Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom - 2 albums: Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom / Mo' Blues & Grooves

Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom grooveliciously combines, works, plays in, stretches out, distorts, harmonizes and reflects the familiar and exotic, the smooth and toxic, the dynamic ups and the downs, the known and unknown boundaries of Blues and Jazz, Latin and Gospel, Hip-Hop and free style feelings into a unique musical gumbo, exciting young hip club and college audiences as well as the older veteran Blues and Jazz aficionados everywhere across the globe.

Levy, a steady 40+ year veteran of every cool scene to be seen, whether it be with Albert King, B.B. King, Roomful of Blues, Luther 'Guitar Jr' Johnson or Karl Denson and as organist, pianist, composer, arranger, sideman or soloist, producer and A&R man of over 200 recording projects of traditional and contemporary Blues, R&B, Jazz, Gospel, and real deal, hardcore music from New Orleans, Memphis, NYC, West Coast, Texas and beyond, has garnered many awards and nine Grammy nominations. His original compositions and recordings have been used on every television network and over a dozen films.

Album: Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:52
Size: 89.0 MB
Styles: Urban blues, Funk
Year: 1986/2012
Art: Front

[3:38] 1. I Know You Know I Know
[3:08] 2. Chicken Fried Snake
[3:38] 3. So Many Roads
[4:52] 4. Why You Stay Out So Late
[3:54] 5. Party In Nogales
[3:49] 6. Big Town Playboy
[3:34] 7. It's Hot In Here
[3:08] 8. My Heart's In Trouble
[4:08] 9. Knee Squeeze
[4:59] 10. Must Have Missed A Turn Somewhere

Ten tunes with an all-star cast including Ronnie Earl, Jimmie Vaughan (guitar), Kim Wilson (harmonica), Greg Piccolo (sax), Wayne Bennett (guitar), and other excellent players. Plenty of fine guitar, keyboards, harmonica, and uptempo blues music. ~Michael Erlewine

Ron Levy's first Wild Kingdom album on Blacktop Records, recorded in Austin Texas with an all-star band made up with members of Roomful of Blues, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Wayne Bennett, Kaz Kazanoff and Mudcat Ward. Recorded in 1986 'live' in the studio. Highly critically acclaimed and named as one of the top modern Blues recordings by many sources. A perennial fan favorite and collectors item. The original edition LPs, CDs & cassettes are long out of print, but it's now available for download in it's entirety! So for all you new Blues fans as well as fans whose LP's are worn out, here's a chance to enjoy this cult classic.

Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom

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Album: Mo' Blues & Grooves
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:59
Size: 157.9 MB
Styles: Urban blues, Funk
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:20] 1. Defrostin
[6:38] 2. Levtronic Blues
[6:08] 3. Zz Driver
[3:50] 4. Smoke N' Fire
[3:11] 5. I'm Your Professor
[5:14] 6. Coconut Milk
[5:05] 7. Blues For Bb
[3:46] 8. Poundin' The Streets
[3:41] 9. L & L Special
[3:38] 10. So Many Roads
[5:38] 11. Lonely Avenue
[5:28] 12. Chronic Late Arriver
[2:43] 13. Little Rock
[4:44] 14. Dresser Drawers
[5:48] 15. Get Over Here Baby

This album is part of a four part series showcasing Ron Levy as a composer and master musician. It is an anthology drawn from the various recordings Mr. Levy produced, arranged and played his signature sound on piano, electric piano, vibes, guitar and Hammond organ. There are even a couple of his Blues inspired vocals!

Mo' Blues & Grooves

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