Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - Dislocation Blues

Size: 360 MB
Time: 62:58
File: Flac
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Stagger Lee (7:26)
2. Twelve Thousand Miles (4:36)
3. When I Paint My Masterpiece (5:00)
4. Rocket House (5:08)
5. The Road Leads Down (2:51)
6. Dislocation Blues (5:27)
7. Forever in My Life (3:54)
8. Velocity Girl (4:52)
9. Ravenswood (5:22)
10. Underground (4:18)
11. Changing of the Guard (6:42)
12. Motion Bride (1:26)
13. Hellbound on My Trail (5:50)

Dislocation Blues is a collaborative studio album, credited to American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley and Australian musician, Jeff Lang. The album was recorded in studios between Adelaide and Melbourne in April 2005, seven months before Chris Whitley's death from lung cancer. The album was released in Australia in August 2006 and peaked at number 64 on the ARIA Charts, becoming the highest-charting album in Australia for both artists. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007, the album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album.

Dislocation Blues FLAC

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Chris Whitley : Dirt Floor / Live at Martyrs'

Album: Dirt Floor
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1998
Styles: Rock;Blues;Slide
Time: 38:48
Size: 89,9 MB
Covers: Full

(3:42) 1. Scrapyard Lullaby
(3:39) 2. Indian Summer
(3:27) 3. Accordingly
(3:08) 4. Wild Country
(2:38) 5. Ballpeen Hammer
(2:17) 6. From One Island To Another
(2:52) 7. Altitude
(2:10) 8. Dirt Floor
(3:09) 9. Loco Girl
(2:58) 10. The Model (bonus live)
(4:45) 11. Alien (bonus live)
(3:57) 12. Living With the Law (bonus live)

This is the most consistent and accessible disc of Chris Whitley's off-and-on recording career. The album is just Whitley singing and accompanying himself on banjo, guitar and foot stomp. It has a simple and wonderfully stripped-down sound that fits perfectly with the morose yet tumultuous mood of the songs, establishing a strong atmosphere that is almost as important to the work as the mood in a '40s film noir. This is an exceedingly short work, only 27+ minutes, yet it really shouldn't be much longer. If you were expecting Big Sky Country in sound, you will be both happy and disappointed: happy because there is the same stripped-down, nasal singing and story-songs, and disappointed because there is not as much dobro, nor a band helping him flesh out the tunes. He does an excellent job on the small amount of material here, yet it does not develop into anything due to the lack of time; at the same time, the tone is so very angst-ridden that the short length may work in its favor. There are no liner notes or comments for this disc. What is here is excellent in its own right and stands up as some of his best work; I just wonder if maybe another song or two might have made it a stronger work. -- Allmusic.
An excellent slide guitarist with a confident, veloce curviness that varies high, lonesome country with moaning country blues, Whitley unraveled his early commercial potential one album at a time. He deserves our admiration for following up his mostly acoustic debut, Living with the Law, with a pair of white-noise albums loud enough to make Sonic Youth wear earplugs. "Dirt Floor," with a barren, desperate quality and iterative images of running (especially on the intense "Ballpeen Hammer" and the love-and-loss ballad "Loco Girl") has the same airy, blues feeling of his superb early work. -- Amazon.

Dirt Floor

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Album: Live at Martyrs'
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from Cd)
Released: 1999
Styles: Rock;Blues;Slide
Time: 47:29
Size: 109,2 MB
Covers: Full

(2:11) 1. Dirt Floor
(4:01) 2. Long Way Around
(2:27) 3. Firefighter
(2:32) 4. God Thing
(3:13) 5. Poison Girl
(3:03) 6. New Machine
(3:43) 7. Living with the Law
(2:52) 8. WPL
(3:01) 9. The Model
(3:22) 10. Home Is Where You Get Across
(2:53) 11. From One Island to Another
(3:21) 12. Serve You
(3:51) 13. Narcotic Prayer
(6:53) 14. Big Sky Country

Chris Whitley recorded three nights in August 1999 at Martyrs' in Chicago. He played songs from four albums (Living with the Law (1991), Din of Ecstasy (1995), Terra Incognita (1997), and Dirt Floor (1998). Whitley released the album independently and sold the CDs at his shows before an official release in 2000.
Live at Martyrs' would be the only live release that the late great Chris Whitley would record during his lifetime. Like his previous release, the excellent Dirt Floor, it just features Chris' voice and guitar. However, while Dirt Floor was subdued for the most part, Live at Martyrs' shows a range of emotions. Unlike most musicians, Chris preferred to take the road less traveled by often altering his songs in a live setting to express a distinctive mood. This trait, along with his explosive performances, led to many fans and critics lauding his shows as legendary and Live at Martyrs proves this statement true. -- Amazon.

Live at Martyrs'
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Chris Whitley - Living with the Law

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: Ll (from CD)
Released: 1991
Styles: Bluesrock
Time: 47:00
Size: 107,9 MB
Covers: Full

(0:17) 1. Excerpt
(3:42) 2. Living with the Law
(4:45) 3. Big Sky Country
(4:12) 4. Kick the Stones
(3:33) 5. Make the Dirt Stick
(3:26) 6. Poison Girl
(5:08) 7. Dust Radio
(4:47) 8. Phone Call from Leavenworth
(4:33) 9. I Forget You Every Day
(4:27) 10. Long Way Around
(3:16) 11. Look What Love Has Done
(4:30) 12. Bordertown
(0:17) 13. Outro

Chris Whitley's 1991 debut, Living with the Law, was recorded in Daniel Lanois' New Orleans mansion and was produced by Malcolm Burn. The sublimely dark, creepy, and possessed collection sounds completely out of place for the era of slick 1990s pop/rock sound. The tortured album is rich with old-style sounds, from slide guitars to pedal steel. (Lanois contributes some on the album.) Living with the Law has a full, ambient feel that transports the listener into the recording. Whitley humbly (and falsely) claims, at the beginning of the record, that "God knows it's all been done." But these 12 songs attempt an original look at an honest style and passionate mood that is lacking in much of rock music. Whitley sings of drug abuse, alienation, failure, and loneliness with a Delta blues flavor. Standout tracks include "Phone Call from Leavenworth," "Big Sky Country," and "Dirt Radio." Those who liked Whitley's Dirt Floor must own Living with the Law if they don't already. It is more of a full-band sound, but similar in tone and feel. An exceptional and mesmerizing debut, one with the potential to inspire all who hear it. -- Allmusic.
This impressive album of bluesy rock was one of the best debuts of 1991 and it didn't sound like a debut record. Whitley's tales of trials, tribulations and blues had a more authentic ring than your usual white bluesman. I think that the key to Whitley's success was that he did not merely try to copy the blues, but use it as a springboard to investigate his own ideas. The instrumental mix of guitars, pedal steel, tambourine, keyboards, harmonica and viola lends the album a distinctively atmospheric southern sound. Whitley's voice and the quality of the songs make it unforgettable. This is a record without a weak track. After this, Whitley set out on a career that jumped from genre to genre with mixed results. -- Amazon.

Living with the Law

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