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

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

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

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

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

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

Mississippi 1930

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Oznake: Al Cook, Country Blues

Al Cook - The Birmingham Jam

Styles: Delta Blues, Piano Blues
Label: Wolf
Released: 2004
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 169,1 MB
Time: 73:53
Art: full

1. The Birmingham Jam - 2:47
2. Comment A - 0:29
3. Movin' Back To Alabama - 2:59
4. Comment B - 0:32
5. Carolina Blues - 4:09
6. Comment C - 0:29
7. If You Can Dish It - 2:56
8. Comment D - 0:34
9. Young And Wild Blues - 4:42
10. Comment E - 0:33
11. 'Tain't What You Say Is What You Do - 3:41
12. Comment F - 0:15
13. They Got Wake Me In The Mornin' - 3:23
14. Comment G - 0:15
15. Moanin' The Blues - 4:22
16. Comment H - 0:31
17. Avachi Stomp - 4:49
18. Comment I - 0:45
19. The Low Down Blues - 4:25
20. Comment J - 0:19
21. Cotton Gin Blues - 1:42
22. Comment K - 0:42
23. Blind Lemon's Tap Dance - 2:24
24. Comment L - 0:35
25. John The Revalator - 2:42
26. Comment M - 0:32
27. Frisco Train - 4:24
28. Hot Ivories - 6:30
29. Belle Of St. Louis - 4:18
30. Early Mornin' Blues - 3:24
31. Four O'Clock Blues - 3:29

Notes: He was born February 27, 1945 in Bad Ischl, Austria. Afer watching a Elvis Presley movie, he wanted to become a musician. Till nowadays he is one of Austria's most prominent blues musicians.
This cd recorded between Nov 2003 and Jun 2004, at Al Cook Blues Kichen, Vienna, Austria.
Special thenks go to Miss Cristina Burkhardt from AKG Acoustics, for donating me two excellent C 3000 studio microphones.
Charlie Lloyd - piano (1)
and
Harry Hudson - vocals (1), washboard (1), tap-dance imitation (23),
my boys, who are with me for 20 years.
All these artists
Karin Daym - vocals (1,7,11), guitar (7,11)
Katie Kern - vocals (1,11), guitar (7,11)
Siggi Fassl - vocals (1,5), guitars (5)
Stephan Rausch - harmonica (21)
Sabine Pyrker - washboard (17)
Reverend Frank TT - vocals (1,25)
Chris Peterka - fiddle (3)
contributed with their heart and talents.

All comments by Al Cook and
vocals (1,3,9,13,15,19,27), guitars (1,3,7,9,13,15,19,23,23,27,30,31), piano (5,11,17,28,29,30,31), bass (3,9,19,27), washboard (3,13)
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Al Cook - Barrelhouse Man

Styles: Country Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Wolf
Released: 2008
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 153,3 MB
Time: 66:57
Art: full

1. The Memphis Jamboree - 2:44
2. Early In the Mornin' - 2:53
3. Barefoot Blues - 3:49
4. The Barrelhouse Man - 4:35
5. Cotton Jane Blues - 4:39
6. Doggone My Good Luck Soul - 3:08
7. Shame And Scandal Blues - 2:31
8. Let Me Be Your Honeydripper - 3:13
9. 44 Blues - 4:00
10. Ice Cream Freezer - 4:28
11. Goin' Down Slow - 5:28
12. Muddy Water Blues - 4:02
13. You Don't Know - 4:42
14. That Bad Woman Blues - 4:08
15. Young And Wild Blues No.2 - 5:39
16. Last Fair Deal Gone Down - 3:01
17. Goin' Back To Memphis - 3:50

Personnel:
Al Cook - Guitars, Piano, Slide Guitar, Vocals
Karin Daym - Vocals
Harry Hudson - Drums
Cotton Jane - Vocals
Charlie Lloyd - Piano
Peter Strutzenberger - Bass
Reverend Frank TT - Guitar, Vocals

Notes: Al Cook was born as Alois Kurt Koch on February 27th, 1945 in Bad Ischl, Upper Austria.
At the close of the second World War, he was brought back to Vienna, where he was raised in a working-class family, where his life went the unspectacular and average way until he was 15.
Al wanted to become a scientist, studying astronomy and physics, but his family could not afford any higher education and he had to take a job as a mechanic in a nearby factory, that left him completely dissatisfied and certainly was not the place to live up to his being as a natural born individualist.
But inside the young boy grew a desirable power to take off from the ground and liberate himself from slaving among blockheaded proletarians and to live a life, he simply did not enjoy.
But the evening of his first day at work resulted in a do-or-die decision, when Al Cook dropped into a local movie-theater to watch Elvis Presley, playing the role of Deke Rivers in „Loving You“, a catchy teen melodram from 1957.
Al heard about Elvis, but at that time, he was still unaware of the singer's meaning in the world of his generation. But when he left the cinema, the idea of becoming a Rock n Roll Star in order to escape social inferiority, changed his attitudes for the rest of his life.
After several years of intensive studies of Elvis' recordings, Al bought a cheap „campfire“ guitar and made himself aquainted with the rudimentary requirements of self-backing.
On October 17th 1964, Al Cook was ready to perform at a local variety show, but his appearance failed to impact, because his music was played before the wrong audience. Younger people had already followed the upcoming advent of Beatlemania and Rock n Roll music simply turned obsolete.
Just at that time, the kick to another direction was given by listening to some odd tape recordings, containing vintage blues by black rural singers of the 20s and 30s.
From this day on, Al Cook was convinced, that this kind of music was the perfect vehicle to transcribe his feelings into song. The purity and primitive savageness of the country-blues seemed to take hold of the young man and he began to walk the rocky road of self-education.
There was neither anybody to teach him how to play and sing the blues, nor any educational material at local record stores.
When Al Cook purchased his first blues albums, he had to learn all that stuff by ear. Even the technique of the bottleneck and other slide guitar styles, then still unknown in the german-speaking countries had to be discovered by the aspiring bluesman...
Read more at Al Cook biography

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Oznake: austria, Al Cook, Country Blues, Delta Blues