Bad Temper Joe - No Filter (One Take Radio Recordings)

Size: 122.3 MB
Time: 52:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Blues, Delta Blues
Art: Front

01. Hole In My Pocket (One Take Radio Recording) (6:21)
02. 3rd Floor Elevator Blues (One Take Radio Recording) (4:51)
03. One Can Wreck It All (One Take Radio Recording) (5:21)
04. The Promise (One Take Radio Recording) (4:38)
05. The Night Johnny Cash Quit Doing Pills (One Take Radio Recording) (3:18)
06. Fallin' Bird Blues (One Take Radio Recording) (4:32)
07. Been A While Since We've Talked (One Take Radio Recording) (7:27)
08. Don't Mess With A Mule (One Take Radio Recording) (3:21)
09. If Her Hair Ain't Longer Than Mine (One Take Radio Recording) (5:29)
10. Blues Never Stumbles (One Take Radio Recording) (7:34)

Personnel:
Bad Temper Joe - vocals, guitars, weissenborn
Max Dettling - electric bass, double bass
Paul Moser - drums

Bad Temper Joe presents the live in-studio production “No Filter (One Take Radio Recordings)” in cooperation with the Osnabrück record label Timezone Records and Deutschlandradio. The newest long player from the Bielefelder Bluesbarden contains recordings of a recording session that were made in spring 2021 as part of the radio concert series "On Stage" by Deutschlandfunk.

When it comes to blues in Germany, there is now no way around the grumpy late twenties. The German trade press calls him "[r] au, edged, haunted" (Guitar Magazin), "a powerhouse that can hardly be tamed" (Kieler Nachrichten), and praises his "rough, powerful singing [...] as well as his excellent fingerpicking ”(Bluesnews) and his“ slide game that gets under your skin ”(Jazz'N'More). Bad Temper Joe is also making waves internationally: as the only European act in the finals of the International Blues Challenge 2020 in Memphis, USA. The British Blues Matters Magazine ruled: "It's hard to believe that the sounds of the Mississippi-Delta have relocated to Germany, but they have."
The ten pieces recorded live by BTJ and his small accompanying band (Max Dettling - double bass, electric bass; Paul Moser - drums) in Bielefeld's Watt Watters studio develop a powerful and haunting sound despite or perhaps because of the sparing instrumentation. Six of the tracks are from the album "One Can Wreck It All", which was released in 2021. There are also three songs from various older productions, as well as the previously unreleased "Fallin 'Bird Blues" which was not broadcast on Deutschlandfunk for the first time. The “One Take Radio Recordings” are a congenial addition to the “OCWIA” album and complete this into a bluesy adventure in a double format.

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Bad Temper Joe - One Can Wreck It All

Size: 114.2 MB
Time: 49:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. The Night Johnny Cash Quit Doing Pills (3:14)
02. Early Morning Blues (4:18)
03. Hole In My Pocket (5:27)
04. Don't Mess With A Mule (2:15)
05. One Can Wreck It All (4:39)
06. Crazy World (3:47)
07. Wishing Well (4:13)
08. Road Works Rock (3:19)
09. Me And My Rockin' Chair (2:44)
10. I'll Never Get Well No More (6:34)
11. If Her Hair Ain't Longer Than Mine (4:09)
12. The Promise (4:19)

Personnel:
Bad Temper Joe – vocals, guitars, piano, foot stomping, kettledrum
Washboard Wolf – washboard, kick drum, percussion
Ian Andrews – vocals, kettledrum
Moritz “Moe” Herrmann – vocals, kettledrum
Marcel Rahe – harmonica, vocals
Alexander Scholten-Luchsen – piano, vocals

Bad Temper Joe is a German blues, folk and country musician from Bielefeld. He is at the end of his 20’s and represented Germany in the International Blues Challenge 2020 in Memphis. The event is sometimes also referred to as the World Championship of Blues. He is orientating his music on the Great American Songbook. Since 2014, when he released his debut album Sometimes a Sinner, he is actively publishing music. One Can Wreck It All is already the seventh studio album of Bad Temper Joe, who also released two live albums and two EPs during his career.

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Bad Temper Joe - Bad Temper Joe & His Band

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:19
Size: 110.6 MB
Styles: Americana, Country blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:25] 1. Hard To Do
[2:55] 2. Waiting On A Message
[5:31] 3. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde #4
[6:22] 4. Caroline
[2:54] 5. Double Trouble
[5:29] 6. Can't Wait
[4:11] 7. Blind Willie Mctell
[3:56] 8. I'll Be There
[4:58] 9. 'til I Fell In Love With You
[4:11] 10. Meet Me In Your Dreams
[4:22] 11. Blueberry Hill

Bad Temper Joe's got it. Some people may call it blues, some may call it folk, country or americana. You can call it what you want but it's got heart and soul. He plays something you don't get that often. You may not get a 12 bar- ''woke up this morning''-type of song, although he can certainly do that when he wants to, but something that catches you from the first moment. There's something in his music that leads you into another world, something that makes you dream, something that makes you forget your troubles.

Joe mostly plays his blues guitar by laying it on his lap. And then there is his voice which beautifully comes in, so pure, so loud that you wish he'd never stop singing. One of those voices which cuddle you and at the same time are so full of energy. Juggling between sad and happy songs he makes the audience travel through different places in which blues is king. And when Joe starts to growl and moan and to torture the strings of his guitar you'll get hooked to his music, to the smokey, lonesome and painful groove of his guitar, the rusty sound of his voice and the bluesy lyrics of his songs.

Bad Temper Joe & His Band mc
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Bad Temper Joe - Solitary Mind

Size: 103,4 MB
Time: 44:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. (She's My) Mississippi (2:58)
02. Homeless (5:26)
03. Made-Up Woman (5:38)
04. Honey For My Biscuit (3:36)
05. In The Shade (4:05)
06. Love Song At 4 A.M (3:40)
07. What It Takes (3:15)
08. Queen Of Dwarfs (4:54)
09. Approximately Little Snow White Blues (3:50)
10. Most Things Haven't Worked Out Yet (2:56)
11. The Last Song Will Be Sung For You (4:21)

Bad Temper Joe is a German singer/songwriter with a strong penchant for old school blues. ‘Double Trouble’ is a collection of blues inspired love songs that for the most part played on the Weissenborn. This is Joe’s 4th album in 2 years but this is the first to be Weissenborn orientated at its core, 7 out the 10 tracks here have Weissenborn taking centre stage. Joe is a real fan of old school classic blues ala Buddy Guy, Howling’ Wolf, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie et all. His passion for this golden era of blues is profound and splendidly evident in everything he writes and plays. The Weissenborn seems so well suited to this style of blues, it’s warmer than traditional bottleneck slide and resonator and has given Joe’s music a real earthy mellow aura which always seems to go down a storm with his homeland audiences.

Joe does have more than a passing resemblance to British bluesman Martin Harley musically speaking. Both play the blues, both play Weissenborn and both have a superb story telling quality about their songs (boy that would be an amazing double bill). Joe’s songs take you on a journey, they are heartwarming and always readily relatable. Lamenting about ‘loves lost’, ‘loves yet to be’, and ‘loves never to be’ he has a great songwriting talent that echoes one of his strongest non blues heroes Bob Dylan. It would be criminal not to mention the amazing harmonica playing talents Marcel Rahe who to me is the glue that makes this album stick together. The two musicians seem to have a wonderful understanding. Marcel’s interactions are perfectly balanced and complementary throughout the album and for me elevates this album go from “really good” to “simply great”!

Highlights are in abundance but standout songs for me start with ‘Girl From The East’ which is such a delicate love song, you can really feel the heart ache oozing through Joe’s husky, raspy vocals. The Weissenborn accompaniment is equally heartfelt and tenderly played, touches of Kelly Joe Phelps are buried within this lamentable composition. ‘If Tears Were Diamonds’ is a gem of a track (pun intended). Sweet soulful blues licks accented with occasional but perfectly timed lazy strums give the song such a customised “heartbroken” edge that you really do feel Joe’s angst, now that’s great songwriting and superb delivery right there! ‘I’ll Be Happy When You Cry’ is one of the few guitar orientated tracks on the album and showcases Joe’s splendid arpeggio finger picking skills, melodic, rhythmic and delightful to listen to. ‘Next To You’ has been hitting YouTube hard in various guises prior to this release and however it’s played and in what ever setting it always grabs you with its catchy melodic hook, it does remind me ever so slightly of Van Morisson which is never a bad thing in my book. The album ends on a real highlight for me. The sparse naked intro to the album closer ‘Gave Up Loving You’ is classic Ben Harper territory to this ears, single punctuated refrains slowly and deliberately give the song a brooding forlorn feel, sometime less is more and is probably my favourite track on the whole album.

‘Double Trouble’ is a must have for any self respecting Weissenborn fan out there, playing and singing blues on a Weissenborn is such sweet soulful cathartic listening experience and when its done this good it’s simply wondrous.

Solitary Mind

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Bad Temper Joe - Tough Ain't Easy

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:42
Size: 141.2 MB
Styles: Roots, Acoustic blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:25] 1. 3rd Floor Elevator Blues
[5:10] 2. Trusted But Twisted
[6:33] 3. Come On In My Kitchen
[4:24] 4. Rich Man Blues
[6:08] 5. Delilah
[4:10] 6. Old Oak Tree
[5:10] 7. Farmer's Daughter
[4:23] 8. Chicago At Midnight
[5:11] 9. Rosie's Blue Eyes
[8:39] 10. Beggar's Velvet Serenade
[3:39] 11. Nighthawk Woman Blues
[4:44] 12. I Bid You Goodnight, Sweet Marie

Bad Temper Joe's got it. Some people may call it blues, some may call it folk, country or americana. You can call it what you want but it's got heart and soul. And Mr. Joe's got it. He plays something you don't get that often. You may not get a 12 bar- ''woke up this morning''-type of song, although he can certainly do that when he wants to, but something that catches you from the first moment. There's something in his music that leads you into another world, something that makes you dream, something that makes you forget your troubles. When Joe starts to growl and moan and to torture the strings of his guitar you'll get hooked to his music, to the smokey, lonesome and painful groove of his guitar, the rusty sound of his voice and the bluesy lyrics of his songs. And you'll know this man got something to say...

Tough Ain't Easy mc
Tough Ain't Easy zippy

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