Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Young Fashioned Ways

Album: Young Fashioned Ways
Size: 111,4 MB
Time: 48:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front

1. Who Was That (4:13)
2. 40 Acres (How Long) (5:41)
3. Hey Baby (What Are We Gonna Do) (3:58)
4. Uncle Esau (4:43)
5. Make Love to You (4:20)
6. Long Way From Home (3:13)
7. G String (5:31)
8. You So Fine (3:45)
9. Young Ways (6:43)
10. What She Said (6:01)

Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd were born about 44 years and miles apart. Several decades later after the two forged their own path in music and the blues, it seemed like an idea that had been waiting to happen. For over 100 years, blues music has inspired, comforted and spoken to the truth. Young Fashioned Ways has managed to accomplish all of that and more. Shepherd notes, “Once Bobby and I got together, it felt like going home,” with Rush adding, “I’ve been waiting a long time for something like this to come knocking.” Kenny Wayne Shepherd is a multi-platinum recording artist with five Grammy nominations, several Blues Music awards, among many other awards and accolades. Bobby Rush is a 3x Grammy winner and Blues Hall of Famer with his most recent Grammy win for his last album All My Love For You.”

Personnel: Bobby Rush (vocals, harmonica); Kenny Wayne Shepherd (guitar); Steve Potts (drums); Charles Hodges (keyboards, Hammond B-3); Darryl "DJ" Pruitt” (bass); Doug Wolverton (trumpet); Charlie Di Puma (saxophone).

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Bobby Rush - All My Love For You

Album: All My Love For You
Size: 94,5 MB
Time: 40:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Blues/Soul mix
Art: Front, back

1. I'm Free (4:12)
2. Running In And Out (3:56)
3. I Want To (3:56)
4. One Monkey Can Stop A Show (3:41)
5. I Can't Stand It (5:13)
6. TV Mama (4:04)
7. I'll Do Anything For You (4:10)
8. I'm The One (3:52)
9. You're Gonna Need A Man Like Me (3:49)
10. I Got A Proposition For You (3:54)

Two-time Grammy winner, Blues Hall of Famer and 16-time Blues Music Award winner, Bobby Rush does it again with his new album All My Love For You. It’s a delight, funny, and sometimes raunchy, with well-crafted songs and stellar musicianship. Rush is one of the greats, a legendary bluesman, and All My Love For You is one of his best. At age 89, that is no small accomplishment. But for Rush, who seems to have an endless supply of energy, maybe it is.

An album of ten original tunes written and produced by Rush, All My Love For You is semi-autobiographical. And rich history it is. Rush has led a fascinating life from being The King of the Chitlin Circuit, performing with Elmore James and B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, to winning his first Grammy Award at age 83 for his album Porcupine Meat. Since then he’s only gotten better, more popular. His last album Rawer Than Raw also won a Grammy Award, followed by the re-recording of his 1971 hit Chicken Heads with Buddy Guy, Gov’t Mule and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram. Not content to stop there, he wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography ‘I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya: My American Blues Story’.

Growing up in rural Louisiana, Bobby Rush (Emmett Ellis, Jr) picked cotton at age nine on his family’s farm, living in a home with no electricity or indoor plumbing. Rush uses that history as fodder for fascinating stories in the form of well crafted, funky, bluesy songs. In each one, you feel his joy and humor, his soulfulness in his singing, harmonica and guitar. Bobby Rush is an inspiration. And he’s backed by a kickass band who really get him and his in-the-pocket groove. They are Dexter Allen (guitar, bass) and Joey Robinson (keyboard, drums.)

Kicking off the record is the catchy standout “I’m Free,” a funky autobiographical tale about Rush picking cotton in the fields. It’s his ode to getting out of that life at such a young age and running his own show with no one telling him what to do. With backing singers, horn section, and compelling piano and guitar, this is one of many on the album where the rhythm section is so deep in the pocket that you can hear the intuitive sparks fly between the band members. Rush’s expert harmonica rides the groove. “I’m free, I’m free, look at me,” he sings. “I got the shackles off my feet, chains off my mind.” It’s a testament to his life, his history and resilience.

Humor is part of Bobby Rush’s All My Love For You, complete with laugh-out-loud lyrics. He communicates feel-good humor with his vocals, like on “TV Mama”, another standout tune about the woman he loves “the one with the big wide screen.” His harp playing is as good as ever, as if Rush lives and breathes that instrument. “I’m the One,” another standout, is all Bobby Rush and how he was born to sing the blues. But not like B.B. King, Guitar Slim or Muddy Waters. “I’m the one who put the funk in the blues,” he sings. Celebrating his history, including what he learned from B.B. King and Muddy Waters after arriving in Chicago in 1952, this song has hit all over it.

Rush gets serious on “You’re Gonna Need A Man Like Me” a bluesy number about love lost. Rush delivers a soulful song about his wish that the woman who left him would return. You don’t doubt for a minute that he probably lived this story too, his harp as soulful and authentic as his vocals. Highly recommended. /Martine Ehrenclou, Rock & Blues Muse

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Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads 50th Anniversary

Size: 112 MB
Time: 17:21
File: FLAC
Released: 2022
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Chicken Heads (4:31)
02. Chicken Heads (Buddy Guy & Bobby Rush) (4:21)
03. Chicken Heads (Gov't Mule & Bobby Rush) (5:19)
04. Chicken Heads (Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram & Bobby Rush) (3:09)

Bobby Rush’s biggest hit, “Chicken Heads”, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2021. In recognition of this milestone, Bobby has tasked Gov’t Mule, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and Buddy Guy to record reimagined versions of the track in their own unique styles. This release will include those three versions of the song, plus a brand new recording of the track from Bobby Rush that’s inspired by over 50 years of performing the song live in front of audiences around the globe.

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Bobby Rush - Rawer Than Raw

Size: 105,1 MB
Time: 44:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. Down In Mississippi (3:23)
02. Hard Times (3:50)
03. Let Me In Your House (5:16)
04. Smokestack Lightning (4:47)
05. Shake It For Me (3:42)
06. Sometimes I Wonder (4:46)
07. Don't Start Me Talkin' (3:06)
08. Let's Make Love Again (3:42)
09. Honey Bee, Sail On (4:58)
10. Garbage Man (3:45)
11. Dust My Broom (3:35)

Emmit Ellis Jr. a.k.a. Bobby Rush was born in Homer, La. in 1933. As a youngster, in the late 1940’s, he befriended and played with Elmore James. He formed his first band before relocating to Chicago where he worked with Freddie King, Luther Allison and Jimmy Reed.

Rush made his recording debut by releasing the single “Someday” on the Jerry-O label in 1964. In 1971 his song “Chicken Heads” sold over 500,000 copies and became his first Gold certified record. Rush released his first album “Rush Hour” in 1979. This is Rush’s 27th studio recording and 76th career release. Rush is a 2006 Blues Hall of Fame inductee with 51 Blues Music Award nominations winning thirteen times. He is the 2015 “B.B. King Entertainer of the Year”. Rush also has multiple Grammy Award nominations; winning his first Grammy for 2017’s “Porcupine Meat”, and receiving his fifth nod for last year’s “Sitting On Top of the Blues”.

Rush’s music is a combination of blues, soul and funk. He is famous for his humorous Southern chitlin’ circuit shows often telling stories of his romantic adventures. Rush relocated to Mississippi in the 1980’s and is an inductee into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame. He states “although I was born in Louisiana, I’m proud to call Mississippi home…I’m saluting Mississippi guys because they, to me, stayed truest to their roots. If you want to get the real deal of the blues, get it from the bluesmen who are from Mississippi”. “Rawer Than Raw” is a sequel to Rush’s 2007 acoustic album “Raw”, and he recorded alone; just his voice, guitar, harmonica, and feet. Rush has included five originals, and six selected covers from some of his Mississippi influences.

On the opener “Down in Mississippi” Rush sings “sure had a wonderful time…down in Mississippi, where the green grass grows all the time”; his guitar, harmonica and vocal an acoustic delight. “Let Me In Your House” features Rush keeping time with his foot and the lyric “if I can’t see you when I want to, just let me see you when I can”. “Sometimes I Wonder”, goes “why do you treat me like you do”. My favorite however has to be the hilarious “Garbage Man”, “have you ever been mistreated by someone you sure have loved…of all the men she could have left me for, she left me for the garbage man…whenever I fill garbage cans, I think about her and the garbage man”.

The covers include Bentonia, Mississippi’s Skip James’ “Hard Times” a.k.a. “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues”; first recorded in 1931, the lyric still rings true “times are harder now than they’ve ever been before”. Rush who met Howlin’ Wolf in 1951, introduced the iconic bluesman from White Station to the gal who would become Wolf’s second wife; Rush inimitably covers Wolf’s classic “Smokestack Lighting”. Willie Dixon, from Vicksburg, Ms. wrote “Shake It For Me” recorded by Wolf in 1962; and another fine performance from Rush. My favorite of the covers is from Sonny Boy Williamson II, born on the Sara Jones Plantation in Glendora, Ms. he recorded “Don’t Start Me Talkin’” in 1955. From Rolling Fork, Ms. Muddy Waters recorded “Honey Bee, Sail On” in 1969 on Chess Records. Although credited to the Hazelhurst, Ms. born Robert Johnson “Dust My Broom” is also included as a tribute to Elmore James, the man who it’s been said, taught it to Johnson, and who finally recorded it in 1951. Rush should know, at the age of 86, he is a historian of Mississippi blues.

This welcome addition to Rush’s catalog showcases him in a rare stripped-down acoustic setting and immediately makes this a collector’s item. Bobby Rush is a national treasure. ~Richard Ludmerer

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VA - Blues Singles Collection Vol. 11

Size: 212,0 MB
Time: 90:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Art: Front

01 Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite - What The Hell? (3:08)
02 Doyle Bramhall II - Be Here Now (Feat. Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks) (4:27)
03 Bobby Rush - Dust My Broom (3:35)
04 Simon McBride - Kids Wanna Rock (2:51)
05 The Reverend Shawn Amos - Troubled Man (Breathe Remix) (Feat. Ruthie Foster & James Saez) (4:12)
06 Laura Rain & The Caesars - Soul Creature (3:39)
07 Lachy Doley & The Lachy Doley Group - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (4:32)
08 John Nemeth - I Can See Your Love Light Shine (3:16)
09 Billy Walton Band - You Don't Need Me (4:08)
10 Lisa Mills - You Better Move On (2:59)
11 ElectroBluesSociety - Slow And Heavy (1:46)
12 Wellbad - Jackleen - Live (2:41)
13 Roxanne Potvin - Jump In (3:32)
14 Boogie Beasts - Mine All Mine (2:26)
15 Curtis Salgado - The Longer That I Live (3:51)
16 Gina Sicilia - Married Man (3:11)
17 Mick Clarke - Pretty Thing (3:01)
18 Cedric Burnside & Steve Azar - Coldwater (4:07)
19 Funkwrench Blues - Unity (Feat. Brother Paul Brown) (3:27)
20 Mike Ross - None Of Your Business (3:20)
21 Bb Factory - Keep Yo Mama (3:21)
22 Chris Smither - Lonely Time (3:22)
23 Selwyn Birchwood - Living In A Burning House (4:08)
24 Phil Manning - Shut Downtown (3:52)
25 Chris Kramer & Beatbox 'n' Blues - Just A Little Boy (Live) (3:17)
26 Walter Trout - Heartland (4:26)

A collection of blues singles released in Aug 2020 compiled by myself.

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VA - Blues Singles Collection Vol. 8

Size: 266,1 MB
Time: 114:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Art: Front

01 JW-Jones - Snatchin' It Back (3:17)
02 Marc Amacher - Early In The Morning (Roadhouse Session Unmastered) (4:16)
03 The Cold Stares - My City (3:10)
04 Mike Elrington - Don't Give Me A Dime (3:21)
05 Forrest Hill - Nomads in Love (3:53)
06 Starlite Campbell Band - Lay It Out On Me (4:56)
07 Dom Martin - Could've Had Religion (5:12)
08 Jo Harman & Redtenbacher's Funkestra - The Angel Leaves Her Watermark (5:49)
09 Elise Legrow - Evan (3:40)
10 Joe Bonamassa - Colour And Shape (4:30)
11 Walter Trout - All Out Of Tears (6:31)
12 Homesick James - Gotta Move - Live (3:46)
13 Superdownhome - Homework (Feat. Nine Below Zero) (3:20)
14 Susan Santos - Dirty Money (3:19)
15 Bror Gunnar Jansson - Breathe (4:03)
16 Johnny & The Mongrels - Louisiana Girl (4:51)
17 Bobby Rush - Shake It For Me (3:42)
18 Jon Amor - Peppercorn (3:13)
19 Krissy Matthews - Happiness Is The Key (3:06)
20 Billy Walton Band - Can't Love No One (3:35)
21 Bettye Lavette - One More Song (5:22)
22 Mick Clarke - Hip-Shakin' (2:56)
23 Savoy Brown - All Gone Wrong (4:12)
24 Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don’t Go - Live (2:54)
25 The Allman Betts Band - Magnolia Road (5:17)
26 Katie Knipp - Chamomile And Cocaine (3:48)
27 Greyhounds - Tune In (3:35)
28 The Immediate Family - Cruel Twist (4:33)

A collection of blues singles released in Jul 2020 compiled by myself.

Blues Singles Collection Vol. 8

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VA - Black Snake Moan OST

Size: 118,1 MB
Time: 49:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2006
Styles: Delta Blues, Blues Rock, Soundtrack
Art: Full

01. Scott Bomar - Opening Theme (0:38)
02. Son House - Ain't But One Kind Of Blues (0:11)
03. Samuel L. Jackson - Just Like A Bird Without A Feather (2:22)
04. The Black Keys - When The Lights Go Out (3:13)
05. Jessie Mae Hemphill -Standing In My Doorway Crying (4:40)
06. Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads (2:32)
07. Samuel L. Jackson - Black Snake Moan (4:04)
08. Precious Bryant - Morning Train (3:00)
09. John Doe - The Losing Kind (2:33)
10. Outrageous Cherry - Lord Have Mercy On Me (3:04)
11. Scott Bomar - Ronnie And Rae's Theme (1:08)
12. Scott Bomar - The Chain (2:50)
13. Samuel L. Jackson - Alice Mae (3:48)
14. Samuel L. Jackson - Stack-O-Lee (3:30)
15. R.L. Burnside - Old Black Mattie (4:10)
16. Son House - That's Where The Blues Started (0:21)
17. North Mississippi Allstars - Mean Ol' Wind Died Down (7:31)

This soundtrack to the film written and directed by Craig Brewer is as steeped in the Southern blues as his Hustle and Flow was in hip-hop. The biggest surprise here is how well actor Samuel L. Jackson (who seems to have a thing for "Snake" films) holds his own as a blues singer against selections from Son House and R.L. Burnside. He sounds like a throwback to the classic Delta bluesmen on "Just Like a Bird Without a Feather," does a convincing take on the Blind Lemon Jefferson title track, and rocks the juke joint on "Alice Mae" and a down-and-dirty recasting of "Stack-O-Lee." Produced by the Bo-Keys' Scott Bomar (who also scored Brewer's previous movie), the 17-cut soundtrack features a kaleidoscopic array of blues, from the primal throb of the Black Keys' "When the Lights Go Out" and the funk of Bobby Rush's classic "Chicken Heads" to the spiritual lilt of Precious Bryant's "Morning Train" and the North Mississippi Allstars' expansive finale, "Mean Ol' Wind Died Down." --Don McLeese

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Bobby Rush - Sitting On Top Of The Blues

Size: 103.3 MB
Time: 43:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: R&B
Art: Front, Back

1. Hey Hey Bobby Rush [4:13]
2. Good Stuff [3:46]
3. Get out of Here (Dog Named Bo) [4:11]
4. You Got the Goods on You [4:03]
5. Sweet Lizzy [3:41]
6. Bobby Rush Shuffle [3:44]
7. Recipe for Love [4:44]
8. Pooky Poo [3:15]
9. Slow Motion [4:14]
10. Shake Til' You Get Enough [3:45]
11. Bowlegged Woman [3:57]

After decades of tearing up the chitlin’ circuit on a nightly basis with his sweaty, no-holds-barred funkfests, Bobby has thoroughly broken through to the mainstream. He won a long-overdue 2017 Grammy Award for his spectacular album Porcupine Meat and consistently tours the globe as a headliner. What’s more, Bobby’s brand-new album Sitting on Top of the Blues on his own Deep Rush imprint (distributed by Thirty Tigers), due out August 16, 2019, promises to further spread the news that this revered legend, well past 80 years of age even if his stratospheric energy level belies the calendar, is bigger and badder and bolder than ever.

“I’m sitting on top of the blues. I’m a bluesman who’s sitting on the top of my game, proud of what I do and proud of who I am and thankful for people accepting me for what I am and who I am,” says the charismatic Rush. “I’m happy about what I’m doing and still enthused about what I’m doing. And I think we’ve got some good songs.”

That’s a profound understatement. There’s something for everyone on Sitting on Top of the Blues, from the boisterous R&B-laced opener “Hey Hey Bobby Rush” through the cooking “Good Stuff,” the sexy “Slow Motion,” and a stripped-down “Recipe For Love” that features Bobby and his co-producer Vasti Jackson supplying all the accompaniment necessary with their interlocking guitars. Rush wails on pungent harmonica throughout the set, his vocals as sly and sensuous as ever while elastic grooves simmer and surge behind him. Rush has been a master storyteller for decades, and the songs on this disc follow in that tradition.

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Various - Bad, Bad Whiskey

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:32
Size: 161.5 MB
Styles: R&B/Soul/Blues
Year: 1993
Art: Front

[2:19] 1. Rodger Collins - She's Looking Good
[2:25] 2. The Merced Blue Notes - Rufus Jr
[2:18] 3. Betty Everett - I Got To Tell Somebody
[2:32] 4. Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads
[2:34] 5. Bill Coday - Get Your Lie Straight
[2:23] 6. The Right Kind - (Tell Me) Why Do You Have To Lie
[2:38] 7. Sonny Rhodes - You Better Stop
[2:12] 8. Little Johnny Taylor - Nightingale Melody
[2:46] 9. Merl Saunders - I Pity The Fool
[3:29] 10. J.J. Malone - It's A Shame
[3:36] 11. Loleatta Holloway - Rainbow 71
[2:46] 12. Rodger Collins - Foxy Girls In Oakland
[2:25] 13. Bill Coday - When You Find A Fool Bump His Head
[1:54] 14. The Merced Blue Notes - Mama Rufus
[3:12] 15. Little Johnny Taylor - For Your Precious Love
[3:31] 16. Charles Brown - Abraham, Martin And John
[2:17] 17. The Merced Blue Notes - Bad, Bad Whiskey
[2:31] 18. Lenny Williams - How Can I Forget You
[2:39] 19. Betty Everett - Ain't Nothing Gonna Change Me
[2:45] 20. Bill Coday - A Woman Rules The World
[2:33] 21. Claude Huey - Why Did Our Love Go
[2:53] 22. Bill Coday - Let Me Be Your Handy Man
[2:54] 23. Bobby Eaton - Fever, Fever, Fever
[2:56] 24. Lenny Williams - Lisa's Gone
[3:28] 25. Johnny Guitar Watson - I Don't Want To Be A Lone Ranger
[2:20] 26. Rodger Collins - Get Away From Me

Galaxy Records Singles 1962-1972 digitally remastered. A subsidiary of Fantasy, the Galaxy label recorded a diverse assortment of soul and R&B in the 1960s and early '70s. This is a 26-track compilation of highlights from the company's output, covering 1962 to 1972. Landing the occasional minor R&B chart hit, Galaxy couldn't be said to have an especially distinctive label sound, though their efforts were on the whole bluesier than much soul of the era. But this is still a decent grab bag of odds and ends from soul's vintage period, with obscure sides by well-known performers like Betty Everett, Little Johnny Taylor, Lenny Williams, Charles Brown, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Merl Saunders, and a host of unknowns. Especially good are the three sides by Rodger Collins, whose 1966 single "She's Looking Good" (which leads off the CD) was one of the better regional soul hits of the '60s, and was covered by Wilson Pickett for a Top 20 smash a couple of years later. ~Richie Unterberger

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Various - Mississippi's Music

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:22
Size: 154.2 MB
Styles: Delta blues, Gospel blues, Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[5:16] 1. Z.Z. Hill - Down Home Blues
[3:00] 2. King Floyd - Groove Me
[5:14] 3. The Sensational Nightingales - Saints Hold On
[4:07] 4. Bobby Blue Bland - Members Only
[3:40] 5. Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue
[4:32] 6. Grady Champion - White Boy With The Blues
[3:41] 7. Keri Leigh - Here's Your Mop Mr. Johnson
[4:10] 8. The Canton Spirituals - All Of My Burdens
[4:14] 9. Little Milton - The Blues Is Alright
[4:26] 10. Bobby Rush - Scootchin
[5:28] 11. Mississippi Mass Choir - Your Grace And Mercy
[3:37] 12. Mckinley Mitchell - The End Of The Rainbow
[3:39] 13. The Jackson Southernaires - I Need You To Hold My Hand
[4:38] 14. Johnnie Taylor - I Found A Love
[4:38] 15. Denise Lasalle - Your Husband Is Cheating On Us
[2:56] 16. The Beat Daddys - Mississippi

The blues and Mississippi are synonymous to music lovers. The repertoire of any blues or rock band is full of songs, guitar licks, and vocal inflections borrowed from Mississippi bluesmen – from Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Son House to Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, and Furry Lewis – just to mention some.

As far as historians can tell, the blues were born in the Mississippi Delta, an elaboration on work chants, “sorrow” slave songs, and the lyrical and haunting “field hollers.” As early as the American Civil War, white soldiers noted a different music created by black soldiers – songs about marching and other toils of war in which they “extemporized a half-dissonant middle part.” These songs were direct precursors to the blues, if not the real thing already.

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Bobby Rush - Blind Snake

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:52
Size: 105.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Retro-Soul, Blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[4:55] 1. Blind Snake
[4:54] 2. If You Don't Treat Me Better
[4:23] 3. Little By Little
[5:00] 4. She Alright, She Alright
[3:37] 5. No Hard Feelin' With Me
[4:18] 6. Make Love To You
[5:05] 7. Tell Me What's Going On
[4:53] 8. People Don't Do
[3:58] 9. Swing Lo
[4:45] 10. Chinkapin Huntin'

Bass – Mike Vaughn (4), Terry Richardson (2); Drums – Genorris (Red) Carothers, Paul Simmons (7); Guiro – Carlos Ellis; Guitar – Bobby Rush, Bryan W. Ward, Steve J.; Harmonica – Bobby Rush; Mandolin – Bryan W. Ward; Piano – Cedric Vance; Shaker – Carlos Ellis; Vocals – Bobby Rush, Cedric Vance, Fred Young. Recorded At The Tone Room by Bryan W. Ward.

I'm a big Bobby Rush fan. Blind Snake is the best record of his recent catalog. The title track is another of Bobby's signature soul-funk tunes with the barely-subtle lyrical innuendo he's famous for. If you are familiar with his hits "Night Fishin" and "I Ain't Studdin Ya" (aka "Hen Pecked" in his live shows) then you know what "Blind Snake" is like.

While the whole record is fantastic, there are some particular standouts: a couple well-known blues tunes reworked in the classic Bobby Rush style, such as Willie Dixon's "Make Love to You" and the standard "Catfish Blues", titled here (with different lyrics) as "She Alright, She Alright"; the gospel standard "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"; my particular favorite "Chinkapin Huntin", an intimate half-spoken, half-sung story about Rush's dad teaching him about playing guitar and chasing big women -- it's irreverent and silly, and still quite touching. ~thxman

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Various - The Jewel-Paula Soul Story (2-Disc Set)

Stan Lewis, who owned and ran Stan’s Record Shop in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, also started and operated three local independent record labels, the Jewel, Paula, and Ronn imprints, beginning with Jewel in 1963. He had a couple of big national hits with his labels, including Dale Hawkins' “Susie-Q” and John Fred's “Judy in Disguise,” but most of his attention went to the blues, R&B, and soul music that was closest to his heart. This two-disc, 36-track set focuses on that side of the Jewel/Paula catalog, and includes classic sides by John Lee Hooker, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Spann, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Big Joe Turner, Roosevelt Sykes, and others. ~Steve Leggett

Album: The Jewel-Paula Soul Story (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:33
Size: 113.5 MB
Styles: Soul, R&B
Year: 2015

[3:19] 1. Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes The Place Of You
[2:34] 2. The Objectives - Oh My Love (Come Back To Me)
[3:00] 3. Little Charles - Guess I'll Have To Take What's Left
[3:03] 4. Billy Joe Young - I Had My Heart Set On You
[2:53] 5. Johnny And Jon - Why Did You Leave Me
[2:41] 6. Carter Brothers - Don't Pity Me
[2:37] 7. Toussaint McCall - I'll Do It For You
[2:56] 8. Joe Valentine - I Can't Stand To See You Go
[3:33] 9. Barbara West - The Love Of My Life
[2:25] 10. Lonnie & Floyd - What You Gonna Do
[2:50] 11. Jerry McCain - Put It Where I Can Get It
[3:03] 12. Ted Taylor - Without A Woman
[2:04] 13. Barbara West - Congratulations Baby
[2:33] 14. Tommy Ridgley - In The Same Old Way
[2:32] 15. Wallace Brothers - I Need Someone
[2:27] 16. Ola V. Harper - I Wanna Keep
[2:21] 17. Billy Keene - Losers Win Sometimes
[2:36] 18. Little Johnny Taylor - How Can A Broke Man Survive

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Album: The Jewel-Paula Soul Story (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:54
Size: 128.0 MB
Styles: Soul, R&B
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[2:49] 1. Ted Taylor - Something Strange Is Goin' On In My House
[3:02] 2. Clay Hammond - You've Got Me Tamed
[2:42] 3. Little Johnny Taylor - How Are You Fixed For Love
[2:58] 4. Buddy Ace - Do What You Think Is Best
[3:45] 5. Jackie Day - Guilty
[3:30] 6. Willie Rogers - That's When I'll Stop Loving You
[3:40] 7. Albert Washington - Loosen These Pains And Let Me Go
[2:20] 8. Bobby Patterson - How Do You Spell Love
[2:49] 9. Shay Holiday - It's Not How Long You Make It
[3:13] 10. The Montclairs - Dreaming Out Of Season
[3:02] 11. Fontella Bass - I Want Everybody To Know
[2:07] 12. Bobby Patterson - It Takes Two To Do Wrong
[2:55] 13. Roscoe Robinson - (Standing In The) Safety Zone
[2:35] 14. Jesse Anderson - Help Wanted
[2:28] 15. Lee Shot Williams - Checking Out
[3:40] 16. Tommie Young - Do You Feel The Same Way
[3:12] 17. Bobby Rush - It's Alright
[4:59] 18. Buster Benton - Sweet 94

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Bobby Rush - Absolutely The Best

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:37
Size: 81.6 MB
Styles: Soul/R&B/Blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[3:12] 1. It's Alright
[2:58] 2. She's A Good Un Part 1
[2:05] 3. She's A Good Un Part 2
[3:05] 4. Get It On With Me
[2:26] 5. Bowlegged Woman, Knock-Kneed Man Part 1
[2:02] 6. Bowlegged Woman, Knock-Kneed Man Part 2
[4:50] 7. I Don't Know (Dust My Broom Medley)
[3:12] 8. I'm Still Waiting
[2:44] 9. Am I Good Enough For You
[2:38] 10. Get Out Of Here With Your Boom-Boom
[2:55] 11. Niki Hoeky
[3:24] 12. It's Alright

Born as Emmit Ellis, Jr. on Novermber 10 n1940 in Homer, Louisiana, Bobby Rush has become a blues legend with a signature sound he calls "Folk Funk". While initially a Chicago blues singer he eventually broke through with his funkified, soul/blues with risqué subject matter. In 1971 he scored a #34 R & B hit with "Chicken Heads" and soon followed that up with regional hits on Jewel Records like "It's Alright", "Bow-Legged Woman, Knock Kneed Man" & "She's A Good'un". Bobby began crafting a unique style that incorporated blues, funk and folk. From Jewel, he went to Warner Brothers then to Philadelphia International Records. By 1982, Rush had signed with LaJam Records out of Jackson, Mississippi, where he released five albums, one of which was the phenomenally successful hit Sue, and became a major attraction in the South. But it was in 1995 that Bobby found a home at Malaco's Waldoxy label. At Waldoxy, he released One Monkey Don't Stop No Show which was nominated for two W. C. Handy Awards. The Living Blues Critics' Poll named him the year's Best Live Performer in 1995. In 1996 and 1997, he captured the Real Blues Magazine Award as The Best Soul/R & B Live Performer. After leaving Waldoxy 2003 was a pivotal year for Rush as he was prominently featured in Richard Pearce's documentary film "The Road To Memphis," broadcast on PBS as part of Martin Scorsese's film series "The Blues" and also saw the launch of his Deep Rush record label. He's released three excellent albums to date on the label. His live shows are a riot with his vaudevillian instincts, horny showmanship, and knack for writing tunes that brim with playful down-home wit.

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Various - Southern Shades Of Blue Vols 1 & 2

During the middle to late 1800s, the Deep South was home to hundreds of seminal bluesmen who helped to shape the music. Unfortunately, much of this original music followed these sharecroppers to their graves. But the legacy of these earliest blues pioneers can still be heard in 1920s and '30s recordings from Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia and other Southern states. This music is not very far removed from the field hollers and work songs of the slaves and sharecroppers. Many of the earliest blues musicians incorporated the blues into a wider repertoire that included traditional folk songs, vaudeville music, and minstrel tunes. Without getting too technical, most blues music is comprised of 12 bars (or measures). A specific series of notes is also utilized in the blues. The individual parts of this scale are known as the blue notes.

Well-known blues pioneers from the 1920s such as Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson usually performed solo with just a guitar. Occasionally they teamed up with one or more fellow bluesmen to perform in the plantation camps, rural juke joints, and rambling shacks of the Deep South. Blues bands may have evolved from early jazz bands, gospel choirs and jug bands. Jug band music was popular in the South until the 1930s. Early jug bands variously featured jugs, guitars, mandolins, banjos, kazoos, stringed basses, harmonicas, fiddles, washboards and other everyday appliances converted into crude instruments.

When the country blues moved to the cities and other locales, it took on various regional characteristics. Hence the St. Louis blues, the Memphis blues, the Louisiana blues, etc. Chicago bluesmen such as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters were the first to electrify the blues and add drums and piano in the late 1940s. Today there are many different shades of the blues.

Album: Southern Shades Of Blue
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:06
Size: 128.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 1995/2005
Art: Front

[5:24] 1. The Beat Daddys - Livin' This Love
[7:31] 2. Artie 'Blues Boy' White - I'm Gonna Marry My Mother-In-Law
[6:31] 3. Mike Griffin - Fifth Of Whiskey, Case Of The Blues
[4:39] 4. Poonanny - Out Grindin' The Grindin' Man
[4:21] 5. James Peterson - Don't Let The Devil Ride
[7:37] 6. Keri Leigh - Georgia Crawl
[7:48] 7. Mckinley Mitchell - You Know I've Tried
[5:21] 8. The Beat Daddys - How Blue Must I Get
[6:51] 9. Poonanny - Clean Out Your Dresser

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Album: Southern Shades Of Blue Vol. 2
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:44
Size: 141.3 MB
Styles: R&B, Retro soul, Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:29] 1. Ernie Johnson - I'm In The Mood For The Blues
[3:23] 2. James Peterson - Silky Silk
[5:31] 3. Artie 'Blue Boy' White - Man Of The House
[4:19] 4. Bobby Rish - Dangerous
[4:02] 5. Poonanny - Meatman
[2:54] 6. King Floyd - Baby Let Me Kiss You
[3:31] 7. McKinley Mitchell - Trouble Blues
[3:25] 8. Artie 'Blues Boy' White - All In The Open Now
[4:42] 9. Poonanny - Packin' Heavy
[3:38] 10. Keri Leigh - Here's Your Mop Mr. Johnson
[4:25] 11. The Beat Daddys - Different Name
[3:50] 12. Big Mike Griffin - Sittin' Here With Nothing
[5:17] 13. James Peterson - Went Too Far, Stayed Too Long
[4:30] 14. Bobby Rush - Can't Save A Cent
[3:41] 15. The Beat Daddys - Train In The Distance

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Bobby Rush - Undercover Lover

Year: 2003
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:01
Size: 107,8 MB
Styles: Blues, soul-blues
Scans: Full

1. Undercover Lover (4:29)
2. That Thang (4:52)
3. Tough Titty (5:43)
4. Party Down (4:58)
5. Love Jones (5:26)
6. Play With Your Poodle (4:14)
7. Love Is A Gamble (4:35)
8. Dirty Dog (4:32)
9. You Ain't Gonna Worry Me (4:18)
10. Blowin' In The Wind (3:51)

The sound is gutsy: the stylistic range is as varied as anything Rush has ever packed into one CD (everything from grinding 12-bar blues through Synth-washed soul/blues dance-workouts to a rare - and exquisitely conceived - straight-ahead pop-soul ballad, Love Is A Gamble); and the lyrics are as irrepressibly witty as ever. Fusing the old, the new, and the borrowed - and always of course the blue - Bobby Rush has come up with an achievement that exceeds any reasonable expectation on this, his first time out on his own.

Special Kudos should go out to keyboardist Paul Brown who masterminded the synths and also engineered and mixed this challenging aural mélange with unerring precision. Whether or not this disc helps Rush realize his longstanding dream of becoming a "mainstream" blues star: it certainly stands as among the years most important blues recordings. /David Whiteis, Living Blues Magazine

Personnel: Bobby Rush (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Richard Cushing, Steve Johnson, Dexter Allen (guitar); Brian Overstreet (slide guitar); Paul Brown, Vick Allen (keyboards); Derrick Martin, Bruce Howard (drums); Terry Richardson (bass); Pete Mendillo (cymbals, percussion).

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Bobby Rush - Porcupine Meat

Size: 132,4 MB
Time: 56:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues Funk
Art: Front

01. I Don’t Want Nobody Hanging Around (4:53)
02. Porcupine Meat (Feat. Vasti Jackson) (4:12)
03. Got Me Accused (7:00)
04. Snake In The Grass (4:13)
05. Funk O’ De Funk (4:52)
06. Me, Myself And I (Feat. Joe Bonamassa) (5:32)
07. Catfish Stew (4:00)
08. It's Your Move (4:19)
09. Nighttime Gardener (4:03)
10. I Think Your Dress Is Too Short (4:20)
11. Standing On Shaky Ground (4:51)
12. I'm Tired (Tangle Eye Mix) (4:20)

Porcupine Meat, the awesomely-titled new album from 82-year-old blues and funk musician Bobby Rush, delivers 12 tracks of attitude-filled, soulful grooves. The Louisiana native has been on a hot streak, with 2014's Decisions earning him the label of "a very big fish in a big swamp" from Stephen Thomas Erlewine, and 2013's stripped-down Down in Louisiana, which Erlewine says "packs a gut-level punch that feels even more bracing after years, even decades, of glossy grooves." Now, the glossy grooves are back, and with some help from the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Keb' Mo' and Dave Alvin, the good times continue to roll. ~by Chris Steffen

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Bobby Rush - 2 albums: Blind Snake / Hoochie Man

Born as Emmit Ellis, Jr. on Novermber 10 n1940 in Homer, Louisiana, Bobby Rush has become a blues legend with a signature sound he calls "Folk Funk". While initially a Chicago blues singer he eventually broke through with his funkified, soul/blues with risqué subject matter. In 1971 he scored a #34 R & B hit with "Chicken Heads" and soon followed that up with regional hits on Jewel Records like "It's Alright", "Bow-Legged Woman, Knock Kneed Man" & "She's A Good'un". Bobby began crafting a unique style that incorporated blues, funk and folk. From Jewel, he went to Warner Brothers then to Philadelphia International Records. By 1982, Rush had signed with LaJam Records out of Jackson, Mississippi, where he released five albums, one of which was the phenomenally successful hit Sue, and became a major attraction in the South. But it was in 1995 that Bobby found a home at Malaco's Waldoxy label. At Waldoxy, he released One Monkey Don't Stop No Show which was nominated for two W. C. Handy Awards. The Living Blues Critics' Poll named him the year's Best Live Performer in 1995. In 1996 and 1997, he captured the Real Blues Magazine Award as The Best Soul/R & B Live Performer. After leaving Waldoxy 2003 was a pivotal year for Rush as he was prominently featured in Richard Pearce's documentary film "The Road To Memphis," broadcast on PBS as part of Martin Scorsese's film series "The Blues" and also saw the launch of his Deep Rush record label. He's released three excellent albums to date on the label. His live shows are a riot with his vaudevillian instincts, horny showmanship, and knack for writing tunes that brim with playful down-home wit.

Album: Blind Snake
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:37
Size: 104.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Soul-blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[4:55] 1. Blind Snake
[4:54] 2. If You Don't Treat Me Better
[4:20] 3. Little By Little
[4:49] 4. She Alright, She Alright
[3:37] 5. No Hard Feelin' With Me
[4:17] 6. Make Love To You
[5:05] 7. Tell Me What's Going On
[4:53] 8. People Don't Do
[3:58] 9. Swing Lo
[4:44] 10. Chinkapin Huntin'

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Album: Hoochie Man
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:38
Size: 113.6 MB
Styles: R&B, Soul-blues
Year: 2000
Art: Front

[4:58] 1. I Like It
[5:22] 2. Hoochie Man
[5:24] 3. Shut Up
[4:59] 4. 2 Eyes Full Of Tears
[4:53] 5. Feelin' Bad
[4:31] 6. Bare Mouth Woman
[5:13] 7. Garbage Man
[5:09] 8. Too Short, Too Little
[4:37] 9. Beat Me Rockin'
[4:27] 10. Scootchin

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Jordan Patterson - Give Me A Chance / The Back On Track Recording Project

Album: Give Me A Chance
Size: 107,2 MB
Time: 45:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Funky Thang (Playing The Blues Like Never Before) (5:37)
02. Those Pretty Eyes (4:17)
03. Life Of Misery (4:17)
04. No Educated Woman (4:02)
05. The Thing I Do For You (6:12)
06. Blues Hotel (3:39)
07. Give Me A Chance (4:35)
08. Your Love Is Killing Me (5:12)
09. The Fast Lane (4:32)
10. Natural (3:12)

Featuring Bobby Parker & Bobby Rush.

Drawing from straightforward urban blues wailers like James Cotton as well as the blues-rock of the '80s, harpist Jordan Patterson delivers an uneven but intriguing album with Give Me A Chance. Patterson deserves some credit for trying to expand the boundaries of contemporary blues by adding harder rhythms and more complicated melodies but his execution often doesn't deliver the promise of his ideas. Frequently, his delivery is too forced -- he pushes both his voice and harp to the limit, which doesn't let his songs take hold. Nevertheless, there is a lot of potential on this debut. Patterson has a gutsy, impassioned attituded and when he matches his confidence with the right tune, the results are powerful. ~by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Album: The Back On Track Recording Project EP
Size: 42,4 MB
Time: 18:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Play My Song (3:33)
02. Don't Take Me Down (3:51)
03. If You'd Help Me Please (5:47)
04. Heartbreaker (5:01)

After spending nearly the last decade and a half forging a highly successful career in artist tour management and concert & event promotion for artist Britney Spears, and as a Concert Production Manager/Promoter Representative for House of Blues Concerts Canada, renown Blues vocalist/harp player Jordan Patterson has returned to his first love and passion; playing and singing the blues.

Influenced by such blues harp legends as James Cotton, Paul Butterfield and Mark Wenner of The Nighthawks, Patterson’s incendiary live performances have led him and his band D.C. Hurricane to play at such premier festivals as the Tampa Bay Blues Festival (where he stole the show in 1996), Canada’s Tros Rivieres Blues Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the UK’s Burnley National Blues Festival, the London Blues Festival, Helsinki, Finland’s April Jazz Festival and many more. Patterson has also performed at venues throughout North America and Europe with some of the music industry’s true legends, including James Brown, Barbara Morrison, Carlos Santana, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mick Fleetwood, Robert Cray, Son Seals, Savoy Brown and Texas bluesman, U.P. Wilson, with whom he recorded the JSP Records released album, “Whirlwind.” Patterson subsequently toured Europe as a double bill in support of that release. In addition to his festival appearances, during his time in the U.K., Patterson and the D.C. Hurricane performed to sold-out crowds at famed London nightclubs Ronnie Scott’s and The 100 Club, and had the amazing opportunity to record sessions for the BBC Musical Archives, which were broadcast all throughout the European continents; amassing him many more fans in the process.

In 1996, Jordan released his debut album ‘Give Me a Chance’ on JSP Records with The D.C. Hurricane. The solid offering featured guest performances from blues legends Bobby Rush and Bobby Parker. It also garnered Patterson critical acclaim and worldwide press from notable publications as Living Blues Magazine (USA); Blueprint Magazine (UK); All Music Guide (USA); Juke Joint Magazine (UK), and countless newspapers throughout the globe. Blueprint Magazine was especially enthusiastic about Patterson’s live performance exclaiming, “Blessed with a voice that many performers would die for, Patterson has the wit and personality that guarantee him success. This man is a class performer and a major star in the making.” ‘Give Me a Chance’ also earned Patterson rotation on blues stations throughout the globe, including XM Radio and with Bill Wax, Program Director of B.B. King’s Bluesville, who still remains a fan to this day.

Patterson is currently in the studio with his fresh new Canadian line up; The Jordan Patterson Band. With Patterson on harp, the group features bass player Darius McKinley, drummer Benjamin Rollo, guitarist Darryl Romphf and Washington DC-based, guitarist Bobby Thompson. “The Back On Track” recording project has now been released as an EP; a 4-track tease to the full-length album set to debut this winter. Three of its songs were showcased via Youtube and garnished over an impressive 40,000 hits on Patterson’s various social pages. It is a welcome return for this most galvanizing, exciting songwriter and performer as he takes his rightful spot as one of the leading practitioners of blues harp on the scene today.

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VA - Loose The Funk: Rarities From The Jewel/Paula Vaults

Size: 134,6 MB
Time: 56:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Funk, Soul
Art: Front

01 Jesse Gresham Plus 3 - Shootin' The Grease (2:56)
02 Ted Taylor - I've Got To Find Somebody New (3:00)
03 Joe Perkins - Looking For A Woman (2:49)
04 The El Dorados - Loose Booty, Pt. 1 (2:37)
05 Bobby Rush - Get It On With Me (3:03)
06 Bobby Powell - Peace Begins Within (2:28)
07 The Genies - Prove It (2:46)
08 Little Joe Blue - If You Love Me Like You Say (2:58)
09 Dumas King - Loose Eel (2:14)
10 Alex Williams - The Thrill Ain't Gone (2:45)
11 The Wallace Brothers - Woman, Hang Your Head In Shame (2:02)
12 Louise Chachere - The Hen, Pt. 1 (2:29)
13 Ray Agee - Hard Working Man (2:42)
14 The Four Shades - My World (2:39)
15 Cash McCall - Junkie For Your Love (3:50)
16 Essence - Black Reflections (3:56)
17 Casey Jones - Good Thing, Pt. 2 (2:05)
18 Willie Rogers - Games People Play (2:29)
19 Arlene Brown - Impeach Me Baby (3:04)
20 Buddy Ace - Take 'em Up (3:33)

Heavy funk from the vaults of Jewel and Paula Records – that Louisiana family of labels that cut some mighty mean music in the 60s and 70s! Jewel and Paula were more than able to come up with the goods again and again over the years – with roots in the south, and artists in styles that included blues, gospel, and jazz – which makes for a really fresh, really unique criss-crossing of modes here – in a set of singles that dig way deeper than the usual hits from the label! There's no stock, standard groove here – as you might find on labels that had a more unified approach to the music – which makes this collection of singles even more filled with surprises than you might expect. The styles run from funky blues to deep soul, instrumental funk, group soul, and more – and titles include "Loose Booty (part 1)" by The Eldorados, "Shootin The Grease" by Jesse Gresham Plus 3, "Looking For A Woman" by Joe Perkins, "Get It On With Me" by Bobby Rush, "Prove It" by The Genies, "Loose Eel" by Dumas King, "The Thrill Ain't Gone" by Alex Williams, "The Hen (part 1)" by Louis Chachere, "Woman Hang Your Head In Shame" by The Wallace Brothers, "Good Thing (part 2)" by Casey Jones, "Black Reflections" by Essence, "Junkie For Your Love" by Cash McCall, "Impeace Me Baby" by Arlene Brown, and "My World" by The Four Shades.

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Dave Weld & The Imperial Flames - Slip Into A Dream

Size: 152,3 MB
Time: 65:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Chicago Blues, Blues Soul, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Slip Into A Dream (6:27)
02. Sweet Rockin' Soul (4:37)
03. Looking For A Man (4:57)
04. Take Me Back (5:44)
05. May Be Right, May Be Wrong (5:38)
06. Sweet Love (Dulce Amor) (5:20)
07. Louise (3:58)
08. Tremble (6:19)
09. Walk On Down (6:47)
10. Dorothy Mae (4:20)
11. Too Bad, So Sad (4:19)
12. 20% Alcohol (5:01)
13. Slip Into A Dream (Reprise) (1:40)

A storming second album from Dave Weld – a contemporary figure on the Chicago blues scene, and one who's often joined on vocals by female singer Monica Myhre! The presence of Monica makes the record almost feel more like a collaborative ensemble outing – still blues, but with some old school soul elements – kind of a blues fusion with older Memphis or southern modes at times – and less the traditional Chicago blues you might expect. Part of that also comes from a larger horn section on a few numbers – who flesh out the sound. The album also features Bobby Rush on guest harmonica, Greg Guy, son of Buddy Guy, on guitar and Sax Gordon on saxophone.

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