utilizando instrumentos tradicionais do Blues, o duo mostra uma seleçăo de músicas que, apesar de pouco conhecidas, săo clássicos do Country Blues. Assim, os músicos apresentam e representam com grande destreza os antecessores do Blues elétrico que muitos năo conhecem. Rodrigo apresenta um estilo de tocar que pouco se encontra por aqui, com influęncia dos primeiros baixistas que acompanharam os Blueseiros gravados no início do século passado. Celso canta e toca dobro em diferentes afinaçőes e domina o slide como poucos no Brasil.

Celso Salim (dobro e voz), Rodrigo Mantovani (baixo acústico e voz).

Diggin' The Blues



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Scott Ainslie - You Better Lie Down

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:49
Size: 95.0 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, Gospel
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[3:56] 1. You Better Lie Down
[3:13] 2. Don't Let The Devil Ride
[3:30] 3. Big Fat Mama
[3:15] 4. Pay Day
[3:08] 5. I'll Be Rested
[4:16] 6. Broken Levee Blues
[3:26] 7. Phonograph Blues
[2:52] 8. Losing Faith In You
[3:20] 9. Bring It On Home To Me
[3:14] 10. When You've Got A Good Friend
[2:56] 11. I Will Trust In The Lord
[3:35] 12. Wade In The Water


What a title for a blues and gospel record! "You Better Lie Down" is a collection of songs learned from Ainslie's fieldwork and the field recordings of Dwight Devane, formerly the State Folklorist of Florida, who followed quite literally in the footsteps of Zora Neale Hurston. From a little heard B.B. King song (Losing Faith In You) to a stripped down bluesy version of Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me", this album talks to the brain stem. This is very emotional stuff for Ainslie and for the rest of us.

Ainslie plays acoustic guitars, his vintage Nationals, mandolin, and fretless electric bass and sings his heart out. The gospel here is that non-evangelical, soulful stuff that lies so close to the blues traditions. And Ainslie's notes about Willie Malloy's "I Will Trust In The Lord" are not to be missed. (Check out cattailmusic for those).

Ainslie's work as an acoustic blues performer has a different spin from most. In addition to good chops on slide and ragtime blues guitar and strong vocals; he's bringing twenty years of scholarship, and fieldwork with older blues and gospel musicians. His live shows include enough of the stories and background on the tunes to allow the songs to take their full-size in the experience of the audience. People go home slyly better educated about the history and genesis of the music, and I believe--knowing something of their origins--are moved more deeply by the tunes.

In addition to his performing life, Ainslie wrote 'the book' on Mississippi Blues legend Robert Johnson, "Robert Johnson/At The Crossroads" which contained complete transcriptions of his recordings, complete annotated lyrics with all the black idioms explained, a biography and historical notes introducing each song. It lasted a decade in the fickle music press and he's hoping to have it back in a second edition in 2005.

Ainslie also has a teaching video, "Robert Johnson's Guitar Techniques," on Starlicks 'Master Sessions' series and three blues CDs ["Jealous of the Moon", "Terraplane", and "You Better Lie Down". He tours widely playing festivals, clubs, community concert series, and works in educational settings as a visiting artist with programs on the African roots of American music, using live performances of Delta and Ragtime blues, gospel, and jazz to illustrate the history of American roots and pop music.

You Better Lie Down

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Taj Mahal - An Evening of Acoustic Music

Styles: Electric Country Blues, Contemporary Blues, Acoustic Blues
Recorded: 1994
Released: 1997
Label: Ruf
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 161 MB
Time: 70:26
Art: front + back

1. Stagger Lee - 3:50
2. Dust My Broom - 5:08
3. Take This Hammer - 3:58
4. Blues With A Feeling - 5:04
5. Big Legged Mamas Are Back In Style Again - 4:31
6. Crossing - 4:58
7. Come On In My Kitchen - 6:25
8. Candy Man - 4:18
9. Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too - 6:58
10. Sittin' On Top Of The World - 4:22
11. Cake Walk Into Town - 2:35
12. Ain't Gwine To Whistle Dixie Anymo' - 4:00
13. Big Kneed Gal - 5:47
14. Texas Woman Blues - 3:36
15. Tom & Sally Drake - 4:49

Personnel:
Taj Mahal - Guitar (Electric and Acoustic), Vocals, Piano, Banjo
Howard Johnson - Tuba (11, 13, 14, 15), Penny Whistle (12)

Notes: If you've ever caught Taj live solo, this recording, cut during an appearance in Germany, is what you've been waiting for. His sublime performances of "Satisfied and Tickled Too" and "Candy Man" are out of this world. While the inclusion of tuba on a few tracks does prove somewhat annoying, for the most part this is an excellent example of what makes Taj a treasure.

An Evening of Acoustic Music



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Bonnie Raitt - The Lost Broadcast Philadelphia 1972 (Deluxe Version)

Size: 150,0 MB
Time: 65:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Left Field Media
Art: Front

01. Mighty Tight Woman (3:51)
02. Rollin' & Tumblin' (3:49)
03. Any Day Woman (4:12)
04. Woman Be Wise (3:09)
05. Thank You (2:49)
06. Bluebird (3:23)
07. Finest Lovin' Man (5:29)
08. Big Road (4:39)
09. Stayed Too Long At The Fair (3:10)
10. Under The Falling Sky (4:14)
11. Walkin' Blues (4:02)
12. Can't Find My Way Home (3:07)
13. Richland Woman Blues (2:57)
14. Blender Blues (4:37)
15. Since I Fell For You (3:41)
16. Sugar Mama (3:54)
17. Runaway (4:04)

A great radio broadcast from February 1972 featuring mainly Bonnie with Freebo on bass but also T. J. Tindle on lead guitar and John Davis playing harp on a couple of tracks. Captures Bonnie doing material from her first two albums as well as some songs that have never been officially released - Steve Winwood's 'Can't Find My Way Home', John Hurt's 'Richland Woman Blues' and her own song 'Blender Blues'. Although Bonnie sounds young (she was only 22) she also sounds very confident and relaxed, her voice is perfectly controlled and her guitar playing is particularly good on blues like Robert Johnson's 'Walking blues' and 'Richland Woman Blues'.

The Lost Broadcast Philadelphia 1972



• Mick Martin - Revelator •
• The Blue Rider Trio - Preachin' The Blues •

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Oznake: Bonnie Raitt, Acoustic Blues

Mike Stevens & Matt Andersen - Piggyback

Size: 126,4 MB
Time: 54:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Busted Flat Records
Art: Front

01. I Wanna Be A Float Plane (4:29)
02. The Way You Move (3:35)
03. Hold Me With Both Hands (3:20)
04. Livin' In Sarnia (6:53)
05. Devil's Bride (4:05)
06. Going Home (3:23)
07. Storms Rollin' In (5:28)
08. Better Days (8:17)
09. I'll Tell You A Story (4:53)
10. Blue Celtic Rose (3:14)
11. Workin' My Way Home To My Girl (2:56)
12. You're A Best Seller Baby (4:21)

Every now and again you hear an artist that just pulls you up short, stops you dead in your tracks, like being on a top flight cutting horse that can stop on a dime, rollback and give you a nickel in change, Matt Andersen's voice did that to me the first time I heard it. He is the whole package and can play guitar, write relevant songs and present the songs in a way that will just bring you to a standstill you and make you listen up, just check this YouTube video. Now you are saying wait a minute this is a disc by Matt Andersen and Mike Stevens; well the disc came to me because of the effect that Matt had when I first heard him and started investigating who the guy is, which is what led me to this. And, so we are clear, Mike Stevens is a renowned harmonica virtuoso known mostly in Bluegrass and Experimental music circles more than holds up his end of the partnership on harmonica, songwriting and production. Just please forgive the excess on Matt as he is the one that drew me into this.

Mike Stevens and Matt Anderson wrote the twelve songs on this disc and there are some gems here that have a way of stretching the tension created between their respective instruments. There are times when you don't realize the sound is created by just guitar, both as a lead and rhythm instrument, and the harmonica wizardry of Mr. Stevens and the vocals of Mr. Andersen. The songs are in a variety of tempos that reflect in the emotions of each. There is the beautiful love song Hold Me With Both Hands, and the wonderful interplay of both instruments and voice in the Livin' In Sarnia that creates a pressure that is essential to the song. This is a disc that is going to fill you in every way; there are not often discs that fit together as a whole as well as this one does. It is going to put a smile on your face and have you tapping your toes if you're not actually up and dancing.

Piggyback



• Billy Flynn - Chicago Blues Mandolin •
• John Dee Holeman - Bull Durham Blues •

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Oznake: Mike Stevens, Matt Andersen, Acoustic Blues, Canada

R.L. Burnside - Mississippi Hill Country Blues

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

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

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

John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters

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

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

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

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

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

Crossing Muddy Waters



• Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Bottle On My Finger ...Blues To My Shoes •
• Andy Fairweather Low & The Lowriders - Zone-O-Tone •

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

Guy Davis - On Air

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

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


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

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

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

On Air

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Oznake: Guy Davis, Acoustic Blues

Gordon Smith - Out Of The Bottleneck

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

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

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

Mr. Matthew James - Worried Blue

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

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

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

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

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

Worried Blue



• Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee - Hometown Blues •
• Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' •

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

Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Lion's In The Den

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

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

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

Lion's In The Den



• Michael Hakanson-Stacy - Bottle On My Finger ...Blues To My Shoes •
• Dan Baker - Pistol In My Pocket •

Oznake: Michael Hakanson-Stacy, Gospel, Country Blues, Acoustic Blues

Steve James & Del Rey - Tonight

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

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


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

Tonight



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

Toby Walker - What You See Is What You Get

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

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

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

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

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

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

What You See Is What You Get



• Paul Geremia - Gamblin' Woman Blues •
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Oznake: Toby Walker, Acoustic Blues, folk, Folk-Blues

Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues

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

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


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

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

Searching The Desert For The Blues

Covers pdf



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's A World Outside My Door



• Sir Oliver Mally & Frank Schwinn - Devils Monkeys Aliens •
• Danny Kyle - Rag 'N' Bone Blues •

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Oznake: Fried Okra Band, Acoustic Blues, Denmark

Gordon Smith - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions

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

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


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

Complete Blue Horizon Sessions



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Oznake: Gordon Smith, England, Acoustic Blues

Cotton Belly's - This Day...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Day...



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

Celso Salim & Rodrigo Mantovani - Diggin' The Blues

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

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


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

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

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

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

Diggin' The Blues

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Oznake: brazil, Celso Salim, Rodrigo Mantovani, Acoustic Blues

Fabrizio Poggi & Francesco Garolfi - The Breath Of Soul

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

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


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

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

The Breath Of Soul



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

Little Doc Thornton - Hurricane

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

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


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

Hurricane



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Oznake: Little Doc Thornton, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues

Nathan James - This Road Is Mine

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

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


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

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

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

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



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Oznake: Nathan James, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues

John Dee Holeman - Bull Durham Blues

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

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

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

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

Bull Durham Blues



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

Harrison Kennedy - Soulscape

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

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

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

Soulscape



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Posted by kamane

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

Paul Zunno - Solo Acoustic

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

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


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

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

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

Solo Acoustic

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Bob Brozman Orchestra - Lumiere

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

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


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

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

Lumiere



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Oznake: Bob Brozman, World, Acoustic Blues