VA - Shuckin' Stuff: Rare Blues From Ace Records

Size: 380 MB
Time: 150:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. Jesse Allen - Goodbye Blues (3:18)
02. Dave Dixon - I'm Not Satisfied (Alternate Take) (2:17)
03. Earl King - Those Lonely Lonely Nights (Alternate Take) (2:26)
04. Mercy Baby - Mercy's Blues (2:42)
05. Al Collins - I Got The Blues For You (2:28)
06. Bobby Marchan - Give A Helping Hand (Alternate Take) (2:53)
07. Frankie Lee Sims - What Will Lucy Do (2:23)
08. Joe Hill Louis - 4Th And Beale (2:08)
09. Al Collins - Shuckin' Stuff (2:52)
10. Earl King - Baby You Can Get Your Gun (2:06)
11. Edgar Blanchard - Let's Get It (2:30)
12. Lightnin' Slim - Bad Feeling Blues (Alternate Take) (2:55)
13. Fred McDowell - Don't Say A Mumblin' Word (3:13)
14. Schoolboy Cleve - My Baby Done Gone (2:17)
15. John Littlejohn - I Got My Nose Open (4:04)
16. Albert Scott - I Feel So Good (2:20)
17. Big Boy Crudup - Mean Old World (2:58)
18. Dave Dixon - Feeling So Low (Alternate Take) (2:25)
19. Earl King - My Love Is Strong (2:25)
20. Lightnin' Slim - Lightnin' Slim Boogie (Alternate Take) (2:44)
21. John Littlejohn - She's 19 Years Old (4:42)
22. Bad Smitty - Smokestack Lightning (4:40)
23. Joe Hill Louis - Sweetest Woman I Ever Know (2:31)
24. Boby Marchan - Pity Poor Me (Alternate Take) (3:59)
25. Mercy Baby - Silly Dilly Woman (3:39)
26. Albert Scott - I'm So Glad You're Mine (2:02)
27. Frankie Lee Sims - Hey Little Girl (2:38)

CD 2:
01. Sammy Myers - My Love Is Here To Stay (Alternate Take) (2:35)
02. Sammy Myers - Sleeping In The Ground (Alternate Take) (2:57)
03. Alabama Red - Every Day I Have The Blues (2:44)
04. Unknown Male Singer #1 - I've Been Searchin' (2:38)
05. Edgar Blanchard - Honeycomb (2:17)
06. Unknown Male Singer #1 - I'll Never Leave Anymore (2:47)
07. Little Cameron - Annie Mae (Alternate Take) (2:46)
08. Albert Scott - I'm Leaving You Baby (2:39)
09. Unknown Male Singer #1 - Every Night About This Time (3:01)
10. Unknown Male Singer #3 - Standing At The Station (3:00)
11. H-Bomb Ferguson - Baby Please (2:25)
12. Johnny Littlejohn - Hideaway (2:22)
13. Unknown Female Singer - Take Me Back Baby (3:14)
14. Unknown Male Singer #1 - Three Long Years (3:15)
15. Sammy Myers - My Love Is Here To Stay (2:05)
16. Sammy Myers - Sleeping In The Ground (3:02)
17. Alabama Red - Driving Wheel (+ Message) (4:01)
18. Bad Smitty - Standing At The Crossroads (Alternate Take) (4:01)
19. Edgar Blanchard - Lonesome Guitar (Alternative Take) (2:32)
20. Billy Tate - Lifetime In Prison Pt. 1 (3:02)
21. Billy Tate - Lifetime In Prison Pt. 2 (3:05)
22. Little Cameron - Sittin' Here Worryin' (Alternate Take) (2:16)
23. Unknown Male Singer #2 - Little Boy Blue (2:40)
24. Unknown Male Singer #4 - Pathway Of Love (3:04)
25. Albert Scott - Right At Home (2:31)
26. Unknown Male Singer #1 - Whiskey And Woman (2:08)

Subtitled - Rare Blues From Ace Records. An attractively packaged mid-price 53 track double set, compiled and mastered from the extensive tape vaults of the legendary Ace Records. Featuring top names like Earl King, Lightnin' Slim, Big Boy Crudup, Fred Mc Dowell, Sammy Myers and H-Bomb Ferguson to name a few. These two CDs combine a host of rare tracks as well as alternate takes of some of their best known songs. 2002.

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Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets - Sins (Feat. Sam Myers)

Size: 98,3 MB
Time: 42:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1988
Styles: Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. A Man Needs His Loving (3:38)
02. I'll Be True (2:27)
03. Don't Want No Leftovers (4:07)
04. Walked All Night (2:52)
05. My Kind Of Baby (2:21)
06. Changing Neighborhoods (5:45)
07. Can't Stop Loving (3:19)
08. Chill Out (3:15)
09. My Heart (4:54)
10. Trying To Make You Mine (2:11)
11. Sleeping In The Ground (4:32)
12. Hard Hearted Woman (2:36)

Sins is a good fusion of Texas and Delta blues, alternating between rocking shuffles and laidback ballads. Funderburgh's playing is tasteful -- he has an enticing sound, but he never falls into grandstanding -- and Sam Myers's voice is rich and his harp playing intoxicating. Furthermore, the selection of material is first-rate, featuring sharp originals and well-chosen covers from the likes of Percy Mayfield and Elmore James. The result? One of Anson Funderburgh's best albums. ~Thom Owens

Sins

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Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets - Live At The Grand Emporium ( Feat. Sam Myers)

Size: 162,1 MB
Time: 69:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Sidetracked (5:32)
02. Understood (4:28)
03. Ways Of Man (4:39)
04. It's You (4:23)
05. Turning My Life Around (5:03)
06. Peace Of Mind (4:57)
07. Empty Arms (3:32)
08. Wild Cherry (3:25)
09. Tell Me What I Want To Hear (4:40)
10. The Drifter (3:41)
11. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (5:08)
12. Shedding Tears Of Laughter (5:22)
13. Trying To Make You Mine (4:57)
14. Make A Little Love Tonight (4:39)
15. Backstroke (4:53)

In recent years, Dallas-based guitarist Anson Funderburgh has taken his band the Rockets out of the clubs and onto the festival stages with his critically acclaimed recordings for the BlackTop label out of New Orleans. With Jackson, MS-native Sam Myers delivering the vocals and harmonica treatments, this band mixes up a powerful gumbo of Texas jump blues and Delta blues that can't be found anywhere else. Funderburgh & His Rockets are a particularly hard working band, performing across the U.S. and Europe nearly 300 nights a year.

Funderburgh was born November 15, 1954, and got hooked on the blues when he got his first guitar at age seven or eight. His first musical experiences happened in the clubs in Dallas. He developed his team approach to blues music while learning from the likes of Freddie King, Jimmy Reed, and Albert Collins when these great bluesmen were passing through Dallas-area clubs, but Funderburgh had already taught himself guitar mostly from listening to classic blues records. He never had the chance to see Muddy Waters, but he did get to play with Lightnin' Hopkins in the late '70s. Funderburgh formed the Rockets in 1978, but didn't meet Sam Myers until 1982.

Funderburgh recorded with the Fabulous Thunderbirds on their Butt Rockin' album, and went solo in 1981, when the New Orleans-based BlackTop label released Talk to You by Hand, the label's first release. Funderburgh added Myers on harmonica and lead vocals in 1986. Myers had traveled for years on the chitlin circuit, where he had the chance to accompany people like Elmore James and Robert Junior Lockwood. Funderburgh admits that adding Myers on vocals and harmonica was a turning point for the Rockets, partly because of the image they project from the stage, a big towering black man and three white guys backing him up. Funderburgh continued his association in the '90s with Black Top releasing Tell Me What I Want to Hear (1991), Live at Grand Emporium (1995), and That's What They Want (1997). After releasing nine albums on Black Top, in 1999 Funderburgh changed record labels with the release of Change in my Pocket for Bullseye Blues. At the beginning of the new millennium, Funderburgh is just coming into his prime by way of his songwriting talents, so his career deserves close watching in the coming years. The best is yet to come from this guitarist and bandleader. ~Richard Skelly

Live At The Grand Emporium

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VA - Voices Of Mississippi: Artists And Musicians Documented By William Ferris

Size: 181,2+180,5+165,5 MB
Time: 76:44+76:32+69:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Gospel
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. James 'Son Ford' Thomas - 44 Blues (3:43)
02. Lovey Williams - I Feel So Good (2:02)
03. Wallace 'Pine Top' Johnson, Maudie Shirley, & Jasper Love - Stackalee And Billy Lyons (2:41)
04. Scott Dunbar - Lil' Liza Jane (2:56)
05. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Big Fat Mama (2:24)
06. Louis Dotson - Bottle Blowing (0:49)
07. Sonny Boy Watson - Bring Me My Shotgun (3:05)
08. Sam Myers - Eyesight To The Blind (2:21)
09. James 'Son Ford' Thomas - Cairo (2:46)
10. Scott Dunbar - Jaybird (8:31)
11. Tom Dumas - Cotton Eyed Joe (2:20)
12. Lovey Williams - Coal Black Mare (2:33)
13. Unidentified Musician With Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Dreamed I Went To The U.N' (2:26)
14. Walter Lee Hood - Darling If You Must Leave (1:02)
15. Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Got A Letter From Hot Springs (3:51)
16. Wallace 'Pine Top' Johnson, Maudie Shirley, & Jasper Love - Baby Loves To Boogie (3:09)
17. Wash Heron & 'Big' Jack Johnson - Nothing (1:33)
18. James 'Son Ford' Thomas - Dust My Broom (2:28)
19. Scott Dunbar - The Memphis Mail (3:27)
20. Sonny Boy Watson - Have You Seen My Baby (3:45)
21. James Hughes - Instrumental Guitar Piece In A (1:33)
22. Lovey Williams - Train I Ride (1:53)
23. Unidentified Musician With Mississippi Fred McDowell - Little Red Rooster (2:58)
24. Leland Musician - Darlin' Why You Treat Me So' (2:15)
25. Inmates At Parchman Farm - Water Boy Drowned In The Mobile Bay (1:53)
26. George Lee 'Sun Bud' Spears - I Ain't Gonna Live It No More (4:06)
27. James 'Son Ford' Thomas With Sonny Boy Watson - I Cannot Stay Here Baby (4:01)

CD 2:
01. Mary & Amanda Gordon - Lord, I'm In Your Hand (2:55)
02. The Southland Hummingbirds - You Don't Know Like I Know (3:44)
03. Lovey Williams - I'm Standing In The Safety Zone (0:46)
04. Reverend Smith & Family - Children, Go Where I Send Thee (3:23)
05. Liddle Hines - What Could I Do (3:19)
06. Providence Missionary Baptist Church - So Glad I Got Good Religion (3:17)
07. Church Of God In Christ - I Know The Lord Will Make A Way (Yes He Will) (2:04)
08. Walter Lee Hood & Parchman Inmates - Home On High (2:24)
09. Fannie Bell Chapman - We're So Glad To Be Here (3:48)
10. Mary Alice & Alan McGowan - My Mother's On That Train (1:32)
11. Reverend Ott & Family - You Don't Knock, You Just Walk On In (2:26)
12. Walter Lee Hood - They Tell Me Of An Uncloudy Day (1:29)
13. Rose Hill Church - Thanks For Bill Ferris (0:31)
14. Rose Hill Church - Over Yonder Where The Sun Will Never Shine (2:45)
15. The Southland Hummingbirds - I've Been Born Again (3:14)
16. Lovey Williams & Family - The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow (2:48)
17. Providence Missionary Baptist Church - How Did You Feel When You Come Out Of The Wilderness (4:07)
18. Church Of God In Christ - I Don't Have To Worry About Where I Spend Eternity (2:52)
19. Fannie Bell Chapman & Family - He's My Rock, My Sword, And Shield (3:54)
20. Walter Lee Hood & Parchman Inmates - Thank You Jesus (2:22)
21. Mary & Amanda Gordon - Cross Of Calvary (2:46)
22. Church Of God In Christ - My Grave's Gonna Be Decorated On That Day (2:53)
23. The Southland Hummingbirds - There Are Days (2:55)
24. Church Of God In Christ - You Can't Hide Sinner (2:39)
25. Reverend Isaac Thomas & Rose Hill Church - Lord, Remember Me (2:48)
26. Church Of God In Christ - Glory, Glory (Lay My Burden Down) (8:37)

CD 3:
01. Barry Hannah - On Bill (1:32)
02. Alice Walker - Regions Of The Mind And Heart (0:42)
03. Alex Haley - The South (1:42)
04. Ray Lum - A Trader Is (1:14)
05. Bobby Rush - The Blues To Me (1:22)
06. Barry Hannah - On Son Thomas And Tradition (1:45)
07. James 'Son Ford' Thomas - I Know It's Wrong To Be Playin' The Blues (2:51)
08. Sonny Boy Watson - Jitterbug Comes To Town (2:02)
09. James 'Son Ford' Thomas - You Whistlin' (2:15)
10. Joe 'Skeet' Skillet - Mule Toast And Pool Hall Toast (2:58)
11. Joe Cooper - The Preacher (1:24)
12. Wallace 'Pine Top' Johnson, Jasper Love, & Maudie Shirley - Lyin' (1:01)
13. Shelby 'Poppa Jazz' Brown - Two Brothers, Heaven And Hell (5:22)
14. Shelby 'Poppa Jazz' Brown - Creekman Killed Charlie Kirkland (3:23)
15. B.B. King - Lucille (3:17)
16. Allen Ginsberg, James 'Son Ford' Thomas & Bill Ferris - On Blues Composition (4:37)
17. Robert Penn Warren - The Decline In Human Values (2:42)
18. Pecolia Warner - The Bible Salesman (5:04)
19. Ray Lum - Fast Traders Disguising Mules (2:41)
20. Ray Lum - Horses Too Tall To Drown (0:58)
21. Ray Lum - The Ark And The Cats (1:51)
22. Ray Lum - The Panther (1:32)
23. Victor Bobb - Fixing Charles Lindbergh's Engine (7:39)
24. Barry Hannah - Lying About Being From Mississippi (0:54)
25. Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome (2:09)
26. James 'Son Ford' Thomas - Cemetery Conversations (6:49)

This watershed release represents the life’s work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with anunwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the American South. William Ferris was born in Vicksburg, Mississippiin 1942.

Growing up on a working farm, Ferris began at a young age documenting the artwork, music, and lives of the people on thefarm and in his local community. The archive of recordings that he created and the documentary films that he had a hand in producinghave served as powerful tools in institutions of higher learning for decades. It is with great excitement that we present these films andrecordings. Our hope is that the enjoyment and educational value that has been received by Ferris’s students over the years will betransmitted to listeners around the world and further the understanding of Southern culture.

Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris includes three CDs -- two of the CDs feature blues and gospel recordings (1966-1978), and the final CD features interviews and storytelling (1968-1994).

Voices Of Mississippi

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