Shun Kikuta - Back In The Windy City

Album: Back In The Windy City
Size: 128,0 MB
Time: 55:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2026
Styles: Blues
Art: Front, back

1. Back In The Windy City (4:56)
2. Running On My Mind (4:57)
3. Just Don't Know (5:35)
4. That's Why I'm Crying (6:37)
5. Drinking In The Rain (5:19)
6. Travelin' Guy (5:39)
7. Get Up And Try (4:38)
8. Wisconsin Road (6:49)
9. I'm In Love With The Blues (5:21)
10. Blues For Junior (5:33)

Shun Kikuta's Back in the Windy City finds the Japanese-born, Chicago-based guitarist returning to the electric blues he built his reputation on, following years backing Koko Taylor and touring with Shemekia Copeland. The set leans on roadhouse shuffles and slow burners, with the title track and "Blues for Junior" standing out as the record's most direct nods to his Windy City roots. "Wisconsin Road" and "Travelin' Guy" keep the tempo moving without losing the grit.

Personnel: Shun Kikuta (vocals, guitars); Felton Crews (bass); Mark Mack (drums); Johnny Iguana (piano, organ, Rhodes). Guest: Demetria Taylor (vocals track 4).

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Shun Kikuta - Blue And Alone

Album: Blue And Alone
Size: 124,0 MB
Time: 53:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Instrumental blues
Art: Full

1. Blue And Alone (4:29)
2. Unconditional Love (4:24)
3. Misty 101 (3:02)
4. Windy City Blue (5:00)
5. A.M. Boogie (4:16)
6. For Koko (5:19)
7. Kikuta Brothers (3:50)
8. Going To East Side (5:27)
9. Icy Cold (4:27)
10. Rib Tips With Hot Sauce (7:24)
11. You My Love (Bonus Track) (6:11)

Shun Kikuta is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world entertaining audiences with his soulful, explosive, and heart-retching music. He crosses the globe including Europe, Bahamas, Central America, Asia, Oceania and Canada several times each year touring with late Koko Taylor, "The Queen of Blues", 2010 Chicago Music Awards winning band J.W.Williams & Chitown Hustlers and his own group, Shun Kikuta Band.

Since 1990 Shun resides in Chicago and he has performed and recorded with such blues, soul, R&B and jazz legends as B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Johnny and Shemekia Copeland, Bo Diddley, Robert Lockwood Jr, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Tyrone Davis, Willie Clayton, Brian McKnight, Dave and Louis Myers, Irma Thomas, Denise LaSalle, Marva Wright, Roy Hargrove, Mark Turner, Mark Whitfeild, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, Pinetop Perkins, Lonnie Brooks, Eddy Clearwater, Marcia Ball, Kenny Neal, Billy Branch, Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers) and Susan Tedeschi.

Shun has recorded several albums under his own name, such as "Rising Shun"(2007), and also appeared on many albums as a guitarist includes Koko Taylor's Grammy Awards nominated "Old School".

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Shun Kikuta & Blues Company - Blues Company

Size: 77.5 MB
Time: 33:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

01. Cold Love (4:58)
02. Chicago Midnight (6:32)
03. Love Love Love (4:11)
04. Gift From Heaven (6:31)
05. Queen Of The Blues (7:23)
06. Left My Soul In Chicago (Feat. Lee Kanehira) (3:52)

Personnel:
Shun Kikuta: Vocal, Guitars
Rie “Lee” Kanehira: Keyboards
Atsushi Katano: Bass
Marty Bracey: Drums

Shun is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world entertaining audiences with his soulful, explosive, and heart-retching music. He crosses the globe including Europe, Bahamas, Central America, Asia, Oceania and Canada several times each year touring with late Koko Taylor, "The Queen of Blues", 2010 Chicago Music Awards winning band J.W.Williams & Chitown Hustlers and his own group, Shun Kikuta Band.

Shun resides in Chicago since 1990 and he has performed and recorded with such blues, soul, R&B and jazz legends as B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Johnny and Shemekia Copeland, Bo Didley, Robert Lockwood Jr, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton,Tyrone Davis, Willie Clayton, Brian McKnight, Dave and Louise Myers, Irma Thomas, Denise LaSalle, Marva Wright, Roy Hargrove, Mark Turner, Mark Whitfeild, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, Pinetop Perkins, Lonnie Brooks, Eddy Clearwater, Marcia Ball, Kenny Neal, Billy Branch, Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers) and Susan Tedeschi.

Shun has recorded several his own albums such as "Rising Shun"(2007) and also appeared on many albums as a guitarist includes Koko Taylor's Grammy Awards nominated "Old School.

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Blues Project - Good Times Roll

Size: 107.3 MB
Time: 46:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Let The Good Times Roll (4:29)
02. Hound Dog (3:21)
03. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out (5:17)
04. Hold On I’m Comin (5:48)
05. Chicago Midnight / What Have I Done Wrong (8:03)
06. The King (6:55)
07. Voodoo Woman (4:40)
08. Today I Sing The Blues (7:33)

Personnel:
Shun Kikuta: Guitar, Vocals 4,5
Tammy: Vocals 1,2,3,7,8 Chorus 1,3,4
Kuma Harada: Bass
Osamu Soda: Keys
Marty Bracey: Drums, Chorus 1,4

Shun is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world entertaining audiences with his soulful, explosive, and heart-retching music. He crosses the globe including Europe, Bahamas, Central America, Asia, Oceania and Canada several times each year touring with late Koko Taylor, "The Queen of Blues", 2010 Chicago Music Awards winning band J.W.Williams & Chitown Hustlers and his own group, Shun Kikuta Band.

Shun resides in Chicago since 1990 and he has performed and recorded with such blues, soul, R&B and jazz legends as B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Johnny and Shemekia Copeland, Bo Didley, Robert Lockwood Jr, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton,Tyrone Davis, Willie Clayton, Brian McKnight, Dave and Louise Myers, Irma Thomas, Denise LaSalle, Marva Wright, Roy Hargrove, Mark Turner, Mark Whitfeild, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, Pinetop Perkins, Lonnie Brooks, Eddy Clearwater, Marcia Ball, Kenny Neal, Billy Branch, Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers) and Susan Tedeschi.

Shun has recorded several his own albums such as "Rising Shun"(2007) and also appeared on many albums as a guitarist includes Koko Taylor's Grammy Awards nominated "Old School.

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Shunsuke 'Shun' Kikuta - Chicago Midnight

Size: 128,2 MB
Time: 55:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Blues, Chicago blues
Art: Full

1. Four Crowns (5:29)
2. Love Of Mine (3:29)
3. Drinking Gasoline (6:18)
4. Big Boss Man (4:18)
5. 29 Ways (4:07)
6. I'm Gonna Get Lucky (5:39)
7. Rib Tips With Hot Sauce (6:21)
8. Don't Tell Me What You've Been Doing (4:15)
9. Luv Somebody (4:22)
10. Let's Straighten It Out (6:02)
11. Chicago Midnight (4:57)

Shunsuke "Shun" Kikuta was born in Utsunomiya City, a Tokyo suburb, in 1966. In 1986 Shun moved to Boston and enrolled at the Berklee College of Music where he studied jazz composition, arrangements, and harmonic theory. George Benson, whom Shun credits as having a tremendous influence on him, was guest of honor at Berklee's graduation ceremony in 1990 and presented Shun with his diploma. Shun then moved to Chicago to play the Blues, playing weekly at Rosa's Lounge with the Louis Myers band. Over the years he has produced and collaborated on many blues recordings, in addition to his own leading albums "They Call Me Shun" (later released as "Me and My Guitar" on Bluesox in the USA), "and Chicago Midnight" in 1995 and 96.

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Shun Kikuta - Rising Shun Plus / In A Room

Album: Rising Shun Plus Size: 175.5 MB
Time: 76:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. When You Feel Lonely (Feat. Billy Branch) (5:33)
02. Hard Hard Miles (Feat. Gerald McClendon) (4:37)
03. Love On Track (Feat. Gerald McClendon) (3:47)
04. Voodoo Woman (Feat. Koko Taylor) (4:03)
05. Yer Blues (Feat. JP Williams) (4:29)
06. Let's Jam (6:21)
07. Old Soul (6:35)
08. Love Love Love (Feat. Gerald McClendon) (4:04)
09. Nikko Waraku Shuffle (5:10)
10. You My Love (4:36)
11. Look Out Baby (4:22)
12. Rockin' Nikko (1:26)
13. Double Faced (5:12)
14. Japablues (New Take) (4:59)
15. Slip My Mind (5:58)
16. Gyoza Blues (New Recording) (4:46)

This work was released in 2018 by remastering 11 songs of "Rising Shun" released in 2007 and adding 5 new songs. Japanese and American artists such as Koko Taylor, Billy Branch, JW Williams, and Jamsbee gather. Recordings were made in Chicago and Utsunomiya.

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Album: In A Room Size: 105.3 MB
Time: 45:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. I Just Wanna Make Love To You (5:16)
02. Chicago Midnight (6:14)
03. Blues Ni Koishite (4:24)
04. Look Out Baby (Feat. El Jose) (5:00)
05. Stormy Monday (4:08)
06. People Get Ready (3:46)
07. Old Mississippi Road (4:53)
08. Delta Lightning (0:45)
09. In A Room (3:36)
10. One Day Is Hot, One Day Is Cold (5:02)
11. You Are The One (2:07)

One of the top blues guitarist, Shun Kikuta's first acoustic solo album. In 2020 while his touring was limited by COVID 19, he decided to focus making an acoustic album. Total of eleven songs and eight of his own and other three are the well known covers. One of them features France's young blues ace, El Jose and recorded duo in France.

Shun is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world. Shun resided in Chicago, known as a home of blues, over two decades and he was a regular guitarist of Koko Taylor, "Queen of the blues" for nine years until her passing. He also was a long time member of 2010 Chicago Music Awards winning band J.W.Williams & Chi-Town Hustlers. Currently he focuses on his own group "Shun Kikuta Band" and "Blues Company". Performed with: B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, Otis Rush, Bo Didley, Robert Lockwood Jr, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Kenny Wayne Shepperd etc.. Recorded with: Koko Taylor "Old School"-Grammy Award nominated, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Billy Branch, Eddie Shaw, Nellie"Tiger"Travis, etc.. ? TV and movie appearance: "An evening with B.B.King" as a band leader and performed with B.B.King. "Kennedy Center Honors" to honor Morgan Freeman sharing a stage with Koko Taylor, Pinetop Perkins, Honey Boy Edwards and Willie "Big Eye" Smith. "Father and Sons", a part of the seven series of "THE BLUES" movie directed by Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and 5 other directors. Performed on: Chicago Blues Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Notodden Blues Festival(Norway), Japan Blues Festival, Jakarta International Blues Festival, Beijing Blues Festival etc... ? Discography: Live In France (2020), Good Times Roll/Blues Project (2019), Blues Company (2018) , Rising Shun Plus (2018), Best of Shun's Blues (2013) and 12 leader/collaborated albums. Instructional materials: Lively Blues Guitar (CD+Book, 2017), Call & Response (DVD, 2014) and 6 other books and DVDs. Shun was on the cover and featured musician of BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE Dec 29th 2011 issue. ? Besides performing, Shun teaches guitar, blues history and ensemble in regular basis through workshops and private lessons. Shun also is a music writer in last two decades. He has published his book "The World's Blues Alleys"(Rittor Music-Japanese) and has had his own articles on magazines and papers as well.

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Shun Kikuta - 2 albums: Rising Shun / Live And Kickin'

Shun is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world entertaining audiences with his soulful, explosive, and heart-retching music. He crosses the globe including Europe, Bahamas, Central America, Asia, Oceania and Canada several times each year touring with late Koko Taylor, "The Queen of Blues", 2010 Chicago Music Awards winning band J.W.Williams & Chitown Hustlers and his own group, Shun Kikuta Band.

Shun resides in Chicago since 1990 and he has performed and recorded with such blues, soul, R&B and jazz legends as B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Johnny and Shemekia Copeland, Bo Didley, Robert Lockwood Jr, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton,Tyrone Davis, Willie Clayton, Brian McKnight, Dave and Louise Myers, Irma Thomas, Denise LaSalle, Marva Wright, Roy Hargrove, Mark Turner, Mark Whitfeild, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, Pinetop Perkins, Lonnie Brooks, Eddy Clearwater, Marcia Ball, Kenny Neal, Billy Branch, Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers) and Susan Tedeschi.

Shun has recorded several his own albums such as "Rising Shun"(2007) and also appeared on many albums as a guitarist includes Koko Taylor's Grammy Awards nominated "Old School.

Album: Rising Shun
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 62:21
Size: 142.7 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[5:29] 1. When You Feel Lonely
[4:36] 2. Hard Hard Miles
[3:46] 3. Love On Track
[4:28] 4. Yer Blues
[4:02] 5. Voodoo Woman (Feat. Koko Taylor)
[6:18] 6. Let's Jam
[7:32] 7. It's A Man's Man's Man's World
[1:25] 8. Rockin' Nikko
[5:11] 9. Double Faced
[6:33] 10. Old Soul
[4:21] 11. Look Out Baby
[4:03] 12. Love Love Love
[4:28] 13. The Stumble

Shun Kikuta(Gt, Vo), Koko Taylor(Vo), J.W.Williams (Vo), Gerald McClendon(Vo), Billy Branch(Harp), Stan Banks(Key), Andre Howard(B), Charles Mack(B), Mark Mack(Ds), Jam Horns, Jamsbee, Atsushi Katano(B, P), Yoshikazu Seki(Ds), Voices.

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Album: Shun Kikuta & J.W. Williams - Live And Kickin'
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 61:19
Size: 140.4 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[ 4:19] 1. Love Of Mine
[ 4:20] 2. Luv Sumbody
[ 8:53] 3. Drinking Gasoline
[14:23] 4. Turn Back The Hands Of Time - Let's Straighten It Out (Medley)
[ 4:55] 5. Honest I Do
[ 5:24] 6. Just A Little Bit (Medley)
[ 5:46] 7. Blues With A Feeling
[ 8:04] 8. Don't Ever Leave Me
[ 5:12] 9. It's Your Thing (Medley)

Shun Kikuta(Gt),JW Williams(Vo,B),Johnny Iguana(Key),Jerry Porter(Dr) SPECIAL GUEST:Makoto Ayukawa(Vo,Gt 7),Fumio Ishikawa(Harp 5,6,7). Recorded at Park Tower Blues Festival in Tokyo, Japan

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