Mojo Blues Band & Dana Gillespie - ...And The Boogie Woogie Flu

Album: ...And The Boogie Woogie Flu
Size: 89,9 MB
Time: 38:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1982
Styles: Blues/R&B/Boogie Woogie
Art: LP Front & Back

1. Seacruise (2:49)
2. Shooee... Get Out! (3:42)
3. Blue Job (Instrumental) (3:43)
4. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean (2:24)
5. One For The Road (Instrumental) (3:39)
6. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie (3:04)
7. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (2:36)
8. I'm A Woman (3:47)
9. Steel Me (Instrumental) (3:27)
10. Big Ten Inch (2:35)
11. Oo Ee Baby (2:49)
12. Mighty Tight Woman (4:13)

Dana Gillespie:
After 45 years in music and over 60 albums Dana Gillespie is well qualified to sing the blues. A career that combined radio, theatre, film and sport (she was once British junior water-skiing champion) with music, Dana has been in the public eye since recording her first album at the age of 15. Her music has evolved from folk in the 60s through 70s Bowie-esque glam-rock to the raunchy in-your-face blues she performs today.

Dana Gillespie has been dedicated to the blues from an early age: "I discovered the blues when I went to the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962 and also to see the Yardbirds at the Marquee Club. I was in my early teens and hadn't heard anything like it before - blues wasn't easily available in the UK back then". Bessie Smith especially inspired her because of her combination of sly, funny and bawdy lyrics. "Blues was my first musical love because it's earthy, spiritual and honest."

Mojo Blues Band:
Mojo Blues Band is centered around Erik Trauner, representing a music community of musicians who are passionate for the blues, and they have made the exotic language of the blues to their own. Comparitive to a second hand mother language with all their dialects are the traditional Chicago Blues just as well as swinging R&B and rolling boogie woogie.

The band attempts to create a homogeneous sound. Not the endless soloing of the individual musician, but the question/answering dialogue between the instruments, have priority. A concert with the Mojo Blues Band is always a dynamic suspenseful, hot to cold tub of feelings, with humor in between.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Dana Gillespie - Where Blue Begins

Size: 112.5 MB
Time: 48:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Where Blue Begins (3:50)
02. I Wanna Make Love To You (3:59)
03. A Man Size Job (4:14)
04. Up Your Sleeve (4:49)
05. Tall Dark Stranger (4:08)
06. I Walk On Gilded Splinters (5:28)
07. Three Handed Man (3:47)
08. Magnet For Love (4:25)
09. Some One On My Mind (4:22)
10. Ride In Your Automobile (4:02)
11. File Me Under Fool (5:04)

Vocalist Dana Gillespie's first album was released when she was only 15. Over the next four decades, as a strong presence in the world of music, she was part of the recording of around 40 albums. In the beginning of her career in the '60s, she sang folk tunes. At some point in the '70s, she moved on to rock. By the '80s she turned her attention fully to something that was one of her first loves: the blues. In between all of that recording, Gillespie the actress stayed in the spotlight on the theater stage in shows like Jesus Christ Superstar, and in films like The Hound of the Baskervilles.

A young Dana Gillespie began performing folk music at festivals where she had large and diverse audiences to please. It gave her the perfect chance to polish her skills and learn to entertain, as well as to simply perform. During those first few years, Gillespie recorded a number of singles and two albums on the Decca and Pye labels. By 1973, she had moved on to the major label RCA and found herself working with David Bowie, who stood in as producer on a number of her recordings. The '70s saw her release such albums as Weren't Born a Man and Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle. When not performing behind the microphone, Gillespie was working behind the camera in films like Sink or Swim, Mahler, and the cult classic, The People That Time Forgot, which was a sequel to The Land That Time Forgot.

In the '80s, Gillespie maintained a hectic professional schedule, leading a double life, and maybe a triple one at times. She kept at her music, touring through the United States, Europe, and other countries. She also went back into the studio to complete several albums, including I'm a Woman, Blue Job, Move Your Body Close to Me, Below the Belt, Hot News, and Sweet Meat. She continued to show off her acting abilities, and her beauty, in movies like Parker, Scrubbers, Bad Timing, and Strapless. In between the rest, she fit in numerous television appearances.

No one could accuse Gillespie of slowing down in the '90s -- not with the more than a dozen albums she released that decade. She entered the new millennium much the same way. By these later years, she had come full force into the blues, her voice reaching that edge, her life experiences varied enough to feel and understand the songs she both sings and writes. Some of the tunes fans will find on albums from this Gillespie period are "Who's Got the Blues to Blame," "Give Me Your Best Shot," "The Sky Will Still Be Blue," "Guardian Blue Angel," "You Make Me Feel So Good," "Who Blew the Blues Away," and "Turning Over a Blue Leaf." She has stayed a strong part of the music scene by organising The Mustique Blues Festival every year and through her radio show called "Globetrotting" With Gillespie, which airs on Blue Danube Radio in Vienna and focuses on African and Indian music with a bit of blues too. In 2003 Gillespie released a new record for Ace called Staying Power which celebrated her 40th year in the music industry and showed her to be as strong a vocalist as ever. ~Charlotte Dillon

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Dana Gillespie - Live With The London Blues Band

Size: 156.7 MB
Time: 67:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Big Boy (4:17)
02. Your Mind Is On Vacation (4:16)
03. Ten Ton Blocks (5:35)
04. Big Daddy Blues (8:44)
05. Experienced (4:46)
06. Be My Sugar (4:06)
07. Up Your Sleeve (5:20)
08. Too Blue To Boogie (5:37)
09. Timeless (5:02)
10. Staying Power (4:05)
11. St. Louis Blues (6:54)
12. A Lotta What You Got (8:43)

For the first time in her career, Blues diva Dana Gillespie releases a live album. After four studio sets for Ace, dating back to 1982's Blue Job, this CD is released in response to the demand by her audiences around the world. Recorded with the London Blues Band in Poole in 2006, the set features the dynamic guitar skills of Dino Baptiste. No fancy studio tweaks are used here. Dana and the Band cut the mustard, with the very highest level of musicianship, spiced up with a lot of fun, to create this straight-ahead record of a fabulous gig from a great singer with a great band.

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Dana Gillespie - Hot Stuff

Size: 157.6 MB
Time: 67:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Blues, Rock, R&B
Art: Full

01. Lovin' Machine (2:23)
02. Pencil Thin Papa (2:57)
03. Easy Does It (3:58)
04. Meat On Their Bones (3:53)
05. Raise A Little Hell (3:51)
06. Empty Bed Blues (4:35)
07. Play With Your Poodle (3:02)
08. Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style Again (2:22)
09. Too Many Drivers (3:03)
10. Sailor's Delight (3:04)
11. Built For Comfort (3:01)
12. Fat Meat Is Good Meat (2:37)
13. Hot Stuff (2:54)
14. Tall Skinny Papa (3:31)
15. Big Car (3:36)
16. Spoonful (5:14)
17. Diggin' My Potatoes (3:39)
18. Mainline Baby (3:16)
19. Pint Size Papa (2:54)
20. Horizontal Boogie (3:11)

A big second helping of risque blues and R&B from Britain's Queen Of Bawdy Blues Dana Gillespie. Drawing on new material and from her albums Blue Job (Ace, 1982), Below The Belt (Ace, 1984) and Sweet Meat (Blue Horizon, 1989), Dana belts her way through such classic material as Howlin' Wolf's Spoonful and his boastful Built For Comfort (both from the pen of Willie Dixon), Big Bill Broonzy's Too Many Drivers, Leiber & Stoller's Mainline Baby and a slew of her own gritty compositions including Meat On Their Bones, Sailor's Delight, Horizontal Boogie and Raise A LIttle Hell.

The accompanying bands, cooking up the storm in the background, include saxophonist Pete Thomas, drummer Kieran O'Connor, guitarists Ed Dean, Sam Mitchell, bassist Charlie Hart and pianist (I said pianist! - Ed) Bob Hall. Production chores are handled by legendary Blue Horizon producer Mike Vernon and Dana herself.

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Dana Gillespie - Deep Pockets

Size: 119.4 MB
Time: 51:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Beat Of My Own Drum (5:47)
02. We Share The Same Sky (4:10)
03. The Truth About Lying (3:21)
04. Deep Pockets (3:44)
05. When You're Feeling Blue (4:32)
06. Back In The Day (3:42)
07. Your Heart Sets You Apart (5:06)
08. In Times Like These (4:17)
09. Now You're Stardust (4:28)
10. Up Yours (3:14)
11. Howling, Howling (4:30)
12. Putting My Dreams On Hold (4:27)

Dana Gillespie's affair with the blues shows not the slightest sign of flagging. Who could have predicted it would be in her sixth decade of music-making that she'd be creating her finest work? So far, 2021 has been a banner year for the 72-year-old personality. It began with the publication of her memoir, Weren't Born A Man. This was followed by a successful YouTube reboot of her popular radio show, Globetrotting With Gillespie. The memoir, co-written with David Shasha, is a full account of Dana's remarkable life, from her folk singles on Pye Records and her late 60s albums for Decca to her pivotal role in the original London cast of Jesus Christ Superstar and her memorable explosion onto the glam scene as part of the Bowie/DeFries/MainMan/RCA empire, her side-sojourns in film, and her long-lasting union with Ace Records as one of the UK's leading blues artists."Deep Pockets", the follow-up to 2019's "Under My Bed", is a collection of 12 Gillespie originals, mostly written with long-standing lead guitarist Jake Zaitz. It is a reflective album, born of Covid lockdown: "The moment the first one happened and everyone was in a state of doom and gloom and nobody went anywhere, I was on my own and began writing lyrics." If ever there were a Gillespie mission statement, it could be encapsulated by 'Beat Of My Own Drum'. "I feel strongly that all through my life I've danced to my own beat," says Dana, "not to some commercial one." Meanwhile, 'The Truth About Lying' is a song she could only have written now. Coming from a new artist, it might simply sound reproving, but from someone who's really lived, it's unequivocal warnings about the corrosive effects of dishonesty are chillingly plausible. Although there are moments that touch on loss, such as the haunting elegy 'Now You're Stardust', the overall guiding spirit of the album could be summarised as 'be happy, play the game', the wisdom of the late Sri Sathya Sai Baba for whose philosophy Dana has long been a worldwide ambassador. This is never more apparent than in the touching song of universal empathy 'We Share The Same Sky'. • "Deep Pockets" has arrived earlier than scheduled. After the first UK lockdown prompted a rush of industry from Dana and an album's worth of songs, she and her band flew off to play the Lugano Blues Festival. With a house on Lake Maggiore at their disposal and no way of knowing when the London studios might reopen or close again, recording impromptu suddenly seemed like a good idea. Everything you hear was captured in that dazzling summer setting over just four days, in either one or two takes; that's why the music has such a distinctive heat, zest and spontaneity. Nothing's been overworked or unduly titivated, and Dana's voice, unerring in it's pitch and as expressive as ever, is just how it sounds in a live show.

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Dana Gillespie - As Blue As I Can Be: Live

Size: 194,5 MB
Time: 84:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Be My Sugar (Live) ( 5:31)
02. Big Boy (Live) ( 4:33)
03. Blue Room (Live) ( 5:31)
04. Blue Cadillac (Live) ( 3:14)
05. Organ Grinder (Live) ( 5:23)
06. Blue Temptation (Live) ( 4:32)
07. Man Size Job (Live) ( 3:16)
08. St. Louis Blues (Live) ( 7:07)
09. Your Mind Is On Vacation (Live) ( 5:22)
10. Big Ten Inch Record (Live) ( 2:57)
11. No One (Live) (11:46)
12. I Want You To Be My Baby (Live) ( 4:11)
13. Up Your Sleeve (Live) ( 6:14)
14. Spoonful (Live) ( 4:23)
15. Come On (If You're Coming) (Live) ( 9:55)

Dana Gillespie recorded in England in 1997. Following in the footsteps of the great female blues singers, Dana sings humorous, risqué blues. Inspired by Bessie Smith and her combination of sly, funny and bawdy lyrics, this set is toe-tapping, hand clapping, shake your blues away music interspersed with powerhouse St Louis Blues style classics. A joy to listen.

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Dana Gillespie - Under My Bed

Size: 124,0 MB
Time: 53:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Big Mouth (4:00)
02. Old School (4:13)
03. I'm In Chains (3:53)
04. More Fool Me (4:29)
05. See You On The Other Side (4:09)
06. Va Va Voom (4:59)
07. Another Heart Breaks (4:34)
08. Under My Bed (3:49)
09. High Cost (6:07)
10. Walk In Love Today (5:04)
11. Punch The Air (4:37)
12. Beats Working (3:28)

Dana Gillespie has been a major figure on the UK music scene for 55 years & counting. Starting on the folk circuit in the mid 60’s she graduated to pop before settling on the musical love of her life – the Blues, which she describes as “…my first musical love because it's earthy, spiritual and honest”. Since the late 70s she has been singing, recording and touring with blues musicians from all over the world, including a two-year stint in America working with some of the finest players in the industry. She has recorded over 60 albums for various prestigious labels and has performed on every continent. As evidence of the high esteem in which she’s held Dana was voted “Top British Female Blues Vocalist” by the British Blues Connection and Blueprint Magazine five times and has now been elevated to their Hall Of Fame. Her current backing band, The London Blues Band, is a terrific high-energy band featuring the cream of UK blues musicians including Dino Baptiste on piano, Jake Zaitz on guitar and Mike Paice on sax and harmonica. Expect well-crafted original songs that capture the essence of the blues’ rootsy, lowdown and dirty feel, as well as classic blues covers so long associated with this great outfit. Tonight we are especially honoured to host the release of Dana's 70th album "Under My Bed" (70th! - to go along with her 70th birthday), on the renowned Ace Records label. Containing twelve new songs written over a four-year period with co-producer and guitarist Jake Zaitz, it's quintessential Dana - full of style, character and, most of all, heart. Don't miss this very special opportunity to hear these new songs live!

Under My Bed

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Dana Gillespie Feat. Mojo Blues Band - I'm A Woman (The Blues Line)

Year: 1986/1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:18
Size: 88,6 MB
Styles: Blues, R&B, boogie woogie
Scans: Front

1. Big Ten Inch (2:38)
2. Mighty Tight Woman (4:16)
3. 7th Floor Boogie (3:09)
4. Sea Cruise (2:50)
5. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie (3:04)
6. Gotta Go Home (3:21)
7. Shooee... Get Out! (3:44)
8. I'm A Woman (3:50)
9. Meat On Their Bones (3:31)
10. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean (2:26)
11. Oo Ee Baby (2:49)
12. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (2:36)

Dana Gillespie:
After 45 years in music and over 60 albums Dana Gillespie is well qualified to sing the blues. A career that combined radio, theatre, film and sport (she was once British junior water-skiing champion) with music, Dana has been in the public eye since recording her first album at the age of 15. Her music has evolved from folk in the 60s through 70s Bowie-esque glam-rock to the raunchy in-your-face blues she performs today.

Dana Gillespie has been dedicated to the blues from an early age: "I discovered the blues when I went to the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962 and also to see the Yardbirds at the Marquee Club. I was in my early teens and hadn't heard anything like it before - blues wasn't easily available in the UK back then". Bessie Smith especially inspired her because of her combination of sly, funny and bawdy lyrics. "Blues was my first musical love because it's earthy, spiritual and honest."

Mojo Blues Band:
Mojo Blues Band is centered around Erik Trauner, representing a music community of musicians who are passionate for the blues, and they have made the exotic language of the blues to their own. Comparitive to a second hand mother language with all their dialects are the traditional Chicago Blues just as well as swinging R&B and rolling boogie woogie.

The band attempts to create a homogeneous sound. Not the endless soloing of the individual musician, but the question/answering dialogue between the instruments, have priority. A concert with the Mojo Blues Band is always a dynamic suspenseful, hot to cold tub of feelings, with humor in between.

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Dana Gillespie - What Memories We Make: The Complete Mainman Recordings 1971-1974

Size: 179,6+178,7 MB
Time: 77:06+76:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues, Folk, Rock
Art: Front & Back

CD 1:
01. Mother, Don't Be Frightened (1971 Promo LP Version) (4:14)
02. Andy Warhol (1971 Promo LP Version) (2:44)
03. Never Knew (1971 Promo LP Version) (3:29)
04. All Cut Up On You (1971 Promo LP Version) (3:21)
05. Lavender Hill (1971 Promo LP Version) (3:23)
06. Stardom Road, Pts. 1 & 2 (7:23)
07. What Memories We Make (5:10)
08. Dizzy Heights (3:37)
09. Andy Warhol (3:06)
10. Backed A Loser (4:55)
11. Weren't Born A Man (4:11)
12. Mother, Don't Be Frightened (4:19)
13. All Cut Up On You (4:19)
14. Eternal Showman (3:28)
15. All Gone (5:07)
16. Lavender Hill (Alternate Version) (3:33)
17. Never Knew (Alternate Version) (3:44)
18. Hold On To Your Fire (3:11)
19. Weren't Born A Man (3:43)

CD 2:
01. Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle (4:47)
02. Really Love The Man (4:37)
03. Hold Me Gently (3:22)
04. Don't Mind Me (6:14)
05. Pack Your Bags (4:02)
06. No Tail To Wag (5:00)
07. Get My Rocks Off (4:29)
08. Wanderlust (4:15)
09. Getting Through To Me (4:06)
10. Never Knew (5:25)
11. Man Size Job (Out-Take) (6:33)
12. Stoke The Engine (Demo) (4:20)
13. Goin' Crazy With The Blues (Demo) (3:16)
14. Say Goodnight To The Night (Demo) (4:43)
15. Do The Spin (Demo) (3:55)
16. Gone At The Game (Demo) (4:20)
17. Andy Warhol (Demo) (3:20)

Dana Gillespie first made her name as a teenage singer (and songwriter) in the 1960s, with a string of memorable singles and albums for Pye and Decca..In 1971, she teamed up with David Bowie's management company MainMan, joining Bowie at RCA Records. It would be two years before her next record - but it was worth the wait. Weren't Born A Man was a wonderful amalgam of pop, soul and some wonderful songwriting from Dana. The title track, for example, wouldn't have sounded out-of-place on Dusty In Memphis, while Dana's twist on Bowie's 'Andy Warhol' (the song had actually been written for her) was unique. Both these album highlights were issued as singles..Dana swiftly followed up with a second album for RCA, Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle. The recordings were bluesier in places than on its predecessor but still equally impressive. The LP was promoted by a single, 'Really Love The Man', but thereafter Dana parted ways with MainMan before building an enviable reputation as a blues singer of some renown. Issued with the full support and involvement of the artist and MainMan, What Memories We Make is the first proper retrospective of Dana's recordings for MainMan/RCA. Many album tracks make their debut on CD and have been joined by a raft of rarities and previously unissued material..All five tracks from the legendary BOWPROMO album from 1971 are included: this was an album circulated by MainMan featuring rough mixes by David Bowie on one side (made prior to him signing with RCA) and Dana Gillespie on the other. Also present is the semi-mythical, previously unheard original demo of 'Andy Warhol' featuring backing vocals from Bowie, and the rare Libido single (issued on Mooncrest in 1973), plus sessions from late 1974 for what would have been Dana's third album for RCA/MainMan. .Housed in a plush Digipak with lengthy sleeve-notes by David Wells within a 24-page booklet also boasting an embarrassment of photographic riches, What Memories We Make is a long overdue tribute to a rare British star.

What Memories We Make

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Various Artists - Jump, Jive & Swing

Year: 1999
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:05
Size: 151,3 MB
Styles: Swing, jump blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. Chevalier Brothers - Corn On The Cobb (3:05)
2. Chevalier Brothers - Wise Up Baby (2:30)
3. The Ray Gelato Giants - Givin' Up Givin' Up (3:19)
4. Dana Gillespie - A Lotta What You Got (2:55)
5. Sugar Ray's Flying Fortress - Bim Bam Baby (2:22)
6. Big Town Playboys - Ain't No Big Deal On You (3:33)
7. Big Town Playboys - Girls All Over The World (3:28)
8. Tyrone Hibbs & The Hipshakers - Rock ('Til My Rocker Breaks Down) (2:51)
9. The Ray Gelato Giants - Medley: Angelina/Zooma Zooma (5:04)
10. Dana Gillespie - Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style Again (2:20)
11. Ray Gelato's Giants Of Jive - Sing, Sing, Sing (4:35)
12. Dana Gillespie - Lovin' Machine (2:22)
13. Tyrone Hibbs & The Hipshakers - There Ain't Enough Room Here To Boogie (2:40)
14. Ray Gelato's Giants Of Jive - Flying Home (4:20)
15. Tyrone Hibbs & The Hipshakers - You Better Believe It (2:55)
16. Big Town Playboys - Hungry Man (3:21)
17. Big Town Playboys - The Wobble (3:34)
18. Sugar Ray's Flying Fortress - You Got Me Reelin' And Rockin' (3:37)
19. Sugar Ray's Flying Fortress - Dark Eyes (7:03)

The talents of six great British acts are combined on one CD to show that the Yanks don't have it all their own way when it comes to recreating the Golden Sounds of the swing era.

Dana Gillespie does Wynonie Harris and Julia Lee, Sugar Ray's Flying Fortress covers all bases from Roy Milton to Stan Kenton, while The Ray Gelato Giants recall the stomping sounds of Louis Prima and Benny Goodman (among others).

The Big Town Playboys and Tyrone Hibbs play jump blues like it's still 1947 and the whole package is rounded out with a couple of vintage tracks from the legendary Chevalier Brothers. Over an hour of sartorially spot-on swinging sounds for only around £7. Hey Bop a Rebop!! /Ted Carroll

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Dana Gillespie & Al Cook - Take It Off Slowly

Size: 95,4 MB
Time: 40:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Piano Blues
Art: Front

01. I Want My Hands On It (2:48)
02. No More Waiting (4:01)
03. He's Just My Size (3:39)
04. Eat Your Heart Out (3:06)
05. Take It Off Slowly (4:27)
06. Fck Blues (3:01)
07. Love Operation (4:34)
08. Red Light (2:21)
09. My Handy Man (2:56)
10. Press That Button, Ring That Bell (3:11)
11. He Cooks Up A Storm (3:12)
12. Auto Mechanic Blues (2:59)

Great new recordings by the Queen of European Blues with the great Al Cook Band! After a very long time there is a brand-new CD from the queen of european blues, Dana Gillespie. This time she is singing some erotic songs, which are nice to listen to. The CD has brand new material, but also great covers Dana is in a great form! There is no soul blues or rock blues, just pure traditional blues!

Take It Off Slowly

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Dana Gillespie - Blues It Up

Year: 1990
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:34
Size: 170,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues, R&B
Scans: Full

1. A Lotta What You Got (2:54)
2. My Man Stands Out (2:36)
3. Fat Sam From Birmingham (3:17)
4. Sweet Meat (3:38)
5. Ugly Papa (2:53)
6. Sweets (3:26)
7. King Size Papa (2:53)
8. One Hour Mama (3:56)
9. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy (3:27)
10. Don't You Make Me High (2:36)
11. Big Ten Inch Record (3:04)
12. Below The Belt (3:45)
13. Long Lean Baby (3:45)
14. Tongue In Cheek (4:55)
15. Meat Balls (2:47)
16. Wasn't That Good (3:01)
17. Joe's Joint (3:02)
18. Organ Grinder (3:39)
19. Come On, If You're Coming (2:53)
20. Nosey Joe (2:25)
21. It Ain't The Meat (2:42)
22. Sixty Minute Man (3:04)
23. Snatch And Grab It (2:46)

This is a compilation of Dana Gillespie's biggest, drawn from her three albums "Blue Job", "Below The Belt" and "Sweet Meat". 23 tracks of music to have a good time to! This is what the blues is all about, only this time with songs like "My Man Stands Out", "King Size Papa", "Organ Grinder" and the classic "Big Ten Inch Record" Dana is not exactly pulling the punches. Production chores are shared by Mike Vernon and Phil Brown and the boys in the band(s) consist of the cream of the London club players. A good time is guaranteed for one and all.

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Dana Gillespie - Blue One

Year: 1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:07
Size: 136,7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. True Blue Love (4:08)
2. Blue Temptation (4:20)
3. Once In A Blue Moon (4:42)
4. Scream Blue Murder (3:22)
5. Blues Line (4:57)
6. Full Circle Blues (4:53)
7. Blue Moves (3:46)
8. Blue Papa (3:44)
9. Blue Room (5:00)
10. Blues Is All I Ever Knew (3:35)
11. Blue Country (4:03)
12. Blue Light (3:52)
13. Big Daddy Blues (5:04)
14. Where Blue Begins (3:35)

Vocalist Dana Gillespie's first album was released when she was only 15. Over the next four decades, as a strong presence in the world of music, she was part of the recording of around 40 albums. In the beginning of her career in the '60s, she sang folk tunes. At some point in the '70s, she moved on to rock. By the '80s she turned her attention fully to something that was one of her first loves: the blues. In between all of that recording, Gillespie the actress stayed in the spotlight on the theater stage in shows like Jesus Christ Superstar, and in films like The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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Dana Gillespie - 2 albums: Blue Job/Sweet Meat

Vocalist Dana Gillespie's first album was released when she was only 15. Over the next four decades, as a strong presence in the world of music, she was part of the recording of around 40 albums. In the beginning of her career in the '60s, she sang folk tunes. At some point in the '70s, she moved on to rock. By the '80s she turned her attention fully to something that was one of her first loves: the blues. In between all of that recording, Gillespie the actress stayed in the spotlight on the theater stage in shows like Jesus Christ Superstar, and in films like The Hound of the Baskervilles.

A young Dana Gillespie began performing folk music at festivals where she had large and diverse audiences to please. It gave her the perfect chance to polish her skills and learn to entertain, as well as to simply perform. During those first few years, Gillespie recorded a number of singles and two albums on the Decca and Pye labels. By 1973, she had moved on to the major label RCA and found herself working with David Bowie, who stood in as producer on a number of her recordings. The '70s saw her release such albums as Weren't Born a Man and Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle. When not performing behind the microphone, Gillespie was working behind the camera in films like Sink or Swim, Mahler, and the cult classic, The People That Time Forgot, which was a sequel to The Land That Time Forgot.

In the '80s, Gillespie maintained a hectic professional schedule, leading a double life, and maybe a triple one at times. She kept at her music, touring through the United States, Europe, and other countries. She also went back into the studio to complete several albums, including I'm a Woman, Blue Job, Move Your Body Close to Me, Below the Belt, Hot News, and Sweet Meat. She continued to show off her acting abilities, and her beauty, in movies like Parker, Scrubbers, Bad Timing, and Strapless. In between the rest, she fit in numerous television appearances.

No one could accuse Gillespie of slowing down in the '90s - not with the more than a dozen albums she released that decade. She entered the new millennium much the same way. By these later years, she had come full force into the blues, her voice reaching that edge, her life experiences varied enough to feel and understand the songs she both sings and writes. Some of the tunes fans will find on albums from this Gillespie period are "Who's Got the Blues to Blame," "Give Me Your Best Shot," "The Sky Will Still Be Blue," "Guardian Blue Angel," "You Make Me Feel So Good," "Who Blew the Blues Away," and "Turning Over a Blue Leaf."

She has stayed a strong part of the music scene by organising The Mustique Blues Festival every year and through her radio show called "Globetrotting" With Gillespie, which airs on Blue Danube Radio in Vienna and focuses on African and Indian music with a bit of blues too. In 2003 Gillespie released a new record for Ace called Staying Power which celebrated her 40th year in the music industry and showed her to be as strong a vocalist as ever. /Biography by Charlotte Dillon, AllMusic

Album: Blue Job
Year: 1982
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:49
Size: 96,4 MB
Styles: Blues, R&B, jump blues
Scans: Front & back (LP)

1. A Lotta What You Got (2:54)
2. Sailor's Delight (3:05)
3. Big Ten Inch Record (3:05)
4. King Size Papa (2:53)
5. Organ Grinder (3:40)
6. Tongue In Cheek (4:55)
7. Wasn't That Good (3:01)
8. Play With Your Poodle (3:02)
9. Too Many Drivers (3:03)
10. Nosey Joe (2:25)
11. Diggin' My Potatoes (3:39)
12. Mainline Baby (3:16)
13. Snatch And Grab It (2:46)

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Album: Sweet Meat
Year: 1989
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:51
Size: 90,0 MB
Styles: Blues, R&B, jump blues
Scans: Front & back (LP)

1. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy (3:27)
2. Sweets (3:27)
3. Pencil Thin Papa (2:57)
4. Fat Meat Is Good Meat (2:37)
5. Fat Sam From Birmingham (3:18)
6. Meat On Their Bones (3:53)
7. Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style Again (2:22)
8. Sweet Meat (3:39)
9. Long Lean Baby (3:45)
10. Meat Balls (2:48)
11. Tall Skinny Papa (3:31)
12. Built For Comfort (3:01)

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Dana Gillespie - I Rest My Case

Year: 2010
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:15
Size: 148,3 MB
Styles: Blues, jazzy blues
Scans: Front, inside, tray

1. Funk Me, It's Hot! (4:42)
2. It's Gonna Be A Long Night (3:31)
3. Twenty Four Seven (6:14)
4. When Cries Become Sighs (5:10)
5. Your Love Is True (4:58)
6. Strange Are The Ways Of Love (5:08)
7. Game Over (3:56)
8. The House Of Blues (4:42)
9. Guilty As Hell (5:25)
10. I Rest My Case (5:28)
11. Wall-To-Wall Love (4:15)
12. Unify (4:42)
13. Could've, Should've, Would've (5:58)

Vocalist Dana Gillespie's first album was released when she was only 15. Over the next four decades, as a strong presence in the world of music, she was part of the recording of around 40 albums. In the beginning of her career in the '60s, she sang folk tunes. At some point in the '70s, she moved on to rock. By the '80s she turned her attention fully to something that was one of her first loves: the blues. In between all of that recording, Gillespie the actress stayed in the spotlight on the theater stage in shows like Jesus Christ Superstar, and in films like The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Ace's resident diva, Dana Gillespie, returns with her first studio blues album for the label since 2003's Staying Power. All 13 tracks are written by Dana, either on her own or with members of her top-notch band. Dana has told us that she thinks it's the best record she's made for several years and we think it's cracking. It's a potent mix of her tough-and-witty blues stompers (Funk Me, It's Hot!) together with some lyrical ballads that touch on the heartache of break up and loss. All are shot through with Dana's characteristic wit.

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Dana Gillespie - 2 albums: Have I Got The Blues For You / Experienced

Album: Have I Got The Blues For You
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:19
Size: 112.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:59] 1. Have I Got Blues For You
[3:29] 2. Blues Cadillac
[5:11] 3. These Blue Nights
[3:22] 4. Blue Blood
[4:09] 5. You Blue It
[3:35] 6. Paint The Town Blue
[3:48] 7. The Boy's In Blue
[3:58] 8. Smokin' That Blue Grass
[3:32] 9. Too Good To Be Blue
[4:05] 10. Blue Ridge Mountain Train
[4:26] 11. Blue One Too
[4:40] 12. Out Of The Blue

Have I Got the Blues for You is a good replication of classic female and jump blues from Dana Gillespie. Featuring a set of original material, Gillespie belts out big, brassy, bluesy songs with passion. While it occasionally treads a little too closely to parody and revivalism, Gillespie's powerhouse performance keeps things on track.

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Album: Experienced
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:34
Size: 106.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:46] 1. Experienced
[2:47] 2. Tough Love
[4:20] 3. One Kiss X 108
[4:08] 4. Something Coming
[3:00] 5. Break Down The Door
[5:09] 6. Ten Ton Blocks
[3:23] 7. Crying For The Moon
[4:25] 8. There Will Always Be A New Tomorrow
[3:47] 9. Try Me
[4:49] 10. Happy Birthday Blues
[3:06] 11. Me Without You
[3:49] 12. Take It Like A Man

With so many strings to her bow, it's a wonder how Dana Gillespie has the time to release her 37th album. She travels the globe on an almost full-time basis, is involved in numerous projects, while satisfying a constant stream of touring dates. This month her new album, Experienced, hits the racks and on 10 May she returns to London for a showcase at the long-established Dover Street Wine Bar. If you're not familiar with Dana already, she's been on the scene for almost 38 years, forging a career in TV, film and music. Experienced she certainly is, and the blues is her tipple. Her new album is a collection of 12 mostly self-penned ballads, belters and torch songs. And her pal Rolf Harris (yes, the Aussie cartoonist with an affection for four legged creatures) guests on two tracks playing the wobbleboard and eefing.

Dana believes this album is her finest blues outing to date: "I believe the blues should be sung by an older person because it's about emotions and experience. I couldn't do justice to it when I was younger because my voice didn't have the edge it needed to convey the emotion, nor did I have the first hand experience to sing about blue themes convincingly." Having worked alongside the likes of Bob Dylan and David Bowie, among many others, her music has evolved from folk in the 60s through 70s Bowie-esque glam rock to the raunchy in-your-face blues she performs today. The blues, however, is her first love and is the music she has returned to throughout her career: "I love blues because it represents how emotions get translated into music...it doesn't really matter what you look like, what colour you are...it's something to do with having the ability to say a lot with very few words". Her style follows in the steps of Bessie Smith, with a hint of Etta James and Koko Taylor. Critics as have described her voice: "sly and coquettish one minute and full of swaggering bravado the next". Her current band, the London Blues Band is a tight outfit, delivering "an upbeat musical backdrop".

The band comprises the finest young European blues session men, including the boogie woogie piano player Dino Baptiste, Javier Garcia on bass, Matt Schofield on guitar, Evan Jenkins on drums, and Big Mart Winning and Mike Paice making up the brass section.

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Dana Gillespie - These Blue Nights

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:29
Size: 161.4 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues vocals
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[4:15] 1. Raise A Little Hell
[5:03] 2. Blue Room
[4:24] 3. Come On
[3:21] 4. Blue Blood
[4:18] 5. Hot Stuff
[4:57] 6. Who's Got The Blues To Blame
[5:26] 7. Be My Sugar
[4:30] 8. Blue Night
[4:11] 9. Travelling Man Blues
[4:59] 10. Blues Line
[5:35] 11. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
[4:46] 12. Have I Got Blues For You
[4:05] 13. True Blue Love
[5:11] 14. These Blue Nights
[5:22] 15. It Makes Me Blue

“I believe the blues should be sung by an older person because it’s about emotions and experience. I couldn’t do justice to it when I was younger because my voice didn’t have the edge it needed to convey the emotion, nor did I have the first hand experience to sing about blue themes convincingly.”

But after 40 years in music and over 50 albums Dana Gillespie is well qualified to sing the blues. A career that combined radio, theatre, film and sport (she was once British junior water-skiing champion) with music, Dana has been in the public eye since recording her first album at the age of 15. Her music has evolved from folk in the 60s through 70s Bowie-esque glam-rock to the raunchy in-your-face blues she performs today.

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Mike Sponza - Ergo Sum

Size: 99,6 MB
Time: 36:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Modus In Rebus (Feat. Ian Siegal) (4:28)
02. Carpe Diem (Feat. Ian Siegal) (3:43)
03. Penelope (Feat. Ian Siegal) (4:37)
04. The Thin Line (Feat. Dana Gillespie) (5:00)
05. See How The Man (Feat. Ian Siegal) (6:20)
06. Poor Boy (4:34)
07. Kiss Me (Feat. Ian Siegal) (1:57)
08. Prisoner Of Jealousy (Feat. Ian Siegal) (5:45)

"ERGO SUM" is the new incredible concept album of Mike Sponza and Ian Siegal, inspired by the great passion for classical Latin poets. It took several years and a lot of research to find the right poems, translating from Latin to English, and finally turn them into a language "blues".

Human passions will never change: love, friendship, eros, the struggle for power - thousands of years ago were already the subject of poems written with powerful words and a striking modernity. In the writings of Horace, Catullus, Martial, Juvenal, we find the same strength of the lyrics sung by Muddy Waters, BB King, Sam Cooke: timeless words!

Alongside Mike, in this important work record, we find the great bluesman Englishman Ian Siegal, as singer and co-author of some songs. Since 2006 their live collaboration has led them around Europe, and is now available on disc. The "Queen" of British Blues, Dana Gillespie is with the guest cameo inspired by the poem "Odi et Amo" of Catullus.

But not enough ... the album was entirely produced at Abbey Road Studios by Rob Cass (known for his productions with Giles Martin, Jack Bruce, Bernie Marsden) and published by the Swiss label epops Music.
"ERGO SUM" is also a concert, with one formed by Mike Sponza and Ian Siegal on guitars and vocals, Mauro Tolot on bass, Buttinar Moreno on drums.

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Dana Gillespie & Joachim Palden - Boogie Woogie Nights

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:03
Size: 107.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1991
Art: Front

[3:41] 1. My Man Stands Out
[4:18] 2. Boogie Woogie For Spann
[7:22] 3. St. Louis Blues
[3:56] 4. Blues Train
[3:23] 5. One Track Mind
[6:20] 6. Empty Bed Blues
[3:57] 7. I Want You To Be My Baby
[5:13] 8. Cry To Me
[5:39] 9. No One
[3:10] 10. You're Moving Me

British blues singer Dana Gillespie with an Austrain blues crew recorded live December 1990 at Jazzland, Vienna, Austria.

"I believe the blues should be sung by an older person because it's about emotions and experience. I couldn't dojustice to it when I was younger because my voice didn't have the edge it needed to convey the emotion, nor did I have the first hand experience to sing about blue themes convincingly."

But after 45 years in music and over 60 albums Dana Gillespie is well qualified to sing the blues. A career that combined radio, theatre, film and sport (she was once British junior water-skiing champion) with music, Dana has been in the public eye since recording her first album at the age of 15. Her music has evolved from folk in the 60s through 70s Bowie-esque glam-rock to the raunchy in-your-face blues she performs today.

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Various - Austrian Blues Summit

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:10
Size: 165.2 MB
Styles: Modern acoustic/electric blues
Year: 1995/2001
Art: Front

[4:28] 1. Peter Gastenauer & Band - No Doubt
[2:10] 2. Hooked On Blues - Goin' Out Tonight
[5:07] 3. Mojo Blues Band - Black Silk
[3:34] 4. Dana Gillespie & Joachim Palden - Big Boy
[3:31] 5. Christian Dozzler & Peter Kern - I'm Mean
[3:27] 6. Hans Theessink - Late Last Night
[6:05] 7. Sir Oliver's Blues Distillery - Fool For You
[4:05] 8. Joachim Palden - Down The Road A Piece
[2:49] 9. Al Cook & Chris Sandera - Blue Prayer
[3:48] 10. The Untouchables - Dancing With The Ladies
[4:11] 11. Dana Gillespie - Make Your Pudding
[2:34] 12. Hooked On Blues Feat Oliver Humer - Never Miss You
[3:03] 13. Andy Lee Lang - Louisiana Madi Gras
[4:04] 14. Martin Pyrker - Return To Blues
[2:13] 15. Al Cook - No Kind Hearted Woman's Slave
[3:08] 16. Peter Kern & Christian Dozzler - Wild About You Baby
[6:28] 17. Bluespumpn - Boogie Of Love And Insanity
[7:17] 18. Ripoff Raskolnikov - Salty Solitude

An informative and descriptive documentation on the blues in Austria: MOJO BLUES BAND, PETER GARSTENAUER, CHRISTIAN DOZZLER, DANA GILLESPIE, HANS THESSINK, AL COOK, JOACHIM PALDEN, MARTIN PYRKER, CHRIS SANDERA, etc.

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