Various - The Most Underrated Blues Players Ever! (2-Disc Set)

Album: The Most Underrated Blues Players Ever! (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 141:48
Size: 324.6 MB
Styles: R&B/Soul, Assorted blues styles
Year: 2012

[2:52] 1. Juke Boy Bonner - Rock With Me, Baby
[2:59] 2. Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love
[5:25] 3. Baby Face Leroy Foster - Rollin' And Tumblin'
[2:28] 4. Johnny Alston - Weary Blues
[2:43] 5. Carl Campbell - Goin' Down To Nashville
[3:06] 6. Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Little Boy Blue
[2:04] 7. Peppermint Harris - Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie
[3:04] 8. K.C. Douglas - Lonely Boy Blues
[3:29] 9. Madelyn James - Stinging Snake Blues
[2:40] 10. Long Cleve Reed - Original Stack O'lee Blues
[2:52] 11. Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along
[2:53] 12. Mississippi Mud Steppers - Alma Waltz
[2:34] 13. The Five Keys - I'm So High
[3:03] 14. Carl Rafferty - Mr. Carl's Blues
[2:50] 15. Walter Vincent - Your Friends Gonna Use It Too
[2:47] 16. Chatman Brothers - Stir It Now
[2:39] 17. I.H. Smalley - Smalley's Jump
[2:55] 18. Sherman Blues Johnson - Blues Jumped A Rabbit
[3:07] 19. Olie Jackson - You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
[2:12] 20. Conrad Johnson - Fisherman's Blues
[3:19] 21. Texas Alexander - Seen Better Days
[2:47] 22. Calvin Frazier - She's A Double-Crossin' Woman
[1:52] 23. Marvin & Johnny - Smack Smack
[2:43] 24. Clarence Samuels - Hey Joe
[2:57] 25. Ramblin' Thomas - Sawmill Moan
[3:21] 26. Charlie McCoy - You Gonna Need Me
[3:00] 27. Ed Bell - Bad Boy
[2:50] 28. Lavarda Durst - I Cried
[2:57] 29. Eddie Lang - Add A Little Wiggle
[3:26] 30. David Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago
[2:03] 31. Blind Will Dukes - Hoodoo Man
[3:06] 32. Freeman Stowers - Railroad Blues
[3:05] 33. Birmingham Jug Band - Getting Ready For Trial
[2:45] 34. Charley Jordan - Charley Jordan - Keep It Clean
[3:05] 35. Joe Papoose Fritz - Better Wake Up, Baby
[3:24] 36. Texas Alexander - Frost Texas Tornado Blues
[2:01] 37. West Side Trio - West Side Jump
[3:22] 38. J.D. Short - Snake Doctor Blues
[2:44] 39. Little T-Bone - Christmas Blues
[2:46] 40. Funny Papa Smith - Good Coffee Blues
[2:08] 41. Belvin Jesse - Sugar Doll
[2:33] 42. The Sharps - Our Love Is Here To Stay
[2:48] 43. Crying Sam Collins - Jail House Blues
[2:36] 44. James Reed - You Better Hold Me
[2:18] 45. Walter Sandman Howard - Willow Tree Blues
[2:43] 46. Bonnie Evans - Good Luck To You
[2:50] 47. Violet Hall - (All Alone) I Sit And Cry
[2:43] 48. Charlie McCoy - It's Hot Like That
[1:44] 49. Blind Will Dukes - Mistreated So Long
[2:44] 50. Sheri Washington - I Got Plenty

The Most Underrated Blues Players Ever! (Disc 1) mc
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Album: The Most Underrated Blues Players Ever! (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 152:11
Size: 348.4 MB
Styles: R&B/Soul, Assorted blues styles
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Banjo Joe - Madison Street Stomp
[2:49] 2. Funny Papa Smith - Howling Wolf Blues
[2:29] 3. Margie Hendricks - Everytime
[3:00] 4. Sleepy John Estes - 222 Milk Cow Blues
[3:11] 5. Emery Franklin - Lonesome Blues
[2:53] 6. Sylvester Scott - Going Home Blues
[2:58] 7. Walter Jacobs - Mississippi Low Down
[2:13] 8. The Lovers - Let's Elope
[3:11] 9. Frank Stokes - 'tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
[2:59] 10. L. C. Williams - Louisiana Boogie
[6:15] 11. The Paramount All Stars - Home Town Skiffle
[2:56] 12. Elmore Nixon - Married Woman Blues
[2:57] 13. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In
[2:24] 14. Shirley & Lee - Let The Good Times Roll
[5:20] 15. Johnny Shines - Moanin' And Groanin' The Blues
[2:36] 16. Baby Boy Warren - Stop Breaking Down
[2:50] 17. Funny Papa Smith - County Jail Blues
[3:11] 18. Jackson Blue Boys - Sweet Alberta
[2:49] 19. Chatman Brothers - Wake Me Just Before Day
[4:00] 20. Calvin Frazier - Lilly Mae No. 1
[2:55] 21. Ashley & Foster - Bay Rum Blues
[3:06] 22. Kokomo Arnold - Milk Cow Blues
[2:54] 23. Blip Thompkins - Got A Feelin' You're Foolin'
[3:05] 24. Cal Lucas - Left With The Blues
[2:51] 25. The Carols - My Search Is Over
[3:12] 26. Chatman Brothers - If You Don't Want Me, Please Don't Dog Me Around
[3:05] 27. Peetie Wheatstraw - Police Station Blues
[2:53] 28. Little Willie Littlefield - Little Willie's Boogie
[3:04] 29. Johnny Temple - Lead Pencil Blues
[2:57] 30. Mississippi Blacksnakes - Grind So Fine
[2:52] 31. Frank Palmes - Ain't Gonna Lay My 'ligion Down
[3:02] 32. Little Caesar - Big Eyes
[2:26] 33. Homesick James - Long Lonesome Day
[2:43] 34. The Mello Felows - My Friend Charlie
[2:24] 35. Dirty Red - Mother Fuyer
[2:53] 36. Mercy Dee Walton - The Main Event
[3:00] 37. Chicken Wilson - House Snake Blues
[2:52] 38. Blind Roosevelt Graves - Guitar Boogie
[2:58] 39. Charlie McCoy - Blue Heaven Blues
[3:15] 40. Ben Curry - The Laffing Rag
[3:03] 41. Peg Leg Howell - Coal Man Blues
[3:01] 42. Georgia Cotton Pickers - Diddle-Da-Diddle
[2:54] 43. Lee Brown - My Driving Wheel
[3:12] 44. Rubberlegs Williams - That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch
[2:52] 45. Lonnie Lyons - Down In The Groovy
[2:57] 46. Chuck Darling - Blowin' The Blues
[2:40] 47. Little T-Bone - Love's A Gamble
[2:54] 48. Funny Papa Smith - Hoppin' Toad Frog
[2:57] 49. Mississippi Blacksnakes - It Still Ain't No Good
[2:48] 50. Furry Lewis - Big Chief Blues

The Most Underrated Blues Players Ever! (Disc 2) mc
The Most Underrated Blues Players Ever! (Disc 2) zippy

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VA - The Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

Size: 171,4 MB
Time: 73:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Ragtime Blues
Art: Front

01 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Is Mine (3:10)
02 Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag (Take 2) (3:06)
03 Blind Boy Fuller - Piccolo Rag (2:48)
04 Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues (3:14)
05 Robert Wilkins - Old Jim Canan's (2:56)
06 Blind Blake - Blind Arthur's Breakdown (2:59)
07 Papa Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack (2:28)
08 Bo Carter - Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me (2:06)
09 Memphis Minnie - Can I Do It For You (Part 1) (3:06)
10 Dick Justice - Old Black Dog (2:57)
11 Beale Street Sheiks - Mr. Crump Don't Like It (2:40)
12 William Moore - Ragtime Millionaire (3:07)
13 Pillie Bolling - Shake Me Like A Dog (3:01)
14 Charlie McCoy - I've Been Blue Ever Since You Went Away (3:17)
15 Allen Brothers - Salty Dog Blues (3:05)
16 Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beggin' Back (2:49)
17 Big Bill Broonzy - Guitar Rag (2:54)
18 The Two Charlies - Pork Chop Blues (3:02)
19 Mississippi John Hurt - Got The Blues Can't Be Satisfied (2:49)
20 Charley Patton - Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall Mama) (3:04)
21 Troy Ferguson - You Better Keep It At Home (3:02)
22 Reverend Gary Davis - Have More Faith In Jesus (3:02)
23 Buddy Boy Hawkins - Raggin' The Blues (2:26)
24 Geeshie Wiley - Pick Poor Robin Clean (3:12)
25 Cannon's Jug Stompers - Money Never Runs Out (2:44)

Ragtime had a profound influence on many early blues performers who strived to reproduce its complicated piano sounds on the guitar. With its faster rhythm and good-time feel, this danceable style was performed with mesmerizing skill by blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Made famous by the legendary Scott Joplin, ragtime developed in African-American communities throughout the southern part of the Midwest during the last decade of the nineteenth century and had a profound influence on many early blues performers. Combining the structure of marches with African-American songs and dances such as the cakewalk, ragtime’s syncopated or ‘ragged’ rhythm was initially performed as dance music for the seedier side of society in areas where bars, dancehalls and brothels were located. Many blues guitarists attempted to reproduce the complicated piano sounds, as its faster rhythm created a more upbeat and lively feel, far removed from the typical intensity of early country blues. So, when ragtime went out of favour as jazz claimed the public's imagination, it had already entered the folk consciousness through the playing of blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller.

Blind Blake was the first commercially successful performer of this style, whose intricate fingerstyle technique and diverse repertoire ranging from upbeat rags and hokum tunes to slow blues numbers influenced all who followed, including the likes of Blind Boy Fuller and Reverend Gary Davis, and modern-day guitarists Ry Cooder, John Fahey and Jorma Kaukonen.

Many of the featured artists hailed from the Eastern States where the influence of ragtime was instrumental in creating the unique and much loved ‘Piedmont’ guitar style. Typically, the Piedmont guitarist would create an alternating rhythmic bass accompaniment by moving the thumb of the picking hand between the different bass strings of the guitar, whilst one or more fingers of the same hand would pick out the melody on the higher strings. Essentially this approach gives the impression that the guitar is being played like a piano.

Little is known about many of these artists, none more so than Willie Walker who only ever recorded two sides in 1930, with ‘South Carolina Rag’ being one of the absolute masterpieces of ragtime guitar playing. Other highlights to listen out for include ‘Ragtime Millionaire’ by the barbershop owner William Moore which harks back to the glory years of ragtime as well as the cakewalk inspired ‘Money Never Runs Out’ by Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers.

The Rough Guide To Ragtime Blues

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Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks 1928 - 1940

4cd box with 100 cuts by Bo Carter, The Mississippi Sheiks & friends. The Chatman Brothers (Lonnie, Sam, Bo and Harry) with Walter Vinson and Charlie McCoy were a musical force to be reckoned with down around Bolton, Mississippi in the early 1930s performing and recording in various line-ups of hot string bands that included The Jackson Blue Boys, Chatman’s Foot Stompers, The Mississippi Mud Steppers and The Chatman Brothers. Most ferociously prolific of all were The Mississippi Sheiks who loped around country juke joints, white dances, barbeques and roadhouses blasting out their reels, rags, hard blues and hokum numbers. Every now and then some assortment of Chatman musicians would enter the studio and out would come a hot number that would reverberate around the south – songs like Sittin’ On Top Of The World, She’s Crazy About Her Loving, Sales Tax, Bootleggers Blues, Stop And Listen Blues and other powerful stuff like the two tracks Bob Dylan took up on ‘World Gone Wrong’ sixty-odd years later, I Got Blood In My Eyes For You and The World Is Going Wrong. Chatman brother Bo, known as Bo Carter, soon realised that he could earn more money without the band and decided to go solo. His recordings show that he was a considerable talent who, despite coming from an area that contained a vast store of traditional blues styles, wrote tunes that were consistently more inventive and original than any of his contemporaries – his brothers included. Guitarist John Miller recognizes Bo as “one of the bona-fide geniuses of country blues. Bo was probably the most sophisticated of all country blues men from a harmonic viewpoint, playing with perfect facility in five tunings and showing consistent originality in his melodic and rhythmic concepts”. Lyrically he was a master of the double entendre. Titles like The Ins And Outs Of My Girl, Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me, Same Thing The Cats Fight About, My Pencil Won’t Write No More, Banana In My Fruit Basket, Don’t Mash My Digger So Deep and What Kind Of Scent Is This? mesh nicely with the harder, but no less melodic straight blues of Whiskey Blues, Shake ‘Em On Down, To Her Burying Ground and the divine I Want You To Know – one of his most beautiful compositions. These cuts demonstrate perfectly why Bo Carter was such a popular blues artist in his day and why, eighty years since these first recordings, he’s revered by blues fans the world over.

Album: Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc A
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 79:18
Size: 183,3 MB
Covers: Full

(3:09) 1. Good Old Turnip Greens
(3:14) 2. Sweet Alberta
(3:07) 3. It Ain't No Good, Pt. 1
(2:46) 4. It's Hot Like That
(3:01) 5. Blue Heaven Blues
(2:53) 6. Your Friends Gonna Use It Too, Pt. 1
(3:04) 7. Sitting On Top of the World
(3:15) 8. The Jazz Fiddler
(3:32) 9. Stop and Listen Blues
(2:52) 10. Alma Waltz
(3:00) 11. Grind So Fine
(3:00) 12. It Still Ain't No Good
(3:01) 13. Mississippi Low Down
(3:22) 14. Seen Better Days
(3:26) 15. Frost Texas Tornado Blues
(3:08) 16. Jake Leg Blues
(3:34) 17. Bootleggers' Blues
(2:55) 18. I'm an Old Bumble Bee
(3:12) 19. Your Good Man Caught the Train and Gone
(3:24) 20. Unhappy Blues
(3:29) 21. Please Don't Wake It Up
(2:49) 22. I've Got the Whole World In My Hand
(3:21) 23. Same Thing the Cats Fight About
(3:11) 24. Times Is Tight Like That
(3:21) 25. You Gonna Need Me

Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc A
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Album: Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc B
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 79:45
Size: 184,1 MB
Covers: Full

(3:36) 1. Northern Starvers are Returning Home
(2:58) 2. My Pencil Won't Write No More
(3:09) 3. Banana In Your Fruit Basket
(3:11) 4. Sorry Feeling Blues
(3:20) 5. Twist It Baby
(2:44) 6. The Law Gonna Step On You
(2:49) 7. Howling Tom Cat Blues
(3:26) 8. What Kind of Scent Is This
(3:25) 9. The World is Going Wrong
(3:20) 10. She's a Bad Girl
(3:16) 11. Kind Treatment
(3:15) 12. Living In a Strain
(2:57) 13. Too Long
(3:03) 14. I Want You to Know
(3:09) 15. Last Go Round
(2:53) 16. Beans
(3:02) 17. Nobody Knows My Baby
(3:04) 18. Please Don't Drive Me From Your Door
(3:12) 19. Bed Spring Poker
(3:17) 20. I Got Blood In My Eyes for You
(3:32) 21. Shooting High Dice
(3:09) 22. She's Crazy About Her Lovin'
(3:28) 23. He Calls That Religion
(3:01) 24. Hitting the Numbers
(3:18) 25. It's Done Got Wet

Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc B
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Album: Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc C
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 75:04
Size: 173,3 MB
Covers: Full

(3:10) 1. I Am the Devil
(3:13) 2. She's Got Something Crazy
(3:24) 3. You'll Work Down to Me Someday
(3:12) 4. Somebody's Got to Help Me
(3:07) 5. Sales Tax
(3:01) 6. Lean To One Woman
(3:08) 7. I Can't Go Wrong
(3:03) 8. Dead Wagon Blues
(2:36) 9. She's Going to Her Lonesome Grave
(2:46) 10. Fingering With Your Fingers
(3:00) 11. Don't Cross Lay Your Daddy
(2:24) 12. Don't Do It No More
(2:59) 13. Old Shoe Blues
(2:58) 14. Let Me Roll Your Lemon
(3:05) 15. To Her Burying Ground
(2:57) 16. When Your Left Eye Go To Jumping
(2:58) 17. Spotted Sow Blues
(3:00) 18. All Around Man
(2:59) 19. You Better Know Your Business
(2:46) 20. Dinner Blues
(3:17) 21. Cigarette Blues
(3:15) 22. If You Don't Want Me, Please Don't Dog Me Around
(2:52) 23. Wake Me Just Before Day
(2:47) 24. Stir It Now
(2:55) 25. Please Don't Give My Love Away

Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc C
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Album: Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc D
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 76:11
Size: 175,5 MB
Covers: Full

(2:52) 1. Pussy Cat Blues
(2:58) 2. The Ins and Outs of My Girl
(3:13) 3. Bo Carter's Advice
(2:53) 4. Doubled Up In a Knot
(2:09) 5. Your Biscuits are Big Enough for Me
(2:58) 6. Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
(2:38) 7. Flea on Me
(2:28) 8. Got to Work Somewhere
(3:11) 9. Shake 'Em On Down
(3:25) 10. Whiskey Blues
(2:48) 11. Shoo That Chicken
(3:03) 12. Old Devil
(3:15) 13. Country Fool
(3:15) 14. Santa Claus
(3:17) 15. Be My Salty Dog
(3:22) 16. Ways Like a Craw Fish
(2:50) 17. Lucille, Lucille
(3:32) 18. The County Farm Blues
(3:20) 19. Border of New Mexico Blues
(3:07) 20. Arrangement for Me Blues
(3:03) 21. Trouble, Oh Trouble
(3:04) 22. My Baby
(3:07) 23. Policy Blues
(3:13) 24. Tush Hog Blues
(3:00) 25. What You Want Your Daddy To Do

Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc D
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