Showing posts with label 44 Shakedown. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

44 Shakedown - Atomic Jump / Honkers!

Album: Atomic Jump
Size: 72,4 MB
Time: 30:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Jump Blues, Rockabilly, Swing
Art: Front

01. Ella Mae (2:18)
02. I Can't Stop It (2:08)
03. Honky Tonk Part 2 (2:31)
04. Mr. R.C. Robinson (3:08)
05. Boogie Woogie Nighthawk (3:04)
06. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens (3:20)
07. Atomic Jump (2:41)
08. Gamblin' Woman (3:41)
09. Safronia B (2:11)
10. Bim Bam (2:00)
11. Bacon Fat (3:28)

This new swingin' combo will rock their way through some pure and original early rhythm & blues and black rock 'n' roll. If you are into rockin' roots music with a twist for hot jumpin' 50's R&B these guys are the real deal. A sound that's authentic and that you wouldn't normally expect from five quiet and shy white boys…but don't let them fool you, however much you have abused your body with loud music, late nights, alcohol and cigarettes, these sharp dressed cats have done all of that and more! So come see the boys as they tear the house with classic dancefloorfillers like Bloodshot Eyes, The Walk, Bim Bam, Nite Life Boogie and Quiet Whiskey. Shaking your hips or even polite feet tapping will be quite acceptable. Or just go completely NUTS like you normally do!

Atomic Jump

Album: Honkers!
Size: 102,6 MB
Time: 43:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jump Blues, Rockabilly, Swing
Art: Front

01. Hokin' (3:11)
02. One Track Love (2:12)
03. Hot Little Mama (3:00)
04. Yes, I'm Loving You (1:43)
05. Gonna Be Your Man (3:11)
06. Americano (3:17)
07. Oil Well, Texas (2:21)
08. Going Back To New Orleans (2:45)
09. I Ain't Drunk (2:39)
10. Miss Your Pretty Face (3:21)
11. Six Button Benny (2:35)
12. Saturday Night Fish Fry (4:33)
13. The Pleasure Is All Mine (2:59)
14. Can't Believe You Wanna Leave (2:54)
15. It's Your Voodoo Working (2:27)

Members:
Aram - Guitar, Vocals
Marcel - Stand Up Bass, Vocals
Tim - Saxophones, Vocals
Louis - Saxophones
Benny - Drums

We’re called 44 Shakedown, and we hail from the western part of the Netherlands.

It all started out a few years back, when we got together as a West coast jump blues outfit with a blues harp, played by Jaap van Waardenberg. However, the majority of us felt more attracted by that particular style of 40’s and 50’s black music that rocks hard but is still very melodic. The blues harp player went his own way; we found alto sax player Tim through the internet, and played with him for a couple of years. We also tried adding a piano for a while, but in the end were happy with the sound of just a guitar, as it creates a little more dynamic sound. It was at the premiere of our CD Atomic Jump that we ran into Louis as our additional saxophone player. He was the catalyst we needed to beef up our sound considerably. Since then we operate as a five-piece, with two horns.

You can call the music we play jump blues: it is that in-between period in the late forties and early fifties where black jazz-cats started to invent rock’n’roll, before white folk took that idea and ran with it.

Honkers!