Papa Don McMinn & Nightrain - Home Blues

Size: 109,8 MB
Time: 47:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2008
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Front

1. Whole Lotta Woman (3:44)
2. White Mountain Prison Blues (4:25)
3. That's When I'll Stop Lovin' You (4:04)
4. Living On The Outside Plan (3:39)
5. Last Night Baby And The Night Before (4:02)
6. Key In The Lock (4:19)
7. Junior's Place (4:23)
8. I'll Follow The Blues (5:18)
9. Gypsy Wind (5:51)
10. Chicken Feets (3:16)
11. Big Wolf (4:28)

Papa Don McMinn is a Memphis Music legend. He was instrumental in the rebirth of the Home of the Blues: Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee. During the mid-1980s, Papa Don’s band had the "house gig" at Rum Boogie on the corner of Beale and Highway 61. Everyone who was anyone was there, and when the big names came to town to record or perform, there was only one place to go - to see Papa Don McMinn and his Rum Boogie band.

Twenty five years later, Papa Don is still creating and perpetuating his special brand of Southern Music, a concoction of Delta and Boogie Blues. Papa Don's current band, Nightrain, is anchored by his sons, Doug on drums and Rome on bass. Don has performed all across the planet, and he’s worked and recorded with the likes of Memphis Slim, John Mayall, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Albert King among others. Some of the notables who’ve made cameo appearances with Papa Don's band are Joe Walsh, Gregg Allman, Rufus Thomas, Jon Bon Jovi, Billy F Gibbons, and Eddie Floyd.

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Papa Don McMinn - Black Guitar Blues

Size: 102,8 MB
Time: 44:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Front

1. That's What I Get For Thinkin' (3:30)
2. Mean And Evil Woman (4:12)
3. Big Brown Eyes (4:57)
4. Black Guitar (3:32)
5. My Love Light's Shining Again (6:47)
6. Riding On The Euro Rail (4:58)
7. Big Leg Woman (4:47)
8. Miss You Like The Devil (3:39)
9. Miss Maudie (4:07)
10. When Marley Got The Blues (4:03)

Papa Don McMinn is a Memphis Music legend. He was instrumental in the rebirth of the Home of the Blues: Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee. During the mid-1980s, Papa Don’s band had the "house gig" at Rum Boogie on the corner of Beale and Highway 61. Everyone who was anyone was there, and when the big names came to town to record or perform, there was only one place to go - to see Papa Don McMinn and his Rum Boogie band.

Twenty five years later, Papa Don is still creating and perpetuating his special brand of Southern Music, a concoction of Delta and Boogie Blues. Papa Don's current band, Nightrain, is anchored by his sons, Doug on drums and Rome on bass. Don has performed all across the planet, and he’s worked and recorded with the likes of Memphis Slim, John Mayall, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Albert King among others. Some of the notables who’ve made cameo appearances with Papa Don's band are Joe Walsh, Gregg Allman, Rufus Thomas, Jon Bon Jovi, Billy F Gibbons, and Eddie Floyd.

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Don McMinn - Painkiller Blues

Year: 1996
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:18
Size: 95,4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Painkiller Blues (6:54)
2. I've Earned My Rest (3:39)
3. House Of The Rising Sun (5:09)
4. Where's The Love (2:52)
5. Memphis In May (2:52)
6. Down Home Blues (4:59)
7. Loving Instructor (3:44)
8. Nothing Like A Woman (4:46)
9. Plastic Flowers (3:00)
10. Lay Back (3:19)

Don McMinn has been a Memphis mainstay for about a hundred years now (at least it seems that way), and Painkiller Blues is a good example of why he's been able to remain on top locally for so long. It is a solid, if not groundbreaking, blues record that offers good lead guitar, growling vocals and enough Memphis references to keep the locals and Beale Street tourists happy.

As he strolls through the title track, you can almost see him on the Crawdad's or Rum Boogie stage, singing about getting a cold Budweiser and a glass of gin. But in the end, as much as we enjoy McMinn, he does not seem to be pushing himself very hard. His almost laborious reading of House of the Rising Sun slows the record down, rather than add to its palette. And Memphis in May is strictly a sing-a-long for tourists. He would be better served to work on more originals rather than covering songs by Hank Williams Jr. (Loving Instructor). Too often he goes for novelty over true blues. It plays well in the clubs, but on record we would like to see him stretch out more.

The thing is, when McMinn wants to crank out true blues, he can. The title track and Down Home Blues are good examples. He pours real emotion into his playing and singing, gets good backup from a band that includes keyboards and horns and stays away from cheap sentiment or local references guaranteed to get a cheer from a Beale Street bar crowd.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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VA - In The Mood For Memphis Vol. 1 & Vol. 2

Album: In The Mood For Memphis Vol. 1
Size: 118,9 MB
Time: 49:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Memphis Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Susan Marshall - In The Mood For Memphis (2:09)
02 McCarty Hite Project - Memphis Town (2:29)
03 Billy Gibson - Memphis (2:58)
04 Memphis All-Stars - Lovely Memphis Day (5:18)
05 Don McMinn - Memphis In May (2:50)
06 Michael Jefry Stevens Trio - Memphis In June (2:19)
07 Gary Johns - In The Mood For Memphis (3:13)
08 Holly Shelton - Memphis Blues (4:10)
09 W.C. Handy Preservation Band - Memphis Blues (0:38)
10 Bob Cheevers - Memphis Til Monday (3:40)
11 Gusto - I've Been To Memphis (3:15)
12 Eddie Harrison - Walking In Memphis (4:43)
13 Mud Boy & The Neutrons - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (2:44)
14 The Delta Queens - Memphis (Highway 72) (4:04)
15 Patrick Dodd - Memphis Keeps Rolling On (5:06)

Album: In The Mood For Memphis Vol. 2
Size: 85,9 MB
Time: 36:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2005
Styles: Memphis Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01 Keith Sykes & Reni Simon - In The Mood For Memphis (2:25)
02 The Beat Generation - Memphis Train (3:13)
03 Bob Simon & Randy Haspell - The Sun's Gonna Rise Again In Memphis (2:59)
04 Jack O. & The Tearjerkers - All The Way From Memphis (3:52)
05 Jimbo Mathus - Memphis Bound (4:16)
06 Wally Ford - The Moose Of Memphis (3:27)
07 Sandy Carroll - Memphis Rain (4:19)
08 Chris Cain - Movin' Back To Memphis (2:53)
09 Bob Cheevers - All I Want From Memphis (3:06)
10 Matt Isbell - Got The Memphis Blues (3:19)
11 Brady Howie - Memphis In The Morning (2:31)

In The Mood For Memphis Vol. 1
In The Mood For Memphis Vol. 2

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Various - Swamp Pop

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:00
Size: 100.7 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues, R&B, Cajun/Creole
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:57] 1. Dwayne Dopsie - My Louisiana Beauty
[5:02] 2. Charlie Cuccia - Nadine
[4:02] 3. Papa Don McMinn - When Marley Got The Blues
[3:37] 4. Von Johin - On The Road Again
[2:38] 5. Phat2sday - Blue Monday
[3:25] 6. Tommy Dardar - Voodoo Queen
[5:35] 7. Memphis All Stars - Jesus On The Mainline
[2:49] 8. The Wallbangers - Moon Madness
[2:52] 9. Bill E. Shaw - Double Monkey Time
[3:17] 10. G.G. Shinn - Ain't That Just Like A Woman
[3:57] 11. Anderson Brothers - Ten Wheel Dog
[3:43] 12. Don Nix - Addicted To You

Swamp pop is a musical genre that combines New Orleans-style rhythm and blues (R&B), country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. It hails from the Acadiana region of south Louisiana, as well as from the section of southeast Texas inhabited by many Cajuns and black Creoles. Peaking between 1958 and 1964, the swamp pop sound resulted in several national hits and many more regional favorites, including Rod Bernard’s “This Should Go on Forever,” Tommy McLain’s “Sweet Dreams,” Johnnie Allan’s “Lonely Days, Lonely Nights,” and Cookie and the Cupcakes’ swamp pop anthem, “Mathilda,” to name but a few.

Swamp pop music originated around 1955 during the rapid Americanization of south Louisiana’s historically French-speaking parishes. The Cajuns and black Creoles who pioneered the sound were generally born between 1935 and 1940 and came of age during the mid-1950s, when mainstream American culture and values were taking the place of local folk traditions, including “old-time” accordion and fiddle music. Although many swamp pop musicians played Cajun and black Creole music as children, they generally regarded the music of their parents and grandparents as outmoded by the time they became teenagers during the 1950s. Instead, they gravitated toward the new, more urban sounds of R&B and early rock ‘n’ roll. They eagerly emulated young musicians such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and particularly Fats Domino. Unlike Domino’s New Orleans R&B, however, swamp pop drew heavily on Anglo-Protestant country and western music, introduced to the French-speaking parishes by Texas oil field workers and distant high-powered radio stations, such as WSM in Nashville or, closer to home, KWKH in Shreveport. Among the era’s country and western artists, Hank Williams Sr. exerted the most notable influence on the budding swamp pop sound.

Despite the substantial impact of Americanization on young swamp pop musicians, Cajun and black Creole music (zydeco as well as its precursors, like juré, la-la, and pic-nic music) continued to influence their developing style. As a result, swamp pop musicians not only performed and recorded the tell-tale love ballads most strongly associated with the genre, but they also pulled songs from multiple popular and regional styles. For example, they played country and western standards like “Jambalaya,” as well as Cajun and black Creole folk songs like “Hip et Taïaut” and “Allons à Lafayette”—though these songs were recorded rock ‘n’ roll-style in English, or bilingually in English and French under the Americanized titles “Hippy Ti Yo” and “Let’s Do the Cajun Twist.” Young swamp pop musicians carried the cultural baggage of their French-speaking heritage, a fact reflected by their ethnic surnames, which they often exchanged for Anglo-sounding stage names. They did this not because of shame for their heritage (although many Cajuns and black Creoles did experience cultural prejudice), but because of a desire to sell records outside south Louisiana, where the pronunciation of their actual names would confuse fans, deejays, and promoters. John Allen Guillot, therefore, became Johnnie Allan, Robert Charles Guidry became Bobby Charles, Elwood Dugas became Bobby Page, Clinton Guillory became Clint West, and Phillip Batiste became Phil Phillips.

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Various - Swamp Rock

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:33
Size: 104.3 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues, Swamp rock
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:31] 1. Dwayne Dopsie - Better Go Get It
[3:51] 2. Charlie Cuccia - Get Out Of My Life Woman
[2:46] 3. Papa Don McMinn - Mr. Crump
[2:19] 4. Von Johin - Judgment Day Rag
[2:13] 5. Phat2sday - Makin' Bacon
[2:57] 6. Tommy Dardar - Goin' Back To Lafayette
[5:18] 7. Memphis All Stars - Special Someone
[3:11] 8. The Wallbangers - 300 Pounds
[4:07] 9. Bill E. Shaw - Acadian Woman
[3:47] 10. G.G. Shinn - Certain Kind Of Something
[3:26] 11. Anderson Brothers - Baby I Love You
[3:04] 12. David & Roselyn - Hello Josephine
[3:56] 13. Don Nix - Hurt Somebody

Closely associated with the music of Louisiana (and with good reason), swamp rock combines New Orleans-driven R&B with the traditional Creole and French Louisiana sounds. Though it never quite caught on with the mainstream - at least as a whole - swamp rock maintains a large following in Louisiana. The genre as known was created in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of the best swamp rock bands and artists aren't from Louisiana. Swamp rock, though, with its cult following across the globe, still remains an exciting subgenre of rock.

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Papa Don McMinn - The Pale Prince Of Beale Street

Size: 109,5 MB
Time: 46:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Memphis Blues
Art: Front

01. Last Night Baby And The Night Before (3:58)
02. Black Guitar (3:29)
03. Riding On The Euro Rail (4:56)
04. If You Got It, I Can Get It (2:41)
05. Key In The Lock (4:15)
06. When Marley Got The Blues (4:01)
07. Mr. Crump (2:45)
08. Junior's Place (4:17)
09. Bad Blood (2:49)
10. Miss You Like The Devil (3:36)
11. My Love Light's Shining Again (6:45)
12. Hummingbird (3:18)

Papa Don McMinn is a Memphis music legend. He was instrumental in the rebirth of the Home of the Blues: Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee. During the mid-1980s, Papa Don’s band had the "house gig" at Rum Boogie on the corner of Beale and Highway 61. Everyone who was anyone was there, and when the big names came to town to record or perform, there was only one place to go - to see Papa Don McMinn and his Rum Boogie band. Twenty five years later, Papa Don is still creating and perpetuating his special brand of Southern Music, a concoction of Delta and Boogie Blues. Papa Don's current band, Nightrain, is anchored by his sons, Doug on drums and Rome on bass.

Don has performed all across the planet, and he’s worked and recorded with the likes of Memphis Slim, John Mayall, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Albert King, among others. Some of the notables who’ve made cameo appearances with Papa Don's band are Joe Walsh, Gregg Allman, Rufus Thomas, Jon Bonjovi, Billy F Gibbons, and Eddie Floyd. In 2011 Papa Don McMinn and Nightrain, with the addition of his grandson Michael McMinn, officially became 3GB2: Three Generations Blues Band. The family tradition continues and the music has never been better! Papa Don McMinn & 3GB2 are Papa Don McMinn : Lead Vocals and Guitar, Lorina Rae McMinn (Lead Vocals), Doug McMinn (Drums, Blues Harp, Vocals), Rome McMinn (Bass and Vocals) and Michael McMinn (Blues Harp).

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Various Artists - Letter From Memphis

Year: 1998
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:01
Size: 177,6 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Donnie Fritts - Hello Memphis (3:50)
2. Don Nix - Goin' Down The Road To Memphis (3:52)
3. Bill Wharton & The Ingredients - Havana Moon (3:34)
4. Mark Hodgson - Big Foot Woman (3:08)
5. Dr. Hector & The Groove Injectors - Doing All The Wrong Things Right (5:07)
6. Ace Moreland - No, No, Henrietta (4:49)
7. Bruce Channel - Hootchie Chile (3:23)
8. Microwave Dave & The Nukes - Road Runner (4:51)
9. Lee Baker & The Agitators - (Air Mobile) You Can't Catch Me (3:34)
10. Don McMinn - Where's The Love (2:48)
11. Gary B.B. Coleman - That's Enough (5:02)
12. Tony Sarno & The Screamin' Blue Demons - Money On The Side (3:07)
13. Sonny Landreth - Creole Angel (4:16)
14. Cold Blue Steel - Shufflin Little Lady (3:22)
15. The Bluebirds - Run For The Levee (4:01)
16. The Radio Kings - Love Comes Easy (Love Comes Hard) (3:15)
17. Mark May & The Agitators - Short & Stout (3:09)
18. Chicago Bob Nelson - It's A Shame (3:00)
19. Smokehouse - Mr So And So (2:45)
20. Eric Culberson & The Erok Band - Wrapped Up In Love Again (4:59)

Today, blues and R&B music are no longer the preserve of working class African Americans and, although the city of Memphis itself has changed, the influence of its legendary performers can be heard in the recordings on this cd. The selections here, taken from the current generation of blues and R&B artists, represent the best of the new era of Memphis Music.

Although they are continuing the traditions of artists such as B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson, these artists sing new songs with new voices; however, the intertwined threads of anguish and joy, agony and celebration are still present, as they in the primitive blues that W.C. Handy heard down on Beale Street all those years ago. /Excerpt from the liner notes

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Don McMinn - 2 albums: Boogie Man / The Blues Ain't A Color

Album: Boogie Man
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 35:17
Size: 80.8 MB
Styles: Memphis blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:03] 1. The Boogie Man
[4:43] 2. With What's Left Of My Old Friends
[2:40] 3. Mr. Crump
[2:37] 4. If You Got It, I Can Get It
[4:03] 5. The Magic Of A Woman
[4:10] 6. You Can't Judge A Book
[4:03] 7. Ain't Love Strange
[3:15] 8. The Blues Ain't Nothing
[3:16] 9. I Can't Get A Handle On Love
[3:22] 10. Hold Me Tight

Being A veteran of Memphis Music, Don McMinn brings his particular brand of Southern Style music to liven up any occasion. These styles range from real delta blues to blazing southern rock influenced blues and boogie. When you get Don to perform at your event, you get Memphis Music at its best.

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Album: Papa Don McMinn - The Blues ain't a color
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:39
Size: 93.1 MB
Styles: Memphis blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:36] 1. Last Night Baby (Alt Version)
[5:44] 2. Color Me Gone
[3:54] 3. Stone Monkey
[5:40] 4. Blues Ain't a Color
[3:00] 5. Just Like Last Night
[2:47] 6. Bad Blood
[3:33] 7. Things Are Changing
[3:31] 8. Little Dancer
[4:48] 9. Blues Heaven
[3:00] 10. Hokey Dokey

Papa Don McMinn is a Memphis Music legend. He was instrumental in the rebirth of the Home of the Blues: Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee. During the mid-1980s, Papa Don’s band had the "house gig" at Rum Boogie on the corner of Beale and Highway 61. Everyone who was anyone was there, and when the big names came to town to record or perform, there was only one place to go - to see Papa Don McMinn and his Rum Boogie band.

Twenty five years later, Papa Don is still creating and perpetuating his special brand of Southern Music, a concoction of Delta and Boogie Blues. Papa Don's current band, Nightrain, is anchored by his sons, Doug on drums and Rome on bass.

Don has performed all across the planet, and he’s worked and recorded with the likes of Memphis Slim, John Mayall, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Albert King, among others. Some of the notables who’ve made cameo appearances with Papa Don's band are Joe Walsh, Gregg Allman, Rufus Thomas, Jon Bonjovi, Billy F Gibbons, and Eddie Floyd.

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Various - A Few Degrees Cooler Vol 1

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:25
Size: 122.3 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[3:02] 1. The Radio Kings - The Other Side Of Town
[4:11] 2. The Toler Brothers - Murdered By Love
[6:48] 3. Don McMinn - Painkiller Blues
[3:39] 4. Gary B.B. Coleman - I No Something's On Your Mind
[1:36] 5. Impala - Open All Night
[3:50] 6. Don Nix - Goin' Down The Road To Memphis
[2:52] 7. Hamilton Loomis - Love Sick
[4:54] 8. Little Dickie Dean - Submarine
[3:20] 9. The Coolers - Die Hard Man
[2:43] 10. The Radio Kings - It Ain't Easy
[7:09] 11. The Toler Brothers - Goin' Down Slow
[3:19] 12. Gary B.B. Coleman - My Old Cows Sick
[2:21] 13. Impala - Derailed
[3:33] 14. Little Dickie Dean - I Need Money

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