Blackburn Brothers - SoulFunkn'BLUES

Album: SoulFunkn'BLUES
Size: 102,2 MB
Time: 44:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Soul/Funk/Blues mix
Art: Front

1. Bobby's Blues (4:41)
2. She's A Heartbreaker (3:54)
3. Let The Devil Play (4:06)
4. Soul Brother (4:15)
5. Won't You Let Me Go (3:39)
6. Sister Rosa (3:33)
7. Why Do I Do (What I Do) (4:09)
8. Be My Wife (3:30)
9. Freedom Train (4:04)
10. Little Sister (3:43)
11. I Don't Ever Want To Be Alone (4:31)

Blackburn Brothers are a band of brothers, literally - consisting of Duane (lead vocals, organ, piano), Brooke (guitar, vocals), Cory (drums, harmony vocals), Robert (guitar, harmony vocals), and cousin Nathan (bass guitar). Longtime bandmates make up the horn sections with Neil Brathwaite (tenor saxophone) and Ted Peters (trombone). Musically, the Blackburn name has been forever imprinted in our ears by Bobby Dean Blackburn, a veteran R&B artist who gained legendary status in the Toronto music scene, performing the city circuit for over 50 years. Beyond the music, the family name is tied to the history of the Underground Railroad.

In the liner notes of their new album, SoulFunkn’BLUES, singer-songwriter/actress Shakura S’Aida writes: The Blues that the Juno-award nominated Blackburn Brothers create is part of their inheritance, a legacy that began with Elias Earls, an enslaved man born in Kentucky in 1792 who escaped slave owners and found freedom in Canada. The Blackburn Brothers’ music is authentic and always about a message of history, freedom, legacy, family, black unity, and love. SoulFunkn’BLUES is an eleven-track tribute to all the trailblazers and all the ancestors and forgotten tribes who taught the Blackburn Brothers the importance of history, blues, soul, groove, rhythm, and life.

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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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