Saturday, June 3, 2017

Blackburn - 2 albums: Brothers In This World / Brotherhood

Album: Brothers In This World
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:25
Size: 126.9 MB
Styles: Soul, Electric blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:28] 1. My Train
[3:43] 2. Good Woman
[2:42] 3. Holla Back
[3:48] 4. Walking In New, New Orleans
[3:09] 5. Railroad Song
[4:23] 6. I Can't Go Home
[2:50] 7. Hey Hey
[3:39] 8. Traces
[4:12] 9. You Think You Know Me
[3:48] 10. I Can't Take It (I Miss Your Smile)
[3:55] 11. Still Taking Care Of Business
[4:13] 12. Why I Sing The Blues
[4:59] 13. White Lightning
[5:28] 14. Good Woman Reprise

Brothers in This World is the Electro-Fi debut release from Canada's Top Blues & Soul band Blackburn. Now in their early 40's, Duane, Brooke, Cory and Robert Blackburn have been making music together since the crib. Their live shows are legendary and now on "BROTHERS IN THIS WORLD" the Blackburn family's musical prowess has been captured on disc, and it will rekindle why you fell in love with soul-rich Blues in the first place.

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Album: Brotherhood
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:01
Size: 151.1 MB
Styles: Soul, Electric blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[ 5:17] 1. Movin'
[ 4:31] 2. Soul Searching
[ 5:28] 3. Fever
[ 4:05] 4. Four Brothers
[ 6:08] 5. Talk To Me
[ 3:00] 6. Further On Up The Road
[ 5:24] 7. Hush
[ 5:53] 8. Sister Rosa
[ 5:44] 9. Back At The Zanzibar
[ 3:37] 10. Survival
[ 5:54] 11. The Thrill Is Gone
[10:54] 12. Junker Blues

Toronto’s first family of funk and soul is Blackburn. “Brotherhood” is their first Blues recording – a CD celebrating the traces of traditional blues, R&B, soul, hard grooves and harmony that only siblings can create. The launch of “Brotherhood” returns the Blackburn brothers to the prominence they enjoyed when entertaining packed houses at their old stomping ground, the Bamboo Club. For 15 formidable years, they were part of Toronto’s street culture representing a lineage of unmistakable nocturnal hedonism. New Orleans has the Neville Brothers; Toronto’s Blackburn similarly fires up live shows with scorching soul power. The brothers put on a show rich in the tradition of the blues, while inflected with an electric urban vibe.

Blackburn’s wickedly tight sound features lead singer, Duane Blackburn, playing a vintage Hammond B3 organ as if he was born on the bench. Duane has a sensuously smooth, yet powerful voice. Crack session guitarist Brooke and drummer Cory have played with many of Canada’s best blues and R&B artists, such as Shakura S’Aida and Liberty Silver. Bass player Mark Ayee has played with the brothers since childhood.
Well-known in Toronto’s African Canadian music scene, Duane, Brooke and Cory Blackburn follow a rich legacy, passed down from their father Bobby Dean Blackburn, that trails back to the Underground Railroad. Their dad led the band at the Zanzibar Tavern on Yonge Street during the 60s and 70s. Brooke carries on his father’s leadership as Artistic Director of Canada’s longest running summer festival in Owen Sound, The Emancipation Festival.

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17 comments:

Happymonk said...

May i have a re-up of these 2 albums, pretty please? HaHa. More courtesy, or curtsy in this world is sadly needed... the end of my political rant. Sorry..

Red Rooster said...

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

Blackburn - Brothers In This World (2015) [320]
MC: https://www.mirrored.to/files/WN0C6Q16/B-BITW.rar_links
Zippy: https://www18.zippyshare.com/v/oY1UiRrA/file.html

Blackburn - Brotherhood (2009) [320]
MC: https://www.mirrored.to/files/0U3NYND5/B-B.rar_links
Zippy: https://www10.zippyshare.com/v/v9lyi8We/file.html

Happymonk said...

Thanks Rooster. You're the best!

Happymonk said...

@Red Rooster. Starting at track 5 and again on track 6, there seems to be more than one song playing with radio ads? My puff is good but I listened again and its still there on Brotherhood.Tell me I'm not imagining thing please HaHa

daba said...

@Happymonk we must be puffing along the same line. It told me to check my garage door. Heck I don't have a garage... ;)

Happymonk said...

@daba. I was running all over the big house trying to figure out wat's playing...HaHa. It coulda bin anywhere HaHa

Happymonk said...

SIRI F22K OFF! HaHa

frankie said...

@ daba & Happymonk is it just the album Brotherhood with the errors? If so I just grabbed a copy from torrents, it's tagged as 256 but is actually 192, track 05 is playing it sounds fine. If you want will post maybe in basement, just holler.

Happymonk said...

@frankie. thanks...but the rest is good, I think we'll see what pops. HaHa. didn't have any alarm on brothers

frankie said...

@ Happymonk OKAY :)

Happymonk said...

@ frankie. funny how latest comments Capped Frankie..HaHa. I thought maybe you had an epiphony. Great community!

frankie said...

@ Happymonk "three wise men" nope it's just me :)

Bluestender said...

Blackburn - Brotherhood (2009 Lossless)

https://www.mirrored.to/files/1KJIMSHY/BlackburnBrotherhoodLL2009.rar_links

Happymonk said...

Thank You Bluestender.

frankie said...

Thanks 2 but that makes 3 :)

Red Rooster said...

Sorry about that faulty copy of "Brotherhood" guys, had no idea there was anything wrong with it. Lucky Bluestender came to the rescue. And now I can replace my copy as well, so thanks from me too.

Happymonk said...

@Rooster. HaHa. I honestly went around turning shit off. The Monkery is a big place. it couldn't possibly be the music! I laughed oot loud. Alls gud that ends gud!