Time: 67:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Blues, Rock, R&B
Art: Front & Back
01 Mickey & Kitty - St Louis Blues (2:02)
02 The Continentals - Do It Baby (2:19)
03 Bobo Jenkins - Tell Me Who (2:33)
04 Johnny (Rockhouse) Green Orchestra - Little Eva (2:16)
05 Johnny Guitar Watson - Johnny Guitar (2:24)
06 Lonesome Sundown - Learn To Treat Me Better (2:03)
07 Jesse Stone - The Stash (2:15)
08 Mr. Bo - Heartache & Troubles (2:28)
09 Flash Terry & His Orchestra - Shes My Baby (2:47)
10 Muvva (Guitar) Hubbard & The Stompers - Congo Mombo (2:32)
11 Curley Page & Band - I Believed In A Woman (2:26)
12 Sonny Forrest - Knockdown (2:30)
13 Guitar Shorty - Ways Of A Man (2:32)
14 Roy Hawkins & His Orchestra - Highway 59 (2:21)
15 Five Masks - Polly Molly (2:00)
16 The Twisters (Bobby Smith Combo) - Run Little Sheba (2:39)
17 The Staples Singers - Wish I Had Answered (2:46)
18 Joe Guitar Morris - The Git Back (Part 1) (2:17)
19 Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Midnight Hour (2:43)
20 The Nite Riders - Got Me A Six Button Benny (2:41)
21 Johnny Jenkins & The Pinetoppers - Pine Top (2:19)
22 Goree Carter & His Hepcats - Rock Awhile (2:42)
23 Clarence Garlow - Sound The Bell (2:24)
24 Jimmy Rogers - Rock This House (2:48)
25 Al Garner - You Must Be Crazy (2:17)
26 Little Eddie Mint - Two More Days (1:44)
27 Lefty (Guitar) Bates & His Orchestra - Rock Alley (2:28)
28 Jesse Allen & His Orchestra - After A While (2:25)
This is the kind of no-nonsense and straight to the point compilation many a music lover will appreciate and no doubt welcome into their collection. Fresh from Koko Mojo in terms of its blues and traditional rhythm and blues series, which has been weaving an alluring spell for some considerable time now given its high level of output, is brand-new album ‘Knockdown And Lubricate The Gear’. The clues are most definitely in the title of this current twenty-eight track long player where the guitar features heavily, and the sounds given plenty of energy. The rhythm flowing through The Continentals ‘Do It Baby’ suggests such an approach as it is performed at considerable pace with an equally quick lead vocal finding no trouble keeping up and greeted by a strong guitar break that takes this track to another level. Promising beginnings that only gets better by way of blues by name, blues by nature Lonesome Sundown and detailed guitar blues ‘Learn To Treat Me Better’. There’s much pain seeping from the vocals of Curley Page And Band has he laments over a relationship that only ever favoured one side during excellent ‘I Believed In A Woman’, before Flash Terry & His Orchestra live up to their moniker by offering an interesting mix of blues with big band accompaniments and sounding slightly ahead of its time given its rough edges and therefore impression of a band experimenting with a new sound. It’s the vocal once more that fuels the engine during track ‘Heartache & Troubles’ from Mr. Bo, whereas The Staples Singers provide a similar feat but only with more involvement from the instruments of song ‘Wish I Had Answered’. The final jolt of energy supplying the cables to this album comes from Jesse Allen And His Orchestra, where the sentiments of the lyrics are stripped bare and amplified by the rawest of guitars during ‘After A While’, which closes ‘Knockdown And Lubricate The Gear’ perfectly.
Knockdown: And Lubricate The Gear
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