Daddy Squeeze And The Doctor - Too Sweet To Die

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 44:13
Size: 103.4 MB
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Americana, Country blues, Folk-Blues
Released: 2001
Art: Front

1. Travelin' (4:19)
2. Windin' Boy Blues (3:23)
3. Papa Don't Sell It, Papa Don't Give It Away (3:07)
4. Wayfarin' Stranger (3:12)
5. The Journey (5:29)
6. Get Some Of This (3:35)
7. James Alley Blues ( Too Sweet To Die) (3:42)
8. Ol' Levis (3:42)
9. Hellhound On My Trail (4:34)
10. All Wore Out (2:46)
11. I Can't Be Satisfied (3:54)
12. Child Of God (2:26)

Daddy Squeeze (Dan Newton) - Accordion, Vocals
The Doctor (John Walker) - Guitars, Vocals

Daddy Squeeze and the Doctor play original and traditional country blues, rags, and Americana. What makes them special, is not only their unique instrumentation, accordion with finger-style guitar and dobro, but also their great presentation of solid material.
As one fan put it, "listening to this CD is like listening to a conversation."
That's what's so good about the Daddy Squeeze and the Doctor sound. It's intimate, unpretentious, and soulful. We hope you enjoy this, the third recording by this duo.

Too Sweet To Die

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Connie Townsend - Gentle Graces

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 45:19
Size: 105.6 MB
Styles: Country blues, Contemporary Blues, Modern Blues, Swing
Released: 2001
Art: Front

1. It's A Banjo Playing (2:21)
2. Darker Shades Of Blue (3:20)
3. Gentle Graces (3:54)
4. There You Go Again (3:07)
5. Who Will Remember? (3:22)
6. Freight Train (3:31)
7. Telling A Stone (4:27)
8. Dreamers (3:49)
9. Defying Gravity (3:11)
10. Did Me In (2:45)
11. Summer Song (2:40)
12. Life's A Penny (2:47)
13. Country Mile (2:43)
14. Nothin' In Ramblin' (3:15)

Connie Townsend is a true West Virginia singer-songwriter. Born in the Ohio River Valley, she now makes her home on a ridge top in the Allegheny Highlands region of the state. The roots of her music are set in the rock and tangled with the roots of the hardwood forests of her home.

Connie's vocal work often evokes comparisons to Emmylou Harris, Iris DeMent, Gillian Welch and a young Mother Maybelle Carter. Which would seem to say that she is a fine vocalist with a strongly rooted and mature presence. She delivers beautifully everything from funny little ditties to gritty blues to classic and alternative country. Her songs are a mix of covers and original work. Her style is her own. Her music has been aired on National Public Radio.

Connie's second album represents a significant step in developing her own style and substance as a performer. Ten of the fourteen cuts are original songs by Townsend and her partner Dave Parker. There is some world-class fiddling, funky resonator guitar, sweet, sweet harmonica, and concertina accompaniment on the disc.

Connie Townsend - guitar and vocals
Billy Ward - fiddle
Buddy Griffin - fiddle
Colleen Dugan - djembe
Dave Parker - guitar
Harvey Reid - dobro, guitar & harmony vocals
Jim Truman - resonator, guitar
Larry (The Iceman) Eisenberg - blues harp
Pete Tenney - concertina
Randy (The Armadillo) Tucker - bass, harmony vocals
Seth Maynard - mandolin, bass

Gentle Graces

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Bluestream - The Best Of Mainstream Blues

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 61:51
Size: 141.6 MB
Styles: Country blues
Released: 1991
Art: Front

1. Ride 'Til I Die (2:58)
2. The Syndicator (3:02)
3. Hello Central (3:02)
4. New Short Haired Woman (3:02)
5. Key To The Highway (2:19)
6. Bulldog Blues (2:33)
7. Bicycle Blues (3:04)
8. Sweet Happy Home (3:09)
9. No More Doggin' (3:16)
10. What You Got In Mind (2:02)
11. I Love You Baby (2:22)
12. I Found My Baby (3:32)
13. Guitar Blues (2:36)
14. Shake A Leg (3:04)
15. I Wonder Why (2:32)
16. Buck Dance Boogie (2:38)
17. Junco Partner (2:29)
18. Tend To Your Business (2:31)
19. Going Down Slow (3:20)
20. Feeling Blue and Low (3:31)
21. I'm In The Mood (2:29)
22. They Were Right (2:11)

The Best of Mainstream Blues is a strong sampler of recordings drawn largely from the vaults of producer Bob Shad's Sittin in With label. After acquiring one of the first tape recorders around 1948, blues aficionado Shad began recording musicians in both New York and Atlanta (including Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) before focusing on Texas, where he produced the likes of Lightnin' Hopkins, Peppermint Harris and Smokey Hogg. Most of the material, cut between 1949 and 1962, came out exclusively on 78s and 45s; Mainstream's reissue series, released and remastered with the help of Shad's estate, marks the first time many of the recordings have been made widely available. Among the artists represented on the series' premiere release (in addition to those listed above) are John Lee Hooker, Bob Gaddy, Roscoe Gordon, James Wayne, Arbee Stidham and a young Ray Charles. ~ Jason Ankeny

The Best Of Mainstream Blues

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C.W. Stoneking - King Hokum

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 37:03
Size: 86.4 MB
Styles: Acoustic country blues, Roots
Released: 2007
Art: Front

1. Way Out In The World (3:11)
2. Don't Go Dancin Down The Darktown Strutter's Ball (3:38)
3. She's A Bread Baker (3:17)
4. Dodo Blues (3:50)
5. On A Christmas Day (2:46)
6. Charley Bostocks Blues (3:34)
7. Goin The Country (3:04)
8. Bad Luck Everywhere You Go (4:22)
9. Rich Man's Blues (3:01)
10. You Took My Thing And Put It In Your Place (2:50)
11. Handyman Blues (3:25)

He plays guitar like a demon, wears natty threads, sings catchy tunes and mutters to himself. The idiosyncratic c.w. stoneking is a true entertainer who relies on musicianship stagecraft and performance to invoke the spirit of the 1920's deep south blues in his original hokum style. Set in an imaginary old-time southern town populated with singing dodo birds, sinister handymen, broken-hearted street singers and old testament field hollerers, the album also features c.w.'s backing band the primitive horn orchestra on a number of tunes. Produced by j. Walker (machine translations) and containing 11 of c.w.'s original numbers, the album is a unique blend of old time blues and jazz that sounds like it was recorded in the 1920's. This is one of the most acclaimed australian albums of the last few years.best blues & roots album (air awards) and album of the year (abc radio national breakfast show 2006)! Cw is such a singular talent that his audience has expanded beyond blues and jazz listeners into mainstream and alternative audiences who have simply never heard anything like him.

King Hokum

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Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas - Old Time Black Southern String Band Music

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 52:21
Size: 121.8 MB
Styles: String Band, Country blues
Released: 2006/2011
Art: Front

1. Bugle Call Blues (4:02)
2. Some Day Baby (4:55)
3. Mean Old Frisco (4:13)
4. The Piano Blues (6:41)
5. Hen Cackle (1:23)
6. The Dirty Dozen (2:45)
7. Rock Me Mama (3:16)
8. It Ain't Gonna Rain No More (2:42)
9. Easy Rider Blues (3:44)
10. Whoa Mule (1:31)
11. I Had A Dream Last Night (3:39)
12. Careless Love Blues (4:20)
13. Sneaky Ways (2:27)
14. Since I Layed My Burden Down (3:54)
15. You've Gotta Move (2:42)

Louisiana fiddle and guitar duo Butch Cage and Willie B. Thomas were recorded in 1959 by folklorist Harry Oster, who sought to capture a record of the fast-vanishing tradition of string bands who played dance and worship music for parties and church services. Primitive-sounding yet compelling, Cage and Thomas's versions of rarely heard ancient country blues songs like "I Had a Dream Last Night" and "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More" are a window into a bygone age, while their performance of "The Dirty Dozen" brings to light a song that, like the blues itself, has been constantly evolving for generations.

Butch Cage (vocals, fiddle);
Willie B. Thomas, Robert Jenkins (vocals, guitar);
Rosalie Wilkerson (vocals).

Recording information: Zachary, Louisana (1960).

Old Time Black Southern String Band Music

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Buddy Moss - Essential Blues Masters

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 62:09
Size: 142.3 MB
Styles: Country blues
Released: 2009
Art: Front

1. Bye Bye Mama (Future Blues Mix) (3:28)
2. Bye Bye Mama (2:50)
3. Broke Down Engine (3:29)
4. Cold Country Blues (3:19)
5. Daddy Don't Care (2:47)
6. Midnight Rambler (2:57)
7. Red River Blues (2:59)
8. T.B.'s Killing (3:02)
9. When I'm Dead And Gone (3:06)
10. B & O Blues No. 2 (3:09)
11. Broke Down Engine No. 2 (2:43)
12. Dough Rolling Papa (2:38)
13. Insane Blues (2:40)
14. Love Me Baby Love Me (2:40)
15. New Lovin' Blues (2:44)
16. Oh Lordy Mama (2:55)
17. Shake It All Night Long (2:37)
18. Sleepless Night (2:46)
19. Some Lonesome Day (2:56)
20. Tricks Ain't Walking No More (2:58)
21. When The Hearse Roll Me From My Door (3:18)

Eugene "Buddy" Moss (January 16, 1914 – October 19, 1984) was, in the estimation of many blues scholars, one of two the most influential East Coast blues guitarists to record in the period between Blind Blake's final sessions in 1932 and Blind Boy Fuller's debut in 1935 (the other being Josh White). A younger contemporary of Blind Willie McTell, Curley Weaver and Barbecue Bob, Moss was part of a coterie of Atlanta bluesmen, and among the few of his era who had been involved in the blues revival of the 1960s and 1970s. A guitarist of uncommon skill and dexterity with a strong voice, he began as a musical disciple of Blind Blake, and may well have served as an influence on the later Piedmont-style guitarist Blind Boy Fuller. Although his career was halted in 1935 by a six-year jail term, and then by the Second World War, Moss lived long enough to be rediscovered in the 1960s, when he revealed his talent had persevered throughout the years. He was reputed to have been cankerous and mistrusting of others, the extent to which this is a case is subjective.

In later years, Moss credited friend and band-mate Barbecue Bob with being a major influence on his playing, which would be understandable given the time they spent together. Scholars also attribute Arthur "Blind" Blake as a major force in his development, with mannerisms and inflections that both share. It is also suggested by Alan Balfour and others that Moss may have been an influence on Blind Boy Fuller, as they never met and Moss' recording career ended before Fuller's began — Moss's first recordings display some inflections and nuances that Fuller had not put down on record until some years later.

Essential Blues Masters

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Various - Classic Railroad Songs From Smithsonian Folkways

Size: 171.3 MB
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 72.44
Released: 2006
Styles: Folk, Piedmont blues, Country blues
Art: Front

1. Emory Cook - An Excerpt From "Rail Dynamics" (0:24)
2. New Lost City Ramblers - Train 45 (2:20)
3. Furrie Lewis - Kassie Jones (2:59)
4. Pete Seeger - Jay Gould's Daughter (2:41)
5. Walt Robertson - Railroad Bill (2:11)
6. Leadbelly - Linin' Track (1:18)
7. Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (2:47)
8. Cisco Houston - Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill (2:34)
9. L.M. Hilton - Zack, The Mormon Engineer (2:06)
10. Virginia Mountain Boys - The F.F.V. (3:00)
11. Annie Watson - The Ffv (3:55)
12. New Lost City Ramblers - He's Coming To Us Dead (3:17)
13. Doc Watson - The Train That Carried My Girl From Town (2:21)
14. Leadbelly - Rock Island Line (2:06)
15. Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston - Lonesome Train (3:35)
16. Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston - John Henry (2:46)
17. Rosalie Sorrels - The Wreck of the Number Nine (1:40)
18. Brownie McGhee - Freight Train Blues (3:39)
19. Mike Seeger - The New Market Wreck (3:43)
20. Haywire Mac - Jerry, Go Oil That Car (2:40)
21. Rosalie Sorrels - Way Out In Idaho (3:38)
22. Henry Grady Terrell - Old John Henry Died On The Mountain (1:59)
23. John D. Mounce - Casey Jones (0:24)
24. Pop Stoneman - Wreck Of The Old 97 (2:54)
25. Leadbelly - Midnight Special (2:06)
26. Doc Watson - Wabash Cannonball (3:20)
27. Vernon Sutphin - Lost Train Blues (1:17)
28. Iron Mountain String Band - New River Train (4:26)
29. Vinton Wright - Excerpt From "Three Little Engines And 33 Cars" (0:24)

This album features powerful performances by legends Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Brownie McGhee, Mike Seeger, Pop Stoneman, Cisco Houston, and Rosalie Sorrels, among others. Elsewhere, National Heritage Fellowship Award winners Elizabeth Cotten and Doc Watson, who has won six Grammy Awards to date, are represented. Of the 29 tracks on the album, a full 21 appear on CD for the first time, all newly remastered by Grammy winner Pete Reiniger.
Bookended by actual recordings of trains from the 1950s, the compilation evidences the continuing influence of these essential American ballads, work songs, blues and broadsides. "Midnight Special," represented here by Lead Belly, has been covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Paul McCartney, and Van Morrison. Alt-country band the Old 97s named itself after "The Wreck of the Old 97," which has been interpreted by Johnny Cash and John Mellencamp, among many others. The compilation also includes iconic American songs "Rock Island Line," "John Henry," "Wabash Cannonball," and "Railroad Bill," all presented here in riveting performances. Bluesman Furry Lewis, who sings about the legend of "Kassie Jones," actually lost a leg to a railroad accident in 1917.
Grammy winner Jeff Place compiled and annotated Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways, which also contains rare photographs from the Library of Congress.
Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways is the ninth entry in the label's Classic Series and serves as a doorway into Folkways' incredible catalog of recordings. The Classic Series, which has covered blues, bluegrass, folk, and mountain music, among other genres, also illustrates the role Moses Asch and his Folkways label played in preserving a vital piece of American history. December 6, 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of this American documentarian's birth.

Classic Railroad Songs From Smithsonian Folkways

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