Brian Setzer Orchestra - Songs From Lonely Avenue

Album: Songs From Lonely Avenue
Size: 119,5 MB
Time: 51:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Jump Blues/Swing/Rockabilly
Art: Front, back, inside

1. Trouble Train (4:40)
2. Dead Man Incorporated (5:18)
3. Kiss Me Deadly (5:58)
4. Gimme Some Rhythm Daddy (2:33)
5. Lonely Avenue (5:20)
6. King Of The Whole Damn World (3:53)
7. Mr. Jazzer Goes Surfin' (4:09)
8. Mr. Surfer Goes Jazzin' (3:01)
9. My Baby Don't Love Me Blues (3:41)
10. Love Partners In Crime (2:12)
11. Passion Of The Night (3:12)
12. Dimes In The Jar (4:59)
13. Elena (2:54)

Three decades into his career, Brian Setzer's sound is so well-established that his only trump card lies in formal aesthetic experiments, and he pulls out a doozy with 2009's Songs from Lonely Avenue. Far from being a Doc Pomus tribute album, Songs from Lonely Avenue is a "soundtrack to an unwritten film," an album equally inspired by '50s film noirs, R&B, and rock & roll, a conceptual stroll through smoky clubs and dimly lit back alleys.

There are no surprising sounds here - Setzer hauls out his jump blues and slow-crawling ballads - but that doesn't mean this is tired: Setzer is reinvigorated by his concept, turning in his first collection of all-original material in his entire career. Although the songs are essentially vehicles for the concept, the entirety of Songs from Lonely Avenue shows Setzer to be a master of mood, maybe not digging too far underneath the surface, but creating a record that is an engaging slice of noir fantasia. /Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic

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Brian Setzer Orchestra - Best Of The Big Band

Album: Best Of The Big Band
Size: 141,9 MB
Time: 60:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Jump Blues/Swing/Rockabilly
Art: Front, tray

1. Gettin' In The Mood (3:12)
2. Rumble In Brighton (3:35)
3. This Cat's On A Hot Tin Roof (2:18)
4. Jump, Jive An' Wail (2:53)
5. Sexy, Sexy (2:14)
6. Sleepwalk (3:48)
7. Stray Cat Strut (3:37)
8. Rock This Town (6:37)
9. The Dirty Boogie (3:14)
10. Brand New Cadillac (3:36)
11. Hoodoo Voodoo Doll (3:39)
12. Lady Luck (2:57)
13. Caravan (2:26)
14. Pennsylvania 6-5000 (3:05)
15. Americano (3:02)
16. El Diablo (3:15)
17. Scatman Jack (4:05)
18. The House Is Rockin' (3:03)

Every decade has its own retro craze spearheaded by a true believer who brings classic sounds and style back into vogue. Brian Setzer performed this trick not just once but twice, first as the leader of the Stray Cats, the trio that brought rockabilly back into the charts during the '80s, then he helped popularize the swing revival of the '90s with the Brian Setzer Orchestra. Both of these sounds were grounded in the '50s - that's when rockabilly was born but also the heyday of the kind of jump blues Setzer loved, music by Louis Prima and Big Joe Turner - and while the Stray Cats were purists of sorts, indebted to the big beat of Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, as a solo act Setzer wound up fusing these aesthetics together, playing rockabilly guitar to a swinging beat.

With this jumping sound, he cultivated a loyal following - consisting of not a few latter-day disciples - that stretched well into the new millennium, developing the long-running, successful career that many of his idols never had. /Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic

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Brian Setzer - Gotta Have The Rumble

Size: 88.0 MB
Time: 37:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Blues Rockabilly
Art: Front & Back

01. Checkered Flag (4:05)
02. Smash Up On Highway One (3:46)
03. Stack My Money (2:45)
04. The Wrong Side Of The Tracks (4:00)
05. Drip Drop (2:26)
06. The Cat With 9 Wives (4:59)
07. Turn You On, Turn Me On (2:37)
08. Rockabilly Riot (3:17)
09. Off Your Rocker (3:58)
10. One Bad Habit (2:13)
11. Rockabilly Banjo (3:11)

Rockabilly icon Brian Setzer has announced his first solo album in seven years. Produced by Julian Raymond, Gotta Have The Rumble was recorded in Setzer's hometown Minneapolis and Nashville, and features 11 original compositions written or co-written by the Stray Cats frontman.

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Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Christmas

Size: 96,9 MB
Time: 41:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: R&B, big band, Christmas
Art: Full

1. Jingle Bells (2:22)
2. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (3:02)
3. Winter Wonderland (2:40)
4. Blue Christmas (2:48)
5. Santa Claus Is Back In Town (3:48)
6. Baby It's Cold Outside (3:43)
7. The Nutcracker Suite (7:13)
8. The Man With The Bag (2:48)
9. Sleigh Ride (2:40)
10. So They Say It's Christmas (4:46)
11. O Holy Night (4:49)
12. The Amens (0:59)

Brian Setzer takes his horn-fueled big band on a sleigh ride into Christmas/holiday music with generally impressive results. Meshing his rockabilly guitar solos with brassy charts and a lounge/Vegas sensibility that is part tribute and part retro characterization, Setzer dusts off and polishes up obscure nuggets like Kay Starr's "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag" and Lionel Hampton's swinging "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus." He rocks up played-out chestnuts "Winter Wonderland" and "Jingle Bells," slightly altering the latter's lyrics to, "Oh what fun it is to ride in a '57 Chevrolet." Elvis' "Blue Christmas" succeeds despite, or maybe because of, its obvious inclusion, narrowly missing a parody of the original due to Setzer's reverb-heavy guitar solo.

A rough, blues-heavy "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" successfully kicks the tune into classic urban R&B territory, with the bandleader's guitar getting down and dirty and the horns blasting away like Doc Severinsen's orchestra. Ann Margaret sounds a little tentative playing the sultry sex kitten next to Setzer's slick Bobby Darin on a nevertheless frisky duet romp through "Baby It's Cold Outside." But the album's obvious highlight is an intricately rearranged, instrumental big band blowout of "The Nutcracker Suite," originally written for Les Brown's orchestra in the '50s. It displays the group's stop-on-a-dime chops and swings like mad. A 30-piece choir backs Setzer doing his best Presley mannerisms on a smarmy "O Holy Night" and closes the album on a serious note with a prayerful "The Amens." /Hal Horowitz, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Dion - Blues With Friends

Size: 396 MB
Time: 60:53
File: FLAC
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front & Back

01. Blues Comin’ On (Feat. Joe Bonamassa) (4:48)
02. Kickin’ Child (Feat. Joe Menza) (4:00)
03. Uptown Number 7 (Feat. Brian Setzer) (3:56)
04. Can’t Start Over Again (Feat. Jeff Beck) (4:26)
05. My Baby Loves To Boogie (Feat. John Hammond) (5:19)
06. I Got Nothin’ (Feat. Van Morrison & Joe Louis Walker) (5:05)
07. Stumbling Blues (Feat. Jimmy Vivino & Jerry Vivino) (3:00)
08. Bam Bang Boom (Feat. Billy Gibbons) (3:57)
09. I Got The Cure (Feat. Sonny Landreth) (4:07)
10. Song For Sam Cooke (Here In America) (Feat. Paul Simon) (4:24)
11. What If I Told You (Feat. Samantha Fish) (4:44)
12. Told You Once In August (Feat. Rory Block) (5:34)
13. Way Down (I Won’t Cry No More) (Feat. Stevie Van Zandt) (2:58)
14. Hymn To Him (Feat. Patti Scialfa & Bruce Springsteen) (4:30)

As one of the very few first-generation rock ‘n’ rollers still seriously pursing new avenues of expression, Dion’s Bronx soul is very much in evidence on this new album, a full-tilt blues offering. The blues songs therein are not “covers” nor Dion’s versions of blues standards. These compositions are in fact original blues masterpieces which are destined to become classics. He came up with the music and words for twelve of them and finished those with co-writer Mike Aquilina. The two exceptions are “Hymn To Him” which Dion wrote with Bill Tuohy and “Kickin’ Child,” written with Buddy Lucas.

To tell those stories, Dion recruited help from a few notable friends and admirers. He thought, “I needed to round up the best guitarists and musicians alive and pick them from every generation, every variation of blues.” And that’s just what he did, surrounding himself with those who feel the blues spirit as he does.

The album’s guests include the cream of the contemporary scene’s blues-rooted slingers including Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Brian Setzer, Sonny Landreth, Samantha Fish, John Hammond Jr., Joe Louis Walker, Rory Block , Jimmy and Jerry Vivino, vintage guitar guru Joe Menza as well as icons Stevie Van Zandt, Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison and Paul Simon. Yes, that’s a whole lot of star power but each participated not because of his or her marquee appeal but because of what each could add musically. The result is one reflective of nuanced devotion to the blues rather than a gratuitous display of individual virtuosity. It’s very much Dion’s album and those bold face names participating are most convincingly there for him.

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Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie

Year: 1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:42
Size: 115,1 MB
Styles: Swing/Jump Blues/Rock & Roll
Scans: Full

1. This Cat's On A Hot Tin Roof (2:19)
2. The Dirty Boogie (3:13)
3. This Old House (3:06)
4. Let's Live It Up (3:41)
5. Sleepwalk (3:49)
6. Jump Jive An' Wail (2:54)
7. You're The Boss (3:43)
8. Rock This Town (6:37)
9. Since I Don't Have You (4:09)
10. Switchblade 327 (3:30)
11. Nosey Joe (2:55)
12. Hollywood Nocturne (5:36)
13. As Long As I'm Singin' (4:04)

Evidently, Brian Setzer doesn't take the jump blues and swing of the Brian Setzer Orchestra as a joke. The Dirty Boogie is his third album with his large band, and instead of sounding tired, the record is the group's best effort yet. Setzer rocks the band hard, tearing through blues and rock & roll covers with vigor, and delivering made-to-order originals that are surprisingly well crafted and memorable.

Much attention will be paid to "You're the Boss," a cover of the Elvis Presley/Ann Margaret staple from Viva Las Vegas, performed as a duet with No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, but that's hardly the only highlight here - it's a swinging, rocking record that suggests Setzer's skills are only improving with time. /Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic

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Jeff Beck - 2 albums: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (2-Disc Set) / Rock 'N' Roll Party

Album: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:33
Size: 106.6 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:31] 1. The Revolution Will Be Televised (Feat. Rosie Bones)
[2:29] 2. Over Under Sideways Down (Feat. Jimmy Hall & Todd O'keefe
[1:50] 3. Heart Full Of Soul (Feat. Jimmy Hall & Todd O'keefe)
[2:37] 4. For Your Love (Feat. Jimmy Hall & Todd O'keefe)
[3:24] 5. Beck's Bolero
[5:29] 6. Medley Rice Pudding/Morning Dew(Feat. Jimmy Hall)
[5:01] 7. Freeway Jam (Feat. Jan Hammer)
[2:48] 8. You Never Know (Feat. Jan Hammer)
[3:57] 9. Cause We've Ended As Lovers (Feat. Jan Hammer)
[5:57] 10. Star Cycle (Feat. Jan Hammer)
[4:22] 11. Blue Wind (Feat. Jan Hammer)
[5:06] 12. Big Block

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Album: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:11
Size: 105.7 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[7:06] 1. I'd Rather Go Blind (Feat. Beth Hart & Jan Hammer)
[4:36] 2. Let Me Love You (Feat. Buddy Guy)
[4:22] 3. Live In The Dark (Feat. Rosie Bones)
[6:22] 4. Scared For The Children (Feat. Rosie Bones)
[5:11] 5. Rough Boy (Feat. Billy Gibbons)
[3:23] 6. Train Kept A-Rollin' (Feat. Steven Tyler)
[3:05] 7. Shapes Of Things (Feat. Steven Tyler)
[5:23] 8. A Day In The Life
[6:39] 9. Purple Rain (Feat. Jan Hammer, Beth Hart, Rosie Bones, Jimmy Hall & Steven Tyler)

As fashionable as concert sit-ins have come to be in recent years, such guesting can be the bane of the live performance. So often it is the case that such invitees can interrupts the flow and/or momentum rather than nurturing it. However, Jeff Beck's August 2016 celebration in Los Angeles of his fiftieth anniversary is the exception to that rule: the stream of diverse personnel is of a piece with the stylistic history the event represents.

Live at the Hollywood Bowl is quite likely everything the attendee would want to hear at one of the British guitarist's shows. Likewise, the guests that populate the roster and share the stage with the icon of the instrument are all those a fan would hope for, but not expect to see in a single setting. ~Doug Collette

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Album: Rock 'n' Roll Party
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:57
Size: 141.8 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:06] 1. Double Talkin' Baby (Feat. Darrel Higham)
[2:14] 2. Cruisin' (Feat. Darrel Higham)
[2:36] 3. The Train It Kept A Rollin' (Feat. Darrel Higham)
[2:47] 4. Cry Me A River (Feat. Imelda May And Jason Rebello)
[2:11] 5. How High The Moon (Feat. Imelda May)
[2:24] 6. Sitting On Top Of The World (Feat. Imelda May)
[2:12] 7. Bye Bye Blues (Feat. Imelda May)
[2:21] 8. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise (Feat. Imelda May)
[2:58] 9. Vaya Con Dios (Feat. Imelda May)
[2:23] 10. Mockingbird Hill (Feat. Imelda May)
[2:59] 11. I'm A Fool To Care (Feat. Imelda May)
[2:22] 12. Tiger Rag (Feat. Imelda May)
[4:49] 13. Peter Gunn (Feat. Jason Rebello And Trombone Shorty)
[3:38] 14. Rocking Is Our Business (Feat. Darrel Highham, Jason Rebello And Trombone Shorty)
[3:07] 15. Apache
[2:51] 16. Sleepwalk
[4:35] 17. New Orleans (Feat. Gary U.S. Bonds And Jason Rebello)
[4:39] 18. Walking In The Sand
[4:54] 19. Please Mr. Jailor (Feat. Imelda May)
[3:41] 20. Twenty Flight Rock (Feat. Brian Setzer)

Jeff Beck paid fitting tribute to Les Paul last summer, celebrating what would have been the pioneering guitarist's 95th birthday by playing his friend and mentor's music, along with classic tunes from the era, in the same Times Square nightclub that Les Paul played every Monday for 14 years, before his death in August 2009.

Sponsored by Gibson Guitar and billed as 'A Celebration of Les Paul,' Jeff Beck was joined by The Imelda May Band at the Iridium Jazz Club on June 9th, 2010. The two-time Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductee mesmerized the star-studded audience with a tour de force performance of classics that Paul recorded with Mary Ford, 'How High The Moon,' 'Vaya Con Dios' and 'Mockin' Bird Hill,' along with such rock and roll standards as 'Twenty Flight Rock' and 'Walking In The Sand.'

Following this release, Beck will take the 'Rock And Roll Party' on the road for a short U.S. tour. Beck will once again be backed by The Imelda May Band and its enchanting singer, Imelda May, who joined Beck on stage at the 2010 Grammy® Awards for a spot-on rendition of Paul's 'How High The Moon.'

PBS will give fans a first look at a unique edition of this performance with the premiere of 'Jeff Beck Honors Les Paul,' a concert special that captures the first night of 'The Celebration to Honor Les Paul,' which was recorded on June 9, 2010, what would have been Les Paul's 95th birthday. Special guest performers included Troy 'Trombone Shorty' Andrews, Gary U.S. Bonds and Brian Setzer, who traded riffs with Beck on Eddie Cochran's rockabilly classic 'Twenty Flight Rock.'

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Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot Osaka Rocka!: Live In Japan 2016

Size: 175,3 MB
Time: 74:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Rockabilly
Art: Front

01. Ignition (Live) (4:04)
02. Vinyl Records (Live) (3:37)
03. Stray Cat Strut (Live) (3:47)
04. Nothing Is A Sure Thing (Live) (3:32)
05. Stiletto Cool (Live) (3:34)
06. Cry Baby (Live) (4:15)
07. What's Her Name (Live) (3:47)
08. Slow Down - Folsom Prison Blues (Live) (6:41)
09. Gene & Eddie (Live) (4:11)
10. Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Live) (5:09)
11. Runaway Boys (Live) (3:52)
12. Fishnet Stockings (Live) (6:34)
13. Let's Shake (Live) (4:30)
14. Sleepwalk (Live) (4:41)
15. Rock This Town (Live) (7:09)
16. Seven Nights To Rock (Live) (5:16)

Even if you’re not a rockabilly fan, you have to give Stray Cats founder Brian Setzer credit for keeping the music alive with both his 19 piece, horn blasted ensemble and the stripped down three piece featured on this show. He’s virtually the only act in the sadly under-appreciated genre that can consistently fill larger auditoriums as he displays here, packing the Japanese rockabilly hardcores into the 600 or so capacity Namba Hatch venue in Osaka for this sizzler of a concert recorded Feb.18, 2016.

Japan’s love of American roots music is well known; Setzer even recorded 2001’s big band DVD there. So it’s little surprise he returns for this 20 song DVD/CD (the audio only has 17 tracks) that finds the country’s rockabilly faithful — many, at least according to the crowd shots on the DVD, seemingly not born when the Stray Cats were a working band — in full flower. Perhaps not surprisingly, the set list features five tunes from 2014’s Rockabilly Riot! studio set, recorded with the same musicians here. But Setzer is nothing if not a crowd pleaser so he’s happy to pull out Cats favorites such as “Rumble in Brighton,” “Runaway Boys,” “Gene & Eddie,” “Rock This Town,” “Fishnet Stockings” and of course “Stray Cat Strut,” a song he wrote in his late teens and has played hundreds if not thousands of times since.

Regardless of how old these tunes are, this ensemble acts as if they were playing them for the first time, ripping through the changes with the energy of guys half their age (Setzer’s in his late 50s). The DVD lets guitar enthusiasts check out the frontman’s collection of vintage hollow body Gretsch models and, better still, watch his fingers as he tears through the 90 minute set. Setzer has generally been an underrated guitar slinger, but anyone who has seen him dig into the classic “Sleepwalk” solo as he does here, shifting from sweet jazz licks to reverbed Chuck Berry ones, will appreciate just how talented he is.

While much of this material doesn’t sound noticeably different than the studio versions, the live setting pumps extra sweat into the proceedings. Also, some selections are extended, in particular a roaring “Rock this Town” that, at over seven minutes, clocks in at over twice its original time. Ditto for “Fishnet Stockings” where Setzer swing solos for 90 seconds of the intro until the band eventually kicks in on a six-and-a-half minute take that leaves the two-and-a-half minute studio one in the dust.

Those who already own 2012’s similarly titled Rockabilly Riot! Live from the Planet CD, will find the set lists similar. But this package including the DVD is a terrific addition that — with its surround sound and professional, high resolution video — is reason enough to recommend this over the earlier audio only performance.

Brian Setzer certainly isn’t the only artist keeping the authentic rockabilly sound alive for another generation, but he arguably does it better than anyone else. He has, over the decades, written his share of classics that stack up admirably to those he loved from the 50s and early 60s. All of which makes this a terrific addition for either established fans or those new to his exciting and propulsive stage show, one that few others have the talent or ability to create. ~Hal Horowitz

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Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot! All Original

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 39:33
Size: 90.5 MB
Styles: Rockabilly, Electric blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:27] 1. Let's Shake
[3:42] 2. Rockabilly Blues
[3:20] 3. Vinyl Records
[2:03] 4. Lemme Slide
[3:10] 5. Nothing Is A Sure Thing
[3:34] 6. What's Her Name
[3:46] 7. Calamity Jane
[3:35] 8. The Girl With The Blues In Her Eyes
[3:17] 9. Stiletto Cool
[3:14] 10. I Should'a Had A V-8
[2:06] 11. Blue Lights, Big City
[4:13] 12. Cock-A-Doodle Don't

"Gonna rock a little bit. Gonna have a little fun." -- “Let’s Shake”

That’s how BRIAN SETZER starts his new album ROCKABILLY RIOT: ALL ORIGINAL. But let's correct something here; these 12 tracks rock A LOT. And they're A LOT of fun--which is something the three-time Grammy Award winner has shown he knows how to do very, very well during the nearly 35 years since the international spotlight first shined on his skills as a singer, songwriter and guitarist, not to mention his impressively coifed pompadour.

"I think this album sounds to me a little bit like the first Stray Cats record," says SETZER, who is fully armed here with his trademark twang and fretboard fire."It's rockabilly songs. It's not just blues songs in the rockabilly style. People like to call it 'neo-billy' I suppose, which is some invented word that somebody came up with, but if that's the word they want to use, I'd like to go with that because it sounds to me like it's very modern and fresh-sounding rockabilly."

There's no question ROCKABILLY RIOT is a contemporary kind of rockabilly record, sounding like SETZER and his white-hot band--Mark Winchester (bass), Kevin McKendree (piano) and Noah Levy (drums)--time-warped back to Memphis' Sun Studios in the mid-‘50s, it was actually recorded with producer Peter Collins in Nashville but with 2014 chops and attitude. Peeling out with the revved-up propulsion of the first single, "Let's Shake" ("I can't believe no one thought of that title before," SETZER quips).

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