Michael Jerome Browne - Gettin' Together

Album: Gettin' Together
Size: 116,2 MB
Time: 50:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Acoustic blues, roots
Art: Front

1. Monday Morning Blues (4:32)
2. Shake Em On Down (3:23)
3. I've Got The Big River Blues (2:58)
4. Coffee Blues (3:47)
5. Ham Hound Crave (3:54)
6. Please Help (3:51)
7. Fixin' To Die Blues (3:54)
8. Reverend Strut (3:56)
9. Married Man Blues (4:50)
10. Black Dog Blues (3:24)
11. Six Week Old Blues (3:20)
12. Wisecrack (2:50)
13. Diamond Joe (2:32)
14. Living With The Blues (2:50)

Calling himself “A Child Of The Blues”, Michael Jerome Browne revisits the songs of his youth – those that he learned to play when he first picked up a guitar and that stuck with him through nearly five decades as a Roots music performer and historian. This entire album was recorded live off the studio floor as a celebration of being finally able to get musicians back jamming together in person. Michael worked with a number of special guests including Harrison Kennedy, J.J. Milteau, John Sebastian, Eric Bibb and Mary Flower.

Three-time Canadian Folk Music Award winner, recipient of the Blues With A Feeling Award at the 2020 Maple Blues Awards (with 35 nominations since 1999), five-time Juno Award nominee in both the Roots/Traditional and Blues categories, and a Kerrville New Folk Finalist - Michael Jerome Browne is a multi-instrumentalist, a songwriter, and a living encyclopedia of American Roots music.

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Michael Jerome Brown - That's Where It's At!

Size: 100,8 MB
Time: 43:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Blues Folk
Art: Front

01. Don't Ask Me Why (2:02)
02. Black Nights (3:21)
03. Skeletons (4:14)
04. Pharaoh (Feat. Harrison Kennedy) (3:26)
05. Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right (Feat. Eric Bibb) (2:35)
06. Love's A Funny Thing (3:09)
07. Remember When (Feat. Roxanne Potvin) (3:12)
08. Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (3:58)
09. Louisiana 1927 (Feat. Harrison Kennedy) (3:27)
10. Somebody Have Mercy (4:00)
11. Curtis' Blues (2:10)
12. That's The Way Love Is (3:05)
13. Where Is The Song (2:51)
14. Pharaoh (Reprise) (1:34)

That's Where It's At! is Michael Jerome Browne's latest collection, focusing on soul music through the lens of a traditional blues player. Recorded largely live off the floor in Sherbrooke and Montréal (Québec) and Hamilton (Ontario), Michael's fingerstyle guitar and warm, unaffected vocals are front and centre, accompanied only by John McColgan's funky drumming on five songs. Michael is joined by some very fine vocalists on four songs: Harrison Kennedy, Eric Bibb and Roxanne Potvin. In this collection you will hear soul music and its roots: five original tunes are mixed in with versions of old spirituals (from Sidney Carter and Blind Willie Johnson), classic '60s blues (Lowell Fulson, Sam Cooke, Bobby "Blue" Bland), and interpretations of songs from the '70s and '80s (Al Green, Randy Newman, Stevie Wonder).

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Michael Jerome Browne - Can't Keep A Good Man Down

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:09
Size: 121.7 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:39] 1. Four Years, No Rain
[2:55] 2. Rising River Blues
[2:48] 3. Country Breakdown
[3:14] 4. You Missed A Good Man
[2:31] 5. You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down
[2:58] 6. Pay Day
[2:47] 7. Married Woman
[3:59] 8. Morning Prayer
[3:47] 9. At It Again
[3:07] 10. Summer Shoes On (Song For Neil Stonechild)
[4:33] 11. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
[3:07] 12. The Coo Coo
[3:31] 13. Blacktop
[3:38] 14. Right Now Blues
[3:34] 15. If Memphis Don’t Kill Me
[3:52] 16. Gambling Blues

Following his fourth JUNO-nominated album Sliding Delta , MICHAEL JEROME BROWNE delivers a compilation of classic, pre-war blues and original tunes culled from his critically acclaimed catalogue. CAN T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN proves that in this the world of acoustic blues, this musician s musician is simply one of the very best. CAN T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN brings together various Michael Jerome Browne tracks from: Drive On (2001), Michael Jerome Browne & The Twin Rivers String Band (2004), Double (2007), This Beautiful Mess (2008) and The Road Is Dark (2011). A new song, Four Years, No Rain previously unreleased, is featured. Songs by Tampa Red, Jesse Fuller, Reverend Gary Davis and Tommy Johnson, and four original Michael Jerome Browne songs in the style, as well as a couple of gourd banjo tunes, share the spotlight on Can t Keep A Good Man Down. The compilation is mostly solo, with a little help from friends John McColgan, Jordan Officer, Michael Ball, Jody Benjamin, Steve Marriner, Stephen Barry, and the late, Vann Piano Man Walls.

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Michael Jerome Browne - 2 albums: Sliding Delta / The Road Is Dark

Album: Sliding Delta
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:55
Size: 114.3 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:05] 1. Sliding Delta
[3:47] 2. I'm A Guitar King
[3:24] 3. I Heard Somebody Call
[4:24] 4. Special Rider Blues
[2:47] 5. Living In The Whitehouse
[3:19] 6. Frisco Town
[3:48] 7. Write Me A Few Lines
[3:57] 8. When Your Way Gets Dark
[3:43] 9. Motherless Chile Blues
[4:13] 10. Broke Down Engine
[3:01] 11. Bull Doze Blues
[3:49] 12. Easy Rider Blues
[3:11] 13. My Road Is Rough And Rocky
[3:22] 14. Choose Your Seat And Sit Down (With Eric Bibb)

This new album from Michael Jerome Browne is a fantastic collection of 1920s-30s rural blues brought elegantly into the here and now MJB style. Songs from blues legends Mississippi John Hurt, Fred McDowell, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Memphis Minnie, and Blind Lemon Jefferson are performed here with the kind of authenticity and reverence that only a master roots musician like Michael can deliver.

“When it comes to roots, Americana, blues, Cajun, you name it, Michael has it under his belt” ~ Eric Bibb

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Album: The Road Is Dark
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:10
Size: 114.8 MB
Styles: Acoustic/electric blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:24] 1. Doin' My Time
[2:46] 2. Married Woman
[4:57] 3. The Road Is Dark
[2:51] 4. Graveyard Blues
[3:46] 5. At It Again
[3:26] 6. One More Empty Bottle
[4:01] 7. Sinner's Plea
[2:33] 8. G20 Rag
[3:49] 9. Sing Low
[2:50] 10. The Whale Has Swallowed Me
[4:32] 11. Death Don't Have No Mercy
[3:33] 12. If Memphis Don't Kill Me
[3:37] 13. Right Now Blues
[3:58] 14. Morning Prayer

n my review of Browne's "Drive On" album, I likened it to a trip back in time to rediscover a lost blues legend. On The Road Is Dark, Michael Jerome Browne shows more modern leanings. He still combines fingerpicking, slide work, and some great fretless banjo playing. The most obvious difference is that he uses some light amplification on many tracks here. Even beyond that, though, the aesthetic is more modern, with rhythms that sound more like 60's blues revival stuff than original 20's delta blues recordings. That isn't to say anyone would mistake this album for Dave Van Ronk or early Chris Smither-- it just has the feel of a more modern album than Drive On. It is still fun, and the darker numbers (as the album title suggests) can still hit pretty hard. The occasional amplification is what really elevates this music beyond 60's revival stuff, though. A beat-up old Martin can sound great. So can a strat. However, we are all accustomed to those sounds. A dreadnought run through an amp with no effects added-- that's not something we are used to hearing, and by breaking up the straight-acoustic songs with some amplification, the whole album gels together nicely. Keep it up, Michael. ~Anonymous

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