Big Apple Blues - Live At O'Flaherty's

Album: Live At O'Flaherty's
Size: 129,0 MB
Time: 55:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full

1. Grinder (5:17)
2. How Long Can A Bird Sing (6:05)
3. Zach's 2nd Line (6:02)
4. Second To Last (5:31)
5. Black Night (7:14)
6. Chitlins Con Carne (5:55)
7. Cleo's Mood (4:18)
8. Come Back Baby (5:31)
9. Tramp (5:19)
10. Walk Right Up To Me Baby (4:27)

If you want to hear how Big Apple Blues really sounds live and uninhibited, this is a must have album. Recorded in a small NYC club using only a stereo microphone into 1970’s Ampegs half-inch tape recorder by one of the most revered NYC studio engineers, Hugh Pool, no overdubs or additional takes. If you were at O’Flaherty’s that night this is the energy you would have heard.

Tracks range from Chicago blues grinders to Texas shuffles to jump swing propelled by time machine, Barry Harrison, and flavored by the incredible harmonica master, Anthony Kane. Zach Zunis’ signature guitar playing behind Kane’s harmonica should be made obligatory listening for all budding blues guitarists.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Big Apple Blues - Brooklyn Blues

Size: 116.7 MB
Time: 49:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Too Many Drivers (4:05)
02. Killing Floor (3:56)
03. Brooklyn Swamp (3:46)
04. Honey Hush (2:57)
05. Whole Lotta Lovin' (4:06)
06. I Hear You Knocking (3:02)
07. How Many More Years (4:08)
08. Who's On Third (Duvel) (6:18)
09. It's My Life Baby (4:26)
10. Hate To See You Go (3:22)
11. Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (5:22)
12. Mellow Down Easy (3:55)

Included on this Stone Tone release are covers of songs by Chess Records legends like Howlin’ Wolf and Willie Dixon, as well as tracks by a pair of former Muddy Waters harmonica-playing sidemen in Little Walter and Junior Wells. Big Apple Blues also tosses in a couple of Big Easy classics by Dave Bartholomew, including the Fats Domino staple “Whole Lotta Lovin,’” and songs by Big Joe Turner and Paul Butterfield, as well.

That gives this warm vibrancy to Brooklyn Blues, which smartly mimics the densely spacious sound of those original masters. You quickly sense that this group’s high fidelity goes beyond the studio technology; Big Apple Blues displays a lasting faith in the music’s tradition.

Brooklyn Blues MP3
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Big Apple Blues - Manhattan Alley

Size: 86,7 MB
Time: 37:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues, Soul, Funk, Instrumental
Art: Front

01. You Gotta Start Somewhere (2:46)
02. Happy (4:29)
03. Take Two (3:47)
04. Sdw (3:21)
05. Deep Talkin' (3:59)
06. Hudson Breeze (3:27)
07. Steamroller (3:42)
08. Subway Rumble (3:54)
09. Love As I Know It (4:55)
10. Rock On (2:38)

Personnel:
Admir “Dr. Blues” Hadzic: bass guitar
Barry "The Baron of the Blues" Harrison: drums
Zach Zunis: guitar
Jim Alfredson: Hammond B3, keys
Anthony Kane: harmonica

On the new album Manhattan Alley, the virtuosic quintet that is Big Apple Blues continues to celebrate the soul of New York City with the signature, powerful brand of blues fusion that has brought them worldwide acclaim. Big Apple Blues’ ambitious 2015 concept album Energy set out to capture the feel of a single day in New York City.
Its creative fusion of instrumental blues, soul, funk, and rock captured the admiration of critics worldwide, sold more than 1 million digital distributions, and led to tours in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Now the band returns with 10 new tracks celebrating life, creativity, and the city that never sleeps, with a nod to Tin Pan Alley, the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters that dominated popular music in America in the late 19th and early 20th century. The album, recorded old-school in a single room, has the depth of the New York subway, the height of the Hudson breeze, and the energy of the city of millions of striving, dreaming, beating hearts that inspired the unique musical style becoming internationally known as “The Big Apple Blues sound.

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