Showing posts with label Denny Freeman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denny Freeman. Show all posts

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Denny Freeman - The Amazing Denny Freeman

Size: 200 MB
Time: 1:24:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Texas Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Led Sled (2:41)
02. Tired Of Television (3:42)
03. 283 (3:17)
04. Blues Cruise (4:04)
05. Louisiana Luau (2:51)
06. Rockin’ With B.B. (2:15)
07. Tom Cat (4:20)
08. Steelin’ Berry’s (3:27)
09. Denny’s Blues (2:38)
10. Time For A Change (3:53)
11. Soul Dream (5:37)
12. Out Of Control (2:23)

CD 2:
01. Z (1:24)
02. Dive Bomber (5:10)
03. Delta (3:57)
04. Blues Island (4:02)
05. Acapulco Rain (4:09)
06. Testifyin’ (2:52)
07. Crusading (4:10)
08. Etouffee (2:33)
09. The Lost Incas (2:43)
10. My Dominique (3:49)
11. Soul Street (5:56)
12. Takin’ Off (2:39)

After growing up in Dallas, Freeman moved to Austin in 1970, soon followed by Jimmie Vaughan, Doyle Bramhall, Paul Ray, and a little later, Stevie Vaughan.

Eventually, Freeman played with all of them, before playing with other local blues acts, such at Louann Barton and Angela Strehli, and in the 1980's, in the famous Antone's Night Club's house band.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1992, where he joined Jimmie's first touring band, then hooked up with Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band, until 2002, and other Los Angeles acts. (the Taj album “Shoutin’ in Key” won a Grammy”).

In Los Angeles he had his own band that played in area clubs. Also, while there, obtained a co-write on a song w/ Deborah Harry, in the Blondie ”No Exit" album, and a co-write in a Percy Sledge album, “Shining Through the Rain”.

Two Freeman albums were released during the time in L.A. ("A Tone for My Sins" and "Twang Bang") and two in Austin, before that, in the '80's (Blues Cruise " and "Out of the Blue").

Most recently, in late 2012, "Digging' on Dylan" was released, an album of Bob Dylan tunes, done as instrumentals..a result of playing in the Bob Dylan Band from 2005-2009. He Played on Bob’s “Modern Times” album (2006).

Denny Freeman, the soulful, musically deep multi-instrumentalist whose presence has been foundational to Austin over the last 50 years, passed away April 25, 2021, after being diagnosed with cancer.

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Denny Freeman & The Cobras - Denny Freeman & The Cobras

Size: 159,3 MB
Time: 69:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991
Styles: Electric blues
Art: Full

1. Tomcat (5:15)
2. Harlem Shuffle (6:39)
3. First To Let You Know (5:55)
4. Blow, Joe, Blow (Crazy Bout A Saxophone) (3:38)
5. Learn To Treat Me Better (4:55)
6. Checkin' Up On My Baby (3:01)
7. House Party (4:05)
8. I Smell Trouble (5:47)
9. See See Baby (4:15)
10. I'll Go Crazy (2:55)
11. Gangster Of Love (5:17)
12. Playboy Hop (4:45)
13. Mary Sue (3:05)
14. That's How Strong My Love Is (2:31)
15. Further On Up The Road (4:06)
16. Peter Gunn (2:59)

Dennis Edward Freeman (August 7, 1944 – April 25, 2021) was an American Texas and electric blues guitarist. Although he is primarily known as a guitar player, Freeman also played piano and electronic organ, both in concert and on various recordings. He worked with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton, James Cotton, Taj Mahal, Barry Goldberg and Percy Sledge amongst others. Freeman was born in Orlando, Florida, on August 7, 1944. He spent his adolescence in Dallas, Texas, in the late 1950s and played in a rock group called The Corals while in high school. He went to college in North Texas, and had a brief stay in Los Angeles, before relocating in 1970 to Austin, Texas.

Freeman started his career as co-lead guitarist in the Cobras with Stevie Ray Vaughan. He became a founding member of Southern Feeling in 1972, along with W. C. Clark and Angela Strehli. He later recorded with Lou Ann Barton. Freeman lived and played with both Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He played piano on Jimmie Vaughan's first solo tour, and on a James Cotton album. At Antone's nightclub in the early 1980s, Freeman was a member of the house band and backed Otis Rush, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and Lazy Lester.

After touring with Jimmie Vaughan in the mid 1990s he toured with Taj Mahal until 2002. A songwriter on his five mainly instrumental albums, Freeman lived again in Los Angeles from 1992 until 2004. Freeman played with Bob Dylan's backing band between 2005 and 2009. Dylan's album, Modern Times was recorded with Dylan's then touring band, including Freeman, Tony Garnier, George G Receli, Stu Kimball, plus multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron. Freeman was inducted into the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame in 2009. Freeman died on April 25, 2021, in Austin, Texas. He was 76, and was diagnosed with abdominal cancer several weeks before his death. /Wikipedia

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

R.I.P. Denny Freeman (1944-2021)

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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Denny Freeman - Twang Bang

Year: 2002
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:25
Size: 127,6 MB
Styles: Blues, jazzy blues, instrumental
Scans: Full

1. Drive (3:59)
2. Twang Bang (4:52)
3. Chrometone (3:43)
4. Melancholy Valentine (5:05)
5. Clem's Dilema (5:36)
6. Rocket Science (2:44)
7. Cream, No Sugar (4:31)
8. Babydoll (4:44)
9. Funkbone (4:08)
10. The Hook (4:29)
11. Jimijam (3:57)
12. Voodoo Blue (3:51)
13. Jimmy Reed Again (3:40)

Denny Freeman is an unheralded master of the guitar (not to mention an excellent composer). If you blink you might miss him, and that would be a shame, for he's not the latest but the greatest of them all. In this world of has-beens and wanna-bees, Denny remains at the top. A devotee of the blues, Freeman's strengths include his willingness to embrace all blues styles, all guitar sounds, and to put the blues in a variety of settings.

This CD incorporates organ, piano, harmonica, and trombone to add color. Twelve of the thirteen tracks are penned by Freeman and Hook Herrera plays a good harp. Between the elevator and the killing floor, Denny covers the blues.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Sunday, June 5, 2016

Mel Brown & The Homewreckers - Under Yonder: Live At Pop The Gator 1991 (Feat. Denny Freeman)

Size: 159,8 MB
Time: 68:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues Rock, Blues Soul
Art: Front

01. Intro - Shawn's Shuffle (Live) (6:20)
02. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (Live) (7:54)
03. Georgia On My Mind (Live) (6:10)
04. Get Out My Life Woman (Live) (6:15)
05. Blues On The Green (Live) (6:31)
06. Band Outro Jam (Live) (3:02)
07. Shake, Rattle & Roll (Live) (7:22)
08. Under Yonder Blues (Live) (6:54)
09. I Got My Mojo Workin' (Live) (6:48)
10. Hey Joe (Live) (11:27)

Mel Brown - Guitar and vocals
Denny Freeman - Guitar

The Homewreckers:
John Lee - Keyboards
Leo Valvassori - Bass
Randall Coryell - Drums

Beautiful, timeless things come in small, small boxes. Before the great soul-funk-jazz-blues fusion guitarist Mel Brown passed in 2009 he gave one of his protégés, Shawn Kellerman, a box. It contained recordings, pictures and ephemera of Mel’s 50-plus-years gigging and recording in Los Angeles, Nashville, Austin and Kitchener.

For the last 20 years of his life Mel based himself in this Southwestern Ontario city. Mel moved here in 1989 to anchor the house band at what would become a legendary blues club – Pop the Gator on Queen Street South. As a teenager, Kellerman played with Mel during jam nights at The Gator. Decades after those sessions, and years after Mel’s homecoming, Kellerman sorted the contents of the box, and found the live recordings that make up this CD.

The tracks presented here were recorded during two shows in March 1991 and Denny Freeman, the Austin-based blues guitarist flew in for the gig with his old friend Mel Brown. Freeman and Mel had played together for years in the house band at that most famous of Austin blues institutions – Antones. With Mel and Denny are John Lee on keys, Leo Valvasori on bass and Randall Coryell on drums — the original members of the house band at Pop the Gator.

This is a recording of classic-electric blues. It fuses the old, musical traditions of mid-20th Century Mississippi, the soundtrack of Mel’s childhood in the Flowood section of Jackson, with electric guitars. This recording is a vivid, living reminder of the wonderful years (1989-1994) when music fans lined up outside Pop the Gator to see some of the greatest in blues, R&B and barrel house – Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Eddie “The Chief” Clearwater, Otis Clay, Etta James and Marcia Ball, among many others.

Along the way, Glenn Smith, a founding partner at Pop the Gator, instilled a deep and abiding passion for real-deal blues among patrons. Glenn is on this recording too, introducing the band. A fitting reminder of his continuing and enormous influence on the scene thanks to his long-closed club that nurtured the likes of leading Canadian blues artists such as Kellerman, Julian Fauth and Steve Strongman.

The musicians and fans in that second-floor club formed the nucleus of what would become one of the biggest, annual celebrations of the music Glenn Smith loves so much — The Kitchener Blues Festival. Music fans who frequented The Gator years ago speak of the place in near-reverential tones. For those who never had the pleasure of seeing a show there, this CD is your aural ticket to a time and place of pure, musical magic. ~Terry Pender

Under Yonder

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Denny Freeman - A Tone For My Sins

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:39
Size: 109.1 MB
Styles: Guitar blues
Year: 1997
Art: Front

[3:00] 1. Vigilante
[2:48] 2. Wah Wah Toosie
[4:33] 3. It's A Love Thing
[4:04] 4. Swing Set
[5:09] 5. Cat Fight
[3:47] 6. Don't Stop Now
[3:49] 7. Stealin' Berries Part Ii
[3:12] 8. Swamp Box
[3:22] 9. Aftershock
[4:42] 10. That's What She Said
[5:25] 11. Soul Burden
[3:42] 12. Rhythm Method

A Tone for My Sins is a previously released, but hard to find, CD by guitarist Denny Freeman, long a fixture of the Austin blues scene. He spent the 70's and 80's in the company of Jimmie and Stevie Vaughan and the world famous Antones Night Club House Band before moving to L.A., there landing a job w/ Taj Mahal for several years. He's currently playing guitar in the Bob Dylan Band and participated in Bob's last studio album, Modern Times. This is Freeman's 3rd of four instrumental albums, reflecting his influences and loves, which range from soul jazz and blues, to rock and roll and funk, and most things in between.

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