Miss Blues - Sittin' In With Blinddog Smokin'

Album: Sittin' In With Blinddog Smokin'
Size: 114,6 MB
Time: 49:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Goin' Down Slow (6:37)
2. Black Rat (3:19)
3. Sinkin', Sinkin', Sinkin' (6:59)
4. Comfortable Man (4:46)
5. More Jelly (8:52)
6. Sell My Monkey (3:10)
7. Trapped (4:54)
8. Leave Me Alone (3:42)
9. Cold Mountains (7:18)

Sittin' In With Blinddog Smokin' is the fifth CD by Wyoming blues-rock band Blinddog Smokin' but here they host special guest Miss Blues (Dorothy Ellis). The step was absolutely right. This lady brings enormous passion to this album with her raw and deep voice which in combination with the band's work (particular attention should be paid to amazing guitar playing of Jason Coomes) delivers emotional, lowdown, driving blues. In spite of what is played, covers or original compositions, result is all the same - true blues. This lady sings the BLUES! Bad thing is Dorothy Ellis was discovered late. Hope it's not too late.

This is what Blinddog's official web-page says about her: "Miss Blues is a carnival with a dress on. How an entertainer of this magnitude, has slipped through the cracks of fame and fortune is a sad testimony to the MTV generation, that apparently has no room on their tv screens for a heart this big. This woman is more fun than a tickling uncle. Her personality spills all over the room like the bubbles of a run-away washing machine. And she can sing! Like the primal scream of a locomotive bursting out of a mountain tunnel." Passionate, fiery, bursting album! Highly recommended!

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Miss Blues - Reminiscence Of The Blues

Size: 119.0 MB
Time: 50:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. The Things I Used To Do (4:36)
02. Tribute To Jimmy Reed (5:24)
03. Don't Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand Will Do (5:19)
04. Sweet Home Chicago (4:43)
05. Hold That Train (7:29)
06. Don't Tell Me 'Bout A Man (3:08)
07. Mama Says (7:01)
08. What's The Matter With Mill (3:03)
09. Stormy Monday Monologue (4:02)
10. They Call It Stormy Monday (5:56)

Dorothy Ellis aka Miss Blues - Member of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of fame and Oklahoma Blues hall of Fame. Miss Blues is not a songbird. She doesn't chirp, tweet or warble. Her diaphragm is a blacksmith bellows blowing chunks of lung and larynx, past vocal chords like cables from the Golden Gate Bridge. Her throat scores the same dainty factor as a garbage disposal unit. In a fog you could plant her at the bow of the ship singing "The Things I used To Do" and the lighthouse keeper would beam in you. Miss Blues (Dorothy Ellis) makes a blues song sound like it is supposed to sound: anguish under a bully cock whip, reverberating through fractured souls to African yesteryear.
She came into the world at a time when Texan's were struggling to recover from the great depression combined with the 12 year long dust bowl drought. Miss Blues grew up in the westTexas cotton fields hearing tales of slavery from her great-grandmother. The song Stormy Monday is no piano bar ditty, when Miss Blues puts her profound pathos into lyrics meant to reflect a baby being torn from it's mother's arms to be sold by the plantation owner. When she recorded it, her great body shook as she ripped words from her soul, like fireballs to be at fellow man. Her interpretation from T. Bone Walker's arrangement of an old slave song laments the hellish everyday of a black slave.
The recording session took place largely in Salina, Kansas at Blue Heaven Studios, a church building of some majesty converted to the religion of the Blues. ~Allison Leingh

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Miss Blues - Bad Prospects

Album: Bad Prospects
Size: 91,0 MB
Time: 39:09
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Full

1. Blood Running Cold (3:43)
2. Billie's Blues (4:47)
3. Bad Prospects (4:04)
4. Rub Board Boogie (1:49)
5. Trapped (4:43)
6. Midnight Cry (4:11)
7. Sinking Sinking Sinking (6:07)
8. It's Gonna Rain (2:54)
9. Cold Mountains (6:47)

Miss Blues is a living internationally known blues legend. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2007, and 2009 Miss Blues was voted the Best Blues Band in Oklahoma and recieved a "Woody" award from the Oklahoma Gazette which noted that Miss Blues is "the state's first lady of the blues - all soul and she lets you know it! Belting out songs in a signature way that her many admirers have come to call the Texas Shout!"

Miss Blues has been featured cover story in both the February 2000 and October 2007 issues of Southwest Blues Magazine. She has also been a featured artist at the 2007 Arkansas Heritage and Blues Festival (formerly known as the "King Biscuit Blues Festival"), in addition to headlining many other blues venues and festivals all over the United States.

Miss Blues has shared the stage with such notables as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Bo Diddley, Drink Small, Randy McAllister and more. In 2011, Miss Blues was inducted to the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Miss Blues - Blues With An Attitude

Album: Blues With An Attitude
Size: 113,9 MB
Time: 49:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Full

1. Evil Hearted Me (2:59)
2. Faking It (7:20)
3. Take Your Finger Off Of It (3:50)
4. Margree's Blues (5:33)
5. Bottle Up And Go (5:17)
6. Sneaking Around With You (5:25)
7. All Those Lies (3:43)
8. Corinna Corinna (2:58)
9. Stormy Monday Blues (7:57)
10. Good Morning Blues (4:06)

Miss Blues is a living internationally known blues legend. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2007, and 2009 Miss Blues was voted the Best Blues Band in Oklahoma and recieved a "Woody" award from the Oklahoma Gazette which noted that Miss Blues is "the state's first lady of the blues - all soul and she lets you know it! Belting out songs in a signature way that her many admirers have come to call the Texas Shout!"

Miss Blues has been featured cover story in both the February 2000 and October 2007 issues of Southwest Blues Magazine. She has also been a featured artist at the 2007 Arkansas Heritage and Blues Festival (formerly known as the "King Biscuit Blues Festival"), in addition to headlining many other blues venues and festivals all over the United States.

Miss Blues has shared the stage with such notables as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Bo Diddley, Drink Small, Randy McAllister and more. In 2011, Miss Blues was inducted to the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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