Lazy Poker Blues Band - Halsted

Size: 137,5 MB
Time: 59:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Front, sleeve, tray

1. Neighbor, Neighbor (6:47)
2. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean (3:54)
3. I Can't Stand It (4:04)
4. Love Rears Its Ugly Head (4:16)
5. Feel Alright (4:22)
6. Two-Time Man (4:57)
7. Devil's Got My Woman (2:48)
8. Closed Doors (6:41)
9. Same Old Trouble (4:57)
10. A Woman Will Do Wrong (3:33)
11. You Can Have My Husband (3:25)
12. I Got The Blues (9:39)

Album number 8 by one of the most popular Swiss bands and a creative outcome of a trip to the US. The disc not only features the band's own brand of Chicago blues, it is also embellished with a high quality list of guests: Billy Branch, Danny Shaffer, John Bowes, Jay O'Rourke, Kenny Neal, A.C. Reed and others. The recorded material mixes original songs and cover versions on a 50/50 basis.

Personnel: Liliane Michel (vocals); Cla Nett (guitar, vocals); Stephan Pulver (Hammond B3, grand piano); Oliver Ritschard (bass); Toby Glaser (drums).

Guests: John Bowes, Billy Branch, Kenny Neal, A.C. Reed, Roger Reupert, Melvia "Chick" Rodgers, Jay O'Rourke, Danny Shaffer.

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Kid Thomas - Wail, Baby, Wail!

Size: 158,6 MB
Time: 67:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1993
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front, tray

1. Beaulah Come Back (2:45)
2. The Wolf Pack (2:37)
3. The Spell (2:10)
4. Come Here Woman (2:39)
5. Jivin' Mess (2:39)
6. She's Fine (2:43)
7. Here's My Story (3:20)
8. Rockin' This Joint Tonight (1:57)
9. You Are An Angel (2:29)
10. Wail Baby Wail (2:16)
11. Five Long Years (2:20)
12. Lookie There (2:21)
13. Cozy Lounge Blues (2:28)
14. Willowbrook (2:08)
15. You Are An Angel (Version 2) (2:37)
16. The Hurt Is On (3:05)
17. I Love You So (3:00)
18. Right Here (Bonus) (2:03)
19. Wolf Pack (Alternate Take 1) (Bonus) (2:40)
20. Wolf Pack (Alternate Take 2) (Bonus) (1:34)
21. Wolf Pack (Alternate Take 3) (Bonus) (1:14)
22. Take One (Partial) (Bonus) (0:33)
23. Don't Leave Me Baby, Please Don't Go (Alternate Take 1) (Bonus) (2:16)
24. Don't Leave Me Baby, Please Don't Go (Alternate Take 2) (Bonus) (2:33)
25. Come Here Woman (Alternate Take) (Bonus) (1:19)
26. Beaulah Don't Leave Me Baby (Bonus) (1:08)
27. Cryin' Since You Been Gone (Bonus) (2:30)
28. All Of Your Heart (Bonus) (2:32)
29. Here Comes The Night (Bonus) (2:21)
30. You Better Stop Doin' Me Around (Bonus) (0:45)

The chronicling of the complete recorded works of Kid Thomas has been an ongoing affair, each compact disc reissue turning up more rare and unissued sides. This 1993 issue is the most complete of all the Kid Thomas packages available, bringing together all of his extant Federal recordings, including myriad alternate takes (all originally chronicled on Wolf's Here's My Story compilation) and all of the West Coast recordings made under different names that appeared on Wolf's Rockin' Harmonica Men collection, which Thomas shared with Jerry McCain.

This surpasses both of those with the whopping addition of no less than 13 bonus tracks, most of them unissued demos and rehearsal tapes from various vintages. Unfortunately, none of these bonus tracks are listed anywhere on the package, and even the most avid Kid Thomas fan familiar with the preceding packages will still have trouble identifying which tracks are which, a curious oversight in a package so complete. /Cub Koda, AllMusic

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Robert Ealey - I Like Music When I Party

Size: 116,5 MB
Time: 50:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Shake Your Butt (4:38)
2. See About Me (3:15)
3. Don't I Love You (4:51)
4. Is Your Bathroom Clean (5:02)
5. Too Many Ways (3:35)
6. Cristena (4:52)
7. Elloise (3:56)
8. Shoo-Bee-Doo (3:45)
9. Graveyard Blues (3:12)
10. When The Lights Go Out (Let's Push It) (5:44)
11. Picture On The Wall (3:39)
12. Wild Wild West (3:53)

Robert Ealey is no spring chicken. After singing in local Texas bands for years, he finally started recording in the '90s - I Like Music When I Party was the fourth album he cut after starting his recording career. Like the others, it's a greasy colleciton of Texas blues, spiked with a bit of soul. Ealey's voice may be gravelly with age, but it's by no means gone, and with the support of his youthful backing band, he can really bring it home. There's nothing deep here - just party music, played good and simple. Sometimes, that's enough. /Thom Owens, AllMusic

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Craig Horton - Touch Of The Bluesman

Size: 108,7 MB
Time: 46:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Front, tray

1. Find Another Fool (4:43)
2. Life Of Luxury (3:49)
3. Burnin' (3:20)
4. Elizabeth (5:08)
5. 10 Years Gone (3:14)
6. That Little Girl Can Dance (4:05)
7. Damn Money (3:31)
8. Serves Me Right To Suffer (3:08)
9. Wanda Jean (2:42)
10. Reachin' For Shadows (5:42)
11. Ain't Gonna Take It (3:34)
12. Lovestruck (3:47)

Touch Of The Bluesman displays Horton’s versatility, with cuts ranging from ghetto swing blues to slow blues. There are also gospel and Latin influences on selected tunes. A tune called “Elizabeth,” which Horton wrote, is a 50’s West Coast vibe - slow blues with an uptown feel. In “Serves Me Right To Suffer,” Horton performs a relaxed, funky guitar solo. “Wanda Jean,” a song Horton penned in the early 50’s and waited fifty years to record, has a Latin feel, with some cool percussion. Gospel influence is heard in “Damn Money,” another composition by Horton in which he swings away on the guitar solo. In an instrumental called, “Burnin’,” a ghetto blues swing tune, Horton’s impromptu guitar solo illustrates why he was just named “2004 Blues Guitar Player of the Year” by The Bay Area Blues Society.

In a career that spans five decades, Craig is a pioneer of the blues genre. While he may remind blues aficionados of classic blues guitar pickers of the past, it’s not that he’s emulating them. It’s because he’s one of them. During the glory days of the Chicago blues scene, Horton opened at the Golden Dolphin with Count Basie and Duke Ellington. He’s also shared the stage with such legends as Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, Dinah Washington and Freddie King.

Personnel: Craig Horton (guitar, vocals); Steve Cannon (rhythm guitar); Chris Burns (organ, keyboards); Mike McCurdy, Randy Bermudes (bass); Scott Silevira (drums).

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Joanna Connor - Live 24

Size: 150,4 MB
Time: 65:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Electric blues, blues-rock
Art: Front

1. Statesboro Blues (9:56)
2. Rock And Roll Gypsy (5:56)
3. Stormy Monday (8:40)
4. Little Wing (6:31)
5. Born Under A Bad Sign (6:06)
6. Here I Am Baby (4:59)
7. Walkin' Blues (9:48)
8. Howlin' (5:16)
9. Boogie Woogie Nighthawk (8:08)

What sets Joanna Connor apart from the rest of the pack of guitar-playing female blues singers is her skill on the instrument. Even though Connor has become an accomplished singer over time, her first love was guitar playing, and it shows in her live shows and on her recordings. Brooklyn-born, Massachusetts-raised Joanna Connor was drawn to the Chicago blues scene like a bee to a half-full soda can. Connor, a fiery guitarist raised in the 1970s - when rock & roll was all over the mass media - just wanted to play blues. She was born August 31, 1962, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised by her mother in Worcester, MA. She benefitted from her mother's huge collection of blues and jazz recordings, and a young Connor was taken to see people like Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder and Buddy Guy in concert.

Connor got her first guitar at age seven. When she was 16, she began singing in Worcester-area bands, and when she was 22, she moved to Chicago. Soon after her arrival in 1984, she began sitting in with Chicago regulars like James Cotton, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy and A.C. Reed. She hooked up with Johnny Littlejohn's group for a short time before being asked by Dion Payton to join his 43rd Street Blues Band. She performed with Payton at the 1987 Chicago Blues Festival. Later that year, she was ready to put her own band together. Her 1989 debut for the Blind Pig label, Believe It!, got her out of Chicago clubs and into clubs and festivals around the U.S., Canada and Europe. Her other albums include 1992's Fight for Blind Pig (the title track a Luther Allison tune), Living on the Road (1993) and Rock and Roll Gypsy (1995), the latter two for the Ruf Records label.

Slidetime on Blind Pig followed in 1998 and Nothing But the Blues, a live recording of a 1999 show in Germany, appeared on the German Inakustik label in 2001. Connor left Blind Pig and signed to small indie label M.C. in 2002. Her first release for her new label, The Joanna Connor Band, finds Connor expanding her sound a bit in an attempt to reach a more mainstream audience. Connor has blossomed into a gifted blues songwriter. Her songwriting talents, strongly influenced by greats like Luther Allison, will insure that she stays in the blues spotlight for years to come. /Biography by Richard Skelly, AllMusic

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Eddie Burns - Detroit

Size: 109,6 MB
Time: 47:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1990
Styles: Blues
Art: Front, tray

1. Orange Driver (4:26)
2. When I Get Drunk (4:03)
3. Kidman (3:45)
4. Bottle Up And Go (2:32)
5. Inflation Blues (5:07)
6. Detroit (4:21)
7. Butterfly (7:02)
8. Boom Boom (3:23)
9. Time Out (4:34)
10. New Highway 61 (3:32)
11. Blue Jay (4:24)

Detroit boasted a vibrant blues scene during the postwar era, headed by John Lee Hooker and prominently featuring Eddie Burns, who hit the Motor City in 1948 and musically flourished there. While still in Mississippi, Burns picked up his early blues training from the 78s of Sonny Boy Williamson, Tommy McClennan, and Big Bill Broonzy. When he hit Detroit, Burns was exclusively a harp player. He cut "Notoriety Woman," his first single for Holiday in 1948, with partner John T. Smith on guitar. Burns added guitar to his personal arsenal the next year, cutting sessions with Hooker. Burns' own discography was slim but select - he cut singles for DeLuxe in 1952 ("Hello Miss Jessie Lee"), Checker in 1954 ("Biscuit Baking Mama"), JVB, and Chess in 1957 ("Treat Me Like I Treat You").

In 1961, Burns waxed the slashing "Orange Driver" and several more R&B-slanted sides for Harvey Fuqua's Harvey Records. Later, Burns made a fine album for Blue Suit Records, Detroit, that showed his versatility on two instruments to good advantage. Incidentally, blues talent runs in the Burns family: brother Jimmy is a blues-soul performer based in Chicago, with his own impressive discography stretching back to the '60s. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Lazy Poker Blues Band - Halsted Sessions

Size: 126,2 MB
Time: 54:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Front, sleeve, tray

1. Downhome Blues (7:29)
2. Breaking Up Somebody's Home (4:29)
3. Big Boss Man (3:44)
4. All Your Love (4:57)
5. Look On Yonders Wall (3:47)
6. Clouds In My Heart/She's 19 Years Old (5:43)
7. Hello Baby (4:34)
8. Born Under A Bad Sign (3:55)
9. If You Love Me Like You Say (3:17)
10. I Wonder Why (5:29)
11. It's My Fault (4:10)
12. Guilty (2:40)

In 1975, four young guys (Cla Nett, Fulvio Häfeli, Werner Doebelin and Ueli Hofmann) got together, eager to play their music, eager to play the blues. The Lazy Poker Blues Band was founded. With a new drummer, Marco Piazzalonga, the band produced their first album "Take It Lazy" (1978). Jakob Künzel and Sam Jenzer joined the band. Supported by the Lazy Horn Section, the next album "Soul Food" was released in 1980 and turned out to be a full success.

Together with Roli Frei, a new singer, more albums followed - "One More Mile" (1981), "Still Lazy" (1983), "Dealin' With Feeling" (1984) and "Constant Food Supply" (1995). They toured all over Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy (supporting act for Joe Cocker in Germany in 1984, and B.B. King in 1986 and 1995). After ten years of active music making, problems stirred up among the members of the band. A split was inevitable. With Jakob Künzel (vocals) the next album was produced, "Blue Road" (1986).

In 1992, Lazy Poker Blues Band had a dream. They went to Chicago and recorded their ninth album, "Halsted" (1994), at Chicago Trax Recording with local musicians (Melvia "Chick" Rodgers, A.C. Reed, Billy Branch, Kenny Neal and others). And now the best for last: another CD has been recorded in Chicago - something special for blues lovers - sessions after sessions with many great Chicago blues musicians released in spring 1996.

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Neil Minet & The Night Flyers - Shades Of Blue

Size: 113,8 MB
Time: 49:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Front

1. Country Boy (Feat. Tom Townsley) (6:50)
2. Keep Playin' (4:26)
3. I Loved Another Woman (Feat. Phil Petroff) (7:59)
4. T-Bone Boogie (4:02)
5. I'm A Ram (Feat. Frank Talarico) (5:12)
6. Have You No Shame (Feat. Frank Talarico, Carolyn Kelly, Diana Jacobs) (5:08)
7. Kansas City (Feat. Morris Tarbell) (4:47)
8. Key To Your Door (4:58)
9. Lagrimas De La Luna (Feat. Jose Alvarez & Josh Dekaney) (6:04)

In his debut album, Shades of Blue, Minet sought to capture his take on many of the standards of the genre that have influenced his early years. In doing so, he also hoped to pay tribute to his home of Syracuse, NY. With a long history as a vibrant blues scene, Syracuse has shaped him into the musician he is today and continues to provide him with the foundation for his career in the genre.

In addition to Minet’s musical direction of the album, his partner in crime, Shane Patterson, played an equally important role in the project both on the bass and in the control room. At only 19, Patterson has already established himself as both a versatile bass player and a skillful hand in the studio. Having now gigged throughout Central New York and New York City, as well as having produced, mixed, and engineered multiple albums for Syracuse area artists, Patterson brought both a fresh take on blues bass and a wealth of recording knowledge that helped to shape the album’s sound.

Rounding out the album’s sound is the incredible Byron “Kidd” Cage on drums. Although Cage has toured the world and recorded on Joe Louis Walker’s 2017 Grammy nominated album “Everybody Wants A Piece,” he is known first and foremost for kindness and humility both on and off the stage. As a Syracuse native himself, Cage was the perfect pick for the behind the kit.

Together these three, along with a host of other acclaimed Syracuse area musicians, blend their various influences to create an original sound while staying true to the genre.

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VA - The Ultimate Koko-Mojo Christmas Party (KMCD80)

Size: 168,4 MB
Time: 71:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues, R&B, Rock & Roll
Art: Front & Back

01 Oscar McLollie & His Honey Jumpers - Dig That Crazy Santa Claus (2:31)
02 The Youngsters - Christmas In Jail (2:03)
03 Lee Jackson & The Cadillac Baby Specials - Christmas Song (2:33)
04 Lee Rogers - You Wont Have To Wait Till Xmas (2:26)
05 Huey Piano Smith & The Clowns - White Christmas Blues (3:34)
06 Jimmy Charles - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (2:01)
07 Dee Dee Ford - Good-Morning Blues (2:32)
08 Washboard Pete - Christmas Blues (2:37)
09 Michel Warlop - Christmas Swing (2:51)
10 Jimmy Butler - Trim Your Tree (1:58)
11 Marvin & Johnny - Its Christmas Time (2:15)
12 Jim Backus With Daws Butler - I Was A Teenage Reindeer (2:32)
13 Les Chaussettes Noires - Le Twist De Pere Noel (2:01)
14 Little Bobby Rey - Rockin' J-Bells (2:25)
15 Detroit Junior - This Time Last Christmas (2:41)
16 Little Jimmy Thomas - Deck The Halls (Fa La La La La) (2:16)
17 Debbie & The Darnels - Santa Teach Me To Dance (2:10)
18 Ray Agee - Merry Christmas My Love (2:07)
19 The Platters - Jingle Bell Rock (1:49)
20 Lon Chaney - Monster Holiday (3:04)
21 Ron Holden - Who Says There Aint No Santa Claus (2:12)
22 Freddy King - Christmas Tears (2:46)
23 Mark Anthony - Mama's Twistin' With Santa Claus (2:12)
24 Lightnin Hopkins - Happy New Year (3:13)
25 Phil Moore - Chinchy Old Scrooge (3:30)
26 Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards - I Know What You Want For Christmas (3:09)
27 Titus Turner - Christmas Morning (2:32)
28 Gary Walker - Santa's Got A Brand New Bag (3:07)

The Mojo Man presents an album for the festive season with ‘The Ultimate Koko-Mojo Christmas Party’. With twenty-eight handpicked tracks, The Ultimate Koko-Mojo Christmas Party’ sets out to live up to its title with a variety of numbers to get you in the mood for this special time of year. Beginning in fine taste with Oscar McLollie And His “Honey Jumpers” ‘Dig That Crazy Santa Claus’; a lively rhythm and blues with quality vocals and plenty of saxophone to really ignite this album. What is most interesting here is the changes in styles from the rhythm and blues and definite soul-edge of Lee Rogers’ ‘You Won’t Have To Wait Till Xmas’, to reduced tempos as The Youngsters’ ‘Christmas In Jail’ laced with dry wit as it recounts the stupidity of the central protagonist involved and a Christmas to forget. Lovely stuff, and worth the purchase price for this track alone. Elsewhere, the female performers get a look in with excellent vocals and midtempo rhythm of Dee Dee Ford’s ‘Good-Morning Blues’, to vocal group Debbie & The Darnels ‘Santa, Teach Me To Dance’. Overfilled with a variety of Christmas tracks, and serving as a reminder of the quality that has gone before, such as Marvin & Johnny ‘It’s Christmas Time’ and ending with a bang via early soul of Gary Walker and ‘Santa’s Got A Brand New Bag’, this is one Christmas party you won’t want to miss.

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Tony Joe White - The Shine

Size: 122,6 MB
Time: 52:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Swamp Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Season Man (5:00)
02. Ain't Doing Nobody No Good (4:47)
03. Paintings On The Mountain (5:43)
04. Tell Me Why (6:12)
05. All (5:39)
06. Long Way From The River (6:07)
07. Strange Night (4:29)
08. Something To Soften The Blow (4:56)
09. Roll Train Roll (5:42)
10. A Place To Watch The Sun Go Down (4:08)

The 21st century saw Tony Joe White resume his recording and performing career, and experience a resurgence of critical interest in his older music as well. Since 2002, "the Swamp Fox" has recorded sporadically for his own Swamp imprint, and also had his back catalog remastered and reissued. Earlier in 2010, Rhino Handmade made available That On the Road Look, a previously unreleased live date. The Shine is a (mostly) low-key, basic affair. White wrote or co-wrote everything here with his wife, Leann. The band is a quintet: White plays guitars and harmonica with drummer Jack Bruno, cellist John Catchings, bassist George Hawkins, and Tyson Rogers on piano, organ, and Wurlitzer. The sound is warm and raw; the album feels like it was cut mostly live from the floor (with guitar and vocal overdubs added) and it's full of natural atmospherics. White's acoustic nylon-string guitar is prevalent, sometimes more so than his quavering, downright spooky baritone. His electric six-string work paints the backdrop. The only real exceptions are the downright rocker "Strange Night," where White displays everything that Mark Knopfler copped from his style inside of five minutes. The levels feel off, overloaded; the vocals come from the backdrop as the guitars and drums smoulder, smoke, and bubble. A broken love song, everything in it bleeds into everything else: it expresses pain as an immediate, crushing experience; it evokes everything from anger to tenderness. "Something to Soften the Blow" is an electric country waltz, sad, beautiful, and lonely. The protagonist is desperate for comfort in seeking a one-night stand from what is perhaps a sympathetic other. White somehow manages to pull off his plea without coming off as pathetic; he wears his brokenness with dignity. "Season Man" is a classic White minor-key narrative about a drifter. "Ain't Doing Nobody No Good" is a droning swamp blues, full of dread and sinister purpose. "Long Way from the River" is a backbeat-driven deeply atmospheric folk song that contains a classic White line: "When you're running with the swamp, the rain is gonna fall." "Roll Train Toll" is pure Delta-style folk-blues, played solo on a steel-string acoustic guitar; it's loaded with a quiet yet ever-present menace ready to break the surface, though it never does, and is all the more effective as a result. Ultimately, The Shine is White's most consistent and gratifying offering since he began recording again. ~Thom Jurek

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Walter T. Higgs - Just A Few Miles To Go

Size: 105,7 MB
Time: 44:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Texas Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Just A Few Miles To Go (3:01)
02. I Have A Dream (3:04)
03. Too Many Women Knockin' (3:15)
04. Shake Shuffle Shimmy (2:53)
05. Dont Be Afraid (4:24)
06. Is That A Teardrop (5:33)
07. Just How Bad I Feel (3:52)
08. See Ya Real Soon (3:31)
09. Chipped Off (2:40)
10. Blues And The Gospel (3:39)
11. Kiss Your Shoes (4:02)
12. Keep It Going On (4:47)

Good time Texas Blues is still alive and well in Austin, Texas, "The Live Music Capital Of The World". Known as one of the Lone Star State's best harp blowers and a longstanding stalwart of the Austin Blues scene, Walter T. Higgs is a prime perpetuator of the "Austin Sound". Higgs' fad-resistant sound, played with enormous conviction and great style, stands tall in an era of watered down rock imitators of "real" blues. True to the blues tradition yet open to innovation, Higgs' joyful romps on "Just A Few Miles To Go" pay homage to vintage styles while simultaneously recasting them into his personal fashion. All the of the songs are Higgs' originals, and many of the tracks clock in around the three minute mark, leaving no time or space for anything but strong and sincere statements. The songs reflect Higgs' ability to effectively meld all hues of blues, from the easy-rolling, autobiographical opener "Just A Few Miles To Go", to the gumbo groove of "See Ya Real Soon! ", to the jumping jive of "Shake Shuffle Shimmy", and finally to the horn-powered funk of the closing cut "Keep It Going On". Higgs fronts a talented cast of the blues elite of Austin, drawn primarily from the internationally renowned Austin blues club, Antone's. Combining decades of blues experience, veterans include venerated guitarist Derek O'Brien, producer/keyboardist Riley Osbourn, and the master rhythm section of drummer George Raines and bassist Larry Fulcher. The recording also thrives with the flair of guitarist Johnny Moeller, percussionists James Fenner and Bradley Williams, and the horn section of Mark Kazanov, Les Izmore, and Jimmy Shortell. This assortment of provincial performers perfectly frames Higgs' raspy world-traveled voice and soulful harp soloing. "Just A Few Miles To Go" proves that Texas blues music, when treated with respect for its pedigree and aspirations, remains vital and viable. "Just A Few Miles To Go" is truly music played real and from the soul.

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Greg Sover Band - The Parade

Size: 50,9 MB
Time: 21:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues Rock, Rock
Art: Full

01. Wake Up (3:56)
02. Wake Up Interlude (0:54)
03. Feelin' Sumthin' (4:35)
04. It's Never Too Late (3:26)
05. Politician (4:20)
06. Never Gonna Stop (4:17)

Indie, blues and rock outfit Greg Sover Band will release their six song EP, The Parade, on October 30th. The EP features five originals and the band’s interpretation of the Cream classic, “Politician.” In celebration of the release, Greg will be a guest on Steel City Live’s podcast on November 6th performing to a limited audience of twenty guests. With heavier guitars, blazing solos and impactful lyrics, The Parade explores themes of personal evolution, staying true to oneself and perseverance.

Recorded in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, The Parade was co-produced by Garry Lee and Mike Tarsia with Greg. In addition to Greg’s impassioned vocals, pointed songwriting and blistering lead guitarwork, the band features Garry Lee on bass guitar and backing vocals, drummer Tom Walling, guitarist Allen James and keyboardist Wally Smith. Gloria Galante performs harp on select tracks.

The EP kicks off with the hard rocking “Wake Up,” a searing call for the listener to truly grasp what it is like to walk in the shoes of a Black person in contemporary America. Contrastingly, “Feelin Sumthin’” is an uplifting rocker. “I tried to capture the country, blues, rock and gospel in this one with lyrics that make you remember why you are in certain situations to begin with,” Greg says.

“It’s Never Too Late” is a gentle, acoustic tribute to the singer’s late mother who passed away a decade ago this year. “It’s never too late to work things out… We’ve always been together, no, I won’t forget, ” he promises.

Greg pays homage to Cream with his version of “Politician.” The EP finishes up with the driving, “Never Gonna Stop,” a Hendrix inspired rocker that highlights Greg’s wailing lead vocal. “I wrote the riff first and I wanted this one to have a rock sound, but blues feel,” he says. “I speak about leaving behind everything that held you back in any way.”

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Sugar Blue - The Paris Sessions

Size: 168,5 MB
Time: 72:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2006
Styles: Harmonica Blues, Blues Jazz
Art: Front

01. Cold Blooded Man (4:43)
02. Another Man Done Gone (2:18)
03. Don't Start Me Talkin (3:53)
04. Pontiac Blues (3:24)
05. Devil Woman (9:49)
06. Help Me (5:09)
07. Key To The Highway (4:02)
08. That's Allright (4:25)
09. Shed No Tears (3:10)
10. Begging The Girl To Go (6:21)
11. Dark And Hungry (6:53)
12. War Zone (4:39)
13. Who's Been Talking (6:54)
14. Secret Lover (6:33)

Inarguably the best-known recorded performances by Grammy-winning harmonicist Sugar Blue are his two appearances on the Rolling Stones' Some Girls in 1977-- in particular on the hit "Miss You." (Mick Jagger found him busking on a Paris street.) That said, Blue has become a superstar and first-call sideman who has worked with everyone from Paul Horn, Hiram Bullock, Stan Getz, Prince, and Bob Dylan to Willie Dixon, Son Seals, Johnny Shines, and Shemekia Copeland, to name a few. He is among the foremost electric harpists of the modern era. Given his proficiency as an improviser and his high-register runs, circular breathing, and electronic effects, Sugar Blue is regarded by music journalists as "the Jimi Hendrix of the harmonica" and a "harp pyrotechnician." Though he records infrequently as a leader, his 1979 debut Crossroads and 1994's In Your Eyes, are regarded as essential modern electric blues offerings. His 2012 live date, Raw Sugar from Beeble Music, is among the first harmonica blues "essentials" of the 21st century. In 2016, Blue issued the charting Blue Voyage.

Sugar Blue was born James Whiting in New York City in 1950. The son of a singer/dancer who regularly performed at the legendary Apollo Theater, he was given his first harmonica at the age of ten, and by his mid-teens had already performed in the company of Muddy Waters; in the early '70s he made his first recordings, sitting in on sessions by the likes of Johnny Shines and Louisiana Red. Sugar Blue relocated to Paris in 1976, where he was introduced to the Rolling Stones; he went on to play on the group's LPs Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, and Tattoo You, lending his skills to such hits as "Miss You." He also played on jazz dates for Stan Getz and Paul Horn, and in 1979 cut the solo efforts Crossroads and From Paris to Chicago in 1982). In 1985, Blue won a Grammy Award for his participation on the Atlantic compilation Blues Explosion. Upon returning to the U.S. in the mid-'80s, Sugar Blue settled in Chicago, and after signing to Alligator, he cut Blue Blazes in 1994, followed a year later by In Your Eyes. Over the coming years he continued to perform and tour, though it would be 12 years before his next album, 2007's Code Blue, was released. Threshold appeared in 2010, followed two years later by the live album Raw Sugar. 2016 would prove to be a banner year for the veteran bluesman, with the release of a new studio album called Voyage, a world tour, and an appearance in the documentary film Sidemen, A Long Road to Glory. Restlessness is a chronic state for Blue, who continually seeks new sounds and studios to record in. For 2019's Colors, he wrote and recorded on four continents, U.S. (Chicago), China (Beijing), Europe (Italy), and Africa (South Africa). ~Jason Ankeny

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VA - National Downhome Blues Festival, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

Album: National Downhome Blues Festival, Vol. 1
Size: 161,8 MB
Time: 70:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. Lonnie Pitchford - That Train Coming Around The Bend (3:06)
02. Lonnie Pitchford - My Babe (2:19)
03. Lonnie Pitchford - Mary Had A Little Lamb (3:46)
04. Lonnie Pitchford - One-String Boogie (1:48)
05. Lonnie Pitchford - Walking Blues (2:09)
06. Lonnie Pitchford - Last Fair Deal (2:12)
07. Precious Bryant - Baby, Please Come Home To Me (2:22)
08. Precious Bryant - Ain't That Loving You, Baby (3:07)
09. Precious Bryant - Black Rat Swing (3:04)
10. Precious Bryant - You Don't Have To Go (2:26)
11. Precious Bryant - Long Distance Call (2:40)
12. Precious Bryant - Staggering Blues (2:15)
13. Thomas Burt - Hooks In The Water (3:43)
14. Thomas Burt - Hate To See The Evening Sun Go Down (6:22)
15. Thomas Burt - Ain't Got No Loving Baby Now (2:14)
16. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Train, Train (3:43)
17. Junior Kimbrough - All Night Long (3:36)
18. Sunnyland Slim - You Put That Thing On Me (3:22)
19. Sunnyland Slim - She's Got Things Going On (2:46)
20. Frank Edwards - Chicken Raid (3:13)
21. John Cephas & Phil Wiggins - Burning Bridges (4:10)
22. John Cephas & Phil Wiggins - Stagolee (6:07)

Recorded live at the National Downhome Blues Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, October 19-24, 1984.

The National Downhome Blues Festival was a one- time event held in 1984 in Atlanta, GA. Stretching over five days, the festival featured traditional blues artists in a small venue setting, and the shows were recorded, eventually released on four LPs in 1984. Southland has combined the first two of those LPs on a single disc (the second two have also been made into a single disc), and the result is an impressive primer on modern vernacular blues. The opening act, Mississippi's Lonnie Pitchford, steals the show right out of the gate with a wonderful set of six songs, four of which feature Pitchford on a one-string electric guitar (essentially a diddley bow). Blessed with a plaintive, convincing voice, Pitchford gives a glimpse of what traditional blues sounds like stripped of commercial aspirations. Precious Bryant, who follows Pitchford, sounds almost tame by comparison, but she delivers a crowd-pleasing set highlighted by her version of "Black Rat Swing." Jessie Mae Hemphill's rendition of "Train, Train" is another obvious highlight, as is Junior Kimbrough's signature "All Night Long" and Frank Edwards' surreal "Chicken Raid." This is blues that is still in service of its local communities, and the offhand, loose charm of these artists sets them aside from the bluster that usually passes for contemporary blues these days. ~Steve Leggett

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Album: National Downhome Blues Festival, Vol. 2
Size: 166,0 MB
Time: 70:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. John Jackson - Bad Water Blues (2:52)
02. John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:26)
03. John Jackson - I'm A Bad Man (3:09)
04. Robert Thomas & Albert Macon - She Wanna Do The Boogie Woogie (5:02)
05. Robert Thomas & Albert Macon - My Baby Don't Wear No Drawers (1:49)
06. Robert Junior Lockwood - Big Legged Woman (2:39)
07. Homesick James & Snooky Pryor - Why You Want To Do Me Like That (3:01)
08. Homesick James & Snooky Pryor - Boogie Twist (3:40)
09. Piano Red - Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo (2:12)
10. Piano Red - Lowdown Dog (3:10)
11. Eddie Kirkland - I Got My Eyes On You (4:43)
12. Doctor Ross - Chicago Breakdown (4:37)
13. Doctor Ross - That's All Right Mama (3:56)
14. Doctor Ross - Biscuit Baking Woman (2:52)
15. Booker T. Laury - Woman I Love Lives In Memphis, Tennessee (3:09)
16. Booker T. Laury - Disco Strut (2:32)
17. Son Thomas - Roll And Tumble (2:58)
18. Henry Townsend & Vernell Townsend - The Tears Come Rolling Down (2:48)
19. Henry Townsend - Standing Looking Out The Window (2:46)
20. Larry Johnson - The Wrong Woman (2:35)
21. Larry Johnson - Can't You Hear The Angels Singing (2:41)
22. Hezekiah & The Houserockers - Downhome Blues (3:29)

Recorded at the Moonshadow Saloon, Atlanta, Georgia, during the National Downhome Festival, on October 10-21, 1984.

The National Downhome Blues Festival was presented by the Georgia Folklore Society and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulton County Arts Council, and the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs.

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Inga Rumpf - In The Beginning

Size: 135,9 MB
Time: 57:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Blues, Rock, Folk
Art: Full

01. In The Beginning (With The City Preachers) (4:37)
02. Pure Religion (With The City Preachers) (3:35)
03. I'm On My Way (With The City Preachers) (3:04)
04. Sing Hallelujah (With The City Preachers) (3:48)
05. Sometimes I'm In The Mood (With The City Preachers) (2:56)
06. Waterboy (With The City Preachers) (1:56)
07. Cool Water (With The City Preachers) (2:57)
08. Jesus Met The Woman (With The City Preachers) (2:12)
09. Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho (With The City Preachers) (2:31)
10. A Taste Of Honey (With The City Preachers) (2:33)
11. Frankie And Johnny (Inga & John) (3:01)
12. Bonnie And Clyde (Inga & John) (2:48)
13. The Beat Goes On (3:03)
14. Silver Moon / Time Of The Season (2:50)
15. Niki Hoeky (2:51)
16. Nitschewo, Nikolai (2:36)
17. …da Hab Ich Eine Nacht Uber Ihn Nachgedacht (2:29)
18. Schade Um Die Tranen (2:40)
19. Er War Ganz Anders Als Du (2:29)
20. Sometimes The Sky Is Filled With Rain (With The City Preachers) (2:40)

Inga Rumpf was one of the best-known German R&B singers. Her voice often drew comparisons to Janis Joplin, but Rumpf was able to develop her own unique vocal style. Catapulted to stardom in the ‘70s with her band Frumpy, she released a number of highly acclaimed solo works in the ‘80s and ‘90s and came to be regarded as the grand old lady of German R&B. Whereas other German female vocalists such as Nina Hagen faded away over time, Rumpf consequently followed her path and never compromised herself artistically (unlike her ex-bandmate Udo Lindenberg, whose creativity died down by the end of the ‘80s when he started putting out lightweight pop).

Born on August 2, 1946 in Hamburg, Rumpf started performing as a teenager with different blues bands in the Hamburg entertainment district of St. Pauli. In 1965, she founded the folk band City Preachers and recorded three albums with them. After a creative crisis in 1969, the band changed styles from folk to a mix of beat and soul. A new lineup reflected this: Jean-Jacques Kravetz (keyboards), Karl-Heinz Schott (bass) and Udo Lindenberg (drums) formed the core of the new band, which one year later was to become Frumpy when Udo Lindenberg left to start a solo career and was replaced by Carsten Bohn. Frumpy recorded only two albums, All Will Be Changed (1970) and Frumpy 2 (1971) -- the latter containing the hit single "How the Gipsy Was Born" -- but these two LPs rewrote German rock history. The band was praised as the best German rock act, and Rumpf was declared the greatest individual vocal talent of the German rock scene to date.

After Frumpy disbanded, Rumpf founded Atlantis in 1972, with Kravetz and Schott, along with new additions Frank Diez on guitar and Curt Cress on drums. The same year, the German music magazine Musik Express selected Rumpf best German vocalist, and her band, Atlantis, "best live and studio band." Several U.K. tours, alone and with Lindenberg, made her well-known in the English-speaking hemisphere as well. Atlantis disbanded in 1975 after three excellent years, and Rumpf released her first solo effort, Second Hand Mädchen, which was heavily influenced by Lindenberg who, two years earlier, had established himself as one of the most promising German rock acts. Lindenberg had shown that German lyrics work in rock songs, and so Rumpf switched to singing in German, too, although on her 1981 album, Reality, she sang in English again. She wrote all of the songs herself for this, and even produced it. Tina Turner did a cover of "I Wrote a Letter," which was released as the B-side of her 1984 comeback single "Let's Stay Together" (re-released as a bonus track on the centenary edition of her landmark album Private Dancer in 1998). Also in 1981, Rumpf widened her horizon by accepting a job as a lecturer at the Hamburg Musikhochschule (university of music). Her 1984 album, Liebe, Leiden, Leben, again containing German lyrics, earned critical acclaim and she proved not to have lost any of the power she'd radiated in the ‘70s with Frumpy and Atlantis.

After a short Frumpy reunion in 1991-1992, the ‘90s saw Rumpf experimenting with jazz (with the 1994 album Fifty-Fifty with pianist Joja Wendt) and gospel music. In accordance with the philosophy of gospel, a significant number of her performances took place in churches, her lyrics became more spiritual, and increasingly revealed a Christian context without being preachy, so even atheists should be comfortable with the music of her later career. Critics hailed her 1996 album In the 25th Hour as her best to that point. Among other covers, the album contained her version of Ray Charles' hit "Unchain My Heart," as her best so far. The same year, the compilation The Best of All My Years was released. Her 1999 album, Walking in the Light, contained text adaptations of the biblical Sermon on the Mount.

From 2001 onward, Rumpf started to perform rock, R&B, and soul on a weekly basis in her hometown of Hamburg. Three years later, she founded her own record label, 25th Hour Music with the release of the live album Live im Michel. Rumpf's work with Frumpy and Atlantis, as well as her solo output of later years, is essential listening for everybody who wants to get to know German rock music. ~Frank Eisenhuth

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Various - Mule Milk 'N' Firewater

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:31
Size: 134.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Jump blues, Dirty blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front & Back

[2:24] 1. Rudy Moore - Ring-A-Ling-Dong
[2:55] 2. Roy Brown - Hurry Hurry Baby
[2:24] 3. Little Tommy Brown - Goodbye I'm Gone
[2:30] 4. Fred Clark - Bobby Sox Rocker (Take Two)
[3:01] 5. Big Jay McNeely - Mule Milk
[2:37] 6. The Checkers - Can't Find My Sadie
[2:41] 7. Five Jets - Everybody Do The Chicken
[2:00] 8. The Midnighters - That Woman
[2:15] 9. Fred Clark - Ground Hog Snooper
[2:17] 10. Rufus Gore - Fire Water
[3:03] 11. Jack Dupree - Stumbling Block
[2:37] 12. Joe Tex - Davy, You Upset My Home
[2:14] 13. The Lamplighters - Bo Peep
[2:25] 14. The Gardenias - My Baby's Tops
[2:15] 15. Joe Perkins - How Much Love Can One Heart Hold
[2:37] 16. Danny Cobb - Hey Mr. Warden
[2:21] 17. Tiny Topsy - Aw Shucks Baby (Take 2)
[2:18] 18. Joe Benson - Rock 'n' Roll Jungle
[2:07] 19. Little Wille John - Look What You've Done To Me
[2:05] 20. Little Wille John - Uh Uh Baby
[2:17] 21. H-Bomb Ferguson - Midnight Ramblin' Tonight
[2:17] 22. Ronnie Molleen - Fat Mama
[2:33] 23. Willie Wright - Got A Feelin'
[2:05] 24. Hank Ballard - Come On Baby Let's Shake It

This is an outstanding collection from the vaults of King and its subsidiary labels, Federal and Deluxe. These 24 tracks collect jump blues, doo wop, piano boogie, and outright bizarre novelties stretching from the late '40s through the early '60s. There is not a bad track on Mule Milk 'N' Firewater, featuring plenty of well-known names on mainly wild up-tempo songs by Roy Brown, Big Jay McNeely, Little Willie John, Hank Ballad & the Midnighters, and Jack Dupree. There are a few standouts amongst these rarities that may raise a few eyebrows. "Ring a Ling Dong" is from 1955 by Rudy Moore aka Rudy Ray Moore of Dolomite fame, and "Davy, You Upset My Home" finds a young Joe Tex vividly describing how his domestic situation is being torn apart by his girlfriend's unhealthy obsession with all things Davy Crockett! Unbelievable! ~Al Campbell

Originally posted on Dec 30th 2017. Updated to FLAC by Bluestender.

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Martin Lang - Bad Man

Size: 106,7 MB
Time: 45:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Reefer Head Man (3:49)
02. Juicy Lucy (4:31)
03. He Don't Love You (3:36)
04. High As A Georgia Pine (4:12)
05. Younger Days (4:16)
06. The Mix Up (2:12)
07. Bad Man (3:40)
08. Booker's Boogie (3:30)
09. I Worry My Mind Over You (3:54)
10. Mood Indica (4:45)
11. It's All Gone Now (2:48)
12. Stacy On My Feet (4:08)

This is Random Chance Records third album with Chicago-based blues band leader Martin Lang. He has assembled an A list of blues performers, including Grammy nominated Billy Flynn and Frank Krakowski (guitars). Dean Haas, drums, Tom Morris, guitar & bass, pianist Dave Waldman and bassist Jimmy Murphy fill out the list. Captures and updates the classic Chicago Blues sound.

Originally posted on Nov. 10th. Updated with CD Rip and full covers.

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Charlie Musselwhite Blues Band - Tennessee Woman

Size: 98,3 MB
Time: 42:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1969/1994
Styles: Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Tennessee Woman ( 3:46)
02. Blue Feeling Today ( 5:03)
03. A Nice Day For Something ( 6:40)
04. Everybody Needs Somebody ( 3:24)
05. I Don't Play, I'll Be Your Man Some Day ( 3:19)
06. Christo Redemptor (11:49)
07. Little By Little ( 2:49)
08. I'm A Stranger ( 5:16)

The addition of jazz pianist Skip Rose gave a new dimension to the ensemble sound, and provided a perfect foil to Charlie's own soloing -- especially on the re-take of "Cristo Redentor," extended to 11 minutes, shifting to double-time in spots. Rose's instrumental, "A Nice Day for Something," is a welcome change of pace, and Musselwhite's "Blue Feeling Today" compares favorably to fine covers of Little Walter and Fenton Robinson tunes. ~Dan Forte

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Mojo Morganfield - Mojo Risin' + It's Good To Be King

Size: 152 MB
Time: 20:00
File: FLAC
Released: 2018/2020
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

Mojo Risin' EP:
01. Let's Play Chess (3:24)
02. Mississippi Found Me (4:00)
03. Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man When I'm Gone (4:47)
04. I Can't Get No Grindin' (3:57)

It's Good To Be King Single:
01. It's Good To Be King (3:52)

Muddy Waters’ Delta roots stretch deep into the heart of his son Joseph “Mojo” Morganfield’s powerful vocals on his new single “Good to be King." DNA and a childhood of experiences from the heart of the Chicago blues scene pour out his legacy in Mojo’s latest single.

Mojo, the only son Muddy raised, grew up in and around Chicago with the father of the Chicago Blues. Muddy Waters gave Mojo his first guitar backstage at one of his concerts. Raised with the same Mississippi country values to which Muddy held firm, even after decades in Chicago, Mojo’s talent took a backseat while he worked to provide for his own children. Now he is doing what comes naturally and returning to his music.

Mojo can’t help but carry on his father’s sound, “elemental and deep…sound no one else could make” according to Rolling Stone’s Obituary of a Blues Legend. Muddy’s sound influenced many greats, placing Mojo in the company of Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, and so many others.

Some of Muddy’s colleagues stepped into the recording studio to help Mojo launch his musical career and this powerful new single, "Good to be King.” Billy Branch on harp and Rick Kreher on guitar extend the hand Muddy once offered each of them. Ronnie Brooks, son of another member of Muddy’s circle, Lonnie Brooks, laid spectacular tracks for this single as well. Even first-generation bluesman Brother John Kattke‘s work on the piano emanates that legendary feel.

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Goksenin - Women's Blues

Size: 67,9 MB
Time: 29:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Hala Vazgeçmedim (3:14)
02. The Blues Is My Business (3:20)
03. Me And My Chauffeur Blues (3:39)
04. Don't Put Your Hands On Me (3:15)
05. Çayda Çira Blues (Kindles On The Creek) (2:54)
06. Prove It On Me Blues (2:51)
07. Once In A While (3:55)
08. The Dream (3:24)
09. Take Me Out (2:58)

Personnel:
Vocal, guitar: Göksenin Tuncali
Guitar: Gürkan Özbek
Bass: Ozan Yesildal
Drums: Soner Doganca

We play blues pieces written, sung, interpreted by women and share their stories.

"Woman Blues with Göksenin" set out to bring together Blues songs written / interpreted by women and share their stories. The songs of important names such as Ma Rainey, Empress Bessie Smith, Big Mama Thornton from her queen Koko Taylor, Etta James, Tina Turner, Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia Copeland in their repertoires that parallel with the historical evolution of the music of Blues women from the 1920s to the present day. 's own compositions are included.

The women of the Blues are greeted by telling the stories of the songs and anecdotes from the life of the composers.

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Blues Lee - Twenty Five

Size: 87,7 MB
Time: 37:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Don't You Come Running (3:14)
02. Never Ever (3:31)
03. Flying High (2:56)
04. The Hard Way (3:48)
05. Ribery (3:24)
06. Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further (4:01)
07. No More (3:44)
08. Hooking (3:26)
09. Work Hard (3:16)
10. I Got Loaded (3:04)
11. Halibut Hop (3:24)

"One foot firmly planted in the Mississippi mud, another kicking and grooving on a contemporary dancefloor"

BLUES LEE is know for their exciting live shows, variety of American genres and witty lyrics.
They have played in clubs and on major festivals throughout Europe: Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, France, Germany, Switzerland, in South-Africa and Curaçao.
And they are still going strong!

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Ray Bailey - Cruisin' For A Bluesin'

Size: 119,9 MB
Time: 51:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Ho's Heart (4:11)
02. I Think About You Every Day (5:32)
03. Tie A Knot (3:13)
04. Red Headed Child (3:58)
05. Cruisin' For A Bluesin' (3:55)
06. My Baby's On A Mission (5:25)
07. I'm Gonna Keep On Loving You (4:29)
08. Little Girl (4:03)
09. Get Out Of Jail Free Card (4:01)
10. I Just Can't Cry No More (5:47)
11. Going Down Slow (6:31)

After recording his superb 1994 debut, 'Satan's Horn', he almost disappeared into obscurity. By the Fall of 2007 Ray Bailey, the former Blues Wunderkind, a young man who could write his own ticket with an electric guitar, had suffered through a devastating fire and then the subsequent robbery that took all of his music, recorded and composed, his guitars, his artwork and all of his possessions. Overwhelmed, he sank into drug use and depression. In 2008 Ray Bailey successfully completed a drug rehab program. The following year, he recorded a rather mediocre live album. This new record shows him in much better shape. He's writing his own songs. It's not all gold that shines, but he's on a good way.
Personnel: RAY BAILEY - guitar/vocals, JEFF McELROY - bass, LAND RICHARDS - drums. Special guests: MIKAL MAJEED - keyboards, DENIS DePOITRE - harmonica.

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The Flaming Mudcats - Forever And A Day

Size: 141,5 MB
Time: 60:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues
Art: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues

01. All Around The World (5:31)
02. Shake It (4:50)
03. Friday Night (4:41)
04. On The Town (3:07)
05. On The Up (3:25)
06. Good Behaviour (3:18)
07. Ill Be Fine (3:49)
08. 100 Days (5:50)
09. C'mon Baby (3:55)
10. My Baby's Alright (5:09)
11. So Glad (5:41)
12. Your Daddy (3:49)
13. Black Limousine (4:59)
14. Forever And A Day (2:31)

Formed in 2008 in Auckland, the Flaming Mudcats are now regarded to be one of New Zealand’s premier blues acts. They have taken their show to festivals and clubs throughout NZ, Australia, USA and the Pacific Islands. Their energetic live blues sets blend original material and covers drawn from their eclectic influences, a raw life potion of killer grooves, blazing licks and harp wizardry. Butt-shakingbelters to soulful grinders with everything in between ... welcome to the Flaming Mudcats show.

The band is fronted on vocals and harmonica by Craig Bracken with Doug Bygrave providing the six-string firepower. Anchoring these two, is drummer Ian Thomson and “newbie” bassman Johnny Yu.

With two highly-regarded albums of mostly original material, –2011’s “Gave You What You Wanted” and 2013’s “Mistress”, these guys are just getting started.

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Jo Carley & The Old Dry Skulls - Voodoo Bones & Vaudeville Blues

Size: 88,7 MB
Time: 37:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Vaudeville Blues
Art: Front

01. Little Limbs Of Satan (2:28)
02. The Zombie (3:32)
03. The Devil (2:58)
04. She Got Him (With Her Voodoo) (3:14)
05. Lose Your Soul (2:32)
06. The Jungle (2:43)
07. The Witchdoctor (3:52)
08. Dead But He Won't Lay Down (5:06)
09. Under Your Spell (2:32)
10. Crowhurst's Lament (1:51)
11. Shipwreck Blues (3:32)
12. The Bone Readers (3:13)

‘Making deals with the devil never bodes well and sometimes voodoo antics backfire. A woman’s innocent trip to the jungle ends with a witchdoctor tricking her into marrying him. In the dead of the night she steals his zombie poison and uses it to set herself free. She now possesses all of his magic and celebrates the end of their tumultuous relationship, but he doesn't go away easy. Now a relentless zombie comes to bother her every night, creeping around giving her fright. Is she still under his spell?

‘Voodoo Bones and Vaudeville Blues’ was recorded during lockdown in the bands tiny shack of a house on the East Coast of England. When the pandemic hit, they threw out the couch and the TV, turning their living room into a recording studio, laying down twelve new songs using only old school techniques and a few good microphones. There they waited out the Lockdown until they could mix and master the recordings to ¼ mono tape with Ed Deegan at Gizzard Recordings in London. This analogue and primitive way of recording totally captures the bands unique sound and the result is the bands most retro and authentic sounding record to date. Rooted firmly in a bygone era when Voodoo and Black Magic were rife, it has all the vibe, sounds and character of the old Blues, Old-timey Country, Skiffle, Calypso and Rock n Roll records that inspired them to make this album.

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Little Willie Littlefield - Yellow Boogie & Blues

Size: 152,9 MB
Time: 65:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues, piano blues
Art: Full

1. Everyday I Have The Blues (3:37)
2. New Orleans Blues (3:44)
3. Goodmorning Judge (3:33)
4. The Last Date (3:25)
5. Do You Want To Boogie (2:07)
6. Georgia On My Mind (4:19)
7. Rancho Grande (2:18)
8. Lowdown Shame (3:26)
9. Me And My Bobby Mcgee (5:00)
10. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (2:50)
11. Stormy Monday Blues (5:20)
12. Rocking Chair Boogie (2:34)
13. Chief And Job Blues (4:58)
14. Rockin' The Blues (2:22)
15. Gonna Tell My Mama (3:12)
16. Lucky Old Sun (3:59)
17. Trembling (2:22)
18. Wampie Blues (3:59)
19. Those Kansas City Nights (2:35)

Before he was 21 years old, Texas-born pianist Little Willie Littlefield had etched an all-time classic into the blues lexicon. Only trouble was, his original 1952 waxing of "Kansas City" (here titled "K.C. Loving") didn't sell sufficiently to show up on the charts (thus leaving the door open for Wilbert Harrison to invade the airwaves with the ubiquitous Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition seven years later).

Influenced by Albert Ammons, Charles Brown, and Amos Milburn, Little Willie was already a veteran of the R&B recording wars by the time he waxed "K.C. Loving," having made his debut 78 in 1948 for Houston-based Eddie's Records while still in his teens. After a few sides for Eddie's and Freedom, he moved over to the Bihari Brothers' Los Angeles-headquartered Modern logo in 1949. There he immediately hit paydirt with two major R&B hits, "It's Midnight" and "Farewell" (he added another chart entry, "I've Been Lost," in 1951).

Littlefield proved a sensation upon moving to L.A. during his Modern tenure, playing at area clubs and touring with a band that included saxist Maxwell Davis. At Littlefield's first L.A. session for King's Federal subsidiary in 1952, he cut "K.C. Loving" (with Davis on sax), but neither it nor several fine Federal follow-ups returned the boogie piano specialist to the charts.

Other than a few 1957-1958 singles for Oakland's Rhythm logo, little was heard from Little Willie Littlefield until the late '70s, when he began to mount a comeback at various festivals and on the European circuit. While overseas, he met a Dutch woman, married her, and settled in the Netherlands, where he remained active musically into the 2000s. He died of cancer in 2013. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Christmas

Size: 96,9 MB
Time: 41:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: R&B, big band, Christmas
Art: Full

1. Jingle Bells (2:22)
2. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (3:02)
3. Winter Wonderland (2:40)
4. Blue Christmas (2:48)
5. Santa Claus Is Back In Town (3:48)
6. Baby It's Cold Outside (3:43)
7. The Nutcracker Suite (7:13)
8. The Man With The Bag (2:48)
9. Sleigh Ride (2:40)
10. So They Say It's Christmas (4:46)
11. O Holy Night (4:49)
12. The Amens (0:59)

Brian Setzer takes his horn-fueled big band on a sleigh ride into Christmas/holiday music with generally impressive results. Meshing his rockabilly guitar solos with brassy charts and a lounge/Vegas sensibility that is part tribute and part retro characterization, Setzer dusts off and polishes up obscure nuggets like Kay Starr's "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag" and Lionel Hampton's swinging "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus." He rocks up played-out chestnuts "Winter Wonderland" and "Jingle Bells," slightly altering the latter's lyrics to, "Oh what fun it is to ride in a '57 Chevrolet." Elvis' "Blue Christmas" succeeds despite, or maybe because of, its obvious inclusion, narrowly missing a parody of the original due to Setzer's reverb-heavy guitar solo.

A rough, blues-heavy "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" successfully kicks the tune into classic urban R&B territory, with the bandleader's guitar getting down and dirty and the horns blasting away like Doc Severinsen's orchestra. Ann Margaret sounds a little tentative playing the sultry sex kitten next to Setzer's slick Bobby Darin on a nevertheless frisky duet romp through "Baby It's Cold Outside." But the album's obvious highlight is an intricately rearranged, instrumental big band blowout of "The Nutcracker Suite," originally written for Les Brown's orchestra in the '50s. It displays the group's stop-on-a-dime chops and swings like mad. A 30-piece choir backs Setzer doing his best Presley mannerisms on a smarmy "O Holy Night" and closes the album on a serious note with a prayerful "The Amens." /Hal Horowitz, AllMusic

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Mitch Kashmar - West Coast Toast

Size: 112,7 MB
Time: 48:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: West Coast blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full

1. East Of 82nd Street (3:05)
2. Too Many Cooks (3:32)
3. Young Girl (4:49)
4. Mood Indica (4:47)
5. The Petroleum Blues (5:44)
6. My Lil' Stumptown Shack (3:38)
7. Don't Stay Out All Night (2:54)
8. Makin' Bacon (4:29)
9. Alcohol Blues (4:23)
10. Love Grows Cold (3:31)
11. Canoodlin' (7:41)

In the golden era of post-war blues, Chicago was the home and proving ground for many of the legends of blues harmonica. Over the years, as the popularity of modern blues traveled from coast to coast and beyond, so did the players. By the late 1950s, one of the true pioneers of blues harp, George “Harmonica” Smith, had settled in Southern California, where his presence on the flourishing Los Angeles blues scene would have a tremendous impact in subsequent years on up-and-coming players such as Rod Piazza, William Clarke and Kim Wilson. Little could Smith have known that he would spawn a whole new offshoot of the blues harmonica tradition, helping to create what is now known to fans world-wide as ‘the West Coast Sound’, a hard-swinging, sophisticated, and distinctly different offshoot of the amplified harp sounds familiar in Chicago.

As time has gone by, a handful of masters of this new California sound have risen to the top of the heap and become influential and pioneering in their own right. One of the best of those on the scene today is Mitch Kashmar. Mitch has not only thoroughly absorbed the lessons of the masters, he’s developed his own unique voice in the blues idiom, and not just on the harmonica. He’s hands-down one of the heaviest and most soulful singers ever to emerge from the modern West Coast scene, and an engaging and witty songwriter, in addition to his virtuosic skills on the harmonica (it’s those harmonica skills that earned him a spot touring for several years with the legendary rock/soul/funk band War). Kashmar has been one of the leading figures in West Coast blues for over three decades now, heading some of the tightest contemporary blues outfits you’ll ever hear, and earning the respect and admiration of his peers, his elders, and a school of protégés with a tireless schedule of performances and series of stellar releases. Mitch delivers the complete package, and then some.

“West Coast Toast” heralds the arrival of Mitch Kashmar’s long-awaited third studio album from Delta Groove. Although fans had the live recording “Live at Labatt” (2008) and a CD reissue of his early ’80s era LP “100 Miles to Go” (2010) to tide them over, it’s been ten years since his last full studio effort, “Wake Up & Worry” (2006). This time out, Mitch pays tribute to his legacy, tipping his musical hat to the unique sounds of West Coast blues with a program of well-chosen covers mixed in with his own original compositions, all filtered through his own individualistic approach to the blues, and distilled down into the essence of what the blues is today. Along the way, Mitch Kashmar, together with the stellar backing musicianship of Junior Watson (guitar), Fred Kaplan (piano), Bill Stuve (bass) and Marty Dodson (drums), ably proves that the golden era of West Coast blues harmonica isn’t behind us – it’s still happening right now!

Originally posted Nov. 14, 2016, by Mat Tiggas, upgraded (CD rip) with complete art.

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Eddie 'Guitar' Burns - Detroit Blackbottom

Size: 87,9 MB
Time: 38:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1975
Styles: Blues
Art: LP front & back

1. Do It If You Wanna (3:28)
2. I'm Going - But I'll Be Back (2:49)
3. Detroit Blackbottom (3:31)
4. Every Jug Stands On Its Own Bottom (3:49)
5. I Wanna Trade With You (2:46)
6. I've Got A Lot Of Respect (3:31)
7. Bull Head-Go Ahead Angie (4:05)
8. Toni Louise (4:13)
9. Mississippi Country Farm (4:27)
10. Pee Pa Pobbie (5:17)

Detroit boasted a vibrant blues scene during the postwar era, headed by John Lee Hooker and prominently featuring Eddie Burns, who hit the Motor City in 1948 and musically flourished there. While still in Mississippi, Burns picked up his early blues training from the 78s of Sonny Boy Williamson, Tommy McClennan, and Big Bill Broonzy. When he hit Detroit, Burns was exclusively a harp player. He cut "Notoriety Woman," his first single for Holiday in 1948, with partner John T. Smith on guitar. Burns added guitar to his personal arsenal the next year, cutting sessions with Hooker.

Burns' own discography was slim but select - he cut singles for DeLuxe in 1952 ("Hello Miss Jessie Lee"), Checker in 1954 ("Biscuit Baking Mama"), JVB, and Chess in 1957 ("Treat Me Like I Treat You"). In 1961, Burns waxed the slashing "Orange Driver" and several more R&B-slanted sides for Harvey Fuqua's Harvey Records. Later, Burns made a fine album for Blue Suit Records, Detroit, that showed his versatility on two instruments to good advantage. Incidentally, blues talent runs in the Burns family: brother Jimmy is a blues-soul performer based in Chicago, with his own impressive discography stretching back to the '60s. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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Emilio Arsuaga & The Mad Reeds - I'm Here To Stay

Size: 82,5 MB
Time: 35:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front

1. I'm Here To Stay (3:26)
2. Crawfish Walk (3:35)
3. Honest I Do (3:29)
4. I'm Ready (2:42)
5. I Will Cry (2:50)
6. Uncle Joe (3:53)
7. What's Made Milwaukee (2:48)
8. Last Word Of A Fool (3:00)
9. I Thought It Would Be Me (2:55)
10. Can't Hold On Much Longer (3:21)
11. Thank You So Long (3:27)

Emilio is a harmonica player, singer and songwriter from Madrid, Spain. He started playing harmonica at the age of 18, and have played with the rockabilly band "Blue Stockings" and the "Rustic Acustic Blues Band". He already has produced 4 records on 4 different projets. His first two albums are "Po' Boys" with King Bee, and "Lazy Boots" with Lazy Boots, a tribute band dedicated to the repertoire of the Louisiana blues legend Lazy Lester, with whom he toured from 2014 until his last days.

2019 has been such a productive recording year. After many years of touring around Spain and Austin Texas, he has created his own project - Emilio Arsuaga & The Mad Reeds - and the time had come to cut his most personal record "I'm Here To stay". This record represents the way he feels about the music he loves, music with a lot of southern aroma, like a good Louisiana stew, the place where all his heroes Little Walter, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and his neighbour from Mississippi Jimmy Reed come from.

He also wanted to cover songs by his friends and teachers, people that he has played with, talked with, cooked with, drunk and traveled with like Greg Izor and Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone. To some of his original material we’ve added our own Spanish spice, something he really enjoyed doing, thanks in great part to the skills and enthusiasm of his fellow travelers The Mad Reeds.

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Lazy Lester - Lester's Stomp! The Lazy Lester Singles Collection 1965-62

Size: 150,5 MB
Time: 64:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front

1. I'm Gonna Leave You Baby (2:12)
2. Lester's Stomp (1:53)
3. Go Ahead (2:24)
4. They Call Me Lazy (2:55)
5. I Told My Little Woman (2:53)
6. Tell Me Pretty Baby (2:18)
7. I'm A Lover, Not A Fighter (2:42)
8. Sugar Coated Love (2:43)
9. I Hear You Knockin' (2:10)
10. Through The Goodness Of My Heart (2:08)
11. I Love You I Need You (2:20)
12. Late In The Evening (1:59)
13. A Real Combination For Love (2:29)
14. Bye Bye Baby, Gonna Call It Gone (2:19)
15. You Got Me Where You Want Me (3:00)
16. Patrol Blues (2:36)
17. (I'm So Glad) My Baby's Back Home (2:51)
18. Whoa Now (2:46)
19. If You Think I've Lost You (2:16)
20. I'm So Tired (2:25)
21. My Home Is A Prison (2:51)
22. Role On Ole Mule (1:59)
23. Nothing But The Devil (2:57)
24. Gonna Stick To You Baby (2:04)
25. Hoodo Party (2:25)
26. Rooster Blues (2:33)

Contrary to his colorful sobriquet (supplied by prolific South Louisiana producer J.D. Miller), harpist Lazy Lester swore he never was all that lethargic. But he seldom was in much of a hurry either, although the relentless pace of his Excello Records swamp blues classics "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "I Hear You Knockin'" might contradict that statement, too. While growing up outside of Baton Rouge, Leslie Johnson was influenced by Jimmy Reed and Little Walter. But his entry into playing professionally arrived quite by accident: while riding on a bus sometime in the mid-'50s, he met guitarist Lightnin' Slim, who was searching fruitlessly for an AWOL harpist. The two's styles meshed seamlessly, and Lester became Slim's harpist of choice.

In 1956, Lester stepped out front at Miller's Crowley, Louisiana studios for the first time. During an extended stint at Excello that stretched into 1965, he waxed such gems as "Sugar Coated Love," "If You Think I've Lost You," and "The Same Thing Could Happen to You." Lester proved invaluable as an imaginative sideman for Miller, utilizing everything from cardboard boxes and claves to whacking on newspapers in order to locate the correct percussive sound for the producer's output.

Lester gave up playing for almost two decades (and didn't particularly miss it, either), settling in Pontiac, Michigan in 1975. But Fred Reif (Lester's manager, booking agent, and rub board player) convinced the harpist that a return to action was in order, inaugurating a comeback that included a nice 1988 album for Alligator, Harp & Soul. His swamp blues sound remained as atmospheric (and, dare one say, energetic) as ever on subsequent releases including 1998's All Over You and 2001's Blues Stop Knockin', featuring Jimmie Vaughan. Lester continued playing and recording into the 21st century, releasing One More Once on the Spanish Karonte label in 2010. He died of cancer in August 2018 at his home in Paradise, California; Lazy Lester was 85 years old. /Biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

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