VA - Play: Blues Ballads

Size: 312,7 MB
Time: 134:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01 ZZ Top - Blue Jeans Blues (4:40)
02 T-Bone Walker - How Long Blues (5:16)
03 Fats Domino - Wait Till It Happens To You (Version 2) (2:30)
04 Freddie King - Ain't Nobody's Business What We Do (3:38)
05 Joe Turner - Still In Love (2:56)
06 Aretha Franklin - Good To Me As I Am To You (3:55)
07 Ray Charles - I Believe To My Soul (3:01)
08 Ivory Joe Hunter - Can't Explain How It Happened (2:41)
09 Lonnie Mack - What Kind Of World Is This (4:03)
10 Wilbur De Paris - Trouble In Mind (3:02)
11 Judy Henske - Every Night When The Sun Goes Down (4:02)
12 Little Milton - You're Gonna Make Me Cry (5:34)
13 Judy Clay - I Got To Love Somebody's Baby (3:28)
14 Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Please Send Me Someone To Love (Live At Winterland Ballroom) (5:21)
15 Jerry Lee Lewis - Who Will The Next Fool Be (5:47)
16 Johnnie Taylor - Little Bluebird (2:59)
17 Mem Shannon - Old Men (4:56)
18 Doug Sahm & Band - Betty Jo (Bonus Track) (4:06)
19 Low Budget Blues Band Feat. Sanne Salomonsen - Need Your Love So Bad (Feat. Sanne Salomonsen) (4:35)
20 Emmy Rossum - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (3:18)
21 Junior Mance - I Believe To My Soul (Single Version) (3:09)
22 The Watts 103rd. Street Rhythm Band - Stormy Monday (Mono Version) (4:56)
23 Billy Eckstine - Blues In The Night (3:05)
24 Delta Cross Band - Key To Highway (7:50)
25 Bobby Darin - Drown In My Own Tears (3:20)
26 Kelly Joe Phelps - Without The Light (4:47)
27 Lavern Baker - St. Louis Blues (Live In Hollywood, 1991) (8:02)
28 Robert Cray - Out Of Eden (9:18)
29 Daddy's Cash - You See Me (5:28)
30 Dr. John - In A Sentimental Mood (4:04)

Play: Blues Ballads

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R.I.P. Aretha Franklin (1942-2018)

Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer and pianist. She began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but achieving only modest success. After signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "Chain of Fools", "Think", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", and "Spanish Harlem".

By the end of the 1960s she was being called "The Queen of Soul". Franklin recorded acclaimed albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Young, Gifted and Black (1972) and Amazing Grace (1972), before experiencing problems with her record company by the mid-1970s. After her father was shot in 1979, she left Atlantic and signed with Arista Records, finding success with the albums Jump to It (1982) and Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985), and her part in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. In 1998, Franklin received international acclaim for singing the opera aria "Nessun dorma" at the Grammy Awards that year, replacing Luciano Pavarotti. Later that year, she scored her final Top 40 song with "A Rose Is Still a Rose".

Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and 20 number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the chart's history. Franklin's other well-known hits include "Rock Steady", "Jump to It", "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "Something He Can Feel", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael), and a remake of The Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash". She won 18 Grammy Awards, including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance from 1968 through to 1975, and is one of the bestselling musical artists of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide.

Franklin received numerous honors throughout her career, including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, becoming the first female performer to be inducted. She was inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In August 2012, she was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Franklin is listed in at least two all-time lists on Rolling Stone magazine, including the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. /Wikipedia

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Album: Aretha Sings The Blues
Year: 1985
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:43
Size: 110,4 MB
Styles: Jazzy blues, jazz
Scans: Full

1. Drinking Again (3:29)
2. Today I Sing The Blues (2:48)
3. What A Difference A Day Made (3:30)
4. Without The One You Love (3:35)
5. Trouble In Mind (2:55)
6. Muddy Water (2:31)
7. Only The Lonely (4:54)
8. I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight) (3:15)
9. Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside) (3:13)
10. Take A Look (2:41)
11. Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning (5:12)
12. Evil Gal Blues (2:43)
13. This Bitter Earth (3:37)
14. Maybe I'm A Fool (3:13)

Although not a blues singer in the strictest sense, Aretha Franklin's glorious voice could never make anything dull, especially not blues classics. These songs didn't attract a lot of attention when they came out in the '60s, with a couple of exceptions. Since Columbia issued all these anthologies, there has been a great debate raging as to whether or not it was a marketing failure or a production failure preventing Franklin from achieving more success at the label. The question won't be answered by this release. /Ron Wynn, AllMusic

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Album: The Electrifying Aretha Franklin/The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin
Year: 1962/1962/2013
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:35
Size: 183,4 MB
Styles: Soul, jazz, R&B
Scans: Full

1. You Made Me Love You (2:20)
2. I Told You So (2:43)
3. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody (2:24)
4. Nobody Like You (2:22)
5. Exactly Like You (2:36)
6. It's So Heartbreakin' (2:40)
7. Rough Lover (2:47)
8. Blue Holiday (2:53)
9. Just For You (2:20)
10. That Lucky Old Sun (3:20)
11. I Surrender, Dear (2:46)
12. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive (2:18)
13. Don't Cry, Baby (3:22)
14. Try A Little Tenderness (3:17)
15. I Apologize (2:55)
16. Without The One You Love (2:49)
17. Look For The Swinging Lining (3:05)
18. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World (2:43)
19. Just For A Thrill (2:34)
20. God Bless The Child (3:04)
21. I'm Wandering (3:27)
22. How Deep Is The Ocean (2:49)
23. I Don't Know You Anymore (2:50)
24. Lover Come Back To Me (2:36)
25. Trouble In Mind (Bonus Track) (2:16)
26. Hard Times (Bonus Track) (3:09)
27. When They Ask About You (Bonus Track) (3:01)
28. Operation Heartbreak (Bonus Track) (2:58)

This quintessential release presents Aretha's second and third LP's: "The Electrifying Aretha Franklin" and "The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin". Both albums were originally issued by the Columbia label in 1962, and have been remastered and packaged together in this very special collector's edition, which also includes 4 bonus tracks from the same period.

All of these great songs - recorded at Columbia Recording Studios and produced by the legendary John Hammond (tracks 1-12, 26-28) and Robert Mersey (tracks 13-25) - feature a virtual who's who of fabulous musicians from the New York City scene, such as Oliver Nelson (saxophone), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Mundell Lowe, Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar), George Duvivier (bass), Wynton Kelly or Tommy Flanagan (piano), and Jimmy Cobb (drums), among others.

It serves as the best introduction for anyone wanting to explore "Lady Soul's" first steps as a professional musician. This is the material upon which Aretha's soul kingdom and unique style were built. /Excerpt from the liner notes.

Tracks 1-12 from "The Electrifying Aretha Franklin" (1962)
Tracks 13-24 from "The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin" (1962)
Tracks 25-28 bonus tracks

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VA - Eric Clapton Life In 12 Bars (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Size: 177,3+184,5 MB
Time: 75:29+78:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Big Bill Broonzy - Backwater Blues ( 4:08)
02. Muddy Waters - My Life Is Ruined ( 2:37)
03. Muddy Waters - I've Got My Mojo Working (Live At Newport Jazz Festival 1960) ( 4:23)
04. Yardbirds - I Wish You Would ( 2:16)
05. Yardbirds - For Your Love ( 2:28)
06. John Mayall - Steppin' Out ( 2:27)
07. John Mayall - All Your Love ( 3:33)
08. Cream - I Feel Free ( 2:50)
09. Cream - Strange Brew ( 2:46)
10. Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love ( 4:12)
11. Aretha Franklin - Good To Me As I Am To You ( 3:55)
12. Cream - Crossroads (Live) ( 4:14)
13. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Remastered 2009) ( 4:43)
14. Cream - Badge ( 2:46)
15. Cream - White Room (Live) ( 5:48)
16. Cream - Spoonful (Live At Forum) (17:25)
17. Blind Faith - Presence Of The Lord ( 4:49)

CD 2:
01. Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - Coming Home (Live At Fairfield Halls) (Feat. Eric Clapton) (7:49)
02. Eric Clapton - After Midnight (Eric Clapton Mix) (3:19)
03. Eric Clapton - Let It Rain (Eric Clapton Mix) (5:16)
04. Derek & The Dominos - High (3:08)
05. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (4:37)
06. Derek & The Dominos - Thorn Tree In The Garden (40Th Anniversary Version) (2:54)
07. Derek & The Dominos - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (40Th Anniversary Version) (5:05)
08. Derek & The Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues (40Th Anniversary Version) (5:05)
09. Derek & The Dominos - Layla (40Th Anniversary Version) (7:09)
10. Derek & The Dominos - Little Wing (Live At Filmore East) (6:33)
11. Derek & The Dominos - Got To Get Better In A Little While (40Th Anniversary Version) (6:07)
12. Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff (Full Length Version) (6:49)
13. Eric Clapton - Little Queenie (Live At Long Beach Arena) (6:16)
14. Eric Clapton - Mainline Florida (4:05)
15. Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven (From Rush Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (4:31)

The Official Soundtrack to the new Eric Clapton documentary ‘Life In 12 Bars’, directed by Oscar-winner Lili Fini Zanuck. The documentary about the legendary 18-time Grammy winner premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before Showtime bought the US TV rights. The 32-track double CD features 4 previously unreleased songs, and includes tracks by Clapton, Yardbirds, Derek & the Dominoes, Cream, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin and Muddy Waters.

Eric Clapton Life In 12 Bars

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VA - Piano Blues

Size: 161,2 MB
Time: 68:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Piano Blues, Blues Rock, woogie Boogie
Art: Front

01 Dr. John - Fess Up (Instrumental Version) (Live) (3:13)
02 Aretha Franklin - Honest I Do (3:16)
03 Champion Jack Dupree - Don't Leave Me Mary (2:52)
04 Fats Domino - I Know (2:49)
05 Nina Simone - Baseball Boogie (Outtake) (0:54)
06 Charlie Norman - Boogie Woogie On St Louis Blues (3:01)
07 Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete (3:43)
08 Alan Price - You Won't Get Me (4:03)
09 Jerry Lee Lewis - Rockin' Little Angel (1:58)
10 The Sammy Price Trio - Hot Club Boogie (6:01)
11 Ray Charles - Boogie Woogie (Rehearsal Session With Ahmet Ertegun, 1953) (1:57)
12 Junior Mance - Don't Worry 'Bout It (Single Version) (5:03)
13 The Incredible String Band - Robot Blues (4:07)
14 Danny O'Keefe - If Ya Can't Boogie, Woogie (You Sure Can't Rock & Roll) (3:09)
15 Billy Taylor - Summertime (3:47)
16 Chas & Dave - I Wonder In Whose Arms (3:33)
17 The Kingbees - Life's Too Short (To Be With You) (3:54)
18 Leadbelly - Big Fat Woman (1:20)
19 The Everly Brothers - Blueberry Hill (3:00)
20 Wilbur De Paris - Piano Blues (Live At Symphony Hall) (6:47)

Piano Blues

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VA - Jazz Blues

Size: 191,5 MB
Time: 82:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Jazz
Art: Front

01 Wilbur De Paris & Jimmy Witherspoon - How Long Blues ( 2:59)
02 Dinah Washington - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman Cryin' For Her Man ( 3:42)
03 Ray Charles - Nobody Cares ( 2:39)
04 Mose Allison - I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues ( 3:54)
05 Aretha Franklin - Today I Sing The Blues ( 4:22)
06 T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday ( 3:01)
07 The Sir Douglas Band - Ain't That Loving You ( 4:54)
08 Peanuts Holland & Holland Peanuts Orchestra - Peanuts Butter Blues ( 2:51)
09 Al Hibbler & Billy Taylor Orchestra - The Blues Came Falling Down ( 2:54)
10 Nina Simone - Do I Move You (Outtake) ( 3:18)
11 Roy Eldridge Sextet - No Rolling Blues ( 3:02)
12 Bette Midler - Empty Bed Blues ( 3:18)
13 Ivory Joe Hunter - Can't Explain How It Happened ( 2:43)
14 Billy Eckstine - Like Wow ( 2:07)
15 Lavern Baker - Money Blues ( 2:50)
16 Chris Connor - About The Blues ( 3:40)
17 Helen Shapiro - Blues In The Night ( 4:04)
18 Alan Price - Willie The Queen ( 3:13)
19 Danny O'Keefe - Farewell To Storyville (Good Time Flat Blues) ( 4:08)
20 Esther Phillips - Blow Top Blues - Jelly Jelly Blues - Long John Blues (10:40)
21 Dr. John - Dear Old Southland ( 2:41)
22 Bernt Rosengren - Meaning Of The Blues ( 5:09)

Jazz Blues

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Various Artists - Ain't Gonna Hush: The Queens Of Rhythm & Blues (3 CD)

From the mid-50s to the early 60s, R&B belonged not just to men with guitars, but to women who sang with hungry voices on stages and in studios across the US. Their roots were planted in the blues of Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith, Ida Fox and Bessie Smith, the gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the jazz of Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington. Their legacy lies in the recordings collected on "Ain’t Gonna Hush" by journalist (Mojo, Record Collector) and R&B authority Lois Wilson.

Selected because of their collectability and popularity on the club scene, the 76 tracks on the 3 CD set "Ain’t Gonna Hush" include contributions by crowned queens of soul Etta James and Aretha Franklin, and other luminaries like Big Maybelle, Ruth Brown, Little Esther, LaVern Baker and Betty Everett. But lesser-known names are also well represented, whose recordings, like most of the songs collected here, sold poorly, but fetch huge prices today. Their lack of success was not due to ability, performance or quality of songwriting; every artist here (including Kentucky-born rockabilly musician Joyce Harris) shouts, screams and hollers as if their lives depend on it, every song is perfectly crafted. But due to bad luck, lack of promotion or simply the fact that with a market flooded with choice, the competition was tough and these 45s fell through the cracks. Here those unfortunate turns of fate are redressed with a collection that compiles the forgotten alongside the famed. Ain’t Gonna Hush reasserts the eminence of revered voices and proposes the coronation of a larger cast of R&B Queens.

Album: Ain't Gonna Hush: The Queens Of Rhythm & Blues - CD 1
Year: 2015
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:37
Size: 141,1 MB
Styles: R&B
Scans: Full

1. Aretha Franklin - Rough Lover (2:48)
2. Mary Ann Fischer - Put On My Shoes (2:14)
3. LaVern Baker - Love Me Right (1:57)
4. Cordella De Milo - Ain't Gonna Hush (2:34)
5. Wynona Carr - Jump Jack, Jump! (2:18)
6. Dakota Staton - My Babe (2:05)
7. Mari Jones (w. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers) - Down In Texas (2:20)
8. Big Mama Thornton - You Did Me Wrong (2:46)
9. Lula Reed - Say Hey Pretty Baby (2:27)
10. Tiny Topsy - Miss You So (2:06)
11. Evelyn Freeman - Didn't It Rain (3:16)
12. Rose Mitchell - Baby Please Don't Go (2:25)
13. Etta James - Nobody Loves You Like Me (2:28)
14. Ruth Brown - Mambo Baby (2:43)
15. Annisteen Allen - Fujiyama Mama (2:31)
16. Blanche Thomas - You Ain't So Such A Much (2:24)
17. Etta James - Tough Lover (2:12)
18. Aggie Dukes - John John (1:49)
19. Carmen Taylor - Ding Dong (2:52)
20. Baby Washington - Move On (2:03)
21. Varetta Dillard - Scorched (2:43)
22. Odessa Harris - A Rockin' Good Way (2:35)
23. Big Maybelle - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (2:46)
24. Big Mama Thornton - Big Mama's Coming Home (2:26)
25. Mamie Jenkins - Hambone (2:38)

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Album: Ain't Gonna Hush: The Queens Of Rhythm & Blues - CD 2
Year: 2015
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:54
Size: 137,2 MB
Styles: R&B
Scans: Full

1. Annisteen Allen - G'wan About Your Business (2:24)
2. Little Miss Jessie - My Baby Has Gone (1:54)
3. Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (2:53)
4. Myrtle Jones (w. Paul Gayten) - Right To Love You (2:39)
5. Betty Everett - Killer Diller (2:27)
6. Jeannie Barnes - Can't Get You Off My Mind (2:47)
7. Tiny Topsy - Come On, Come On, Come On (2:41)
8. LaVern Baker - Whipper Snapper (2:13)
9. Big Mama Thornton - Don't Talk Back (2:48)
10. Ann Cole - I've Got Nothing Working Now (2:31)
11. Anna Mae Rogers (w. Clarence Garlow) - I Called You Up Daddy (2:30)
12. Jimmie Lee - Blue And Lonesome (2:24)
13. Baby Jean - If You Wanna (1:51)
14. Baby Washington - You Never Could Be Mine (2:49)
15. Varetta Dillard - Good Gravy Baby (2:36)
16. Vikki Nelson - Bright And Early (2:10)
17. 'June Bug' Bailey - Lee Street Blues (2:00)
18. Mamie Perry - I'm Hurted (2:37)
19. Betty Everett - Ain't Gonna Cry (2:00)
20. Annisteen Allen - I've Got Troubles (2:11)
21. Kitty White - I'm Gonna Be A Fool Next Monday (2:10)
22. Anna Belle Caesar - Little Annie (2:29)
23. Shirley Gunter - Oop Shoop (2:16)
24. 'June Bug' Bailey - Louisiana Twist (1:38)
25. Mamie Perry - My Baby Waited Too Long (2:45)

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Album: Ain't Gonna Hush: The Queens Of Rhythm & Blues - CD 3
Year: 2015
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:40
Size: 145,8 MB
Styles: R&B
Scans: Full

1. Annie Williams - I've Got A Man (2:42)
2. Wynona Carr - Till The Well Runs Dry (2:06)
3. Lula Reed - Puddentane (2:18)
4. Tiny Topsy - You Shocked Me (2:36)
5. Big Mama Thornton - They Call Me Big Mama (2:04)
6. Little Esther - Hound Dog (2:36)
7. Mary Ann Fisher - Wild As You Can Be (2:43)
8. Joyce Harris - No Way Out (2:15)
9. Paula Grimes - You Move Me So (2:15)
10. Dorothy Berry - I Say You're Driving Me Crazy (2:12)
11. Cherri Lynn - Your Money Ain't Long Enough (2:39)
12. Pearl Reaves - You Can't Stay Here (Step It Up And Go) (2:42)
13. Baby Washington - Medicine Man (2:23)
14. Honey Brown - Ain't No Need (2:43)
15. Dakota Staton - A Little You (2:15)
16. Berna-Dean - One Gal In Town, Five Men Hanging Around (2:40)
17. Vicki Evans - Don't Talk That Talk To Me (2:05)
18. Mamie Jenkins - Jump With Me Baby (2:33)
19. Ruth Durand - I'm Wise (2:17)
20. Jessie Mae - Don't Freeze On Me (2:18)
21. Katie Webster - Hoo Wee, Sweet Daddy (2:07)
22. Carmen Taylor - Big Mamou Daddy (2:40)
23. Little Marie Allen - Humdinger (2:17)
24. Little Esther - Hollerin' And Screamin' (2:56)
25. Dorothea Fleming - The Devil Is Mad (2:06)
26. Ernestine Allen - Love For Sale (2:58)

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