Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers - Fine Line

Size: 97.4 MB
Time: 41:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Fine Line (3:35)
02. Do You Ever (4:22)
03. Shoot You Down (4:05)
04. Rumblin' Underground (4:44)
05. Maple Leaf Cantina (Tribute To Sue Foley) (4:39)
06. What About You? (4:58)
07. Get Out Of My Way (4:17)
08. Cocktail Hour At The Demon Planet Lounge (2:20)
09. Angel Wings (6:05)
10. Free The Dancing Bear (2:41)

Personnel:
Guitars/vocals - "Sweet Baby" James Meston
Drums/percussion - Rob Eyers
Bass - Jenna Bonavita

This is an album originally recorded 20 years ago and due to strange circumstances, never released! Heres what happened: after the release of The Sweet Baby James Trio album “More Like This” in ‘99, I met with a label executive overseas to discuss releasing a follow up album, and was verbally given the green light to record an album for release. I came back, and Rob (who I’d only starting playing with that year, 2002) and I got bass player Jenna Bonavita to spend 6 months rehearsing and recording what became “Fine Line”. Mixed and mastered, I sent it over to the record company and received back a one line email, ‘Not quite the sound I was thinking of, send another one when you can’. By this time, Rob and I were doing gigs playing old juke joint blues songs we had a mutual love of, just as a side project for fun, and as we started to gain an audience for that we decided to make that our main gig, and the rest is history! So, on this occasion of Rob and my 20th anniversary of forming SBJ&RE I thought it would be a great moment for you to finally hear it. ~James

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Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyres - Double Voodoo Blues

Size: 113,6 MB
Time: 48:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Electric/Acoustic Blues
Art: Full

01. Shopping Cart (4:24)
02. Easier On Me (4:12)
03. Talkin' Me Down (2:50)
04. No Love (5:22)
05. Lady's Almost West (5:23)
06. Come Over Here (2:48)
07. Refugee Child (3:34)
08. Getting Your Letters (2:27)
09. Devil & The Grave (4:20)
10. Evil Tongue (2:23)
11. Thunder From The Sky (3:07)
12. Hot Plate (3:58)
13. Trouble & Strife (3:27)

Something triggered in Sweet Baby James when he heard Eric Clapton's song 'Cocaine' at age 15. He was playing a sound I had never heard before and it had me transfixed. I later discovered it was called the Blues, he says. James' debut album 'Rhythm n Blues' is a cornucopia of assorted blues styles played with an electric energy. There's delicate fingerpicking, growling slide guitar and sparse country blues. Their raw sound evokes wild nights at the traditional juke joints of America's south.

Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers are a blues duo from Adelaide, Australia, made up of James Meston (guitar/vocals) and Rob Eyers (drums/percussion). Rhythms Magazine have described them as "fantastic, their two-piece guitar/drum combo outshoots The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Mess Hall, the Fumes, anyone you care to mention".

The Adelaide-based blues guitarist has shared the stage with blues-rocker Jeff Healy and Canadian blues queen Sue Foley. Rob Eyres, originally from London and now living in Adelaide, completes the duo on percussion. Audiences respond to us because its clear were doing what we naturally do best: playing the blues with obsession, says James.

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King Louie & Baby James - Around The World: Live At Jimmy Mak's

Size: 133,8 MB
Time: 57:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Blues Jazz
Art: Front

01. Introduction (Live) ( 0:14)
02. Mood Indigo (Live) ( 5:28)
03. Lou's Blues (Live) ( 4:24)
04. Slow Blues In G (Live) (10:49)
05. The Body (Live) ( 3:15)
06. Big Fat Mama (Live) ( 2:51)
07. Around The World (Live) ( 3:38)
08. Cissy Strut (Live) ( 4:27)
09. Until The Real Thing Comes Along (Live) ( 6:08)
10. Straighten Up And Fly Right (Live) ( 3:58)
11. It Had To Be You (Live) ( 4:35)
12. You Are So Beautiful/Big Fat Mama (Reprise) (Live) ( 7:18)

The live recording of “King Louie & Baby James” (organist Louis Pain and singer Sweet Baby James Benton) is a rollicking good time.

Benton is one of the last links—and surely the most visible—to Portland's jazz heritage. He was also the “proprietor” of a garage-turned-jazz-salon in his backyard, where the top players in town and those coming through town would meet. “The music went all day, every day,” he said with a chuckle, “and you could always eat.”

That is precisely the spirit captured on this recording.

Pain—part of Mel Brown's B-3 Organ Group, and for years Paul deLay's keyboardist/arranger—has one foot in jazz and one in the blues, exactly the tradition from which Benton springs. Add guitarist Eddie Martinez and tenor saxophonist Renato Caranto, plus drummer Micah Kassell, and you've got a delightful mix of virtuosity and deep soul.

In his 78th year, Benton is the star. He might not have the vocal chops he had 30 years ago, but the delight he takes at still being in front of an audience is obvious, as is the freedom to say pretty much what he wants.

The tunes are warhorses, old shoes the band wears comfortably. On the instrumentals, Caranto, Pain and Martinez have never sounded better.

It's hard to leave this album without a smile on your face.

Around The World

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