Showing posts with label George Bedard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Bedard. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Ari Borger - Live At The Cincy Blues Fest

Size: 96,3 MB
Time: 40:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Electric Blues, Piano Blues
Art: Full

01. Song For Jay (3:55)
02. Baby Won't You Jump With Me (4:18)
03. Funky B (6:23)
04. Mean Red Spider (5:16)
05. Playing With My Soul (4:30)
06. Bricks On My Pillow (5:19)
07. Green Onions (2:29)
08. Blues Feeling (3:47)
09. French Quartet Boogie (4:49)

Featuring Bob Seely, Johnny Vidacovic, George Bedard, Chris Douglas, Wallace Coleman and J.J. Jackson.

Once again, here comes Ari Borger with his piano-poundin’ prowess; ready to delight anybody who gets in his way. A dip in the roots of the Blues, Boogie Woogie and Soul is presented in his show, demonstrating a sound so flawless, with heavy doses of feeling and virtuosity. Borger is the pioneer of the genre in his country; his music achieves something very difficult, it rings true and authentic, without excessive flash when improvising ... sometimes sounding sweet, then incendiary at another point. Ari Borger sounds modern and vintage at the same time; authentic and full of personality. “Great feeling and Swing” – Pinetop Perkins.

Live At The Cincy Blues Fest

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

George Bedard & The Kingpins - Triple Crown

Year: 2000/2010
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:10
Size: 114,2 MB
Styles: Rocking blues, roots, rock & roll
Scans: Front

1. I Just Want To Make Love To You (2:55)
2. Give It Up (3:37)
3. Borrowed Time (2:24)
4. Shake Me (5:15)
5. Wild Wild Baby (3:15)
6. New Year's Party (3:59)
7. One More Day (3:34)
8. Yellow Dog Stretch (4:10)
9. Where Have I Been (3:12)
10. (He Don't Know) How To Rock (2:35)
11. He's Got You (4:02)
12. King-O-Ling (4:47)
13. Hey Someday (3:20)
14. Ooh! My Soul (1:58)

"Triple Crown" shows a bit more range than Bedard's earlier albums: a gentle waltz ballad ("Shake Me"), a touch of pedal steel ("One More Day"), and on four of the 14 cuts here, the prominent input of nimble All Hill on organ and piano. The high point: "Where Have I Been," with Hill and Bedard trading high-spirited lead lines. The song is at least two minutes too short, and leaves you wondering what Ann Arbor's leading roots rockers could conjure up at a summit jam session.

Rounding out Bedard's ditties on the pleasures and pitfalls of love are a couple of twangy instrumentals, a Bo Diddley-style treatment of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You," a modest cover of the country oldie "He's Got You,"a zippy version of Little Richard's "Oooh! My Soul," and bassist Randy Tessier's Replacements-flavored lament "New Year's Party." /Bruce Martin, Ann Arbor News Entertainment Editor

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

George Bedard & The Kingpins - Hip Deep

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:47
Size: 102.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:40] 1. Nightmare
[4:01] 2. Gettin' Later
[3:43] 3. Dick Around
[3:34] 4. Zip
[4:25] 5. Seven Years
[3:20] 6. Ball & Chain
[3:50] 7. Hawaiian Boogie
[3:38] 8. Lelia Ann
[4:54] 9. Quiet Mind
[5:20] 10. I Sure Don't Want To
[2:56] 11. Heeby-Jeebies
[2:22] 12. William Tell '97

As impressive as Bedard and the Kingpins' debut album was -- chock full of stylistic diversions, stellar playing and a tune selection that showed the band's wide musical palette to good advantage -- their sophomore effort broadens their horizons even further. Bedard's playing is a melting pot of T-Bone Walker blues, rockabilly, swing, jazz, country chicken pickin', '60s garage band chording, and the sleazier aspects of Chicago and Mississippi blues styles all whipped up into a most heady mix. Worthy covers come with scorching renditions of Elmore James' "Hawaiian Boogie," and a bop jazz tour de force on Red Prysock's "Zip" and the instrumental "William Tell '97." But Bedard's originals -- especially "Ball and Chain," the garage rocker "Dick Around," the bluesy "Quiet Mind," and the soulful "Lelia Ann" -- show tremendous growth as a songwriter, driving the band into new genre territory. With no sophomore jinx peeking out anywhere, Bedard and the Kingpins turn in that rarest of recorded entities: a second album that's actually better than their first. ~Cub Koda

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