The Cadillac Kings - Crash And Burn

Size: 128.3 MB
Time: 54:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Jump Blues, Rockin' Blues
Art: Front

01. Doubtin' Thomas (4:24)
02. Betty Lou Broke Outa Jail (3:44)
03. Bona Fide (4:06)
04. Cadillac Boogie (3:18)
05. It Ain't Smart (3:21)
06. Don't Fix It (2:59)
07. Havana Mama (5:26)
08. Farmer John (3:01)
09. Crash And Burn (3:44)
10. When One Door Closes (3:23)
11. Beer Drinkin' Woman (6:15)
12. Too Much Stuff (2:09)
13. Six Feet From A Rat (4:06)
14. Zombie Walk (4:32)

Twenty-four years after it was founded, British band The Cadillac Kings are still active, giving their attractive and hot blues all over United Kingdom and all European corners. The group has undergone some changes, but they still keep the punch and groove that only experienced musicians can have, as well as a personal sound that makes them unique and makes always people get up from their seats and start to dance.

With this sixth album, band founder Mike Thomas wants to pay tribute to all the great musicians who, over the years, have been in his band. That’s why the album back cover details all the band different line-ups, since its beginning until reaching the one from 2018 and up to date, which includes Mike Thomas on vocals, harmonica and slide, Mal Barclay on guitar and vocals, Jason Reay on drums, Paul Cuff on bass and double bass and Timm Penn on piano, accordion and vocals.

Twelve songs give shape to this excellent album full of groove, houserockin’ blues, Zydeco, jump blues, Texas and Chicago blues. This is a multivitamin recording that overflows strength, intensity, joy and hot rhythm, as all the musicians show and communicate the terrific rhythm and vitality of a music that will catch listeners from the beginning to the end. Fifty-five minutes of a fantastic mixture of sounds can be found in this impressive recording which has been mixed at the Ealing Central studios by Richard Manwaring (Talking Heads, Eric Clapton, Van Morison, John Lee Hooker, Tina Turner, Status Quo or Chick Corea among others).

This is certainly one of the best UK blues bands you should really not miss, because if you do not pay attention to The Cadillac Kings you will always regret it.

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Cadillac Kings - The Secret Of My Success

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Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues
Time: 58:31
Size: 134,6 MB
Art: Full

(3:52) 1. For Richer For Poorer
(4:21) 2. Five Won't Getcha Ten
(3:49) 3. Wasted
(2:36) 4. Cadillac Shake
(5:04) 5. I Ain't Gonna Miss You
(5:34) 6. In The Night
(5:10) 7. Left-Handed Woman
(4:34) 8. Flatfoot Sam
(4:27) 9. One Step Forward
(4:01) 10. The Secret Of My Success
(4:23) 11. Stalking Blues
(4:14) 12. Everybody's Out
(3:06) 13. No Good Woman
(3:12) 14. Soleil De La Louisiane

The Cadillac Kings new album "The Secret of My Success" is their fifth album and coincides with the band's fifteenth anniversary as one of the UK's top blues & roots acts. The new 14 track album maintains the high standard of its predecessors "Lou Ann" (2001), "Highway 17" (2004), "Trouble in Store" (2008) and the live "Gonna Tell Your Momma" (2012). Only frontman Mike Thomas remains from the first release, and his wry and ofter dark lyrics are well to the fore here, with a whopping ten self-penned songs, joined in the current excellent line-up by Mal Barclay (guitar), Tim Penn (piano, accordion), Paul Cuff (bass) and Roy Webber (drums). The Cadillac Kings truly excel as a live band and you can hear their on-stage fun and musical prowess on the album. They create a five-man blues party with a mix of West Coast flavours, Louisiana Swamp, New Orleans rhumbas, some rockin' R&B and accordion rockers, by way of a health dose of Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed.

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Cadillac Kings - Gonna Tell Your Momma

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 55:51
Size: 128,6 MB
Art: Full

(3:52) 1. Gonna Tell Your Momma
(3:40) 2. A Man Needs His Loving
(4:41) 3. Somebody
(4:38) 4. Ding Dong Daddy
(4:18) 5. Sick & Tired
(3:21) 6. Zydeco Cadillac
(3:41) 7. Just A Matter Of Time
(4:20) 8. Mean Old Frisco
(3:19) 9. Boogie Hamar
(3:31) 10. The Big Next Thing
(3:33) 11. Stranded In The Jungle
(3:51) 12. Big Bad Boy
(3:58) 13. Eight Ball Jack
(5:02) 14. Betty Lou

Cadillac Kings recent album, Gonna Tell Your Momma, has the clear sound essential in a quality live recording. The show was recorded live in Norway, featuring some of the UK's top blues and roots musicians, the Cadillac Kings are probably the favourite band on the UK and European Jump Jive scene. Their sound is inspired by the styles of the 1940s & 1950’s and perhaps some early 1960’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, the kind of thing that suits bryl cream and energetic jiving, and which tips its hat to Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Louis Jordan, and others. This is a band with a reputation for wowing their audiences, from intimate clubs to major festivals, from theatres to dance-halls, the length and breadth of the UK and Europe. Along the way the band has picked up numerous awards including The Times' best blues CD of the year 2004 for 'Highway 17' and Canada's Real Blues Magazine's award for best UK blues act and CD 2009 for 'Trouble in Store'. If you like their music – and the more contemporary, twangy, but equally bright Big Boy Bloater – you’ll really enjoy this. Ding Dong Daddy stands out for Mike Adcock’s bursts of lively accordion. Mike Thomas’s strident vocals are a great listen on songs like the opener, Gonna Tell Your Momma, while Gary Potts contributes vocals reminiscent of Jerry Lee Lewis and cool amplified harmonica on Somebody, a very fine song also featuring some memorable guitar licks. Just a Matter of Time is a song about the arrival of old age. Pleasingly, the tune is as bright and bubbly as its lyrics, such as “The girls ignore you at the bar/ the last time you got lucky was when you found your car/ old age is coming.” Finally, the album features some top boogie woogie piano – this time like Jerry Lee Lewis on keys – from Henri Herbert. Henri also includes a stunning original tune, Boogie Hamar. Often, you can hear the audience having a fine time.

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The Cadillac Kings - Lou Ann

Year: 2001
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:15
Size: 121,0 MB
Styles: Jump blues, harmonica blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. I'm Leaving You Baby (3:46)
2. Cadillac Swing (3:43)
3. Cruise-O-Matic (2:53)
4. Down On The Farm (2:21)
5. Was It Something That I Said? (4:19)
6. Fortune Teller (5:22)
7. What Kind Of Girl Is That? (4:46)
8. The Spirit Is Willing (7:39)
9. Turn Your Damper Down (4:40)
10. Fat Boy's Five & Dime (3:58)
11. Lou Ann (3:25)
12. Bee Boogie (1:31)
13. Jump Children (3:45)

The Cadillac Kings formed in 2000, around London, from a group of experienced musicians, whose cvs included the James Hunter Band, Otis Grand’s Band, Paul Lamb’s Kingsnakes & Big Joe Louis’ Band. Six months later they released their debut cd "Lou Ann". It was picked up right away by radio stations across the world and earned the band a ’finalist’ status in the 2001 UK best new blues band awards. From the very outset, The Cadillac Kings became firm favourites on the blues & jump-jive scenes.

With stunning musicianship & an exciting stage act, this band knows how to entertain audiences across the board, from arts centres to dance-halls, from intimate clubs to major festivals, the length & breadth of the UK, Europe & Scandinavia. The founder member of the band is vocalist & songwriter Mike Thomas, who writes nearly all the band’s material, combining the sounds & styles of '40s & '50s R&B with an unerring 21st century wit. "Mike’s often hilarious lyrics are right up there with Rick Estrin & Louis Jordan" wrote blues journalist Ken Peace in his bluesinthenorthwest blog.

Personnel: Mike Thomas (slide guitar, vocals); Paul Morgan (guitar); Ray Marquis (drums, guitar); Gary Potts (harp, vocals); Bernie Brewster (bass, vocals); Gary Howard (piano, accordion); Colin Hartshorn (tenor sax)

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The Cadillac Kings - Highway 17

Year: 2004
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:03
Size: 133,2 MB
Styles: Jump blues, harmonica blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. Bombshell Blonde ( 2:54)
2. Exercising Baby ( 2:26)
3. Highway 17 ( 4:40)
4. Hilde's Hop ( 1:53)
5. You Never Know ( 3:45)
6. She's Gonna Ruin Me ( 3:07)
7. Money Talks ( 3:21)
8. Hard-Top Boogie ( 2:29)
9. Trick Of The Blues ( 5:07)
10. Throwing A Dragnet ( 4:00)
11. Lovin'est Girl ( 3:02)
12. Shake Baby Shake ( 4:51)
13. Who's Bin Lickin' My Chicken ( 3:05)
14. Watch Yourself Brother (13:16)

The Cadillac Kings' "Highway 17" was chosen, with "Remember Me" by Charles Caldwell, as joint best blues release of the year by the music critics of The Times in their end of year review of the best CDs of 2004. (Saturday Dec 18th '04) 33 Records, the prestigious UK jazz label, long dedicated to supporting the best in home-grown & European talent, has taken a sidestep into the rhythm & blues scene with their latest signing, the award-winning and versatile UK blues & jump-jive band - The Cadillac Kings. Not such an unusual move for the jazzers at "33" - The Cadillac Kings swing like they were born in the trees!

Recorded & mixed over four days at 33's own KoolWorld Studios by Van Morrison's concert engineer Dave Wooster, the 14 track CD features 12 originals, the majority of which were written by frontman & singer Mike Thomas who seems to have the ability to pen tunes that make you want to dance and smile at the same time! Instrumental duties are well taken care of by top UK harp-player Gary Potts, pianist & accordianist Mike Adcock & the very talented young guitarist Oliver Darling. Add one of the best rhythm sections around - double bassist Orlando Shearer and drummer Roy Webber, and you've got a band who can satisfy the most demanding blues fans, or get a jive audience on its feet in absolutely no time at all! As BBC blues broadcaster Phil Aldridge writes in the CD sleevenotes "the spirits of Louis Jordan, Joe Liggins and Wynonie Harris are alive and well". /Amazon

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The Cadillac Kings - Trouble In Store

Year: 2008
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:52
Size: 120,7 MB
Styles: Jump blues, harmonica blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. Too Blue (2:59)
2. She's My Sugar Rush (3:26)
3. Hot Rod V8 Ford (2:45)
4. Around The Block (5:03)
5. Blue Cap Bounce (2:31)
6. (I'm In Love With The) Chief Of Police (4:29)
7. Stop Digging That Hole (3:03)
8. Tongue-Tied (2:41)
9. Fries With That (3:04)
10. Less Is More (3:23)
11. Mr Nip And Tuck (4:01)
12. North Sea Jump (3:04)
13. Chain Gang Boogie (4:28)
14. Trouble In Store (4:11)
15. Mama Drop The Hammer (2:40)

"Trouble In Store", from the leading UK blues/roots band The Cadillac Kings is the follow-up to "Highway 17" which was "Blues Album of the Year" in The Times in 2004. Featuring six of the UK's top blues and roots musicians, The Cadillac Kings play music inspired by the sounds and styles of the 1940s & 50s. A mix of mostly original songs with a few well-chosen covers from the likes of T-Bone Walker, Roy Brown and Champion Jack Dupree have made the band firm favourites on both the blues & jump-jive scenes, both in the UK and Europe.

With their stunning musicianship and exciting stage act, this is a band that knows how to entertain audiences across the board, from arts centres to dance-halls, from intimate clubs to major festivals and this stunning album is an exciting documentation of a band at the very top of their genre. /Amazon

Personnel: Mike Thomas (lead vocals, slide guitar), Gary Potts (harp, lead vocals), TC Copp (double-bass), Roy Webber (drums, backing vocals), Mal Barclay (guitar), Mike Adcock (piano, accordion)

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