Mikey Jr - 2 albums: Look Inside My Pocket / It Ain't Hard To Tell

Album: Look Inside My Pocket
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:58
Size: 98.4 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[3:35] 1. Had A Woman
[2:28] 2. All About You
[3:04] 3. Cheapskate
[4:38] 4. Happy Anniversary
[5:29] 5. I'm Broke
[3:18] 6. Summertime
[3:26] 7. I Ain't Your Baby Now
[2:46] 8. Look Inside My Pocket
[3:32] 9. What Have You Done
[2:20] 10. Whiskey By The Glass
[4:31] 11. I Need My Baby Back
[3:47] 12. Down At The Juke Joint

When the oldest continuously running blues society in the world says you're the "real deal", that has to mean something. When blues forums toss your name around with the likes of harmonica masters like Little Walter and Sonny Boy...that has to mean something. Of course, there will always be skeptics; but to the blues fans of the northeast Unites States, there is no doubt that at just 26 years old, Mikey Jr. is chasing the masters at a pace that's frightening.

Growing up on the tough streets of Trenton, New Jersey, Mikey Jr. is a self-taught prodigy. With his impressive collection of vintage tapes, cd's, records, and videos, Mikey spent the better part of his youth immersing himself in the world of blues music. By the time he was twenty-one, he was already a road-tested player, making even a ardent blues purists, take notice. Since that time, Mikey Jr. has released an impressive four cd's as well as a documentary DVD. He's been praised by blues societies as wall as players for his origional take on 'old school' styles and his latest release, 'Look Inside My Pocket' is being hailed as a watershed effort by the blues community.

Mikey Jr. never set out to re-write the pages of blues history, but through his true love of the music and his undying dedication to the masters that came before him, it seems all but certain that Mikey Jr. will scribe his name in the annals of blues history - right along side the very masters that influence his every performance.

Look Inside My Pocket mc
Look Inside My Pocket zippy

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Album: It Ain't Hard To Tell
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 54:04
Size: 123.8 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:06] 1. It Ain't Hard To Tell
[3:13] 2. The Cheapskate
[3:12] 3. Chitlin Con Carne
[2:14] 4. You All Alone
[3:42] 5. Pocket Full Of Money
[3:56] 6. Can't Be Satisfied
[5:06] 7. Hand Jive
[4:48] 8. What Have I Done
[5:06] 9. Telephone Blues
[2:49] 10. Hawaiian Eye
[3:11] 11. 32 20 Blues
[4:00] 12. Mikey's At The Bar
[4:32] 13. I Wish You Would
[5:03] 14. Mikey's Out Back

Singer/songwriter/harmonica wizard Mikey Junior is a native of Trenton, NJ who grew up across the Delaware River in Bucks County, PA. He came to the blues via his musician father’s record collection and by his early twenties (he just turned 30) he was a full time musician leading his own band up and down the East Coast. Three of his most important harmonica influences are Steve Guyger (Jimmy Rogers’ former harmonica player is native Bucks Countian), William Clarke, and Clarke’s mentor George "Harmonica" Smith. Mikey combines Clarke’s visceral lyricism, Guyger’s dynamic subtlety, and Smith’s muscular thunder (on chromatic) in his ever developing style. The impetus for Mikey’s sixth album was his desire to measure his progress as a musician with a combination of originals and personal favorites like Jimmy Roger’s "What Have I Done" (a long time staple of Steve Guyger’s repertoire) and George Smith’s signature slow blues "Telephone Blues," one of Mikey’s most dramatic performance pieces,

It Ain't Hard To Tell mc
It Ain't Hard To Tell zippy

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