Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:40
Size: 86.2 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2003
Art: Front
[3:13] 1. Red, Hot & Blue
[4:19] 2. Love Struck
[3:46] 3. That's My Life
[4:19] 4. Duke's Blues
[2:54] 5. Texas Flood
[3:13] 6. Give It Up
[4:32] 7. Stormy Monday
[2:10] 8. Take It Like A Man
[4:18] 9. Still In Love With You
[4:52] 10. Honey Hush
Roomful of Blues' self-titled 1977 disc on Island Records, produced by Joel Dorn and the great Doc Pomus, reveals a powerful and entertaining approach to material from Noble "Thin Man" Watts, Chick Willis, Aaron Walker, Lou Willie Turner, and others. Duke Robillard's authentic vocal and guitar lead with authority, the group performing these solid blues with the precision of jazz greats. There's an interesting resemblance here to the Atlantic debut of the J. Geils Band, not in sound, but in look and attitude. Decades later Robillard would join John Geils; merging their journeymen talents, this ten-track collection by the septet is chock-full of this Duke's magic and indicates great things to come. Though Greg Piccolo is the tenor sax player in the ensemble, Scott Hamilton is featured on Aaron Walker's "Still in Love with You," a performance by the group that allows their respective talents to shine, the production flawlessly gives breathing room to each instrument. The rave version of "Honey Hush" condenses the music, focusing the elegance of the previous track into a rocking stomp with the band building into a mini blues Wall of Sound. Where members of another New England band of the day, Duke & the Drivers, were more fans than musicians, creating a party atmosphere from the sheer love of it, this serious bunch re-creates the aura found on some of the better known renditions of these compositions much like Stompy Jones, a group of veterans in the new millennium capturing the spirit of the time when this music was in its heyday. "Duke's Blues" is an inspired original with the guitar and saxes wailing in a symphony of earthy tones. The disc is an impressive contribution, but perhaps a bit out of place on a label that featured Bob Marley, Robert Palmer, Ultravox, John Cale, and Steve Winwood around the time of this album's release. ~Joe Viglione
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:17
Size: 163.2 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front
[4:14] 1. Turn It On, Turn It Up (Live)
[3:45] 2. Just Keep On Rockin'
[2:54] 3. That's A Pretty Good Love
[4:21] 4. The Love You Lost On The Way
[3:04] 5. Dressed Up To Get Messed Up (Live)
[3:17] 6. Boogie Woogie Country Girl
[3:02] 7. Talkin' To You Eye To Eye
[3:49] 8. I'll Keep On Trying
[4:20] 9. Blue, Blue World (Live)
[3:44] 10. Straight Jacquet
[2:48] 11. Hook, Line And Sinker
[7:11] 12. Easy Baby (Live)
[4:22] 13. Boomerang
[3:10] 14. Solid Jam
[3:30] 15. She Walks Right In
[4:35] 16. I Just Got To Know
[5:10] 17. Raisin' A Rucku
[3:52] 18. New Orleans
Over 70 minutes of crucial tracks from Roomful of Blues’ Alligator years. The famed “little big band” has been together for over 35 years, touring worldwide and brining their horn-driven jump blues to thousands of fans. Inspired by the R&B records of the ‘40s and ‘50s, they’ve carried on in the spirit of Count Basie, Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner, with full-bodied vocals, biting guitar a charging rhythm section and those signature blasting horns. Full of fire, eminently danceable and just plain fun, there is no other band like them. This Best Of includes classics from throughout the band’s career, including Dressed Up To Get Messed Up, Just Keep On Rockin, Turn It On, Turn It Up, Hook, Line & Sinker and more.
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