Year: 2012
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:26
Size: 142,3 MB
Styles: Blues, rock & roll
Scans: Front
CD 1:
1. Watch Me Now (3:43)
2. Pretty Baby (3:34)
3. Lucy Mae Blues (3:17)
4. Anytime (4:29)
5. Ev'ry Night, Ev'ry Day (4:18)
6. Mr. Telephone Man (3:11)
7. Bright Lights, Big City (4:25)
8. She's About A Mover (3:10)
9. Missing You (2:13)
10. Don't Mess With My Man (2:37)
11. It Takes Time (3:29)
12. Cold, Cold Feeling (7:21)
13. V8 Ford (3:26)
14. Little Miss Fannie (2:27)
15. Work Song (2:39)
16. Wolf Is Back (4:07)
17. Tough Lover (2:50)
CD 2:
1. Snakesnake! (3:43)
2. Help Me (3:36)
3. Okie Dokie Stomp (2:38)
4. I Do What I Want (3:54)
5. Night-Time Friends (3:27)
6. Do You Know (How Much I Love You) (2:09)
7. Neighbourhood (3:12)
8. Sleepwalk (2:26)
9. Trust Me (3:04)
10. While The Cat's Away (3:59)
11. Watson (3:01)
12. What's Shakin' (2:20)
13. Rocket To The Moon (3:01)
14. Queen Bee (I'm A King Bee) (4:39)
15. Shake Your Moneymaker (3:08)
16. Dirty Dog (3:05)
17. Surfin' U.F.O. (2:30)
Formed in 1982, Honey B. & T-Bones have been a formidable force, not only in their native Finland but all across Europe. The band was founded by Aija "Honey B." Puurtinen (vocals, bass) and Esa Kuloniemi (guitars, vocals), and they have been the consistent core of the band throughout the years. They began as a semi-traditional blues group, offering a mix of covers and original songs performed with a distinctive style. Deeply attuned to current music trends as well as the blues traditions of such acknowledged masters as Elmore James and lesser-known legends like Frankie Lee Sims, they took no hostages in their incendiary arrival on the scene. The smoky range of Puurtinen's vocals, which can vary from a fluid blues howl to Afro-pop scatting, and the naturalistic mastery of Kuloniemi's instrument of choice proved a killer combination that has expanded and improved in leaps over the following decades.
They released their first 12" EP in 1984, followed it with 1985's self-released 7" single, "Lucy Mae Blues/Coming Home," and made their big breakthrough with their EMI/Parlophone debut, Anytime, later in the same year. TV appearances and prominent festival performances solidified their status, and follow-up records, like 1986's Help Me, kept the band current and visible. In a slight shift in priorities, 1987's Queen Bee Against Dr. Oddball had more pop influences and could be seen as the beginning of their slow transformation into a modern rock & roll band with significant blues influences.
In 1988 they met the late Texas blues harmonica virtuoso Gary Primich, performing in Finland at the time with his group Mannish Boys. Three years later they would join forces and record the six-song mini-album Maantiekiitäjät '91 (Roadrunners '91). T-Bones followed this guest appearance the next year when they toured Finland with "Lowdown" Mel Brown, though only one song from their joint studio recordings has appeared so far (on the compilation CD Hot Dog Pop, Hit Singles, 1993). They were one of the hardest-working blues bands on the old Continent during their first ten years, performing an average of 200 gigs a year with half of these abroad. /Excerpt from AllMusic biography by JT Lindroos
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