Blues Project - Good Times Roll

Size: 107.3 MB
Time: 46:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Let The Good Times Roll (4:29)
02. Hound Dog (3:21)
03. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out (5:17)
04. Hold On I’m Comin (5:48)
05. Chicago Midnight / What Have I Done Wrong (8:03)
06. The King (6:55)
07. Voodoo Woman (4:40)
08. Today I Sing The Blues (7:33)

Personnel:
Shun Kikuta: Guitar, Vocals 4,5
Tammy: Vocals 1,2,3,7,8 Chorus 1,3,4
Kuma Harada: Bass
Osamu Soda: Keys
Marty Bracey: Drums, Chorus 1,4

Shun is an internationally renowned musician traveling around the world entertaining audiences with his soulful, explosive, and heart-retching music. He crosses the globe including Europe, Bahamas, Central America, Asia, Oceania and Canada several times each year touring with late Koko Taylor, "The Queen of Blues", 2010 Chicago Music Awards winning band J.W.Williams & Chitown Hustlers and his own group, Shun Kikuta Band.

Shun resides in Chicago since 1990 and he has performed and recorded with such blues, soul, R&B and jazz legends as B.B.King, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Johnny and Shemekia Copeland, Bo Didley, Robert Lockwood Jr, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton,Tyrone Davis, Willie Clayton, Brian McKnight, Dave and Louise Myers, Irma Thomas, Denise LaSalle, Marva Wright, Roy Hargrove, Mark Turner, Mark Whitfeild, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, Pinetop Perkins, Lonnie Brooks, Eddy Clearwater, Marcia Ball, Kenny Neal, Billy Branch, Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers) and Susan Tedeschi.

Shun has recorded several his own albums such as "Rising Shun"(2007) and also appeared on many albums as a guitarist includes Koko Taylor's Grammy Awards nominated "Old School.

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The Blues Project - Lazarus/The Blues Project (2in1)

Year: 1971/1972/2004
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:07
Size: 176,2 MB
Styles: Blues/blues-rock/rock/folk
Scans: Full

1. It's Alright (3:16)
2. Personal Mercy (4:02)
3. Black Night (5:40)
4. Version Of Flowers (3:16)
5. Yellow Cab (2:49)
6. Lazarus (8:58)
7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man (3:16)
8. Reaching (2:54)
9. Midnight Rain (2:39)
10. So Far So Near (2:52)
11. Back Door Man (3:34)
12. Danville Dame (5:00)
13. Railroad Boy (3:13)
14. Rainbow (4:05)
15. Easy Lady (3:02)
16. Plain And Fancy (4:28)
17. Little Rain (5:10)
18. Crazy Girl (3:22)
19. I'm Ready (4:21)

On paper, the Blues Project was a great idea, but in spite of an abundance of talent (Al Kooper, Steve Katz, Danny Kalb, and Tommy Flanders were all members), somehow the band's innovative mix of blues, folk, rock, pop, and jazz never quite gelled the way it should have. The original lineup released one studio project (Projections) and two live sets (Live at the Café Au Go Go and Live at Town Hall) in the late '60s before collapsing from the usual ailments of the era (ego, poor management, drugs), leaving behind a sketchy but occasionally brilliant legacy. Kooper and Katz went on to form Blood, Sweat & Tears, while Roy Blumenfeld started up Seatrain and Kalb pasted his life back together after a few too many heavy acid trips.

In 1971, newly signed to Capitol Records, the Blues Project resurfaced as a trio, with bassist and saxman Don Kretmar of Seatrain joining Kalb and Blumenfeld for Lazarus, which was recorded in England and produced by Shel Talmy. While Lazarus doesn't rise to the level of the original band, it does feature some striking tracks, including Kalb's pretty, impressionistic "Vision of Flowers," the ominous title cut, "Lazarus," and the rocking version of Joe Turner's "It's All Right Baby" that opens the set. Kretmar's tenor sax work is a delight throughout the album, as is the piano contribution of session player Tom Parker.

A year later, the Blues Project released a second album on Capitol, this time as a six-piece ensemble. With the addition of the band's original singer, Tommy Flanders, on vocals, second guitarist Bill Lussenden, and Country Joe & the Fish keyboardist David Cohen, the self-titled Blues Project (produced by Gabriel Mekler) sported a fleshed-out sound but suffered from weak material (Flanders' "Plain and Fancy" is a notable exception), and the band wisely called it quits a second time after the project was completed. Acadia has reissued both albums on a single disc, and while neither is essential, fans of the early incarnation of the Blues Project may well find more to like here than expected. /Steve Leggett, AllMusic

Tracks 1-10 from "Lazarus" (1971)
Tracks 11-19 from "The Blues Project" (1972)

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