Curtis Jones - Trouble Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:58
Size: 89.2 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Piano blues
Year: 1960/1993
Art: Front

[3:23] 1. Lonesome Bedroom Blues
[2:58] 2. A Whole Lot Of Talk For You
[4:06] 3. Suicide Blues
[2:36] 4. Please Say Yes
[3:29] 5. Weekend Blues
[2:41] 6. Good Woman Blues
[5:03] 7. Trouble Blues
[3:55] 8. Love Season
[3:04] 9. Low Down Worried Blues
[2:08] 10. Good Time Special
[2:34] 11. Fool Blues
[2:55] 12. Pinetop Boogie

Bass – Leonard Gaskin; Drums – Belton Evans; Guitar – Johnny "Moose John" Walker; Organ – Robert Banks;; Piano – Curtis Jones; Vocals – Curtis Jones.

The taciturn pianist in the company of a fine New York rhythm section and Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (but on guitar, not piano) made for a winning combination on this 1960 album. Jones delivers his downbeat "Suicide Blues," "Low Down Worried Blues," "Lonesome Bedroom Blues"...well, you get the picture. Jones wasn't exactly an upbeat kind of guy. The compilers did unearth a bonus for the CD version: Jones's treatment of "Pinetop Boogie." ~Bill Dahl

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Various - Blues Piano Orgy

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1972
Styles: Blues
Time: 60:45
Size: 141,1 MB
Covers: Full

(4:16) 1. Speckled Red - Blues Hurt My Tongue to Talk
(2:47) 2. Roosevelt Sykes - Dresser Drawers
(3:00) 3. Roosevelt Sykes - Concentration Blues
(2:55) 4. Roosevelt Sykes - Kickin' Motor Scooter
(2:31) 5. Roosevelt Sykes - (New Year's) Resolution Blues
(3:17) 6. Sunnyland Slim - My Baby's Coming
(4:09) 7. Sunnyland Slim - Poor Boy
(3:14) 8. Sunnyland Slim - Everytime I Get to Drinkin'
(3:06) 9. Sunnyland Slim - Depression Blues
(2:53) 10. Little Brother Montgomery - Stendahl Stomp
(3:09) 11. Little Brother Montgomery - Tremblin' Blues
(2:42) 12. Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider Blues
(3:01) 13. Memphis Slim - Bass Key Boogie
(2:56) 14. Memphis Slim - Five O'Clock Blues
(2:51) 15. Memphis Slim - Nat Dee Special
(5:16) 16. Curtis Jones - Lonesome Bedroom Blues
(2:58) 17. Curtis Jones - Takin' Off
(3:11) 18. Curtis Jones - Tin Pan Alley
(2:25) 19. Otis Spann - Three-In-One Blues

Thanks in part to the luridly alluring title and the enthusiastically informative liner notes by Bob Koester, this solid collection was many a young musician's introduction to the men who pioneered blues piano in the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt Sykes is the best represented artist here, and his leering vocals are hard to resist: After hearing the ribald metaphor of "Dresser Drawers," you'll never view furniture quite the same way again. His "Kickin' Motor Scooter" is truly a marvel of smiling euphemism, with the song devoted to boasts of how he's "A dangerous motor scooter...A tricky motor scooter!" Other artists, while not always as inventive lyrically, show a wide range of piano styles, from the bouncing syncopated jazz of "Stendahl Stomp" to the trickling upper registers and restrained bass coaxed by Curtis Jones from a battered old piano in "Tin Pan Alley Blues #2." Not every track is unaccompanied piano, though. "Every Time I Get to Drinking," a blues dirge to the bottle, revolves around the elastic pull of an upright bass. The closing instrumental, Otis Spann's "Three-in-One Blues," features ominous bass chords wracked by a scattershot backing of drums. Despite being essentially a glorified soundcheck, and by far the least structured piece on the album, it's also the most primally satisfying. -- Allmusic.

Blues Piano Orgy

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