Bryan Lee - Homage To 4 Kings

Album: Homage To 4 Kings
Size: 147,3 MB
Time: 63:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Let's Have A Natural Ball (5:10)
2. Me And My Guitar (4:12)
3. Love Rent (3:21)
4. My Credit Didn't Go Though (4:10)
5. You Sure Drive A Hard Bargain (4:27)
6. Same Old Blues (3:30)
7. Buzz Me (5:28)
8. Born Under A Bad Sign (5:02)
9. Night Life (6:33)
10. Texas Flyer (3:35)
11. Trick Bag (4:44)
12. Those Lonely Lonely Nights (2:32)
13. Hummingbird (5:54)
14. Watusi Lucy (2:32)
15. Chitlins (2:12)

Like so many other musicians in New Orleans, guitarist, singer and songwriter Bryan Lee came to the Crescent City from somewhere else. But he carefully honed and refined his craft in the city's bars for many years until he became a New Orleans institution. He played at 25 of the prestigious New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals, marking his 25th year at the springtime festival in 2009.

Lee was born Bryan Lee Kumbalek in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In his youth, he listened to WLAC in Nashville, and became enamored with the sounds of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, and others. He fell in love with the music, the poetry of the lyrics, and the art form. By the time Lee was 15, he was playing guitar in a variety of rock and blues-rock bands, and in his late teens he befriended guitar slinger Luther Allison, who played many of the same Wisconsin clubs Lee was playing in. By 1981, Lee and his band had the chance to open for Muddy Waters at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Lee and Waters talked in the dressing room, and Lee told Waters how honored he was to be opening for a legend like Waters. Waters gave Lee some inspiration: "Bryan, my friend, don't stop what you're doing, because one day you're going to be a living legend."

Lee moved to New Orleans in 1982 and began a long residency at the Old Absinthe House in the French Quarter. A 13-year-old Kenny Wayne Shepherd asked to sit in one night, and the experience proved to be a revelatory one for Shepherd, later one of the bright stars of the blues-rock scene. Shepherd said he knew right then and there that playing guitar and playing blues and blues-rock was what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Appropriately, Shepherd included Lee in his documentary 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads.

Although health problems curtailed Lee's national and international touring during the 2000s and his music studio in New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina floodwaters in 2005, he pressed on. (He later restricted his time on the road to three-week tours.) In 2013, after gigs became harder to come by in New Orleans, Lee relocated to Florida. He died on August 21, 2020, in Sarasota at the age of 77.

Lee's discography was extensive and his original songs sparkled with authenticity. His albums included The Blues Is… in 1991 for Canada-based Justin Time Records; Braille Blues Daddy in 1995; Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar in 1997; Crawfish Lady in 2000; Katrina Was Her Name in 2007, and My Lady Don't Love My Lady in 2009, all for Justin Time Records. Play One for Me was released in 2014. /Biography by Richard Skelly, AllMusic

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Bryan Lee - Live At Bourbon Street Music Club

Size: 159,5 MB
Time: 68:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Dope Smokin' Blues ( 5:30)
02. Braille Blues Daddy ( 6:22)
03. Baby Scratch My Back ( 5:03)
04. When A Guitar Plays The Blues ( 9:59)
05. Ain't Doin Too Bad ( 4:44)
06. You Don't Have To Go ( 6:31)
07. (Tribute To The) Boogie Men ( 8:10)
08. St. James Infirmary ( 7:59)
09. Mojo / Memphis Bound (14:21)

Like so many other musicians in New Orleans, guitarist, singer and songwriter Bryan Lee came to the Crescent City from somewhere else. But he's been carefully honing and refining his craft in Crescent City bars for so many years now, he's considered a New Orleans institution. He's played at 25 of the prestigious New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals, and marked his 25th year at the spring time festival in 2009. Blind since the age of eight, like many blind people, Lee has a heightened sense of hearing. He's a master at ensemble playing and knows how to read an audience.

Lee was born Bryan Lee Kumbalek in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In his youth, he listened to WLAC in Nashville, and had an experience similar to that of Angela Strehli, who was growing up roughly the same time, but in Lubbock, in west Texas. He listened each evening and became enamored with the sounds of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf and others. Like Strehli, Jimmie Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall Sr. and so many other "white kids from the suburbs," Lee didn't see any color, he just loved the music, the poetry of the lyrics and the art form.

By the time he was 15, he was playing guitar in a variety of rock and blues-rock bands and in his late teens he befriended guitar slinger Luther Allison, who played many of the same Wisconsin clubs Lee was playing in. By 1981, Lee and his band had the chance to open for Muddy Waters at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Lee and Waters talked in the dressing room, and Lee told Waters how honored he was to be opening for a legend like Waters. Waters gave Lee some inspiration: "Bryan, my friend, don't stop what you're doing, because one day you're going to be a living legend."

Lee moved to New Orleans in 1982 and began a long residency at the Old Absinthe House in the French Quarter. A 13-year-old Kenny Wayne Shepherd asked to sit in one night and the experience proved to be a revelatory one for Shepherd, later one of the bright stars of the blues-rock scene. Shepherd said he knew right then and there, that playing guitar and playing blues and blues-rock was what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Appropriately, Shepherd included Lee in his documentary, 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads.

Although some health problems have curtailed his national and international touring during the 2000s and his music studio in New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina floodwaters in 2005, Lee pressed on. (He later restricted his time on the road to three week tours.) Lee's discography is extensive and his original songs sparkle with authenticity. His albums include The Blues Is… in 1991 for Canada-based Justin Time Records; Braille Blues Daddy in 1995; Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar in 1997; Crawfish Lady in 2000; Katrina Was Her Name in 2007, and My Lady Don't Love My Lady in 2009, all for Justin Time Records. Play One for Me was released in 2014. ~Richard Skelly

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Bryan Lee - Bryan Lee's Greatest Hits

Year: 2003
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:34
Size: 163,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Memphis Bound (4:49)
2. Waiting On Ice (4:52)
3. Louisiana Woman (5:19)
4. Key To The Highway (6:41)
5. You Better Believe It (3:05)
6. Heat Seeking Missile (3:46)
7. It Hurts Me Too (8:36)
8. Beautician Blues (3:25)
9. Noize With The Boyz (5:56)
10. Naples, FLA (4:45)
11. Sinking Fast (4:22)
12. Let Me Down Easy (5:32)
13. I'll Play The Blues For You (9:21)

Lee was born on March 16, 1943, in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, United States, and completely lost his eyesight by the age of eight. His avid interest in early rock and blues was fostered through the 1950s by late night listening sessions via the Nashville-based radio station WLAC-AM, where he first encountered the sounds of Elmore James, Albert King and Albert Collins. By his late teens, Lee was playing rhythm guitar in a regional band called The Glaciers that covered Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry material. Through the 1960s, Lee's interest turned to Chicago blues and he soon found himself immersed in that scene, opening for some of his boyhood heroes. In 1979 he released his first album named Beauty Isn't Always Visual.

In January 1982, Lee moved to New Orleans, eventually landing a steady gig at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street becoming a favorite of tourists in the city's French Quarter. For the next 14 years, Lee and his Jump Street Five played five nights a week at that popular bar, developing a huge following and a solid reputation. To the end of his life, Lee continued to perform in New Orleans. He also toured several times a year in the Midwest, Eastern Seaboard, Rocky Mountain States and recently Europe and Brazil. Lee appeared with Kenny Wayne Shepherd as the musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 14, 2007. He died on August 21, 2020, at the age of 77. /Wikipedia

R.I.P. Bryan Lee (March 16, 1943 - August 21, 2020)

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Bryan Lee - Crawfish Lady

Year: 2000
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:17
Size: 134,4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Palace Of The King (3:48)
2. Louisiana Woman (5:16)
3. Can't Get Enough (3:17)
4. Crawfish Lady (5:18)
5. Why Did You Do It? (3:34)
6. What You Gonna Do? (5:00)
7. Noize With The Boyz (5:53)
8. Sweet And Beautiful (4:53)
9. Something's Wrong (5:32)
10. Winehead Woman (7:37)
11. Chitlin's (4:45)
12. Kiss My Ass For A Change (3:18)

Crawfish Lady is the seventh release for the Justin Time label from Bryan Lee. This New Orleans blues guitarist manages to combine his Crescent City influences with Memphis soul and Chicago and Texas blues. Lee's guitar abilities bring to mind the spirits of Elmore James, Albert King, and Albert Collins. The appearances of Ward Smith and Jody Golick on tenor sax, Barney Floyd on trumpet, and longtime bandmember Marc Adams on organ add fiery flavor to this musical gumbo. /Al Campbell, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

R.I.P. Bryan Lee (March 16, 1943 - August 21, 2020)

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Bryan Lee - Heat Seeking Missile

Year: 1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:25
Size: 121,0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Heat Seeking Missile (3:46)
2. Smokin' Woman (4:00)
3. Pain (5:32)
4. Lucille (3:42)
5. Why (5:36)
6. So Mean To Me (3:33)
7. Blind Man Boogie (3:21)
8. Can't Stop This Heartache (6:42)
9. Dope Smokin' Blues (5:24)
10. Your Love (5:31)
11. Fight For The Light (5:13)

Like so many other musicians in New Orleans, guitarist, singer and songwriter Bryan Lee came to the Crescent City from somewhere else. But he's been carefully honing and refining his craft in Crescent City bars for so many years now, he's considered a New Orleans institution. He's played at 25 of the prestigious New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals, and marked his 25th year at the spring time festival in 2009. Blind since the age of eight, like many blind people, Lee has a heightened sense of hearing. He's a master at ensemble playing and knows how to read an audience.

Lee was born Bryan Lee Kumbalek in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In his youth, he listened to WLAC in Nashville, and had an experience similar to that of Angela Strehli, who was growing up roughly the same time, but in Lubbock, in west Texas. He listened each evening and became enamored with the sounds of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf and others. Like Strehli, Jimmie Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall Sr. and so many other "white kids from the suburbs," Lee didn't see any color, he just loved the music, the poetry of the lyrics and the art form.

By the time he was 15, he was playing guitar in a variety of rock and blues-rock bands and in his late teens he befriended guitar slinger Luther Allison, who played many of the same Wisconsin clubs Lee was playing in. By 1981, Lee and his band had the chance to open for Muddy Waters at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Lee and Waters talked in the dressing room, and Lee told Waters how honored he was to be opening for a legend like Waters. Waters gave Lee some inspiration: "Bryan, my friend, don't stop what you're doing, because one day you're going to be a living legend."

Lee moved to New Orleans in 1982 and began a long residency at the Old Absinthe House in the French Quarter. A 13-year-old Kenny Wayne Shepherd asked to sit in one night and the experience proved to be a revelatory one for Shepherd, later one of the bright stars of the blues-rock scene. Shepherd said he knew right then and there, that playing guitar and playing blues and blues-rock was what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Appropriately, Shepherd included Lee in his documentary, 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads.

Although some health problems have curtailed his national and international touring during the 2000s and his music studio in New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina floodwaters in 2005, Lee pressed on. (He later restricted his time on the road to three week tours.) Lee's discography is extensive and his original songs sparkle with authenticity. His albums include The Blues Is… in 1991 for Canada-based Justin Time Records; Braille Blues Daddy in 1995; Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar in 1997; Crawfish Lady in 2000; Katrina Was Her Name in 2007, and My Lady Don't Love My Lady in 2009, all for Justin Time Records. Play One for Me was released in 2014. /Biography by Richard Skelly, AllMusic

R.I.P. Bryan Lee (March 16, 1943 - August 21, 2020)

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Bryan Lee - Braille Blues Daddy

Year: 1994
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:35
Size: 140,0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Braille Blues Daddy (5:56)
2. You The One (4:40)
3. Who Will Be Next (5:21)
4. I Wanna Live In Memphis (7:05)
5. Gotta Rock (5:08)
6. (Tribute To The) Boogie Men (7:36)
7. It Hurts Me Too (8:37)
8. Jump Sister Bessie (3:46)
9. Naples, FLA (4:46)
10. Grinning In Your Face (3:28)
11. Brand New Day (4:06)

Like so many other musicians in New Orleans, guitarist, singer and songwriter Bryan Lee came to the Crescent City from somewhere else. But he's been carefully honing and refining his craft in Crescent City bars for so many years now, he's considered a New Orleans institution. He's played at 25 of the prestigious New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals, and marked his 25th year at the spring time festival in 2009. Blind since the age of eight, like many blind people, Lee has a heightened sense of hearing. He's a master at ensemble playing and knows how to read an audience.

Lee was born Bryan Lee Kumbalek in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In his youth, he listened to WLAC in Nashville, and had an experience similar to that of Angela Strehli, who was growing up roughly the same time, but in Lubbock, in west Texas. He listened each evening and became enamored with the sounds of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf and others. Like Strehli, Jimmie Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall Sr. and so many other "white kids from the suburbs," Lee didn't see any color, he just loved the music, the poetry of the lyrics and the art form.

By the time he was 15, he was playing guitar in a variety of rock and blues-rock bands and in his late teens he befriended guitar slinger Luther Allison, who played many of the same Wisconsin clubs Lee was playing in. By 1981, Lee and his band had the chance to open for Muddy Waters at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Lee and Waters talked in the dressing room, and Lee told Waters how honored he was to be opening for a legend like Waters. Waters gave Lee some inspiration: "Bryan, my friend, don't stop what you're doing, because one day you're going to be a living legend."

Lee moved to New Orleans in 1982 and began a long residency at the Old Absinthe House in the French Quarter. A 13-year-old Kenny Wayne Shepherd asked to sit in one night and the experience proved to be a revelatory one for Shepherd, later one of the bright stars of the blues-rock scene. Shepherd said he knew right then and there, that playing guitar and playing blues and blues-rock was what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Appropriately, Shepherd included Lee in his documentary, 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads.

Although some health problems have curtailed his national and international touring during the 2000s and his music studio in New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina floodwaters in 2005, Lee pressed on. (He later restricted his time on the road to three week tours.) Lee's discography is extensive and his original songs sparkle with authenticity. His albums include The Blues Is… in 1991 for Canada-based Justin Time Records; Braille Blues Daddy in 1995; Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar in 1997; Crawfish Lady in 2000; Katrina Was Her Name in 2007, and My Lady Don't Love My Lady in 2009, all for Justin Time Records. Play One for Me was released in 2014. /Biography by Richard Skelly, AllMusic

R.I.P. Bryan Lee (March 16, 1943 - August 21, 2020)

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Bryan Lee - Live & Dangerous

Size: 174,8 MB
Time: 75:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. The Bounce ( 5:06)
02. The Walk ( 3:56)
03. Don't Take My Blindness For Weakness ( 7:40)
04. Second Line Home ( 5:32)
05. Rocket 88 ( 4:27)
06. Blues On My Mind ( 5:14)
07. Hug Me Til It Hurts ( 7:12)
08. Gave You What You Wanted ( 6:41)
09. No Need To Worry ( 5:36)
10. Six String Therapy (15:18)
11. Memphis Bound ( 8:32)

Personnel:
Guitar, Vocals – Bryan Lee
Keyboards – Bruce Katz
Bass – Johnathan Limjuco
Drums – Craig Panosh

Bryan Lee: Live and Dangerous features the celebrated guitarist and his Blues Power Band performing a concert at the Montreal Spectrum, October 17, 2003.

Live & Dangerous

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Bryan Lee - Memphis Bound

Size: 140,0 MB
Time: 59:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1993
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Memphis Bound (4:51)
02. I'll Play The Blues For You (8:17)
03. Welfare Woman (5:26)
04. Blues Every Morning (4:04)
05. My Brains Is Gone (5:07)
06. Spinning 'round (3:54)
07. Sinking Fast (4:24)
08. Automobile Blues (3:02)
09. Doggin' Down Blues (4:04)
10. Natural Ball (4:25)
11. Little Red Rooster (3:37)
12. Blues For Mr. Brown (8:16)

All songs written by Bryan Lee except "Natural Ball", "I'll Play The Blues For You" (Albert King), and "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon).

Bryan Lee (vocals, guitar); Ward Smith (saxophone); Eugene Carrier (piano, organ); Piano Willie O'Shawny (piano); Al Arthur (acoustic bass, electric bass); Larry Williams (drums).

Memphis Bound

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Bryan Lee - Sanctuary

Size: 143,1 MB
Time: 62:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Gospel
Art: Full

01. Fight For The Light (4:45)
02. The Gift (5:11)
03. Jesus Gave Me The Blues (4:24)
04. U-Haul (6:20)
05. Sanctuary (4:45)
06. Mr.Big (6:32)
07. Only If You Praise The Lord (5:18)
08. Don't Take My Blindness For A Weakness (5:48)
09. I Ain't Gonna Stop (5:28)
10. The Lord's Prayer (6:01)
11. Jesus Is My Lord And Savior (7:27)

Personnel:
Bryan Lee: Guitar', vocals
Deirdre Fellner: Backup vocals
Marc Spagone: Guitar
Jack Berry: Bass
David Kasik Bass
Matt Liban: Dnums
Jimmy Voegeli: Keys
Pauli Ryan: Pencussion
Steve Hamilton: Percussion
Greg Koch: Dobro

“Sanctuary” first came to Bryan Lee in a dream.

The night before a festival performance in a church in Spitsbergen, Norway, the blind New Orleans guitar legend heard an entire musical arrangement for the Lord’s Prayer in his sleep. The next day, he performed it just as he heard it.

So inspired were he and the band they recorded it while still in Norway. But it would be seven years, and a chance meeting with producer Steve Hamilton who offered his studio and skills, before the rest of the album became a reality.

The result is an 11-song masterwork expressing Lee’s attitude toward life, love for the Lord, and gratitude for his talent and career.

There is a lot to be grateful for, but it did not come easily.

Lee lost his sight at 8 years old, but by 15, he was playing music for crowds in the Midwest.

A love of blues led him to spend nearly 20 years in Chicago, and Muddy Waters accurately predicted that if Lee stayed the course, he would become a legend.

Time and hard work brought 14 albums, multiple world tours, an appearance on Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s “Blues From the Backroads, 10 Days Out” documentary, performances on national shows, and the freedom to finally make “Sanctuary.”

“Gratefully, I am now able to share this gift, this dream come true, with you all,” Lee said.

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Bryan Lee - Katrina Was Her Name

Year: 2007
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:21
Size: 153,0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. 29 Ways (5:40)
2. Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You (6:05)
3. Barefootin' (4:01)
4. My Baby Done Quit Me (4:49)
5. Blues Singer (5:51)
6. Katrina Was Her Name (6:44)
7. Take It Like A Man (2:40)
8. Lowdown And Dirty (4:08)
9. Ain't Nobody's Business (7:17)
10. Why Did You Lie To Me (4:33)
11. Flat Foot Sam (2:52)
12. Bethany Jane (4:57)
13. Don't Joke With The Stroke (6:39)

Bryan Lee could be called one of the last of the old-school blues guitarists. Born in 1943, Lee grew up to the sounds of the same seminal blues guitar idols (Albert King, Elmore James, etc.) that influenced scores of British and American blues and rock players. Based in New Orleans, Lee fortifies his approach to electric blues with aspects of Louisiana musical culture, both pop and blues.

Katrina is a tribute to that hard-hit metropolis, consisting of well-crafted originals (the emotion-laden title song) and choice covers (the oldie "Barefootin,'" the anthemic "Nobody's Business"). To put the icing on the cake, Katrina is produced by contemporary blues ace Duke Robillard (no slouch himself on the guitar), who also contributes some fine acoustic six-string sounds. /AllMusic

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Bryan Lee - Live At The Old Absinthe House Bar... Friday Night & Saturday Night

Bryan Lee is an American blues guitarist and singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also known by the nickname Braille Blues Daddy and has been a fixture on Bourbon Street scene since the 1980s. Lee completely lost his eyesight by the age of eight. His avid interest in early rock and blues was fostered through the 1950s by late night listening sessions via the Nashville-based radio station WLAC AM, where he first encountered the sounds of Elmore James, Albert King and Albert Collins.

By his late teens, Lee was playing rhythm guitar in a regional band called The Glaciers that covered Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry material. Through the 1960s, Lee's interest turned to Chicago blues and he soon found himself immersed on that scene, opening for some of his boyhood heroes. In 1979 he released his first album named Beauty Isn't Always Visual. In January 1982, Lee moved to New Orleans, eventually landing a steady gig at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street becoming a favorite of tourists in the city's French Quarter. For the next 14 years, Lee and his Jump Street Five played five nights a week at that popular bar, developing a huge following and a solid reputation.

Recorded at The Old Absinthe House Bar, New Orleans, February 14th and 15th, 1997.

Album: Live At The Old Absinthe House Bar... Friday Night
Year: 1997
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:47
Size: 165,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Braille Blues Daddy (6:28)
2. Cross Cut Saw (9:32)
3. The Sky Is Crying (8:21)
4. Ain't Doing Too Bad (5:19)
5. Five Long Years (11:22)
6. Automobile Blues (3:18)
7. Going Down (6:51)
8. Look On Yonder Wall (5:36)
9. Key To The Highway (6:39)
10. Rock Me Baby (8:17)

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Album: Live At The Old Absinthe House Bar..Saturday Night
Year: 1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:02
Size: 172,4 MB
Styles: Electric Blues
Scans: Full

1. Think (5:24)
2. I'll Play The Blues For You (9:21)
3. I Got A Rich Man's Woman (5:52)
4. How Many More Years (7:27)
5. Look On Yonder Wall (9:29)
6. Dope Smoking Blues (7:08)
7. The Things That I Used To Do (7:45)
8. Love Her With A Feeling (10:20)
9. I'm Ready (6:18)
10. Flip, Flop & Fly (5:53)

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd - 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads

Year: 2007
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:50
Size: 181,8 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Prison Blues (w. Cootie Stark & Neal 'Big Daddy' Pattman) (4:38)
2. Potato Patch (w. Jerry 'Boogie' McCain) (5:46)
3. Honky Tonk (w. Buddy Flett) (3:13)
4. The Thrill Is Gone (w. B.B. King) (8:30)
5. Tina Marie (w. Bryan Lee) (4:22)
6. Born In Louisiana (w. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown) (6:26)
7. Chapel Hill Boogie (w. John Dee Holeman) (5:49)
8. Tears Came Rollin' Down (w. Henry Townsend) (3:15)
9. Knoxville Rag (w. Etta Baker) (1:48)
10. Big Daddy Boogie (w. Neal 'Big Daddy' Pattman) (5:15)
11. U-Haul (w. Cootie Stark) (5:00)
12. Red Rooster (w. Henry Gray & Howlin' Wolf Band) (6:20)
13. Sittin' On Top Of The World (w. Hubert Sumlin & Howlin' Wolf Band) (3:58)
14. Spoonful (w. George 'Wild Child' Butler & Howlin' Wolf Band) (5:18)
15. Grindin' Man (w. Pinetop Perkins & Muddy Waters Band) (8:05)

10 Days Out may well be Kenny Wayne Shepherd's most important and intriguing album, even though the guitarist is hardly the featured artist on any of these tracks, working instead more as a sideman and facilitator for the impressive cast of venerable blues players who get a chance to shine here. Make no mistake about it, this recording belongs to such senior citizens as Henry Townsend, Etta Baker, Pinetop Perkins, and Henry Gray, and Shepherd's presence (and the presence of Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble rhythm section of bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton) simply helps to focus the attention on these veteran blues players.

Shepherd embarked on a ten-day journey into the American South in 2004 with a documentary film crew, a portable recording studio, and Double Trouble as a house band in an effort to catch the blues in its natural habitat of living rooms, kitchens, porches, back yards, and local watering holes, and the performances that resulted are priceless.

Here is one-armed harp player Neal Pattman and blind guitarist Cootie Stark turning in a joyous, ramshackle version of "Prison Blues." A little later, Stark delivers further on a delightful song called "U-Haul," complete with a marvelous improvised rap over the tune's run-out coda. Here, too, is the then-96-year-old Henry Townsend turning in a poignant "Tears Came Rollin' Down." Etta Baker, then 93, shows that age hadn't slowed her as a guitarist at all as she delivers an elegant "Knoxville Rag." Shepherd wisely stays in the background on cut after cut, allowing these amazing musical treasures to unfold naturally and without intrusive elements.

There are absolutely no hotshot guitar histrionics anywhere on this disc, which speaks to Shepherd's sincere vision for this project. He's after the preservation of blues history with 10 Days Out, and as if to underscore that aim, five of the album's participants (Neal Pattman, Cootie Stark, Gatemouth Brown, George "Wild Child" Butler, and Etta Baker) passed away before the album and concurrent documentary film were finally completed and released in 2007. Shepherd's name may be above the title, but he knows full well to whom this album belongs, and to his immense credit, those are the voices he lets speak the loudest. /Steve Leggett, AllMusic

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Bryan Lee & The Jump Street Five - The Blues Is...

Size: 130,9 MB
Time: 56:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Circles (5:55)
02. Think (5:20)
03. Waiting on Ice (4:49)
04. Let Me Down Easy (5:31)
05. It's Your Move (4:05)
06. Gelle (3:19)
07. There It Is (6:35)
08. You Done Me Wrong (3:20)
09. So Low Down (4:05)
10. Pretty Jeanine (3:45)
11. I Worry (5:41)
12. The Blues "Is" (4:12)

Bryan Lee's debut album Blues Is... is a solid collection of greasy New Orleans blues. While he may not always have great original songs, Lee can conjure the sound of the swamp with his big, bluesy guitar, and that's enough to make this an entertaining listen, especially for fans of Crescent City blues. ~Review by Thom Owens

The Blues Is...

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd - The Legends EP Vols. I, II, III & IV

Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his group exploded on the scene in the mid-'90s and garnered huge amounts of radio airplay on commercial radio, which historically has not been a solid home for blues and blues-rock music, with the exception of Stevie Ray Vaughan in the mid-'80s. Shepherd was born June 12, 1977, in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Shreveport native began playing at age seven, figuring out Muddy Waters licks from his father's record collection (he has never taken a formal lesson). At age 13, he was invited on-stage by New Orleans bluesman Brian Lee and held his own for several hours; thus proving himself, he decided on music as a career. He formed his own band, which featured lead vocalist Corey Sterling, gaining early exposure through club dates and, later, radio conventions. Shepherd's father/manager used his own contacts and pizzazz in the record business to help land his son a major-label record deal with Irving Azoff's Giant Records. Ledbetter Heights, his first album, was released two years later in 1995 and was an immediate hit, selling over 500,000 copies by early 1996. Most blues records never achieve that level of commercial success, much less ones released by artists who are still in their teens. Although Shepherd -- who has been influenced by (and has sometimes played with) guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Slash, Robert Cray, and Duane Allman -- is definitely a performer who thrives in front of an audience, Ledbetter Heights was impressive for its range of styles: acoustic blues, rockin' blues, Texas blues, Louisiana blues. The only style that he doesn't tackle is Chicago blues, owing to Shepherd's home base being smack dab in the middle of the Texas triangle. Released in 1998, Trouble Is... earned a Grammy nomination and Live On followed a year later. In 2004 The Place You're In was released on Reprise Records, and was the first album to feature Shepherd doing the majority of the lead vocals (singer Noah Hunt handled the lead vocals on the previous two albums). Shepherd's next project saw him traveling in the American South with a documentary film crew and a portable recording studio as he backed up several veteran blues players on their home turf. The resulting album and film, 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads, appeared in 2007 before Live! In Chicago followed in 2010. That November, Shepherd joined Jimmy Fallon's house band on TV for an evening, and performed with the same Fender Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix had played at Woodstock. Although Shepherd had kept busy in the intervening years, 2011's How I Go was his first studio album proper in a seven-year period. In an attempt to revive the success enjoyed with 1998's Trouble Is..., he once again recruited Noah Hunt on vocals, as well as former Talking Heads keyboard player and guitarist Jerry Harrison, who had produced the sessions for that platinum-selling album. Shepherd followed How I Go with 2014's Goin' Home, a tribute to his musical heroes that featured contributions from artists such as Ringo Starr and Keb' Mo'. ~ Steve Huey & Richard Skelly

Album: The Legends EP Vol. I
Size: 142 MB
Time: 20:44
File: FLAC
Released: 2007
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Honky Tonk (Live With Buddy Flett) (3:13)
02. Tina Marie (Live With Bryan Lee) (4:21)
03. Prison Blues (Live With Cootie Stark & Neal 'Big Daddy' Pattman) (4:36)
04. I'm Leavin' You (Live) (8:33)

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Album: The Legends EP Vol. II
Size: 146 MB
Time: 22:22
File: FLAC
Released: 2007
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Potato Patch (Live With Jerry 'Boogie' McCain) (5:45)
02. Born In Louisiana (Live With Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown) (6:25)
03. Chapel Hill Boogie (Live With John Dee Holeman) (5:49)
04. Cleveland Mississippi (Live With Buddy Flett) (4:20)

The Legends EP Vol. II

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Album: The Legends EP Vol. III

Size: 142 MB
Time: 21:25
File: FLAC
Released: 2008
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Tears Came Rollin' Down (Live With Henry Townsend) (3:14)
02. Knoxville Rag (Live With Etta Baker) (1:47)
03. Big Daddy Boogie (Live With Neal 'Big Daddy' Pattman) (5:15)
04. U-Haul (Live With Cottie Stark) (4:59)
05. Dollar Got The Blues (Live With Bryan Lee) (6:08)

The Legends EP Vol. III

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Album: The Legends EP Vol. IV

Size: 184 MB
Time: 28:06
File: FLAC
Released: 2008
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Red Rooster (Live With Howlin' Wolf Band) (6:20)
02. Sittin' On The Top Of The World (Live With Hubert Slim & Howlin' Wolf Band) (3:56)
03. Spoonful (Live With Howlin' Wolf Band) (5:18)
04. Grindin' Man (Live With Muddy Waters Band) (8:02)
05. Shotgun Blues (Live) (4:28)

The Legends EP Vol. IV

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Bryan Lee - 2 albums: Six String Therapy / My Lady Don't Love My Lady

Born on March 16, 1943 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Bryan Lee lost his eye sight and was legally blind by the age of eight. Bryan Lee had an avid interest in early Rock and Roll and Blues Music which was fostered through the 1950’s late night listen The man now known as “Braille Blues Daddy” started out playing for Midwest crowds at the early age of 15. In the late 1950’s, Bryan Lee opened for Bill Haley & The Comets with his band “The Glaciers” performing cover music of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

By the early 1960’s and throughout the 1970’s, Bryan Lee’s musical interest turned to the sound of Chicago Blues while touring throughout the Midwest. He was heavily influenced by Chicago Bluesmen Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Hubert Sumlin and Freddie King. While on tour in the 1980’s Bryan opened for one of his hero’s Muddy Water’s. After the show Muddy told Bryan: “Bryan, stay with this, one day you will be a living legend.” – “I went home and I cried” says Lee. Although his acceptance in the Chicago Blues Scene didn’t come until later in his career, Bryan has the respect of his friends and peers such as Buddy Guy and Lonnie Brooks. Bryan Lee and his band frequently pack the Legend’s house performing authentic blues.

Album: Six String Therapy
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:13
Size: 124.1 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[ 3:03] 1. You Better Believe It
[ 4:32] 2. Go On Fool
[ 4:38] 3. Just Like A Fish
[ 4:34] 4. Now I Got A Woman
[ 2:51] 5. Bumpity Bump
[ 3:14] 6. You May
[10:12] 7. Six String Therapy
[ 3:22] 8. Beautician Blues
[ 3:54] 9. Three Handed Woman
[ 5:13] 10. The Little Prince
[ 4:30] 11. Shipyard Blues
[ 4:04] 12. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You

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Album: My Lady Don't Love My Lady
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:05
Size: 153.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[4:22] 1. Imitation Of Love
[6:54] 2. I Don't Know
[5:20] 3. Three Can Play The Game
[6:39] 4. Early In The Morning
[2:34] 5. Let Me Up I've Had Enough
[5:38] 6. Heartbreaker
[6:22] 7. Too Many Wolves
[6:16] 8. My Lady Don't Love My Lady
[6:02] 9. When I Been Drinking
[6:53] 10. Me And My Music
[5:00] 11. Reconsider Me
[5:00] 12. Just To Prove My Love To You

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Henry Carpaneto - Voodoo Boogie

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 61:13
Size: 140.1 MB
Styles: Piano blues, Modern electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:17] 1. Drinkin & Thinkin (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:55] 2. My Brain Is Gone (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:47] 3. One Room (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:36] 4. Angel Child (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[5:42] 5. Welfare Woman (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[6:19] 6. Steady Rolling (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:44] 7. Caldonia (Feat. Bryan Lee, Otis Grand & Tony Coleman)
[3:38] 8. Mambo Mamma (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[4:26] 9. Turn Down The Noise (Feat. Bryan Lee)
[6:33] 10. Dog & Down Blues (Feat. Bryan Lee, Otis Grand & Tony Coleman)
[6:05] 11. Rock Me Baby (Feat. Bryan Lee, Otis Grand & Tony Coleman)
[5:05] 12. Blind Man Love (Feat. Bryan Lee)

Henry Carpaneto presenta VOODOO BOOGIE! Il suo primo album come leader, grandi i nomi che hanno contribuito a questo suo primo disco, Bryan Lee, Otis Grand e Tony Coleman! Insieme a loro il sassofonista Paolo Maffi, il contrabbassista Pietro Martinelli e il batterista Andrea Tassara.

Henry Carpaneto: keys, vocals; Bryan Lee: guitar; Otis Grand: guitar; Tony Coleman: drums.

Voodoo Boogie

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Bryan Lee - Play One For Me / OldSchool Blues

Album: Play One For Me
Size: 98,2 MB
Time: 42:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Aretha (Sing One For Me) (3:58)
02. It's Too Bad (Things Are Going So Tough) (3:42)
03. When Love Begins (Friendship Ends) (5:07)
04. Evil Is Going On (3:57)
05. You Was My Baby (But You Ain't My Baby No More) (3:52)
06. Straight To Your Heart (4:43)
07. Poison (5:04)
08. Let Me Love You Tonight (4:08)
09. Why (4:40)
10. Sixty-Eight Years Young (3:22)

Play One For Me, from Bryan Lee and it's a soul stirred blues stew. Opening with Aretha (Play One For Me) has a real nice R&B flow featuring Kevin Anker on keys and Lee on vocals. Freddie King's It's Too Bad (Things Are Going So Tough) has a real nice blues sway and features some real sweet guitar riffs from Lee. A strong soul track written by Bobby Womack, When Love Begins (Friendship Ends) has a great lyrical line and melody. With just the right touch of blues guitar, Lee leads Steve Gomes on bass and Robb Stupka on drums into the mist surrounded by a solid string and horn section. Tasty guitar riffs really highlight what is likely my favorite track on the release. Chester Burnett's Evil Is Going On produces a nice treat with Kim Wilson joining on harp. Anker plays really nice key work underneath the melody providing a nice balance and Lee on vocal and guitar punctuation makes this another hot track. Straight To Your Heart is a nice New Orleans style blues funk track. I've always loved this style of blues playing and Lee has his finger on the pulse. Poison, an interesting slower blues track. Johnny Moeller on guitars and Wilson on harp add a lot to the overdriven vocals and guitar work of Lee who does a nice job on this track. Why has a real nice walking bass line and blues lope with Ankers on organ and Moeller on guitar pushing Lee to the boiling point on his guitar solo on this particular track. Really nice cut. The release ends with high steppin Sixty-Eight Years Young, a funky rhythm track having only the essence of instrumentation under vocal except for a pretty hot guitar solo. This is a great conclusion to a really cool release! ~Review by Bman

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Album: OldSchool Blues
Size: 150,3 MB
Time: 65:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. TV Mama ( 8:15)
02. Old Man Blues ( 8:38)
03. Braille Blues Daddy ( 6:24)
04. She Hugs Me Til It Hurts ( 8:06)
05. Low Down And Dirty ( 4:35)
06. The Things I Used To Do (14:28)
07. Old School Blues Man ( 6:22)
08. Congo Square ( 8:27)

Personnel: Bryan Lee (vocals, guitar); Brent Johnson (guitar); Danny Kean (keyboards); John Perkins (drums).

Like so many other musicians in New Orleans, guitarist, singer and songwriter Bryan Lee came to the Crescent City from somewhere else. But he's been carefully honing and refining his craft in Crescent City bars for so many years now, he's considered a New Orleans institution. He's played at 25 of the prestigious New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals, and marked his 25th year at the spring time festival in 2009. Blind since the age of eight, like many blind people, Lee has a heightened sense of hearing. He's a master at ensemble playing and knows how to read an audience.

Lee was born Bryan Lee Kumbalek in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In his youth, he listened to clear channel station WLAC in Nashville, and had an experience similar to that of Angela Strehli, who was growing up roughly the same time, but in Lubbock, in west Texas. He listened each evening and became enamored with the sounds of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf and others. Like Strehli, Jimmie Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall Sr. and so many other "white kids from the suburbs," Lee didn't see any color, he just loved the music, the poetry of the lyrics and the art form.

By the time he was 15, he was playing guitar in a variety of rock and blues-rock bands and in his late teens he befriended guitar slinger Luther Allison, who played many of the same Wisconsin clubs Lee was playing in. By 1981, Lee and his band had the chance to open for Muddy Waters at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Lee and Waters talked in the dressing room, and Lee told Waters how honored he was to be opening for a legend like Waters. Waters gave Lee some inspiration: "Bryan, my friend, don't stop what you're doing, because one day you're going to be a living legend."

Lee moved to New Orleans in 1982 and began a long residency at the Old Absinthe House in the French Quarter. A 13-year-old Kenny Wayne Shepherd asked to sit in one night and the experience proved to be a revelatory one for Shepherd, later one of the bright stars of the blues-rock scene. Shepherd said he knew right then and there, that playing guitar and playing blues and blues-rock was what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Appropriately, Shepherd included Lee in his documentary, 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads.

Although some health problems have curtailed his national and international touring during the 2000s and his music studio in New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina floodwaters in 2005, Lee pressed on. (He later restricted his time on the road to three week tours.)

Lee's discography is extensive and his original songs sparkle with authenticity. His albums include The Blues Is… in 1991 for Canada-based Justin Time Records; Braille Blues Daddy in 1995; Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar in 1997; Crawfish Lady in 2000; Katrina Was Her Name in 2007, and My Lady Don't Love My Lady in 2009, all for Justin Time Records. ~Biography by Richard Skelly

OldSchool Blues

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