Barbecue Bob & The Spareribs - Burning Sensation

Album: Burning Sensation
Size: 130,2 MB
Time: 56:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2006
Styles: Harmonica blues/Rockabilly mix
Art: Front, inside, cd, tray

1. Thinkin' With The Wrong Head (4:43)
2. Louise (5:21)
3. 1 More Mile (5:30)
4. It's The One (4:05)
5. Stop Breakin' My Heart (3:35)
6. Misery Loves Company (4:16)
7. Skyliner (3:07)
8. Wooden Nickel (3:04)
9. The Girl That Radiates That Charm (5:54)
10. Uncle Walter (4:51)
11. The World's On Fire (7:15)
12. Sparerib Rock (4:26)

Barbecue Bob & the Spareribs are a hard-driving "swamp rock" blues band, veterans of the New York City and New Jersey bar scene. The classic Spareribs lineup consists of songwriter Robert Pomeroy (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Ira Spinrad (guitar), Dominick Zarillo (bass), and Scott Byrne (drums). The band has released three albums on CD on the DaDa label: After School Special, Pass the Biscuits!, and The Sacred & the Propane. /Biography by Steve Leggett, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Barbecue Bob & The Spareribs - After School Special

Album: After School Special
Size: 129,0 MB
Time: 55:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Blues, rocking blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front, inside, tray, cd

1. Bad Luck Boy (2:51)
2. Take A Fool's Advice (5:12)
3. Victim Of Success (3:07)
4. You Put A Buzz On Me (4:39)
5. Drivin' Me Crazy (3:51)
6. Swamp Thing (3:49)
7. Drinkin' And Gamblin' (2:57)
8. You're Not Around (5:27)
9. Nothin' Shakin' (5:59)
10. I Got A Hole In My Soul (3:05)
11. Lookin' For A Girl (3:06)
12. Call Me Gone (6:20)
13. Live Monologue (Bonus) (2:14)
14. Wade In The Water (Instrumental) (Bonus) (3:00)

This debut album by Barbecue Bob & The Spareribs was recorded live at Coyote Studios in Brooklyn, New York, in 1996. The sound suffers some fidelity problems because of the live setting, but it doesn't matter much, since the hard driving, swampy blues style of the band is delivered in true garage fashion, warts and all, and feeds off its own energy. The lead track, a charging blues rocker called "Bad Luck Boy," is typical of the set here. /Steve Leggett, AllMusic

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Barbecue Bob & The Spareribs - The Sacred And The Propane

Album: The Sacred And The Propane
Size: 138,5 MB
Time: 59:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Blues/Rockabilly mix
Art: Full

1. Burnin' Hell (4:19)
2. Love Has Turned To Hate (4:59)
3. Hey Little Girl (2:08)
4. Fat Of The Land (4:15)
5. Don't Start Crying Now (2:38)
6. Kate (4:30)
7. Evil Twist (4:35)
8. The Preacher (4:15)
9. It's Too Late Brother (5:21)
10. We Gotta Rock (3:22)
11. The Chosen One (3:45)
12. Remember (5:35)
13. Time To Go (6:00)
14. French St. Mambo (3:56)

Barbecue Bob & the Spareribs are a hard-driving "swamp rock" blues band, veterans of the New York City and New Jersey bar scene. The classic Spareribs lineup consists of songwriter Robert Pomeroy (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Ira Spinrad (guitar), Dominick Zarillo (bass), and Scott Byrne (drums). The band has released three albums on CD on the DaDa label: After School Special, Pass the Biscuits!, and The Sacred & the Propane. /Steve Leggett, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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VA - Get Up Off Your Knees: From Bed Springs To Bloomers (Remastered)

Size: 172,9+161,6+173,1+146, 1 MB
Time: 73:12+68:17+73:07+61:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Papa Charlie Jackson - Shave 'em Dry (2:35)
02 Margaret Carter - I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan (2:41)
03 Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey - Furniture Man Blues Parts 1 & 2 (6:13)
04 Clara Smith - Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee (3:06)
05 Lizzie Miles - Get Up Off Your Knees (2:44)
06 Cow Cow Davenport - I'm Gonna Tell You In Front So You Won't Feel Hurt Behind (3:20)
07 Sippie Wallace - I'm A Mighty Tight Woman (2:51)
08 Lucille Bogan - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:24)
09 Al Miller - I Found Your Keyhole (3:03)
10 Minnie Wallace - Dirty Butter (2:59)
11 Whistlin' Alex Moore - Blue Bloomer Blues (3:08)
12 Margaret Webster - You've Got To Give Me Some (2:44)
13 Lizzie Miles - My Man O' War (3:27)
14 Lonnie Johnson - Wipe It Off (3:17)
15 Madelyn James - Stinging Snake Blues (3:29)
16 Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2 (2:57)
17 Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Show Me What You Got (3:06)
18 Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole Blues (3:21)
19 Lizzie Miles - Electrician Blues (3:12)
20 Barbecue Bob - She Shook Her Gin (3:08)
21 Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - Fish House Blues (2:29)
22 Butterbeans & Susie - Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama (3:08)
23 George Hannah - The Boy In The Boat (2:37)

CD 2:
01 Georgia Tom - What's That I Smell (2:34)
02 Hannah May - Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat (2:41)
03 Mae Glover & John Byrd - Gas Man Blues (2:44)
04 Bo Carter - Banana In Your Fruit Basket (3:05)
05 R.T. Hanen - She's Got The Jordan River In Her Hips (2:53)
06 Georgia Tom & Jane Lucas - Terrible Operation Blues (2:49)
07 Lonnie Johnson - The Best Jockey In Town (2:54)
08 Mississippi Sheiks - Bed Spring Poker (3:09)
09 Hunter & Jenkins - Lollypop (2:56)
10 James 'Stump' Johnson - Don't Give My Lard Away (2:43)
11 Isabel Sykes - In Here With Your Heavy Stuff (3:03)
12 Blind Willie McTell - Southern Can Mama (2:52)
13 Memphis Minnie - My Butcher Man (3:00)
14 Carl Rafferty - Dresser With The Drawers (3:21)
15 Whistling Rufus - (Who's Gonna Do Your) Sweet Jelly Roll (3:27)
16 Napoleon Fletcher - She Showed It All (2:32)
17 St. Louis Blues - Pipe Layin' Blues (3:16)
18 Dorothy Baker - Steady Grindin' Blues (3:10)
19 Jimmie Gordon - Bed Spring Blues (3:18)
20 Hattie Hart - I Let My Daddy Do That (2:57)
21 Cliff Carlisle - Mouse's Ear Blues (3:05)
22 Bo Carter - Mashing That Thing (2:37)
23 Memphis Minnie - Jockey Man Blues (3:01)

CD 3:
01 Lucille Bogan - Shave 'Em Dry (2:46)
02 Walter Roland - I'm Gonna Shave You Dry (3:25)
03 Pinewood Tom (Josh White) - Sissy Man (2:48)
04 Bob Howe & Frankie Griggs - The Hottest Stuff In Town (2:40)
05 Bernice Edwards - Butcher Shop Blues (3:06)
06 Johnny Temple - Lead Pencil Blues (3:02)
07 Kokomo Arnold - 'Cause Your Dirty (2:59)
08 Blind Boy Fuller - I'm A Rattlesnakin' Daddy (3:04)
09 Buddy Moss - You Got To Give Me Some Of It (3:07)
10 Bo Carter - Cigarette Blues (3:15)
11 Lil Johnson - Take It Easy Greasy (3:17)
12 Al Miller - Ain't That A Mess (2:43)
13 Roosevelt Sykes - The Honeydripper (2:42)
14 Jazz Gillum - Sarah Jane (3:04)
15 Walter Davis - Think You Need A Shot (3:23)
16 Lil Johnson - My Stove's In Good Condition (2:54)
17 John Oscar & Sam Theard - I Wonder Who's Boogiein' My Woogie (2:28)
18 Jesse James - Sweet Petuni (3:00)
19 Stella Johnson - Don't Come Over (2:50)
20 Chicago Black Swans - Don't Tear My Clothes No. 2 (2:42)
21 Blind Boy Fuller - Sweet Honey Hole (2:46)
22 Barrel House Annie - Love Operation (3:07)
23 Roosevelt Sykes - Bread Pan (Just My Size) (2:34)
24 Art McKay - She Squeezed My Lemon (2:39)
25 Lee Brown - Carpenter Man Blues (2:35)

CD 4:
01 Charlie Pickett - Let Me Squeeze Your Lemon (2:48)
02 Roosevelt Sykes - My Baby's Playground (2:21)
03 Memphis Minnie - Keep On Eatin' (2:37)
04 Washboard Sam - I'm Gonna Keep My Hair Parted (2:36)
05 Blind Boy Fuller - What's That Smells Like Fish (2:42)
06 Lillie Mae Kirkman - He's Just My Size (2:46)
07 Little Buddy Doyle - She's Got Good Dry Goods (2:28)
08 Tony Hollins - Crawlin' King Snake (2:56)
09 Tampa Red - Let Me Play With Your Poodle (2:33)
10 Bill Samuels - My Bicycle Tillie (2:54)
11 Champion Jack Dupree - I'm A Doctor For Women (2:37)
12 Little Boy Fuller - Bed Spring Blues (2:43)
13 Ralph Willis - Boar Hog Blues (2:37)
14 Sylvester Cotton - Big Chested Mama Take 1 (2:34)
15 The Sharps & Flats - I Knew He Would (2:44)
16 Julia Lee - Don't Come Too Soon (2:59)
17 Dan Pickett - Lemon Man (2:51)
18 Helen Humes - I'm Gonna Let Him Ride (1:45)
19 Floyd Dixon - Too Much Jelly Roll (3:01)
20 Fats Noel - Ride. Daddy. Ride (2:07)
21 Fluffy Hunter - The Walkin' Blues (2:52)
22 Eunice Davis - Work. Daddy. Work (2:58)
23 Helen Humes - Loud Talkin' Woman (2:54)

In the 1920s, record companies found the Black audience could be profitable. Record sales soared. Sex - disguised -was a major part of blues lyrics. Fish, flesh, fruit and fowl were all co-opted, as well as rent men and gas men, butchers and bakers, carpenters and coffee grinders, keyholes and kitchens, cigarettes and sissies, frying pans and furniture, and unkindly, a bicycle. Here's a raucous, red-blooded blues investigation of one of Humanity's constant fixations, from artists like Julia Lee, Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Roosevelt Sykes and many, many more.

Get Up Off Your Knees Part 1
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Barbecue Bob & The Spareribs - Pass The Biscuits!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:03
Size: 123.8 MB
Styles: Swamp blues
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[3:19] 1. Get It While The Gettin' Is Good
[4:57] 2. Turn Your Lamp Down Low
[6:03] 3. A Bullet For You
[3:18] 4. Too Bored To Live, Too Dumb To Die
[4:39] 5. My Home Is A Prison
[3:26] 6. High Cotton
[2:53] 7. Hot Biscuit
[3:26] 8. Gorillacillin
[4:42] 9. Meet Me After Midnight
[2:51] 10. One Step Closer
[3:07] 11. Ass, Gas, Or Grass
[7:02] 12. My Baby's Sweeter
[4:16] 13. The Backslider

Let's face it: Most blues music reeks of honky revival. You know the stuff. Amiable white guys who memorize the collected licks of Robert Johnson or more likely Stevie Ray Vaughn or even more likely George Thorogood, wreak havoc on the same three chords over and over. Pretty soon the refried hockey blues of Canned Heat is sounding pretty good.

Not so with this outfit. A roster of NYC-NJ blues veterans who have the chops to back up their considerable record collections, BBQ Bob & the Spareribs play it as hard and mean as those excellent Excello sides recently anthologized (and worth your time) by Hip-O / Universal. In fact, on their second CD, Pass the Biscuits, they cover Lonesome Sundown's (Cornelius Green) "My Home is a Prison" (written by J.D. Miller, who also wrote Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"), which appeared on The Excello Story Volume Two. Here, singer Bob Pomeroy's harp traces guitarist Ira Spinrad's lead lines in glorious stereo. Those two do a lot of chasing each other. In place of a twin guitar attack, Spinrad and Pomeroy trade licks between distorted harp and guitar. True telepathy at times.

The entire CD was recorded live on Tuesday, June 13, 1999 at Coyote Studios in Brooklyn and the result is the actual energy of live show. Unlike, say, the Rolling Stones, who stripped it down for their acoustic outing, only to employ back-up singers, keyboardists and other sweeteners, these guys are the raw deal. When they grab Bruce Martin for a little Hammond B-3, Charles Otis for percussion or Neil Tex Thomas for piano, accordion or washboard, it's to fill out the sound, not to pad it. There's a difference. Only goes to show you how screwed up the music business is these days that guys playing their instruments live in a room could be considered such a novel idea.

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Barbecue Bob - The Essential

During the 1920s and early 1930s, the Atlanta, Georgia school of blues musicians was almost unique in their dedication to the twelve-string guitar. This instrument gave depth and resonance to the playing of many fine musicians including Blind Wilie McTell, George Carter, Willie Baker and one of the most popular recording artist of the period, Robert 'Barbecue Hicks'. Robert Hicks and his younger brother Charlie became popular entertainers at various social gatherings. Dan Hornsby, a talent scout from Columbia Records, found Bob working and playing at Tidwell's Bar-B-Q in a rich white neighborhood in Durham. Hornsby arranged for a mobile recording unit to record Bob in a downtown Atlanta hotel in March 1927. His first release (as Barbecue Bob) provided Columbia with a fast commercial success up to 15,000 copies, and made Barbecue Bob the best selling artist of the moment. He recorded some 65 sides between 1927 and his death in 1931, an interesting mix of modal country blues that is as fine as any tracked by a country blues artist in the era, although he seldom gets the same attention afforded the Mississippi Delta players of the period. This double-disc set has all the essentials, although it may be more than the casual listener really needs, since like most blues players of the day, Hicks wasn't about to change what worked. Still, his modal approach sets him apart, and his guitar playing is vastly underrated. His last recording sessions was as a member of The Georgia Cotton Pickers, joined by Curley Weaver and Buddy Moss. Barbecue Bob died tragically of pneumonia at the age of 29.

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2001
Styles: Blues
Time: 57:40 + 56:24
Size: 132,8 MB + 129,9 MB
Covers: Full

Album: Barbecue Bob - The Essential Disc 1
(3:12) 1. Barbecue Blues
(3:11) 2. Honey You Don't Know My Mind
(3:02) 3. Black Skunk Blues
(3:14) 4. Goin' Up the Country
(3:01) 5. California Blues
(3:04) 6. Poor Boy a Long Ways from Home
(2:57) 7. Yo Yo Blues
(3:23) 8. How Long Pretty Mama
(2:57) 9. Doin' the Scraunch
(3:03) 10. Diddle-Da-Diddle
(3:27) 11. She's Gone Blues
(3:22) 12. My Mistake Blues
(3:06) 13. Hurry and Bring It Back Home
(2:52) 14. Chocolate to the Bone
(3:14) 15. I'm on My Way Down Home
(3:32) 16. It Won't Be Long Now, Pt. 1
(3:27) 17. It Won't Be Long Now, Pt. 2
(3:29) 18. Cold Wave Blues

Album: Barbecue Bob - The Essential Disc 2
(3:10) 1. Twistin' That Stuff
(3:14) 2. Motherless Chile Blues
(2:59) 3. Ease It to Me Blues
(2:52) 4. Crooked Woman Blues
(3:08) 5. It Just Won't Hay
(2:58) 6. Jacksonville Blues
(3:11) 7. Good Time Rounder
(3:06) 8. Atlanta Moan
(3:03) 9. She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day
(3:00) 10. She Looks So Good
(3:14) 11. Tellin' It to You
(3:06) 12. 'Fo Day Creep
(3:14) 13. It's Just Too Bad
(3:09) 14. Waycross Georgia Blues
(3:12) 15. She Shook Her Gin
(2:58) 16. Midnight Weeping Blues
(3:17) 17. Jambooger Blues
(3:26) 18. We Sure Got Hard Times

The Essential Disc 1
The Essential Disc 2
The Essential artwork

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Various - Booze & The Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:48
Size: 148.3 MB
Styles: Assorted blues styles
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. State Street Swingers - You Drink Too Much
[2:50] 2. Charley Jordan - Cherry Wine Woman
[2:49] 3. Memphis Minnie - Drunken Barrel House Blues
[3:30] 4. Mississippi Sheiks - Bootleggers' Blues
[3:06] 5. Barbecue Bob - Me And My Whiskey
[2:38] 6. Kid Prince Moore - Bug Juice Blues
[2:36] 7. Charlie Spand - Rock And Rye
[2:50] 8. Memphis Jug Band - Rukus Juice And Chittlin'
[2:34] 9. Merline Johnson - Bad Whiskey Blues
[3:04] 10. Amos Easton - Part I
[3:08] 11. Amos Easton As Bumble Bee Slim - Part Ii
[2:43] 12. Little Bill Gaither - Moonshine By The Keg
[2:54] 13. Lucille Bogan - Drinking Blues
[2:59] 14. Peetie Wheatstraw - More Good Whiskey Blues
[3:00] 15. Joshua White - Pigmeat And Whiskey Blues
[2:42] 16. Casey Bill Weldon - Give Me Another Shot
[2:55] 17. Rosetta Howard - When I Been Drinking
[2:53] 18. Lewis Black - Corn Liquor Blues
[3:07] 19. Sloppy Henry - Canned Heat Blues
[3:14] 20. Big Bill Broonzy - When I Been Drinking
[2:46] 21. Jack Newman - Blackberry Wine
[3:04] 22. Rev. W.M. Mosley - Drinking Shine

Booze & the Blues is a thoroughly entertaining collection of 22 pre-war blues songs about wine, drinking, whiskey and blues. It's a gimmicky excuse for a collection, but it works, not only because the songs and performances are good, but because the tracks all have a similar spirit. Among the highlights are tracks by Memphis Minnie, Mississippi Sheiks, Robert Hicks, the Memphis Jug Band, Amos Easton, Lucille Bogan, Peetie Wheatstraw and Joshua White. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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VA - Rough Guide To Gospel Blues

Size: 174,6 MB
Time: 74:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues Gospel
Art: Front

01 Rev. Gary Davis - I Am The Light (2:59)
02 Blind Willie Johnson - I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole (3:00)
03 Mississippi John Hurt - Praying On The Old Camp Ground (2:34)
04 Bukka White - The Promise True And Grand (3:02)
05 Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - (Your Enemy Cannot Harm You (2:54)
06 Blind Roosevelt Graves - I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called) (2:26)
07 Blind Boy Fuller - Twelve Gates To The City (2:40)
08 Blind Joe Taggart - Scandalous And A Shame (2:53)
09 Mother McCollum - Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane (3:17)
10 Tallahassee Tight - Got Heaven In My View (3:03)
11 Skip James - Be Ready When He Comes (2:52)
12 Julius Daniels - Slippin' And Slidin' Up The Golden Street (3:09)
13 Blind Mamie Forehand - Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All (3:24)
14 Lil' McClintock - Mother Called Her Child To Her Dying Bed (3:08)
15 Bo Weavil Jackson - I'm On My Way To The Kingdom Land (2:58)
16 Memphis Minnie - Let Me Ride (2:56)
17 Blind Gussie Nesbit - I'll Just Stand And Wring My Hands And Cry (3:13)
18 Blind Willie McTell - Georgia Rag (3:09)
19 Blind Willie Davis - I've Got A Key To The Kingdom (3:10)
20 Henry Thomas - Jonah In The Wilderness (2:52)
21 Barbecue Bob - When The Saints Go Marching In (3:05)
22 Bessie Smith - On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual) (2:53)
23 Charley Patton - Jesue Is A Dying-Bed Maker (2:50)
24 Sam Collins - Lead Me All The Way (2:39)
25 Blind Lemon Jefferson - All I Want Is That Pure Religion (3:10)

The huge musical influence of the church has meant that gospel music and the blues have long been intertwined. From the true guitar evangelists such as Blind Willie Johnson and Reverend Gary Davis to blues legends Charley Patton and Skip James, these recordings illustrate how the line separating the Lord's song and 'the devil's music' was very thin.

Rough Guide To Gospel Blues

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