Saturday, January 2, 2016

Van Wilks - 2 albums: 21st Century Blues / Live And Loud From Austin, Texas

In Austin, Texas, a city known for it’s great guitarists Van Wilks has long been lauded as one of the city’s master players. His talents as a guitarist and band leader have won him consistent critical praise and a string of honors that was capped when he was voted by Austin music fans into the Austin Chronicle’s "Texas Music Hall of Fame" alongside the state’s most legendary musical talents.

In his third decade as a veteran of the world-famous Austin music scene, Van Wilks "continues to make some of the city’s hottest guitar rock.", says the Austin Chronicle, creating music that brings his blues roots to the cutting edge with funk, hard-rock and melodic undertones. His compelling, hard-edged, bluesy rock prompted England’s tastemaking "Kerrang!" to name Van Wilks’ Mercury Records release "Bombay Tears" as "one of my all time faves," declaring it "a masterpiece."

His band, also known as Van Wilks, has topped music polls by the Austin Sun (Band of the Year), the Austin Chronicle (Best Hard-Rock Band four years in a row) and KLBJ-FM(Best Austin Band). Austin’s Mayor has proclaimed November 6 as "Van Wilks Day" and the Texas Legislature presented him with the Texas flag and a plaque honoring his musical contributions to the State. The French magazine "Guitarist" has placed Van’s records in the editor’s top picks two years running. Declared "a perfect cross between Jimi Hendrix and Van Halen" by the Austin-American Statesman, Van Wilks has toured nationally and internationally with such acts as ZZ Top (whose Billy Gibbons is one of Van’s biggest supporters) and torn the roof off nightclubs and concert halls from Lubbock, Texas , the Virgin Islands, Moscow, Paris, Madrid, and countless points all over Europe. As the Houston Chronicle noted of one show: "By the end of the night we were all so delirious we wouldn’t let them go until they came out for several post-closing-time encores".

Album: 21st Century Blues
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:42
Size: 118.4 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:03] 1. Strange Girl
[3:44] 2. Drive By Lover
[4:13] 3. Golddigger
[4:43] 4. Just Walk Away
[6:11] 5. There's A Sin In There Somewhere
[5:05] 6. 21st Century Blues
[3:18] 7. Who's Foolin' Who
[3:45] 8. She Makes Me Crazy
[4:32] 9. If I Were A Rich Man
[3:54] 10. Can't Stop Thinkin'
[4:55] 11. Livin' On Borrowed Time
[4:12] 12. Midnight Crossing

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21st Century Blues zippy

Album: Live And Loud From Austin, Texas
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:06
Size: 103.3 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[4:41] 1. Menphis Turnaround
[5:00] 2. Stone Cold Day
[4:27] 3. Bleedin' For You
[3:48] 4. Sometimes You Run
[3:59] 5. Texas '51
[8:21] 6. Without A Word
[8:17] 7. Boystown
[6:29] 8. Soul Of A Man

Live And Loud From Austin, Texas mc
Live And Loud From Austin, Texas zippy

5 comments:

Tom/Germany said...

Could you please refresh the links... Thank you very much !!!

Red Rooster said...

New links for this post (both albums) can be found below.

Van Wilks - 21st Century Blues (2015) [320]
MC: http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/EGJHHWPD/VW-21CB.rar_links
Zippy: http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/J2zmeyW7/file.html

Van Wilks - Live And Loud From Austin, Texas (2009) [320]
MC: http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/9F8XN3CZ/VW-LALFAT.rar_links
Zippy: http://www49.zippyshare.com/v/aju3o4md/file.html

Tom/Germany said...

That's fine, Vielen lieben Dank ;-)

rob57 said...

Could you please re-up this two albuthanks a lot!

Red Rooster said...

New links for this post (both albums) can be found below.

Van Wilks - 21st Century Blues (2015) [320]
MC: http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0XTXZC3E/VW-21CB.rar_links
Zippy: http://www3.zippyshare.com/v/EaKfX9vk/file.html

Van Wilks - Live And Loud From Austin, Texas (2009) [320]
MC: http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1VIIZDD9/VW-LALFAT.rar_links
Zippy: http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/jV9vT3nl/file.html