Doc Bowling & His Blues Professors - Sing The American Songbag Vol. 1

Album: Sing The American Songbag Vol. 1
Size: 99,7 MB
Time: 42:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Roots/Blues
Art: Front

1. Me And The Devil Blues (3:16)
2. Irene, Good Night (3:23)
3. Going Down The Road (Feeling Bad) (2:53)
4. Cotton-Eyed Joe (3:59)
5. Keep On The Sunny Side (3:17)
6. I’ll Fly Away (4:05)
7. St. James Infirmary Blues (6:25)
8. Midnight Special (5:10)
9. I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground (3:12)
10. My Creole Belle (2:57)
11. Trouble In Mind (4:06)

Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors have been pleasing audiences in small and large venues across the UK, Ireland and Germany for more than 15 years. Inspired by the heroes of blues, jazz and country from the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Their original songs bring new life to some old country blues tunes with contemporary political commentary. On their new album, Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors Sing The American Songbag (Volume 1), Doc Bowling leads his hand-picked crew across 11 songs that have come to define early 20th Century American music. Whether you view these selections as blues, folk, roots or any other handy genre, they are all iconic and important in the history of American popular music.

Inspired by the title of Carl Sandburg's 1927 book of the same name, Bowling's work as a musical archaeologist, sets the album up as a coalescence of his long-term musical vision. While many of these songs pre-date recording technology, making it impossible to hear the true original versions, Bowling and company deliver soul-stirring performances that are definitive in their own way. Expanding the traditional acoustic trio/quartet lineup to include violin, six-string banjo, sax, accordion, cajon and other assorted percussion instruments, the band imparts a modern sensibility while maintaining a reverence for tradition.

Personnel: Doc Bowling (vocals, guitar); Simon Minney, Donnie Burke (guitar); Roger Chapman (drums); Mlle Chat Noir (violin); Jens Skwirblies (accordion); Johannes Bowling (saxophone); Eamonn McKeever (banjo); Kenny Bruno (piano).

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Doc Bowling & His Blues Professors - Black Country Boy

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:37
Size: 102.1 MB
Styles: Country blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:18] 1. Black Country Boy
[2:38] 2. Fal$e Prophit Blue$
[2:44] 3. Existential Blues
[4:19] 4. Goodbye Mary Jane
[5:16] 5. Look Into My Heart
[4:25] 6. Pedestrian Crossroads Blues
[3:45] 7. Murder-Suicide Blues
[4:03] 8. Gordon Won’t You Be My Mamma
[3:28] 9. Biodiesel Blues
[4:43] 10. Church Going Blues
[4:52] 11. Wannabe Outlaw Blues

Inspired by the heroes of blues, jazz and country from the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors original songs bring new life to some old guitar and piano licks inflected with contemporary political and social commentary. And damn good dance music! The Blues Professors have played pubs, clubs and festivals, have a residency at the Seven Dials Club in London's Covent Garden and have travelled as far afield as Corby, Greenham Common and Germany.

"I was lucky enough to catch these guys playing live here in London recently, and I thought they were the best British blues band I've seen in quite a few years. The band's determined to write songs about their own concerns, rather than using the same old "booze-women-and-travel" cliches so many blues acts rely on. The genuine anger in their treatment of political issues adds great power to the band's music, which is played expertly throughout and delivered with great verve." ~ Paul Slade

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