Album:
Big George Brock & The Houserockers - Club Caravan
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:19
Size: 90.0 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front
[1:48] 1. Houserocker Boogie
[4:09] 2. Call Me A Lover
[2:57] 3. Little Baby
[3:04] 4. M For Mississippi
[1:44] 5. Honest I Do
[3:08] 6. All Night Long
[2:51] 7. Nine Below Zero
[3:23] 8. Hard Times
[5:37] 9. Club Caravan
[3:39] 10. Louisiana Blues
[3:53] 11. Too Young
[3:01] 12. Down South
Big George brought the old-school Riley Coatie band with him to Clarksdale on Saturday, May 7, 2005 and recorded at ex-Squirrel Nut Zipper/ex-Buddy Guy sideman Jimbo Mathus' Delta Recording Studio.
This is the result of this 3-1/2 hour recording session. The band was recorded "live" in the same small room where performers like Floyd Lee, Jelly Roll All-stars, Duwayne Burnside, Sonny Burgess and even Elvis Costello have recorded. Following Mathus' "future primitive" approach to recording, no overdubs or computer trickery was used. What you hear is what you get, and we hope you like it. ~ Roger Stolle
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Album:
Heavyweight Blues
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:15
Size: 112.7 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front
[2:53] 1. Walking Thru The Park
[3:46] 2. Smokestack Lightining
[3:48] 3. Tiger In Your Tank
[5:04] 4. Still A Fool (Two Trains Running)
[4:04] 5. Trouble No More
[4:26] 6. Young Fashioned Ways
[4:09] 7. I Just Want To Make Love To You
[3:52] 8. Howlin' For My Darling
[3:24] 9. Tin Pan Alley
[2:39] 10. Evil
[3:52] 11. Who's Been Talkin'
[3:38] 12. Can't Hold Out Much Longer
[3:32] 13. You Don't Have To Go
My wife Jennifer and I first saw Big George in the mid-1990s at a juke joint in St. Louis called Climmie's Western Inn. There were no cowboys, and it wasn't an inn, but the owner's name was Climmie. As we walked up to the entrance, we could hear the band running through a fast and frenzied blues instrumental. After a couple songs by the band, a series of bigger-than-life harmonica riffs came roaring through the band stand's PA system with no harp player in sight. Suddenly, everyone's attention was drawn toward the center of the club to the basement stairwell. Out of the downstairs ladies' restroom, up the steps and into the audience came a large man in a stunning 3-piece suit and hat. From that moment on, Big George Brock had both his cordless mic and the audience in the palm of his hand. Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy II, B.B. King. He conjured up their sounds and a little of their souls that night. My wife and I were hooked. A few months later, Big George surfaced again at a blues benefit at BB's Jazz Blues & Soups, also in St. Louis. This time he began the show from the stage, but by the middle of the second song, he had the entire band laying down on the floor with him and the drummer playing a cymbal on top his head. Other times, we saw Big George perform songs from golf carts at outdoor shows, moving floats in street parades, and out front of the club his band was playing in. He's a born showman who learned from the best. Now in his mid-70s, he's been playing hard-hitting "Delta-went-North" style blues for over 50 years.
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