Sunday, August 18, 2019

Checkerboard Blues Band & Margie Evans - Blues For The Lady

Year: 1989
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:41
Size: 117,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Front

1. Everything I Do Is Wrong (4:31)
2. Blues On Monday Morning (7:38)
3. Evil Gal Blues (4:21)
4. Chilly Waters (2:36)
5. Mississippi Steamboat (3:21)
6. Hey Bartender (4:08)
7. Ain't Nobody's Business (5:54)
8. Trouble Trouble (10:29)
9. Tribute To Memphis Slim/Everyday I Have The Blues (5:35)
10. Same Ol' Steamboat (2:03)

The first album by Checkerboard Blues band "Blues for the Lady" with guest star Margie Evans. The blues lady from Los Angeles and former Johnny Otis vocalist helps Philipp Fankhauser to promote the album. She has performed at the Amsterdam Blues Festival, the San Remo Blues Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival and many other concert venues with him and the Checkerboard Blues Band. "Blues for the Lady" hit the charts at CHUO FM Ottawa and KCSB Radio in Santa Barbara, and countless radio stations in Europe played the album while Margie Evans continued to tour with the band well into 1990.

Personnel: Margie Evans (vocals); Philipp Fankhauser (vocals); Stefan Dorner (piano and Hammond B3); Nick Graf (drums); Markus Graf (guitar); Michele Porto (bass); Roland Van Straaten (harmonica): Rolf Häsler (saxophones); Bernhard Schoch, Juan Munguîa (trumpet).

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Saturday, August 17, 2019

Buddy Guy - I'll Play The Blues For You... Live From The Sting, Connecticut, 9th January 1992

Size: 143.7 MB
Time: 62:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Chicago Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front & Back

01. Mary Had A Little Lamb (Live) ( 5:52)
02. I Just Wanna Make Love To You / You Can’t Fool A Fool (Live) ( 7:08)
03. I’ll Play The Blues For You (Live) ( 4:26)
04. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright / Rock Me, Baby / Watch Yourself (Live) (10:01)
05. Voodoo Chile (Live) ( 1:57)
06. Hoochie Coochie Man (Live) ( 4:18)
07. Cold Shot (Live) ( 0:37)
08. Strange Brew / Mustang Sally (Live) (10:49)
09. Knock On Wood / Johnny B Goode (Live) (16:44)
10. DJ Outro (Live) ( 0:34)

The entire original WHCN-FM broadcast of Buddy Guy live from The Sting in Connecticut on 9th January 1992.

I didn't know a Strat could sound like that until I heard Buddy Guy proclaimed Jeff Beck whose gestures were not alone. Countless accolades from across the music spectrum queue up in honour of the original blues innovator. The likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bill Wyman, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page have all acknowledged their debt to Buddy Guy whose style would arguably change the musical landscape forever.

The 1990s saw a blues revival and in particular a renaissance for Guy who spoke the blues tradition from a different text. His appearance in Connecticut in January 1992 could only confirm the adoration and respect bestowed upon him by the world's leading blues guitarists.

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Fillmore Slim - Son Of The Seven Sisters

Size: 144.5 MB
Time: 62:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Son Of The Seven Sisters (5:51)
02. Broke, Baby (3:49)
03. I’m A Playboy (Feat. Kid Andersen) (3:50)
04. Jody Must Be In My Business (5:56)
05. I’m A Badd Brotha Foya (6:30)
06. Emma Lou, Queen Of The Homeless (3:54)
07. Rock Star (Feat. Kid Andersen) (5:21)
08. Last Night (5:27)
09. Dedicated To Johnny Guitar Watson (Feat. Kid Andersen) (2:56)
10. Mary Sue (6:24)
11. Legend In My Own Time (3:16)
12. Fast Gun Annie (4:02)
13. Little Bluebird (5:21)

“You know me, I'm Fillmore Slim” has been spoken out loud most everywhere in the city of San Francisco. As Clarence “Fillmore Slim” Sims turned 85 years old in the month of November, 2019, this legendary bluesman continues his music and magic.

Born November 7, 1934 in the rich musical heritage city of New Orleans, Louisiana, “Fillmore” has lived a transformation like no one else. Bestowed upon him are some of the most significant monikers that truly intertwine with a very real American history. “Tailbone”, “Guitar Slim”, “Fillmore Slim”, “the O.G.”. His respect and love for music runs through them all.

He grew up on a farm picking cotton and plowing the fields utilizing a mule. As a youngster he discovered music from his grandmother. He moved to the Los Angeles area in 1955, performing with his band Eddie and the Blues Slayers; he relocated to San Francisco opening shows for the likes of BB King and Dinah Washington; his first single released in the late 50's, was a song entitled 'You Got the Nerve of a Brass Monkey' on the Los Angeles based Dooto record label.

This VIP of the music and underworld would go on to be revered by the members of the hip hop world including Snoop Dogg, 50 cent, Big Daddy Kane and MC Lyte. Among other celebrated musicians, he has toured with Joe Tex, Harmonica Slim and Little Willie John, performed with Sly Stone and T-Bone Walker, and recorded with Joe Louis Walker, Bobbie Webb and Rick Estrin. “Fillmore Slim” continues to master his gift of storytelling as singer/guitarist/songwriter.

Son Of The Seven Sisters

Johnny Burgin - Johnny Burgin Live

Size: 157.4 MB
Time: 68:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. You Got To Make A Change (Live) (2:49)
02. Can't Make It Blues (Live) (5:40)
03. She Gave Me The Slip (Live) (5:52)
04. You're My Trinket (Live) (4:02)
05. The Leading Brand (Live) (5:46)
06. I Got To Find Me A Woman (Live) (Feat. Nancy Wright) (5:50)
07. Late Night Date Night (Live) (Feat. Rae Gordon) (4:52)
08. You Took The Bait (Live) (Feat. Rae Gordon & Nancy Wright) (3:43)
09. Daddy's Got The Personal Touch (Live) (Feat. Rae Gordon & Nancy Wright) (5:35)
10. Louisiana Walk (Live) (Feat. Nancy Wright) (4:08)
11. Blues Falling (Live) (Feat. Charlie Musselwhite) (4:20)
12. California Blues (Live) (Feat. Charlie Musselwhite) (5:19)
13. When The Bluesman Comes To Town (Live) (Feat. Charlie Musselwhite) (6:27)
14. Jody's Jazz (Live) (Feat. Nancy Wright) (3:54)

This live album offers twelve brand-new originals and two covers done by artists who don't play together regularly, performed for a packed house of enthusiastic fans! The band had just one night to nail it - which made this recording a crazy, but thrilling, high wire act! Johnny drew from the great Bay Area blues talent pool that lured him to the West Coast back in 2016. Blues legend Charlie Musselwhite's driving boogie-woogie harp on California Blues is an absolute highlight. You could feel a jolt of electricity run through the crowd when Portland, Oregon-based Rae Gordon took the stage. The end result is a raw, fresh, and original all-star set of blues, shot through with live energy.

Johnny Burgin Live

Friday, August 16, 2019

Billy Flynn - Leavin' In The Morning

Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:52
Size: 103,3 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Front, inside, tray

1. Billy's Boogie (3:21)
2. Mean Mistreater (4:50)
3. Movin' To Chicago (4:44)
4. What's Wrong (4:09)
5. No One To Love Me (5:09)
6. Walkin' The Ceiling (3:01)
7. Luv Somebody (5:21)
8. Two Headed Woman (3:13)
9. Zeb's Blues (3:04)
10. Tore Down (3:21)
11. If You Let Me Love You (4:33)

Some of the marks of excellence on a Billy Flynn CD are as predictable as they are gratifying. It's a given that the songwriting, music, and players will reflect taste, quality, a savvy knowledge and broad nuanced mastery of the blues (with special emphasis on Chicago stylings) which only a true scholar, virtuoso, and veteran could bring, and a love of exploring both styles and instruments outside of the blues guitar and vocals which remain the core of his music.

Billy Flynn has worked hard at his career for over 30 years now and has reached the point where he is as familiar a name in Europe as in the US. Revered around the world and in constant demand in studios and touring bands.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Big George Jackson Blues Band - Southern In My Soul

Year: 2004
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:27
Size: 107,0 MB
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Southern In My Soul (4:09)
2. I've Done More For You Baby (2:27)
3. Blue Sky (4:31)
4. Go For A Ride (3:09)
5. Crosseyed Annie (4:26)
6. Love So Strong (5:43)
7. Biscuits 'N' Molasses (3:47)
8. I'm Sorry (4:38)
9. Amtrak (4:44)
10. You Ain't All That (3:27)
11. Argue, Fuss 'N' Fight (5:21)

Big George Jackson might be based in the north, but his heart is very firmly below the Mason-Dixon line. Along with his band, the singer and harp player belts out some very raw blues, with a groove that simply won't quit - just listen to the cover of Otis Smothers' "I've Done More for You, Baby" for an example. But there's more to the band. Jackson not only has a wonderful deep voice, but a very strong turn of phrase in his lyrics, while there are no meandering solos in the group - everything is razor sharp, as typified by guitarists Jeremy Johnson and Phil Schmid, who never use ten notes when one will suffice. The album was recorded in their home studio, but the sound is as full as anything done somewhere more expensive. It may be blues straight down the line, yet it's anything but by the numbers. /Chris Nickson, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Bluesman Mike & The Blues Review Band - Mo' Blues

Year: 2018
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:05
Size: 122,5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. My House (4:05)
2. Fix It Man (4:15)
3. By The End Of The Night (4:43)
4. Rump Shakin' Blues (4:43)
5. I'll Be Doggone (4:24)
6. Thank God I Got The Blues (3:59)
7. My Dog & Me (4:32)
8. Let The Good Times Roll (4:41)
9. Out Of Sight (2:47)
10. Driftin' Blues (5:02)
11. Find Me A Woman (5:16)
12. You Don't Miss Your Water (4:31)

The Blues Review Band was formed out of Bluesman Mike's passion for the blues. In the year 2007 he decided to go back to his roots by spending his birthday gift on a bass guitar and soon started jamming with co-founder Doug Hill and started performing all over the Phoenix area. The band was re-formed, now as Bluesman Mike & The Blues Review Band and released their first CD "Blues for The Road" with hit single "I Love Money" written by Bluesman Mike. Members are Bluesman Mike on bass, vocals & harp; Sugar Bear on lead guitar & vocals; Bobby Nealy on keyboards and Steve Loecher on drums.

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38 Special - Rockin' Into The Night

Size: 88.4 MB
Time: 38:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1980
Styles: Rock
Art: Front, Back

1. Rockin' Into The Night [3:58]
2. Stone Cold Believer [4:18]
3. Take Me Through The Night [4:14]
4. Money Honey [3:09]
5. The Love That I've Lost [4:30]
6. You're The Captain [4:26]
7. Robin Hood [4:39]
8. You Got The Deal [4:45]
9. Turn It On [4:34]

With this album, 38 Special incorporates some arena rock elements into its sound.
The title track, written by three members of Survivor, became the band's first big hit (peaking at #43 during a nine-week run on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart),[2] and marked the first of many songs Jim Peterik would write for and with the band.

"Money Honey" is a cover of a 1953 song by Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters.
Don Barnes – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals

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Bobby Rush - Sitting On Top Of The Blues

Size: 103.3 MB
Time: 43:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: R&B
Art: Front, Back

1. Hey Hey Bobby Rush [4:13]
2. Good Stuff [3:46]
3. Get out of Here (Dog Named Bo) [4:11]
4. You Got the Goods on You [4:03]
5. Sweet Lizzy [3:41]
6. Bobby Rush Shuffle [3:44]
7. Recipe for Love [4:44]
8. Pooky Poo [3:15]
9. Slow Motion [4:14]
10. Shake Til' You Get Enough [3:45]
11. Bowlegged Woman [3:57]

After decades of tearing up the chitlin’ circuit on a nightly basis with his sweaty, no-holds-barred funkfests, Bobby has thoroughly broken through to the mainstream. He won a long-overdue 2017 Grammy Award for his spectacular album Porcupine Meat and consistently tours the globe as a headliner. What’s more, Bobby’s brand-new album Sitting on Top of the Blues on his own Deep Rush imprint (distributed by Thirty Tigers), due out August 16, 2019, promises to further spread the news that this revered legend, well past 80 years of age even if his stratospheric energy level belies the calendar, is bigger and badder and bolder than ever.

“I’m sitting on top of the blues. I’m a bluesman who’s sitting on the top of my game, proud of what I do and proud of who I am and thankful for people accepting me for what I am and who I am,” says the charismatic Rush. “I’m happy about what I’m doing and still enthused about what I’m doing. And I think we’ve got some good songs.”

That’s a profound understatement. There’s something for everyone on Sitting on Top of the Blues, from the boisterous R&B-laced opener “Hey Hey Bobby Rush” through the cooking “Good Stuff,” the sexy “Slow Motion,” and a stripped-down “Recipe For Love” that features Bobby and his co-producer Vasti Jackson supplying all the accompaniment necessary with their interlocking guitars. Rush wails on pungent harmonica throughout the set, his vocals as sly and sensuous as ever while elastic grooves simmer and surge behind him. Rush has been a master storyteller for decades, and the songs on this disc follow in that tradition.

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All In The Trunk - Honey Pie

Size: 135.4 MB
Time: 58:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues Folk
Art: Front

1. Tell Me You Love Me [5:22]
2. Honey Pie [3:48]
3. Darlin' Corey [3:13]
4. Lazy [3:33]
5. Chemical Dependency [4:20]
6. Goodnight Irene [4:35]
7. St. James Infirmary [4:45]
8. Kiss the Gunner's Daughter [5:06]
9. Sittin' on Top of the World [5:19]
10. Got My Whiskey [3:28]
11. Devil Outta Neville [4:32]
12. Cost of Love [3:35]
13. Sense of War [3:00]
14. Whiskey on My Mind [4:16]

Tom Osmunson and Garrett Derhofer join forces for the debut album Honey Pie by All in the Trunk produced at Studio-412 in beautiful Candler, North Carolina.

This collection of folk/blues songs has been reimagined through the lens of modern music as well as classic rock. The project captures the essence of this unique region and its various musical influences.

Honey Pie

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

T-Bone Walker - Goodbye Blues (4 CD)

Album: Goodbye Blues
Year: 2005
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:01+69:15+69:45+61:34
Size: 164,2+160,1+161,3+142,3 MB
Styles: Blues, jazzy blues
Scans: Full

CD 1:
1. Trinity River Blues (3:09)
2. Wichita Falls Blues (3:10)
3. T-Bone Blues (3:17)
4. I Got A Break Baby (3:18)
5. Mean Old World (2:55)
6. Low Down Dirty Shame (Married Woman Blues) (2:37)
7. Sail On Boogie (2:39)
8. Mean Old World Blues (2:52)
9. You Don't Love Me Blues (2:37)
10. T-Bone Boogie (3:03)
11. I'm Still In Love With You (2:54)
12. Evening (3:29)
13. My Baby Left Me (Blues) (2:54)
14. Come Back To Me Baby (Blues) (3:07)
15. She's Going To Ruin Me (Blues) (2:56)
16. I Can't Stand Being Away From You (3:10)
17. No Worry Blues (2:43)
18. Don't Leave Me Baby (2:49)
19. Bobby Sox Blues (2:39)
20. I'm Gonna Find My Baby (2:55)
21. I Know Your Wig Is Gone (2:45)
22. T-Bone Jumps Again (2:43)
23. Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just As Bad (3:01)
24. She Had To Let Me Down (3:08)

CD 2:
1. She's My Old Time Used-To-Be (2:39)
2. Dream Girl Blues (2:40)
3. Midnight Blues (2:45)
4. Long Lost Lover Blues (2:55)
5. Triflin' Woman Blues (3:04)
6. Long Skirt Baby Blues (2:52)
7. Goodbye-Blues (3:09)
8. Too Much Trouble Blues (2:44)
9. I'm Waiting For Your Call (3:01)
10. Hypin' Woman Blues (2:48)
11. So Blue Blues (3:08)
12. On Your Way Blues (2:53)
13. The Natural Blues (3:05)
14. That's Better For Me (2:38)
15. First Love Blues (3:09)
16. Lonesome Woman Blues (2:39)
17. Vacation Blues (2:55)
18. Inspiration Blues (2:48)
19. Description Blues (3:06)
20. T-Bone Shuffle (2:59)
21. No Worry Blues (2:43)
22. Don't Leave Me Baby (2:49)
23. Bobby Sox Baby (2:40)
24. I'm Gonna Find My Baby (2:54)

CD 3:
1. I'm In An Awful Mood (2:44)
2. It's A Lowdown Dirty Deal (2:55)
3. Don't Give Me The Runaround (3:03)
4. Hard Pain Blues (3:02)
5. I Know Your Wig Is Gone (2:45)
6. T-Bone Jumps Again (2:43)
7. Call It Stormy Monday But Tuesday Is Just As Bad (3:02)
8. She Had To Let Me Down (3:10)
9. She's My Old Time Used To Be (2:40)
10. Dream Girl Blues (2:40)
11. Midnight Blues (2:45)
12. Long Lost Lover Blues (2:56)
13. Triflin' Woman Blues (3:04)
14. Long Skirt Baby Blues (2:50)
15. Goodbye Blues (3:10)
16. Too Much Trouble Blues (2:44)
17. I'm Waiting For Your Call (3:02)
18. Hypin' Woman Blues (2:48)
19. So Blue Blues (3:08)
20. On Your Way Blues (2:53)
21. Natural Blues (3:05)
22. That's Better For Me (2:39)
23. First Love Blues (3:09)
24. Lonesome Woman Blues (2:37)

CD 4:
1. Vacation Blues (2:54)
2. Inspiration Blues (2:48)
3. Description Blues (3:07)
4. T-Bone Shuffle (2:59)
5. That Old Feelin' Is Gone (2:54)
6. The Time Seems So Long (2:46)
7. Prison Blues (2:50)
8. Hometown Blues (2:57)
9. Wise Man Blues (3:00)
10. Misfortune Blues (3:00)
11. I Wish You Were Mine (2:54)
12. I'm Gonna Move You Out And Get Somebody Else (2:58)
13. She's The No-Sleepin'est Woman (3:05)
14. Plain Old Down Home Blues (3:05)
15. Born To Be No Good (3:12)
16. Go Back To The One You Love (Old) (2:28)
17. Go Back To The One You Love (3:04)
18. I Want A Little Girl (2:46)
19. I'm Still In Love With You (2:56)
20. You're My Best Poker Hand (2:55)
21. West Side Baby (2:45)

T-Bone Walker was the Charlie Christian of the blues. A fluent guitarist who was one of the first important electric guitarists in the blues, Walker had the facility of a jazz musician and often recorded with jazz-oriented combos while sticking largely to the blues. His influence was so strong that in some of his 1940s recordings, he plays phrases that would be picked up and popularized by Chuck Berry a decade later.

Born in Texas in 1910, Walker first recorded two selections in 1929 and cut a few titles during 1940-44 but did not really get going as a recording artist until 1945. This Quadromania release is a four-CD set that begins with the 1929 numbers and the early performances before mostly concentrating on the 1945-54 period.

While only one of Walker's originals became a hit (Stormy Monday which is heard here in its original version), his performances with his sextet (which usually included tenor-saxophonist Bumps Myers) are infectious and joyful. The blues was never a downbeat music when T-Bone Walker was playing. This four-CD set shows why T-Bone Walker is considered an influential blues giant even today. /Scott Yanow, AllMusic

(Note: The booklet included for this release isn't that detailed, but it provides some info on personnel and/or recording dates for most of the tracks.)

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Monday, August 12, 2019

Jelly Roll Kings - Rockin' The Juke Joint Down

Year: 1979/1993
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:04
Size: 132,8 MB
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. I Didn't Know (3:58)
2. Road Of Love (4:33)
3. Soul Love (3:06)
4. Mighty Long Time (4:01)
5. Honeydrippin' Boogie (4:48)
6. Something On Your Mind (4:34)
7. Jelly Roll King (2:20)
8. Catfish Blues (3:58)
9. Cleo's Back (4:36)
10. Slop Jar Blues (2:17)
11. Jelly Roll Stroll (2:29)
12. Have Mercy Baby (4:11)
13. Sunshine Twist (You Are My Sunshine) (2:23)
14. Just A Dream (Just A Feeling) (5:11)
15. Burnt Biscuits (4:30)

Earwig founder Michael Frank heard this dynamic trio in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1975 and got so captivated that he returned in 1978 to record them as the first record on Earwig. This recording, done in Memphis at the famed Ardent Studios, has been the most popular on the label, and has been considered a classic of raw Mississippi juke joint blues. The much anticipated release of this LP in 1979 led to the group’s first European tour, where they were a huge hit at the first Blues Estafette in the Netherlands. It marked the debut of Big Jack Johnson as a vocalist and lead guitarist, and led to a resurgence in the band’s career, collectively and individually.

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Willie Kent & Willie James Lyons - Ghetto

Year: 1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:43
Size: 138,6 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Little Red Rooster (4:23)
2. Nineteen Years Old (4:15)
3. What Will Tomorrow Bring (4:19)
4. I'm Not The Same Person (5:49)
5. Ghetto (7:50)
6. Dust My Broom (3:59)
7. I Wonder Why (2:10)
8. You Don't Love Me (2:33)
9. Chili Con Carne (3:01)
10. Blue Guitar (5:30)
11. Sweet Home Chicago (3:01)
12. Bobby's 'Rock (4:13)
13. Tell Him He Got To Go (4:21)
14. Chicken Shack (4:11)

Willie Kent (February 24, 1936 – March 2, 2006) was an American blues singer, bassist and songwriter. Kent was born in Inverness, Sunflower County, Mississippi. Although he had played the bass guitar in Chicago's clubs since the 1950s, Kent worked full time until he was over 50 years of age. Following heart surgery, he stopped work as a truck driver, and formed a band. His impassioned singing was deemed similar to both Byther Smith and John Primer. In early 2005, Kent was diagnosed with colon cancer, but continued his busy live schedule in spite of chemotherapy treatments. He died in Englewood, California in March 2006.

Willie James Lyons plays just a few bars and if you dig the blues you immediately realize that he is one of the greatest blues guitarists. Yet, this album is the first he has recorded! He is a very personal musician, an exceptional creator with inventive ideas, with phrases full of lyrism and feelings. His very beautiful, warm and pure tone allows one to identify him from the very first notes. Along with Willie Kent the singer of the band, you'll get a taste of an every night blues session on Chicago's West Side. Hot, pure, intence, and full of deep emotion of the blues.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Mark DuFresne Band Feat. Billy Stapleton - Have Another Round

Year: 1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:15
Size: 118,8 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. The Stalker (3:55)
2. Crow Between Two Hats (5:00)
3. Sveedish Wife Exchange Club (4:07)
4. Long Legs (4:38)
5. That's How Much (3:59)
6. Hell Is What You Make It (3:52)
7. You Never Know (4:03)
8. Addicted (3:03)
9. Spongecake (4:06)
10. Troubadour (4:17)
11. Kharma Wheel (5:14)
12. Twelve Billion Years (4:55)

Mark DuFresne is one of the most sought after Blues talents in the Northwest. The Washington Blues Society has awarded him for best vocalist, songwriter and harmonica more than any other artist. He has recorded three CD’s of all original music. “Out of That Bed” (1996), “Have Another Round" (1999) and “There’s A Song In There” (2000), which featured the lineup of the former Hollywood Fats Band.

In 2002 Mark joined the coveted band “Roomful of Blues” as lead vocalist. While in that role the band received a Grammy nomination for “That’s Right”. They also won the W.C. Handy award for Best Band in 2004. The New England Blues monthly awarded him Best Blues Vocalist. He returned home to the Pacific Northwest in 2006 after a very successful and fun four and a half years. His work on the chromatic harmonica is considered as some of the most innovative in Blues music. His ability to circular breathe has left audiences amazed.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Backwater Blues

Size: 174.0 MB
Time: 73:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Country Blues, Acoustic Folk Blues
Art: Full

01. Climbin' On Top Of The Hill (Live At Sugar Hill) (2:58)
02. Louise (Live At Sugar Hill) (4:12)
03. My Father's Words (Live At Sugar Hill) (4:20)
04. Backwater Blues (Live At Sugar Hill) (4:27)
05. Wine Headed Woman (Live At Sugar Hill) (5:50)
06. Careless Love (Live At Sugar Hill) (4:11)
07. Playing With The Blues (Live At Sugar Hill) (4:23)
08. I Can't Sleep At Night (Live At Sugar Hill) (4:40)
09. My Baby's Leavin' (Live At Sugar Hill) (5:02)
10. Lose Your Money (Live At Sugar Hill) (3:20)
11. Jet Plane Blues (Live At Sugar Hill) (3:42)
12. Rainy Day (Live At Sugar Hill) (4:03)
13. I'm A Stranger (Live At Sugar Hill) (4:51)
14. Women On My String (Live At Sugar Hill) (3:40)
15. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (Live At Sugar Hill) (1:58)
16. Key To The Highway (Live At Sugar Hill) (5:12)
17. You'd Better Mind (Live At Sugar Hill) (3:43)
18. Walk On (Live At Sugar Hill) (2:52)

Recorded live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco, December 29, 1961

Few blues partnerships were ever as successful and satisfying as the union of Sonny Terry's down-home harmonica work and Brownie McGhee's polished guitar lines. This generous, 18-tune live session catches the late acoustic blues brothers in their physical prime and at their musical best, rolling through an energetic set of conversational blues with casual virtuosity and seemingly telepathic interplay. Terry, a stone-cold traditionalist, contributes a raw-boned, backwoods feel with his heavily textured singing and harp solos while the modern McGhee's smooth vocals and clean picking provide a perfectly compatible counterpoint and complement. Either artist could carry the show by himself, but when the divergent styles musically intertwine they create a wonderful blues synthesis unlike any other the blues has known. The dynamic duo jumps right in with a reconfigured rendition of "Sittin' on Top of the World" and doesn't let up until the end. With Terry whooping and hollering between harp breaks and McGhee opening songs with comic asides the session is an unusually personable one. It's all undeniably authentic and eminently enjoyable, as well as positive blues proof that on very rare and fortunate occasions the whole is much greater than just the sum of the two parts. ~Michael Point

Backwater Blues

The Cornbread Project - Catawampus

Size: 77.8 MB
Time: 32:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. Hobo Blues (Feat. Big Creek Slim) (3:42)
02. Rollin' & Tumblin' (Feat. Sahra Da Silva) (3:00)
03. You Got To Choose (Feat. James Harman) (3:13)
04. On My Way (Feat. Big Creek Slim) (3:36)
05. My Little Machine (Feat. Big Joe Louis) (3:03)
06. Autumn Shakedown (Feat. Richard Farrell) (2:54)
07. Kokomo Blues (Feat. Troels Jensen (2:43)
08. Mannish Boy (Feat. Mud Morganfield) (3:39)
09. Change My Ways (Feat. Sahra Da Silva) (3:26)
10. Grandma Lurleen's Recipe (Feat. James Harman) (3:30)

Sometimes you just have to get the basics right and work out from there. And when it comes to blues music, the vocal is where it all begins. Lyrics shot through with honesty and integrity and delivered with total passion are the beating heart of the genre, always have been, always will be. You can forget all the electric-blues scenes that cropped up in the seventies and which seem not to have lost any of their popularity to this day, that’s just rock music hitching a ride on the blues bandwagon.

With this in mind, this Danish project seeks to reawaken and revitalise a modern interest in blues, to try to underline the fundamentals that make the genre what it is and bring it to a new generation. A generation’s only image of the genre is either the sound of old scratchy solo recordings or leviathan rockers overplaying the sonic hand. As commercial music has become more cold and calculated, more financially driven and throwaway, perhaps blues is the place to look for a new emotional music experience.

Catawampus is an album that certainly tips its hat, probably a battered fedora worn at a jaunty angle, at the blues musicians of the ’50s and earlier. However, it is no mere pastiche and brings itself up to date with just the lightest dusting of other genres such as soul, gospel as you might expect, and less predicted production approach that lends more to the likes of hip-hop than traditional recording methods. But it all comes down to the music being used to carry that all-important vocal rather than someone just writing blues songs with lyrics tacked on as an afterthought. And that is where the album comes into its own.

And as is the way with many blues albums, this is an album of standards, but this is where the twist comes. It is a combination of new production and reinterpreted playing applied to existing songs, often unused takes and shelved recordings that haven’t seen the light of day, and thus you end up with something both fresh and authentic, archival music being brought bang up to date. There are iconic songs such as Mud Morganfield’s take on his father’s Mannish Boy, Sahra De Silva’s adds some sultry jazz-rock vocals to Rollin’ & Tumblin’, and perhaps the most wonderfully weird offering is the last one, essentially James Harman handing out Cornbread cooking tips to an ancient blues-bar piano score.

So this is an album of more recent standards being revisited, reworked, re-celebrated for all the right reasons. I guess more than anything; it proves that a good song is a good song no matter what you do with it. Forget the revolution; Catawampus is all about the evolution. ~Dave Franklin

Catawampus

Crown City Bombers - Here Comes The Night

Size: 75.8 MB
Time: 31:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues Rockabilly
Art: Front

01. Rockin' Tomato (2:41)
02. As Long As I'm Movin' (3:02)
03. Things I Used To Do (1:40)
04. Here Comes The Night (2:14)
05. If Only (2:44)
06. The Good Girl (3:10)
07. I'm The Lonely One (2:14)
08. Tore Up (3:00)
09. Fake News! (2:21)
10. 40 Cup (2:51)
11. It Always Will (3:02)
12. A Big Hunka Love (2:42)

The recording takes you on a journey that spotlights Annika’s exceptionally dynamic and powerful voice, a crack band band that smokes through the entire record and the tight uptown arrangements by Producers Larry Fulcher, Richard Cagle and Tony Braunagel. This Sass and Soul project also features duets with Ruthie Foster and Canadian Paul DesLauriers and pays honors to Texas blues women Angela Strehli and Carolyn Wonderland.

Here Comes The Night

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Bringin' The Blues Back Home (Live 1985)

Size: 141.6 MB
Time: 61:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Chicago Blues, Blues Rock, Funky Blues
Art: Front

01. Look Over Yonder Wall (Live 1985) (5:06)
02. Crazy About You (Live 1985) (6:09)
03. I Just Wanna Make Love To You (Live 1985) (6:31)
04. Any Way You Look At It (Live 1985) (5:04)
05. Don't Ever Leave Me (Live 1985) (9:45)
06. Make Me Feel So Good (Live 1985) (5:26)
07. Messin' With The Kid (Live 1985) (6:01)
08. Nothing In This World (Live 1985) (4:27)
09. Got My Mojo Workin' (Live 1985) (5:25)
10. Sex Machine (Live 1985) (3:48)
11. I Feel Good (Live 1985) (3:48)

The Classic 1985 Grant Park, Chicago Broadcast.

Bringin' The Blues Back Home

Chas Crane - Small Town Blues

Size: 106.9 MB
Time: 45:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Heart Of Stone (3:36)
02. Break Up Blues (4:36)
03. I've Had Enough (3:02)
04. Bad News (5:12)
05. Somebody's Acting Like A Fool (3:41)
06. Street Corner Woman (3:00)
07. That's It (3:07)
08. Ran Outta Luck (4:50)
09. Brexit Blues (3:17)
10. Loner (3:51)
11. Politician (3:43)
12. Small Town Blues (3:44)

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Small Town Blues

Scott Van Zen - No Words

Size: 93.8 MB
Time: 39:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues, Rock, Jazz
Art: Front

01. Goes To Eleven (3:09)
02. Zen Swing (3:34)
03. Letting Go (3:32)
04. Fremont Street (4:11)
05. Steam (2:33)
06. Freddy's Place (3:25)
07. Another Sunrise (3:37)
08. Emerson Biggins (3:18)
09. Seduced (4:41)
10. Cha Ching Swing (3:11)
11. Say Hello Say Goodbye (4:30)

Instrumental guitarist Scott Van Zen is a hugely talented musician and composer who’s capable of pulling every possible human emotion out of his ax. A pro since age 14, Van Zen attended the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, California and has written and produced music for NBC, Fox, Paramount Television, Warner Brothers, MTV, ABC, and more. Van Zen worked on albums by Kiss, toured with Brian Howe of Bad Co., and earned a Dove Award with recording artist Ken Tamplin. His latest solo release, No Words, is a supremely listenable blast of singer-free rock music that shows Van Zen and his heavenly Strat tones getting things done at an elevated level.

No Words is more interesting and fun than most instrumental guitar albums, mostly due to Van Zen standing his rock and roll ground and never lapsing over into New Age happy jazz, inauthentic blues, or country. Van Zen has a strong identity as a guitarist with a genuine affinity for rock and blues-influenced playing that runs through everything he does without apology. You can tell he’s much more than a roadhouse rocker and that he has chops to burn but he keeps every note real and never sounds academic.

The record was tracked over the last year and a half and features Scott Van Zen playing the styles he loves. This record is meant for all you guitar fans out there who just can’t get enough hot licks to be satisfied. The cuts here are all cool and memorable and are much more than just vamps to shred over. Van Zen packs considerable compositional muscle and wields it well, which makes No Words engaging, accessible, and artistic. ~Mike O’Cull

No Words

RNR Blues Co. - Bluesin' & Groovin'

Size: 101.4 MB
Time: 43:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Midnight Blue (3:19)
02. Blues In The Evening (4:18)
03. Got The Same Old Blues (4:39)
04. Goin' Back Home (2:59)
05. Hard Road Back (3:35)
06. Walkin' On Hallowed Ground (2:41)
07. You And We (4:23)
08. The Mexican Lottery (3:16)
09. Ridin' High (3:25)
10. Coffee (4:21)
11. I'm In The Groove (4:01)
12. Blues Rock (2:12)

R.N R. Blues Co. Is a collaboration With myself R=rick BeauSoleil and R= Roland Desjean
Mostly I write the Lyrics Sing and Play Harmonica.
My good friend Roland with decades of His cover band expertise is the very talented multi instrumentalist, He writes the tunes and arranges them, He plays : Guitar, Steel Guitar, Drums, Bass,. and He mixes all the tracks in His studio.
This has been a fun adventure for the both of us.

Bluesin' & Groovin'

Marcia Ball - Blue House

Size: 123.8 MB
Time: 54:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Front, Back, CD

1. Red Beans [4:06]
2. The Facts Of Life [5:44]
3. Down The Road [3:59]
4. Blue House [3:25]
5. Big Shot [3:56]
6. St. Gabriel [6:18]
7. That's What I Get [5:04]
8. Fingernails [3:17]
9. Why Do I [4:57]
10. If This Is Love [3:56]
11. Sparkle Paradise [4:33]
12. One Of A Kind [4:45]

Blue House is a blues album by Marcia Ball. It is her seventh studio album and was released in 1994.
Marcia is a fine singer who writes many of her own songs, though she is never afraid to record covers where they are suitable. Her albums can be almost relentlessly upbeat, as with Hot tamale baby, but this is generally a much sadder album - more like one would expect from a blues singer.
Marcia still demonstrates her Jerry Lee-ish piano playing here, on the opening Red beans, the third track Down the road and particularly on her cover of Joe Ely's Fingernails, but those are not typical of this particular album.
More typical is the title track, in which Marcia painted her house blue after her man left for good, or St Gabriel, about being sent to prison and later being released with nowhere to go.
This is a fine album that demonstrates Marcia's ability to sing a variety of different types of song.

Blue House

Jason Mapes - The Devil Plays Guitar

Size: 139.1 MB
Time: 60:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Rock
Art: Front

1. The Devil Plays Guitar [5:42]
2. Didn't Want To [5:00]
3. Gonna Make You Mine [4:43]
4. Same Old Same [5:35]
5. She's Hot (But Not as Hot as She Thinks) [3:36]
6. The Ex-Files [3:28]
7. Hysteria [5:57]
8. Love Again [4:07]
9. Sorry You Feel That Way [4:05]
10. The Devil Plays Guitar (The Bourbon Street Version) [5:35]
11. Didn't Want To (Acoustic Version) [5:00]
12. Gonna Make You Mine (Acoustically Fine) [4:17]
13. She's Hot (But Not as Hot as She Thinks) [Demo] [3:36]

Featuring rock legends Rudy Sarzo (Ozzy/Whitesnake), Bruce Kulick (KISS), Bill Leverty (FireHouse), Brian Vollmer (Helix), Jeff Neill (Streetheart), Stacy Mitchhart.

Nashville based rocker's Debut CD has classic rock, blues rock, and even some pop-rock influences with an A-list roster of guests. Something for every rock fan! It's a tackle box full of hooks, riffs & ear candy! Songwriting that has him teaming up with legends like Rudy Sarzo, Bruce Kulick, Bill Leverty, Jeff Neill and Brian Vollmer to deliver the goods.

The Devil Plays Guitar

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Sam Lay Blues Band - Rush Hour Blues

Size: 108.8 MB
Time: 47:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

1. Baby How Long [3:31]
2. Second Man [5:55]
3. I'll Be The Judge Of That [2:57]
4. I Like Women [3:42]
5. Blow Wind Blow [3:54]
6. I Got Two Women [4:09]
7. Somebody Gotta Do It [3:12]
8. Mama And Papa Hopkins [5:49]
9. Rush Hour Blues [3:25]
10. I'm Gonna Shoot Her [4:25]
11. Pure Grain Alcohol [2:44]
12. Midnight Drag [3:41]

Sam Lay deserves to have a red carpet unrolled before him when he walks away from his drum kit; he's one of the outstanding drummers of the modern blues era. Rush Hour Blues, recorded in Nashville in 1996 under the direction of ace guitarist Fred James, is Lay's latest effort. He sings here in a forthright manner over the rhythmic background provided by his masterful drums, Celia Ann Price's organ and piano, James's second guitar, and a string bass plucked by James's sidekick Bob Kommersmith. While his singing isn't as strong and steady as in the past, it retains all of its emotional authenticity. The album's songs mostly concern women, nothing new there. Remakes of venerable Chicago blues numbers are more interesting than the new compositions. On Muddy Waters's "Blow Wind Blow," Lay and company expertly balance relaxation and exhilaration. They also inject new life into two more covers, Howlin' Wolf's "Baby How Long" and Big Boy Crudup's "Second Man." In sum, Rush Hour Blues is worth hearing. --Frank-John Hadley

Rush Hour Blues

Martin Metzger - Bad Habit Baby

Size: 90.6 MB
Time: 39:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Gunslinger [3:51]
2. Bad Habit Baby [4:20]
3. Dry Spell [4:21]
4. Doin Nothin [3:03]
5. Nothin Like Love [3:56]
6. Rock Dog [3:55]
7. Tailgaitin [4:12]
8. Rocket Girl [3:10]
9. This Way Or That Way [4:07]
10. Not Free At All [4:30]

Martin's started playing the guitar at a very young age and never put it down. Truly a master level guitarist, he loves playing and performing. Martin's musical experience spans over 40 years, from high school concerts to performing one of the first musical talent TV shows. Martin has had songs placed in a Hollywood movie and an animation film project. With over 100 well crafted original songs to his credit, Martin is sure to have a melody for every musical taste. His blusey guitar riffs and passionate vocals are always sure to connect with the listener. Having spent 20 years in Nashville his songwriting ability and musical chops have been honed to perfection.

Bad Habit Baby