John Mayall - Thru The Years

Year: 1971/1990
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:34
Size: 100,9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Crocodile Walk (2:20)
2. My Baby Is Sweeter (3:05)
3. Crawling Up A Hill (2:19)
4. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter (2:43)
5. Alabama Blues (2:34)
6. Out Of Reach (4:46)
7. Greeny (3:57)
8. Curly (4:53)
9. Missing You (2:01)
10. Please Don't Tell (2:30)
11. Your Funeral And My Trial (3:58)
12. Suspicious (Part One) (2:50)
13. Knockers Step Forward (3:16)
14. Hide And Seek (2:22)

A grab bag of rare tracks from the '60s, some of which stand among Mayall's finest. His debut 1964 single "Crawling Up a Hill" is one of his best originals; this comp also includes a couple of 1964-1965 flipsides. The eight songs featuring Peter Green include some top-notch material that outpaces much of the only album recorded by the Green lineup (A Hard Road), particularly the Green originals "Missing You" and "Out of Reach", a great B-side with devastating, icy guitar lines and downbeat lyrics that ranks as one of the great lost blues-rock cuts of the '60s. The set is filled out with a few songs from the Mick Taylor era, the highlight being the vicious instrumental "Knockers Step Forward". /Richie Unterberger, AllMusic

(Note: According to Discogs "Thru The Years" was also released as a 2 LP set in 1971, containing more tracks than featured on this CD reissue of the 1 LP version of the album. The info at Discogs says there were five different 2 LP releases on various labels.)

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Jimmy Rogers, Big Moose Walker - Chicago Bound

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:06
Size: 89.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1998/2015
Art: Front

[2:46] 1. Chicago Bound
[3:43] 2. St Louis
[3:31] 3. Do You Swear
[4:25] 4. Anna Lee
[4:58] 5. Sloppy Drunk
[3:27] 6. Lemon Squeezer
[2:52] 7. Last Time
[4:27] 8. Whoopin' Foolin' With You
[5:58] 9. One Room Little Country Shack
[2:57] 10. Goin' Away Baby

Johnny "Big Moose" Walker/ Piano, Vocals; John Primer/Guitar; Jimmy Rogers/Guitar, Performer, Vocals; Luther "Slim" Adams/Guitar; Billy Branch/Harp; Willie Kent/Bass.

Johnny Walker--Big Moose, Busy Head, Moose John, J. W. Walker--by whatever name he was called him, he was Chicago’s irrepressible wild man of blues piano. He wore a splendid smile and long, wavy hair; in his briefcase he carried a gorilla mask and a “Big Moose” jersey. Just as musicians and audiences enjoyed Moose’s antics, they also admired the exuberant, two-fisted blues he played. He’s worked alongside the best in the business and rambled from coast to coast.

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s. He also had solo hits on the R&B chart with "That's All Right" in 1950 and "Walking by Myself" in 1954. He withdrew from the music industry at the end of the 1950s but returned to recording and touring in the 1970s.

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Jackson Sloan - Saturday Clothes

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:59
Size: 98.4 MB
Styles: Jump blues, Electric blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:31] 1. Jumping On The Kansas Line
[2:49] 2. Take A Chance On Me Baby
[3:36] 3. Dont Make Me Love You Again
[3:35] 4. I'm No Good Without You
[2:46] 5. Long As I Have You
[4:55] 6. Midnight Lover
[2:55] 7. Saturday Clothes
[2:16] 8. Saratoga Boogie
[4:13] 9. 'til The River Runs Dry
[3:56] 10. Love X2
[2:58] 11. Temptation
[5:23] 12. Lover's Call

Over the years, Jackson Sloan has built up a reputation as an exceptionally talented and gifted front man. Along with Ray Gelato, he helped pioneer the jump sounds of Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner and Wynonie Harris, both in the UK and in Europe.

"Saturday Clothes" brings together a melting pot of top class roots musicians who have played and toured with Scotty Moore, Alvin Lee, Big Jay McNeely, Hubert Sumlin, Lowell Fulson and Eric Bibb (to name but a few). "Saturday Clothes" has put together Jackson's love of Jump Blues, Swing, Early Rock 'n' Roll, Boogie Woogie and Jive. So put on your saturday clothes and let the good times roll!

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Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm - S/T

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:22
Size: 115.3 MB
Styles: Soul blues, Modern electric blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:51] 1. The Same Love That Made Me Laugh
[3:40] 2. You Must Believe In Yourself
[5:28] 3. I Don't Care
[4:20] 4. Aspen, Colorado
[3:52] 5. Just How Low
[4:53] 6. You Had My Heart
[4:20] 7. I'm With You, Pt. 1
[6:08] 8. Honey Bad
[5:04] 9. The Way We Are
[5:26] 10. Don't Steal My Love
[3:14] 11. I'm With You, Pt. 2

Continuing his revived collaboration with producer Steve Jordan -- the pair first worked together on 1999's Take Your Shoes Off, then reunited on 2014's In My Soul -- Robert Cray headed to Memphis to cut his 18th studio set with members of the legendary Hi Rhythm Section. Setting up shop at Royal Studios, Cray got to work on a handful of originals and a collection of covers, not all of them strictly related to Memphis. In particular, Cray pushes swamp rocker Tony Joe White and "5" Royales leader Lowman Pauling, cutting two songs from each writer. These sit alongside a pair of tunes from Sir Mack Rice (the author of "Mustang Sally"), a version of Bill Withers' "The Same Love That Made Me Laugh," and three originals by Cray, so the album casts its net wide but unites these various styles and eras through the prism of sleek Memphis soul. Jordan evokes the smooth, soulful shimmer of Hi at its peak, but the record never seems studied or an exercise in nostalgia; there's an elegance to the grooves that seems effortless. "The Way We Are," a Cray original, simmers like Al Green but most of the album is funkier, reaching an apex with both "You Must Believe in Yourself" and the cooking "Don't Steal My Love," which happens to be graced by a cameo from its author, Tony Joe White. His appearance underscores how Robert Cray has gotten a lift from his new collaborators: supported by the Hi Rhythm Section he sounds livelier and grittier than he has in years, and that passion serves as a nice counterpoint to the smooth grooves on Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Bone Tee & The Slughunters - 2 albums: Country Boys / One Foot In The Roots

Established in 2010, Bone Tee & The Slughunters has built a solid stage reputation. The group's identity, shaped by the Delta blues as well as by the first rock'n'roll, takes on live an extraordinary dimension. Their first album released at the end of 2012, gave a foretaste of their passion for great artists like Champion Jack Dupree, Willie Dixon or Freddy King and marked the birth of the "New Antique Sound"! "One Foot in the Roots", released in the spring of 2014, blends the blues enthusiasts, skillfully navigating between the rough and warm Mississippi sound, the shouters' boogie woogie exhilaration or the jump blues of the awesome T Bone Walker . A bouillon of vintage modernity. The 12 pieces that compose it are shaped for live, revealing the effluvium of epic concerts gorged with sweat and energy.

The 1st Ocotbre 2016 is released their 3rd album: "Country Boys". The love of swing and rock'n'roll is translated here by an even more energetic album, alive, which "stands out from the rest of the national blues production". "Bone Tee and The Slughunters manage to deliver nuggets of rare beauty, real blues beads and perfectly shaped swing" ~F. Delforge - Zicazic - Oct 2016. (Translated from French)

Album: Country Boys
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:00
Size: 91.6 MB
Styles: Jump blues, Electric blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:30] 1. Turkish Delight
[3:07] 2. Shake It Babe
[3:17] 3. Baker's Morning Moan
[2:52] 4. Half Price
[4:47] 5. French Car
[4:23] 6. Thorny Tree
[3:21] 7. Money Men
[5:03] 8. Voodoo Doll
[3:10] 9. A Pen To A Swine
[3:19] 10. When She Calls My Name
[4:08] 11. Poor Young Country Boy

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Album: One Foot In The Roots
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:47
Size: 107.1 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Rock n roll
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:01] 1. Love Recipe
[3:56] 2. Mumbo Jimbo
[5:41] 3. Mr. Goodnews
[4:32] 4. Because Of You
[3:26] 5. I'm Asking Why
[2:07] 6. Don't Go Googling Me
[3:01] 7. Just Because You Could, Doesn't Mean You Should
[3:31] 8. I Got A Gal
[6:06] 9. Everlasting Night
[2:41] 10. La Farfalla
[3:42] 11. Sunday
[4:56] 12. Grave Crawling

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Igor Prado Band - Instrumentals Volume 1

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:03
Size: 135.2 MB
Styles: Jump blues, Electric blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:04] 1. Bills Change
[3:12] 2. Blue Bop
[3:51] 3. Gene's Groove (Feat. Ari Borger)
[4:24] 4. Leaps & Bounds
[7:01] 5. The Smooth One (Feat. Donny Nichilo & Lynwood Slim)
[7:53] 6. My Blues After Hours (Feat. Ari Borger)
[2:50] 7. Upsidedown Intro
[4:47] 8. Tigerman
[4:43] 9. Hey Boogie! (Feat. Ari Borger)
[4:29] 10. Riding With Ray (Feat. Howard Levy)
[3:43] 11. George's Boogie
[3:03] 12. Blues For Mother Alice
[4:56] 13. Little Boy

Igor Prado - Guitar; Yuri Prado - Drums; Rodrigo Mantovani - Bass; Ari Borger - Hammond B-3; Lynwood Slim - Flute; Howard Levy - Harp & Piano; Ivan Marcio - Harmonica; Donny Nichilo - Piano; Andre Calixto - Saxophone; Denilson Martins - Saxophone.

Igor Prado has been steadily gaining a reputation as one of the leading south-of-the-border practitioners of that 1940s and 1950s finger-popping, jump blues sound. This time, he knocks out some fine instrumentals, in that vein. Igor plays with taste, talent, energy and good attention to tone. The band is tight and each of the players is excellent. There’s a sense of melody on the jump blues and boogie numbers - a little bit of jazz, a bit of Texas guitar and an original twist. ”...a young talent from South America that has been quickly making a name for himself as one of the best guitar players to emerge in the past few years.” ~Don Jacobson/Southland Blues, USA. Killer stuff – not to be missed!

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Dave Hunt - 100 Horses

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:33
Size: 111.1 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Southern rock
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:57] 1. Across The U.S.A
[5:13] 2. 100 Horses
[4:55] 3. Blues Highway
[3:21] 4. Love's Just A Killer
[3:48] 5. Doghouse
[2:19] 6. Moonshine Chevrolet
[4:44] 7. Deadman's Shoes
[3:24] 8. Tell Me
[4:30] 9. Rehab
[3:52] 10. I'm On Fire Baby
[4:29] 11. I Told You
[3:54] 12. Shot Down

Dave Hunt returns with his 3rd studio album, 12 tracks of harmonica driven blues, upbeat southern rock and cool delta blues. Dave teams up once again with producer Andy Littlewood.

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Ray Collins' Hot Club - 2 albums: Lord Oh Lord / Tohuwabohu

Imagine a band which could play to perfection a mixture of 40 and 50' s Jump-blues, swing, jive and of rock' roll with authenticity and an overflowing energy while developing their own style and composing some solid songs. A band which could set a ballroom on fire with only the first bars of a brass section. Imagine nine guys ready to party and make you spend an unforgettable evening and which for that will give all that they have! You think that kind a band has never existed and will never exist neither in Europe, neither in States nor in any area of the world. But I can swear to you that this band really exist (cause I saw them!) and that they just released their third album "Tohuwabohu" for Crazy Love Records. This group is The "Ray Collins’ Hot Club", a german bunch of wild guys which signed their first album in 2001 -“Shaking That Boogie”- and which since became a reference.

Some bands are good in studio and disappointing on stage. Some others are just the opposite; they are great entertainers but their albums are flat and without any “fever” or “guts” whatever you call it. In this case, we are dealing with this rare species of band who are at the same time achieved showmen and which sign original albums with no fillers or tracks to be thrown away.

Album: Lord Oh Lord
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:35
Size: 95.2 MB
Styles: R&B, Swing, Jump blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[2:46] 1. Hit
[2:54] 2. The Date
[3:25] 3. Right Eye’s Jumping
[2:00] 4. Don’t Wait
[1:38] 5. Chicken Shit
[3:56] 6. The Grind
[4:53] 7. Lord Oh Lord
[2:16] 8. Give It Up
[2:52] 9. I Know Your Name
[3:05] 10. I Wish
[2:36] 11. Bacon Feet
[3:08] 12. You Do Something
[3:27] 13. Hi-Fi Phono
[2:32] 14. Bechstein Stomp

Crazy and tough times led to this album. Some tracks were recorded on a simple cassette. We still get a lot of shouts to play HIGH FI PHONO. And we still enjoy to do so. Give it up was literally recorded in a shag. In a tiny, little and beautiful studio in Dixon USA while we were on tour. Later we shot a short film containg songs of this album. And even though everything was shot the film was never finished due to too many projects.

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Album: Tohuwabohu
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:12
Size: 103.5 MB
Styles: R&B, Swing, Jump blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. Yeah Yeah Baby You’re Right
[2:55] 2. Barefoot
[3:20] 3. Rock’n’roll
[3:07] 4. Bye Bye Paris
[2:55] 5. Elephant Parade
[2:46] 6. Don’t Drop
[4:07] 7. The Hot-Club Is Coming To Town
[3:30] 8. Great Big Troubles And Joy
[3:06] 9. Run Brother Run
[4:18] 10. What You Want Me To
[3:40] 11. Schlomo’s Song
[3:26] 12. Nothing But The Boogie
[2:13] 13. Tohuwabohu
[2:29] 14. Waiting For Crazy

TOHUWABOHU, a German word for a big mess proved unpronounceble for the rest of the world. That´s why English record dealers call it Towamba. With BAREFOOT and BYE BYE PARIS it contains two of the most popular songs of the Hot-Club. After we were booked to appear in the movie BARFUSS, Til Schweiger suggested we might try to make a title song. We are glad that happend because the song came out pretty good and is still fun to play. Many artists covered this tune. There is an italian version and for some reason russian people use it as a soundtrack for all kind of youtube videos. We always love to find new versions.

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Lynwood Slim & Igor Prado Band - Brazilian Kicks

Year: 2010
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:26
Size: 125,1 MB
Styles: Blues, jump blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. Shake It Baby (3:17)
2. Is It True? (3:35)
3. Bloodshot Eyes (3:36)
4. My Hat's On The Side Of My Head (2:41)
5. Blue Bop (3:13)
6. Little Girl (5:40)
7. I Sat And Cried (2:59)
8. Maybe Someday (4:58)
9. Show Me The Way (6:17)
10. Bill's Change (4:05)
11. The Comeback (4:39)
12. The Way You Do (3:45)
13. Going To Mona Lisa's (4:36)

Lynwood Slim is a name synonymous with West Coast Blues. Over the years Slim has built up an impressive catalog of iconic recordings (including 1991’s Lost In America featuring Junior Watson, as well as the Big Rhythm Combo’s 1994 release Too Small To Dance with Kid Ramos), which subsequently helped him to attain world-wide renown and endeared him to a legion of fans around the globe with a devout affection for California Blues. While traveling on tour outside the U.S., Slim also obtained a considerable reputation for identifying fresh new talent, and soon found his skills and expertise enlisted to help produce numerous projects for gifted artists throughout Europe, Canada and more recently, South America.

In recent years, the Igor Prado Band has been quietly but steadily gaining their reputation as the foremost authority and leading practitioners south of the border of 1940s and 1950s style Chicago/Jump Blues. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the core band is comprised of two brothers; Igor Prado (age 27) on guitar and Yuri Prado (age 26) on drums, harmoniously fortified by bassist Rodrigo Mantovani (age 28) and saxophonist Denilson Martins (age 23). As word spread regarding the group’s natural affinity for traditional American blues and roots music, the Igor Prado Band has become an increasingly popular and in demand unit for supporting many of today’s blues elite while touring South America. The band has admirably backed such esteemed artists as Eddie C. Campbell, Steve Guyger, James Wheeler, Phil Guy, Mud Morganfield (eldest son of Muddy Waters), R.J. Mischo, Gary Smith, Mark Hummel, Mitch Kashmar and Rick Estrin.

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Freddie King - Getting Ready...

Year: 1971
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:45
Size: 103,5 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Same Old Blues (4:01)
2. Dust My Broom (3:14)
3. Worried Life Blues (2:54)
4. Five Long Years (4:25)
5. Key To The Highway (3:27)
6. Going Down (3:24)
7. Living On The Highway (4:18)
8. Walking By Myself (2:53)
9. Tore Down (4:14)
10. Palace Of The King (3:43)
11. Gimme Some Lovin' (4:09)
12. Send Me Someone To Love (3:58)

The first of Freddie King's three albums for Leon Russell's Shelter label set the tone for his work for the company: competent electric blues with a prominent rock/soul influence. King sings and plays well, but neither the sidemen nor the material challenge him to scale significant heights. Part of the problem is that King himself wrote none of the songs, which are divided between Chicago blues standards and material supplied by Leon Russell and Don Nix. The entire album is included on the compilation King of the Blues. /Richie Unterberger, AllMusic

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Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter - The Chicago Super Blues Revisited: Singles As & Bs 1961-1962

Year: 2017
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:22
Size: 163,5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Scans: Full

1. Muddy Waters - Lonesome Room Blues (3:03)
2. Muddy Waters - Messin' With The Man (2:20)
3. Muddy Waters - Tough Times (2:27)
4. Muddy Waters - Going Home (3:03)
5. Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters Twist (1:52)
6. Muddy Waters - You Shook Me (2:44)
7. Muddy Waters - You Need Love (2:46)
8. Muddy Waters - Little Brown Bird (3:12)
9. Howlin' Wolf - Back Door Man (2:50)
10. Howlin' Wolf - Wang-Dang-Doodle (2:25)
11. Howlin' Wolf - Down In The Bottom (2:35)
12. Howlin' Wolf - Little Baby (2:44)
13. Howlin' Wolf - The Red Rooster (2:28)
14. Howlin' Wolf - Shake For Me (2:16)
15. Howlin' Wolf - Goin' Down Slow (4:03)
16. Howlin' Wolf - You'll Be Mine (2:28)
17. Howlin' Wolf - Just Like I Treat You (2:58)
18. Howlin' Wolf - I Ain't Superstitious (2:54)
19. Howlin' Wolf - Mama's Baby (2:10)
20. Howlin' Wolf - Do The Do (2:13)
21. Little Walter - I Don't Play (2:20)
22. Little Walter - As Long As I Have You (2:40)
23. Little Walter - Crazy Legs (3:23)
24. Little Walter - Crazy For My Baby (3:02)
25. Little Walter - Just Your Fool (2:25)
26. Little Walter - I Got To Find My Baby (2:49)

"The Chicago Super Blues Revisited" is Jasmine's homage to the two superb albums "Super Blues" and "The Super Super Blues Band", which contained these great bluesmen playing together. Here the concept is different as these three giants of Chicago blues are not performing together but what is presented are both sides of their 45s released after Jasmine's respective previous releases.

These artists personify the Chicago blues and this collection of marvellous recordings catches them before global fame took them to greater heights. Features "You Shook Me", "You Need Love", "Wang-Dang-Doodle", "I Ain't Superstitious" and many more superb songs that influenced the UK blues boom.

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Twin Fin - Whiskey Wine And Venom Love

Year: 2016
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:01
Size: 90,3 MB
Styles: R&B, swing
Scans: Front

1. Jungle Room (3:42)
2. Devil Girl Stomp (3:30)
3. Long Gone Daddy (4:13)
4. Rocco Perri (3:59)
5. City Of Sin (3:42)
6. Whiskey Wine & Venom Love (4:13)
7. Let's Get Drinkin' (2:51)
8. Straight Six And Four On The Floor (5:00)
9. Won't Let You Go (3:44)
10. Jalopy (4:01)

Offering a spirited take on swing, Twin Fin’s “Whiskey Wine and Venom Love” is a radiant joy that lets it all out. Vocals lead the way, courtesy of Dana Hartman’s playful delivery. Her mastery of the guitar, alongside Paul Wickerson, gives the entire album an almost Tarantino soundtrack kind of cool. Nicely anchoring the album is the undeniable talent of Eric Roelofsen on upright bass and Brad “Lavard” Ondrovcik on drums. Of course the cherry on top of all of this are the impressive chops of Cole G. Benjamin on saxophone. Together they create an unstoppable force one that refuses to let up.

“Jungle Room” starts the album off with the perfect kind of jazz guitar leading the way. With a giddy sort of energy, the song bounces through with a nimble rhythm helping to drive the song forward. Nicely following up on “Jungle Room” is the infinitely celebratory “Devil Girl Stomp”. Effortlessly merging rock and swing is the stylish “Rocco Perri”. Amazing saxophone work defines the tasteful, grandiose work of “City of Sin”. By far the highlight of the collection is the lounge inflection of the title track “Whiskey Wine and Venom Love”. Starting off slow the song builds in intensity before settling into a jaunty jazz groove. Western twang comes into full view on the spacious “Straight Six and Four on the Floor”. Ending things on a high note is the energetic “Jalopy”.

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Michael Van Merwyk & Bluesoul - New Shoes

Year: 2015
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:38
Size: 98,2 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues, rock
Scans: Front, back

1. Won't Get Any Better (3:16)
2. Warm (4:35)
3. Happy Man (3:41)
4. Lullaby (3:58)
5. New Shoes (2:46)
6. At Least Some Day (3:11)
7. Desire (5:37)
8. Lonely Days (1:52)
9. Heal My Wounds (4:15)
10. Ain't No Use (7:04)
11. Leaving (2:19)

After winning the German Blues Challenge 2011, Michael van Merwyk & Bluesoul took second place at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, USA, at the beginning of February 2013. The four musicians played confidently and confidently in the final with their fresh and independent music. "American Music - Eurostyle" caused a sensation in a field of 124 band acts from 16 countries. Their placement in the motherland of the Blues can be described as sensational, even more so because in the 29-year history of the IBC this was the first time a European band achieved a placement at all!

Michael van Merwyk's style is unmistakable: autodidactic and emotional. His voice growls like a mixture of D.r John and Johnny Cash, his guitar playing is funky like Johnny Guitar Watson and rough as Albert King. Whether acoustic, electric or on the lap-steel: if it has strings, it is played. His musical personality is equally popular with international musicians and organizers, so he was invited as one of the few Europeans with his band Bluesoul to the prestigious "Lucerne Bluesfest" and played on CDs by Larry Garner and Big Daddy Wilson. He regularly tours all over Europe - from Finland to the Mediterranean coast, from the Atlantic coast to Moscow. (Translated from German)

Personnel: Michael van Merwyk (guitar, lap steel, vocals), Olli Gee (bass), Jochen Bens (guitars), Bernhard Weichinger (drums).

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The Blue Chevys - Turn It Back EP

Year: 2016
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 24:05
Size: 55,2 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues, rock
Scans: Small front

1. Burning Heart (3:39)
2. Follow The Moon (5:43)
3. Snakes (2:53)
4. No Worries (4:14)
5. Turn It Back (4:55)
6. Loving Fool (2:39)

“Turn It Back" is the title track of the new EP of the Belgian band The Blue Chevys. The song and EP celebrate the reunion of the original band members of this feel good band that crossed many rivers to return to their first love Soulful Rock 'n Roll and Funky Rhythm 'n Blues.

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Lowell Fulson - My Baby

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:39
Size: 77.1 MB
Styles: R&B, Texas blues
Year: 1998/2006
Art: Front

[3:50] 1. Look At You Baby
[3:46] 2. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
[3:18] 3. Sleeper
[2:49] 4. Lady In The Rain
[3:04] 5. My Baby
[3:29] 6. Man On The Run
[2:57] 7. Don't Destroy Me
[2:37] 8. This Feeling
[2:25] 9. Trouble Everywhere
[2:45] 10. Cheating Woman
[2:33] 11. Man Of Motion

Lowell Fulson recorded every shade of blues imaginable. Polished urban blues, rustic two-guitar duets with his younger brother Martin, funk-tinged grooves that pierced the mid-'60s charts, even an unwise cover of the Beatles' "Why Don't We Do It in the Road!" Clearly, the veteran guitarist, who was active for more than half-a-century, wasn't afraid to experiment. Perhaps that's why his last couple of discs for Rounder were so vital and satisfying -- and why he remained an innovator for so long.

Exposed to the Western swing of Bob Wills, as well as indigenous blues while growing up in Oklahoma, Fulson joined up with singer Texas Alexander for a few months in 1940, touring the Lone Star state with the veteran bluesman. Fulson was drafted in 1943. The Navy let him go in 1945; after a few months back in Oklahoma, he was off to Oakland, CA, where he made his first 78s for fledgling producer Bob Geddins. Soon enough, Fulson was fronting his own band and cutting a stack of platters for Big Town, Gilt Edge, Trilon, and Down Town (where he hit big in 1948 with "Three O'Clock Blues," later covered by B.B. King).

Few bluesmen managed to remain contemporary the way Lowell Fulson did for more than five decades. And fewer still will make such a massive contribution to the idiom.

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One Man Bluez - Dirty Blues Lover

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:29
Size: 72.1 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[2:48] 1. Dirty Blues Lover
[3:40] 2. House In My Pocket
[2:50] 3. Messy Ground
[2:41] 4. Over & Above
[3:00] 5. Wings In Trouble
[2:12] 6. My Girl Blues
[3:14] 7. Sweet Toy
[3:57] 8. Hurt Me
[3:58] 9. The Letter
[3:05] 10. I Hate You

Every story related to the blues that you respect must, from the night of the times, have a mysterious one, talk about distance and travel, from the bottom and best of all lead to the redemption of the protagonist. Obviously, love and passion do not go wrong, even if it is for your own guitar called Lucille or not. We also follow this canvas and begin with a trip to the States to learn the basics of blues, that of Roman Davide Lipari, who decides to go to the roots of this language, driven by love for it. Here you learn that everything is based on passion and putting your heart in what you do. Then there is the question of starting from the bottom, here is Lipari who plays in the streets of Rome and monetina after monetina ends up lapping important stages, obtaining international awards and publishing six discs. All of this, besides the main actor, sees the recent presence of two little known friends, especially the bassist who responds to the mysterious name of Low Chef, both featuring on this new album that we offer you a preview. Everything nice on paper, but how does this dirty blues lover play in the money? What's behind this beautiful story that, if not, is likely to become like the facades of houses in the movies, two-dimensional two-dimensional simulacres supported by wooden boards? For our good luck there is a good blues-inspired piano lesson and a solid knowledge of its history, from the 1920s to the most modern variables. There is the rough and warm sound, dirty at the right point and full of different moods, there is the past (tradition) and today as in the engaging "Hurt Me" track that moves the hands forward and pushes To go on track. What's more, it seems obvious how best this music gives it once brought onto the stage and let it run free out of a recording studio, but this does not take away fascination and strength in a work that is rich in facets and for nothing predictable , Far from the mannerism that too often blurs the essence of a belly music like blues. (Translated from Italian.)

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Bluestown Kings - Message To The People

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:11
Size: 101.2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:34] 1. Love In Vain
[4:00] 2. Got You On My Mind
[4:26] 3. Poor Black Mattie
[4:37] 4. Breakfast In Memphis
[3:58] 5. The Blues Never Die
[3:30] 6. Need My Baby
[4:49] 7. Be My Woman
[2:08] 8. Clickety Clack
[5:01] 9. Last Night
[3:43] 10. Catfish Blues
[4:21] 11. Move On

Jostein Forsberg - Harp & Vocals; Morten Omlid - Bass & Drums; Trond Ytterbø - Guitar & Harp.

The Bluestown Kings (three of Norway’s most famous and seasoned blues artists) have been playing and recording for 30 years with their respective bands Notodden Blues Band and Spoonful of Blues. They run through a vast repertoire of self penned blues songs and well known standards with skills gained from years of experience. The music of this fine group comes across as humorous, direct, honest, playful and raw - a ruggedly hooded sound creates some groovy blues. Their intent is to entertain and to have a good time. In the company of The Bluestown Kings, you are guaranteed a royal night!

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The Drew Davies Rhythm Combo - 2 albums: Wild Man Walk / Ten Days Ten Nights

Drew davies, singer & tenor saxman from the UK draws his inspiration from 40's swing and 50's rhythm 'n' blues, residing near Paris, France, the reputation of 'The Drew Davies Rhythm Combo', has brought them to numberous european festivals such as 'Jazz in Ascona, or the Breda Jazz Festival, and have led them to accompany artists such as Mike Sanchez or Kenny 'blues boss' Wayne,
A recently released fourth album 'You Make Me Shake', featuring 10 original numbers and a couple of covers, sums up the energy of this dynamic combo who bring back the days of crowded dancefloors in a time when the tenor sax still ruled the stage

Album: Wild Man Walk
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:13
Size: 85.2 MB
Styles: R&B, Contemporary blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:02] 1. Pink Champagne
[3:15] 2. Whatcha' Gonna Do When Your Baby Leaves You
[2:29] 3. Ruthie Mae
[3:08] 4. Hop Skip And Jump
[3:43] 5. Istanbul
[3:41] 6. Daddy Rollin' Stone
[2:37] 7. You're Fine But You're Not My Kind
[4:16] 8. Goin' Home
[3:04] 9. Fever
[3:11] 10. South Of The Border
[2:54] 11. Tell Me What I Did Wrong
[1:47] 12. Wild Man Walk

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Album: Ten Days Ten Nights
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:18
Size: 108.3 MB
Styles: R&B, Contemporary blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:02] 1. Gettin Old
[2:44] 2. Ten Days Ten Nights
[3:40] 3. Get It Together
[2:37] 4. Who's Takin Care
[4:39] 5. Four Knuckle Shuffle
[2:37] 6. Worry 'n Pain
[3:11] 7. Anna Marie
[3:14] 8. Get My Train On The Track
[3:25] 9. Way To Go
[3:24] 10. Phuket
[2:55] 11. So Long
[3:41] 12. Blind Man
[2:56] 13. Gotta Keep Movin'
[5:08] 14. How Long

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Mick McConnell - Under My Skin

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:02
Size: 94.0 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:36] 1. Holdin On
[4:05] 2. Man With A Smokin' Gun
[3:43] 3. No She Don't … Like Country
[4:25] 4. All My Soul
[4:12] 5. Lock You Out
[4:47] 6. Visiting Mr J
[3:47] 7. Moods On A Rainy Day
[4:34] 8. Cross The Line
[3:50] 9. Under My Skin
[3:58] 10. Spell On Me

David Levi: Bass Guitar (Rory Gallagher) (Chris De Burg); Pete Lincoln: Guitar; Dave Major: Keyboards; Ross McFarlane: Drums (Texas); Lynn Major: Backing Vocals; Kyla Porter: Backing Vocals.

Like most kids, Mick grew up listening to pop music and playing football. Then having eventually followed his father's wish to finish college, he became a professional guitar player at the age of 22. In the early days his introduction to live gigs was with much older musicians playing on the blues circuit in and around Leeds, eventually joining a rock band and touring round Europe continually for almost seven years. In the late eighties Mick joined a rock band in Germany and lived there for over 2 years, and it was here that he met Smokie for the first time, and this started a long lasting friendship which still continues today.

Not one to take things for granted he considers himself a very lucky person to be playing music for a living, and practices his instruments on a regular basis to maintain his standard. He still has the odd guitar lesson on occasion. While Smokie continue to enjoy regular tours, Mick spends a lot of his spare time recording, and writing new material.

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Louis Jordan - Jivin' With Jordan (4 CD Set)

Effervescent saxophonist Louis Jordan was one of the chief architects and prime progenitors of the R&B idiom. His pioneering use of jumping shuffle rhythms in a small combo context was copied far and wide during the 1940s.

Jordan's sensational hit-laden run with Decca Records contained a raft of seminal performances, featuring inevitably infectious backing by his band, the Tympany Five, and Jordan's own searing alto sax and street corner jive-loaded sense of humor. Jordan was one of the first black entertainers to sell appreciably in the pop sector; his Decca duet mates included Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald. /Excerpt from biography by Bill Dahl, AllMusic

This whopping 102-cut, four-disc box collects the vast majority of master takes Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five recorded for Decca in the 1940s. While it's true that Germany's Bear Family label did a better job by putting together a seven-disc box with alternates and a number of unreleased masters along with an LP of his duets with Ella Fitzgerald, this collection cannot be faulted, especially for the price especially since it also represents Jordan's music from the late '30s to the early '50s.

One can hear the grand lyric phrasing and rhythmic influence Jordan had on Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Johnny Otis, and Otis Blackwell. From "Five Guys Named Moe," "That Chick's Too Young to Fry," and "Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door" to "If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich," "Fat Sam from Birmingham," "Baby It's Cold Outside" (with Ella), and many many more, there isn't a weak take on this set. /Thom Jurek, AllMusic

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Album: Jivin' With Jordan - CD 1: Five Guys Named Moe
Year: 2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:13
Size: 176,8 MB
Styles: Jump blues, R&B
Scans: Full (incl. 40 p. booklet)

1. Honey In The Bee Ball (3:10)
2. Keep A Knockin' (2:37)
3. Sam Jones Done Snagged His Britches On (2:46)
4. Doug The Jitterbug (2:34)
5. At The Swing Cat's Ball (2:33)
6. Honeysuckle Rose (3:10)
7. But I'll Be Back (2:39)
8. You're My Meat (3:02)
9. June Tenth Jamboree (2:44)
10. You Run Your Mouth And I'll Run My Business (2:38)
11. Somebody Done Hoodooed The Hoodoo Man (2:41)
12. Oh Boy, I'm In The Groove (2:49)
13. Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand's Doin' (3:04)
14. A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird (2:37)
15. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (2:57)
16. Saint Vitus Dance (2:51)
17. Saxa-Woogie (2:39)
18. Boogie Woogie Came To Town (3:09)
19. How 'Bout That? (2:55)
20. Knock Me A Kiss (2:48)
21. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (2:52)
22. What's The Use Of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)? (2:51)
23. The Chicks I Pick Are Slender, Tender And Tall (2:29)
24. I'm Gonna Leave You On The Outskirts Of Town (3:06)
25. That'll Just About Knock Me Out (3:09)
26. Five Guys Named Moe (3:01)
27. Ration Blues (3:08)

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Album: Jivin' With Jordan - CD 2: Let The Good Times Roll
Year: 2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:44
Size: 169,3 MB
Styles: Jump blues, R&B
Scans: Full (incl. 40 p. booklet)

1. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? (2:45)
2. Deacon Jones (2:57)
3. I Like 'em Fat Like That (2:40)
4. Mop-Mop (2:57)
5. G.I. Jive (3:00)
6. You Can't Get That No More (3:21)
7. My Baby Said Yes (Yip, Yip De Hootie) (2:48)
8. Buzz Me (2:51)
9. Caldonia Boogie (2:43)
10. Somebody Done Changed The Lock On My Door (3:16)
11. How Long Must I Wait For You? (2:36)
12. Salt Pork, West Virginia (2:53)
13. Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule (2:31)
14. Stone Cold Dead In The Market (2:43)
15. Reconversion Blues (2:22)
16. Beware (2:53)
17. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (2:59)
18. Choo Choo Ch'boogie (2:44)
19. Ain't That Just Like A Woman (2:53)
20. That Chick's Too Young To Fry (2:25)
21. No Sale (2:52)
22. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens (3:05)
23. Let The Good Times Roll (2:49)
24. All For The Love Of Lil (2:51)
25. Texas And Pacific (3:05)
26. Jack, You're Dead! (2:33)

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Album: Jivin' With Jordan - CD 3: Look Out!
Year: 2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:28
Size: 168,2 MB
Styles: Jump blues, R&B
Scans: Full (incl. 40 p. booklet)

1. Reet, Petite, And Gone (2:44)
2. Sure Had A Wonderful Time (3:00)
3. I Know What You're Putting Down (3:07)
4. Open The Door Richard (3:03)
5. Boogie Woogie Blue Plate (2:47)
6. Barnyard Boogie (2:47)
7. Every Man To His Own Profession (3:18)
8. Early In The Morning (3:23)
9. Run Joe (3:22)
10. Look Out (2:54)
11. Have You Got The Gumption? (3:05)
12. We Can't Agree (2:49)
13. Chicky-Mo, Craney-Crow (2:30)
14. Roamin' Blues (2:56)
15. You're Much Too Fat (And That's That) (2:43)
16. Pettin' And Pokin' (2:34)
17. You're On The Right Track, Baby (3:03)
18. Don't Burn The Candle At Both Ends (2:44)
19. Daddy-O (3:18)
20. You Broke Your Promise (2:50)
21. Cole Slaw (2:44)
22. Beans And Cornbread (2:51)
23. Onions (2:54)
24. Baby's Gonna Go, Bye-Bye (2:48)
25. Psycho-Loco (3:02)

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Album: Jivin' With Jordan - CD 4: Saturday Night Fish Fry
Year: 2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:47
Size: 168,9 MB
Styles: Jump blues, R&B
Scans: Full (incl. 40 p. booklet)

1. Baby, It's Cold Outside (2:45)
2. School Days (When We Were Kids) (2:35)
3. Hungry Man (3:07)
4. Saturday Night Fish Fry, Pts. 1 & 2 (5:24)
5. I Want A Roof Over My Head (2:40)
6. Show Me How (You Milk The Cow) (2:52)
7. Blue Light Boogie, Pts. 1 & 2 (5:11)
8. Tamburitza Boogie (3:13)
9. (You Dyed Your Hair) Chartreuse (2:36)
10. Lemonade (3:17)
11. It's A Great, Great Pleasure (3:09)
12. Teardrops From My Eyes (3:01)
13. Weak Minded Blues (2:30)
14. Is My Pop In There? (2:30)
15. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (2:31)
16. If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? (2:59)
17. Louisville Lodge Meeting (3:31)
18. How Blue Can You Get? (2:46)
19. Please Don't Leave Me (3:16)
20. Bone Dry (3:03)
21. Three Handed Woman (2:46)
22. Fat Sam From Birmingham (3:01)
23. Cock-A-Doodle Doo (2:12)
24. Lay Something On The Bar (Besides Your Elbow) (2:40)

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Samantha Fish - Chills & Fever

Year: 2017
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:51
Size: 127,0 MB
Styles: Soul, blues, R&B, rock
Scans: Full

1. He Did It (3:03)
2. Chills & Fever (3:22)
3. Hello Stranger (4:24)
4. It's Your Voodoo Working (3:42)
5. Hurt's All Gone (3:46)
6. You Can't Go (4:06)
7. Either Way I Lose (5:30)
8. Never Gonna Cry (4:15)
9. Little Baby (2:59)
10. Nearer To You (3:26)
11. You'll Never Change (3:14)
12. Crow Jane (3:34)
13. Somebody's Always Trying (Bonus) (6:06)
14. I'll Come Running Over (Bonus) (3:24)

Championing roots music is like walking a tightrope: wear the influences too obviously, and you risk coming across as a generic facsimile aping an outmoded genre, yet if you manage to wrangle the components and imbue a new piquantness to the stew, you bring a reinvigorated retro vibe to the form. What divides the two is the conviction and charisma with which the music is conveyed. With plenty of both, Kansas City’s Samantha Fish solidly resides in the latter camp, and on her fourth LP, Chills & Fever, her craft takes on its freshest and most complex iteration yet.

Blending Memphis soul, Delta blues, and Motown R&B has always been the foundation of Fish’s oeuvre. With Chills & Fever, those genres continue to serve as touchstones throughout the album’s 12 tracks (and two bonus cuts), alternating their respective prominence. Injected into this template canvas, too, is a frenetic undercurrent of garage rock. This isn’t a complete surprise (considering that Fish recorded in Detroit with members of the Detroit Cobras), and what results is a rough and tumble energy that dominates the raucous numbers and bubbling beneath the more subdued, pensive songs. The ghosts of Otis Redding and Junior Kimbrough still haunt, but they’re joined at the party by the specters of Ron Asheton and Fred “Sonic” Smith. /Cole Waterman

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The Big Bill & The Cool Tones - Rainy Day Blues

Size: 140,3 MB
Time: 60:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. A Real Good Woman (4:57)
02. Pool Fool (4:32)
03. BMW Blues (5:17)
04. What Went Wrong (3:13)
05. Fantasy Lady (3:53)
06. Don't Shed A Tear (4:41)
07. The Boulevard (4:33)
08. Rainy Day Blues (7:23)
09. The Money (6:18)
10. The Mood For Love (4:19)
11. I Know You're Waiting (4:26)
12. WHA Groove (7:09)

Big Bill's debut CD "RAINY DAY BLUES" on Bill's own label Cool Tone Records is supported by some of the best sidemen in the business today. Most notably is Mark Naftalin on Piano (Michael Bloomfield/John Lee Hooker and more) and Fred Lipsius on alto sax (Leader of Blood Sweat & Tears/director of the Prestigious Berkley School of Music) also on baritone sax is Snooky Flowers (Janis Joplin's Kozmic Blues Band) Snooky is a regular member of the Cool Tones.

Rainy Day Blues

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Mo Al Jaz & Friends - The Blues Of Little Walter

Size: 101,6 MB
Time: 32:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Chicago Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Off The Wall (2:44)
02. Aw'h Baby (3:04)
03. I've Had My Fun (1:59)
04. It Ain't Right (3:00)
05. My Babe (2:44)
06. Last Night (2:38)
07. It's Too Late Brother (2:57)
08. Blues With A Feeling (3:17)
09. Nobody But You (2:03)
10. Tell Me Mama (2:48)
11. Off The Wall Alternate (2:50)
12. My Babe Alternate (2:42)

Personnel:
Dexter SHAW, guitar
David IMIR, guitar
Francesca SHAW, double bass
Robert POKORNY, drums
Mo AL JAZ, Vocal/harmonica

Little Walter Jacobs was arguably the most influential blues harmonica players of all time and he still is. This album is an honest and heartfelt tribute to Walter and his music by Mo Al Jaz and a jolly congregation of great musicians. Dexter Shaw, his daughter Francesca and drummer Robert Pokorny make up one the best old-school blues combos in Blighty and anywhere else. David Imir joins the party for some twin guitar mayhem.

Mo is a veteran French harp player with several albums under his belt. His accent (you can hear it here and there) probably makes him the Charles Aznavour of the blues when he sings, but he does not have an accent when he blows his harp! Nobody reinvented the wheel of blues harmonica here, but this album really sounds like something recorded at Chess in Chicago in the 1950’s. Mo has idolized Little Walter since he started to play many moons ago. He always wanted to record a tribute to his blues hero. I reckon he has accomplished that.

The Blues Of Little Walter

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Boogie Patrol - Man On Fire

Size: 99,4 MB
Time: 36:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues Rock, Blues Soul
Art: Front

01. Players Blues (3:51)
02. Whole Lotta Gravy (3:33)
03. Foolish Mind (3:37)
04. Hard To Tell You (4:39)
05. Shaker Down Below (3:37)
06. Easy To See (3:31)
07. Just Wanna (4:37)
08. Got One On Ya (2:57)
09. Let's Get Randy (2:54)
10. Man On Fire (3:06)

Boogie Patrol has steadily built their reputation as one of Western Canada’s premier act’s and has garnered acclaim and an enthusiastic following since the groups inception in 2007. A 5 piece group that continue to create superb original music based on their collective influences. We’re talking Blues and Rock’n Soul with a dose of funk all thrown into the melting pot to create what is Boogie Patrol. They are a stylistically unique group that is all about bringing loads of energy to the stage and to their music, with a goal of appealing to all walks of life.
Boogie Patrol boasts a frontman influenced by the grit gravel greats of music past and is backed by a cast of some of the most unique and well versed musicians you’ll find most anywhere. Some of them even hailing from Japan to New York to of course home bred Canadian talent!

Boogie Patrol consists of Rott’n Dan Shinnan on vocals and harp; Yuji Ihara on guitar; Chad Holtzman on guitar and backing vocals; Nigel Gale on bass; and Emmet VanEtten om drums, percussion, and back-up vocals. The guys all wrote the material on Man On Fire.

Man On Fire

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Ivory Joe Hunter - Rock & Roll (Bonus Tracks)

Size: 162,6 MB
Time: 68:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues, R&B
Art: Full

01. Since I Met You Baby (2:50)
02. I Need You By My Side (3:01)
03. I Want Somebody (2:40)
04. I Got To Learn To Do The Mambo (2:42)
05. I'll Never Leave You Baby (2:41)
06. That's Why I Dream (2:44)
07. A Tear Fell (2:54)
08. Heaven Came Down To Earth (2:42)
09. I Need You (2:54)
10. That's Why (2:47)
11. You Mean Everything To Me (2:23)
12. You Can't Stop This Rocking & Rolling (2:17)
13. It's A Doggone Crying Shame (2:39)
14. It May Sound Silly (2:44)
15. Shooty Booty (2:01)
16. You Flip Me Baby (2:16)
17. I'm So Glad I Found You (2:27)
18. Stop Rocking That Train (2:47)
19. If Only You Were Here With Me (2:12)
20. Send Me Pretty Mama (2:59)
21. That's The Gal For Me (2:52)
22. In Time (2:58)
23. Big Wig (2:40)
24. Love's A Hurting Game (2:32)
25. She's A Killer (2:41)
26. I Just Want To Love You (2:21)

Bespectacled and velvet-smooth in the vocal department, pianist Ivory Joe Hunter appeared too much mild-mannered to be a rock & roller. But when the rebellious music first crashed the American consciousness in the mid-'50s, there was Ivory Joe, deftly delivering his blues ballad "Since I Met You Baby" right alongside the wildest pioneers of the era.

Hunter was already a grizzled R&B vet by that time who had first heard his voice on a 1933 Library of Congress cylinder recording made in Texas (where he grew up). An accomplished tunesmith, he played around the Gulf Coast region, hosting his own radio program for a time in Beaumont before migrating to California in 1942. It was a wise move since Hunter -- whose real name was Ivory Joe, incidentally (perhaps his folks were psychic!) -- found plenty of work pounding out blues and ballads in wartime California. He started his own label, Ivory Records, to press up his "Blues at Sunrise" (with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers backing him), and it became a national hit when leased to Leon Rene's Exclusive imprint in 1945. Another Hunter enterprise, Pacific Records, hosted a major hit in 1948 when the pianist's "Pretty Mama Blues" topped the R&B charts for three weeks.

At whatever logo Hunter paused from the mid-'40s through the late '50s, his platters sold like hot cakes. For Cincinnati-based King in 1948-1949, he hit with "Don't Fall in Love with Me," "What Did You Do to Me," "Waiting in Vain," and "Guess Who." At MGM, then new to the record biz, he cut his immortal "I Almost Lost My Mind" (another R&B chart-topper in 1950), "I Need You So" (later covered by Elvis), and "It's a Sin." Signing with Atlantic in 1954, he hit big with "Since I Met You Baby" in 1956 and the two-sided smash "Empty Arms"/"Love's a Hurting Game" in 1957.

Hunter's fondness for country music reared its head in 1958. Upon switching to Dot Records, he scored his last pop hit with a cover of Bill Anderson's "City Lights." Hunter's Dot encores went nowhere; neither did typically mellow outings for Vee-Jay, Smash, Capitol, and Veep. Epic went so far as to recruit a simmering Memphis band (including organist Isaac Hayes, trumpeter Gene "Bowlegs" Miller, and saxist Charles Chalmers) for an LP titled The Return of Ivory Joe Hunter that he hoped would revitalize his career, but it wasn't meant to be. The album's cover photo -- a closeup of Hunter's grinning face with a cigarette dangling from his lips -- seems grimly ironic in the face of his death from lung cancer only a few years later. ~by Bill Dahl

Rock & Roll

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Watermelon Slim - Golden Boy

Size: 103,0 MB
Time: 44:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

01. Pickup My Guidon (3:34)
02. You're Going To Need Somebod.. (3:29)
03. WBCN (5:31)
04. Wolf Cry (3:42)
05. Barretts Privateers (4:00)
06. Mean Streets (5:01)
07. Northern Blues (3:54)
08. Cabbagetown (3:24)
09. Winners Of Us All (5:16)
10. Dark Genius (6:07)

An atypical and totally exceptional blues artist!

When one sees America in mental and social disarray, rebel poets rise out of the woodwork. The weathered and shattered face of this outlaw tells the story of his life: Vietnam veteran, blue-collar worker, 18-wheel trucker, socialist activist. This degreed proletarian who describes himself as “the most literate bluesman in the world” is indeed eminently quali?ed, a Shakespearean exegete whose high IQ quali?ed him, in the past, to be a member of Mensa International, a society for very intelligent people. Long based in Oklahoma (land of the Okies, of Tom Joad and of Merle Haggard) he now makes his home in the Mississippi Delta, in Clarksdale, once home to W.C. Handy himself, and the birthplace of the blues. Earning his nickname as a farmer, Watermelon Slim paid his dues singing his mixture of Blues and Americana and playing harp and steel guitar raw style in juke joints and honky-tonks across the country. His lyrics combine a staggering sense of poetry and deep social consciousness: “You might say I am a musical journalist in the same way as the late Louisiana bluesman Robert Pete Williams was,” he once asserted, and it seems all his songs are autobiographical (even the covers sound as if...). He is truly a moving and important voice that conveys the soul of the real America. His ?rst album, Merry Airbrakes, a 1973 protest-tinged “underground” release, came out before he developed friendship, political and musical bonds with folk singers Barbara Dane and the late Pete Seeger. Later, antiwar singer Country Joe McDonald of Woodstock fame recorded one song from his album. Slim also joined the ranks of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (he is a Life Member), still in the news lately when members of the organization were part of the “human shield” that protected the Sioux Indians demonstrating against a pipeline crossing their treaty land at Standing Rock in North Dakota. While working at his various blue collar jobs he continued playing music on the side, rubbing shoulders with luminaries such as John Lee Hooker, Champion Jack Dupree, Henry Vestine, Bonnie Raitt and Robert Cray. He decided to become a full-time musician in the early 2000’s, releasing two albums on Southern Records, Big Shoes to Fill in 2003 and Up Close & Personal in 2004. The year after, he was honored with a nomination for a 2004 W.C. Handy Award for Best New Artist Debut by the Blues Foundation when he was actually 56 years old. With his crack touring band, the Workers, he released the hard-hitting and impressive Watermelon Slim & the Workers in 2006 on the Toronto-based NorthernBlues Music label, following it a year later with The Wheel Man, and with No Paid Holidays in 2008. He then switched gears just a little into country territory with an album of truck-driving songs, Escape from the Chicken Coop, which NorthernBlues released in 2009. Slim kept the country elements and mixed them in again with his brand of roots and blues for 2010’s Ringers, his ?fth album for NorthernBlues. Two more albums, Okiesippi Blues, with Clarksdale’s James Johnson, aka Super Chikan, and Bull Goose Rooster, his last with the now-defunct Workers, came out between Ringers and his new CD, Golden Boy. This latest work is a wonderful declaration of love to Canada, this big country bordering his own but so little known, he regrets, by his fellow countrymen. The highlights in Golden Boy include an awesome cover of a wounded and broken sailor’s song, Barrett’s Privateers, that many describe as the unof?cial national anthem of Canada, written by the the late folksinger and national hero Stan Rogers. Scott Nolan, the Winnipeg-based producer of Golden Boy, wrote Cabbage Town, the name of a Toronto neighborhood where freshly arrived immigrants from Ireland used to plant cabbage in their front lawns. The rest, with the exception of Blind Willie Johnson’s You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond, are pure Watermelon Slim, whether he is evoking homeless people (Mean Streets), ?ghting neoNazi thugs during a demonstration in Miami (WBCN), JFK (Dark Genius) or the casualties of the American dream (Winners of us All).

Personnel:
William P. Homans (vocals, harmonica, slide guitar), Joanna Miller (drums, percussion), Gilles Fournier (double bass), Jay Nowicki (electric guitar), Jeremy Rusu (piano, clarinet, accordion, mandolin), Jolene Higgins (vocals), Sol James (vocals), Big Dave McLean (harmonica on 6), Don Zueff (fiddle) , Scott Nolan (native drum/percussion, guitars, vocals, drums on 9).

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Davy Knowles - 1932

Size: 102 MB
Time: 19:27
File: FLAC
Released: 2017
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. First Words Of A Changing Man (1:57)
02. Watchmaker's Blues (2:53)
03. As The Crow Flies (4:56)
04. If I Had A Penny (3:27)
05. A Spoonful Blues (2:11)
06. Liar's Club (4:01)

This record will present a collection of songs performed exclusively on his cherished 1932 National Triolian Guitar. Knowles purchased the classic axe at Gruhn’s Guitars in Nashville, during his first tour of the U.S.

“I’ve always found my old National guitar to be such an inspiring instrument,” he shares. “It’s always given that ‘instant mojo’ to every track I’ve used it on in the past. I thought it was high time I did a project purely on this fantastic machine.”

Knowles most recent studio album, Three Miles From Avalon, entered the Billboard Blues chart at #5, sharing the top ten the week of release with Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Keb Mo’ and others.

The Chicago-based artist began his journey as a young man growing up on the UK’s Isle of Man. His commitment to succeed led to his emigration to America at 19 with his band, Back Door Slam. Since that time, Knowles has released three Billboard chart-topping studio albums, as well as various live albums and DVDs. He has headlined the globe, and has toured with Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy, The Who, Gov’t Mule, Joe Bonamassa, and Peter Frampton.

Knowles is one of only a small handful of artists who’ve had their music beamed straight into space for astronauts listening on the International Space Station. A headline show at the inaugural Garden Party Festival in the Isle of Man was memorably gate-crashed by the same astronauts who had heard Davy from the ISS.

1932

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The Delta Saints - Monte Vista

Size: 100,0 MB
Time: 37:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues Rock, Rock
Art: Front

01. California (3:42)
02. Burning Wheels (2:54)
03. Are You (2:58)
04. Are You (3:44)
05. Crows (4:29)
06. Roses (4:06)
07. Space Man (4:34)
08. Young And Crazy (3:58)
09. In Your Head (3:20)
10. Two Days (3:25)

Shaking up a mixture of roots rock, vintage blues, and swampy Bayou boogie, the Delta Saints are a Nashville-based five-piece whose spicy and eclectic sound has earned them a loyal following at home and abroad. The Delta Saints were formed in 2007 by singer and dobro guitarist Ben Ringel and bassist David Supica, both of whom were students at Belmont University at the time. Looking to have fun and make friends, Ringel and Supica teamed up with guitarist Dylan Fitch, and the core of the Delta Saints was established. With the addition of drummer Ben Azzi and harmonica player Greg Hommert, the Delta Saints began playing Nashville clubs, and in 2009, they released an EP, Pray On. 2010 brought another EP, A Bird Called Angola, and the group's touring expanded from North America to Europe, where they soon gained a loyal following. In 2011, a German label released the two EPs as one album, simply titled The Delta Saints. By 2013, the Delta Saints released their first proper album, Death Letter Jubilee, and Steven Henner replaced Hommert on harmonica; several months later, Henner left the group shortly before a summer tour of Europe, and keyboard player Nate Kremer came on board in his place. In 2014, the Delta Saints released an EP, Drink It Slow, that included their cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," a live favorite, and a few months later, they brought out Live at Exit/In, recorded during a sold-out two-night stand at one of their favorite hometown clubs. In 2015, the group struck a deal with Loud & Proud Records, who issued their album Bones. Vincent Williams became their new drummer the same year. ~ Mark Deming

Monte Vista

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Roscoe Chenier - Doing Alright Again

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:57
Size: 141.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Louisiana blues
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[ 0:48] 1. Trying To Get Over Me
[ 4:07] 2. Love Machine
[11:09] 3. Doing Alright Again
[ 4:48] 4. My Life
[ 4:39] 5. Confessing The Blues
[ 4:37] 6. Playing The Blues With My Friends
[11:19] 7. Love Is Like A Hammer
[ 7:19] 8. Waiting For My Tomorrow
[ 6:50] 9. Back Door Lover
[ 6:18] 10. Good Things Going Wrong

A second cousin of the late zydeco/blues legend Clifton Chenier, Roscoe Chenier is an expressive blues/R&B singer and guitarist who isn't nearly as well known as his famous relative. Roscoe was born and raised in Louisiana, where he joined a band called Rockin' CD & the Blues Runners as a teenager in 1957. Chenier formed his own band in 1959, and in 1961, he recorded the 45-rpm single "Born for Bad Luck" and its B side. "Annie Mae's Yo-Yo." for Reynaud. The single didn't do a lot nationally, although it was played on local jukeboxes in southern Louisiana and eventually became a collector's item. Chenier (whose influences range from B.B. King to Fats Domino) continued to play the Louisiana circuit into the '90s, but not until 1993 would he record again, and not until 1993 would he actually record an album. That year, a 52-year-old Chenier recorded his self-titled debut album for Avenue Jazz. The CD was good enough to make one wish that Chenier wasn't so obscure, but when the '90s were coming to a close, he had yet to come out with a second album or become better known outside of Louisiana. ~ bio by Alex Henderson

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Sean Webster Band - Leave Your Heart At The Door

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:45
Size: 127.6 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[4:43] 1. Give Me The Truth
[4:47] 2. Wait Another Day
[4:08] 3. Broken Man
[4:11] 4. You Got To Know
[7:18] 5. Start Again
[4:50] 6. Hands Of Time
[3:59] 7. Silence Echoes In My Heart
[4:40] 8. You Can Say
[5:19] 9. Leave Your Heart At The Door
[5:51] 10. I Don't Wanna Talk About It
[5:53] 11. 'til Summer Comes Around

It all started when a 14 year old boy was introduced to guitar based music by a school friend. Sean became instantly hooked on the instrument and began researching as many influences as he could. All the blues greats; the Kings (Albert, BB and Freddie), Collins, Cray, alongside Moore, Knopfler, Lang and of course the reason Sean says he plays guitar.... Eric Clapton. Music from that point became Sean's main focus in life. He would cycle 20 kms to watch friends rehearse in a band, which after some time he became the singer of: Journeymen. Years later and through various incarnations, The Sean Webster band was formed. This itself has had a few line-up changes over the years, but Sean believes change can only be a good thing in the end: "I'm not the greatest fan of change at the beginning because I like things to run smooth, but it also forces you to learn, evaluate and ultimately re-shape what you already have. Keeping it fresh!"

Sean has released 5 albums and 1 EP. His 6th and latest album entitled Leave your heart at the door has Sean going back to being the only guitarist on the album, something which hasn't happened since his first. At the risk of sounding like a cliche, the album REALLY does have something for everyone. It has blues, ballads and mainstream offerings which Sean hopes will keep his fans interested.

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The Slim Kings - Fresh Socks

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:18
Size: 64.8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:19] 1. Need Me Too
[4:13] 2. Colombian Money
[1:52] 3. Jump Start My Heart
[3:30] 4. Hurt Myself
[4:11] 5. Soul Wrecker
[3:58] 6. Wandering Eye
[3:08] 7. Club Love
[5:03] 8. As I Do

The Slim Kings feature two young guns—singer and guitarist Michael Sackler-Berner, best known for songs on Sons of Anarchy, and R&B bassist Andy Attanasio alongside legendary drummer Liberty Devitto, who spent over three decades playing on seminal records for and performing with Billy Joel, Phoebe Snow and Paul McCartney.

Blending elegant song craft, impeccable instrumentation and a whole lot of rock and soul, The Slim Kings have recently opened for Los Lonely Boys, ZZ Top, Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes and The Spin Doctors. In the last year their music has been featured on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, Lifetime’s Army Wives, Amazon’s Cocked, and Netflix’s Bloodlines amongst others. The band records with Grammy winning producers Steve Jordan (John Mayer, Keith Richards) and Joel Hamilton (Tom Waits, Black Keys, Highly Suspect) while regularly headlining clubs in the tri-state area. They may keep company with iconic rockers, but this isn’t simply a throwback to the glory days. It’s firmly rooted in the future.

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