This stalwart independent label, headquartered in San Francisco, began in a small Ann Arbor club and grew into one of the most important imprints in blues. Thirty-three tunes ricochet between the potent old-school Chicago stylings of Buddy Guy and Junior Wells's classic "Hoodoo Man Blues" and Big Walter Horton's swinging shuffle "Put the Kettle On" to the intriguing pop-folk hybrid of Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo and the dashing retro-nuevo guitarisms of Nick Curran & the Niteflies to the brawny Texas-schooled sounds of Omar & the Howlers and Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King.
The label's Delta blues side is underrepresented, although James Cotton and Elvin Bishop offer two great flavors of cottonland grind. But what's truly perplexing is that Blind Pig's historic recordings by Luther Allison, Johnny Shines, Jimmy Rogers, Charlie Musselwhite, Boogie Woogie Red (the label's first artist), and other significant musicians are omitted, while ham-fisted blues-rockers Tommy Castro and Albert Cummings and the mediocre Deanna Bogart and Duke Tumatoe get entries. Which makes this retrospective decidedly hit-and-miss. /Ted Drozdowski, Amazon
The label's Delta blues side is underrepresented, although James Cotton and Elvin Bishop offer two great flavors of cottonland grind. But what's truly perplexing is that Blind Pig's historic recordings by Luther Allison, Johnny Shines, Jimmy Rogers, Charlie Musselwhite, Boogie Woogie Red (the label's first artist), and other significant musicians are omitted, while ham-fisted blues-rockers Tommy Castro and Albert Cummings and the mediocre Deanna Bogart and Duke Tumatoe get entries. Which makes this retrospective decidedly hit-and-miss. /Ted Drozdowski, Amazon
Album: Blind Pig 30th Anniversary Collection - CD 1
Year: 2006
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:39
Size: 153,2 MB
Styles: Blues (various styles)
Scans: Full
1. Tommy Castro - Just Like Me (4:12)
2. Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King - I Saw It Coming (3:26)
3. Arthur Adams & B.B. King - The Long Haul (4:22)
4. Big Bill Morganfield - Evil (3:35)
5. Reneé Austin & Delbert McClinton - Pretend We Never Met (3:51)
6. Popa Chubby - Back In My Baby's Arms (4:40)
7. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues (5:39)
8. Walter Horton - Put The Kettle On (3:41)
9. Debbie Davies - 24 Hour Fool (4:37)
10. Omar & The Howlers - Monkey Land (4:20)
11. Otis Rush - Feel So Bad (4:07)
12. James Cotton - Honest I Do (4:13)
13. Elvin Bishop - What The Hell Is Going On (3:02)
14. Reverend Billy C. Wirtz - Jerry Rig (2:44)
15. Savoy Brown - Shake It All Night (5:33)
16. Jeremy Spencer - Precious Little (4:29)
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Album: Blind Pig 30th Anniversary Collection - CD 2
Year: 2006
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:36
Size: 160,0 MB
Styles: Blues (various styles)
Scans: Full
1. Magic Slim & The Teardrops - I'm A Bluesman (5:00)
2. John Mooney - She Ain't No Good (4:21)
3. Harper - Last Cup Of Coffee (3:36)
4. Mighty Joe Young - As The Years Go Passing By (4:43)
5. Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith & Kim Wilson - Believe Me (4:22)
6. Nick Curran & The Nitelifes - Beautiful Girl (2:32)
7. Hamilton Loomis - No No No (3:51)
8. Albert Cummings - Say You Love Me (4:28)
9. Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - Moving In A West Coast Way (4:46)
10. E.C. Scott - Sweet Man Of Mine (3:25)
11. Norton Buffalo & Roy Rogers - All I Want (3:41)
12. Deanna Bogart - Real Time (3:56)
13. George 'Harmonica' Smith - Blowing The Blues (4:16)
14. Bill Perry - Leavin' Home (4:25)
15. Pinetop Perkins - After Hours (4:09)
16. Otis Clay - Nickel And A Nail (5:04)
17. Dr. Duke Tumatoe - Moanin' After Blues (2:53)
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