Flavio Guimaraes - Garage Blues

Album: Garage Blues
Size: 114,6 MB
Time: 49:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Instrumental blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front

1. Greg's Mood (3:33)
2. ZZ Harp (3:36)
3. La Cueva Blues (3:14)
4. Laranjeiras Boogie (2:20)
5. Flying Saucers (3:11)
6. Playing With The Dobro (3:04)
7. The Ship (2:23)
8. Chuck (2:46)
9. Ode To John Hurt (2:34)
10. Riding Again (2:38)
11. Going To Clarksdale (3:08)
12. Fishing (3:06)
13. Walter Meets George (2:39)
14. Bottleneck Boogie (3:16)
15. Jaw's Boogie (1:25)
16. Hobo Tune (1:01)
17. Arkansas Blues (5:07)

Flávio Guimarães is a harmonica player, singer and Brazilian blues pioneer. In his two decades lasting career, he has released 19 CDs - nine solo albums and ten as part of Brazil's premier blues-rock band "Blues Etílicos". Flávio has opened shows for B.B. King and Robert Cray. He has shared the stage with Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugar Blue and Rick Estrin & the Nightcats among others. Besides, as special guests in some of Flávio's albums Howard Levy, Charlie Musselwhite and Sugar Blue can be listed. In addition recordings of top Brazilian artists, television commercials and film and television soundtracks feature Flávio playing the harmonica.

Guimarães is considered to be the harmonica reference in Brazil - on the one hand due to his pioneering work with the blues diatonic harmonica, on the other hand due to his consistently evolving playing and the passing on of harmonica information. A whole generation of harmonica players was taught by Flávio, beginning the blues harp movement in Brazil.

Garage Blues mc
Garage Blues gofile

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Little Joe McLerran & Flavio Guimaraes - Little Joe McLerran & Flavio Guimaraes / Month Of Sundays

Album: Little Joe McLerran & Flavio Guimaraes
Size: 100 MB
Time: 21:19
File: FLAC
Released: 2018
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Blue Crawfish Recods
Art: Front

01. Nothing But The Blues (3:35)
02. It Must Be Love (2:54)
03. You Gotta Know How (3:56)
04. Going Back To Arkansas (3:37)
05. Carinhoso (2:01)
06. Midnight Hour Blues (5:13)

Little Joe is a Piedmont Blues expert, a style that is a convergence between country blues and ragtime jazz. With a solid career and discography, he was awarded by the association Blues Foundation, of Memphis. Joe keeps fingerpicking technique and tradition alive. Your guitar may sound like two or more musicians playing simultaneously.

Flávio Guimarães is the founder and member of the Blues Etílicos, having performed opening shows for B.B. King, Ben Harper and Robert Cray, in addition to sharing the stage with some living blues legends, such as Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite and Taj Mahal. The duo toured the southern US recently, playing iconic festivals in Mississippi and performing in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Little Joe McLerran & Flavio Guimaraes

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Album: Month Of Sundays
Size: 63,1 MB
Time: 26:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. She Knows How To Stretch It (2:54)
02. Wanted $10,000 Reward (3:11)
03. Hobo Blues (3:10)
04. Promised Land (2:37)
05. Month Of Sundays (2:43)
06. My Castle's Rockin' (3:02)
07. Utah Moon (5:21)
08. Pearly Gates (3:48)

Month of Sundays is the second album of the duo formed by the North American guitarist and singer Little Joe McLerran and the Brazilian harmonica player Flávio Guimarães.

Recorded live, mixed and mastered by Pedro Garcia in November 2018, the album is being released by the Blue Crawfish Records label.

The cover art is by Marky Wildstone on top of David Berntson's photo. The setting is the Stovall farm, where Muddy Waters lived and worked in the cotton harvest until he was 30 years old.

Month Of Sundays

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Sonja - Sonja

Size: 82,6 MB
Time: 35:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. He Got Me (Feat. Otavio Rocha) (3:50)
02. Here To Stay (Feat. Marco Lacerda & Jefferson Gonçalves) (4:35)
03. Morning Blues (Feat. Otavio Rocha & Flavio Guimaraes) (4:13)
04. Lie To Me (3:47)
05. Lonely Man (2:46)
06. The Blues (3:55)
07. The Pray (3:57)
08. You Ain't Gonna Break My Heart (4:05)
09. Devil In A Woman's Skin (3:59)

The blues singer Sonja, is a well-known figure in the blues-rock scene in Rio.

Sonja represents the brand new generation of Brazilian blues and brings fresh air to the style. His album, with the same name, features quality copyright songs and strong partnerships, such as Otávio Rocha, Flávio Guimarães and Jefferson Gonçalves.

Sonja

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Álamo Leal, Flavio Guimaraes - Ain't No Strangers Here

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:55
Size: 100.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Acoustic blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:48] 1. Up The Line
[4:15] 2. Ain't That Loving You Baby
[3:38] 3. Shake Your Hips
[2:44] 4. If I Should Have Bad Luck
[3:39] 5. Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down
[5:59] 6. Bluesifyin'
[3:18] 7. If It Ain't Me
[3:09] 8. Brown Black And White
[3:25] 9. I Cry For You
[3:44] 10. In My Time Of Dying
[6:11] 11. Ain't No Strangers Here

Alamo Leal - Guitar & Vocals; Flávio Guimarães - Harp & Vocals; Pedro Garcia - Percussion.

Alamo Leal & Flávio Guimarães, "Ain't No Strangers Here" has a real feeling with blues you can reach out and touch! Harmonica player and singer, Flávio Guimarães is a pioneer of the blues in Brazil and one of the main musicians responsible for its popularization in South America. Alamo Leal is a blues singer and guitarist with a unique and authentic feel. His versatile and subtle approach to acoustic music has gained him popularity and praise throughout Europe. On this CD, their first together, Leal and Guimarães dig deep into the roots of the blues, giving this collection of songs a fresh treatment, keeping that powerful and warm feeling. If you relish acoustic blues that seem to channel pre-war blues, this is it.

Ain't No Strangers Here mc
Ain't No Strangers Here zippy

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Flavio Guimaraes & Netto Rockfeller - Sound Tracks

Size: 100,4 MB
Time: 37:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Instrumental
Art: Front

01. Arpoardor (2:18)
02. Car Wash (4:58)
03. Ie Ie Ie (3:22)
04. Blue Tornado (2:48)
05. Tex Mex Rumba (3:31)
06. Doctor Hemp (3:04)
07. Careless Love (2:11)
08. El Gringo (2:44)
09. Tiger Shark (3:53)
10. The Big Boss (3:57)
11. Lost In Jupiter (3:02)
12. Steam Train (1:36)

Personnel:
Flávio Guimarães: Harmonica
Netto Rockfeller: Guitars
Bruno Marques: Drums

Leo Gandelman: Sax (3)
Rick Ferreira: Steel Guitar (7)
Danilo Hansem: Percussion (9)
Luciano Leães: Organ (2,11)

Netto Rockfeller began his career as a guitarist in the year 1997, in the year of 1999 Netto Rockfeller creates the Blues the Ville together with David Tanganelli. Since then he has been dedicating his time to the Blues and its strands, such as Rhythm Blues, Swing and Rockabilly, being in recordings or productions of Shows of the genre.

Flávio Guimarães is a harmonica player, singer and Brazilian Blues pioneer. In his two decades lasting career, he has released 19 CDs - nine solo albums and ten as part of Brazil's premier Blues-Rock band "Blues Etílicos". Flávio has opened shows for B.B. King and Robert Cray. He has shared the stage with Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugar Blue and Rick Estrin and the Nightcats among others. Besides as special guests in some of Flávio's albums Howard Levy, Charlie Musselwhite and Sugar Blue can be listed. In addition recordings of top Brazilian artists, television commercials and film and television soundtracks feature Flávio playing the harmonica. Guimarães is considered to be THE harmonica reference in Brazil - on the one hand due to his pioneering work with the blues diatonic harmonica, on the other hand due to his consistently evolving playing and the passing on of harmonica information. A whole generation of harmonica players was taught by Flávio, beginning the blues harp movement in Brazil.

Sound Tracks

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Flávio Guimarães, Netto Rockfeller - Nice And Easy

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:41
Size: 65.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:24] 1. Nice And Easy
[2:22] 2. Checkmate
[3:00] 3. Love Jumps
[4:49] 4. Bad Road
[3:11] 5. Down The Hill No Brakes
[2:45] 6. Times Is Getting Faster
[3:00] 7. Sloppy Drunk
[3:32] 8. Big Walter
[2:34] 9. Jungle Heat

Flávio Guimarães: Harmonica and Vocals; Netto Rockfeller : Guitar; Bruno Marques: Drums.

Netto Rockfeller began his career as a guitarist in the year 1997, in the year of 1999 Netto Rockfeller creates the Blues the Ville together with David Tanganelli. Since then he has been dedicating his time to the Blues and its strands, such as Rhythm Blues, Swing and Rockabilly, being in recordings or productions of Shows of the genre.

Flávio Guimarães is a harmonica player, singer and Brazilian Blues pioneer. In his two decades lasting career, he has released 19 CDs - nine solo albums and ten as part of Brazil's premier Blues-Rock band "Blues Etílicos". Flávio has opened shows for B.B. King and Robert Cray. He has shared the stage with Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugar Blue and Rick Estrin and the Nightcats among others. Besides as special guests in some of Flávio's albums Howard Levy, Charlie Musselwhite and Sugar Blue can be listed. In addition recordings of top Brazilian artists, television commercials and film and television soundtracks feature Flávio playing the harmonica. Guimarães is considered to be THE harmonica reference in Brazil - on the one hand due to his pioneering work with the blues diatonic harmonica, on the other hand due to his consistently evolving playing and the passing on of harmonica information. A whole generation of harmonica players was taught by Flávio, beginning the blues harp movement in Brazil.

Nice And Easy mc
Nice And Easy zippy

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Flávio Guimarães & Prado Blues Band - S/T

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:01
Size: 144.3 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[3:51] 1. I May Be Wrong
[3:34] 2. Missing Mr. Clarke
[3:45] 3. T-Bone Shuffle
[4:28] 4. Riding With Ray (Feat. Howard Levy)
[3:56] 5. Please Send Her Home To Me
[5:03] 6. Tin Pan Alley
[3:43] 7. George's Boogie
[3:40] 8. Lazy Thing
[5:11] 9. Below's Shuffle
[5:17] 10. Swing Me Baby
[3:06] 11. Put The Kettle On
[5:21] 12. Going Home Tomorrow
[3:16] 13. Boogie Do Cauê
[8:44] 14. Louise

Flavio Guimaraes is a pioneer of blues in Brazil and an excellent harmonica player & singer. The searing PRADO BLUES BAND supports this harp heavy release!

"Flavio Guimaraes & The Prado Blues Band plays a style of Blues that I really love and they do it very very well! Their tone and phrasing are excellent and I look foward to hearing them anytime I can because I know I'll be in for a real music treat. They are fine blues players and not to be missed." ~CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE

Flávio Guimarães & Prado Blues Band mc
Flávio Guimarães & Prado Blues Band zippy

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Flávio Guimarães - Vivo

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:57
Size: 148.7 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:47] 1. Wild Wild Woman
[3:43] 2. River Hip Mama
[3:54] 3. Just Your Fool
[8:03] 4. Last Night
[5:04] 5. Bad Boy
[4:20] 6. Big Boss Man
[4:23] 7. Bright Lights Big City
[6:05] 8. It Ain't Right
[4:41] 9. If I Should Have Bad Luck
[6:31] 10. Blue Stu
[4:31] 11. Darkest Hour
[9:50] 12. Madcat's Groove

Flávio Guimarães is a harmonica player, singer and Brazilian Blues pioneer. In his two decades lasting career, he has released 19 CDs - nine solo albums and ten as part of Brazil's premier Blues-Rock band "Blues Etílicos".

Flávio has opened shows for B.B. King and Robert Cray. He has shared the stage with Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugar Blue and Rick Estrin and the Nightcats among others. Besides as special guests in some of Flávio's albums Howard Levy, Charlie Musselwhite and Sugar Blue can be listed. In addition recordings of top Brazilian artists, television commercials and film and television soundtracks feature Flávio playing the harmonica.

Guimarães is considered to be THE harmonica reference in Brazil - on the one hand due to his pioneering work with the blues diatonic harmonica, on the other hand due to his consistently evolving playing and the passing on of harmonica information. A whole generation of harmonica players was taught by Flávio, beginning the blues harp movement in Brazil.

Vivo mc
Vivo zippy

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Uira Cabral & Friends - Second Hand Gear

Size: 135,0 MB
Time: 58:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Boogie Baby (4:13)
02. Pretty Baby (4:38)
03. I Want A Woman (5:52)
04. Fun To Visit (4:23)
05. Oh Baby (5:03)
06. Cloud Cover (4:31)
07. I've Got My Eyes On You (5:08)
08. Work It Out (4:44)
09. Second Hand Gear (7:41)
10. Bye Bye Baby (4:15)
11. Pawnshop Bound (4:43)
12. On Fire (3:07)

Uirá Cabral became interested in the harmonica at seventeen listening to blues. From the beginning, in 1997, he joined several blues bands from Goiania, among which stand out the Stuff Blues, Bluesmerangue, Blues For All and especially the The Not Yet Famous Blues Band, Goias band that became known nationally and which recorded three albums, one of them live.
Soon after, while in São Paulo, studied with the renowned harmonica players Robson and Sergio Duarte. Also integrated bands of São Paulo, in addition to numerous appearances on shows organized by Helton Ribeiro.
Back in Goiania in 2005, he joined the band Abluesados, which at the time was planning to record her first album. The disc had enormous repercussions and received praise from critics, which earned him endorsement to a contract with BENDS pipes factory, along with a select group of harmonica players.
At the same time he founded the Pianists Meeting, which aimed to join the blues enthusiasts and still make room for those who wanted to perform on the open stage of the event. Today, after more than 38 editions, through which have passed national and international artists, the event became part of the cultural civic calendar of the State of Goiás and is the most important state blues event.
Since then he has been performing with the Abluesados ??in Goiás stage and opening concerts of renowned national and international artists such as Blues Etílicos, Robson, The Headcutters, Igor Prado Band, Enrico Crivellaro, Andy Just, Sugar Ray Rayford, Tia Carroll, Mitch Kashmar John Primer and other legends of the blues world, and also share the stage with big names of the national blues, as Ivan Marcio, Big Chico, Netto Rockefeller, Flávio Guimarães and Fred Sunwalk, among others.
In 2014, along with the band Abluesados, participated in the 13th International Meeting of Harmonics, an annual event that takes place in SESC in São Paulo.
Since 2012, Uirá Cabral has a solo project with the band The Blues Man Group formed by experienced bluseiros: Paulinho Zambianchi (guitar), Geraldo Balieiro (guitar), Alexander Rodarte (bass) and Danilo France (drums). With The Blues Man Group, explores a focused repertoire in the great harmonica players in the history of blues and classic style, with surprising mixes with Latin rhythms with funk, with the jazz big band and country, besides the traditional blues Chicago. In shows, has sung versions in Portuguese and also own compositions.
In 2015, after the discs recorded with The Not Yet Famous Blues Band and the Band Abluesados, two new records were released: a live album, recorded in Goiânia, in June 2013, at Teatro Goiânia with the band Abluesados ??that pays homage to the classic style and especially the music of Muddy Waters and Little Walter; and a studio solo album called "Second Hand Gear". The album was recorded in São Carlos / SP with Netto Rockefeller trio and with the help of famous friends, among which stand out Flávio Guimarães, Ivan Marcio David Tanganelli, Fred Sunwalk and Netto Rockefeller, who also produced. The album has twelve tracks, two copyright, and do a walk through of the material used in the repertoire that the harmonica player and singer is performing in their shows.

Second Hand Gear

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Lancaster - Late Night Blues / A Beautiful Day For The Blues

Album: Late Night Blues (Feat. Flavio Guimaraes)
Size: 99,2 MB
Time: 37:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. Funny Cigarette (3:18)
02. Family Man (5:32)
03. Late Night Blues (5:25)
04. The Same Mistake (3:40)
05. My Woman Is Like A Bank (5:44)
06. Lancaster Goes Bowlin' (4:32)
07. The Blues Took Over My Life (5:41)
08. She Dances Like A Pro (3:51)

Lancaster Ferreira is one of the most acclaimed blues guitarists in Brazil, having under his belt the experience as guitarist Crosby Tyler Quartet in Los Angeles for a year and a half, six CDs released in his name, as well as presentations the main international festivals of the country blues. Was columnist of the magazine Blues & Jazz and Guitar Class and cover of the magazine Cover Guitarra.

Born in 1964 in Belo Horizonte and resident of São José dos Campos from the six-year-old Lancaster began presenting himself in 1989 in bars in the city, since with a blues work. He studied classical guitar for six years with Mauro Cabral in San Jose, Jazz guitar on Clam in Sao Paulo for five years and in 1994 moved to Los Angeles where he graduated from the Musicians Institute. He worked until the end of 1995 as the Crosby Tyler Quartet member.

In 1996, already back in Brazil, he rode his band released their first CD "Working Like a Slave" and participated in the Nescafé'n'Blues Festival, this show has been presented and replayed in its entirety by Network Television Culture in the same year .Lancaster has throughout his 25-year career dedicated to the deepening in the different strands of blues and was initially considered as the main representative of Chicago blues in Brazil.

Late Night Blues in 1998 and A Beautiful day for The Blues 1999 respectively its second and third CDs, his inspiration was Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Magic Slim and Buddy Guy. Already in Bluesamba, launched in 2004, Lancaster left for a mixture of Latin rhythms with Bossa Nova, Jazz and Blues. In 2005 he entered a more virtuosic stage, playing Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ronnie Earl, and Hendrix and releasing a collection of his four previous CDs with two previously unreleased instrumental tracks.

Late Night Blues

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Album: A Beautiful Day For The Blues (Feat. Ari Borger)
Size: 103,4 MB
Time: 44:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. A Beautiful Day For The Blues (7:05)
02. Nighttime Plumber (0:31)
03. Blues Al Sugo (4:44)
04. Mean Disposition (6:05)
05. Vila Madalena (4:46)
06. Sore Feet (4:38)
07. You Worry Me (5:53)
08. My Greatest Joy (4:34)
09. Sailing Home (5:55)

A Beautiful Day For The Blues (Feat. Ari Borger)

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Various - Essential Blues Brazil 2005

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 83:12
Size: 190.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Blues Etilicos - I Can't Be Satisfied
[5:07] 2. Mauricio Sahady - Laundromat Blues
[3:25] 3. Big Gilson - Tobacco Road
[3:27] 4. I. Malforea - De Cara No Blues
[3:11] 5. Felipe Cazaux - Got Love
[4:15] 6. Sergio Murilo - Rota Do Blues
[5:00] 7. Celso Salim - Workin' Shoes
[3:28] 8. Amleto Barboni - Prision Bound Blues
[5:49] 9. Ricardo Werther - Compared To What
[5:33] 10. Alamo Leal - Hard Times Killing Floor
[4:44] 11. Marcel Ziul - Ain't The Same
[5:26] 12. Blues Etilicos - She's Nineteen Years Old
[3:54] 13. Flavio Guimaraes - Just Your Fool
[4:56] 14. Bruno Lara - Hey Jeff
[2:28] 15. Coyote Valvulado - Bilhete Para Herman
[2:09] 16. I. Malforo - The Power Of Zoo
[3:47] 17. Felipe Cazaux - No No No
[4:26] 18. Another Blues Band - Eyes Don't Lie
[3:42] 19. Ricardo Werther - I've Got My Finger On Your Trigger
[4:03] 20. Big Gilson - Way Down In Hastings

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Essential Blues: Brazil

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