Liz Mandeville - 2 albums: Clarksdale / Red Top

Album: Clarksdale
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:09
Size: 80.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:38] 1. Roadside Produce Stand (Feat. Willie Big Eyes Smith)
[3:03] 2. Mama & Daddy Blues (Feat. Willie Big Eyes Smith)
[1:53] 3. No Fear Everything
[3:42] 4. Walking & Talking With You (Feat. Willie Big Eyes Smith)
[3:58] 5. A Soldiers Wife (Feat. Donna Herula)
[3:44] 6. Clarksdale Riverside Hotel Blues (Feat. Willie Big Eyes Smith)
[2:21] 7. Bye Bye Blues (Feat. Donna Herula)
[3:04] 8. Sweet Potatoe Pie (Feat. Willie Big Eyes Smith & Eddie Shaw)
[4:44] 9. 4 20 Blues
[2:45] 10. Sand Baggin (Feat. Donna Herula)
[3:13] 11. My Mama Wears Combat Boots (Feat. Nick Moss)

April 28th, 2013, Liz Mandeville was honored for her life long commitment to the blues with induction into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame! Liz, who started her career in 1983 with a string of gigs at the notorious “Deadwood Dave’s Saloon” on the city’s north side, won the Windy City Blues Society’s 2011 Blues Challenge. Liz’s highly engaging shows often end in standing ovations; at the 2011 Lansing Blues Fest they were dancing in the street. They were on their feet in South Carolina, in Florida, and at WCBS’s show at Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago.

Clarksdale, her first release for the new Blue Kitty Music label, an idea fostered by Grammy winner Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, dropped in May of 2012. Smith, best known for his work with the late Muddy Waters, contributed five tracks to the new disc. Clarksdale also features a riotous performance by long time friend and Howlin’ Wolf alum, the Legendary Eddie Shaw and includes tracks with Nick Moss and Donna Herula who was Liz’s partner in the IBC challenge.

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Album: Red Top
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:23
Size: 133.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:20] 1. Red Top
[4:25] 2. Corner Bar Blues
[5:27] 3. Dog No More
[2:59] 4. Spanky Butt
[5:21] 5. My Baby's Her Baby Too
[3:21] 6. Rub My Belly
[6:03] 7. So Smart Baby
[3:14] 8. Scratch The Kitty
[3:25] 9. Whoa, Whoa, Whoa
[2:47] 10. Bad Man Blues
[4:35] 11. Hold Me
[2:32] 12. Home Cookin'
[5:16] 13. Illinois National Guard Blues
[3:12] 14. Guilty Of Rockin' All Night
[2:19] 15. Little Queen

Liz Mandeville’s Red Top builds up a contemporary blues sound based on the stylistic bricks from its past.

Liz Mandeville draws her inspiration from more traditional sources, not just the electric blues from the 1950s on, but also from the swing and jazz of the 1940s, and, on “Rub My Belly,” from the blues rags of the 1920s, and on “Home Cookin’,” from the double-entendre acoustic folk blues of Mississippi John Hurt. (His classic “Candy Man” comes readily to mind.) Red Top is a CD of artist-penned music, 15 tracks of Mandeville originals that comprise contemporary electric blues, jazz swing, a rocked-up 1920s Bessie Smith-style rag, a straightforward acoustic folk blues, and on the last cut, “Little Queen,” a musically eclectic number that’s a mixture of country-rock with Chuck Berry influence.

Mandeville is not only an accomplished songwriter. She’s also an excellent guitarist and compelling vocalist with a style that’s her own, another showing of the diversity within contemporary blues on the distaff side. ~George Fish

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