VA - Blues Avalanche: Recorded Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland

Source: Vinyl
Size: 165.0 MB
Time: 70:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1972
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

A1. Bo Diddley - Hear You Knoockin' (3:53)
A2. Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover (3:09)
A3. Bo Diddley - Diddley Daddy (2:18)
A4. The Aces & Lafayette Leake - Early In The Morning (5:07)
B1. The Aces & Lafayette Leake - Baby What You Want Me To Do (2:46)
B2. Koko Taylor With Muddy Waters - Wang Dang Doodle (7:10)
B3. Koko Taylor With Muddy Waters - I Got What It Takes (6:19)
C1. Lafayette Leake - Wrinkles (9:12)
C2. Lafayette Leake - Swiss Boogie (6:10)
C3. Muddy Waters - County Jail (6:06)
D1. Muddy Waters With T-Bone Walker - Trouble No More (2:32)
D2. Muddy Waters With T-Bone Walker - Got My Mojo Working (4:39)
D3. Muddy Waters With T-Bone Walker - (They Call It) Stormy Monday (6:45)
D4. Muddy Waters With T-Bone Walker - She Says She Loves Me (4:22)

Recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, June 16 & 17, 1972.

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Willie Dixon - Live In Atlanta '73

Size: 172,0 MB
Time: 74:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. Slow Instrumental (7:03)
02. Blues After Hours (4:37)
03. Trouble (5:03)
04. Everyday I Have The Blues (4:31)
05. Spyder In My Stew (4:35)
06. Crazy 'bout My Baby (4:27)
07. Rock Me, Baby (6:12)
08. I Don't Trust Nobody (When It Comes To My Girl) (5:56)
09. Wang Dang Doodle, Pt. 1 (4:49)
10. Wang Dang Doodle, Pt. 2 (0:53)
11. Fast Instrumental (5:39)
12. Baby, Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (5:46)
13. It's So Easy To Love You, Woman (Five Long Years) (7:54)
14. Baby Do It, Do The Very Last Cup (3:52)
15. Sweet Sixteen (3:14)

Willie Dixon not only wrote songs majority of which later became Blues standards, he is not only the person considered by many "Poet of the Blues", he was also one of the few who knew how to play that music, how to present that music to the audience, one of the great arrangers, and this is felt in every tune here. Willie Dixon's playing and singing comes from the bottoms of Mississippi River. Although recorded legacy of Mr. Dixon is rich and of top standards, inimitable and imperishable like the waters of the ocean.

With some fantastic piano work by Lafayette Leake, one of the most underrated artists in Blues history, with Carey Bell's tornado-like harp blowing, and solid contribution from young Buster Benton, this musical outing could be considered the work constituting international Blues legacy.

This album is situated in a different dimension where usual categories could not be used. Just absorb it, there is so few of such high-quality music left.

Personnel: Willie Dixon - bass, vocals; Carey Bell - harmonica, vocals; Lafayette Leake - piano; Buster Benton - guitar, vocals; Unknown drums. ~Dimitri

Live In Atlanta '73

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Buster Benton - Bluesbuster

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:22
Size: 101.6 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1979/2006
Art: Front

[3:30] 1. Spider In My Stew
[4:46] 2. Born With The Blues
[5:04] 3. Sweet 94
[4:56] 4. Love Like I Wanna
[4:22] 5. Leave Me Alone
[4:45] 6. Sorry
[3:31] 7. Funny About My Money
[4:52] 8. Lonesome For A Dime
[3:29] 9. Do It In The Rain
[5:01] 10. Disco Blues

Despite the amputation of parts of both his legs during the course of his career, Chicago guitarist Buster Benton never gave up playing his music -- an infectious hybrid of blues and soul that he dubbed at one point "disco blues" (an unfortunate appellation in retrospect, but useful in describing its danceability). In the late '70s, when blues was at low ebb, Benton's waxings for Ronn Records were a breath of fresh air. Inspired by the music of Sam Cooke and B.B. King, the gospel-bred Benton began playing the blues during the mid-'50s while living in Toledo, Ohio. By 1959, he was leading his own band in Chicago. During the '60s, he cut a series of soul-slanted singles for local concerns (Melloway, Alteen, Sonic, Twinight) before hooking up with the great Willie Dixon in 1971.

Benton was a member of Dixon's Blues All-Stars for a while, and Dixon is credited as songwriter of Benton's best-known song, the agonized slow blues "Spider in My Stew." Its release on Stan Lewis' Shreveport-based Jewel Records gave Benton a taste of fame; its follow-up, "Money Is the Name of the Game," solidified his reputation. A 1979 LP for Jewel's Ronn subsidiary (logically titled Spider in My Stew) stands as one of the most engaging Chicago blues LPs of its era, its contemporary grooves abetting Benton's tasty guitar work and soulful vocals.Benton cut three albums later on for Ichiban, but compared to his Ronn output, they were disappointing. On the Chicago circuit, Benton's extreme courage in the face of physical adversity will long be cited.

He was on kidney dialysis for the last few years of his life as a result of diabetes, and a portion of his right leg was amputated in 1993 due to poor circulation (he had already lost part of the other a decade earlier). Still, he continued to play his brand of uplifting blues until the end. ~bio by Bill Dahl

Bass – Nolan Struck; Drums – Ray Allison; Guitar – Jimmy Johnson; Guitar [Lead], Vocals – Buster Benton; Harmonica – Carey Bell; Piano – Lafayette Leake; Saxophone [Tenor] – Ron Scott.

Bluesbuster mc
Bluesbuster zippy

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Lafayette LEAKE - Easy Blues

Styles: Electric Chicago Blues, Piano Blues, Boogie-Woogie Blues
Recorded: 1978
Released: 2000
File: mp3 @ 320 k/s
Size: 108.50 MB
Time: 46:16
Art: Full

1. Feel So Blue - 5:21
2. Train Boogie - 5:00
3. Short Dressed Woman - 4:12
4. Fine Little Angel-take 2 - 4:15
5. Fast Boogie, No. 2 - 4:23
6. I'm Gonna Leave You On The Outskirts Of Town - 5:38
7. Trouble In Mind - 3:38
8. Easy Blues - 2:45
9. Fast Boogie, No. 1 - 7:18
10. Fine Little Angel-take 1 - 3:39

Personnel: Lafayette LEAKE - Piano, Vocal
John Littlejohn - Guitar
Nick Holt - Bass;
Fred Below - Drums

Notes: Born in Winona, Mississippi, Leake was a desperately shy man, and much of his life remains mysterious. He seems to have had formal training at some point; he was proud of his ability to play Chopin, and would notate his friend Little Brother Montgomery's playing by ear. In the early '50s, Leake replaced Leonard Caston in the Big Three Trio, and although he never recorded with that group, his enduring friendship with Willie Dixon, his reliability and his good taste made him a session mainstay, who recorded with all the major stars of Chicago blues.

This album was cut during a European tour in Black & Blue's customary one day, but it has no feeling of haste or perfunctoriness, and is very well recorded. It's obvious that the other musicians found Leake a pleasure to accompany: Below's drumming has its habitual, crispy perfect bounce, Holt is unobtrusive but unceasingly propulsive, turning his instrument down to sound like an upright bass, and Littlejohn's echoing solos add a welcome tinge of aggression and emotion. Lake's own playing is unfailingly tasteful and inteligent, not outstaying its welcome even during the more than seven minutes of 'Fast Boogie No.1'. As a singer, he is dry but not unemotional, working within a narrow range but always securely on pitch. Lake's own compositions, 'Feel So Blue' has a well-crafted lyric of some bleakness. It's a pity that he was not recorded as a featured artist more often. But...still his music is enjoyable and pleasant. Check this one!

                                                                     Easy Blues
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Jimmy DAWKINS - Fast Fingers

Styles: Modern Electric Chicago Blues
Recorded: 1968/1969
Released: 1998
File: mp3 @ 320 kbps
Size: 117.93 MB
Time: 51:20
Art: Full

1. It Serves Me Right To Suffer - 4:07
2. I Wonder Why - 3:05
3. I'm Good For Nothing - 5:12
4. Triple Trebles - 2:42
5. I Finally Learned A Lesson - 3:43
6. You Got To keep On Trying - 4:12
7. Night Rock - 3:26
8. Little Angel Child - 3:55
9. I Don't Know What Love Is - 5:57
10. Breaking Down - 5:31
11. Sad And Blues - 4:51
12. Back Home Blues - 3:30

Personnel: Jimmy DAWKINS - guitar, vocals
Eddie Shaw - Tenor Saxophone
Lafayette Leake - Piano, Organ
Mighty Joe Young - Guitar
Joe Harper - bass(`69 session);
Ernest Gatewood - bass(`68 session)
Lester Dorsie - drums

Notes: Dawkins began playing the blues as a teenager in Mississippi. He moved to Chicago at 19 and had his apprenticeship in West Side clubs through the '60s, recording as a sideman with Wild Child Butler and Johnny Young and on several albums for Delmark, which gave him his own album debut in 1969. During the '70s his reputation spread beyond Chicago, especially in France, where he toured and recorded repeatedly, but the '80s were leaner times and he had some health problems. Anxious to promote artist he felt were beingneglected, he wrote about them for the British magazine 'BluesUnlimited'. Today, through his company Leric, he works for them as musician, producer, promoter or publisher, but occasionally he comes out from behind the scenes to cut an album of his own.

From the first track of this album, the big tremolo on the guitar, the chuntering tenor sax and a studio sound that is both resonant and murky announce a proponent of the West Side style, a man who has listened attentively to Otis Rush and Magic Sam. He is undeniably quick in the digital domain, playing agitated flurries of guitar between every vocal phrase.

This is a guitars album with long guitar intros that Dawkins enjoys playing more than singing.

Fast Fingers

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