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Εμφάνιση αναρτήσεων με ετικέτα VARIOUS ARTISTS. Εμφάνιση όλων των αναρτήσεων
Εμφάνιση αναρτήσεων με ετικέτα VARIOUS ARTISTS. Εμφάνιση όλων των αναρτήσεων

Δευτέρα 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Παρασκευή 11 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Τρίτη 8 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Δευτέρα 7 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Σάββατο 5 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Παρασκευή 4 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Τετάρτη 2 Δεκεμβρίου 2009

Various Artists - Blues Train Songs 01-04

Blues and not so much blues songs about trains. This is the first 4 from a 297 discs collection. TRAIN FANS ENJOY!!! :)
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V.A. - 2004 - United Jersey Blues Net Work - Red Hot Blues [320]

The United Jersey Blues Network (UJBN) is a 501 C "not for profit" organization, focusing on advancement, education and promotion of Blues music in New Jersey. UJBN and Silk City Records have produced a compilation CD featuring 14 of the best artists from New Jersey and reflects the enormous depth and breath of the NJ area's Blues talent. Artists performing on the CD include: The Jeanne Lozier Band, The Tonemasters, Steve Johnson, Soul Food, Son Lewis, Plainfield Slim, Jimbeau & The Retrocasters, The Shades, Bluespower, Jersey Blues Depot, Nasty Ned & the New Conqueroos, The Watchdog Blues Band, Spencer Jarrett, Michael Packer Blues Band.
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Τρίτη 10 Νοεμβρίου 2009

V.A. - 1989 - Cool Playing Blues, Chicago Style [256]

The 15 songs on this compilation were left behind by Parrot Records' Al Benson, all cut during the mid-1950s. The music could have passed muster at Parrot's better-known Chicago rival Chess -- Jody Williams may have been Parrot's answer to Muddy Waters (Willie Dixon is even playing the bass), although his style was closer to an amalgam of B.B. King and T-Bone Walker. In addition to some established sides, this CD features one outtake, Groan My Blues Away, his only known workout on slide guitar. Guitarist L.C. McKinley and pianist Curtis Jones are also featured in numbers cut under their respective names, and St. Louis Jimmy Oden has two tracks represented here, backed by the Red Saunders Band, including a sultry version of his classic Goin' Down Slow. This and Murder In the First Degree are among the very last sides Oden is known to have recorded. Three obscure tracks by John T. Nature Boy Brown, a saxman and singer, close this extraordinary collection of little-known Chicago blues, which should impress any fan of Chess or Cobra Records (indeed, Parrot had a stronger roster than Cobra, based on what we hear here). The sound quality is generally very good, the only signifcant surface noise from a non-tape source coming up on the Oden sides, which still sound clean and very listenable.
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Κυριακή 11 Οκτωβρίου 2009

Σάββατο 10 Οκτωβρίου 2009

Τετάρτη 7 Οκτωβρίου 2009

Various Artists - 2009 - Keep Your Soul - A Tribute To Doug Sahm [ VBR]

To celebrate his unique career and influential legacy, Vanguard Records released Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm. This stunning collection includes exciting new renditions of Doug's most indelible songs, performed by an incredible line-up of artists. Keep Your Soul is marking the tenth anniversary of Sahm's death in 1999. The songs on Keep Your Soul range over Sahm's entire history, including his time with the Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornados and many solo recordings. It features artists such as Levon Helm, Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Dave Alvin, Shawn Sahm with Augie Meyers, Jimmie Vaughan, Alejandro Escovedo and others.
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AMG ARTICLE

Τετάρτη 23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2009

Various Artists - 2003 - Darker Blues [256]

Much more than just a two-CD compilation of Fat Possum Records' roster of gritty, untapped blues artists, Darker Blues is also a handsomely produced hardbound book with over 100 pages of sumptuous photographs of Mississippi bluesmen by photographer David Raccuglia. This collection also features insightful bios and personal memories of each artist from the likes of Anthony DeCurtis, Robert Palmer, Barry Hannah and even Iggy Pop. Disc one features the haunting, harrowing music of older bluesmen such as Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, Solomon Burke, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Pete Williams, among others. And while it's primarily the older black artists from Mississippi that are featured on this rough-hewed disc, it also incorporates some of the label's newer white artists, such as Bob Log III, Kenny Brown and 20 Miles, which only proves you don't have to be a black sharecropper to have deep soul. Disc two features the eclectic, yet highly intoxicating shot-gun wedding of Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside's red, raw vocal growls and hypnotic guitar along with Mike E. Clark's hip-hop beats and turntable scratchings. While the seven never-before-released songs here aren't quite as exhilarating as Burnside's 1998 crossover hit album Come On In, they still reaffirm that the blues as a creative, artistic medium is far from starring down into it's own grave. INCLUDES 106 PAGES BOOKLET.
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Σάββατο 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2009

Various Artists - 2008 - Cadillac Records Soundtrack [320]

Cadillac Records stars Beyonce, Mof Def, Jeffrey Wright and Adrien Brody with the soundtrack featuring Beyonce, Mof Def, Columbus Short, Mary Mary, Raphael Saadiq, Solange, Little Walter and Nas with Olu Dara. The movie is about Leonard Chess who co-founded Chess Records, the pre-eminent blues label of the Fifties and Sixties, with his brother Phil. They formed Aristocrat Records in 1947 and the Chess label two years later with a mind-boggling flood of Blues, R&B plus Rock'N'Roll talent- Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon, Etta James and Little Walter. Phil focused on jazz while Leonard Chess honed in on roots music, making Chess the greatest repository of Black music at mid-century.
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Τετάρτη 16 Σεπτεμβρίου 2009