Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Little Brother Montgomery - Tasty Blues

Size: 100,0 MB
Time: 42:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1960
Styles: Piano Blues, Chicago Blues
Label: Original Blues Classics
Art: Front

01. Taty Blues (4:43)
02. Santa Fe (2:39)
03. How Long, Brother? (3:39)
04. Pleading Blues (3:36)
05. No Special Rider (2:25)
06. Brother's Boogie (2:58)
07. Sneaky Pete Blues (4:22)
08. Something Keeps WorryingMe (4:06)
09. Cry, Cry Baby (3:04)
10. Satellite Blues (3:58)
11. Deep Fried (3:59)
12. Vicksburg Blues (3:14)

Here's a very attractive example of a pianist with roots dug deep in pre-war tradition updating his style just enough to sound contemporary for 1960. With a little help from bassist Julian Euell and Lafayette Thomas (better-known as Jimmy McCracklin's guitarist), Montgomery swoops through his seminal "Vicksburg Blues" and "No Special Rider" with enthusiasm and élan. ~Review by Bill Dahl

The Blues Is Personal

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Oznake: Little Brother Montgomery, Piano Blues, Chicago Blues

Angela Brown & Jan Luley - Wings Of Blues

Size: 152,7 MB
Time: 65:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: Luleymusic Rec.
Art: Front

01. Saint James Infirmary Blues (5:46)
02. Jailhouse Blues (5:28)
03. Please Send Me Someone To Love (5:27)
04. Wild Turkey (4:53)
05. I'm A Fool (5:23)
06. Million Dollar Secret (5:35)
07. I Got A Good Thing (3:52)
08. Sunday Kind Of Love (5:27)
09. Can We Do That (4:11)
10. Oh, Daddy (4:33)
11. You Didn't Want What You Had (3:24)
12. Back Water Blues (7:01)
13. C. C. Rider (4:29)

Angela Brown is certainly a Blues Diva – "raucous, raunchy and rumbustious" are just some of the words used to describe this great singer. Born in Chicago, Illinois. Angela began her musical career by singing gospel music in church and performing with school choirs. And, although she was aware of the blues, she didn´t devote herself to singing them until around 1980, when she played the role of Gertrude “Ma” Rainey in a stage musical. Inspired by the music, she worked, honing her craft, in numerous Chicago blues clubs, often accompanied by pianists Little Brother Montgomery, Erwin Helfer or Lovie Lee, or sharing the stage with her music friends, the likes of Blind John Davis, Pinetop Perkins, B.B. King, Georgie Fame, Long John Baldry... the list goes on. Her Debut recordings were released by the Red Beans label in 1983, and the first album under her own name was made in 1987 for the German label, Schubert Records. She was dubbed "The Bessie Smith of the Eighties" and later the 90´s, a deserved title given her strong renditions of vaudeville blues material. Her powerful voice is also well-suited to more modern blues and jazz styles, becoming a popular attraction at festivals all over the world; not only vocally, but for her onstage presence and oomph!! Angela has been included in The Guinness Book, Who´s Who of Blues, and the new Virgin´s Encyclopedia of the Blues. Making her one of the few Living Legends in Blues Music today. Past years have seen Angela voted in France "International Chanteuse De L´Annee 1999", and in the U.K. "Overseas Female Artist of the Year" and her album Thinking Out Loud with her English band The Mighty 45s was runner up as the UK Album of the Year 2000. 2005 C.D. Release Angela Brown and Jan Luley´s Wings of Blues. 2006 sees the release of Angela and her favourite 4 piece band, The Mighty 45s, new C.D. In A Dangerous Mood.

Wings Of Blues

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Oznake: Angela Brown, Jan Luley, Piano Blues

Craig Brenner - Live At The Old Mint: Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano

Size: 125,1 MB
Time: 53:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Piano Blues, Boogie Woogie
Label: Craig Brenner Music
Art: Front

01. I Stepped In Quicksand (4:52)
02. To Boogie Or Not To Boogie (4:12)
03. Train Blues (2:49)
04. The Crawdad Shuffle (2:38)
05. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (3:51)
06. Mess Around (4:02)
07. Hey Now Baby (3:30)
08. Backstage Boogie (3:02)
09. This Life I Live (6:58)
10. Brenner's Boogie (3:27)
11. Night Train (4:17)
12. The Bloomington Breakdown (2:24)
13. Blues In A-Sharp (3:58)
14. Carolina Shout (3:05)

Called "a fine and funky pianist" by Living Blues, pianist and composer Craig Brenner is a two-time recipient of Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Program grants. A resident of Bloomington, Indiana, Craig has been voted "Best Musician" in Bloomington numerous times in the Bloomington Independent, and Craig & The Crawdads has been chosen best band. A graduate of Florida Southern College, Craig attended the Indiana University School of Music from 1976 through 1980, studying with composer John Eaton, pianists Joseph Rezits and Enrica Cavallo Gulli, and jazz educator David Baker. Prior to moving to Indiana in 1976, Craig studied with jazz pianist Wally Cirillo and classical pianist Elizabeth Fishbein in Miami. Craig has also studied and performed with boogie woogie and stride master Bob Seeley and blues pianist Big Joe Duskin through one of the grants from the Indiana Arts Commission.

Live At The Old Mint is Craig's first CD since 2009. The CD features Craig playing blues and boogie woogie piano recorded live, including eight tracks with Alfred "Uganda" Roberts on congas recorded at the Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans in April of 2013. Other tracks feature Craig solo at the Mint in 2012 and at the Artsgarden in Indianapolis, and one track with Lori Brenner on rubboard.

A native of New Orleans, Alfred “Uganda” Roberts is an in-demand percussionist whose relationship with producer Allen Toussaint led to Roberts becoming house percussionist at Sea Saint Studios. Roberts played on the Meters’ “Afrika” and “Hey Pocky Way,” on Toussaint's Life, Love, and Faith (1972), and on The Wild Magnolias (1974). In 1972, Roberts was introduced to pianist Henry Roland Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair, at the 2nd annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival by Jazz Fest producer/founder Quint Davis, and Roberts toured and recorded with Fess for eight years until Fess’ death in 1980. Roberts is featured on Professor Longhair's Rock N Roll Gumbo (1977) with Snooks Eaglin and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, and on Fess' last studio album, Crawfish Fiesta (1980). The London Concert (recorded 1978) is a duo performance by Longhair and Roberts. Roberts toured with Willie Tee and the Wild Magnolias from 1980 until 1986, when he took a hiatus from the music industry, occasionally coming out of semi-retirement to tour and record on Dr. John's album Goin' Back to New Orleans (1992), Brenner’s Play It Again, Professor! (1995) and Man At The Piano (1997), and Dr. John’s Dis, Dat, or D’udda (2004).

Primary recording engineers for Live At The Old Mint were Danny Kadar at The Old U.S. Mint and Jeff Mountjoy at the Artsgarden, with mixing and mastering by Jacob Belser of Primary Sound Studios, and graphic design by Merridee LaMantia.

"Craig Brenner’s mastery of good-time solo piano styles has always played well live. It’s impossible to not groove on the rhythms and stylistic differences when he moves from boogie woogie to stride, barrelhouse blues and then, just when the time is right, something of a more elegant jazz vibe. Live At The Old Mint is Brenner’s first live album and that versatility is well-demonstrated here. Maybe most surprising is that a lively room can cover up all sorts of mistakes, but Brenner plays so well and so accurately here it’s a revelation. He may be the Boogie Woogie King of Bloomington, Indiana, but it’s doubtful anyone would challenge that royal status at the Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans, where the ghost of Professor Longhair still roams the streets, and where most of this album was recorded." -- Mike Leonard, Bloom Magazine

"Piano master Craig Brenner is one of the finest ambassadors of the music of New Orleans and central Indiana is lucky to have him. Following up his strongest studio album to date (Live to Love from 2009) is a series of live recordings ranging from 2006-2013. The majority of the recordings were done at The Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans (thus the title) with recordings from Indianapolis and Bloomington. Despite the differences in time and locations, this is still a seamless series of songs. Helping Brenner out is Lori Brenner on rubboard on some tracks and Alfred "Uganda" Roberts on congas on others. It's fun to hear new versions of Brenner's "To Boogie or Not to Boogie," "The Crawdad Shuffle" and "Backstage Boogie" blend in with staples "Mess Around," "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" and "Night Train." A must-have for any music collection." -- Matthew Socey, Host of The Blues House Party, WFYI, February 2014

Live At The Old Mint

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Oznake: Craig Brenner, Piano 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)
Read more about Al Cook
Read more about blues in Austria

The Birmingham Jam



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

Little Willie Littlefield - Paris Streetlights

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

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

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

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

Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends - Ugly Papa

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks to DrPeak.
Ugly Papa



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

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Oznake: Julia Lee, Piano Blues

Champion Jack Dupree - Live With The Big Town Playboys

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

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

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

A formidable contender in the ring before he shifted his focus to pounding the piano instead, Champion Jack Dupree often injected his lyrics with a rowdy sense of down-home humor. But there was nothing lighthearted about his rock-solid way with a boogie; when he shouted "Shake Baby Shake," the entire room had no choice but to acquiesce.

Dupree was notoriously vague about his beginnings, claiming in some interviews that his parents died in a fire set by the Ku Klux Klan, at other times saying that the blaze was accidental. Whatever the circumstances of the tragic conflagration, Dupree grew up in New Orleans' Colored Waifs' Home for Boys (Louis Armstrong also spent his formative years there). Learning his trade from barrelhouse 88s ace Willie "Drive 'em Down" Hall, Dupree left the Crescent City in 1930 for Chicago and then Detroit. By 1935, he was boxing professionally in Indianapolis, battling in an estimated 107 bouts.

In 1940, Dupree made his recording debut for Chicago A&R man extraordinaire Lester Melrose and OKeh Records. Dupree's 1940-1941 output for the Columbia subsidiary exhibited a strong New Orleans tinge despite the Chicago surroundings; his driving "Junker's Blues" was later cleaned up as Fats Domino's 1949 debut, "The Fat Man." After a stretch in the Navy during World War II (he was a Japanese P.O.W. for two years), Dupree decided tickling the 88s beat pugilism any old day. He spent most of his time in New York and quickly became a prolific recording artist, cutting for Continental, Joe Davis, Alert, Apollo, and Red Robin (where he cut a blasting "Shim Sham Shimmy" in 1953), often in the company of Brownie McGhee. Contracts meant little; Dupree masqueraded as Brother Blues on Abbey, Lightnin' Jr. on Empire, and the truly imaginative Meat Head Johnson for Gotham and Apex.

King Records corralled Dupree in 1953 and held onto him through 1955 (the year he enjoyed his only R&B chart hit, the relaxed "Walking the Blues.") Dupree's King output rates with his very best; the romping "Mail Order Woman," "Let the Doorbell Ring," and "Big Leg Emma's" contrasting with the rural "Me and My Mule" (Dupree's vocal on the latter emphasizing a harelip speech impediment for politically incorrect pseudo-comic effect).

After a year on RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries, Dupree made a masterpiece LP for Atlantic. 1958's Blues From the Gutter is a magnificent testament to Dupree's barrelhouse background, boasting marvelous readings of "Stack-O-Lee," "Junker's Blues," and "Frankie & Johnny" beside the risqué "Nasty Boogie." Dupree was one of the first bluesmen to leave his native country for a less racially polarized European existence in 1959. He lived in a variety of countries overseas, continuing to record prolifically for Storyville, British Decca (with John Mayall and Eric Clapton lending a hand at a 1966 date), and many other firms.

Perhaps sensing his own mortality, Dupree returned to New Orleans in 1990 for his first visit in 36 years. While there, he played the Jazz & Heritage Festival and laid down a zesty album for Bullseye Blues, Back Home in New Orleans. Two more albums of new material were captured by the company the next year prior to the pianist's death in January of 1992. Jack Dupree was a champ to the very end. ~Biography by Bill Dahl

Thanks to DrPeak.
Live With The Big Town Playboys



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

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Oznake: Champion Jack Dupree, Piano Blues

Cousin Joe - New York and New Orleans Blues 1945-1951

Styles: Piano Blues, Jazz Blues, Jump Blues, New Orleans Blues
Label: EPM
Released: 2002
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 143,2 MB
Time: 62:29
Art: full

1. Bad, Bad Baby Blues - 3:00
2. Broken Man Blues - 2:35
3. Just Another Woman - 2:57
4. Wedding Day Blues - 3:09
5. Desperate G.I. Blues - 3:04
6. Boogie Woogie Hannah - 2:56
7. You Ain't So-Much-A-Much - 2:48
8. The Barefoot Boy - 2:53
9. If You Just Keep Stick - 2:36
10. When You're Mother's Gone - 2:58
11. It's Dangerous to Be a Husband - 2:46
12. Death House Blues - 2:44
13. Don't Pay Me No Mind - 2:56
14. Bachelor's Blues - 2:44
15. Bad Luck Blues - 2:58
16. Box Car Shorty and Peter Blue - 2:49
17. Beggin' Woman - 2:54
18. Sadie Brown - 2:49
19. Love Sick Soul - 2:29
20. Looking for My Baby - 2:53
21. High Powered Gal - 2:55
22. Second Hand Love - 2:24

Notes: Few blues legends have the presence of mind to write autobiographies. Fortunately, Pleasant Joseph did, spinning fascinating tales of a career in his 1987 tome Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans that spanned more than half a century.
Growing up in New Orleans, Pleasant began singing in church before crossing over to the blues. Guitar and ukulele were his first axes. He eventually prioritized the piano instead, playing Crescent City clubs and riverboats. He moved to New York in 1942, gaining entry into the city's thriving jazz scene (where he played with Dizzy Gillespie, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and a host of other luminaries).
He recorded for King, Gotham, Philo (in 1945), Savoy, and Decca along the way, doing well on the latter logo with "Box Car Shorty and Peter Blue" in 1947. After returning to New Orleans in 1948, he recorded for DeLuxe and cut a two-part "ABCs" for Imperial in 1954 as Smilin' Joe under Dave Bartholomew's supervision. But by then, his recording career had faded.
The pianist was booked on a 1964 Blues and Gospel Train tour of England, sharing stages with Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe and appearing on BBC-TV with the all-star troupe. He cut a 1971 album for the French Black & Blue label, Bad Luck Blues, that paired him with guitarists Gatemouth Brown and Jimmy Dawkins and a Chicago rhythm section -- hardly the ideal situation, but still a reasonably effective showcase for the ebullient entertainer (it was reissued in 1994 by Evidence) ~AMG.

New York and New Orleans Blues 1945-1951



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Oznake: Cousin Joe, Piano Blues, New Orleans Blues, Blues Jazz

Little Brother Montgomery - Complete Recorded Works 1930-1936

Styles: Piano Blues
Label: Document
Released: 1992
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 175,0 MB
Time: 75:21
Art: full

1. No Special Rider Blues - 2:53
2. Vicksburg Blues - 2:56
3. Louisiana Blues - 3:28
4. Frico Hi-Ball Blues - 2:33
5. The Woman I Love Blues - 3:38
6. Pleading Blues - 2:53
7. Vicksburg Blues No. 2 - 2:58
8. Mama You Don't Mean Me No Good - 3:12
9. Misled Blues - 2:43
10. The First Time I Met You - 2:46
11. A&V Railroad Blues - 2:34
12. Tantalizing Blues - 2:48
13. Vicksburg Blues, Part 3 - 3:10
14. Louisiana Blues, Part 2 - 2:56
15. Santa Fe Blues - 2:33
16. Something Keeps A-Worryin' Me - 2:47
17. Out West Blues - 2:46
18. Leaving Town Blues - 3:00
19. West Texas Blues - 2:50
20. Never Go Wrong Blues - 3:07
21. Sorrowful Blues - 2:57
22. Mistreatin' Woman Blues - 3:09
23. Chinese Man Blues - 2:45
24. Farish Street Jive - 2:35
25. Crescent City Blues - 2:36
26. Shreveport Farewell - 2:36

Notes: This single CD from the European Document label has all of Montgomery's 26 prewar recordings as a leader. Two solo numbers are from 1930, including "Vicksburg Blues"; there are a couple songs from 1931 and four duets with guitarist Walter Vincson from 1935. The remainder of this release features Montgomery during a marathon session on Oct. 16, 1936 that resulted in 18 solo selections. All the numbers except the final three on this CD have vocals by Montgomery, but the most rewarding selections are those three instrumentals. On "Farish Street Jive," "Crescent City Blues" and "Shreveport Farewell," Little Brother Montgomery shows just how talented a pianist he was, making one regret that he felt compelled to sing (in a likable but not particularly distinctive voice) on all of the other numbers. A very complete and historic set.

Complete Recorded Works 1930-1936



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Oznake: Little Brother Montgomery, Piano Blues

Van Hunt - Blues At Home 1: Recorded In Memphis, Tennessee (1976-1978)

Size: 162,7 MB
Time: 69:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Piano Blues, Memphis Blues
Label: Mbirafon
Art: Front

01. Sitting Here Drinking (Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson) (3:39)
02. No More Dogging (Mose Vinson) (2:17)
03. Early in the Morning, About the Break of Day (Take 1) (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (4:33)
04. Early in the Morning, About the Break of Day (Take 2) (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:40)
05. Nobody's Business but Mine (2:18)
06. That’s All Right (Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson) (2:46)
07. Forty-Four Blues (Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson) (2:02)
08. Tin Pan Alley (Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson) (2:37)
09. Mississippi River Blues (Take 1) (2:13)
10. Don't the Moon Look Lonesome (Take 2) (Mose Vinson) (2:42)
11. Just a Closer Walk With Thee (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:13)
12. You Don't Need Me No More (Mose Vinson) (2:43)
13. I Never Knew What Love Would Do (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (3:27)
14. Long Lonesome Road (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (3:11)
15. Careless Love (Mose Vinson) (1:56)
16. Corinna, Corinna (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:27)
17. Old Blue Jumped a Rabbit (Take 1) (Mose Vinson) (2:32)
18. Old Blue Jumped a Rabbit (Take 2) (Mose Vinson) (2:53)
19. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (Mose Vinson) (2:14)
20. The Darktown Strutters' Ball (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:06)
21. Crump and Jim Kinnane (1:13)
22. Jelly Selling Blues (Take 2) (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:25)
23. Troubled World (3:58)
24. Sunnyland Special (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (3:21)
25. Mose Vinson Discusses Old Blue Jumped a Rabbit (Mose Vinson) (1:30)
26. Mrs. Van Hunt Discusses Crump and Jim Kinnane (0:30)
27. Mrs. Van Hunt Discusses Bottleneck Technique (2:14)
28. Mrs. Van Hunt and Mrs. Ruth Ogilvie Discuss Repertoire (0:54)

Mbirafon presents its new “Blues At Home” CD Collection, with a wide range of artists and documents, that offer research-based, in-depth information for the public worldwide. With a sober and fluent design this new collection answers every demand of the modern blues audience who expect full usability with computers and mobile devices. Every volume has been carefully produced, giving listeners the all important confidence that the material featured is as high-quality as it is authentic.

On December 1972, with the help of the legendary harmonica player Hammie Nixon, using a professional portable equipment, I had the chance to start recording blues in Memphis. The documentary research continued in July 1976, ending in July 1982. A series of informal sessions was held during the course of my five trips through Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, featuring well known, but also little known, and unknown musicians. A collection of tapes and photographs was created and kept in my private archive. In order to preserve these materials I transferred to digital those I thought were best, and by 2013 the 15-volume “Blues At Home” CD Collection was ready for release.

The first volume of the Mbirafon “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features one of the most intense voices of the blues, Van Zula Carter Hunt. This central figure in the Memphis blues scene was born in 1901 in Somerville, Tennessee, but spent her whole life in Memphis, where she was living on South 4th Street when I met her in 1976. She started singing and playing at age five, performing with her brother and cousins in a group called Somerville Family Band. Around the late 1910s, she moved to Memphis and began her professional musical activity, traveling for several years with minstrel shows. She played with local blues artists such as Sleepy John Estes, Frank Stokes, Gus Cannon, and Memphis Minnie. In November 1930, she recorded “Selling The Jelly” (issued under the name of the Carolina Peanut Boys) in Memphis for Victor Records. She also recorded some gospel sides as a chorus member with Rev. E.D. Campbell for Victor in 1927. Van Hunt was rediscovered, through the referral of Dewey Corley, by Gene Rosenthal, who recorded her for the Adelphi label in 1969-1970.
Mose Vinson was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1917. He learned how to play the piano at the age of five from his mother, who played the organ at church. His father, also a musician and a piano player, taught him his first musical elements and some early blues. Vinson started playing in public in 1932 around the age of 15 and was spotted for his talent by some white managers in 1936. He studied and learned to read music, and joined a band in Nashville for six years. He recalled leaving Holly Springs at an early age and traveling in the areas of Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas, reaching Memphis in 1945, where he lived for the rest of his life. While in Memphis, Mose’s piano style was influenced by several musicians, mostly active in local cabarets and nightclubs where he gained some of his musical experience. He also performed during those years with B.B. King for black audiences, recalling Memphis Slim and Walter Davis as well. During the ‘50s, he recorded for several labels, including Sun Records, with Joe Hill Louis and Jimmy De Berry. Mose Vinson stopped playing at clubs around 1962, and in 1969-1970 was rediscovered and recorded by Gene Rosenthal for Adelphi Records. One of the best-known and respected Memphis piano blues players, he performed in the River City and abroad until his death in 2002 at age 85.
Van Hunt’s daughter Sweet Charlene Peeples was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1936. She received her musical training mainly in church vocal groups and during the late 1940s and 1950s in local nightclubs. She performed professionally on several Memphis stages. A very reserved person, Charlene stopped her musical activities during the early 1970s, although she made a few public appearances in 1971 at both the River City Blues Festival and the Wolf Trap National Park Festival in Virginia, and at the Beale Street Music Festival in 1979. In 1976 and 1978, I had the chance to record various sessions with Mose Vinson, Van Hunt, and Sweet Charlene. This CD features four examples of Van Hunt on vocal and guitar, and various tracks accompanied by Mose Vinson’s piano. There are also blues and boogie solos by Mose Vinson plus four pieces sung by Sweet Charlene with his piano accompaniment. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered in 2013 from the original tapes. ~Giambattista Marcucci

Blues At Home 1



• VA - Bukka White & Others: Blues At Home 7 •
• Sam Chatmon - Blues At Home 2 •

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Oznake: Van Hunt, Mose Vinson, Sweet Charlene, Memphis Blues, Piano Blues

Memphis Piano Red - Blues At Home 4

Size: 133,1 MB
Time: 56:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: Mbirafon
Art: Front

01. Untitled Slow Boogie (2:24)
02. Baby Please Come Back To Me (3:52)
03. Red's Delight (2:55)
04. I Need Love So Bad (3:27)
05. Forty-Four Blues (3:23)
06. Barrelhouse Blues (Take 1) (2:31)
07. Pretty Little Flower (Feat. Sleepy John Estes) (3:34)
08. After Hours (0:59)
09. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (2:00)
10. How Long, How Long Blues (4:13)
11. Barrelhouse Blues (Take 2) (2:37)
12. Going Down Slow (2:53)
13. Cow Cow Blues (2:24)
14. Mr. Freddie Blues (1:56)
15. Dark Muddy Bottom (2:50)
16. Memphis Blues (1:37)
17. Standing At The Crossroads (1:48)
18. Aggravating Papa (1:44)
19. Mother-In-Law Blues (2:37)
20. Louisiana Blues (1:56)
21. Rocky Mountain Blues (3:16)
22. Untitled Slow Boogie No. 2 (1:49)

The fourth volume of the “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features an underrated but outstanding piano blues musician, John Williams (a.k.a. Memphis Piano Red). He was born an albino in Germantown, Tennessee, in 1904 in a family with 11 children, six of whom played musical instruments. He learned how to play piano at the age of 13 from one of his sisters and was influenced by local Germantown piano blues players. In 1930 he moved to Memphis where he started his musical activity, playing often in Beale Street bars. He hoboed and rode freight trains for more than 25 years, visiting and sojourning in various states, developing a solid barrelhouse piano technique coupled with strong, heartfelt singing. He never had the chance to record 78 rpm race records, and was discovered in the late '60s during blues revival times. Only a limited number of examples of his music have ever been released; and in most of that material, the piano is out of tune. This CD has been recorded during two long sessions held in 1972 and 1978 at his private home in Memphis, Tennessee, using well-tuned pianos. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered in 2013 from the original tapes. ~Giambattista Marcucci

Blues At Home 4



• Cary Tate & Alonzo Burks - Blues At Home 5 •
• Eugene Powell - Blues At Home 3 •

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Oznake: Piano Blues, Memphis Piano Red

VA - Bukka White & Others: Blues At Home 7

Size: 136,0 MB
Time: 58:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Country Blues, Piano Blues, Memphis Blues
Label: Mbirafon
Art: Front

01. Bukka White - I'm Getting Ready, My Time Done Come (2:55)
02. Bukka White - The Aberdeen Blues (3:21)
03. Bukka White - Booker T.'s Doctor Blues (4:52)
04. Bukka White - Brownsville, Tennessee (3:09)
05. Bukka White - My Theme Song (Bed Springs Blues) (4:04)
06. Bukka White - Talking About Old, Talking About Young (Feat. Hammie Nixon) (1:53)
07. Bukka White - Christmas Eve (2:57)
08. Dewey Corley - Stop And Listen (3:13)
09. Dewey Corley - Just A Dream (3:16)
10. Dewey Corley - Fishing In The Dark (2:48)
11. Dewey Corley - Blues Jumped A Rabbit (3:44)
12. Dewey Corley - Dresser Drawer Blues (2:24)
13. Dewey Corley - Yancey Special (1:55)
14. Dewey Corley - Big Legged Woman (3:57)
15. Laura Dukes - Stack O'lee Blues (2:21)
16. Laura Dukes - Jimmy, You Are My Heart And Soul (2:21)
17. Laura Dukes - I Got To Get Myself Somebody To Love (1:45)
18. Laura Dukes - Little Laura's Blues (3:02)
19. Laura Dukes - Doggone My Soul (1:58)
20. Laura Dukes - Bricks In My Pillow (1:58)

The three Memphis blues musicians featured in this album were all recorded on the memorable day of 27 December 1972: Bukka White at his home; Laura Dukes at Furry Lewis’ home; and Dewey Corley at Memphis Piano Red’s home.

The seventh volume of the “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features one of the major Mississippi bluesmen to be rediscovered during the blues revival of the '60s. Born near Houston, Mississippi, sometime between 1903 and 1909, Bukka White learned to play guitar and piano at an early age. From 1930 through 1940, he recorded for Victor, Vocalion, OKeh, and the Library of Congress several amazing titles characterized by strong rhythms, powerful bottleneck slide guitar, and original, very personal lyrics. In 1963, after nearly 20 years of obscurity, he was luckily rediscovered in Memphis, Tennessee. From that moment, Bukka entered the Blues Revival folk festival circuit, performing in the U.S. and abroad and also recording various albums, mostly in studios or during public appearances on concert stages and in coffeehouses. This CD features the complete relaxed session recorded at his private home in Memphis on December 22, 1972, in the stately presence of Sleepy John Estes and Hammie Nixon. Although very short in duration (23:29), the session delivers surprisingly crisp and clear sound quality and contains some of Bukka's most spirited and authentic material ever recorded after his rediscovery. Also featured on this CD is some unusual material by former jug band members Dewey Corley on piano and Laura Dukes on ukulele, recorded on the same day, December 22, 1972.
Son of the accordion player Will Corley, Dewey Corley was born in 1897 in Memphis, Tennessee; other sources report St. Louis, Missouri, or Halley, Arkansas. He left home when he was a boy and starting hoboing on freight trains until he settled in Memphis in 1916, where he lived ever since. As a child he learned how to play harmonica; then, in Memphis, the bull-fiddle (one-string bass), kazoo, jug, and piano. In 1934, he recorded for the OKeh label with the Memphis Jug Band, playing the jug. During the late '30s and '40s, he collaborated with several artists and bands, including Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band, Laura Dukes, Van Hunt, Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Joe Hill Louis, John “Piano Red” Williams' trio, and Willie Borum with whom he teamed up quite often. In 1940, the Application for a Social Security Number reports his home address as 316 Beale Street, and he was not married. According to Willie Borum, Dewey then married a "fat lady" whom Borum mentions as Mrs. Emma Corley. They separated later at an unknown date. Dewey sings about this woman in several blues featured on the CD. After World War II he started his own Beale Street Jug Band, performing on the bull-fiddle until the early '60s. Rediscovered by George Mitchell in 1967, he recorded several pieces on vocal, bull-fiddle, and kazoo, accompanied by Walter Miller on guitar, released on Arhoolie and Fat Possum Records. He also recorded material for Bengt Olsson and Gene Rosenthal (Adelphi Records) with different accompanists, Willie Morris among others. In 1969 and 1971, he participated in blues festivals held in Memphis and Wolf Trap National Park, Virginia. After the recordings I made in Memphis in December 1972, at John Williams' and Mose Vinson’s homes, Dewey fell into oblivion, and there is no report of further musical activities before his death in 1974.
Laura Dukes was born in 1907 in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, Alex Dukes, had been a drummer in W.C. Handy's band at the turn of the century, just when Handy composed his three famous blues. One of four children, Laura made her first appearance on stage as a performer in 1912 at the age of five. Starting her professional activities in the early '20s as a dancer and singer in local clubs on Beale Street, she performed during the late 1920s and 1930s for medicine shows and carnivals touring in various states. She also regularly performed on Beale Street during those years. In 1933, she met the blues guitar player Robert Nighthawk (Robert McCollum) and learned guitar from him, but she soon preferred to switch to the banjo-ukulele. The two spent several years traveling together and performing, especially in juke joints in the East St. Louis area where they had met. In 1934 she recorded with the Memphis Jug Band; Laura knew and gigged with Dewey Corley when he played bull-fiddle with the band. From 1944 to circa 1956, she performed with the South Memphis Jug Band at house parties and clubs in and near Memphis. Between 1956 and 1966, she played only at home and for neighbors; she made a comeback in the late 1970s, appearing frequently in the Memphis area, in particular at the Blues Alley nightclub, and is featured in several documentary programs. She also worked for 27 years in a church nursery, taking care of children through the 1970s and '80s. The December 1972 recordings cut at Furry Lewis’s house present her only and probably best work as a solo performer for variety and skill on the ukulele. This material has been remastered and republished for the first time in its total integrity on this CD. The 1982 interview with Laura Dukes can be found in volume 14 of this series. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered in 2013 from the original tapes. ~Giambattista Marcucci

Bukka White & Others: Blues At Home 7



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• Memphis Minnie - Queen Of The Blues •

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Oznake: Various, Bukka White, Dewey Corley, Laura Dukes, Memphis Blues, Country Blues, Piano Blues

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

Styles: Piano Blues, Early Jazz, Ragtime
Label: HVR
Released: 1993
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 135,3 MB
Time: 58:11
Art: front

1. Mississippi Mud - 2:51
2. The Chevy Chase - 3:28
3. Alligator Crawl - 2:40
4. Cranberry Stomp - 3:06
5. Sleepy Hollow Rag - 4:02
6. A Dream Of Sedalia - 3:09
7. Key Stone Rag - 2:21
8. Maple Leaf Rag - 3:29
9. Charleston Rag - 3:44
10. 12th Street Rag - 3:27
11. Castle House Rag - 3:30
12. New Orleans' World's Fair Rag - 4:51
13. Hanon Rag - 3:19
14. Ragtime Nightingale - 4:29
15. Wild Cherries - 2:58
16. Polyphonic Rag - 3:35
17. Red Lion Rag - 3:03


Notes: A superior ragtime/stride pianist who is not too shy to improvise a bit even on classic rags, Sue Keller has recorded several excellent CDs for her Ragtime Press label. Due to the particularly strong material on the release, this CD is a good place to begin exploring Keller's music. In addition to vintage tunes from the 1920s and a variety of rags (both famous and obscure), Keller also performs six newer rags, including her "Cranberry Stomp" and two pieces from Tex Wyndham. A well-rounded set highlighted by such numbers as "The Chevy Chase," "Alligator Crawl," "Castle House Rag," and "New Orleans World's Fair Rag."
Ol' Muddy has always been Sue's most popular Ragtime CD. Probably because it includes some of best known ragtime tunes performed with an excitement and style that makes them fresh again.

Ol' Muddy: Riverboat Ragtime-Era Piano Sounds



• Carl Leyland & Kim Cusack - Stompin' Upstairs
• The Even Dozen Jug Band - Jug Band Songs Of The Southern Mountains

Oznake: Sue Keller, Rag, Piano Blues

Roosevelt Sykes - Chicago Boogie

Size: 113,8 MB
Time: 47:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Chicago Blues, Piano Blues
Label: Delmark
Art: Full

01. Drivin' Wheel (2:52)
02. West Helena Blues (2:58)
03. Wonderin' Blues (2:18)
04. Monkey Face Blues (2:55)
05. Rock It (2:59)
06. Chicago Boogie (1:39)
07. Security Blues (3:03)
08. Soon Forgotten (2:41)
09. Green Onion Top (2:37)
10. Mail Box Blues (2:51)
11. 44 Blues (3:32)
12. Complete This Order (3:28)
13. Blues 'n' Boogie (2:32)
14. Winter Time Blues (2:48)
15. Rock It (3:01)
16. My Resolution (2:41)
17. Kickin' Motor Scooter (2:39)

This Delmark CD issue is taken from Roosevelt Sykes' first early-'50s recordings for the Regal label, with a few tracks taken from the early '60s, and issued by Delmark originally. Sykes was fresh from a long tenure with RCA Victor and Bluebird, and artistically hungry for the first time in at least a decade. The sides here reflect that fresh-start feel. Sykes performs here like a young lion artist who is trying to blow the doors off the joint to prove himself, rather than as a seasoned veteran. There are three different sessions here: one from March 14, 1950 (with Jump Jackson on drums), another from April 10, 1951 (with J.T. Brown on tenor sax, Ransom Knowling on bass, and Jackson on drums), and a final one from May 17, 1963 (with St. Louis Jimmy on vocals on four of the nine). This stuff is the Sykes' mother lode. Not only have none of these tracks ever appeared on CD before, nine of them are issued here for the very first time anywhere. Here is the piano-pumping, wailing singer, digging deep and having a ball on the title track, "Drivin' Wheel," "Rock It," "Green Onion Top," "44 Blues," and "West Helena Blues," with 12 others in the mix. Sound quality here is pretty much great and the sequencing is primo. This is an indispensable addition to any Roosevelt Sykes' shelf, and one hell of an introduction for novices. ~Review by Thom Jurek

Chicago Boogie



• Various - Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues •
• Various - Classic Appalachian Blues From Smithsonian Folkways •

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Oznake: Roosevelt Sykes, Chicago Blues, Piano Blues

Various - Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues

Styles: Chicago Blues, Acoustic Blues, Piano Blues, Delta Blues
Released: 1979
Label: Storyville
File: mp3@320K/s (from vinyl)
Size: 205.2 MB
Time: 89:38
Art: front

Side 1
1. Smoky Babe - Boogy - 2:40
Smoky Babe (vocals, guitar)

2. Avery Brady - I Don't Want You No More - 2:57
Avery Brady (vocals, guitar)

3. Doug Quattlebaum - Good Woman Blues - 4:44
Doug Quattlebaum (vocals, guitar)

4. Huddie Ledbetter - Frankie And Albert, parts 1 + 2 - 2:38
Huddie Ledbetter (vocals, guitar)

5. Arthur Weston - Someday Baby - 1:36
Arthur Weston (vocals, guitar), George Robertson (harmonica)

6. Big Joe Williams - Long Road Blues - 2:13
Big Joe Williams (vocals, guitar)

7. Big Bill Broonzy - You Better Mind - 2:12
Big Bill Broonzy (vocals, guitar)

Side 2
8. Clarence Edwards - Mean Old Frisco - 3:23
Clarence Edwards (vocals, guitar), Cornelius Edwards (guitar), Butch Cage (fiddle)

9. Bert Logan - Four O'Clock In The Morning - 2:47
Bert Logan (vocals, guitar), Russ Logan (vocal, washboard), Big Joe Williams (guitar)

10. Big Joe Henry Miller - Down Here By Myself - 4:14
Big Joe Henry Miller (vocals, guitar), Jimmy Lee Miller (guitar)

11. Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - 21 Below Zero - 2:40
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires (vocals, guitar), Johnny Joung (guitar)

12. Johnny Young - Green Door Blues - 4:03
Johnny Young (vocals, mandolin), John Lee Graunderson (guitar), John Wrencher (harmonica)

13. Arthur Weston - Roll Me Over Slow - 2:41
Arthur Weston (vocals, guitar), Big Joe Williams (guitar), George Robertson (harmonica)

Side 3
14. Champion Jack Dupree - Back Door Special - 2:47
Champion Jack Dupree (vocal, piano)

15. Roosevelt Sykes - Southern Style Piano - 5:29
Roosevelt Sykes (piano)

16. Henry Brown - Low Down Drag - 4:39
Henry Brown (piano)

17. Memphis Slim - Funky Blues - 4:25
Memphis Slim (piano)

18. Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special - 4:17
Jimmy Yancey (piano)

19. Sunnyland Slim - Sunnyland's Boogie - 2:57
Sunnyland Slim (piano)

Side 4
20. Speckled Red - Cow Cow Blues - 3:36
Speckled Red (vocal, piano)

21. Otis Spann - The Skies Are Blue - 3:36
Otis Spann (vocal, piano)

22. Memphis Slim - A Letter Home - 3:05
Memphis Slim (vocal, piano)

23. Otis Spann - Boots And Shoes - 3:15
Otis Spann (vocal, piano)

24. Memphis Slim - Rebecca Blues - 4:55
Memphis Slim (vocal, piano), Sonny Boy Williamson (vocal, harmonica)

25. Willie Mabon - I'm The Fixer - 3:04
Willie Mabon (vocal, piano), Billy Emerson (organ), Lacy Gipson (guitar), Jack Myers (bass), Al Duncan (drums)

26. Champion Jack Dupree - I Just Want To Be Free - 4:32
Champion Jack Dupree (vocal, piano)

Notes: Recorded mostly between 1960 and 1965, except track 4 NY 1939 and track 18 Chicago 1950
05. Jimmy Brewer - Big Road Blues, Even though shown on the cover as well as on the label track listing and even though there's a picture and a short bio of Jim Brewer in the liner notes - this Jim Brewer track is actually / erraneously? not included; instead there's the following Arthur Weston track !!! ~ www.wirz.de

Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues, part 1
Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues, part 2

or

Ziddu



• Memphis Minnie - Queen Of The Blues •
• Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Alone & Acoustic •

Oznake: Big Bill Broonzy, Big Joe Williams, Champion Jack Dupree, Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Doug Quattlebaum, Leadbelly, Memphis Slim, Otis Spann, Piano Blues, Roosevelt Sykes, Sunnyland Slim, Various

Edwin 'Buster' Pickens - The 1959 To 1961 Sessions

Size: 122,6 MB
Time: 52:16
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: Document Records
Art: Front

01. Boar Hog Blues (Texas Alexander) (0:35)
02. You got good buisness (1:45)
03. Santa Fe Train (4:02)
04. Rock Island Blues (4:33)
05. Ain't Nobody's Business (3:15)
06. Colorado Springs Blues (3:54)
07. She Caught the L & N (2:28)
08. Remember Me (4:20)
09. Mountain Jack (4:21)
10. D.B.A. Blues (3:36)
11. Hattie Green (2:57)
12. Backdoor Blues (4:32)
13. Santa Fe Blues (1:51)
14. The Ma Grinder No.2 (3:15)
15. You better stop your woman (from tickling me under the chin) (2:14)
16. Jim Nappy (2:08)
17. Women In Chicago (2:21)

Blind Lemon Jefferson famously sang that “the blues came to Texas loping like a mule” but a better metaphor might have been the freight train. It was the railroad that linked the far flung Texas towns where the bluesman, particularly the piano players, plied their trade. In one of the greatest train blues, "Railroadin' Some", Henry Thomas, who made a living singing along the Texas and Pacific and Katy lines, recites a litany of rail stops including Rockwall, Greenville, Denison, Grand Saline, Silver Lake, Mineola, Tyler, Longview, Jefferson, Marshall, Little Sandy, and his birthplace, Big Sandy. Similarly the railroad is the recurring theme in the blues of Buster Pickens in such songs as “Santa Fe Train”, “Rock Island Blues”, “She Caught the L. & N.”, “Mountain Jack” and “Santa Fe Blues.” ”This is to be expected”, Paul Oliver wrote, “for the life of the barrelhouse pianist in the vast state of Texas is strongly influenced by the railroads which link the centers.” As Pickens confirms: “I traveled by freight trains. I rode freight trains practically all over the country. I flag rides and so forth. I might go to Tombell an' I might stay there until things dull down. Then I hear of another camp where it's booming. I leave there and probably go to Raccoon Bend-oil field. Then I leave there and probably go to Longview...Kilgore...Silsbee.., just wherever it was booming. …These other piano players-Son Becky, Conish Burks, Black Boy Shine, Andy Boy, and all these men-they went out different routes-hardly ever paired up. Each lookin' for his own bread. ...Up and down the Santa Fe tracks in those days was known as the barrelhouse joints. These places was located in the area where the mill was in, and you played all night long in those days. They danced all night long. And the blues was all they wanted; they didn't want anything else.”

The sessions that comprise this collection were organized by Paul Oliver for the Blues Research and Recording Project with the recording done by Mack McCormick and Chris Strachwitz. In the summer of 1960 Oliver came to the United States with the aid of a State Department grant and BBC field recorder with the idea, as he writes of “putting on tape the conversation and music of blues artists in the country and the cities, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. Some of the blues singers were famous, or had been, whilst others were unknown and destined to remain so.” As Oliver's journey progressed west he teamed up with Strachwitz and McCormick who had been roaming around Texas looking for blues singers. The recording of Buster Pickens was a result of this collaboration.

Pickens lone album, for Heritage (HLP 1008), the self-titled Buster Pickens, was recorded over several sessions in 1960 and 1961 and released in 1962, subsequently reissued in 1977 on the Flyright label as Back Door Blues and now appears on CD for the first time here. It was Oliver who wrote the liner notes and interviewed Pickens, some of which has been transcribed by Oliver in his groundbreaking Conversation With The Blues. Two other songs allegedly by Pickens, (one is more likely a recording Texas Alexander) again reissued on CD for the first time, were recorded in 1959 and come from the album The Unexpurgated Folk Songs of Men collected by Mack McCormick.

The 1959 To 1961 Sessions



• St. Louis Jimmy Oden - St. Louis Jimmy Oden Vols 1 & 2 •
• Champion Jack Dupree - Champion Of The Blues •

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Oznake: Edwin 'Buster' Pickens, Texas Alexander, Piano Blues

Leroy Carr - Complete Recorded Works Vols. 4-6 of 6

Style: Piano Blues
Released: 1996/2005
Label: Document
File: mp3@320 K/s
Size: 164.2 MB

1 Gone Mother Blues - 3:04
2 Midnight Hour Blues - 3:07
3 Moonlight Blues - 3:11
4 The Depression Blues - 3:05
5 Mean Mistreatin' Mama - 3:07
6 Mean Mistreatin' Mama - 2:57
7 Mean Mistreatin' Mama No. 2 - 3:30
8 Court Room Blues - 3:14
9 Hurry Down Sunshine - 3:37
10 Corn Likker Blues - 3:41
11 Hold Them Puppies - 3:39
12 Shady Lane Blues - 3:44
13 Blues She Gave Me - 2:39
14 Yo Can't Run My Business No More - 3:08
15 Blues Before Sunrise - 3:04
16 Blues Before Sunrise - 3:14
17 I Ain't Got No Money Now 3:35
18 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - 3:38
19 Stormy Night Blues - 3:11
20 Take a Walk Around the Corner - 2:45
21 Baby Come Back to Me - 2:27
22 Blue Night Blues - 2:58
23 My Woman's Gone Wrong - 2:31

Notes: People living in the early 21st century would do well to consider complete immersion in more than an hour's worth of vintage Vocalion blues records made during the darkest days of the Great Depression by pianist Leroy Carr and guitarist Scrapper Blackwell. Vol. 4 in Document's Complete Recorded Works of Leroy Carr contains 23 sides dating from March 1932 through August 1934, with three takes of "Mean Mistreatin' Mama" (suffused with a mood that almost certainly inspired Big Maceo's sound) and an extra version of Carr's beautifully straightforward "Blues Before Sunrise." This is not a "get up and shake your butt" kind of collection, and anyone who complains that it isn't has missed the entire point of historic blues appreciation altogether. In order to connect with this music you need to take a few deep breaths and let these men work on your nervous system with songs that hover and contemplate existence in the middle of the night (as in "Midnight Hour Blues"' "when the blues creep up on you and carry your mind away"), sometimes upgrading to the purposeful lope or the brisk walk, depending on what kind of real-life stuff is being processed. "Hold Them Puppies" and "You Can't Run My Business No More" seem to pulse with energy born of the friction that sometimes arises between two people who don't always see eye to eye. "Court Room Blues" is a boogie with complications in the air; "Take a Walk Around the Corner" is a boogie with murder in its eye. "I Ain't Got No Money Now" is a handsome cousin to Clarence "Pinetop" Smith's "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." As for "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," Carr has borrowed the title from the bedrock of African-American spirituals, but the song itself, like "Hurry Down Sunshine," "Moonlight Blues," and more than half the material on this collection, is a slow bluesy rumination on the difficulties of life in the world.

Leroy Carr - Vol. 4 (1932-1934)

Oznake: Leroy Carr, Piano Blues

Leroy Carr - Complete Recorded Works Vols. 1-3 of 6

Style: Piano Blues
Released: 1992/2005
Label: Document
File: mp3@320 K/s
Size: 173 MB

1 My Own Lonesome Blues 3:02
2 How Long, How Long Blues Carr 3:05
3 Broken Spoke Blues 2:57
4 Tennessee Blues Carr 3:00
5 Truthful Blues 2:53
6 Mean Old Train Blues 2:59
7 You Got to Reap What You Sow Carr 2:49
8 Low Down Dirty Blues Carr 3:04
9 How Long, How Long Blues, No. 2 Carr 2:44
10 How Long, How Long Blues, Pt. 3 Carr 3:08
11 Baby Don't You Love Me No More Guernsey, Thompson 3:11
12 Tired of Your Low Down Ways Carr 3:10
13 I'm Going Away and Leave My Baby Carr 3:05
14 Prison Bound Blues Carr 3:05
15 You Don't Mean Me No Good 3:13
16 How About Me? 3:26
17 Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 1 Carr 2:59
18 Think of Me Thinking of You 3:04
19 The Truth About the Thing 3:13
20 Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 1 Carr 3:20
21 Straight Alky Blues, Pt. 2 Carr 3:19
22 Lifeboat Blues 2:57
23 Gambler's Blues 3:05
24 There Ain't Nobody Got It Like She's Got It Carr 3:19

Notes: Completists, specialists and academics take note -- Document's Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 (1928-1929) offers an exhaustive overview of Leroy Carr's early recordings. Less dedicated listeners will probably find the long running time, exacting chronological sequencing, poor fidelity (all cuts are transferred from original acetates and 78s), and number of performances a bit off-putting, even though the serious blues listener will find all these factors to be positive.

Leroy Carr Vol. 1 (1928-1929)

Oznake: Leroy Carr, Piano Blues

St. Louis Jimmy Oden - St. Louis Jimmy Oden Vols 1 & 2

Few blues songs have stood the test of Father Time as enduringly as "Goin' Down Slow." Its composer, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, endured rather impressively himself -- he recorded during the early '30s and was still at it more than three decades later.

If not for a fortuitous move to St. Louis circa 1917, Oden might have been known as "Nashville Jimmy". He fell in with pianist Roosevelt Sykes on the 1920s Gateway City blues circuit (the two remained frequent musical partners throughout the ensuing decades). Oden enjoyed a fairly prolific recording career during the '30s and '40s, appearing on Champion, Bluebird (where he hit with "Goin' Down Slow" in 1941), Columbia, Bullet in 1947, Miracle, Aristocrat (there he cut "Florida Hurricane" in 1948 accompanied by pianist Sunnyland Slim and a young guitarist named Muddy Waters), Mercury, Savoy, and Apollo.

Scattered singles for Duke (with Sykes on piano) and Parrot (a 1955 remake of "Goin' Down Slow") set the stage for Oden's 1960 album debut for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary (naturally, it included yet another reprise of "Goin' Down Slow"). Oden was backed by guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson and a swinging New York rhythm section. As much a composer as a performer, Oden wrote "Soon Forgotten" and "Take the Bitter with the Sweet" for Muddy Waters. ~bio by Bill Dahl

Album: St. Louis Jimmy Oden Vol. 1 1932-1944
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 77:44
Size: 178.0 MB
Label: Document
Styles: Chicago blues, Piano blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. I Have Made Up My Mind
[3:06] 2. Sitting Down Thinking Blues
[3:34] 3. Patrol Wagon Blues
[3:21] 4. Warning Spirit Blues
[3:32] 5. My Dream Blues
[3:06] 6. Six Feet In The Ground
[3:16] 7. Pipe Layin' Blues
[2:42] 8. Some Sweet Day
[2:47] 9. Silk Worm Blues
[3:03] 10. The Road To Ruin
[3:12] 11. Thick And Thin
[3:13] 12. Monkey Face Blues
[2:59] 13. Come Day Go Day
[3:02] 14. Lost Ball Blues
[3:13] 15. Going Down Slow
[2:55] 16. Old Vets Blues
[2:57] 17. St. Louis Woman Blues
[3:13] 18. Poor Boy Blues
[3:01] 19. Back On My Feet Again
[2:56] 20. Nothing But Blues
[3:01] 21. Soon Forget You
[3:05] 22. Can't Stand Your Evil Ways
[3:03] 23. Strange Woman Blues
[2:54] 24. One More Break
[3:06] 25. My Story Blues

St. Louis Jimmy Oden Vol. 1 1932-1944

Oznake: St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Chicago Blues, Piano Blues

Leroy Carr - Whiskey Is My Habit, Women Is All I Crave: The Best Of Leroy Carr (2-Disc set)

The 40 tracks compiled on this two-disc set represent the entire span of pianist and singer Leroy Carr's recording career that spanned a brief seven years, from 1928-1935. The material represented here -- all but one of these tracks were recorded for the Vocalion label -- features accompaniment by guitarist Scrapper Blackwell on all but one selection, and Josh White on a handful as well. Carr's material here ranges from the classic piano blues of the era that spawned Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith to vaudeville and hokum tunes made popular by artists like Tampa Red and Georgia Tom. Carr's voice is the haunting thing here; it's higher and very clear, sweet almost, as evidenced by most of these sides. But there was an edge, too; one that belied a kind of pathos underneath even the most cheery material -- check "Mean Mistreater Blues" or "Bread Baker." But the darker material such as "Suicide Blues" (one of six previously unissued performances), "Straight Alky Blues," or "Shinin' Pistol," is strange and eerie given Carr's smooth approach. Carr may not be the most well-known bluesman of the era, but his contribution is profound and lasting. This collection puts to shame almost all others with the exception of the multi-volume complete recordings on Document. But given the fact that these sides are wonderfully remastered, and 40 tracks are enough for virtually anybody but the hardest core blues punter, this is the set to have. ~ Thom Jurek

Recording information: Chicago, IL (06/19/1928-02/25/1935); Indianapolis, IN (06/19/1928-02/25/1935); New York, NY (06/19/1928-02/25/1935); St. Louis, MO (06/19/1928-02/25/1935).

Leroy Carr (vocals, piano); Leroy Carr; Josh White (guitar); Scrapper Blackwell (guitar).

This album is posted by azzul at The River Club 18. Nov 2011. Since some links are working there is no need for new ones

Oznake: Leroy Carr, Josh White, Scrapper Blackwell, Piano Blues

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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Champion Jack Dupree - Champion Of The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 36:21
Size: 83.2 MB
Styles: Piano blues, New Orleans blues
Year: 1961/2005
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. I Had A Dream
[3:23] 2. Roll Me Over Roll Me Slow
[3:39] 3. Reminiscin' With Champion Jack
[2:51] 4. That's All Right
[2:56] 5. Daybreak Stomp
[3:03] 6. House Rent Party
[2:45] 7. Snaps Drinking Woman
[3:29] 8. One Sweet Letter From You
[3:02] 9. New Vicksburg Blues
[2:39] 10. When Things Go Wrong
[2:33] 11. Johnson Street Boogie Woogie
[3:06] 12. Misery Blues


A formidable contender in the ring before he shifted his focus to pounding the piano instead, Champion Jack Dupree often injected his lyrics with a rowdy sense of down-home humor. But there was nothing lighthearted about his rock-solid way with a boogie; when he shouted "Shake Baby Shake," the entire room had no choice but to acquiesce.

Dupree was notoriously vague about his beginnings, claiming in some interviews that his parents died in a fire set by the Ku Klux Klan, at other times saying that the blaze was accidental. Whatever the circumstances of the tragic conflagration, Dupree grew up in New Orleans' Colored Waifs' Home for Boys (Louis Armstrong also spent his formative years there). Learning his trade from barrelhouse 88s ace Willie "Drive 'em Down" Hall, Dupree left the Crescent City in 1930 for Chicago and then Detroit. By 1935, he was boxing professionally in Indianapolis, battling in an estimated 107 bouts.

In 1940, Dupree made his recording debut for Chicago A&R man extraordinaire Lester Melrose and OKeh Records. Dupree's 1940-1941 output for the Columbia subsidiary exhibited a strong New Orleans tinge despite the Chicago surroundings; his driving "Junker's Blues" was later cleaned up as Fats Domino's 1949 debut, "The Fat Man." After a stretch in the Navy during World War II (he was a Japanese P.O.W. for two years), Dupree decided tickling the 88s beat pugilism any old day. He spent most of his time in New York and quickly became a prolific recording artist, cutting for Continental, Joe Davis, Alert, Apollo, and Red Robin (where he cut a blasting "Shim Sham Shimmy" in 1953), often in the company of Brownie McGhee. Contracts meant little; Dupree masqueraded as Brother Blues on Abbey, Lightnin' Jr. on Empire, and the truly imaginative Meat Head Johnson for Gotham and Apex.

King Records corralled Dupree in 1953 and held onto him through 1955 (the year he enjoyed his only R&B chart hit, the relaxed "Walking the Blues.") Dupree's King output rates with his very best; the romping "Mail Order Woman," "Let the Doorbell Ring," and "Big Leg Emma's" contrasting with the rural "Me and My Mule" (Dupree's vocal on the latter emphasizing a harelip speech impediment for politically incorrect pseudo-comic effect).

After a year on RCA's Groove and Vik subsidiaries, Dupree made a masterpiece LP for Atlantic. 1958's Blues From the Gutter is a magnificent testament to Dupree's barrelhouse background, boasting marvelous readings of "Stack-O-Lee," "Junker's Blues," and "Frankie & Johnny" beside the risqué "Nasty Boogie." Dupree was one of the first bluesmen to leave his native country for a less racially polarized European existence in 1959. He lived in a variety of countries overseas, continuing to record prolifically for Storyville, British Decca (with John Mayall and Eric Clapton lending a hand at a 1966 date), and many other firms.

Perhaps sensing his own mortality, Dupree returned to New Orleans in 1990 for his first visit in 36 years. While there, he played the Jazz & Heritage Festival and laid down a zesty album for Bullseye Blues, Back Home in New Orleans. Two more albums of new material were captured by the company the next year prior to the pianist's death in January of 1992. Jack Dupree was a champ to the very end. ~bio by Bill Dahl

"The percussive sounds heard on several of the tracks are made by stomping of Champion Jack's feet."

Recorded at: Storyville Records in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Champion Of The Blues

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Oznake: Champion Jack Dupree, Piano Blues, New Orleans Blues

James Booker - Classified: Remixed And Expanded

Size: 166,7 MB
Time: 72:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1982/2013
Styles: Piano Blues, Boogie Woogie, New Orleans Blues
Label: Rounder Records
Art: Front

01. Classified (3:59)
02. If You're Lonely (2:55)
03. Warsaw Concerto (2:44)
04. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Solo Piano Alternate Take) (1:49)
05. Medley Tico Tico - Papa Was A Rascal - So Swell When You're Well (4:51)
06. All Around The World (3:32)
07. Angel Eyes (3:43)
08. Lonely Avenue (3:34)
09. Professor Longhair Medley Tipitina - Bald Head (3:37)
10. King Of The Road (3:06)
11. Theme From The Godfather (1:42)
12. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (3:26)
13. I'm Not Sayin' (5:14)
14. Hound Dog (2:25)
15. All These Things (2:40)
16. Yes Sir, That's My Baby (3:31)
17. Baby Face (3:18)
18. If You're Lonely (Solo Piano Alternate Take) (3:02)
19. Madame X (2:08)
20. One For The Highway (2:31)
21. Three Keys (3:18)
22. Amen (4:45)

The late, great James Booker’s recording career was just as mysterious and inconsistent as his troubled life would allow. Some of his earliest studio recordings got lost, he’d often back up or collaborate with other major artists, many of whom he inspired greatly – like Jerry Garcia and Doctor John. Or Booker simply opted to release a bevy of live recordings of his own throughout the ‘70s.

He only made a few studio recordings in his entire career. And one of them was Classified, recorded in October of 1982, just a year before his untimely death. These sessions are newly remixed and re-released on Rounder Records.

Although Booker’s New Orleans boogie-woogie piano and blues and soul stylings were slightly inspired by artists such as Professor Longhair, Jelly Roll Morton, and Ray Charles, Booker’s music became a genre and life-force onto itself, influencing generations of musicians from Doctor John to Harry Connick Jr. And his influence and genius are certainly prevalent throughout all 22 tracks of Classified: Remixed And Expanded.

The title track “Classified,” “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” and Titus Turner’s r&b classic “All Around The World” feature Booker’s soulfully cocky, jive-filled vocals, along with piano playing that isn’t quite New Orleans Creole, and not quite boogie- woogie or blues, It’s all James Booker. At times Booker blends classical scales and chordal voicings with rhythm and blues in a truly virtuosic manner. “Warsaw Concerto” and “Madame X” explore Booker’s ability to incorporate classical piano with raw soul, even more strongly than Ray Charles had done shortly before him.

“If You’re Lonely, “Angel Eyes” and Doc Pomus’s masterpiece “Lonely Avenue” (popularized by Ray Charles) are Booker’s twist on blues and soul ballads which are destined to bring first time listeners and older fans to tears.

Sometimes Booker accompanies himself on piano or is backed by a tight and non- intrusive band consisting of Alvin “Red” Tyler on sax, James Singleton on bass, and Johnny Vidacovich on drums.

There is a brutal and haunting quality to all of these recordings, even on the up-tempo medleys like: “Tico Tico /Papa Was A Rascal/ So Swell When You’re Well” and Professor Longhair’s “Tipitina /Bald Head.” Booker’s wonderfully strange use of majors chords against minors is awe inspiring and sounds like no one else.

Sometimes Booker will move slightly behind the beat, right on top of it, and use space and syncopation like a jazz musician’s approach to piano. Just check out “I’m Not Sayin’.” Booker was the Thelonious Monk of New Orleans soul.

Booker was also fearless and never doubted his choice of material on these sessions as he conquers Roger Miller’s “King Of The Road,” Leiber and Stoller’s “Hound Dog,” Fats Domino’s “One For The Highway,” and even Nino Rota and Parti Siae’s “Theme From The Godfather.” Booker swings hardest here when he takes those daring risks, and he never fails to create something completely original each time.

A mournful reading of Allen Toussaint’s “All These Things” is harrowing in its intensity and easily one of the album’s many highlights.

Booker’s rendition of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn’s “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” features some humorous and funky Hammond B3 playing . And a gospel version of Edward Buzell, Bert Kalmar, and Harry Ruby’s standard “Baby Face” shows off Booker’s more playfully humorous side – a side that is often overshadowed by his tragic life and death.

The compilation ends with the rollicking instrumental “Three Keys” and a slow and pleading cover of the gospel standard “Amen.” Booker’s voice sounds as if he’s on his knees crying out to the heavens in pain.

The remixed sound is stellar throughout this compilation and extra takes of “If You’re Lonely” and “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” help make Classified: Remixed And Expanded an essential glimpse into the mind and soul of one of American music’s greatest, influential, and most original musicians of all time. ~By Devon Wendell

Classified: Remixed And Expanded



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Oznake: James Booker, Piano Blues

Little Willie Littlefield - Yellow Boogie & Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:02
Size: 148.9 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Jump blues, Boogie woogie
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[3:37] 1. Everyday I Have The Blues
[3:44] 2. New Orleans Blues
[3:33] 3. Goodmorning Judge
[3:25] 4. The Last Date
[2:07] 5. Do You Want To Boogie
[4:20] 6. Georgia On My Mind
[2:18] 7. Rancho Grande
[3:26] 8. Lowdown Shame
[5:00] 9. Me And My Bobby McGee
[2:51] 10. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[5:20] 11. Stormy Monday Blues
[2:34] 12. Rocking Chair Boogie
[4:58] 13. Chief And Job Blues
[2:22] 14. Rockin' The Blues
[3:12] 15. Gonna Tell My Mama
[3:59] 16. Lucky Old Sun
[2:22] 17. Trembling
[3:59] 18. Wampie Blues
[2:35] 19. Those Kansas City Nights


Before he was 21 years old, Texas-born pianist Little Willie Littlefield had etched an all-time classic into the blues lexicon. Only trouble was, his original 1952 waxing of "Kansas City" (titled "K.C. Loving") didn't sell sufficiently to show up on the charts (thus leaving the door open for Wilbert Harrison to invade the airwaves with the ubiquitous Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition seven years later).

Influenced by Albert Ammons, Charles Brown, and Amos Milburn, Little Willie was already a veteran of the R&B recording wars by the time he waxed "K.C. Loving," having made his debut 78 in 1948 for Houston-based Eddie's Records while still in his teens. After a few sides for Eddie's and Freedom, he moved over to the Bihari brothers' Los Angeles-headquartered Modern logo in 1949. There he immediately hit paydirt with two major R&B hits, "It's Midnight" and "Farewell" (he added another chart entry, "I've Been Lost," in 1951).

Littlefield proved a sensation upon moving to L.A. during his Modern tenure, playing at area clubs and touring with a band that included saxist Maxwell Davis. At Littlefield's first L.A. session for King's Federal subsidiary in 1952, he cut "K.C. Loving" (with Davis on sax), but neither it nor several fine Federal follow-ups returned the boogie piano specialist to the charts.

Other than a few 1957-58 singles for Oakland's's Rhythm logo, little was heard from Little Willie Littlefield until the late '70s, when he began to mount a comeback at various festivals and on the European circuit. While overseas, he met a Dutch woman, married her, and settled in the Netherlands, where he remains active musically. ~ Bill Dahl

Yellow Boogie & Blues

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Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - Aux Trois Mailletz

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:25
Size: 108.6 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Early R&B
Year: 1993
Art: Front

[3:59] 1. Rock And Rolling The House
[2:43] 2. Baby Please Come Home
[4:52] 3. How Make You Do Me Like You Do
[3:17] 4. The Way She Loves A Man
[5:30] 5. New Way Of Love
[3:37] 6. African Hunch With A Boogie Beat
[3:23] 7. Shame Pretty Girls
[3:07] 8. Baby-Baby-Baby
[2:40] 9. Do De Do
[5:35] 10. Cool Blooded
[2:56] 11. Just You And I
[4:00] 12. Pigalle Love
[1:42] 13. All By Myself


Although this CD by pianist Memphis Slim and bassist Willie Dixon is marketed as a part of Verve's Jazz in Paris reissue series, it is, of course, a blues date, with a fair amount of boogie-woogie. The two veterans, who had worked together previously, are joined by drummer Phillipe Combelle during the two 1962 sessions recorded at Les Trois Mailletz, complete with a typically out of tune piano and a fair amount of noise from the audience at times. The pianist's gruff voice dominates a fair amount of the performances, although most of the songs are Dixon's. The bassist steals the show during the opener, "Rocking and Rolling the House," with a fine solo. In fact, the only standard not written by either man is a campy miniature take of Big Bill Broonzy's "All by Myself." Blues fans will want up to pick up this live recording by two legendary musicians.

Aux Trois Mailletz

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Big Jim Adam - Cajun Moon

Size: 108,8 MB
Time: 47:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Swamp Blues, Piano Blues
Label: Circle 504
Art: Front

01. Come On In My Kitchen (3:34)
02. It's What Owns You (3:32)
03. If I Was The Devil (3:58)
04. Frankie And Johnny (5:26)
05. Cajun Moon (3:35)
06. Gumbo Yaya (3:43)
07. Heard It From Big Llou (3:46)
08. Graspin' At The Wind (5:29)
09. Get Down On My Knees (3:17)
10. Henry (3:13)
11. If It Hadn't Been For Love (3:48)
12. John Henry (3:40)

Big Jim Adam’s emotional singing and sliding swampy guitar, combined with his foot percussion skills make for a powerful performance. Jim’s unique style is a fusion of the raw blues he heard as a child being played on the front porches of his neighborhood, combined with the gospel music he sang growing up. These driving rhythms and heartfelt vocals give him his unique sound. Jim’s vocal and guitar work can be heard in the PBS special “For Love of Liberty.” Jim also won the 2012 Telluride Acoustic Blues Solo Competition. “Contest winner Jim Adam gave us some of the best and most authentic blues I have heard in a while. This man definitely deserved winning the Acoustic Blues competition.

Cajun Moon



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Oznake: Big Jim Adam, Delta Blues, Piano Blues

Hager/Fleschner Duo - Live From The Vault

Size: 159,1 MB
Time: 69:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Piano Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues
Label: Fleschtone Records
Art: Front

01. Mama Don't Allow (6:38)
02. One More Time (5:04)
03. Chicago Bound (7:13)
04. Almost Lost My Mind (6:26)
05. House of the Rising Sun (5:47)
06. Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (5:59)
07. Prescription for the Blues (7:22)
08. Hey Little Girl (5:52)
09. Theme for an Imaginary Western (7:11)
10. My Babe (4:47)
11. Worried Life Blues (6:49)

Alan and Dave have known each other for years, always playing as sidemen in support of others. A few months ago, Dave called Alan up and asked if he’d like to start a duo where each musician could choose what they’d like to perform. Since then they’ve played together a couple times a month and audiences are responding enthusiastically to the chemistry of this duo. Neither musician is afraid of a challenge, in fact they welcome the energy created in the face of new musical forays. Whether they are playing blues, ragtime, old time-standards, soul or original tunes, the music they create is exuberant, joyful and refreshingly musical.

Live From The Vault



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Oznake: Alan Hager, Dave Fleschner, Piano Blues

Rock Bottom & Ben Waters - Going Nowhere Fast

Size: 101,4 MB
Time: 43:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Piano Blues, Harmonica Blues
Label: Valve Records
Art: Full

01. Junker's Blues (3:56)
02. Them New Crossroads Blues (3:57)
03. Stoop Down Baby (2:50)
04. Cake With Wolla (4:17)
05. Down Home Girl (4:42)
06. Stop The Boogie (3:01)
07. Annie Had A Baby (4:04)
08. Mess Around (4:19)
09. Maureen's So Sweet (3:41)
10. Hey Now Baby (3:59)
11. U Lie 2 Much (4:52)

Rock Bottom was a mainstay on the blues scene in Florida. An accomplished harmonica player and powerful singer, he had a huge following in Europe, especially in Norway. Ben Waters is a young and up-coming star of boogie woogie piano, from England. Powerful set, they had fun in the studio, and it shows! ROCK BOTTOM - hca/voc, BEN WATERS - piano/voc.

Going Nowhere Fast



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Oznake: Rock Bottom, Ben Waters, Piano Blues, Harmonica Blues

James Booker - Blues & Ragtime From New Orleans

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:42
Size: 102.4 MB
Styles: New Orleans jazz-blues piano
Year: 1976/2011
Art: Front

[3:00] 1. Desitively Bannaroo / Right Place, Wrong Time
[3:30] 2. Tico Tico
[2:40] 3. Wake Up Mr. Moon Man
[4:47] 4. Save Your Love / Lonely Avenue
[5:40] 5. All By Myself / I'm In Love Again / Four Winds / Such A Wonderful Feeling
[6:26] 6. People Get Ready
[4:16] 7. Besame Mucho / Until The Real Thing Comes Along
[6:43] 8. Love Monkey / Feel So Bad
[4:17] 9. Ora
[3:18] 10. Baby Won't You Please Come Home


Booker's unique style combined rhythm and blues with jazz standards. Musician Dr. John described Booker as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.

Booker was the son and grandson of Baptist ministers, both of whom played the piano. He spent most of his childhood on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where his father pastored a church. Booker received a saxophone as a gift from his mother, but he demonstrated a stronger interest in the keyboard. He first played organ in his father's churches.

After returning to New Orleans in his early adolescence, Booker attended the Xavier Academy Preparatory School. He learned some elements of his keyboard style from Tuts Washington and Edward Frank.[2] Booker was highly skilled in classical music and played Bach and Chopin, among other composers. He also mastered and memorized solos by Erroll Garner, and Liberace. His thorough background in piano literature may have enabled his original and virtuosic interpretations of jazz and other popular music. These performances combined elements of stride, blues, gospel and Latin piano styles. ~partial bio from Wikipedia

Blues & Ragtime From New Orleans

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Oznake: James Booker, Piano Blues

Allen Toussaint - Songbook (Deluxe Edition)

Size: 181,4 MB
Time: 78:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: New Orleans R&B/Blues, Southern Soul
Label: Rounder
Art: Front

01. Introduction ( 0:54)
02. It's Raining ( 3:57)
03. Lipstick Traces ( 2:05)
04. Introduction to Brickyard Blues ( 0:39)
05. Brickyard Blues ( 3:29)
06. With You In Mind ( 3:31)
07. Who s Gonna Help Brother Get Further ( 4:10)
08. Sweet Touch of Love ( 1:58)
09. Holy Cow ( 3:02)
10. Introduction to Get Out Of My Life, Woman ( 0:12)
11. Get Out Of My Life, Woman ( 3:01)
12. Freedom for the Stallion ( 4:11)
13. St. James Infirmary ( 2:23)
14. Introduction to Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed ( 0:12)
15. Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed ( 3:17)
16. Soul Sister ( 2:41)
17. All These Things ( 3:42)
18. We Are America/Yes We Can ( 4:06)
19. The Optimism Blues ( 2:51)
20. Old Records ( 3:38)
21. Certain Girl Medley: Certain Girl/Mother-in-Law/Fortune Teller/Working In The Coal Mine ( 3:15)
22. It s A New Orleans Thing ( 3:07)
23. I Could Eat Crawfish Everyday ( 2:37)
24. There s No Place Like New York ( 2:26)
25. Southern Nights (13:00)

Allen Toussaint experienced a late-career revival sparked, ironically enough, by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He had to leave his hometown New Orleans after the hurricane, relocating to New York City where he started to play regular gigs at Joe's Pub and, soon enough, he cut The River in Reverse with Elvis Costello. That 2006 album propelled Toussaint toward a greater audience, leading to more headlining concerts, two of which are chronicled on Rounder's 2013 release Songbook. Recorded in 2009 at Joe's Pub, Songbook features nothing more than Toussaint alone at a piano running through songs he's written over the decades. He sprinkles in a New Orleans standard here and there -- there's an excellent rendition of "St. James Infirmary" -- but the spotlight is on his peerless originals, songs that are standards in their own right: "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)," "Holy Cow," "Get Out of My Life, Woman," "Yes We Can," a medley of "A Certain Girl/Mother-in-Law/Fortune Teller," "Southern Nights." Toussaint's voice sounds smooth and silky -- he in no way seems as if he's in his seventies -- and his piano is similarly nimble as it glides from signature New Orleans stride and boogie to sophisticated, elegiac chords. Perhaps this album packs no revelations -- there are no rearrangements, nothing unexpected in the songs -- but as an elegant summation of strengths, this Songbook is mighty attractive. ~Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Songbook



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Oznake: Allen Toussaint, Piano Blues

Barrelhouse Chuck - Blues Calling

Size: 86,2 MB
Time: 37:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: Viola Records
Art: Full

01. I Keep On Drinking (3:16)
02. Half Of A Pint Boogie (1:32)
03. The Alley Blues (3:16)
04. It's You Baby (2:47)
05. Anna Lee (2:07)
06. Barrelhouse Woman #1 (2:48)
07. Ain't Got No Money Now (2:10)
08. Church Street Blues (2:50)
09. Blues For Little Brother (2:21)
10. Ten Long Years (3:07)
11. Viola's Stomp (2:10)
12. Six Cold Feet In The Ground (2:25)
13. Gigolo (0:49)
14. (Untitled) (5:25)

With the recent loss of Detroit Jr. it becomes more acutely aware than ever that the piano blues is a dying art form. There's only a handful of old timers keeping the tradition alive such as Pinetop Perkins, Henry Gray and Ernest Lane. Barrelhouse Chuck represents one of the few younger generation pianists (he's 52) and has been well schooled in the art as he demonstrates on this fabulous excellent CD! The tracks here showcase the commanding piano work and wonderful vocals of Barrelhouse Chuck, alone and in top form covering Leroy Carr (Barrelhouse Woman/Ain't Got No Money Now/Six Cold Feet In The Ground), Little Brother Montgomery (I Keep On Drinking), Robert Nighthawk (Anna Lee), Pinetop Perkins (Gigolo) and top-shelf originals like Blues For Little Brother Montgomery, Iza Mae, She's Gone Blues, and Half Of A Pint Boogie (with help from Erwin Helfer) There's little question as to what Barrelhouse Chuck has to offer blues fans - he's a respected master of a dwindling art - the evidence lies in his growing catalog.
Chuck has paid his dues the time honored way by apprenticing with piano masters such as Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Lafayette Leake, Detroit Jr, Big Moose Walker, Blind John Davis and Little Brother Montgomery. Chuck spent 16 years studying with Sunnyland who he calls "the great-granddaddy of all the blues piano players." He also formed a special bond with piano legend Little Brother Montgomery. He honed his craft working and recording with a who's who of Chicago legends like Louis Myers, Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Kim Wilson, James Cotton, S.P. Leary and many, many others.

Whether playing solo or with a group Chuck is a terrific two fisted piano player steeped in the Chicago tradition of guys like Little Johnny Jones, Big Maceo, Leroy Carr, Otis Spann and of course Sunnyland and Little Brother. He also happens to be a very good vocalist. Chuck's piano playing is best appreciated on solo numbers like the wistful Little Brother number "Keep On Drinking" where he sounds uncannily like his former mentor both on piano and vocally, the storming boogie-woogie of "Viola's Stomp" just backed by fleet fingered Ben Andrews on guitar, the heartfelt tin pan alley sounding original "Iza Mae" and goes back to 1934 to revive Leroy Carr's depression era classic "Ain't Got No Money Now.

While the great era of Chicago blues piano is past we hear the ghosts of those greats in the marvelous playing of Barrelhouse Chuck who keeps the flame burning bright on the thoroughly satisfying " Blues Calling"

Blues Calling



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Oznake: Piano Blues, Barrelhouse Chuck

Montana Taylor - Complete Recorded Works

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 68:44
Size: 157.4 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[3:16] 1. Whoop And Holler Stomp
[3:11] 2. Hayride Stomp
[3:29] 3. Indiana Avenue Stomp
[3:22] 4. Detroit Rocks
[2:46] 5. Worried Jailhouse Blues
[3:09] 6. Black Market Blues
[3:03] 7. Low Down Bugle
[3:01] 8. Mistreatin' Mr. Dupree
[3:04] 9. Sweet Sue
[3:12] 10. In The Bottom
[3:06] 11. Rotten Break Blues
[3:10] 12. I Can't Sleep
[3:08] 13. Fo Day Blues
[2:45] 14. Indiana Avenue Stomp 2
[3:06] 15. Montana's Blues
[2:18] 16. Broadcast: Five O'Clocks
[3:02] 17. I Can't Sleep 2
[2:47] 18. Mr. Freddie Blues
[2:55] 19. Lonesome Man Blues
[2:55] 20. Mr. Freddy's Rag
[2:32] 21. Charleston Blues
[2:25] 22. How Long Blues
[2:52] 23. Chestnut Street Boogie

Note: Tracks 18-24 were by J.H. "Mr. Freddie" Shayne.


The Document collection Montana Taylor and Freddie Shayne: Complete Recorded Works (1929-1946) does fans of barrelhouse piano a favor by issuing the 17 tracks associated with Montana Taylor, from his recording debut in 1929 to his (all-too-brief) rediscovery in 1946. Taylor plays it low-down on highlights like "Detroit Rocks," "Whoop and Holler Stomp," and "Indiana Avenue Stomp," and Chippie Hill guests on three sides (most notably "Worried Jailhouse Blues"). If that wasn't enough, the label also tacked on six sides recorded by piano/accordion expert J.H. "Mr. Freddie" Shayne, which also includes a few vocals from Chippie Hill.

Complete Recorded Works

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Oznake: Freddie Sahyne, Montana Taylor, Piano Blues

Corey Harris & Henry Butler - Vü-Dü Menž

Styles: New Orleans Blues, Piano Blues, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
Released: 2000
Label: Alligator
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 124.2 MB
Time: 54:16
Art: front + back

1. Let 'em Roll - 4:17
2. If I Was Your Man - 4:39
3. Sugar Daddy - 2:39
4. There's No Substitute For Love - 4:13
5. King Cotton - 4:02
6. Mulberry Row - 3:34
7. Down Home Livin' - 3:43
8. Voodoo Man - 3:56
9. Song of the Pipelayer - 3:32
10. If You Let A Man Kick You Once - 4:14
11. L'esprit De James - 3:13
12. Shake What Your Mama Gave You - 3:22
13. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? - 2:33
14. What Man Have Done - 4:00
15. Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You? - 2:13

Personnel:
Corey Harris - vocals, guitar
Henry Butler - vocals, piano


Notes: This impressive album assures that New Orleans music will live strong and healthy into the next generation. A collaboration between a couple of once upstarts, now stalwarts of the new roots-music generation, this is good-time music. Corey Harris plays slide-steel guitar and about 90 other styles, slipping his strings between the 88 piano keys that Henry Butler dances across. On the collaborative tracks, which make up most of the album, their two instruments leave no room for others. They're tight as yarn, weaving together like a Mardi Gras Indian headdress. Each also makes solo performances. They've been compared to great partnerships like Tampa Red and Georgia Tom, but this suggests too much of a historical sound; Harris and Butler are thoroughly modern. Comparing them to Professor Longhair and Snooks Eaglin is accurate in spirit, but Vü-Dü Menz is so fun, no background is needed to enjoy it; even Martians would shake their hips to this much swing. ~ Robert Gordon

Vü-Dü Menž



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Oznake: Corey Harris, Henry Butler, Piano Blues, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues

Lil Green - The Blues Mama

Size: 119,5 MB
Time: 51:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Piano Blues
Label: Cherished Records
Art: Front

01. Why Don't You Do Right (2:54)
02. Romance In The Dark (3:20)
03. What Have I Done (2:39)
04. Just Rockin' (3:17)
05. Country Boy Blue (2:52)
06. Im Wasting My Time Over You (2:45)
07. If I Didn't Love You (2:43)
08. How Can I Go On (2:37)
09. If I Am A Fool (2:26)
10. Let's Be Friends (3:14)
11. I Won't Sell My Love (2:54)
12. Knockin' Myself Out (2:57)
13. Hello Babe (2:47)
14. Love Me (2:58)
15. I Have A Place To Go (2:45)
16. Give Your Mama One Smile (2:29)
17. Whats The Matter With Love (3:03)
18. If You Want To Share Your Love (2:48)

Lil Green (December 22, 1919 – April 14, 1954) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was among the leading female rhythm and blues singers of the 1940s, possessed with an ability to bring power to ordinary material and compose superior songs of her own.

Originally named Lillian Green, she was born in Mississippi; after the early deaths of her parents, she went to Chicago, Illinois, where she began performing in her teens and where she would make all of her recordings.

Green was noted for superb timing and a distinctively sinuous voice. She was 18 when she recorded her first session for the 35 cent Bluebird subsidiary of RCA. In the 1930s she and Big Bill Broonzy had a night club act together. Her two biggest hits were, firstly, her own composition "Romance in the Dark" (1940), which was later covered by many artists, such as Dinah Washington and Nina Simone (in 1967), although Billie Holiday also recorded a different song with the same name. Then came Green's own (1941) version of Kansas Joe McCoy's minor key blues and jazz influenced song, "Why Don't You Do Right?", which was covered by Peggy Lee in 1942 and many others since. As well as performing in Chicago clubs, Green toured with Tiny Bradshaw and other bands, but never really broke away from the black theatre circuit.

Although Green signed with Atlantic Records in 1951, she was already in poor health. She died in Chicago in 1954 of pneumonia, at the age of 34, and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Gary, Indiana.

The Blues Mama



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Oznake: Lil Green, Piano Blues

Skip James - She Lyin'

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Piano Blues, Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Delta Blues
Released: 1964, CD in 2000
Label: Adelphi
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 102,5 MB
Time: 44:45
Art: front

1. All Night Long - 1:22
2. Broke and Hungry - 1:48
3. I'm So Glad - 2:57
4. Bad Whiskey - 1:35
5. Cypress Grove Blues - 4:04
6. Catfish Blues - 5:05
7. Goin' Away To Stay - 2:29
8. Crow Jane - 2:08
9. Devil Got My Woman - 3:12
10. She Lyin' - 1:14
11. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - 2:18
12. Drunken Spree - 3:35
13. Black Gal - 3:17
14. Illinois Blues - 3:06
15. Worried Blues - 3:29


Notes: By the time James had been rediscovered in the 1960s, he was still capable of playing entrancing, dynamic music, but was much less consistent and not as striking a vocalist. It was a testimony to his greatness that he still managed to make compelling records, and he was among the best storytellers and dramatic singers in the traditional realm. This mid-'60s CD features songs James recorded for the Adelphi label in 1964 that were never issued. It's hard to understand why this wasn't issued at the time it was recorded; it's just as solid as the albums James recorded for Columbia during the same period. ~by Ron Wynn

She Lyin'

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Oznake: Skip James, Acoustic Blues, Piano Blues, Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Delta Blues