Climax Blues Band - Live In Miami (HD Tracks)

Size: 634 MB
Time: 53:08
File: Flac
Released: 2022
Styles:
Art: Front

1. Money in Your Pocket (4:43)
2. Summer Rain (5:40)
3. Amerita / Sense of Direction (7:40)
4. Evil (5:07)
5. Fallen in Love (For the Very Last Time) (4:44)
6. Seventh Son / Mojo (9:17)
7. Whatcha Feel (9:39)
8. All the Time in the World / Get Back (6:14)

English band founded in the 1960's by Colin Cooper. Originally known as The Climax Chicago Blues Band, the Climax Blues Band has always focused on its roots, a unique combination of jazz and blues. The band has released 21 albums and had a Top 10 hit in the UK with Couldn't Get It Right. That song and I Love You were also hits in the United States ; Couldn't Get It Right reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977, and "I Love You" peaked at No. 12 in 1981 In 1985, Cooper and Glover recruited guitarist Lester Hunt, drummer Roy Adams, and original member Derek Holt to record the Climax Blues Band album Drastic Steps, and this line-up toured in support of the album in the UK, Europe and America. The new line-up soon became established with Cooper, Glover, Hunt, Adams and Neil Simpson in the early 1990s, releasing the live album Blues From The Attic in 1993 and Big Blues in 2004. Cooper died of cancer, aged 69, in July 2008. He is survived by his wife and two children. He wanted the band to continue, as the other musicians had all been long serving (Glover since 1980, Adams and Hunt since 1985, and Simpson since 1991). Cooper was replaced by singer and saxophone and harmonica player Johnny Pugh, who retired in 2012, and was replaced in turn by vocalist Graham Dee and saxophone player Chris Aldridge. In 2019, Climax Blues Band released Hands Of Time, a new album of original bluesy funk, soul and jazz rock material that has received rave reviews. The current line-up includes: George Glover, Lester Hunt, Graham Dee, Chris Aldridge, Neil Simpson and Roy Adams

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Climax Blues Band - Hands Of Time

Size: 152.7 MB
Time: 66:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues, Rock
Art: Front

1. Ain't That A Kick In The Head [4:14]
2. Straight Down The Middle [5:41]
3. What's Your Name [5:07]
4. Flood Of Emotion [4:38]
5. Top Of The World [3:50]
6. My Music [4:40]
7. 17th Street Canal [5:56]
8. Simple Song [3:03]
9. The Cat [4:47]
10. Hands Of Time [5:19]
11. Faith [5:52]
12. Hard Luck [4:55]
13. Wrong Time [4:42]
14. Getting There [3:43]

Founded in the 60's, by Colin Cooper, Climax Blues Band has always focused on its roots, a unique combination of jazz and blues. After 50 years, 21 albums, the classic world-wide hit "Couldn't Get It Right" and tours of the UK, Europe and the US, Climax Blues Band are now touring with "Hands of Time", a new album of original material and still playing the blues in a creative way that has always been synonymous with their name.

Hands of Time is the 21st album by Climax Blues Band, consisting of 13 new original songs, plus a bonus unreleased track ‘Getting There’ with the late Colin Cooper.

It was recorded at Silk Mill Studios in Staffordshire, UK and is a mixture of bluesy funk, soul and jazz-rock, all of the ingredients that have kept the band working for over 50 years.

The album has a fresher more modern feel to it than on previous releases and is being well received by the industry. You can hear a selection of the new songs played live by the band when they embark on their major UK & European tour staring in 2019 to promote the album’s release.

Colin was the founder member of Climax Blues Band back in 1968 and led the band with Pete Haycock through great success and recognition through the 1970s and 1980s, with huge selling albums like FM Live and Gold Plated, hit singles Couldn’t Get It Right and I Love You.

George Glover joined the band on keyboards in 1981, Haycock left in 1984 and Lester Hunt came into the re-vamped Climax in 1985, Roy Adams joined in 1987 and Neil Simpson in the early 1990s. Colin Cooper was leading the band with a return to the kind of blues that got the band started before his untimely death. His wish was the for the band to continue and the recruitment of Graham Dee and Chris ‘Beebe’ Aldridge was made with a view to broadening the Climax sound again and take on new musical influences, move forward creatively which was the Climax Blues Band trademark, rather than rely on the past glories.

The live album Security Alert was released in 2015 and reflected this move forward and the fact that Climax were delighting old and new fans alike throughout the UK and Europe. Roy Wood of ELO and Wizzard fame mixed the live album.

Hands Of Time

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Climax Blues Band - Big Blues (The Songs Of Willie Dixon)

Year: 2003
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:29
Size: 114,7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front, sleeve, back

1. Little Red Rooster (4:58)
2. Spoonful (4:47)
3. The Seventh Son (4:47)
4. Third Degree (5:12)
5. I'm Ready (3:19)
6. Wang Dang Doodle (4:25)
7. My Babe (3:04)
8. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (4:07)
9. You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover (3:06)
10. Big Boss Man (4:40)
11. I Love The Life I Live (2:56)
12. That's My Baby (4:02)

Bring up the name of Willie Dixon outside the circle of blues fans, and the chances are that it will be greeted with little recognition. Start talking about the songs he has written, however, and you will find that anyone with the slightest interest in popular music over the past forty years will be familiar with them. The list includes 'Little Red Rooster', 'Hoochie Coochie Man', 'Spoonful', 'You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover', and that is just scratching the surface. Willie Dixon was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 1st 1915, and arrived in Chicago in 1935. After a stint as a professional heavyweight boxer, he turned to music for a living, playing upright bass in a number of groups, and, incidentally, serving a ten-month prison sentence for resisting the WW2 draft, long before such protests became fashionable.

In 1951 he produced his first session for the Chess brothers' Aristocrat label. Over the next fifteen years or so Willie organised, produced, played on and wrote songs for recording sessions for a who's who of Chicago-based blues artists. Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Bo Diddley, Sonny Boy Williamson and Chuck Berry are just a few of the greats who worked with him. No one will ever be able to unravel the tangle of truth, legend and fiction that surrounds those years, but what is certain is that the records which came out of the Chess studios in that era influenced and inspired an entire generation of young musicians, particularly in the UK, and had a massive effect on the development of popular music. There are few artists whose work cuts across cultural, geographical, economic and generational divides.

In the blues field, Robert Johnson and Louis Jordan are two that spring to mind, but there can be no doubt that the name of Willie Dixon, who died in 1992, is right up there with the very, very best. It is in acknowledgement of the musical debt owed by our generation of British musicians that we dedicate this album to him and the great artists who worked with him during that golden era. /Colin Cooper, 2002

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Climax Blues Band - A Lot Of Bottle

Year: 1970
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:14
Size: 107,6 MB
Styles: Blues, blues-rock
Scans: Full

1. Country Hat (1:56)
2. Everyday (2:24)
3. Reap What I've Sowed (4:38)
4. Brief Case (4:03)
5. Alright Blue (2:57)
6. Country Hat (Reprise) (1:17)
7. Morning Noon And Night (2:35)
8. Long Lovin' Man (3:35)
9. Seventh Son (6:48)
10. Please Don't Help Me (2:55)
11. Louisiana Blues (5:18)
12. Cut You Loose (5:18)
13. Loving Machine (Bonus Track) (2:23)

This album starts out promisingly (and interestingly, and misleadingly) with a cool acoustic number, "Country Hat", before the amplification gets cranked up and a lot of subtlety goes out the window. Still, this is generally an exciting album, if not always an interesting one. The band plays hard enough on grinding, crunchy shouters like "Reap What I've Sowed" (which features a wondering, soaring solo by Peter Haycock, and a spellbinding performance by Derek Holt on bass), which also parallels Mountain's contemporary release "Mississippi Queen"; and they bring back in that oft-overlooked instrument, the saxophone (played by Colin Cooper), on "Brief Case".

Much of the rest is on the bland side, "Alright Blue?" being a tedious workout for the harmonica as lead instrument. A couple of Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters covers are more engaging than most of the originals that follow, until the pleasantly loose-limbed closer, "Cut You Loose". /Bruce Eder, AllMusic

(Note: This album was originally released under the name "Climax Chicago Blues Band", they later dropped the "Chicago" part in the band name.)

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Climax Blues Band - FM/Live

Year: 1973/2013
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:06
Size: 183,5 MB
Styles: Blues-rock, rock
Scans: Full

1. All The Time In The World (5:47)
2. I Am Constant (3:35)
3. Flight (11:14)
4. Seventh Son (4:44)
5. Standing By A River (5:19)
6. So Many Roads, So Many Trains (11:05)
7. Mesopopmania (7:03)
8. Country Hat (6:21)
9. You Make Me Sick (3:34)
10. Shake Your Love (3:00)
11. Goin' To New York (10:25)
12. Let's Work Together (6:53)

Heavy on the kind of blues-rock favored by Humble Pie, this is a live outing in front of a too-loud New York audience. Sax player Colin Cooper helps to separate these English midland lads from the heads-down no-nonsense boogie competition, although the emphasis is squarely on guitarist Peter Haycock. His solo electric slide showcase "Country Hat" is a marvel. The band's pop leanings featured so strongly on their studio recordings come through in "I Am Constant." It's a solid outing, and much meatier than subsequent offerings. /Mark Allan, AllMusic

Personnel:
Colin Cooper - vocals, saxophones, harmonica, rhythm guitar
Pete Haycock - vocals, guitar
Derek Holt - bass
John Cuffley - drums

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Climax Blues Band - Live At Rockpalast

Size: 120,3 MB
Time: 51:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues Rock, Slide Guitar Blues
Art: Front

01. I Am Constant ( 3:50)
02. Amerita - Sense Of Direction ( 7:04)
03. Running Out Of Time (10:18)
04. Country Hat ( 3:14)
05. Come On In My Kitchen ( 4:45)
06. Using The Power ( 4:49)
07. Going To New York ( 7:26)
08. The Seventh Son ( 4:54)
09. All The Time In The World - Get Back ( 5:08)

Rockpalast (‘Rock Palace’) is a legendary ‘live’ music TV show hosted in Germany by the WDR channel. It first broadcast in 1974 and has become a pan-European television institution. It has its own fan club and online forum, and over nearly four decades, it has become a trademark of quality viewing and listening.

Performance date: WDR, Studio A, Köln, 18.01.1976 (the first of their three appearances on the show by the band - others were in 1983 & 1998).

The set contains a mix of classic blues numbers and slick, self-penned material from their most recent LPs at that time - ‘Sense Of Direction’ (a US Top 40 entry) and ‘Stamp Album’.

Features the classic line-up of Peter Haycock, Colin Cooper, John Cuffley, Derek Holt and Richard Jones - a band at peak of their popularity, merging rock, blues and funk.

A much-changed Climax Blues Band line-up is still gigging today.

Live At Rockpalast

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