Various - Blues At Kerrville

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:03
Size: 132.9 MB
Styles: Assorted styles
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:10] 1. Dave Van Ronk - Another Time & Place
[9:04] 2. Gatesmouth Brown - Sometimes I Feel Myself Slippin
[2:50] 3. Roy Bookbinder - Kentucky Blues
[4:41] 4. Marcia Ball - My Man Is A Two Timer
[6:18] 5. Josh White Jr. - I Can Be Had
[4:55] 6. Angela Strehli - Telephone Blues
[5:16] 7. Marcia Ball With Band - Under Love's Spell
[4:10] 8. Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan - Honey Bee
[3:25] 9. Mance Lipscomb - Texas Blues
[3:50] 10. Robert Shaw - Put Me In The Alley
[3:30] 11. Juke Boy Bonner - I've Had The Blues
[2:29] 12. Spider John Koerner - Midnight Special
[3:20] 13. Kenneth Threadgill - Mississippi Delta Blues

Interesting cross section of live performances from this Texas blues festival. With performances aboard from Dave Van Ronk, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Juke Boy Bonner, Mance Lipscomb, Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli, Roy Bookbinder, Kenneth Threadgill, Spider John Koerner, Josh White, Jr., Robert Shaw, and the duo of Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan, this is a wide and varied set of performances well played and decently recorded. ~Cub Koda

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Robert Shaw - The Ma Grinder

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1963
Styles: Blues
Time: 71:54
Size: 165,5 MB
Covers: Full (12 page booklet)

(4:15) 1. Ma Grinder
(4:40) 2. Hattie Green
(4:12) 3. Fives
(8:46) 4. Black Gal
(4:30) 5. Put Me in the Alley
(4:04) 6. Groceries on My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly)
(3:44) 7. The Clinton
(5:58) 8. People, People
(4:04) 9. The Cows
(3:23) 10. Whores Is Funky
(4:01) 11. Here I Come With My Dirty, Dirty Duckings On
(3:24) 12. Saturday Night Special
(4:15) 13. Jim Nappy
(2:00) 14. Fast Santa Fe
(3:43) 15. Mobile and K.C. Line
(4:40) 16. Going Down to the Gulf
(2:08) 17. She Used to Be My Baby

Robert Shaw was a member of a little tight group of musicians (Black Boy Shine, Andy Boy and Bob Cooper) who, in the 1930's, played hot blues piano in barrelhouses and brothels along the Santa Fe R.R. Line near Houston. Their `Santa Fe' style was characterized by a heavy touch on the keyboard, grinding out stomping, bawdy tunes. Songs were designed to promote free spending, on nights of drinking, dancing, forgetful-ness, and fun. Many of the piano solos are variations of the same musical themes. The lyrics reflect the barrel-house and bordello environments. Shaw said it himself: `When you listen to what I'm playing, you got to see in your mind all them gals out there, swinging their butts and getting the mens excited; I told them to shake when to shake it and when to hold it back. That's what this music is for.' The first 11 cuts here were recorded by Mack McCormick in 1963 and saw first issue in the mid-'60s. The remainder were done by Chris Strachwitz in 1973 and 1977. In 1963, Shaw was 55 and still at the peak of his powers. Songs like `Whores Is Funky,' `Black Gal,' and `The Ma Grinder' are simply staggering Texas piano blues, with Shaw's powerful left hand laying down the rhythm underneath a right hand of amazing dexterity and inventiveness. The '70s, material is a step behind in both power and technique. Still marvelous music by a consummate musician, the later numbers nonetheless rely on reflection and introspection more than the 1963 tunes.

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Various - The Story Of Piano Blues: From The Country To The City

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 74:54
Size: 171.5 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 1978/2013
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. Pinetop Perkins - Five Long Years
[4:12] 2. Henry Gray - Cold Chills
[5:27] 3. James Crutchfield - Sittin On Top Of The World
[3:14] 4. Abe _Boogaloo_ Ames - Tommy Dorsey's Boogie Woogie
[5:19] 5. Jimmy Walker - Come On, Get Your Morning Exercise
[3:51] 6. Pinetop Perkins - Everyday I Have The Blues
[2:35] 7. Robert Shaw - The Cows
[4:01] 8. Henry Gray - Blues Won't Let Me Rest
[3:52] 9. Abie _Boogaloo_ Ames - After Hours
[2:16] 10. Mose Vinson - Good Morning Memphis
[4:21] 11. Big Joe Duskin - If You Want To Be My Woman
[4:43] 12. Pinetop Perkins - Kansas City
[3:57] 13. Booker T. Laury - Big Legged Woman
[4:28] 14. Henry Gray - When My First Wife Left Me
[3:58] 15. Pinetop Perkins - Kidney Stew
[4:10] 16. Big Joe Duskin - Key To The Highway
[2:22] 17. Jimmy Walker - I Had Lots Of Troubles
[3:54] 18. Booker T. Laury - You Can Go Your Way
[4:00] 19. Detroit Junior - Call My Job

All ten of the artists featured on this new Wolf Records’ release had different levels of success and accolades through their careers, yet share similar upbringings and stories. They honed their chops out of necessity in labor camps, house parties and juke joints – synthesizing individual styles that cannot simply be classified as “Blues,” as their music also incorporates Boogie, Jazz and Gospel. They came from rural communities but brought their talents to the city, where they helped to define the Blues scenes in Chicago, Memphis and Houston. And just as they were influenced by the phantom performers of a pre-war era, they too have influenced many legends of 60s and 70s Rock N’ Roll. So if you are a fanatic, enthusiast and archaeologist of music such as me, you will thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the unique piano styles found on these 20 amazing and thoroughly enjoyable tracks of pure Blues and Boogie Woogie.

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