Arbee Stidham - There's Always Tomorrow

Size: 84,6 MB
Time: 36:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1973
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Please Let It Be Me (3:28)
2. I Stayed Away Too Long (3:41)
3. There's Always Tomorrow (3:19)
4. You Keep Me Yearning (2:43)
5. Tired Of Wondering (3:48)
6. If You Just Hold On (4:06)
7. Take The Pain From My Heart (3:09)
8. My Lincoln Continental (3:53)
9. What Would You Do If You Were Me (3:54)
10. People's Blues (4:31)

An exciting and expressive jazz-influenced blues vocalist, Arbee Stidham also plays alto sax, guitar and harmonica. His father Luddie Stidham worked in Jimme Lunceford's orchestra, while his uncle was a leader of the Memphis Jug Band. Stidham formed the Southern Syncopators and played various clubs in his native Arkansas in the '30s. He appeared on Little Rock radio station KARK and his band backed Bessie Smith on a Southern tour in 1930 and 1931.

Stidham frequently performed in Little Rock and Memphis until he moved to Chicago in the '40s. Stidham recorded with Lucky Millinder's Orchestra for Victor in the '40s for Victor. He did his own sessions for Victor, Sittin' In, Checker, Abco, Prestige/Bluesville, Mainstream, and Folkways in the '50s and '60s, and appeared in the film The Bluesman in 1973. Stidham also made many festival and club appearances nationwide and internationally. He did occasional blues lectures at Cleveland State University in the '70s. /Biography by Ron Wynn, AllMusic

Recorded by Folkways in 1973, this lively album by Arbee Stidham recaptures his classic Southern blues roots. Stidham says: "In doing this session, I thought back to my boyhood days when I was singing the blues in and around my home town… when people was really living and playing the blues…".

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Arbee Stidham - Arbee's Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:49
Size: 77.4 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Boogie woogie
Year: 1961/2009
Art: Front

[1:51] 1. Good Morning Blues
[4:08] 2. Falling Blues
[3:01] 3. Blue And Low
[2:23] 4. Misery Blues
[2:26] 5. My Baby Left Me
[2:57] 6. In The Evening
[3:12] 7. Walking Blues
[3:35] 8. I've Got To Forget You
[2:09] 9. Standing On The Corner
[4:18] 10. Careless Love
[3:42] 11. Tell Me, Mama

Arbee’s Blues lays testament to bluesman Arbee Stidham’s triumph over a long depression, a consequence of an accident that forced him to give up the saxophone in the mid-1950s. Along his route to recovery, the musician picked up the guitar, and this album—over half an hour of plaintive Chicago blues and swinging boogie-woogie—is one result. Stidham’s deep, grizzly voice and understated guitar licks weave through Memphis Slim’s piano/organ riffs and Jump Jackson’s beats on snare.

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Arbee Stidham - Classic Blues

Year : 2010
Bitrate : 320K/s
Total Time : 85:48
Total Size : 199,5 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Front

1. I Found Out For Myself (3:03)
2. My Heart Belongs To You (2:58)
3. Your Heart Belong To Me (2:53)
4. Stidham Jumps (3:57)
5. A Heart Full Of Misery (3:10)
6. You'll Be Sorry (3:03)
7. I've Got So Many Worries (3:31)
8. Feel Like I'm Losing You (2:24)
9. Squeeze Me Baby (2:56)
10. Any Time You Ring My Bell (3:31)
11. Sixty Minutes To Wait (2:41)
12. I've Got New For You Baby (5:28)
13. Why Did I Fall In Love With You (2:34)
14. I'm In The Mood (3:09)
15. I Want To Rock (3:15)
16. Mr. Commissioner (3:14)
17. Baby Stop The Clock (1:54)
18. Blues Why Do You Pick On Me (2:19)
19. Meet Me Halfway (2:33)
20. Please Let It Be Me (3:08)
21. Look Me Straight In The Eye (2:58)
22. I Stayed Away Too Long 1 (2:50)
23. Last Goodbye Blues (2:39)
24. You Can't Live In This World By Yourself (2:31)
25. I'm Tired Of Wandering (2:42)
26. Wee Baby Blues (2:57)
27. You Keep Me Yearning (2:32)
28. People, What Would You Do (2:17)
29. Teenage Kiss (2:29)

An exciting and expressive jazz-influenced blues vocalist. In his childhood he learned to play harmonica, clarinet and alto saxophone and formed his own band. When Stidham moved to Chicago he met Lester Melrose who signed the young blues singer to RCA - Victor in 1947. His biggest hit, ‘My Heart Belongs to You’, was recorded at the first session in September of that year, and Stidham spent the rest of his career trying to emulate its success. After Victor (1947-50), he recorded for Sittin’ In With (1951), Checker (1953), Abco (1956) and States (1957) as a vocalist, but took up the guitar in the 50s under the tutelage of Big Bill Broonzy. In 1960-61, Stidham recorded one album for Bluesville (which included a remake of his big hit) and two for Folkways, in which his singing was accompanied by his guitar. He also accompanied Memphis Slim on one of the pianist’s Folkways sessions. In 1965 Stidham again re-recorded ‘My Heart Belongs To You’ for Sam Phillips. In the 70s a single was released on Blues City and a brace of albums on Mainstream and Folkways.
He appeared in the film The Bluesman in 1973. (February 9, 1917 – April 26, 1988)

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Jazz Gillum - Blues By Jazz Gillum (with Memphis Slim & Arbee Stidham)

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:31
Size: 72.2 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Chicago blues
Year: 1961/2004
Art: Front

[2:27] 1. The Race Of The Jim Lee And Katy Adam
[3:06] 2. A Small Town They Call Bessemer
[3:01] 3. Walkin' The Blues Away
[3:46] 4. My Last Letter
[2:57] 5. Key To The Highway
[1:04] 6. Harmonica Boogie
[2:53] 7. I Wonder Why
[2:14] 8. You've Got To Reap Just What You Sow
[2:08] 9. Let It Be Me
[3:02] 10. I'll Always Remember You
[2:32] 11. You've Got To Meet Me Halfway
[2:16] 12. Gillum Blues

Guitar, Vocals – Arbee Stidham; Harmonica, Vocals – Jazz Gillum; Organ [Electric], Piano – Memphis Slim.

An influential figure in the growth of the Southern blues tradition, William “Jazz” Gillum (1904–1966) had the kind of life from which the blues spring. Orphaned, starved, threatened, shot at, beaten, and discriminated against, Gillum’s style, as heard throughout this recording—and as described in the liner notes—is unsurprisingly “sometimes harsh, sometimes poetic, with its expressive delayed beat and strong rhythm, and its bitterness tinged with nostalgia.” He is joined on this album by Arbee Stidham (vocals and guitar) and Memphis Slim (organ and piano), associates from his early professional jobs in Chicago in the 1930s.

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Memphis Slim, 'Jump' Jackson & Arbee Stidham - Chicago Blues Boogie Woogie And Blues Played And Sung By Memphis Slim

Size: 98,9 MB
Time: 35:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1961
Styles: Chicago Blues, Piano Blues
Art: Front

01. Boogie Woogie Piano Styles (5:38)
02. Alberta (4:08)
03. Scandinavian Boogie (3:10)
04. Between Midnight And Dawn (3:03)
05. 46th Street Boogie (Fast Boogie) (2:43)
06. The Big Race (5:50)
07. Chicago Rent Party (3:54)
08. Down South (7:10)

The music on this recording is at once far-reaching and intimate. It has a quality enjoyed well beyond contemporary fans of this style of music, and yet this recording gives the listener the sense of being privy to a very precise moment in music history with Memphis Slim (1915—1988) as he plays piano.

Slim (born Peter Chatman) grew up listening to his father perform blues in various venues in Memphis, Tennessee. He started performing around town at a young age before moving to Chicago at 25.

He is accompanied on this album- the third of his four recordings for Folkways Records - by Arnold “Jump” Jackson (drums) and Arbee Stidham (guitar).

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Arbee Stidham - The Complete Recordings

Size: 135,8+146,0 MB
Time: 56:54+61:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

Vol. 1: 1947-1951
01. In Love With You (2:59)
02. I Found Out For Myself (2:58)
03. I Don't Know How To Cry (2:43)
04. My Heart Belongs To You (3:03)
05. Your Heart Belongs To Me (2:56)
06. Stidham Jumps (2:41)
07. What The Blues Will Do (2:30)
08. A Heart Full Of Misery (3:09)
09. Falling Blues (3:04)
10. You'll Be Sorry (2:33)
11. I've Got So Many Worries (2:58)
12. So Tired Of Dreaming (2:54)
13. I Send My Regrets (2:56)
14. Barbecue Lounge (2:37)
15. Feel Like I'm Losing You (2:49)
16. Let My Dreams Come True (2:59)
17. Squeeze Me Baby (2:42)
18. Any Time You Ring My Bell (2:57)
19. Nothing Seems Right (2:47)
20. Sixty Minutes To Wait (2:29)

Vol. 2: 1951-1957
01. Feeling Blue And Low (3:27)
02. I've Got News For You Baby (2:53)
03. Bad Dreams Blues (2:52)
04. Why Did I Fall In Love With You (3:32)
05. I'm In The Mood (2:25)
06. I Want To Rock (3:31)
07. Someone To Tell My Trouble To (2:48)
08. Mr Comissioner (Master) (3:15)
09. Mr Comissioner (Alt. Take) (3:14)
10. Baby Stop The Clock (1:54)
11. Blues Why Do You Kick On Me (3:08)
12. Don't Set Your Cap For Me (3:00)
13. I Don't Play (2:47)
14. I'll Always Remember You (2:31)
15. Meet Me Halfway (2:39)
16. When I Find My Baby (2:53)
17. Please Let It Be Me (2:31)
18. Look Me Straight In The Eye (Alt. Take) (2:32)
19. Look Me Straight In The Eye (Master) (2:32)
20. I Stayed Away Too Long (Alt. Take) (2:17)
21. I Stayed Away Too Long (2nd Master) (2:19)
22. I Stayed Away Too Long (Master) (2:22)

An exciting and expressive jazz-influenced blues vocalist, Arbee Stidham also plays alto sax, guitar and harmonica. His father Luddie Stidham worked in Jimme Lunceford's orchestra, while his uncle was a leader of the Memphis Jug Band. Stidham formed the Southern Syncopators and played various clubs in his native Arkansas in the '30s. He appeared on Little Rock radio station KARK and his band backed Bessie Smith on a Southern tour in 1930 and 1931. Stidham frequently performed in Little Rock and Memphis until he moved to Chicago in the '40s. Stidham recorded with Lucky Millinder's Orchestra for Victor in the '40s for Victor. He did his own sessions for Victor, Sittin' In, Checker, Abco, Prestige/Bluesville, Mainstream, and Folkways in the '50s and '60s, and appeared in the film The Bluesman in 1973. Stidham also made many festival and club appearances nationwide and internationally. He did occasional blues lectures at Cleveland State University in the '70s. ~by Ron Wynn

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Various - ABCO Records Chicago

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:04
Size: 96.3 MB
Styles: R&B, Chicago blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[2:39] 1. Morris Pejoe - Screaming And Crying
[2:45] 2. Morris Pejoe - Maybe Blues
[2:49] 3. Herby Joe - Smokestack Lightning
[2:25] 4. Herby Joe - Dreamed
[2:39] 5. Louis Myers - Just Whaling
[2:38] 6. Louis Myers & The Aces - Bluesy
[2:33] 7. Arbee Stidham - Meet Me Halfway
[2:28] 8. Arbee Stidham - I'll Always Remember You
[2:40] 9. Arbee Stidham - When I Find My Baby
[2:27] 10. Arbee Stidham - Please Let It Be Me
[2:24] 11. Freddy Hall & The Aces - Can't This Be Mine
[2:42] 12. Arbee Stidham, Morris Pejoe, Louis Myers & The Aces - Playin' Hard To Get
[2:56] 13. Zona Sago's - Jivin' At Random
[2:36] 14. Zona Sago's - Short Order
[2:48] 15. Rip-Chords - I Love You The Best
[2:27] 16. Rip-Chords - Razzle Dazzle

Abco Records was a subsidiary of Eli Toscano's Cobra Record Corp.. Similar to it's parent, this Chicago based label focused on rhythm & blues recordings - and issued their small quantity of releases exclusively on 45rpm 7" vinyl records. In the two years of Abco's existence, only 8 releases are known to exist.

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Various - A Riot In Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:59
Size: 128.2 MB
Styles: Assorted styles
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[3:31] 1. Ray Charles - I Found My Baby
[2:48] 2. Ray Charles - Why Did You Go
[2:32] 3. Ray Charles - Guitar Blues
[2:57] 4. John Lee Hooker - The Syndicator
[2:59] 5. John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues
[2:51] 6. John Lee Hooker - Down Child
[2:07] 7. Lil' Son Jackson - Bad Whiskey
[2:48] 8. Lil' Son Jackson - Cairo Blues
[2:43] 9. Lightnin' Hopkins - Merry Christmas Baby
[2:57] 10. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Miss Christine
[2:53] 11. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Harmonica Train
[2:14] 12. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway
[2:29] 13. James Wayne - Tend To Your Business
[3:00] 14. James Wayne - Bull Corn
[2:15] 15. James Wayne - I'm Going To Tell Your Mother
[2:27] 16. Arbee Stidham - I'm In The Mood
[3:27] 17. Arbee Stidham - Feeling Blue And Low
[3:35] 18. Arbee Stidham - I Want To Rock
[2:41] 19. Lil' Son Jackson - No Money No Love
[2:38] 20. Ray Johnson - House Of Blues

This showcase for different varieties of blues, from the acoustic harmonica/guitar work of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee to the electric band work of Ray Charles and Arbee Stidham, is more substantial than its 20 cuts would lead one to expect. There's no shortage of outstanding recordings. Ray Charles may only do three numbers, but he shows off some surprising attributes, his singing overpowering everything around him for the first two tracks, "Why Did You Go?" and "I Found My Baby There," before he yields to the band on the instrumental "Guitar Blues," the guitarist getting most of the dialogue and the last word over Charles' piano. The Cajun-flavored work of James Wayne adds still greater variety, along with his decidedly more R&B-based approach to the blues, coming off almost like a full-blown rock & roll number. Producer Bob Shad outdid himself in recording and selecting this material, and this collection -- originally released on the Time label -- deserves to be better known than it is.

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Arbee Stidham - Tired Of Wandering: The Blues Of Arbee Stidham

Size: 88,9 MB
Time: 37:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1961/2001
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Last Goodbye Blues (3:02)
02. You Can't Live In This World By Sourself (3:57)
03. Pawn Shop (6:57)
04. I'm Tired Of Wandering (3:10)
05. I Wan't To Belong To You (3:08)
06. Wee Baby Blues (5:28)
07. You Keep Me Yearning (2:34)
08. My Heart Will Always Belong To You (3:37)
09. People, What Would You Do (3:14)
10. Teenage Kiss (2:19)

Over the years, the term R&B has been used to describe everything from the 1950s doo wop of the Five Satins to the hip-hop-influenced urban contemporary of Erykah Badu and R. Kelly -- in other words, a variety of African-American popular music with roots in the blues. Arbee Stidham was exactly the sort of singer who thrived in the R&B or "race" market after World War II; although essentially a bluesman, he wasn't a blues purist who embraced the 12-bar format 100 percent of the time. But his mixture of blues, jazz, and gospel made him quite popular among what were considered rhythm & blues audiences in the 1940s and 1950s. Recorded for Prestige's Bluesville label in 1960 -- eight years before Stidham's death -- Tired of Wandering is among his finest albums. This session, which boasts King Curtis on tenor sax, doesn't cater to blues purists; while some of the tunes have 12 bars, others don't. Regardless, the feeling of the blues enriches everything on the CD; that is true whether Stidham is turning his attention to Big Joe Turner's "Last Goodbye Blues" or revisiting his 1948 hit, "My Heart Belongs to You." Equally triumphant is Brownie McGhee's "Pawn Shop," which is associated with Piedmont country blues but gets a big-city makeover from Stidham. Like Jimmy Witherspoon -- someone he inspires comparisons to -- Stidham demonstrates that the blues can be sophisticated, polished, and jazz-influenced without losing their grit. The big-voiced singer/guitarist was born in Arkansas, but Chicago was his adopted home -- and the Windy City had a definite influence on his work. Anyone who has spent a lot of time savoring jazz-influenced bluesmen like Witherspoon and Percy Mayfield owes it to himself/herself to give Tired of Wandering a very close listen. ~Review by Alex Henderson

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Various - Goin' Down To Eli's 1956-58

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 78:16
Size: 179.2 MB
Styles: Mostly Chicago blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:58] 1. Sunnyland Slim - Highway 61
[2:16] 2. Shakey Horton - Have A Good Time
[2:42] 3. Louie Meyers And The Aces - Just Whaling
[2:43] 4. Harold Burrage - You Eat Too Much
[2:22] 5. Betty Everett - Killer Diller
[2:06] 6. Guitar Shorty - Irma Lee
[2:42] 7. Morris Pejoe - Screaming And Crying
[2:59] 8. Charles Clark - Row Your Boat
[3:02] 9. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Steady Rollin' Man
[2:30] 10. Freddie Hall - Can This Be Mine
[2:44] 11. Arbee Stidham - When I Find My Baby
[2:16] 12. Harold Burrage - I Don't Care Who Knows
[2:36] 13. Lee Jackson - Fishin' In My Pond
[2:39] 14. Little Willie Foster - Crying The Blues
[2:00] 15. Memphis Slim - I Wonder What's The Matter
[2:40] 16. Louie Meyers And The Aces - Luesy
[2:01] 17. Harold Burrage - Messed Up
[1:58] 18. Betty Everett - My Life Depends On You
[2:18] 19. Sunnyland Slim - It's You Baby
[2:11] 20. Guitar Shorty - You Don't Treat Me Right
[2:27] 21. Clarence Jolly - Changing Love
[2:49] 22. Morris Pejoe - Maybe Blues
[4:51] 23. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Take Your Hand Out Of My Pocket
[2:37] 24. Arbee Stidham - Meet Me Halfway
[1:56] 25. Betty Everett - Ain't Gonna Cry
[2:31] 26. Little Willie Foster - Little Girl
[2:15] 27. Shakey Horton - Need My Baby
[2:19] 28. Lee Jackson - I'll Just Keep Walkin'
[2:36] 29. The Willie Dixon Band - Hidden Charms
[2:14] 30. Memphis Slim - Best Gal I Ever Had
[1:43] 31. Various Artists - Eli Toscano Blues

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