The Beat Daddys - Delta Vision

Year: 2001
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:09
Size: 130,1 MB
Styles: Electric blues, roots-rock
Scans: Full

1. Miss Dixie (4:08)
2. Delta Vision (4:30)
3. Ten Pounds Of Love (4:53)
4. Telephone, Telephone (2:15)
5. Luna Blue (4:40)
6. Beg Borrow Steal (3:16)
7. She's All That (3:40)
8. After The Mystery (5:07)
9. Lien On Your Love (5:34)
10. Can't Be Satisfied (4:42)
11. Somebody's Waiting (5:08)
12. You Make It Hard (3:36)
13. Reasons (4:34)

An amalgamation of blues and Southern rock, the Beat Daddys are comprised of Lewis Ross (drums), Brill Morris (bass and vocals), Larry Grisham (guitar, harp and vocals), and Britt Meacham (guitar and vocals). Meacham, from Mobile, Alabama, was a member of Jackson Highway, a group that recorded for Capitol Records, and also toured with soul-blues man Little Milton Campbell. Bassist Morris was part of Mercury Records' David and the Giants and performed in a popular regional Gulf Coast band, Magik. Drummer Ross, also from Mobile, was a founding member of Wet Willie, and he was involved in co-writing the band's hits "Keep on Smilin'," "Red Hot Chicken" and "Macon Hambone Blues."

The Beat Daddys formed in Evansville, Indiana in the mid-1980s and released their own self-produced album before signing with Malaco Records. Their two mid-1990s Malaco/Waldoxy releases, No, We Ain't From Clarksdale and South to Mississippi, are not straight-ahead blues, to be sure, but fans of blues, roots-rock and Southern rock can find much to appreciate in either of them. /Biography by Richard Skelly, AllMusic

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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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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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The Beat Daddys - 2 albums: Hoodoo That We Doo / No, We Ain't From Clarksdale

Formed in 1986, by core members Larry Grisham and Tommy Stillwell, The Beat Daddys have spent almost 30 years bringing the Blues and old school R&B to anyone with a soul that would listen. Nine international CD releases, several film & TV soundtrack credits and countless shows both in the US and abroad with many Blues and Rock & Roll Hall of fame members.

Larry Grisham: Lead Vocals, Harmonica and Rhythm Guitar; Tommy Stillwell: Lead Guitar and Backing Vocals. The two founding members also comprise the songwriting team responsible for the group’s original song catalog as well as tunes covered by other artists. The group’s current rhythm section consists of “Big” Jon Rochner on Bass Guitar and David Parks on Drums. A body of work spanning almost three decades and with the release of their ninth CD in June of 2015, they show no sign of slowing down.

Album: Hoodoo That We Doo
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:49
Size: 88.9 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[2:51] 1. These Chains
[3:34] 2. Sorry
[4:39] 3. You Made Me Cry
[3:11] 4. The Moment
[3:22] 5. Pie Or Cake
[3:01] 6. Hoodoo Woman
[3:48] 7. DUI Love
[3:29] 8. Been Thinkin'
[5:07] 9. Luck's Got To Change
[2:32] 10. The Blues Can Hear Ya'
[3:10] 11. I Need A Woman

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Album: No, We Ain't From Clarksdale
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:12
Size: 92.0 MB
Styles: R&B, Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[4:29] 1. Tear The House Down
[4:09] 2. Livin' This Love
[5:29] 3. Evil Memory
[3:23] 4. This Is Gonna Change Your Mind
[2:50] 5. She Knocks Me Out
[3:54] 6. Bad News
[4:21] 7. Different Name
[4:38] 8. I'll Always Love You
[2:44] 9. Tick Of The Clock
[4:09] 10. The Delta Song

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The Beat Daddys - Hoodoo That We Doo

Released: 2015
Size: 89.8 MB
Time: 39:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

1. These Chains [3:05]
2. Sorry [3:35]
3. You Made Me Cry [4:40]
4. The Moment [3:11]
5. Pie or Cake [3:24]
6. Hoodoo Woman [3:01]
7. Dui Love [3:48]
8. Been Thinkin' [3:28]
9. Luck's Got to Change [5:07]
10. The Blues Can Heal Ya' [2:34]
11. I Need a Woman [3:12]

The Beat Daddys ninth CD release also marks the first studio project of original songs released by the groups' songwriting team of Larry Grisham and Tommy Stillwell in over 21 years.
A product of the music of the 60s & early 70s when the lines between musical genres were not as pronounced as they are today, their songs keep you "looking around every corner" to hear what's coming next.
Deeply rooted in the Blues, you can hear the influences of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and B.B. King. But you also hear the British influences of Eric Clapton and Peter Green. There are soulful offerings that sound like they came from somewhere between Memphis, TN and Jackson, MS, but all are undeniably The Beat Daddys.

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The Beat Daddys - Root Rubbin' Ball

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 54:37
Size: 125.1 MB
Styles: Southern rock, Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:27] 1. Fuel For My Blues
[4:47] 2. Gimme Gimme
[4:47] 3. Tattoo Hell
[4:22] 4. Do These Blues Match This Stress
[2:10] 5. How Fat Is Fat
[5:08] 6. Monkey Man
[3:36] 7. Root Rubbin' Ball
[4:58] 8. Hell & High Water
[6:27] 9. Nickels And Dimes
[5:19] 10. Highway Miles
[4:49] 11. Let The Guitar Talk
[3:41] 12. I Ain't Afraid Of The Fire

An amalgamation of blues and Southern rock, the Beat Daddys are comprised of Lewis Ross (drums), Brill Morris (bass and vocals), Larry Grisham (guitar, harp and vocals), and Britt Meacham (guitar and vocals). Meacham, from Mobile, Alabama, was a member of Jackson Highway, a group that recorded for Capitol Records, and also toured with soul-blues man Little Milton Campbell. Bassist Morris was part of Mercury Records' David and the Giants and performed in a popular regional Gulf Coast band, Magik. Drummer Ross, also from Mobile, was a founding member of Wet Willie, and he was involved in co-writing the band's hits "Keep on Smilin'," "Red Hot Chicken" and "Macon Hambone Blues."

The Beat Daddys formed in Evansville, Indiana in the mid-1980s and released their own self-produced album before signing with Malaco Records. Their two mid-1990s Malaco/Waldoxy releases, No, We Ain't From Clarksdale and South to Mississippi, are not straight-ahead blues, to be sure, but fans of blues, roots-rock and Southern rock can find much to appreciate in either of them. ~ Richard Skelly

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