145th Street - Pure Mud

Size: 449 MB
Time: 73:14
File: Flac
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Walkin Through the Park (4:18)
2. Long Distance Call (8:01)
3. Champagne and Reefer (4:38)
4. Blow Wind Blow (5:18)
5. Hoochie Coochie Man (6:20)
6. Sugar Sweet (4:05)
7. Same Thing (8:30)
8. Live the Life I Love (3:50)
9. She's 19 Years Old (7:17)
10. Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (6:00)
11. I Just Wanna Make Love to You (5:11)
12. I Got My Mojo Workin' (9:40)

145th Street is a five-piece blues band that plays pubs, clubs, casinos, and festivals around San Diego. The group was founded in 2002 by singer/harpist Steve Bulger, aka Stevie B, and Marco Marrewa on guitar as the Bossmen. “We added bass and drums, and all of the sudden, we had a band,” says Bulger. The winning lineup includes Mike Bullard on bass and a sax player from New Orleans by way of Southeast San Diego named Walter Gentry. The sax man’s dad owned a barbershop in Southeast. When he died, Walter came home and worked the shop for a while. (“He doesn’t cut hair anymore,” says Bulger.) While Gentry was playing New Orleans gigs, he met Tony Peterson, a drummer who would also come to San Diego and eventually join 145th Street.

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145th Street - 145th Street Deluxe Blues Band

Size: 104,3 MB
Time: 44:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full

1. Roll The Dice (4:22)
2. Mary Ann (4:11)
3. Snakeskin On My Feet (2:27)
4. Reconsider, Baby (5:57)
5. Say Yes To My Baby (4:08)
6. Walking Through The Park (3:07)
7. It'll Come To Ya (4:30)
8. You Is So Mean (8:09)
9. Just A Little Bit (3:49)
10. Met Her Last Night (4:14)

145th Street is a five-piece blues band that plays pubs, clubs, casinos, and festivals around San Diego. The group was founded in 2002 by singer/harpist Steve Bulger, aka Stevie B, and Marco Marrewa on guitar as the Bossmen. “We added bass and drums, and all of the sudden, we had a band,” says Bulger. The winning lineup includes Mike Bullard on bass and a sax player from New Orleans by way of Southeast San Diego named Walter Gentry. The sax man’s dad owned a barbershop in Southeast. When he died, Walter came home and worked the shop for a while. (“He doesn’t cut hair anymore,” says Bulger.)

While Gentry was playing New Orleans gigs, he met Tony Peterson, a drummer who would also come to San Diego and eventually join 145th Street. Their debut CD, 145th Street Deluxe Blues Band, was nominated Best Blues Album at the 2005 San Diego Music Awards. Joe Walsh heard a copy and liked it. “He said it was pretty fucking good,” says Bulger. The group has opened for acts such as B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Charlie Musselwhite, Tommy Castro, and others. They’ve had a residency at Patrick’s II in the Gaslamp for years and Bulger says they’ve played Humphrey’s Backstage, the House of Blues, 4th&B, “and all the local festivals.”

Bulger, who lives in Serra Mesa and is a distant relative of ex-mobster Whitey Bulger, explains the band’s name: one-four-five describes the chord changes in the 12-bar blues. “We added ‘Street’ because that’s where everything happens.” They carry an old-school wallop redolent of the 1960s, when rock bands were romancing traditional blues. “We don’t play the usual blues covers.” In late 2011, the band won a series of elimination rounds to end up as Blues Lovers United of San Diego’s (BLUSD) designated hometown choice for the International Blues Challenge in Memphis at the end of January, 2012.

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145th Street - Where The Blues Lives

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:05
Size: 130.7 MB
Styles: West Coast blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[5:14] 1. Where The Blues Lives
[4:42] 2. Tell Me, Baby
[6:11] 3. Before Its Time
[5:31] 4. Your Little Show
[5:39] 5. Blues Never Sleeps
[7:34] 6. What Am I S'posed To Do
[5:45] 7. Make Love To You
[4:37] 8. Seven Days
[5:41] 9. Good Mornin' Blues
[6:07] 10. Give Her What She Wants

This hot self-produced blues album is getting a whole lotta buzz! It features 9 completely juicy original tunes and one great cover. All with that special 145th Street flavor of raw expressive vocals, screaming guitar, super saxophone and a tight & right rhythm section. We make it unmistakably all ours with superb arrangements, harp/horn/guitar lines, backing vocal harmonies, exquisite dynamics, and unique twists and turns in every tune. This CD is loaded with great blues music!

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