Charlie Slavik - A Nice Reminder

Album: A Nice Reminder
Size: 104,0 MB
Time: 45:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front

1. Highway Man (3:49)
2. Devil Inside (3:23)
3. Riding In The Moonlight (4:56)
4. Love Me, Let Me Go (4:19)
5. A Nice Reminder (3:52)
6. Full-Time Boogie (3:37)
7. Do You Remember Me? (4:00)
8. Harmonica Bounce (3:39)
9. Midnight Walk (3:14)
10. Juke Joint (5:41)
11. Big BBQ (2:39)
12. Hillbilly Stomp (1:47)

Czech harmonica virtuoso and singer Charlie Slavik is known to the Czech and Slovak audience mainly as a member of the band of Prague-based American singer Juwana Jenkins, or from the time when he played with Slovak bluesman Luboš Beno. Together with him, in 2012, he became the first and so far only Czech to participate in the prestigious International Blues Challenge in Memphis, where they made it to the semi-finals. In the meantime, he performed with his Charlie Slavik Revue, and recently he visited the United States. The result of his visit is a new CD. It is called ‘A Nice Reminder’ and was recorded at the famous Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.

Featuring 12 original songs sung in English and a great sound, the new release was recorded under the supervision of producer Steve Walsh, who is also listed in the booklet as co-writer of most of the songs and guitarist. Drummer Wes Little and bassist Brian Allen are included as additional band members. If you assume that recordings from Nashville, a legendary bastion of country music, would sound downright country, you’d be wrong. As a musician with a very wide range of genres, Charlie Slavik oscillates between his favorite rockabilly, swinging 50s pop, rock and jump blues. /Bluestown Music

Personnel: Charlie Slavik (vocals, harmonica); Steve Walsh (guitar); Brian Allen (bass); Wes Little (drums, percussion).

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Band Of Heysek - Juke My Joint (Feat. R.L. Boyce & Kenny Brown)

Size: 97,6 MB
Time: 42:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Angry Man (5:10)
02. Let Me Take You To My Place (4:11)
03. One More Life To Live (8:51)
04. Heal Me Right Now (2:56)
05. Drive Me Crazy (4:49)
06. Out Of Here (4:55)
07. On My Knees (6:53)
08. No More Boogie (4:43)

Band of Heysek is a bunch of guys who compose and play sensuous and emotional songs. Their blues are raw and dirty.

The band was formed in 2015. All three musicians have known each other for a very long time and very well from various Brno bands. Their zero concert at the Eurotrialog festival in Mikulov was so popular that they received an invitation to the next year, but also an offer to precede the famous The Smokie in Ostrava (2015). Since then, they have given concerts in clubs and festivals, especially in the Czech Republic, but also in Poland, Bosnia and Slovakia, including the famous BluesAlive (2017).

In the autumn of 2018, they accompanied a trio of bluesmen from Mississippi on a Czech-Polish mini-tour with a stop at BluesAlive in Šumperk. In the summer of 2019, on the other hand, they headed with their concert set to their home festival in the US North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic. At the end of their blues tour, they visited the recording studio in Water Valley with two rare guests - Kenny Brown and RL Boyce (nominated in 2017 for a Grammy Award in the blues category). From the two-day recordings, the band prepared two separate albums for release, of which the first "Band Of Heysek - Juke My Joint" is out now.

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Matej Ptaszek, Jan Stehlik & Jan Cihak - Screaming The Blues

Size: 90,8 MB
Time: 38:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Dust My Broom (3:42)
02. Boom Boom (3:29)
03. Last Night (4:23)
04. Tv Jump (2:55)
05. Killing Floor (3:31)
06. Stormy Monday (5:38)
07. Screamin' (2:56)
08. Sitting On Top Of The World (3:51)
09. Sweet Fifty (4:44)
10. Rollin' And Tumblin' (3:20)

Concertist and singer Matej Ptaszek with his teammates Jan Stehlik and Jan Cihak made a new album Screaming The Blues. The album was made in the studio, but it was shot live. The musicians have dedicated it to this year's half-century anniversary since the legendary Woodstock Festival, held in a meadow near the American town of Bethel. The album is in the spirit of the blues bands that played at the festival - Canned Heat or The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - and other bluesmen who have reached the rockers of that time. Woodstock has influenced for several generations forever and still acts as proof that love, freedom and music are inseparable.

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Blues Amplified - Space Shuffle

Size: 94,0 MB
Time: 40:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. All Night Long (4:33)
02. Chance (5:08)
03. Going Down (4:06)
04. So Much (4:00)
05. Tonight You've Been Cryin' (7:21)
06. Losing My Mind (4:26)
07. Space Shuffle (6:08)
08. You Shook Me (4:51)

Blues Amplified = Band continuing the tradition of the original hardcore and blues. This is a trio of bass / vocals, guitar and drums, which brings straightforwardness, breakthrough and blues urgency, but also the difficulty of instrumental abilities of musicians, in this case players with years of experience. The repertoire is for the most part self-produced, which would be hard to deny the relationship with bands such as Allman Brothers Band, Free, Humble Pie, Cactus and others. The members of the band perceive it as an extremely important musical training gained during many years of exploring American and English music of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as Honza Holecek expressed with slight exaggeration "We have heard all the records of that time." However, it is not a copy, it is a work based on the same principles of composition and arrangements what the famous bands of that time used.

Jan Holecek (Energit, Luboš Andršt Blues band, Afterglow, Freeway Jam, RBB) is a composer, keyboardist, bass guitarist, but mainly a singer with a real blues feeling. Ray Charles has learned to sing most of the quality singers of this style, including Honza, but there is a strong influence from other giants such as Gregg Allman, Steve Marriott, Paul Rogers, Roger Chapman. In Blues Amplified, Honza alternates both keyboards and bass. At the B.A. concerts he plays mostly bass and sings.

Jindrich Musil (Freeway Jam, Afterglow, Led Zeppelin Revival, Eric Clapton Revival), a great guitarist and songwriter. He always composed, but he was not able to find his compositions. Playing in guitar rehearsal bands for him was a great challenge and great entertainment, but he was strictly avoiding circus elements in the sense of copying original players in terms of clothing, gestures and equipment. But he always copied everything he liked when playing guitar without scruples, in the sense of saying, "Listen to all, steal the best." He stole this password from Peter Frampton. However, only re-collaboration with Honza Holecek enabled him to fully develop his compositional and texting skills and gave him another impetus to his instrumental development.

Dan Hubacek (accompanied by Canadian bluesman Martha Halla, Jan Koubkova, Led Zeppelin Southern Revival ...) is a very talented drummer who is the most inspired John Bonham play. Sensitivity and sense of tension are other attributes of his rhythmically diverse games, just like the quick reactions in the improvisation parts.

Blues Amplified concerts are appreciated by anyone interested in the roots of blues and rock music, the band playing honestly, engaging with conviction. The belief that blues is not an archaic and surviving affair, however, is the current and necessary music, and that it makes a lot of sense to go along the way to the singularity of extraordinary creation and performance, as demonstrated by a number of world bands at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Em Drew - Bohemian Blues

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 70:43
Size: 165.3 MB
Styles: Folk-blues
Released: 2008
Art: Front

1. Twirl Jam (5:45)
2. Adam & Eve Blues (5:32)
3. Two Blind Mice (4:00)
4. 1000 Souls (4:30)
5. Lowdown Blues (5:19)
6. Cancer Heart (3:57)
7. Morning Sunshine (4:25)
8. Hound Dog Blues (3:12)
9. Long Hauling Baby (4:40)
10. Shooter (6:20)
11. Morning Blues (5:54)
12. Sunshine Blues (5:15)
13. Merry-Go-Round Blues (5:47)
14. Vegas Blues (6:01)

EM Drew's latest release, Bohemian Blues, is an eclectic collection of Jazzy Blues with a touch of Folk and Country. This band creates songs with subtle original rhythms reminiscent of albums such as; Savoy Brown, Raw Sienna; Buffalo Springfield, Retrospective; and the Grateful Dead. EM Drew creates their sound with weekly practice jams that reflect participating musicians' mood at the time. Each song's style evolves though the weeks and the months, until we finally pick a session recording. We polish it up a little in George's Kitchen Studio and the sweltering Hot Box Studio. Then we sort through our latest stash of songs, working together to select the 'chosen ones'. Using minimal effects and very little dynamics we try to keep the sound alive, not metalized. Here are 14 songs we have created for you.

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Backsight - Backsight Live At Stara Pekarna 2018

Size: 155,3 MB
Time: 66:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. Hard Working Man (Live) (3:01)
02. Too Fast (Live) (2:56)
03. Young Boy (Live) (3:12)
04. Sweet Home Chicago (Live) (3:59)
05. Fool That Way (Live) (4:05)
06. Fallen Stars (Live) (3:38)
07. For Her (Live) (4:19)
08. Hungry For Your Touch (Live) (3:43)
09. Hollow Man (Live) (3:50)
10. Walk On (Live) (3:10)
11. Feels Bad (Live) (3:19)
12. Scary Baal (Live) (3:53)
13. California (Live) (3:58)
14. Little Red Rooster (Live) (4:13)
15. Baby What You Want Me To Do (Live) (4:07)
16. Dirty Woman (Live) (3:31)
17. High Heel Sneakers (Live) (2:34)
18. Hell (Live) (2:17)
19. Big Bad Woman (Live) (2:46)

Personnel:
Otakar Šamánek - lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Jirí Gruber - acoustic guitar, slide guitar, bass drum & tambourine
Martin crysman Zahradník - harmonica, vocals, snare drum
Víta Hrbác - double bass

This LIVE album contains some real good-old-blues fashioned songs with harmonica like “Young Boy”, but also some more 'poppy' ones like “For Her”, or even swing/folk/soul style like in “Fool That Way” that features more drums and double bass. You may also enjoy slide-guitar riffs in open tunings like in "California".

BACKSiGHT's specific style is based on two acoustic guitars with strong lead male vocals accompanied by additional vocals, frequent harmonica, double bass and drums, which have been since 2015 uniquely played at the same time by two of us - we've got them split! One of the guitarists kicks the bass drum & tambourine, and the harmonica player tickles the snare drum.

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Gone Hepsville - Gimme!

Size: 101,4 MB
Time: 38:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Rockabilly, Blues
Art: Front

01. Gimme Gimme (2:47)
02. Show Me That You Can Rock (2:51)
03. Boogie And Bop (2:41)
04. Darn That Rhythm (3:11)
05. Brainwasher Boogie (2:41)
06. Got No Time (2:40)
07. Horn At Dawn (3:20)
08. Day All Night (3:01)
09. Just A Little Hepsville Surfbeat (3:32)
10. Hepsville Jive (2:30)
11. Men Like Me Don't Grow On Trees (3:19)
12. Jam Or Bust (2:54)
13. Legs Gone Mad (3:02)

They make the news again and they’re the talk of the town – not because of another succesful wild show, but because of the long awaited brand new album. Finally!
In their second album they present 13 brand new songs straight from Hepsville. You will hear the teenage bopper Gimme Gimme with a dazzling high piano hammering, strongly grooving Brainwasher Boogie going round and round, horn-based swinging Show Me That You Can Rock and really jiving hit Hepsville Jive, an obligatory baritone stroll Horn At Dawn, bluesy Got No Time and even a dreamy surf instrumental Just A Little Hepsville Surfbeat with a theremin solo.
This is the kind of music that talks directly to your feet and is sure to make you jump, bop and rock!
So if you ain’t already on our wave, get aboard now a get gone. Gone Hepsville!

Gimme!

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Backsight - Back To The Wild

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 27:20
Size: 62.6 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:29] 1. Baby Please Don't Go
[2:35] 2. She Is Lucky
[3:42] 3. Wild
[3:46] 4. Unknown
[2:06] 5. My Babe
[3:09] 6. Late Afternoon
[2:33] 7. Babe What You Want Me To Do
[3:09] 8. Help Me
[3:47] 9. Got My Mojo Workin'

Otakar Šamánek - lead vocal, guitar; Jiří Gruber - guitar; Ondřej Sláma - drums, vocals; Josef Slezák - bass; Martin crysman Zahradník - harmonica, vocals; Radek Žilka - alto sax.

BACKSiGHT is a czech blues-rock / soul-blues band proud to announce a new studio album "Back to the Wild". In nine songs guys from BACKSiGHT tried to make an album with energy and feel just like they do on their live concerts. More specifically, to make you feel as you were in the first row just below the stage :) Songs are very varied - some of them sound like a Chicago blues band and some more like a rock band. You will definitely not be bored with this album! "Back to the Wild" was recorded at Indies Records Studio, Brno, Czech Republic by Dušan Souček, mastered by Bronislav Šmíd and produced by BACKSiGHT during the autumn 2011.

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Tonya Graves - Back To Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:23
Size: 99.3 MB
Styles: Soul-blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:26] 1. Thrill Is Gone
[3:37] 2. Hound Dog
[5:06] 3. May This Be Love
[3:07] 4. Something's Gota A Hold On Me
[4:34] 5. If You Love Me Baby
[4:34] 6. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'
[3:47] 7. Blues In The Night
[5:20] 8. I Just Wanna Make Love To You
[4:23] 9. Jolene
[5:23] 10. Meaning Of The Blues

The famous American-Czech singer Tonya Graves had never done any professional singing until she landed at the Prague airport in 1995 (that is an exaggeration). However, she quickly become the big thing of the Czech music scene. First she cooperated with the renowned guitarist Luboš Andršt in some blues projects, then she quickly turned to more modern turf of dance music as the vocalist of Liquid Harmony. In 2000, Graves boarded the soul express known as Monkey Business of which she has been one of the hallmarks until present.

Alongside with her main engagement she is an occasional guest in Smetáček's New Orchestra of Dreams big band or in Moimir Papalescu's retro-electronic-disco music project, The Stylist. Graves has been recently occupied by her first solo project. Although the album is not planned for release until this fall, Tonya Graves and her band have been giving gigs since one year ago when they had their concert premiere as support to Macy Gray's concert in Prague.

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Gone Hepsville - Lotsa Rhythm

Year: 2014
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:23
Size: 120,0 MB
Styles: Jump blues, rock & roll, R&B
Scans: Full

1. Lotsa Rhythm (2:29)
2. Hip As I Can Be (2:28)
3. Lazy Town (3:25)
4. She Won't Shut Up (2:34)
5. The Jump (2:53)
6. Born 15 Minutes Late (2:45)
7. I'm Gone Hepsville (3:21)
8. I Ain't Crazy (2:09)
9. Fake Out (2:48)
10. 3 A.M. Romance (3:29)
11. Sweet Defeat (2:57)
12. Surrendered (3:04)
13. Rockin' Bug (2:57)
14. When Mister Woogie Beats The Boogie (2:33)
15. Hepsville Stroll (3:15)
16. Trix On Trixon (2:36)
17. True Fine Mama That Loves Me (2:42)
18. I'm In Flames (3:50)

Ten years ago Gone Hepsville, a rockin' rollin' 6-piece from Brno, Czech Republic, started life as a covers-band, interpreting hits from greats like Bill Haley & The Comets, Jimmy Cavello and Freddy Bell and The Bellboys. With "Lotsa Rhythm" the Jive Rock 'n' Roll group release their debut album - with 18 newly written original songs.

With drums, upright bass, piano and two saxophones, the musicians present an outstanding, classy work which combines 1950s Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm & Blues, and Jump Jive. It's an indispensable quality-album for all fans of The Big Beat!

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Roman Pokorny - Eldorado

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:03
Size: 132.9 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:05] 1. Can't Turn Back Time
[3:07] 2. Eldorado
[4:00] 3. Don't Kiss Me Baby
[6:10] 4. Your Fleeting Love
[3:45] 5. Big Joe
[3:14] 6. Iprayer
[4:11] 7. Harmony In Blue
[3:49] 8. Pokyman
[3:31] 9. On My Way
[4:22] 10. Than I Will Take You Home
[3:32] 11. Mary Smith
[4:30] 12. Dirty Radio
[4:23] 13. Where Do Those Legs End
[5:19] 14. Blues For Jim Hall

Roman Pokorný - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele; Osian Roberts - Tenor Sax and Horns arrangments; Matyas Pribojszki - Blues Harp; Jan Kořínek - Hammond Organ; Pavel Novák - Bass Guitar; Taras Vološčuk - Contrabass; Marcel Flemr - Rhythm Guitar; Miroslav Hloucal - Trumpet; Jan JJ Jirucha - Trombone; Martin Šulc - Drums; Miloš Dvořáček - Percussions and Drums. Produced by Roman Pokorný. Recorded live at Studio Svarov March of 2007 and September of 2014 at Audio Kokpit.

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