VA - Blind Raccoon Nola Blue Collection: Vol. 2

Size: 310 MB
Time: 130:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Blues Soul
Art: Full

CD 1:
01 Doug Duffey & Badd - The Things We Used To Do (4:18)
02 Katy Hobgood Ray - Lollie Bottoms (4:43)
03 Steve Howell & Jason Weinheimer - Blues In The Night (3:46)
04 Kelly's Lot - Woe Is Me (5:12)
05 Michele D'Amour & The Love Dealers - Dirty Pool (5:02)
06 Jersey Swamp Cats - Cupcake! (3:31)
07 Peter V Blues Train - I'll Be Home For Christmas (3:01)
08 Tomislav Goluban - Mr. B (6:45)
09 Mark Cameron - Trouble Brewin (3:41)
10 Professor Louie & The Crowmatix - Bull Frog Jam Blues (Live) (9:03)
11 Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men + Dana - Mr. Smith (4:02)
12 Kenny Parker - Baby Come Back To Me (5:24)
13 J.P. Reali - My Baby Loves To Boogie (2:58)
14 Miss Bix & The Blues Fix - We Don't Own The Blues (3:53)
15 Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps - Forgetting You (4:57)

CD 2:
01 Wily Bo Walker & Danny Flam - Time To Forget You (4:34)
02 Frank Bey - All My Dues Are Paid (4:13)
03 Benny Turner - Who Sang It First (4:01)
04 Meg Williams - Little Bit Of The Devil (3:06)
05 Jersey Swamp Cats - Shiny Gray Corvette (2:36)
06 Moonshine Society - Southern Road (3:45)
07 Ag Weinberger - Wang Dang Doodle (5:23)
08 Dudley Taft - Simple Life (4:23)
09 Jon Gindick - I Was Born To Wail (4:46)
10 Sandy Haley - Feels Like Freedom (4:22)
11 Jack Mack & The Heart Attack - I Walked Alone (4:36)
12 The Reverend Shawn Amos & The Brotherhood - Counting Down The Days (3:14)
13 Vaneese Thomas - I Tried (4:59)
14 Cash McCall - One Who's Got A Lot (4:14)
15 Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men + Dana - If I Hock My Guitar (2:06)

The two discs contain tracks from Grammy & Blues Music Award winners and nominees, most notably Delbert McClinton & Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps. The first three tracks on Disc 1 are all on Steve Howell’s label, Out Of The Past Music, with new music projects coming in 2020. Also included is a track from Moonshine Society’s “Sweet Thing” winner of the 2020 Best Self- Produced CD awarded at this year’s International Blues Challenge. And, there’s a track from Vaneese Thomas, nominated again this year in the Blues Music Awards for Soul Blues Female Artist. Also included is the title track from Miss Bix & The Blues Fix’s “We Don’t Own The Blues,” recently signed to Blue Heart Records.

Blind Raccoon Nola Blue Collection: Vol. 2

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Doug Duffey & Badd - Play The Blues

Size: 116,7 MB
Time: 50:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Soul
Art: Full

01. The Things We Used To Do (4:18)
02. Evil (5:46)
03. Have You Ever? (3:11)
04. Big Easy Street Blues (7:57)
05. Talk Of The Town (6:49)
06. My Drivin' Wheel (5:59)
07. Drink It On Down (4:15)
08. You Got That Somethin' (4:56)
09. A Memory Left To Lose (6:53)

Doug Duffey and BADD’s sophomore album, “Play The Blues,” is deeply rooted in regional blues and flavored with a pinch of Memphis Rock-N-Soul. Duffey’s vivid lyrics tell stories from his real-life experiences of lost love, spirituality and Voodoo, and even nosey neighbors. The grooves are infectious, the solos soar, and the singing cuts deep into the soul of the listener. Duffey is joined by Ben Ford, Adam Ryland and Dan Sumner, who also co-wrote some of the songs. Together they form the rhythm section of the ‘award-winning’ Louisiana Soul Revival featuring Doug Duffey and they are the house band at Fort Sumner Studios in Monroe, LA. There they tracked their new album as well as their 2018 debut “Funkify Ya-Self.”

The nine original tunes from the Louisiana quartet open with a classic blues shuffle, ‘The Things We Used To Do,’ borrowing from the 1950’s Guitar Slim standard. Duffey puts his own spin on living through hard times and looking back on the good old days setting the tone and delivering the message that these veteran players are indeed here to “play the blues.” The radio ready track ‘Evil’ finds Duffey professing his love for a Black Magic Woman over a smooth Louisiana R&B groove that flows into the mournful twelve-bar ‘Big Easy Street Blues,’ delivering pure barrelhouse piano, soulful vocals, and sweet guitar leads from Sumner. Duffey then demonstrates his lifelong study of Professor Longhair and Dr. John on the rolling ‘Have You Ever.’

As the title suggests, ‘Drink It On Down’ is a swampy bar room rock party anchored by Sumner’s gritty guitar. The shifting groove and jazz overtones flavor the tense view of a troublesome world in ‘My Driving Wheel.’ Duffey then takes time to rant about the nosey neighbors, who are jealous about his clandestine love affair that is the ‘Talk Of The Town.’ He lists all the virtues of his lady “that make an old man feel young” on the uplifting ramble ‘You Got That Something.’ The closing track, ‘A Memory Left To Lose,’ begins as a sparse piano and guitar duet that builds into a soaring fully orchestrated ballad full of emotional intensity and harmonic artistry.

Born in Monroe, Louisiana, in the Mississippi Delta, Doug Duffey has been singing, playing piano, and composing professionally since childhood and has recorded over a dozen albums since his first single in 1970. This fine collection of rockin’ blues, soul and classic R&B adds to that legacy and continues to prove he and his BADD cohorts were indeed born to “Play The Blues.” ~Rick J Bowen

Play The Blues

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The Doug Duffey Band - Ain't Supposed To Be This Way

Size: 150,9 MB
Time: 65:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Full House Boogie (3:57)
02. Work That Thang (3:49)
03. Evil (3:35)
04. Rough Gal Blues (4:31)
05. I'm Gonna Leave You (2:48)
06. Ain't Supposed To Be This Way (5:39)
07. Separate Ways (7:08)
08. Friday Night (3:54)
09. Down But Ain't Out Yet (6:08)
10. Two Timed Blues (3:19)
11. 3 X 6 (4:10)
12. Nobody Wants You (6:25)
13. Change My Way Of Living (4:18)
14. All Night Boogie (5:17)

Blues, Blues Rock, Delta Blues, Boogie! Modern day original blues written in traditional styles [like Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed] performed and recorded “live in the studio” [no overdubs] just like it was done “back in the day”! This is as close to the real 'living' Blues as you can get!
Lyrical images, taken from life in Louisiana, the Mississippi Delta, the land where the blues was born, infuse the music with reality and vitality. Time and life in the Delta moves very slowly... as do the traditions. This album is a real 'true life' musical testament that the Blues of the past is alive and well today... as embodied by The Doug Duffey Band.
Doug Duffey is a member of the Louisiana Hall of Fame, and the Blues Hall of Fame.
Doug Duffey- vocal, piano, organ; Kelvin Bullen- guitar; Hani Ali- drums; Sebi Niessner- bass.
All songs written, arranged, performed and produced by Doug Duffey.

Ain't Supposed To Be This Way

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