VA - Get Up Off Your Knees: From Bed Springs To Bloomers (Remastered)

Size: 172,9+161,6+173,1+146, 1 MB
Time: 73:12+68:17+73:07+61:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Papa Charlie Jackson - Shave 'em Dry (2:35)
02 Margaret Carter - I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan (2:41)
03 Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey - Furniture Man Blues Parts 1 & 2 (6:13)
04 Clara Smith - Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee (3:06)
05 Lizzie Miles - Get Up Off Your Knees (2:44)
06 Cow Cow Davenport - I'm Gonna Tell You In Front So You Won't Feel Hurt Behind (3:20)
07 Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman (2:51)
08 Lucille Bogan - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:24)
09 Al Miller - I Found Your Keyhole (3:03)
10 Minnie Wallace - Dirty Butter (2:59)
11 Whistlin' Alex Moore - Blue Bloomer Blues (3:08)
12 Margaret Webster - You've Got To Give Me Some (2:44)
13 Lizzie Miles - My Man O' War (3:27)
14 Lonnie Johnson - Wipe It Off (3:17)
15 Madelyn James - Stinging Snake Blues (3:29)
16 Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2 (2:57)
17 Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Show Me What You Got (3:06)
18 Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole Blues (3:21)
19 Lizzie Miles - Electrician Blues (3:12)
20 Barbecue Bob - She Shook Her Gin (3:08)
21 Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Fish House Blues (2:29)
22 Butterbeans & Susie - Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama (3:08)
23 George Hannah - The Boy In The Boat (2:37)

CD 2:
01 Georgia Tom - What's That I Smell (2:34)
02 Hannah May - Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat (2:41)
03 Mae Glover & John Byrd - Gas Man Blues (2:44)
04 Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket (3:05)
05 R.T. Hanen - She's Got The Jordan River In Her Hips (2:53)
06 Georgia Tom & Jane Lucas - Terrible Operation Blues (2:49)
07 Lonnie Johnson - The Best Jockey In Town (2:54)
08 Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker (3:09)
09 Hunter & Jenkins - Lollypop (2:56)
10 James 'Stump' Johnson - Don't Give My Lard Away (2:43)
11 Isabel Sykes - In Here With Your Heavy Stuff (3:03)
12 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama (2:52)
13 Memphis Minnie - My Butcher Man (3:00)
14 Carl Rafferty - Dresser With The Drawers (3:21)
15 Whistling Rufus - (Who's Gonna Do Your) Sweet Jelly Roll (3:27)
16 Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All (2:32)
17 St. Louis Blues - Pipe Layin' Blues (3:16)
18 Dorothy Baker - Steady Grindin' Blues (3:10)
19 Jimmie Gordon - Bed Spring Blues (3:18)
20 Hattie Hart - I Let My Daddy Do That (2:57)
21 Cliff Carlisle - Mouse's Ear Blues (3:05)
22 Bo Carter - Mashing That Thing (2:37)
23 Memphis Minnie - Jockey Man Blues (3:01)

CD 3:
01 Lucille Bogan - Shave 'Em Dry (2:46)
02 Walter Roland - I'm Gonna Shave You Dry (3:25)
03 Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - Sissy Man (2:48)
04 Bob Howe & Frankie Griggs - The Hottest Stuff In Town (2:40)
05 Bernice Edwards - Butcher Shop Blues (3:06)
06 Johnny Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (3:02)
07 Kokomo Arnold - 'Cause Your Dirty (2:59)
08 Blind Boy Fuller - I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy (3:04)
09 Buddy Moss - You Got To Give Me Some Of It (3:07)
10 Bo Carter - Cigarette Blues (3:15)
11 Lil Johnson - Take It Easy Greasy (3:17)
12 Al Miller - Ain't That A Mess (2:43)
13 Roosevelt Sykes - The Honeydripper (2:42)
14 Jazz Gillum - Sarah Jane (3:04)
15 Walter Davis - Think You Need A Shot (3:23)
16 Lil Johnson - My Stove's In Good Condition (2:54)
17 John Oscar & Sam Theard - I Wonder Who's Boogiein' My Woogie (2:28)
18 Jesse James - Sweet Petuni (3:00)
19 Stella Johnson - Don't Come Over (2:50)
20 Chicago Black Swans - Don't Tear My Clothes No. 2 (2:42)
21 Blind Boy Fuller - Sweet Honey Hole (2:46)
22 Barrel House Annie - Love Operation (3:07)
23 Roosevelt Sykes - Bread Pan (Just My Size) (2:34)
24 Art McKay - She Squeezed My Lemon (2:39)
25 Lee Brown - Carpenter Man Blues (2:35)

CD 4:
01 Charlie Pickett - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon (2:48)
02 Roosevelt Sykes - My Baby's Playground (2:21)
03 Memphis Minnie - Keep On Eatin' (2:37)
04 Washboard Sam - I'm Gonna Keep My Hair Parted (2:36)
05 Blind Boy Fuller - What's That Smells Like Fish (2:42)
06 Lillie Mae Kirkman - He's Just My Size (2:46)
07 Little Buddy Doyle - She's Got Good Dry Goods (2:28)
08 Tony Hollins - Crawlin' King Snake (2:56)
09 Tampa Red - Let Me Play With Your Poodle (2:33)
10 Bill Samuels - My Bicycle Tillie (2:54)
11 Champion Jack Dupree - I'm A Doctor For Women (2:37)
12 Little Boy Fuller - Bed Spring Blues (2:43)
13 Ralph Willis - Boar Hog Blues (2:37)
14 Sylvester Cotton - Big Chested Mama Take 1 (2:34)
15 The Sharps & Flats - I Knew He Would (2:44)
16 Julia Lee - Don't Come Too Soon (2:59)
17 Dan Pickett - Lemon Man (2:51)
18 Helen Humes - I'm Gonna Let Him Ride (1:45)
19 Floyd Dixon - Too Much Jelly Roll (3:01)
20 Fats Noel - Ride. Daddy. Ride (2:07)
21 Fluffy Hunter - The Walkin' Blues (2:52)
22 Eunice Davis - Work. Daddy. Work (2:58)
23 Helen Humes - Loud Talkin' Woman (2:54)

In the 1920s, record companies found the Black audience could be profitable. Record sales soared. Sex - disguised -was a major part of blues lyrics. Fish, flesh, fruit and fowl were all co-opted, as well as rent men and gas men, butchers and bakers, carpenters and coffee grinders, keyholes and kitchens, cigarettes and sissies, frying pans and furniture, and unkindly, a bicycle. Here's a raucous, red-blooded blues investigation of one of Humanity's constant fixations, from artists like Julia Lee, Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Roosevelt Sykes and many, many more.

Get Up Off Your Knees Part 1
Get Up Off Your Knees Part 2

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Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozens

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1955-57/1996
Styles: Blues
Time: 61:02
Size: 140,6 MB
Covers: Full

(2:51) 1. The Dirty Dozens
(2:28) 2. The Right String But the Wrong Yo Yo
(4:58) 3. If You've Ever Been Down
(2:42) 4. Wilkins Street Stomp
(3:14) 5. Cow Cow Blues
(3:39) 6. Just Blues
(2:53) 7. Red's Boogie Woogie
(3:09) 8. Going Down Slow
(4:19) 9. Highway 61 Blues
(1:44) 10. After Dinner Blues
(4:00) 11. Cryin' in My Sleep
(3:18) 12. Early in the Morning
(4:00) 13. Love Is Like a Faucet
(3:59) 14. Speckled Red Speaks
(2:31) 15. Delmar Blues
(2:38) 16. Feels So Good
(4:00) 17. The Dirtier Dozens
(4:30) 18. The Dirtiest Dozens

Speckled Red was born as Rufus Perryman in 1892 in Georgia and an older brother of Piano Red. Their nicknames "Red" are derived from both men being albinos. The brothers were separated by almost a generation and never recorded together. Speckled Red and Piano Red both played in a raucous good time barrelhouse boogie-woogie style, although the elder Speckled Red played slow blues more often. Speckled Red was a self-taught piano player but he was influenced by Charlie Spand, James Hemingway and William Ezell. In his mid-teens he played house parties and juke joints anywhere he could, also nightclubs and brothels. He was noticed by a Brunswick Records talent scout and cut his first sides (Wilkins Street Stomp/The Dirty Dozens) in Memphis in 1929. He was a member of the first generation of blues pianists to record. His rugged blues and boogies have all the robust quality the good time blues should have. From 1938 Red did some session work for Bluebird Records (also accompanying Robert Lee McCoy and Sonny Boy Williamson) and then he relocated to St Louis. The famous St Louis policeman Charlie O'Brian was a blues fan and he used his investigative methods to track down old bluesmen. He rediscovered Speckled Red in December 1954 and was signed to Delmark as their first blues artist. Several recordings were made in 1955, 1956 and 1957 for Delmark. In 1960 he toured Europe with Chris Barber and recorded in Denmark for Storyville and Folkways record label and a final session in London.

The tracks "The Dirtier Dozens" and "The Dirtiest Dozens" contain lyrics which, while common in the brothels where they originated, are not for air play or children; yes, explicit language abounds on these two tracks. But if you're looking for a memorable blues listening experience, this is it!

The Dirty Dozens

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Various - Classic Piano Blues From Smithsonian Folkways

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:09
Size: 146.9 MB
Styles: Piano blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:11] 1. Memphis Slim - Dedication To Pete Johnson
[3:04] 2. Booker T. Laury - Early In The Morning
[3:19] 3. Speckled Red - How Long Blues
[2:55] 4. James P. Johnson - Yellow Dog Blues
[2:54] 5. Memphis Slim - Key To The Highway
[2:50] 6. Meade Lux Lewis - Medium Blues
[2:57] 7. Champion Jack Dupree - Black Wolf Blues
[4:53] 8. Big Chief Ellis - Dices Blues
[1:09] 9. Lead Belly - Big Fat Woman
[2:51] 10. Sammy Price - Harlem Parlor Blues
[3:03] 11. Henry Brown - Little Drops Of Water
[4:07] 12. Little Brother Montgomery - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[3:26] 13. Speckled Red - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
[2:09] 14. Willie Dixon - Wish Me Well
[2:52] 15. Henry Townsend - All My Money's Gone
[4:32] 16. Victoria Spivey - You're My Man
[4:20] 17. Champion Jack Dupree - On My Way To See Moe Asch
[2:54] 18. Roosevelt Sykes - Sweet Old Chicago
[3:28] 19. Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
[3:03] 20. James P. Johnson - Hesitation Blues

Storyville nightclubs, Beale Street juke joints, gambling houses, barrelhouse bars in the lumber and turpentine camps of East Texas—these were the places African American piano bluesmen called home. Born of ragtime and hard times, the piano blues migrated with its players from the deep South to the urban North. Classic Piano Blues revisits raucous boogie-woogie and blues legends Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Champion Jack Dupree, Speckled Red, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Lead Belly, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, James P. Johnson, and more, in 20 tracks drawn from the well of the Folkways Collections.

Classic Piano Blues From Smithsonian Folkways mc
Classic Piano Blues From Smithsonian Folkways zippy

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Various - Blues Piano Orgy

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1972
Styles: Blues
Time: 60:45
Size: 141,1 MB
Covers: Full

(4:16) 1. Speckled Red - Blues Hurt My Tongue to Talk
(2:47) 2. Roosevelt Sykes - Dresser Drawers
(3:00) 3. Roosevelt Sykes - Concentration Blues
(2:55) 4. Roosevelt Sykes - Kickin' Motor Scooter
(2:31) 5. Roosevelt Sykes - (New Year's) Resolution Blues
(3:17) 6. Sunnyland Slim - My Baby's Coming
(4:09) 7. Sunnyland Slim - Poor Boy
(3:14) 8. Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get to Drinkin'
(3:06) 9. Sunnyland Slim - Depression Blues
(2:53) 10. Little Brother Montgomery - Stendahl Stomp
(3:09) 11. Little Brother Montgomery - Tremblin' Blues
(2:42) 12. Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
(3:01) 13. Memphis Slim - Bass Key Boogie
(2:56) 14. Memphis Slim - Five O'Clock Blues
(2:51) 15. Memphis Slim - Nat Dee Special
(5:16) 16. Curtis Jones - Lonesome Bedroom Blues
(2:58) 17. Curtis Jones - Takin' Off
(3:11) 18. Curtis Jones - Tin Pan Alley
(2:25) 19. Otis Spann - Three-In-One Blues

Thanks in part to the luridly alluring title and the enthusiastically informative liner notes by Bob Koester, this solid collection was many a young musician's introduction to the men who pioneered blues piano in the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt Sykes is the best represented artist here, and his leering vocals are hard to resist: After hearing the ribald metaphor of "Dresser Drawers," you'll never view furniture quite the same way again. His "Kickin' Motor Scooter" is truly a marvel of smiling euphemism, with the song devoted to boasts of how he's "A dangerous motor scooter...A tricky motor scooter!" Other artists, while not always as inventive lyrically, show a wide range of piano styles, from the bouncing syncopated jazz of "Stendahl Stomp" to the trickling upper registers and restrained bass coaxed by Curtis Jones from a battered old piano in "Tin Pan Alley Blues #2." Not every track is unaccompanied piano, though. "Every Time I Get to Drinking," a blues dirge to the bottle, revolves around the elastic pull of an upright bass. The closing instrumental, Otis Spann's "Three-in-One Blues," features ominous bass chords wracked by a scattershot backing of drums. Despite being essentially a glorified soundcheck, and by far the least structured piece on the album, it's also the most primally satisfying. -- Allmusic.

Blues Piano Orgy

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Various - Biddle Street Barrelhousin'

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Time: 73:07
Size: 169,3 MB
Covers: Full

(2:30) 1. Speckled Red - Oh, Red!
(4:47) 2. Speckled Red - Dad's Piece
(3:24) 3. Speckled Red - Goin' Down Slow
(4:14) 4. Henry Brown - 21st Street Stomp
(5:01) 5. James Crutchfield - Levee Blues
(4:26) 6. James Crutchfield - Blow North Wind
(4:32) 7. James Crutchfield - How Long Blues
(4:11) 8. Speckled Red - Mike Cow Blues
(4:07) 9. Speckled Red - Black Gal
(4:54) 10. James Crutchfield - Black Gal
(4:21) 11. James Crutchfield - Ora-Nelle Blues
(4:58) 12. James Crutchfield - Pearly May Blues
(1:47) 13. James Stomp Johnson - Snitcher's Blues
(2:30) 14. James Stomp Johnson - Blues For Lindy
(4:01) 15. Lawrence Henry - St. Louis Blues
(2:35) 16. Lawrence Henry - Memphis Blues
(3:57) 17. Henry Brown - Goin' Down to Becky Thatcher
(3:00) 18. Speckled Red - All on Account of You
(3:43) 19. Speckled Red - Wilkins Street Stomp

The majority of these recordings from St. Louis-based blues pianists have never been issued. They represent a fading slice of American music that was barely documented, so this is more of an historical issue. Speckled Red, Henry Brown, James Crutchfield, James "Stump" Johnson, and Lawrence Henry are the participants, and each has his own style. Speckled Red gets the most play on seven of the 19 tracks, bookending and appearing in the middle of the program. Red is perhaps the most talented of the lot, but also is clearly undisciplined. He's sloppy and rushed, tossing extra measures on "Oh Red"; he also talks about a man in Detroit who taught him "Dad's Blues," echoes a Roosevelt Sykes vocal style during "Goin' Down Slow," gets raspy on "Milk Cow Blues," is gruffly outrageous on "Black Gal," goes wack on "All on Account of You," and is more controlled for the boogie instrumental "Wilkins Street Stomp." Crutchfield is the star of this set, with six tracks. He uses a slow tempo with frantic improv and serene, soulful singing on "Levee Blues," scats lightly in bebop fashion with a drummer on brushes for "Blow North Wind," does a classic take of the classic "How Long Blues," and sings "that's alright, I'm wondering who's lovin' my baby tonight" during "Ora-Nellie Blues." Crutchfield is a softie at heart, represented on the tender and delicate "Black Gal," and can be deliberate with intense chords for the slow, carefree, dee-dee-dee vocalized "Pearly Mae Blues." Brown gets two shots: the straight 12-bar, half-instrumental/half-talking "21st Street Stomp," and the talkin' trash boogie blues "Goin' Down to Becky Thatcher." Brown does the classics "St. Louis" and "Memphis Blues" -- the former a rousing barrelhouse take with original lyrics about his women and the Red Sox and Cardinals baseball teams, and the latter a ragtime blues with chiming chords. "Stump" is the anomalous key here, one who never really wanted to record. He does a short instrumental titled "Snitcher's Blues" (would have loved to hear a lyric on this one) and a patient "Blues for Lindy." The recording quality is acceptable, not great, and the information about recording dates and back-up musicians is nonexistent; regardless, this is a potent reminder that this tradition has roots other than New Orleans, Chicago, or in the deep South. St. Louis was a hotbed, and here's the proof. -- Allmusic.

Biddle Street Barrelhousin'

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