Showing posts with label Slaughterhouse Blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slaughterhouse Blues. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Slaughterhouse Blues - Evil Skies

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:27
Size: 136.1 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[4:24] 1. Burned Another Bridge Down
[3:23] 2. Gotta Get Movin'
[6:38] 3. Evil Skies
[4:22] 4. In The River
[3:27] 5. My Television
[3:43] 6. One Too Many
[3:27] 7. Down To The Station
[5:29] 8. Livin' Lies
[3:00] 9. Nasty Girl
[5:16] 10. Bad Man
[5:32] 11. Do You Get It
[3:16] 12. Sinkin' Down
[4:08] 13. Whatchado
[3:15] 14. Woke Up Old

Slaughterhouse Blues started in the spring of 2002 and was formed by accident at the Blues Society of Central PA’s blues jam at the Lochiel hotel. At the Lochiel “jammers” sign a list and are then called to the stage in the order that they have signed up. The five original members of Slaughterhouse Blues jammed for the first time as a group at the Lochiel. After our four song set it was evident that a band was formed. Within days we started practicing weekly and quickly began gigging. In the beginning Slaughterhouse Blues had a two-guitar attack. Unfortunately Dan Mowery, one of our original guitar players, soon after relocated to Florida to go to recording school. We have been a four-piece band since his departure.

The heart of Slaughterhouse Blues is its rhythm section. Blaine Weisser on bass guitar and Tom Dawes on drums. Blaine and Tom started playing together in their first band while in high school. They have been playing together on and off for over 30 years now and have finally produced their first recording together with the release of our new self-titled CD. Jason Suter, who has been playing locally for that past 6 or 7 years, handles the guitar responsibilities in the band. Tony “T-Bone” Formica, who has sung for many area bands, fronts the band. All members of Slaughterhouse Blues have played in many other successful local bands. However, this band provides everyone an opportunity to play the music they love.

For our live shows Slaughterhouse often bills the band as a “blues influenced jam band”. We do this as to not mislead people into thinking this is a traditional Chicago, Delta, or other type of traditional blues band. This is the Slaughterhouse Blues, we like to jam, and we like to play music in a way that we find enjoyable. It is very important to us that our audiences enjoy our music and that we enjoy playing it. That being said, Slaughterhouse Blues has the highest amount of respect for the blues tradition. We study the founders of the music and hold in high regard those that are continually trying to preserve this wonderful art form.

In the winter of 2006 Slaughterhouse Blues recorded and released our second CD entitled Evil Skies. We are very proud of this effort and hope all who listen enjoy it as much as we did recording it. We hope that this recording will open new doors for us and help us take our music to a larger fan base that appreciates what we are doing.

Evil Skies mc
Evil Skies zippy

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Various - Blues Society Of Central Pennsylvania: In Our Backyard

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:50
Size: 150.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:34] 1. Flatfoot Sam - Come On To My Place
[5:03] 2. Big Mitch Ivanoff - Goodbye Baby
[3:42] 3. Slaughterhouse Blues - One Too Many
[2:48] 4. Automatic Slim - John Hurt
[3:39] 5. Mark Santanna - Easier Way
[3:48] 6. Nate Myers & The Aces - Porch Light
[3:01] 7. Gary Harrington - The Girl Can Cook
[4:11] 8. Reggie Wayne Morris - Rocket Science
[2:33] 9. Mike Easton - Deep Water Stomp
[5:18] 10. Roger 'hurricane' Wilson - Tribute To Danny
[2:36] 11. Mark Santanna - Hey Baby
[4:30] 12. Blind Joe Death - Bricks In My Pillow
[4:08] 13. Automatic Slim - 3 Kings
[2:11] 14. Blind Joe Death - Sowing Wild Oats
[4:42] 15. B Block Blues Band - Journey's End
[6:59] 16. Roger 'hurricane' Wilson - Just One More White Boy Singing The Blues
[2:01] 17. Eli Charleston - Champagne Charlie Is My Name

Ask an old-time musician and he’ll likely tell you that the blues is a “feeling.” Ask a musicologist and you might hear something about the “12-bar” blues. Ask a contemporary blues performer and you might still hear about 12 bars, but now more in terms of where and how often they play in the span of a good week or two. This collection is a tribute to the working blues musicians of South Central Pennsylvania who crisscross the Mason-Dixon line on a regular basis playing the circuit of bars, hotels, clubs, and showrooms that run from Harrisburg to Philly, straight south to Baltimore, down to Washington, D.C., and back around again.

The blues started working its way out of the South in the 1920s riding on the backs of itinerant musicians and spreading even further via phonograph records and radio. Blues music that “began as an expression of African Americans’ rural southern experience,” writes the nation’s leading blues scholar, David Evans (who has, by the way, family ties in Harrisburg), “migrated to the urban north” and evolved in myriad directions, though always maintaining its essential character as an “intensely personal music.” As you listen to the tracks on this CD, you’ll experience blues across a range of eras and genres, a true reflection of the best players and the kinds of blues popular in Harrisburg’s own backyard. Acoustic ragtime, Piedmont and Mississippi Delta, Chicago blues, full-tilt boogie, soul and gospel blues, Texas jump, swamp blues '" it’s all here, ingredients in the quintessential South Central Pennsylvania blues mixture.

“The standard misconception about the blues is that it's sitting-around, crying-in-your-beer music," says Mitch Ivanoff of Krypton City Blues Revue. “It is quite the antithesis of that... It's about sharing in the human experience and the joy of knowing you're not alone in this world...Blues is about life, and we're all living it." So, with ace bass-player and producing whiz Harry Werner at the helm, drop this “coin” into the slot and take a ride on the South Central blues line. ~Jerry Zolten

Blues Society Of Central Pennsylvania: In Our Backyard mc
Blues Society Of Central Pennsylvania: In Our Backyard zippy