Clifford Curry - Blues I Can't Lose

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:46
Size: 95.6 MB
Styles: R&B, Blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[4:33] 1. Love Recession
[5:00] 2. Good Lovin' Woman
[3:23] 3. Welfare Blues
[3:09] 4. Blues I Can't Lose
[3:04] 5. Beulah
[3:29] 6. Slow Dance To The Blues
[2:33] 7. Set Me Free
[2:57] 8. Clifford's Blues
[3:16] 9. Stacked In The Back
[2:43] 10. You're What's Happening
[3:42] 11. Down The Road I'll Go
[3:50] 12. My Grandmomma

Curry's career began in high school and he was a member of several groups, including The Echoes, The Five Pennies (for whom he wrote a 1956 release, "Mr. Moon"), Hollyhocks (1957), and the Bubba Suggs Band (1957–1964). As Sweet Clifford he recorded for the Nashville-based Excello Records label, before beginning work with the Fabulous Six and the Contenders. In 1967, he had a hit on the US R&B chart with "She Shot A Hole In My Soul", which was written by Mac Gayden and performed by Mac and his bandmates Kenny Buttrey and Norbert Putnam. They did the song just like the demo Mac had produced.

Despite its commercial failure at the time, his 1968 single "I Can't Get A Hold Of Myself" became a huge Northern Soul anthem from the start of the scene, being played extensively at the Twisted Wheel and Wigan Casino. Buzz Cason produced. Known as "The King Of Beach Music," Curry continued to play in the Southeastern United States with his brand of Carolina Beach Music, and was inducted into the Beach Music Hall of Fame in 1995, along with his peers Maurice Williams and Bill Pinkney. In 1997, Curry recorded an album titled Tennessee R&B Live with Earl Gaines and Roscoe Shelton. Curry joined and backed Faye Adams on her number one R&B smash "Shake a Hand".

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Various Artists - The Appaloosa All Stars

Year: 1993
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:14
Size: 95,4 MB
Styles: Electric blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Sam Lay - Key To The Highway (3:21)
2. Clifford Curry - Beale Street (4:12)
3. Bob Kommersmith - Club Foot (3:49)
4. Sam Lay - Rock Me Baby/I'm A King Bee (6:19)
5. Fred James - Temporary Insanity (3:16)
6. Homesick James - Blues Before Sunrise (3:39)
7. Greg 'Fingers' Taylor - Meltdown (2:39)
8. Mary-Ann Brandon - Black Widow Spider (3:45)
9. Greg 'Fingers' Taylor - Bad Spell (3:05)
10. Frank Frost - My Baby (3:19)
11. Billy C. Farlow - All Night Boogie (3:44)

Haven't found any specific info for this nice compilation, so.. let the music do the talking.

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Clifford Curry - Soldier In The Army Of Love

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 37:21
Size: 85.5 MB
Styles: R&B-blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:32] 1. Bit By A Rattlesnake
[4:06] 2. Commit A Crime
[3:50] 3. The Provider
[4:47] 4. Helpless And Homeless
[3:34] 5. Soldier In The Army Of Love
[2:40] 6. Galloping Dominoes
[5:12] 7. Tall Oak Tree
[2:38] 8. Pure Grain Alcohol
[3:16] 9. She Stop Till She Drop
[3:41] 10. The Divorce

Clifford Curry is a true soul survivor, a veteran of more than 45 years in music and still kicking. The Knoxville, TN, native joined the Echos while he still attended Austin High School in Knoxville; they had been around four years before Curry joined and backed Faye Adams on her number one R&B smash "Shake a Hand." The revamped group cut two records as the renamed Five Pennies for Savoy Records ("Mr. Moon" and "My Heart Trembles" in 1955 and 1956 respectively) and also waxed unreleased sides for Herald Records. Royalties, money, and the lack of, caused the group to splinter in different directions. Curry and some other Knoxville cronies formed the Bingos, who cut a deal with Ernie Young's Excello Records. Excello issued the single on its Nasco subsidiary and renamed them the Hollyhocks; as before, nothing happened and the members disbanded into other ventures.

Curry found a stable gig with the Bubba Suggs Band in 1959, staying until 1964. The band played around their home base, Clarksville, TN, and backed up the major R&B acts that wheeled into their neck of the woods. He left after five years because Bubba couldn't vision much outside of Clarksville, neither could the other band members. Hit the road! Jack, you got to be kidding.

Returning to Knoxville, not exactly a music Mecca either, Curry went solo as Sweet Clifford. Revisiting Excello Records, Young recorded four sides on Curry, messing up the first single by crediting "Things Got to Get Better" as Clifford Sweet. Curry was furious, first from Bingos to Hollyhocks, now this crap. A follow-up got it right with the credit reading Sweet Clifford. The efforts stiffed, but that didn't deter Curry, he was in music for the duration. ~Andrew Hamilton

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