Album:
Colin Linden Live!!!!!
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 37:31
Size: 85.9 MB
Styles: Roots, Electric blues
Year: 2010
Art: Full
[2:24] 1. U-Turn
[3:08] 2. I’m On the Go
[2:15] 3. Cardiac Arrest
[3:19] 4. Game of Love
[4:58] 5. New Matchbox
[3:10] 6. Fast Relief
[3:24] 7. Seven Year Itch
[3:57] 8. I Get the Blues When It Rains
[2:40] 9. Gettin’ Good to Me
[4:00] 10. Back in My Arms Again
[4:11] 11. Mr. Jelly Lord
Colin's very first album, recorded at age 20!
“I’ve been playing country blues, ‘20s style acoustic blues, since I was a really little kid,” the 45-year-old Linden explains. “When I was 11, I met [electric blues pioneer] Howlin’ Wolf. One of the things he said to me that really got me onto this path was that ‘if you want to play this kind of music you should listen to the people I listened to.’ He told me about Charlie Patton and Son House and that generation of artists. That was like opening the biggest door in the world for me, so I just dug in deep. I listened to it and have been playing it seriously for 32 years now.”
Colin’s thorough and committed exploration of the blues is, he explains, “at the core of everything I do. If I’m playing guitar on a Lee Ann Womack record or playing with Bruce Cockburn, I’m still thinking of Son House and Charlie Patton and Blind Blake. That is the foundation, the deepest root for everything that I do.
Colin Linden: Guitar and vocals; David R. Hayes (Mr. Excitement): Bass and Backup vocals; Bucky Berger: Drums; Jody "Leroi" Golick: Saxophone; Bruce Moffet: Drums. Recorded entirely live at The Headspace, Larry's Hideaway, Toronto, Canada, August 11, 1980
Colin Linden Live!!!!!
Album:
From The Water
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 56:18
Size: 128.9 MB
Styles: Roots, Country blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front & Back
[4:51] 1. From The Water
[4:18] 2. Mon Couer Est Dans Tes Mains
[2:41] 3. Built Right On The Ground
[4:24] 4. Smoke 'em All
[4:25] 5. Trouble Only Comes In 3's
[3:34] 6. Between The Darkness And The Light Of Day
[3:41] 7. I Have Seen A Miracle
[3:09] 8. Devilment
[3:44] 9. John Lennon In New Orleans
[3:57] 10. Later Than You Think
[4:21] 11. The Price You Pay
[4:10] 12. Sinking Down Slow
[5:23] 13. The Heaven Me
[3:34] 14. God Will Always Remember Your Prayers
Of how many artists can it be said that they’re getting better, 33 years into their recording career? Colin Linden can certainly be considered a member of that select club based on From The Water, the 11th solo album in a storied career that has also featured his work on literally hundreds of other records. At last count, the total of albums on which he has played stood at over 300, while at least 70 albums bear the ‘Produced by Colin Linden’ credit.
Linden is a genuine renaissance man of roots music. He’s a singer and songwriter of great skill, an in-demand and prolific record producer ( Bruce Cockburn, Tom Wilson, Colin James), a sideman to the stars as guitarist for the likes of Bruce Cockburn, Emmylou Harris, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and, for the past decade, a member of the highly successful trio, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings.
Colin’s songs have been covered by The Band, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Keb’ Mo’, and Colin James, and his well-stocked trophy case includes seven Juno, multiple Maple Blues Awards, and a Toronto Arts Award. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for the star-studded A Tribute To Howlin’ Wolf CD, and was involved in the ground-breaking O Brother Where Art Thou phenomenon. Linden has a well-deserved reputation as a slide guitar virtuoso of real originality, and his riveting slide work can be heard both on albums from such artists as Cassandra Wilson, The Rankin Family, Whitey Johnson and on his own sizeable solo catalogue.
Colin’s multi-faceted talents coalesce in truly compelling fashion on From The Water. This is a stylistically more diverse work than his previous outing, 2007’s easin’ back to tennessee. That acclaimed disc served as an homage to the acoustic country blues style that was the crucial inspiration for the Toronto-born and raised, Nashville-based Linden in his musically formative years.
From The Water can also be viewed as an homage of sorts. Colin’s long-time musical collaborator and closest friend, legendary keyboardist Richard Bell, passed away in 2007, and his spirit is omnipresent here. The dynamic duo played on over 100 albums together (more than 40 of them Linden productions), including records by The Band, Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and Colin James.
From The Water