John Rogers - Good Old Blues

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 29:24
Size: 68.8 MB
Released: 2006
Styles: Acoustic blues
Art: Front

1. If You Leave Me, Pretty Mama (2:45)
2. Candy Man (2:03)
3. Winin' Boy (3:16)
4. San Francisco Bay Blues (2:28)
5. Black Mountain Blues (2:02)
6. Greasy Bones (2:23)
7. Sneaky John (1:54)
8. St. James Infirmary (3:56)
9. My Baby Comes to Me (2:30)
10. Midnight Hour (4:13)
11. Rag Mama (1:51)

The music I play springs from the American oral tradition, from the largely unheralded but gifted poets and musicians who gave us a truly American music called the Blues. That music has grown in many directions … rock, Chicago electric blues, rap, soul, R&B. The music on this album is where all of that came from. It's blues from the Piedmont and from rural Mississippi. It's music from the hill country where white and black traditions mixed words and chords. It's rags and songs from New Orleans, where European traditions were infused with new vigor by native musical style. And there's some Tin Pan Alley, too, because the music's too good to leave out. It's all just Good Old Blues. It's the kind of music you play on your porch, the kind you have in your head all day.

Good Old Blues

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John Rogers - Old And New, Borrowed And Blue

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 49:39
Size: 115.4 MB
Released: 2010
Styles: Acoustic blues
Art: Front

1. Used To Be (3:19)
2. Greasy Bones (2:42)
3. Make Me A Pallet Story (4:02)
4. Good Morning Blues (4:43)
5. One Meatball (3:02)
6. Prize Your Reputation (3:54)
7. Jelly Roll Baker (4:01)
8. Jury Man Blues (2:53)
9. Louise (3:24)
10. She Ain't Blue (4:32)
11. When I Woke Up (2:03)
12. Big Fat Woman (3:09)
13. Habersham County Mephistopheles (2:27)
14. Hot Pizza Blues (2:35)
15. W.C. Handy's Bad Dream (2:45)

Willie Dixon said, "Blues is the roots, and all the rest is the fruits." The music I make and play springs mostly from those roots. Some of it I write myself, and some comes from the wellspring of the American folk tradition. My music is blues from the Piedmont and from rural Mississippi ! Rev. Gary Davis, John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller. It's rags and songs from New Orleans! Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey. It's from Tin Pan Alley, where talented writers borrowed from blues, rags and symphonies to write the popular music of the '20's and '30's. There's some modern folk music, too.
My own songs are blues-based with a lot of additions from other forms, which brings us to that much over-used word: ec-lec-tic- "a combination selected from different sources." Overused? Yes. But I'd like to think that my music is a blend of the best from the many streams of American music. Mainly, it's the music that springs from the life stories of ordinary people, from the largely unheralded but gifted poets and musicians who gave us a truly American music.

Old And New, Borrowed And Blue

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