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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

Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night

Styles: Acoustic Texas Blues, Blues Gospel, Pre-War Gospel Blues, Slide Guitar Blues
Label: Legacy
Recorded: 1928-1931
Released: 1998
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 158,8 MB
Time: 69:21
Art: full

1. I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole - 3:04
2. Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed - 3:14
3. It's Nobody Fault But Mine - 3:11
4. Mother's Children Have A Hard Time - 3:23
5. Dark Was The Night - 3:21
6. If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down - 3:10
7. Bye And Bye I'm Gion' To See The King - 2:53
8. The Soul Of A Man - 3:15
9. Lord I Just Can't Keep From Crying - 3:03
10. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burnin' - 3:05
11. Let your Light Shine On Me - 3:11
12. John The Revelator - 3:19
13. Praise God I'm Satisfied - 3:12
14. Good Moves On The Water - 3:00
15. Trouble Will Soon Be Over - 3:08
16. Churh, I'm Fully Saved Today - 3:08
17. Go With Me To That Land - 3:05
18. When The War Is On - 3:03
19. Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It Here - 2:57
20. I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge - 3:24
21. You'll Need Somebody On Your Bond - 3:06
22. Take Your Stand - 2:59

Notes: Even in the blues, a style capable of wrenching unexplainable emotions from its audience, Blind Willie Johnson has few equals. With a voice capable of alternating effortlessly between sublime, trembling tenor and the sound of pure gravel, and unparalleled skill with the bottleneck (and knife), Johnson recorded 30 sides for Columbia (1927-1930) that stand as a high-water mark for both country blues and raw gospel. Given the fact that his entire output has been issued by both Yazoo and Columbia, it's difficult to imagine opting for this single disc. Anyone looking for more material will be forced to purchase sets with redundant selections. Still, if you are only seeking one collection, you cannot go wrong with Dark Was the Night. Included are both "God Moves on the Water" and "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground," which are both utterly necessary, along with the classics "Praise God I'm Satisfied," "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed," "John the Revelator," and 11 others. "God Moves" is a slide masterpiece in which Johnson's guitar interjections and responses become as captivating as his voice and a tale of the Titanic sinking at the will of God. "Dark Was the Night" is an otherworldly performance of gorgeously spun slide lines and Johnson's wordless moaning, aimed straight at the heart. Everything else on hand is nothing less than emotionally rich, consummately executed and spiritually charged blues at its very best.

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Dark Was The Night



• John Dee Holeman - John Dee Holeman & The Waifs Band
• Various - Angola Prison Spirtuals

Oznake: Texas Blues, Blind Willie Johnson, Gospel, Slide Guitar Blues

Various - Angola Prison Spirtuals

Styles: Work Songs, Gospel
Label: Arhoolie
Released: 2003
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 172,3 MB
Time: 75:15
Art: full

1. I'm On My Way
Andy Mosely- vocal; Robert Pete Williams- guitar
2. Church On Fire With The Word Of God
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
3. What Shall I Do
Robert 'Guitar' Welch- vocal & guitar
4. Brother Norah
Angola Quartet: Willy Rafus- lead vocal, with Edward James, Ollie Brown & Burnel Jones
5. Little School Song
Tom Dutson- vocal; Robert Pete Williams- guitar
6. Dyin' Soul
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
7. Let My People Go
Roosevelt Charles- vocal
8. So Much Is Happenin' In The News
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
9. Dig My Grave With A Silver Spade
om Dutson- vocal; Robert Pete Williams- guitar
10. Brother Mosely Crossed The Water
Andy Mosely- vocal & washboard; 'Hogman' Maxey- guitar
11. I'm Stranded On The Banks Of Ole Jordan
Angola Quartet # 2: Willy Joe- lead, with Roosevelt Charles, Edward James & Willie McGee
12. I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
13. The Old Ship Of Zion
Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne with congregation
14. When I Lay My Burden Down
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
15. See How They Done My Lord
Angola Quartet (six) from Camp A
16. Be With Me Jesus
Angola Quartet (six) from Camp A
17. Rise And Fly
Angola Vocal Group- unidentified lead singers
18. I Know I Got Religion
Andy Mosely- vocal & washboard; 'Hogman' Maxey- guitar
19. Jesus
Andy Mosely- vocal & washboard; 'Hogman' Maxey- guitar
20. I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me)
Angola Choir (Murray Ted Macon- director)
21. Each Day (Life's Evening Sun)
Angola Choir (Murray Ted Macon- director)
22. Steal Away To Jesus
Angola Choir (Murray Ted Macon- director)


Notes: The power of African American prison spirituals is without equal. If it were not for the work of a few intrepid ethnomusicologists these songs would have vanished from the collective memory of American music. Fortunately Dr. Harry Oster travelled through Louisiana in the early 1960's and recorded this music before it vanished from the tradition. Most of these tracks were released in the 1960's on LP. Now, for the first time, they are available on CD with 9 tracks that have never been commercially available. The legendary singer and guitarist Robert Pete Williams is heard on several of these raw and emotive cuts.

Originally released on LP on the Folk-Lyric label, Angola Prison Spirituals was recorded in the late '50s by the renowned folklorist and song collector Dr. Harry Oster. The first 13 cuts come from that glorious album, and for the CD reissue, Chris Strachwitz has added nine more tracks -- two from their excellent Robert Pete Williams volumes and seven more that have never been issued in any form before, all of which were recorded by Oster. Prisoners in the Angola Penitentiary recorded virtually everything here. Williams is most notable for his career after prison, but his songs here are far different from his other blues music: the disregard he has for traditional song form and its meter and rhyme lends an eerie, very present quality to the spirits evoked in his texts. Elsewhere, the chants by the Angola Vocal Group give rise to the notion that the songs considered to be traditional African-American spirituals are also constructs put on the culture by whites. Tom Dutson and Williams perform together on "Brother Norah," with its deep, ancient roots in otherworldly harmonies, and "Dyin' Soul" is spookier and more mournful than anything that most would recognize as arising from the spiritual canon. But it is on "Rise and Fly" by the Angola Vocal Group that listeners can hear the timelessness of the blues and the primitive, pre-Thomas Dorsey gospel music that sounds as if it came from field hollers more than the church pew. There isn't any music anywhere more powerful than this. There isn't any music closer to tearing the veil that separates the worlds of spirit and flesh; there isn't any music that echoes the beat of the human heart, the fear and hope in its soul, or the passion in the grain of its voice like this music does. There isn't any music like this anywhere.
Thom Jurek, Allmusic

Angola Prison Spirtuals



• Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo - Spirit Of Mercy: A Collection
• Cora Fluker - Look How The World Has Made A Change

Oznake: Various, Work Songs, Gospel

Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo - Spirit Of Mercy: A Collection

Size: 133,0 MB
Time: 56:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues Gospel, Harmonica Blues
Label: Ultra Sound Records
Art: Front

01. Mercy (Feat. Garth Hudson) (1:09)
02. You Gotta Move (4:05)
03. Needed Time (Feat. Ponty Bone) (4:36)
04. I'm On My Way (Feat. The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Charlie Masselwhite) (5:32)
05. I Heard The Angels Singin' (Feat. Eric Bibb, Garth Hudson) (4:33)
06. Spiritual (Feat. Debbi Walton) (5:31)
07. Nobody's Faul But Mine (Feat. Rob Paparozzi) (3:34)
08. Glory Glory (Feat. Guy Davis, Augie Meyers) (3:53)
09. The Soul Of A Man (Alternate Take) (5:01)
10. Precious Lord (3:39)
11. Jesus On The Mainline (Feat. Flaco Jimenez) [Alternate Take] (4:41)
12. Amazing Grace (1:13)
13. I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (Feat. Garth Hudson) (3:28)
14. I Shall Be Released (5:43)

Spirit of Mercy is a collection of blues and spiritual songs from the high praised Mercy and Spirit & Freedom albums (now out of print). It includes two alternate takes of Jesus on the mainline and The soul of a man.

Spirit Of Mercy: A Collection



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• Adam Gussow - Kick & Stomp •

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Oznake: Fabrizio Poggi, Chicken Mambo, Gospel, Harmonica Blues

Luther Dickinson And The Sons of Mudboy - Onward & Upward

Styles: Traditional Folk, Folk-Blues, Gospel Blues
Released: 2009
Label: Memphis International
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 90.0 MB
Time: 39:19
Art: front

1. Let It Roll - 4:16
2. Angel Band - 2:05
3. Where the Soul of a Man Never Dies - 3:17
4. Leaning On the Everlasting Arms - 3:01
5. Jis Eye Is On the Sparrow - 2:17
6. You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Highway - 3:01
7. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning - 4:08
8. Softly & Tenderly - 2:27
9. Up Over Yonder - 3:12
10. In the Garden - 2:30
11. Back Back Train - 4:35
12. Glory Glory - 4:25


Personnel:
Luther Dickinson - vocals, guitar
Sid Selvidge - guitar, vocals
Jimmy Crosthwait - washboard, vocals
Jimbo Mathus - guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals
Steve Selvidge - guitar, dobro, vocals
Paul Taylor - washtub bass
Shannon McNally - vocals

Notes: Just three days after the death of his father, Memphis (and Muscle Shoals and Miami) music legend Jim Dickinson, Luther Dickinson opened the doors to the family s Zebra Ranch studio in Independence, Mississippi and recorded Onward and Upward, an album of gospel songs and hymns over the course of a few hours. Luther, one third of the North Mississippi All-Stars and now a member of The Black Crowes, was joined by an ad hoc group dubbed The Sons of Mudboy (an homage to his late father s influential rock band Mudboy and the Neutrons) who were all close to Dickinson the elder and wished to address his loss in a musical way. The Sons of Mudboy include two veterans of the original Mudboy: Sid Selvidge (guitar, vocals) and Jimmy Crosthwait (washboard, vocals). Also on the session were Jimbo Mathus (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals) formerly of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and of the South Memphis String Band, Steve Selvidge (guitar, dobro, vocals) and Paul Taylor (washtub bass) as well as vocalist Shannon McNally.
Inspired by Dickinson pater familias, Luther and company duplicated the sound of mid-Century era reel-to-reel filed recordings, using only two microphones plugged directly into a two-track ˝ inch tape recorder: no mixing after the fact. Ardent s John Fry mastered the tracks directly from the two track to the mother stamper from which (vinyl) pressings were sourced. Most of the songs were nailed in just one take with just a few exceptions and those were completed in no more than three takes. That s just how we do it, Luther muses.
Onward and Upward will be released on November 10 by Memphis International, the label for which Jim Dickinson, as his performing alter ego James Luther Dickinson, released his last three album, Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger (2006), Killers From Space (2007) and this year s Dinosaurs Run in Circles.
The songs are part of Luther s musical heritage. He grew up hearing Softly and Tenderly and Leaning on the Everlasting Arms at the Second Avenue Baptist Church in Memphis where his paternal grandmother played piano. He learned His Eye Is On The Sparrow from a hymnal that his father shared with him his mom, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, actually sang it to him in the hospital where her husband was being treated during his last days. Mississippi Fred McDowell s album Amazing Grace is the source of both Back Back Train and Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning and Luther had been known to perform them with the late Otha Turner who closed every show with Glory Glory, also included on Onward and Upward. Let It Roll is an original that sprang to Luther s mind at the moment he was loading in the analog tape machine on the day of the recordings. Another original, Up Over Yonder was written the day Luther s grandmother passed away.
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Onward & Upward



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• Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman Blues •

Oznake: Luther Dickinson, The Sons of Mudboy, Traditional Folk, Folk-Blues, Gospel

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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Oznake: Scott Ainslie, Acoustic Blues, Gospel

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

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

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

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

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

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



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• Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues •

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Oznake: Various, Country Blues, Gospel, Piano Blues

Cora Fluker - Look How The World Has Made A Change

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

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

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

Look How The World Has Made A Change



• Herschel Brown - Complete Recorded Works 1928-1929 •
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Never Alone •

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

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

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

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


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

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

Booklet

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

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Never Alone

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 31:50
Size: 72.9 MB
Styles: Gospel, Blues-R&B vocals
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[2:34] 1. Nothing Between
[1:35] 2. He's The Lily Of The Valley
[2:00] 3. Seeking For Me
[2:22] 4. Never Alone
[1:56] 5. Shine For Jesus
[4:14] 6. I Do Don't You
[4:25] 7. God Leads Us Along
[1:57] 8. The Family Prayer
[5:09] 9. What Are They Doin' In Heaven
[1:52] 10. I Saw The Light
[2:17] 11. Blow Ye The Trumpet Of Zion
[1:24] 12. Oh The Joy That Came To Me


One of the premier gospel singers (and guitarists) of the early-mid 20th century, the late Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s music experienced a resurgence in popularity in the new millennium. Although more comprehensive compilations exist, this tidy collection from Acrobat is a fine introduction to Tharpe’s soulful take on gospel, blues, and even jazz. The title track is warm, inspirational ballad rendered in a sing/speak voice that hits right at the center of the heart.

Never Alone

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Oznake: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Gospel, Classic Female Blues

Doug Quattlebaum - Softee Man Blues

Styles: Country Blues, Gospel, Piedmont Blues
Released: 1994
Label: Fantasy
File: mp3 @320 K/s
Size: 97.7 MB
Time: 41:50
Art: Full

1. Sweet Little Woman - 3:52
2. Whiskey Headed Woman - 2:31
3. Trouble In Mind - 3:44
4. You Is One Black Rat - 2:55
5. On My Way To School - 2:55
6. You Ain't No Good - 1:25
7. Come Back Blues - 3:26
8. Mama Don't Allow Me To Stay Ou - 3:47
9. Big Leg Woman - 2:44
10. Love Me Baby - 2:46
11. Black Night Is Falling - 3:01
12. Baby Take A Chance With Me - 2:45
13. So Sweet - 2:17
14. Worried Mind Blues - 3:30
Doug Quattlebaum - Guitar & Vocals

Recorded in Philadelphia, November 27, 1961.
Produced by Kenneth Godstein & Pete Welding
© 1962 Prestige-Bluesville Records

During the 1940s, Douglas Elijah Quattlebaum (1927) toured with a number of gospel groups, such as the Bells of Joy. In 1952, he recorded solo as a blues singer for the Gotham label. He was a forceful singer and guitarist, having been influenced by Blind Boy Fuller. In 1961, he was rediscovered in Philadelphia, singing and playing blues over the public address system of his ice-cream van, hence the title of his last recording, Softee Man Blues.
The forteen gripping, impassioned blues in this album will serve admirably to introduce the impressive talents of this singer and guitarist whose vital, fervently emotional performances restore to currency the art of the urban blues shouter in all its rousing, urgent intensity.

Softee Man Blues



• Rev. Gary Davis - Denver Colorado, 1968 •
• Memphis Willie B. - Hardworking Man Blues •

Oznake: Doug Quattlebaum, Country Blues, Gospel, Piedmont Blues

Blind Boys Of Alabama - I'll Find A Way

Size: 94,7 MB
Time: 41:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Gospel
Label: Sony Masterworks
Art: Front

01. God Put A Rainbow In The Cloud (2:36)
02. I'll Find A Way (To Carry It All) (3:38)
03. I Am Not Waiting Anymore (3:38)
04. I Shall Not Be Moved (2:44)
05. Take Me To The Water (3:20)
06. I've Been Searching (2:36)
07. There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated At The Conference Table) (5:17)
08. Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There (3:24)
09. Every Grain Of Sand (5:24)
10. My God Is Real (4:09)
11. Jubilee (4:19)

Produced by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver, Kathleen Edwards), I'll Find a Way is a unique collaboration between one of popular music's longest-running acts and one of its fastest-rising stars. Known primarily for his work in the indie and folk realms, the Bon Iver frontman proved a perfect fit to work with the Blind Boys, exhibiting a deep knowledge and appreciation of gospel music. Vernon and old friend and band mate Phil Cook (Megafaun, The Shouting Matches) corralled a lively backing band for the album and hand-picked a range of songs for the Blind Boys to sing. I'll Find a Way features some of the Blind Boys' most fervent vocals as well as contributions by a new generation of Blind Boys fans - Sam Amidon, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, Casey Dienel of White Hinterland, Patty Griffin, and Justin Vernon himself. The result is a rousing collection of gospel songs new and old that address life's most desperate hours but also savor the triumphs and reassurances.

I'll Find A Way



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Oznake: Blind Boys Of Alabama, Gospel

Doug Quattlebaum - If You've Ever Been Mistreated

Styles: Country Blues, Gospel, Piedmont Blues
Released: 1997
Label: Testament
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 130.0 MB
Time: 52:13
Art: full

1. Hard Luck Blues - 3:16
2. Good Woman Blues - 5:06
3. Baby, Please Don't Go - 1:33
4. Come Back, Baby - 2:58
5. Baby, What You Want Me to Do - 2:14
6. If You've Ever Been Mistreated - 4:50
7. Lizzie Lou - 1:49
8. Driftin' Blues - 3:23
9. What'd I Say - 2:17
10. Kiddio - 2:38
11. It's Nobody's Fault But Mine - 2:57
12. The Story of Adam and Eve - 3:53
13. Come Over Here - 4:09
14. The Honeydripper - 1:13
15. I've Been Working on My Baby - 1:31
16. Touch the Hem of His Garment - 2:11
17. He May Not Come When You Want Him - 2:04
18. How Great Thou Art - 2:47
19. Quattlebaum's Boogie - 1:46

Recorded in Philadelphia, July 6, 1961.
Produced by Pete Welding
© 1997 Testament Records

Doug Quattlebaum - Guitar & Vocals


Notes: Doug Quattlebaum has spent most of his life outside the music business, and those times that he was in were spent mainly singing gospel. Born in South Carolina in 1927, he came to Philadelphia in the early 1940s. In 1953 he cut three sides for Gotham records; two of them appeared on a Gotham 78, but the third was only rediscovered years later by Bruce Bastin and released on LP: it's the best of the three (Foolin' Me). In 1961 Pete Welding recorded Quattlebaum again, after hearing that he was still around - singing and playing for potential Mr. Softee ice cream customers on the streets of Philly, Doug's employment at the time. Scheduled for issue on a Testament album, the sides remained unissued until the release of this CD. A few months later Quattlebaum recorded for Bluesville, but to my knowledge that LP was never reissued on CD as were most Bluesvilles and is difficult to come by.

Quattlebaum's years singing gospel are reflected in this CD in that about half the tracks are gospel pieces. Among the best are He May Not Come When You Want Him, Sam Cooke's Touch the Hem of His Garment, and the gorgeous Come Over Here. It's Nobody's Fault But Mine is an 8-bar gospel tune, while Come Back, Baby sounds like a gospel song but is actually a blues. Doug inflects just about everything he sings with gospel mannerism, and his voice is melodic and strong. He often invaded the repertory of other blues-r&b-pop artists, and here sings stuff made famous by Brook Benton (Kidido), Charles Brown (Drifting Blues), and Ray Charles (Come Back Baby). A couple of tracks are short guitar instrumentals, though they are not that impressive. Quattlebaum played in the country blues format, accompanying himself on guitar, a style that urban Philadelphia probably didn't appreciate. But his singing and guitar playing are excellent, and his material quite varied despite the gospel influence. Country blues and gospel fans should enjoy this CD. ~ amazon

If You've Ever Been Mistreated



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Oznake: Country Blues, Doug Quattlebaum, Gospel, Pete Welding, Piedmont Blues

Rev. Gary Davis - Denver Colorado, 1968

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Blues Gospel, Folk-Blues
Label: Bootleg
Released: 1968
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 224,8 MB
Time: 98:13
Art: no

Disc 1
 1. She's Funny That Way -  5:51
 2. Walkin' Dog Blues -  4:53
 3. Maple Leaf Rag - 11:29
 4. Discussion and some fine guitar noodling -  8:43
 5. Buck Dance - 12:47
 6. Nearer My God To Thee -  8:43

Disc 2
 7. Civil War March (aka Soldier's March) - 13:04
 8. I'm Throwing Up My Hands (Mountain Jack Blues) -  5:06
 9. Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From -  5:23
10. Children of Zion -  4:18
11. My Grandmother's Cat - 17:49


Notes: Lot's of living room chatter between Rev. Gary Davis and the guests.
I have chosen to leave all that in for historical purposes.
This is a reel to reel recording made in 1968 at my home. We had Reverend Gary Davis over for dinner prior to a concert he was to perform the next evening. He was gracious enough to offer to play a few tunes for the guests after dinner. As you can hear there were quite a few people there sitting around our small living room while Gary performed. There was a great deal of interaction with Gary. Many of those present didn't know much about him and he answered our interesting or naive questions graciously interspersing his responses with some patter about each song he played. Obviously it was a wonderful experience and I'm glad I recorded it for the historical record. Later I learned more about Gary Davis and really could appreciate his importance in the world of music.
On CD 2, I have no idea what track 11 is (My Grandmother's cat). I have never heard that before but it sounds great.

I have no idea who wrote these words, and in whose home this event recorded. I have downloaded this album over the internet a few years ago.

Denver Colorado, 1968



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• Beige Fish - Wildcat Cafe •

Oznake: Rev. Gary Davis, Acoustic Blues, Folk-Blues, Gospel

Tom Feldmann - Lone Wolf Blues

Oznake: Acoustic Blues, Gospel, Tom Feldmann, Prewar Blues