The Hep Cat Boo Daddies - Down Right Nasty

Released: 2014
Size: 125.6 MB
Time: 54:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

1. The Fatboy Shake [3:05]
2. Boom Boom [4:26]
3. You [6:05]
4. Sugar Coated Love [5:18]
5. My Babe [4:52]
6. Evil Woman [8:57]
7. Voodoo Child [8:14]
8. I'm Just a Playboy [5:06]
9. Beale St. Shuffle [3:14]
10. Chicken, Gravy and Biscuits [2:24]
11. Double Surf [3:01]

South Florida's Legendary Rockn Blues/Surf Band. The HCBD performed many years and toured everywhere.
This CD is dedicated to their great Bass player, Sean "Evil" Gerovitz.

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Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Boomerang

Released: 2014
Size: 78.9 MB
Time: 34:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues, Rock
Art: Front

1. Run Devil Run [3:44]
2. Boomerang [2:27]
3. Tell Me You're Mine [3:59]
4. Morning Glory [2:29]
5. Bad Boy Blues [4:43]
6. If You Don't Love Me [4:36]
7. Trouble [3:04]
8. Long Gone [2:43]
9. How Many More Years [4:31]
10. Heavy Loaded [1:57]

If you throw a boomerang the right way, it will come back. “And life is similar to this game with a boomerang – you sit there with a broken heart, and yet at the same time know it must go on, that you must move forward. You take a few steps forward and then a few back. That basically in some ways corresponds to the principle of a boomerang,” explains Eric Sardinas about the intention of the title of his Album, “Boomerang”. That’s what it’s about in the title song, but also in many of the other tracks that take on the topic in different facets and from different perspectives, and then come together and make a whole. Incidentally, the song was long under the working title “Comin’ and Goin’”, which very much expresses the intention of the new title.

“Boomerang” brought a whole new experience to the 1970’s born musician, who live in Los Angeles, when he is not somewhere in the world on tour. “We recorded the songs in between tours, not all at once, as we had always done before. There was no other way, we had no choice, because our schedule was so jam-packed in the past few years with performances all around the world. We couldn’t even clear a block of time in between for a few weeks, in order to retreat to the studio. On the other hand, it gave us the advantage to take our stage energy into the studio with us. It was all only possible though, because I wrote my songs on the road – when I come home, I have a pile of papers, napkins and other little snippets, on which I have kept my ideas and then at home I bring them all together. But that’s how I get plenty of inspiration, which expresses the reality of my fans, in which they can find themselves in. I don’t have to come up with grandiose lyrics, but rather can scoop them up from real life. And I am sure, that many song ideas came from Germany, where I have toured for many years.”

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Guitar Slim - The Atco Sessions

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:57
Size: 82.3 MB
Styles: New Orleans blues, R&B
Year: 1988/2004
Art: Front

[2:22] 1. Down Through The Years
[2:23] 2. If I Should Lose You
[2:38] 3. It Hurts To Love Someone
[2:38] 4. I Won't Mind At All
[2:20] 5. Hello, How Ya Been Goodbye
[1:59] 6. When There's No Way Out
[1:58] 7. If I Had My Life To Live Over
[2:59] 8. Guitar Lim Boogie-2
[2:56] 9. Strange Things Happening
[2:32] 10. Along About Midnight
[2:00] 11. Plenty Good Room
[2:15] 12. The Cackle
[3:01] 13. My Time Is Expensive
[3:50] 14. Guitar Slim Boogie-3

Sometimes a bit subdued compared to his bone-chilling output for Specialty, these 1956-1958 sides for Atco still possess considerable charm, especially the tough "It Hurts to Love Someone" and "If I Should Lose You," which conjure up the same hellfire-and-brimstone intensity as Guitar Slim's earlier work. ~Bill Dahl

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Benny Turner - Journey

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:39
Size: 93.1 MB
Styles: Electric Texas blues, R&B-Soul
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:12] 1. Breakin' News
[4:04] 2. Don't You Ride My Mule
[3:07] 3. How I Wish
[4:50] 4. I Wanna Make It Right
[2:32] 5. My Mother's Blues
[3:36] 6. I Wanna Give It To You Baby
[6:00] 7. Worn Out Woman
[3:47] 8. My Uncle's Blues (Fannie Mae)
[3:38] 9. Voodoo Lady
[4:49] 10. What's Wrong With The World Today

Benny was born in Gilmer, Texas and grew up in the shadow of his famous brother, Freddie King, who always dreamed of becoming a great guitar player. He and his little brother Benny would listen for a few hours a day to old radio programs like "In the Groove." As they grew up, the brothers listened to Blues and Swing Music by such artists as Louis Jordan, Charles Brown and later, T-Bone Walker. These Blues greats became the influence of the music that Freddie King started and Benny Turner continues today.

Benny is proud to present his 3rd CD, Journey. It contains all original music, including family treasures passed down to him as a boy (“My Mother’s Blues” honoring Ella Mae (King) Turner, and “My Uncle’s Blues (Fannie Mae)” honoring his uncle Leon King). Pulling from a lifetime of doo-wop, R&B, gospel, soul, and blues influences, and seasoned with dashes of humor and strife, Turner has created a musical gumbo with something sure to satisfy everyone who listens. It features the the hit single, "What's Wrong with the World Today".

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Roger Hurricane Wilson - 2 albums: Hurricane Blues / The Business Of The Blues

Roger's first CD, “Hurricane Blues”, released in 1994 on Hottrax Records, received airplay on well over 100 stations across the U.S., and was being distributed nationally. The second Hottrax project, “Live From The Eye Of The Storm”, was released in 1996, and enjoyed the same, if not better response than “Hurricane Blues”. In addition to playing between 250 and 300 nights a year, Roger also produced and hosted his own syndicated radio show on nearly 10 stations around the country.

In 1997, Roger decided that it was time to step to the next level. At the advice of his distributor, he decided to form his own record company, Bluestorm Records. This venture gave rise to the third CD, “The Business of The Blues”. The title track was written about the daily challenges of daily life on the road. Also featured on this CD are 5 acoustic tunes, which started to establish Roger’s acoustic work, which has become a separate entity, and occasional combination with his electric sound.

Album: Hurricane Blues
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:12
Size: 121.8 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. Caught In Between
[3:45] 2. You Ain't Foolin'
[4:06] 3. I Want You To Rock Me
[6:45] 4. Hurricane Blues
[2:56] 5. Love's Quicksand
[4:23] 6. Take Out Some Insurance
[2:49] 7. Serious Blues
[5:13] 8. Heart Of Stone
[4:36] 9. Georgia Springtime
[3:37] 10. Gimme That Good Ol' Rock & Roll
[3:26] 11. Listen To My Heart
[8:21] 12. The Quest

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Album: The Business Of The Blues
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 54:45
Size: 125.3 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[2:47] 1. It Don't Get No Better N' This
[4:45] 2. Boom Boom
[2:50] 3. The Business Of The Blues
[3:17] 4. San Ho Zay
[5:06] 5. Trouble In Mind
[4:15] 6. Just One More White Boy Singing The Blues
[3:50] 7. Sugar Coated Love
[5:22] 8. Honey Bee
[6:34] 9. I Know You Rider
[5:10] 10. Back Porch Blues
[3:49] 11. I Never Got To Say Goodbye To Willie Guy
[2:58] 12. Mean Old World
[3:54] 13. Further On Up The Road

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Various - And This Is Free: The Life And Times Of Chicago's Legendary Maxwell Street

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 50:16
Size: 115.1 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[2:26] 1. J.B. Hutto - Pet Cream Man
[3:11] 2. Floyd Jones - Dark Road
[2:44] 3. Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' & Tumblin' Part 1
[2:50] 4. Snooky Pryor - Cryin' Shame
[3:01] 5. Robert Nighthawk - Prowling Nighthawk
[3:42] 6. Arvella Gray - John Henry
[2:32] 7. Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman
[4:13] 8. Big John Wrencher - Maxwell Street Alley Blues
[2:49] 9. Daddy Stovepipe - The Spasm
[2:35] 10. Johnny Williams - Worried Man Blues
[2:51] 11. John Lee Granderson - Hard Luck John
[2:43] 12. John Henry Barbee - Against My Will
[3:06] 13. Boll Weevil - Christmas Time Blues
[2:56] 14. Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' & Tumblin' Part 2
[2:50] 15. Papa Charlie Jackson - Maxwell Street Blues
[2:33] 16. Jimmy Rogers - Little Store Blues
[3:06] 17. Blind Percy - Fourteenth St. Blues

Probably every major American city has a seedy, shady yet colorful neighborhood that isn't missed until it's gone. For Boston, that neighborhood was the lively, raunchy Scollay Square; only after the area was razed in the name of urban renewal in the 1970s were its honky-tonk dives and burlesque joints celebrated. In New York City in the 1970s, politicians vowed to clean up Times Square, but now, the influx of chain stores and upscale mini-malls around 42nd Street has people reminiscing about the good, bad old days.

Chicago's legendary Maxwell Street on the city's Near West Side was one of those places that people love to remember – an open-air marketplace for bargain hunters and hustlers, for street musicians and sidewalk preachers, for someone shopping for shoes, for another seeking to save souls. In the early 1900s, the area near Halsted Street became the place for immigrants to begin their search for the American dream by running large open-air stores and flea markets as well as restaurants, delicatessens and other businesses. Then it was dubbed Jew Town -- in those politically incorrect days, a label considered no more insulting than Chinatown is today. Later, African-Americans moving north found Maxwell Street a haven for commercial activities, entertainment and music, as blues and gospel singers filled the street with song and salvation. By the early 1960s, the seven-block area was a bustling carnival of all kinds of commerce, legal, illicit and somewhere in between. By the 1990s, the market was moved to accommodate expansion of the University of Illinois and an era seemed to be over, much mourned by long-time Chicagoans.

That era is revived in And This is Free, a new "MultiPac" published by Shanachie Entertainment, which features a DVD, CD and booklet chronicling Maxwell's colorful history. The DVD contains several documentaries, starting with Mike Shea's 1964 film, "And This is Free," an exquisitely shot, black-and-white tribute to the market's unique flavor. Kicking the DVD off with Shea's 50-minute feature is a bit of a gamble. This documentary contains no narrative; Shea just takes you to the street and lets the story unfold, something with the potential to bewilder the non-Chicagoan watcher. ~Stephanie Schorow

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Karen Lovely - 2 albums: Lucky Girl / Still The Rain

Karen Lovely shot onto the blues scene out of the Pacific Northwest like Stack O' Lee's .44 placing 2nd at the 2010 International Blues Challenge followed by three 2011 Blues Music Award Nominations for BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES FEMALE ARTIST, BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM and BEST SONG for her sophomore release STILL THE RAIN.

Known for her passionate, driven performances and always backed by stellar musicians, this powerhouse vocalist delivers a blistering mix of contemporary & old school blues. Lovely's standout performances have garnered awards, critical acclaim and standing ovations at festivals and venues throughout the US, Canada and Europe.

She is a two time “#1 Pick to Click” artist on XM Radio Bluesville and was selected as the 2014 Featured Blues artist by KJZZ FM in Los Angeles. Lovely’s records have topped the national blues and roots charts and made the Top 10 favorite artist list for dozens of nationally syndicated radio stations.

Karen has played to packed houses and sold out shows in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Her performance at the 44th Internationale Jazzwache in Burghausen, Germany was taped for broadcast and aired on German TV in December 2013.

Album: Lucky Girl
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:29
Size: 92.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:21] 1. Tell Me Baby
[2:35] 2. You Don't Move Me
[3:53] 3. Unlucky Girl
[4:07] 4. Boom Boom
[4:17] 5. Too Little, Too Late
[2:48] 6. I'm A Little Mixed Up
[3:13] 7. Blues Is My Business
[3:17] 8. It's Too Late
[5:10] 9. Rock Me
[3:46] 10. Boogie Some
[3:56] 11. Lucky Girl (Hoochie Coochie Woman)

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Album: Still The Rain
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 59:26
Size: 136.1 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:44] 1. Blues Ain't Far Behind
[4:07] 2. Sunny Weather
[5:08] 3. Still The Rain
[4:03] 4. Cold Man Cold
[3:46] 5. Other Plans
[3:26] 6. Ask Your Heart
[5:50] 7. Full Time Job
[4:28] 8. Glad You're Gone
[5:06] 9. Never Felt No Blues
[5:08] 10. I've Had Enough
[4:23] 11. Older Fool
[5:06] 12. Knock Knock
[5:06] 13. So Willing

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Altered Five Blues Band - Cryin' Mercy

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 43:16
Size: 99.1 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:14] 1. Demon Woman
[3:24] 2. I'm In Deep
[4:54] 3. Find My Wings
[3:31] 4. Stay Outta My Business
[3:44] 5. Counterfeit Lover
[4:38] 6. Who's Your Lover
[4:24] 7. Move House
[3:18] 8. Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry
[3:07] 9. Urgent Care
[3:57] 10. Back Button
[3:59] 11. I Got You

Proclaimed “a staple of the Midwest’s band scene” and “a festival favorite” by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in 2012, Altered Five’s delectable brew of blues and soul is now quickly gaining national attention. The group released its highly anticipated third album, produced and mixed by Grammy winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, James Cotton, etc.), in October, 2014. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, frontman Jeff Taylor’s voice is “gloriously gritty.” The Shepherd Express simply states he sounds like “a voice from Stax/Volt 45s.” Altered Five’s sophomore album, Gotta Earn It, reached #15 at the iTunes blues store, and the band won “Blues Artist of the Year” at the 34th annual WAMI Award Show.

From day one, Altered Five dared to be different. The quintet formed in 2002 and quickly gained a reputation for its inventive arrangements and distinctive sound. Isthmus magazine called the band “a rising blues unit” and OnMilwaukee.com declared, “The group delivers the element of surprise.”

Within a few years, Altered Five caught the ear of Cold Wind Records and, in 2008, signed a recording contract with the Minneapolis blues label. The debut album featured the band’s penchant for putting an earthy spin on numbers; the aptly titled Bluesified included roadhouse versions of ten popular songs. The group performed live on three television morning shows and honed its sound playing regular club, festival, and concert dates.

In the ensuing years, Altered Five turned its attention to recording and performing its own material, and the 2012 release of Gotta Earn It drew rave reviews. Barrelhouse Blues called it “a great and powerful recording,” Downbeat commended its “solid songs,” Living Blues called the band “a tight, unified talent” and Big City Rhythm & Blues called A5 “Hands down, one of the best newer blues/R&B bands.”

The new album, entitled Cryin’ Mercy, delivers the next chapter in Altered Five’s musical odyssey. The 11-song set is a fierce collection of original, contemporary blues fused with vintage soul, and the debut release for OmniVibe Records. With Hambridge at the helm, the band hits on all cylinders. “JT” Taylor’s powerful voice anchors the sound and drives home the message in songs like the roaring opener “Demon Woman”; the stone-cold blues of “Move House,” the vivacious shuffle “I’m in Deep,” the soul-drenched ballad “Find My Wings,” and sassy ”Counterfeit Lover.” The rhythm section of drummer Scott Schroedl and bassist Mark Solveson grooves hard and enjoys telepathic interaction with keyboardist Ray Tevich and guitarist Jeff Schroedl. Downbeat raves that Schroedl’s “high-wire guitar reaches the high bar of mixed invention and fluidity.”

It’s been said that “the blues is a feeling,” so when the Minneapolis Star Tribune states that the band is a “righteous blast,” you know they play it right.

Jeff "JT" Taylor LEAD VOCALS; Jeff Schroedl GUITAR Hal Leonard; Scott Schroedl DRUMS; Mark Solveson BASS; Raymond Tevich KEYBOARDS.

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Stu Blank & Friends - BBQ Blues: Live From The Majic Lamp

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 62:14
Size: 142.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[ 4:33] 1. It's Gonna Be Alright Pt.1
[ 5:05] 2. Off My Mind
[ 7:57] 3. Black Night
[ 6:00] 4. If The River Was Whiskey..
[ 4:35] 5. Kidney Stew Blues
[11:03] 6. Cigarette Blues
[ 4:10] 7. Early One Morning
[ 5:57] 8. I Wanna Know..
[ 5:11] 9. Got My Mojo Working
[ 7:39] 10. Gonna Be Alright Pt. 2

Stu Blank, who died July 10 2001 of cancer at age 47, never achieved much success in his life, if you measure success in any conventional manner. But he was such a soulful person, a man made of music, that other musicians who saw him play never forgot the experience, which is why about 100 of them played in nearly a dozen benefit concerts for him during his illness. There is success that no amount of money can match. Blank played his final gig a couple of weeks before his death, when he sat in at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center during the last number on what turned out to be the final performance by bluesman John Lee Hooker.

Blank was one of the rare and precious musicians who run on instinct. He started fooling with piano when he was a boy and never stopped. He could sit at the keys for hours and play piano bar versions of a hundred rock songs (his take on the Bob Dylan epic “Like a Rolling Stone” was a signature performance).
He could spin a blues refrain off the top of his head and always reached for that something extra in his playing. He found it quite often.

His career never really went anywhere. Stu Blank and His Nasty Habits, as his band was called, worked all the dives on the Bay Area rock scene through the late ’70s and early ’80s. He made a few albums on his own. He may not have climbed the ladder of success very high, but there were nightclubs in Alameda where Blank walked as tall as Bruce Springsteen. The problems with drugs and alcohol probably didn’t help, but Blank stayed sober during his last couple of years.

He may have ground himself up — he suggested that all those chemicals and intoxicants helped stir the cancer that went from his skin to his lungs and, finally, his brain — but he got it together enough in his sobriety to effect some kind of reconciliation with his long-suffering wife (ex-wife by the time Blank sobered up) and their five children. He was a cowboy who rode the range hard. Everybody who knew him has Stu Blank stories and some are even printable.

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Riot & The Blues Devils - 2 albums: Turn It Up Live / No One To Blame But Me

Riot and the Blues Devils is a three piece combo of experienced musicians : Riot on lead vocals and guitars, Big Papa Mike on bass and vocals, and Mark DiClaudio on drums and vocals. Formed in 2001, they have released four albums : eponymous (2005), Tough Times (2008), No one to blame but me (2012 and their latest, Turn it up Live!. Riot and the Blues Devils give a high energy show with a set of originals and their own versions of classics by Blues greats.

Riot and the Blues Devils are available for festival bookings. The band is available as a 3 piece (gtr+vox/bass/drums), as a 4 piece with a harmonica player, and as a 5 piece with a B3 and piano player. Past festival appearances include : Montreal International Jazz Festival (2005-2006-2008-2010), Toronto Street Fest, Barrie Waterfront Festival, Tremblant Blues Festival (2006-2008-2010-2012), Edmundston Blues and Jazz Festival, Sutton Blues Festival, Beauport en Blues (2007-2010), along with many other festivals and smaller venues, including such highlights as opening for The Jeff Healey Band and Ronnie Baker Brooks.

Riot : guitar, vocals - Big Papa Mike : bass guitar - Mark DiClaudio : drums

Album: Turn It Up Live
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 67:00
Size: 153.4 MB
Styles: Rockin blue
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:25] 1. Blue Devils (Are In Town)
[3:55] 2. Finding The Blues
[5:53] 3. $150 Hat
[6:27] 4. I'm Ready
[4:12] 5. Get The Show On The Road
[5:56] 6. Close To You
[6:17] 7. I Don't Care
[4:32] 8. Turn It Up-That's All Right Mama
[7:50] 9. Salvation
[4:17] 10. I Miss My Woman
[4:37] 11. Tough Times (For The Blues)
[5:51] 12. The Father Of The Son And The Holy Ghost
[2:42] 13. Women Of The Night

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Album: No One To Blame But Me
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:44
Size: 109.3 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:41] 1. I Wanna Be
[3:24] 2. Sad And Lonely
[4:02] 3. Going Back To The Roots
[5:16] 4. The Father, The Son And The Holy Ghost
[3:00] 5. You' Re The One For Me
[5:29] 6. 150$ Hat
[3:00] 7. I Miss My Woman
[8:15] 8. Salvation
[3:34] 9. Hard Working Man
[2:18] 10. No One To Blame But Me
[3:05] 11. Where The Hell Was My Baby Last Night
[3:34] 12. Raise Hell

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Mickey Baker - 2 albums: The Blues And Me / Take A Look Inside

Of all the guitarists who helped transform rhythm & blues into rock & roll, Mickey Baker was one of the very most important, ranking almost on the level of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. The reason he wasn't nearly as well known as those legends is that a great deal of his work wasn't issued under his own name, but as a backing guitarist for many R&B and rock & roll musicians. Baker originally aspired to be a jazz musician, but turned to calypso, mambo, and then R&B, where the most work could be found.

In the early and mid-'50s, he did countless sessions for Atlantic, King, RCA, Decca, and OKeh, playing on such classics as the Drifters' "Money Honey" and "Such a Night," Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle & Roll," Ruth Brown's "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean," and Big Maybelle's "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On." He also released a few singles under his own name, and made a Latin jazz-tinged solo album, Guitar Mambo.

Baker's best work, though, was recorded as half of the duo Mickey & Sylvia. Their hit "Love Is Strange," as well as several other unknown but nearly equally strong tracks, featured Baker's keening, bluesy guitar riffs, which were gutsier and more piercing than most anything else around in the late '50s. Mickey & Sylvia split in the late '50s (though they recorded off and on until the middle of the next decade), and Baker recorded his best solo album, the all-instrumental The Wildest Guitar. In 1961, he took the male spoken part (usually assumed to be Ike Turner) on Ike & Tina Turner's first hit, "It's Gonna Work Out Fine." Shortly afterwards he moved to France, making a few hard-to-find solo records and working with a lot of French pop and rock performers, including Ronnie Bird, the best '60s French rock singer. He recorded only sporadically after the mid-'60s. Mickey Baker died at his home in Montastruc-la-Conseillère, France on November 27, 2012, at the age of 87. ~bio by Richie Unterberger

Album: The Blues And Me
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:32
Size: 118.0 MB
Styles: Electric blues, East Coast blues
Year: 1974/2008
Art: Front

[3:16] 1. She's Dynamite
[4:10] 2. Don't Try To Play Me For Your Clown
[2:56] 3. My Playhouse
[3:49] 4. Drucilla
[2:10] 5. Hey Little Girl
[3:04] 6. Blues After Hours
[2:27] 7. My Dog
[2:45] 8. Didn't We Baby
[4:57] 9. Battle Of The Guitars
[3:05] 10. Every Day I Have The Blues
[3:44] 11. Sweetie Cat
[5:21] 12. Kansas City
[5:15] 13. In The Evening
[4:26] 14. Sweetie Cat (Take 2)

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Album: Take A Look Inside
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 39:35
Size: 90.6 MB
Styles: Roots, East Coast blues, Electric blues
Year: 1975/2006
Art: Front

[3:52] 1. Make Your Bed Up Mama
[2:29] 2. Don't Doubt Me
[2:31] 3. Take A Look Inside
[3:57] 4. Blues Fell This Morning
[3:52] 5. Diggin' In My Potatoes
[3:20] 6. Playing With Danger
[3:29] 7. I'll Always Be In Love With You
[3:03] 8. She Brings Out The Animal
[4:21] 9. New York, New York
[5:18] 10. Tight Ropes & Bumpy Roads
[3:19] 11. Bewildered

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Chris Antonik - Better For You

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:21
Size: 110.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:35] 1. Long Way To Go
[3:58] 2. Turn To Shine
[3:54] 3. Come From A Good Place
[4:42] 4. Broken Man
[4:09] 5. Have A Good Time
[4:14] 6. Shake Me Down
[4:40] 7. Better For You
[5:33] 8. Nothing I Can Do
[4:21] 9. Tell Me What You Need
[4:36] 10. So Tired
[3:34] 11. I'll Help You Through

In 2010, Toronto-based blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Chris Antonik arrived onto the National and International blues scene with his self-titled debut album which received widespread critical acclaim, placed in the Roots Music Report Top 100 charts for over a year, and garnered Antonik a nomination for Best New Artist of the Year at Canada’s national Maple Blues Awards.

In 2010, in its year-end review, British Columbia’s Blues Underground Network deemed Chris ‘The Future of the Blues.’ After extensive touring and major blues festival appearances in Canada in 2011 and 2012, Chris returned with his highly anticipated and critically-acclaimed follow-up Better For You in March 2013.

With Antonik on the majority of lead vocals, guest vocalists on Better For You include: two-time Grammy award-winner Mike Mattison (The Derek Trucks Band, The Tedeschi-Trucks Band) and American Blues Music award-nominee Shakura S’Aida. Other guest artists include blues Juno-winners Steve Marriner (MonkeyJunk) and Julian Fauth, as well as Canadian music veterans Suzie Vinnick and Richard Underhill.

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The Wild Bluesmen - Homecoming

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:14
Size: 133.3 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Barrelhouse piano
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:23] 1. It Takes A Man
[4:03] 2. Boogie In The Barrelhouse
[3:48] 3. Lord Help Me
[5:51] 4. Without You
[4:23] 5. Whole Lotta Love
[3:41] 6. Hurry, Hurry, Hurry
[3:54] 7. Sugar Coated Daddy
[3:38] 8. I`m Gonna Love You Baby
[4:28] 9. Hey Baby
[4:13] 10. Get Down On Your Knees & Pray
[5:14] 11. Someone Tonight
[2:50] 12. Groovy Little Mama
[4:47] 13. No One But Thee
[3:55] 14. Yo!

The Wild Bluesmen, a new outfit with "old“ heads, giving you the best what blues & boogie has to offer. Peter, Oskar & Uli are certainly no strangers to each other having performed together in the "Stimulators“ since 1997. Peter & Uli joined up with Steve and Berlin drummer Michael Maass in 2000 to tour Europe as "The Boogie Circus“, this lasted until 2002. Steve was booked to play a festival in Switzerland in 2013 and wanted to put a band together especially for the event.

After speaking with his "right-hand man“, Peter Schneider, it was all arranged and "The Wild Bluesmen“ performed for 2 days to an enthralled public. The music was as good as it ever was, "it was like coming back home“, remarked Uli after the first night. There is certainly something special about these guys when they start making music together: "They played with power and finesse, subtlety and charm, with feeling and prowess that culminated into a down home blues explosion“

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Knock Kneed Sally - 2 albums: Gimme Some Biscuit / Never A Cold Shoulder

Knock Kneed Sally brings an original mix of butt movin’ entertainment, rockin’ around the country playing 250 festival and shows every year. The uptempo message Knock Kneed Sally delivers is get up and swing that thing….. Stovepipe Perkins, the chief songwriter and vocalist of the group has a knack for transforming friends and situations into great songs… Stovepipe, from Bastrop Louisiana grew up listening to blues player playing in the back of his grandma’s package liquor store, ”Yeah, it seemed like magic, still does…. man those guys could play” says Stovepipe. Many were veterans of Haneys Big House in central Louisiana. Knock Kneed Sally is gearing up for the 2014 festival season as they will be traveling throughout the country and hopefully at a club near you.

Knock Kneed Sally is the result of the combined talents of Stovepipe Perkins, Jerry Riccardi, Jake Koivisto and Victor Penniman.

Album: Gimme Some Biscuit
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 50:52
Size: 116.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:37] 1. Aint Nobody Tell You
[3:25] 2. Gimme Some Biscuit
[3:29] 3. Jackie Wilson
[4:28] 4. Medicate Me
[4:47] 5. Fates Of Nations
[3:27] 6. Trash Day
[6:32] 7. Bottle Of Gin
[3:30] 8. Runaway Train
[3:13] 9. Hit And Run
[4:27] 10. Heaven Or Hell
[3:54] 11. Blood On The Wind
[5:58] 12. 1965

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Album: Never A Cold Shoulder
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:41
Size: 113.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. Built For Comfort
[3:12] 2. Messin With The Kid
[5:32] 3. Fool For Your Stockings
[3:19] 4. She Caught The Katy
[5:14] 5. One Way Out
[4:25] 6. Seeing Things
[3:35] 7. Honky Tonk Women
[4:18] 8. Bittersweet
[4:09] 9. Nasty Habits
[3:34] 10. Tore Down
[5:44] 11. Politician
[3:21] 12. Statesboro Blues

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Francine Reed - I Want You To Love Me

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:13
Size: 121.8 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues-soul vocals
Year: 1995/2014
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Why I Don't Know
[4:54] 2. Leavin' Town
[3:42] 3. One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show)
[4:42] 4. Gathering Up My Love
[5:11] 5. Trouble In Mind
[4:59] 6. Crack The Bone
[3:48] 7. I Want You To Love Me
[4:18] 8. What Is That Light
[4:18] 9. Grady's Song
[3:50] 10. Evil Gal
[5:39] 11. For Your Precious Love
[4:49] 12. Wild Women

By the time she released her debut album, Francine Reed had established herself as a fine blues singer through her work with Lyle Lovett. I Want You to Love Me proves that she can do it on her own. Lovett drops in for the opening cut, "Why I Don't Know," but this remains Reed's show, and she shows she knows what she's doing. She can sing sultry slow blues, belt out soul, and get down and dirty -- in short, she can do it all. Furthermore, she has the songs to prove her talents, relying on classics from Jerry Butler and Muddy Waters, among others. The result is a thoroughly entertaining record from an accomplished artist. ~Thom Owens

Harvey Thompson - vocals, saxophone; Charles Rose - trombone; Muscle Shoals Horns - horns; Vinnie Ciesielski - trumpet; Francine Reed - vocals; Albey Scholl - harp, tenor saxophone; Buzz Amato - keyboards.

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Empire Roots Band - Music From The Film Harlem Street Singer

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 46:09
Size: 105.6 MB
Styles: Roots, Contemporary blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:47] 1. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
[3:48] 2. Search My Heart
[4:43] 3. Mean Old World
[5:14] 4. There's Destruction In This Land
[3:50] 5. Soon My Work Will All Be Done
[4:57] 6. Trying To Get Home
[5:09] 7. Sunday Church Medley Banks Of The River Let Us Get Together
[3:55] 8. Hesitation
[3:12] 9. Twelve Gates To The City
[4:06] 10. I Am The Light Of This World I Belong To The Band
[2:23] 11. Orangitang Rag

The Empire Roots All Stars Band features a line-up of New York’s most celebrated blues/ roots artists; Dave Keyes (piano), Woody Mann (guitar), Bill Sims Jr.,(Vocals) and Brian Glassman(bass). Coming together for the first time as the feature group for the film Harlem Street Singer, which tells the story of Rev. Gary Davis, the band celebrates the music of the Reverend with new interpretations of his classic blues and gospel repertoire plus their own original material.Empire Roots consists of America’s top ambassadors of roots music. Between them they have toured the world performing and recording with the most important artists from the blues, folk and jazz worlds.

Dave Keyes has worked with Odetta, Bo Diddley, Tracy Nelson, Ruth Brown, Gladys Knight, David Johansen, Darlene Love, Lou Rawls and bluesman Popa Chubby among many others. He has served as music director and conductor for Broadway shows, national TV shows and in 2014 was nominated by the Blues Foundation for the Blues Music Award for best piano instrumentalist.

Dave Keyes, Piano; Woody Mann, Guitar; Bill Sims Jr., Vocals; Brian Glassman, Bass.

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Various - The Best Of Delta Records

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 34:15
Size: 78.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Soul-blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[2:35] 1. The Big Three Trio - Don't Let That Music Die
[2:33] 2. The Big Three Trio - Till The Day I Die
[2:47] 3. The Big Three Trio - Goodbye Mr. Blues
[2:27] 4. The Big Three Trio - Why Do You Do Me Like You Do
[2:32] 5. The Big Three Trio - Appetite Blues
[2:57] 6. The Big Three Trio - Cigarettes, Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women
[2:37] 7. Dusty Brooks - My Baby's A Lush
[2:29] 8. Tom 'Shy Guy' Douglas - Raid On Cedar Street
[3:01] 9. Tom 'Shy Guy' Douglas - I Should Have Known
[2:03] 10. Tom 'Shy Guy' Douglas - Yankee Doodle
[2:48] 11. Tom 'Shy Guy' Douglas - Harvest Moon
[2:25] 12. Clentt Gant - Certainly
[2:54] 13. Clentt Gant - Storm's End

An interesting sampler of an early Nashville based regional blues label in the post war era. The Big Three Trio here featured the prolific bluesman Willie Dixon, and it was in this trio he had his first successes as a bassist. Eventually his catalog included over 500 songs, and he was a recognized top producer, songwriter, bassist, and singer. When he went on to Chess Records in Chicago, his work with Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sugar Pie DeSanto and many others comprises what we now know as the Chicago Sound. Here's a rare peak at Willie in his younger days. ~Lil Mike/amazon

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Chance Ray & The Good Sinners - Stoneman Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:54
Size: 93.6 MB
Styles: Americana, Alt country, Country blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[4:08] 1. Excuse Me
[3:52] 2. Roll On By
[4:05] 3. Nashfield
[3:52] 4. Busted Can Of Biscuits
[2:53] 5. Gone
[3:08] 6. How Can I Miss You
[5:28] 7. The Legend Of John David Brown
[2:46] 8. What Would Johnny Sing
[4:31] 9. Stoneman Blues
[3:50] 10. Here Comes The River
[2:16] 11. The Whiskey Song

Raised on a river farm, Chance and his five siblings knew all too well the hardships of growing up in a blue collar family as his Dad was a life-long stone mason and his Mom worked in a factory. The hardships were softened by a close family bond weaved together with humor, wit, and music. The end result for Chance was songwriting laced with hardship, heartbreak, and humor about life growing up in rural america.

Chance has already made some major strides in a time when music industry execs look for acts that are safe and recycled instead of edgy and refreshing. Things have moved quickly for Chance as he has had the opportunity to share the stage with Texas/Red Dirt big guns Chris Knight, Cory Morrow, Brandon Jenkins, Wayne Hancock, Back Porch Mary, Lucky Tubb, Jason Eady and John D Hale.

As far as the future is concerned Chance is determined to keep this train rolling as folks reach out for something real during hard economic times.

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Kenn Lending Blues Band - 2 albums: Still Payin' Dues / Flying High

Kenn Lending Blues Band was formed in November 1980, by the Danish singer and guitarist Kenn Lending. Kenn had already been very active, in several reputable Danish groups, since 1973. But forming his own blues band, fulfilled a dream, that he had, since he saw T Bone Walker live on stage in 1968. Already a year before Kenn Lending formed his band, he started his well known partnership with the legendary American blues pianist and -singer Champion Jack Dupree, who lived in Hannover, Germany. This partnership, that through the years turned into a very close friendship, lasted until “The Champ” past away in January 1992. The Duo did over 1000 concerts together in 35 states and countries, including a seven week tour in USA and Canada in 1991. They also appear together on at least 20 different albums. Three of the albums was recorded in New Orleans, for Rounder Records in 1990 and 1991, in connection with their performances on ‘New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’. One of these albums ‘Forever and Ever’, received the WC Handy Award for the best traditional album in 1991. Even though the relationship with Champion Jack Dupree had first priority, Kenn used all his spare time, making his band a strong and kicking blues band. They are known as a hardworking band, in the clubs and festivals all over Denmark, and they have been visiting countries such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France, Rumania, Russia, Kroatia, Turkey, Nepal and USA.

Kenn Lending Blues Band has recorded ten albums of their own. The latest called “Flying High”, was released in January 2012, in connection with the 30 years jubilee of Kenn Lending Blues Band as a recording band.

Frank Larsen, Henning Verner, Keld Lauritsen, Kenn Lending, Klavs Morville, Svenni Svafnisson, Svenni Svarfnisson

Album: Still Payin' Dues
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 60:52
Size: 139.3 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[ 5:47] 1. Still Payin' Dues
[10:21] 2. Early One Morning
[ 5:33] 3. Help Somebody
[ 8:23] 4. Walk Down
[ 5:15] 5. Cold Winds
[ 4:19] 6. Desert Island
[ 7:06] 7. Ease Me Baby
[ 5:20] 8. Love Me Or Leave Me
[ 4:52] 9. Waitin' On You
[ 3:49] 10. Ridin' Convertible

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Album: Flying High
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 52:39
Size: 120.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:04] 1. Hard Headed Woman
[5:11] 2. When The Welfare
[4:38] 3. Why Feel Bad
[4:32] 4. Flying High
[4:36] 5. Mojo Club
[5:35] 6. To Day I Sing The Blues
[5:03] 7. Just A Little While To Stay Here
[4:18] 8. Every Day I Have The Blues
[5:11] 9. All My Life
[3:38] 10. Crazy For My Baby
[5:48] 11. Highway Blues

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Tin Can Buddha - Mumbo Jumbo

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:31
Size: 111.1 MB
Styles: Jazz-rock-blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:28] 1. Chocolate Jesus
[5:34] 2. Rock Me
[6:26] 3. Rough And Tumble
[5:02] 4. Tree Cat And Jack The Crow
[4:16] 5. Mumbo Jumbo
[5:25] 6. Mojo Hanna
[4:20] 7. Glide
[4:21] 8. Oh Well, Pt. 1
[4:59] 9. Oh Well, Pt. 2
[3:36] 10. Lucky Old Sun

A collective of musicians (16 in our last count) with an eclectic repertoire of jazz, blues, roots and rock.

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Jason Elmore & Hoodoo Witch - 2 albums: Upside Your Head / Tell You What

Voted 'Best Blues' 2012 by the prestigious Dallas Observer Music Awards, Jason Elmore is a Dallas, TX-based guitarist/singer/songwriter that is turning heads in the blues/rock guitar world with his devastating guitar chops and vocals. Whether fronting his high-energy touring band 'Hoodoo Witch' or performing as a solo acoustic act, Elmore is able to bring together elements of American music in his performances that seem to bridge the gap between blues, rock, 60's soul, vintage country, and jazz. He is remarkable in his ability to appeal to fans of all genres of music with his incendiary guitar licks, soulful and powerful old-school vocals, keen sense of humor and imagainative-yet-familiar songwriting. All one needs to do is watch him play live one time in order to have a good understanding of how all these different genres of music have a common thread when it comes to eliciting an emotional response from the listener and taking them to that special place where only the music exists.

Since 2008, he has fronted "Jason Elmore & Hoodoo Witch", a high-energy trio that blends jump blues, Texas rock, vintage soul/r&b, and country chicken pickin' that always maintains the essence of the blues while simultaneously offering a fresh take on the genre . The band is rounded out by Brandon Katona on bass and Mike Talbot on drums and can often be found touring all over the USA, Canada, and Europe, playing a full evening of jump blues one night and all hard classic-style rock the next, depending upon the venue. They have shared the stage with such heavyweights as Jimmie Vaughan, Tab Benoit, Monte Montgomery, Bugs Henderson, Tommy Castro, Carolyn Wonderland, Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat, David Lindley, Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown), Peter Tork (Monkees), and many, many others. The band released their debut CD "Upside Your Head" in 2010 to rave reviews as well as a long stint on the Texas Roots Music Airplay Charts. Their follow-up, "Tell You What" was release April 2013 and enjoyed even greater success, staying for several consecutive months at the top of various blues & roots charts and radio playlists. The band is currently at work on their 3rd studio album, which will showcase more blues material than their previous two studio offerings.

Jason Elmore is a master at his craft and is effectively able to cross genres and provide something that everyone can enjoy, regardless of their musical preference. This is definitely a perfomer you need to see live. His abilities as a guitar player, singer, and songwriter are second-to-none and his good humor and charisma turn fans into friends at every show. Bring a sweat rag and your rockin' shoes! These boys are on it, dog gone it!

Album: Upside Your Head
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 56:39
Size: 129.7 MB
Styles: Rockin blues, Texas blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Dusk Till Dawn
[3:35] 2. Big Money Grip
[6:17] 3. All It Does Is Rain
[3:34] 4. Drag Me Down
[3:32] 5. Black Widow
[5:23] 6. Road To Ruin
[2:33] 7. 6 Foot Down
[5:09] 8. Dracula Bite
[5:56] 9. Evil
[4:06] 10. Wash My Hands Of You
[2:24] 11. Red River Valley
[3:31] 12. World Of Trouble
[3:25] 13. Nobody Knows
[2:56] 14. That's The Way It's Got To Be

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Album: Tell You What
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 60:49
Size: 139.2 MB
Styles: Texas blues, Rockin blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:06] 1. Sharecropper Shuffle
[5:14] 2. Southbound
[7:57] 3. Cold Lonely Dawn
[6:43] 4. When The Sun Goes Down
[4:15] 5. Bottom Feeder
[8:07] 6. Dirt Ain't Enough
[1:55] 7. Buckaroo
[4:05] 8. Country Mile
[5:38] 9. Don't Pass Me By
[4:49] 10. Good Foot
[3:00] 11. She Fine
[5:53] 12. You Don't Miss Your Water

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Eric Gales - Good For Sumthin'

Released: 2014
Size: 140.7 MB
Time: 61:28
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues, Rock, Funk, Soul
Art: Full

1. Come A Long Way [5:08]
2. 1019 [5:52]
3. Going Back To Memphis [4:57]
4. Good For Something [4:31]
5. Six Deep [7:02]
6. You Give Me Life [4:30]
7. Heavens Gate [4:06]
8. Tonight [4:34]
9. Show Me How [4:18]
10. Miss You [5:15]
11. Steep Climb (feat. Zakk Wylde) [5:26]
12. E2 (Note to Note) feat. Eric Johnson [5:44]

Ever since, the indifference of black listeners has been a curse to rockers of color. No one knows this better than one of the artists quoted in the story, Eric Gales, the Memphis-born guitar great who bears an uncanny resemblance — stylistically — to Hendrix. Over the span of a career that started when he was 11 years old, Gales, 39, has had to reconcile himself to the fact that, even though his music is steeped in the sound of black predecessors like Hendrix and Albert King, not many African-Americans respond anymore to his incendiary brand of blues-rock. He even recalls first noticing his wife, LaDonna, whom he credits with turning his life around and sparking his current creative renaissance, because she was one of the few black audience members at a show.

If his monochromatic fan base ever did really bother Gales, however, he has learned to let it go. As he sings on “Come A Long Way,” the lead-off track to his new album, Good for Sumthin’, “I just want to play my music for everyone/Forget about my worries and be the one/Crank up to a 100 and have some fun.”

“I don’t have a feeling about it,” Gales says from North Carolina, where he now lives. “I’m just happy at all those that come to the show. It doesn’t matter what color, what creed, what race. It doesn’t matter as along as they come to the show.”

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Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - 2 albums: Blackjack / Live From Austin, TX

Album: Blackjack
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:36
Size: 102.1 MB
Styles: Texas blues, Texas swing
Year: 1977/1999/2010
Art: Front

[5:09] 1. Pressure Cooker
[3:05] 2. Tippin' In
[3:27] 3. Here Am I
[2:30] 4. Gate's Tune
[6:22] 5. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
[2:28] 6. Street Corner
[4:00] 7. Chickenshift
[3:16] 8. Take Me Back To Tulsa
[1:51] 9. Dark End Of The Hallway
[4:08] 10. Up Jump The Devil
[3:31] 11. Blackjack
[4:45] 12. Honey Boy

There aren't many 75-year-old entertainers who rock with the intensity of Gatemouth Brown, a multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana who is a master of guitar, fiddle, viola, mandolin and harmonica. A look into Brown's history shows him leading a 23-piece orchestra in the late '40s, after a stint during the '20s and '30s as a Peacock Records recording artist. During the '60s, Brown traded in his guitar for a gun, signing on as a deputy sheriff in New Mexico. In 1974, at the age of 50, he jumped headfirst back into his music, and the rest is history. Black Jack was originally released on the Music Is Medicine label in 1977, and explores the versatile Brown's love for Texas swing, featuring outstanding tracks laced with swing, big band, R&B and straight-up blues. Alternating between a smoking guitar and a fiery fiddle, Brown drives these 12 songs like a stock-car at NASCAR's Darlington, fast as he can go but still in absolute control of the vehicle. From the funky guitar picking of "Chickenshift," to the bluesy title cut "Black Jack," Brown burns brightly. The soulful "Dark End of the Hallway" is another standout track, as is the intense closing instrumental, "Up Jumped the Devil." For anyone who had previously tacked the blues label on Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's considerable cowboy hat, now is the time to reconsider. While Brown is indeed a master bluesman, he is equally adept at handling Texas swing, country, jazz and rock & roll. A man of many talents who shows absolutely zero signs of slowing down. [Originally released in 1975, Black Jack was reissued on CD in 2006.] ~Michael B. Smith

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Album: Live In Austin, TX
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 62:23
Size: 142.8 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[ 6:10] 1. Ain't That Dandy
[ 4:29] 2. Born In Louisiana
[ 6:15] 3. Honky-Tonk
[ 4:56] 4. Dark End Of The Hallway
[ 6:37] 5. Bits And Pieces
[11:25] 6. Leftover Blues
[ 5:56] 7. There You Are
[ 5:15] 8. Early In The Mornin'
[ 6:01] 9. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
[ 5:15] 10. Up Jumped The Devil

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was a versatile and crowd-pleasing entertainer throughout his long career, but it's easy to overlook just how explosive a guitarist he was, and his style mixed an elegant, jazzy tone with a rough rustic edge, and the same could be said of his fiddle playing, or Brown on any of the other instruments he played, from mandolin to harmonica to piano. Brown pretty much invented his own bayou-tinged and jazzy Texas swing style, and if it centered on the blues, it didn't always. Brown was a maverick musician, with a raconteur's attitude and talent to burn, whether he was playing blues, jazz, honky tonk, Cajun, R&B, funk, or one his own wild fiddle breakdowns, and he kept at it all the way through to his death in 2005 at the age of 81. There was no one quite like him. This CD/DVD set presents a live show Brown did for the Austin City Limits TV series in 1996, the last of his four appearances on the show, and it makes for both a fine farewell and a well-recorded introduction to this one-of-a-kind musician. Brown commands the stage with personality and vigor, bringing a funky sway to "Born in Louisiana," big-band jazz to "Bits and Pieces," and gloriously ragged fiddle to "Up Jumped the Devil," with his signature guitar leads scattered all through. Granted, this is Brown reined in just a bit because of the various restraints of television, but it still documents an American treasure doing what he always did, delivering a show like no one else's, a literal tour of American music by a wonderfully unique musician. ~Steve Leggett

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Denny Freeman - A Tone For My Sins

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:39
Size: 109.1 MB
Styles: Guitar blues
Year: 1997
Art: Front

[3:00] 1. Vigilante
[2:48] 2. Wah Wah Toosie
[4:33] 3. It's A Love Thing
[4:04] 4. Swing Set
[5:09] 5. Cat Fight
[3:47] 6. Don't Stop Now
[3:49] 7. Stealin' Berries Part Ii
[3:12] 8. Swamp Box
[3:22] 9. Aftershock
[4:42] 10. That's What She Said
[5:25] 11. Soul Burden
[3:42] 12. Rhythm Method

A Tone for My Sins is a previously released, but hard to find, CD by guitarist Denny Freeman, long a fixture of the Austin blues scene. He spent the 70's and 80's in the company of Jimmie and Stevie Vaughan and the world famous Antones Night Club House Band before moving to L.A., there landing a job w/ Taj Mahal for several years. He's currently playing guitar in the Bob Dylan Band and participated in Bob's last studio album, Modern Times. This is Freeman's 3rd of four instrumental albums, reflecting his influences and loves, which range from soul jazz and blues, to rock and roll and funk, and most things in between.

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Dave Sadler - 2 albums: Matchbox / Fade To Blue

Growing up on the edge of the Delta, blues inspired music surrounded Dave. Where a typical kid might have been found listening to the latest top 40 rock hit, Dave, a self-taught musician who plays by ear, would often be found locked away in his room listening to the likes of B.B. King and Elmore James, trying to emulate their playing styles. Also heavily influenced by modern players such as Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughn and others, Dave's playing style is a blend of blues, rock, jazz and funk, utilizing both electric and acoustic guitars.

"I have always had a passion for blues, blues/rock and jazz. These genres seem to influence most everything I play, compose and record", Dave says. Music by Dave Sadler has been featured on numerous radio programs and has been used in various production music libraries, advertisements, videos, films and PR campaigns.

Album: Matchbox
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:59
Size: 89.3 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:01] 1. I Got All You Need
[3:43] 2. Matchbox
[3:36] 3. Juniors Jam
[3:41] 4. Satisfaction Guaranteed
[5:03] 5. Cissy Strut
[3:00] 6. You Put Me Out
[5:05] 7. Fourth Street Ruckus
[5:18] 8. You Should'a Known
[3:42] 9. Killing Floor
[2:45] 10. People Get Ready

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Album: Fade To Blue
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 70:07
Size: 160.5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[5:07] 1. Ain't Got Time
[4:53] 2. Fade To Blue
[3:00] 3. Shackles And Chains
[4:39] 4. Killing Game
[3:48] 5. Can't Take It With You
[5:49] 6. Every Child
[3:25] 7. Wrong Turn
[5:18] 8. Girl From Little Rock
[5:38] 9. Cold Wind Blowin'
[3:24] 10. Blues Night Special
[3:11] 11. On Highway 49
[3:32] 12. Blind Side
[5:01] 13. Rise Above
[4:26] 14. Must Change
[4:31] 15. Takedown
[4:19] 16. Blue Reggae

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Southside Denny - Rollin' Home

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:34
Size: 81.4 MB
Styles: Electric/acoustic blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:55] 1. Rollin' Home
[3:37] 2. No Time
[4:21] 3. I Would Do Anything
[3:40] 4. How Long Is It Gonna Last
[3:32] 5. It Breaks My Heart
[4:42] 6. Dan Ryan Blues
[3:47] 7. Evil Woman
[3:33] 8. Everything Woman
[4:24] 9. Food For Thought

This disc was recorded during a very inspiring time. Southside Denny's only disc that features the Chicago Rhythm Section of Jay Davenport on Drums and (sadly) the late Frank McClure on the Bass. This group always played on the edge, as if each note might be their last. Very intense, ranging in sound from traditional blues, rock grooves to funky soulful sounds similar to Robert Cray. This is serious groove music! Recorded by John Nuner at Miami Street Studios on analog equipment, and mastered by John MacDonald of Sony Music

Rollin' Home mc
Rollin' Home zippy

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Bucky O'hare - The Bucky Band Vol. One

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:36
Size: 113.5 MB
Styles: Roots rock, Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:16] 1. My Lady Switchblade
[4:02] 2. Running Up Stream
[5:57] 3. Don't Get In The Way
[5:10] 4. Devil Blues
[3:37] 5. Jimbo Collins
[2:40] 6. Lemon Squeeze
[7:03] 7. Hot Sun
[4:16] 8. Cooling Board
[5:33] 9. Same Thing
[6:57] 10. Deepening The Journey

I am a guitarist, singer/songwriter and bluesman. With an insatiable need for authentic blues, I play all genres of music, including Jazz and Outlaw Country, through a Chicago meets North Mississippi meets Pre-WWI blues lens. For over 15 years I have been playing my unique music all over the Greater Boston area and New England.

The Bucky Band Vol. One
The Bucky Band Vol. One

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Jeremy Vasquez & Ronnie Shellist - Chicago Sessions

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:18
Size: 108.3 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:10] 1. That's Alright
[3:28] 2. Go Back Home
[5:18] 3. Can't Stop Think'n About My Baby
[4:05] 4. Ghetto Song
[3:52] 5. Blues Keeps Me Strong
[5:42] 6. 11 Mile Blues
[4:34] 7. Here I Am Part 2
[3:20] 8. I Like My Coffee
[4:20] 9. Walk Around The Block
[4:11] 10. Married To The Blues
[5:12] 11. Freddy's Grits

Jeremy Vasquez and Ronnie Shellist flew to Chicago,IL to record this cd with the one and only Nick Moss and the Fliptops. They wanted to get that true Chicago feel and sound that could only be captured with the right guys. This cd is a wonderful combination of traditional and modern blues all of which is original material. The band consists of the following people: Nick Moss on bass and guitar, Gerry Hundt on rhythm guitar and keys, Bob Carter on drums, Willie O'shawny on piano, Jeremy Vasquez on guitar and vocals, and Ronnie Shellist on harmonica. This cd captures some high energy blues as well as some slow low down music. Check it out. This is the real deal!

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Masa Orpana - Travelin' Home

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:40
Size: 97.7 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:24] 1. Waiting For The Train
[5:13] 2. Stormy
[3:42] 3. Walkin' And Thinkin'
[4:19] 4. Slower Slower
[3:48] 5. Gone Home
[4:51] 6. Wade In The Water
[3:44] 7. Searchin'
[3:38] 8. Goin' To Kangasala
[3:39] 9. Inna Slow Motion
[5:19] 10. Ekedi

Masa Orpana Honk: Matti-Juhani Orpana (saxophones), Jonni Seppälä (guitars and lap steel), Ville Vallila (bass guitar), Juppo Paavola (drums, percussion) With Wiley Cousins (piano), (electric piano), Ismaila Sané (percussion), Ville Rauhala (double bass).

Masa (Matti-Juhani) Orpana (s. 1973) on kangasalalainen muusikko. Hänen instrumenttejaan ovat saksofonit, klarinetti, huilu ja kitara, vaikkakin eniten hän soittaa tenorisaksofonia. Masa on vuosien varrella soittanut mm. yhtyeissä Groovy Eyes, Rakka, Olmarin Unioni, Honky Tonk Men, Anssi Tikanmäki Orchestra ja Anssi Tikanmäki Film Orchestra, Jazzgangsters, White Giant, One O'Clock Humph ja Masa Orpana Honk. Hän on myös toiminut teatteri- ja studiomuusikkona sekä opetustehtävissä.

Masan omin tyyli käsittää rhythm and bluesia ja muuta juurimusiikkia, jazzia, improvisoitua musiikkia ja rockia. Masa on julkaissut omalla nimellään kaksi levyä: Honky Tonk Man (Alba Records 2005) ja Brothers (Alba Records 2008). Yhtyeen jäsenenä tai vierailijana hän on mukana kymmenillä levyillä. Hän on esiintynyt lukuisilla merkittävillä festivaaleilla sekä kotimaassa että Euroopassa ja ollut mukana kiertueilla mm. Pohjoismaissa ja Kanadassa.

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Motor City Josh - 2 albums: Forty Four: A Tribute To Howlin' Wolf / Living Like A King In The Ghetto

Josh Ford is a music producer, studio engineer, musician and song writer. Based in the Detroit Area and works out of the Sound Shop Recording Studio. He has multiple Detroit Music Awards for his music and other artists that he has produced. Specializing in Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country, Gospel and Soul music. Josh has produced more than 100 full length records and countless singles and EPs, has worked with many talented artists.

Josh Ford - Guitar/vocals, Johnny Rhoads - guitar, Dustin Seargent - Bass, Skeeto - Drums

Album: Forty Four: A Tribute To Howlin' Wolf
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:52
Size: 109.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[2:19] 1. Forty Four
[4:03] 2. Spoonful
[5:05] 3. Evil Is Goin' On
[4:05] 4. Back Door Man
[3:12] 5. 300 Lbs Of Joy
[2:53] 6. I Ain't Superstitious
[2:40] 7. Sittin' On Top Of The World
[5:27] 8. Smokestack Lightnin'
[2:49] 9. Little Red Rooster
[2:51] 10. Built For Comfort
[3:57] 11. Meet Me In The Bottom
[3:45] 12. Wang Dang Doodle
[4:40] 13. Goin' Down Slow

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Album: Living Like A King In The Ghetto
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 71:10
Size: 162.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[3:32] 1. Real Love
[3:28] 2. Living Like A King In The Ghetto
[7:08] 3. Bar Life
[2:26] 4. Crazy Bout You Baby
[7:14] 5. Shut Up Woman
[2:47] 6. 5231 Moran St. Blues
[4:15] 7. Goin' Fishin'
[5:48] 8. Gas Station Sandwich
[5:38] 9. Conductor, Conductor
[1:55] 10. Day Shift Night Shift
[5:55] 11. So Long
[7:58] 12. Another Man's Woman
[5:06] 13. On Line
[4:31] 14. Behind Every Good Man
[3:22] 15. I've Been Your Fool Too Long

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The Bad Apples - Played!

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 43:49
Size: 100.3 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:01] 1. Love Gets In The Way
[3:43] 2. Chained To Love
[4:20] 3. Taste For Bourbon
[4:10] 4. Holy Cow
[3:49] 5. Get Off Of My Back (Feat. Micky Moody)
[5:11] 6. I Don't Need No Doctor
[4:45] 7. Someone To Watch Over Me
[3:27] 8. Hound Dog
[5:05] 9. Everything But The Blame
[2:39] 10. Shake Rattle And Roll
[2:36] 11. Lonnie On The Move

The amazing Bad apples, so whats the deal with these guys? Well you might not recognize em but you will have heard them. An idea that came from our working closely with Jimmy Copley (drums) on a variety of projects brought together our love of blues rock and soul, and The Bad Apples were born. Jimmy Copley on Drums, Mick Rogers on guitar, Micky Moody on guitar, Ian Jennings on Bass and Robert Hart on lead Vocal, plus a great line up of top line guests.

This sees the first Album from the boys which features Manfred Mann and Anthony Head as guests artists. A rip snorting Album that combines the deft guitar playing of Mick Rogers and Micky Moody along side the rockabilly stability from Ian Jennings all pinned down by Jimmy Copley's incredible drumming glued together by Robert Harts edgy blues vocals, its not hard to see why these guys all make a living in music. A music lovers feast.

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Jimmy Thackery - Extra Jimmies

Released: 2014
Size: 142.0 MB
Time: 62:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues, Rock
Art: Front

1. Write If You Find Love [5:14]
2. You Upset Me Baby [6:01]
3. Rude Mood [4:37]
4. I Got To Be Strong [3:32]
5. Lickin' Gravy [6:01]
6. Take Me With You When You Go [3:33]
7. Love To Ride [4:38]
8. Trouble Man [5:18]
9. I Wouldn't Change A Thing [5:54]
10. Honey Hush [4:03]
11. Flying Low [4:24]
12. Empty Arms Motel [4:47]
13. Monkey [3:54]

His soulful guitar work touches nerves previously exposed by the idiom's legends - Stevie, Muddy, Otis Rush, etc. - and his clean picking and scorching tone are irresistible.” – Guitar Player
Jimmy Thackery is without doubt one of the finest guitar players of his generation. He’s one of the few blues guitarists who learned his craft first-hand from the masters of the blues such as Muddy Waters, rather than from recordings. On Extra Jimmies, Blind Pig Records has compiled a sterling collection of gems from perhaps his most creative period (1992 – 1998).

Blind Pig is proud to have helped Jimmy launch his solo career. After a fifteen year stint as co-founder and lead guitarist of the legendary blues-rock band The Nighthawks, he formed the popular R&B band The Assassins. Five years later he put together his three piece band called The Drivers to highlight his explosive guitar. Jimmy and his band became renowned road warriors, playing close to 300 dates a year and establishing him as one of the premier guitarists around.

The re-mastered tracks on Extra Jimmies are taken from Thackery’s Blind Pig debut album, “Empty Arms Motel,” as well as from two other out-of-print CD titles – “Wild Night Out!” (a live recording) and “Switching Gears.”

Extra Jimmies

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