Eddie Taylor - Live In Japan 1977 (Deluxe Edition)

Size: 172,2+168,4 MB
Time: 74:04+72:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. Honky Tonk (6:23)
02. That's All Right (Feat. Dave Myers) (4:54)
03. Kansas City (Feat. Dave Myers) (3:26)
04. I Don't Know (Feat. Odie Payne, Jr.) (6:04)
05. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (Feat. Odie Payne, Jr.) (4:37)
06. She's Nineteen Years Old (Feat. Louis Myers) (5:29)
07. Got My Mojo Working (Feat. Louis Myers) (4:12)
08. Stop Breakin' Down (Feat. Louis Myers) (4:41)
09. Goin' Down Slow (5:09)
10. My Sometimes Baby (4:28)
11. Bad Boy (3:47)
12. Blow Wind Blow (4:06)
13. Going Upside Your Head (4:10)
14. You're Gonna Look For Me (And I'll Be Hard To Find) (4:51)
15. Kind Hearted Woman (7:38)

CD 2:
01. Night Train (4:19)
02. Mean Old World (Feat. Dave Myers) (5:22)
03. Caldonia (Feat. Dave Myers) (4:59)
04. Hamburger O-I-8-1-2 (Feat. Odie Payne, Jr.) (5:00)
05. For You My Love (Feat. Odie Payne, Jr.) (3:09)
06. Tin Pan Alley (Feat. Louis Myers) (5:15)
07. Take A Little Walk With Me (Feat. Louis Myers) (4:32)
08. Mean Black Spider (Feat. Louis Myers) (5:33)
09. Off The Wall (Feat. Louis Myers) (3:02)
10. Hoy Hoy (4:33)
11. Come Back Baby (4:19)
12. Signals Of Love (4:46)
13. There'll Be A Day (3:59)
14. I'm A Country Boy (4:16)
15. Crossroads (3:23)
16. Hideaway (3:00)
17. Baby Please Don't Go (Feat. Louis Myers) (2:40)

Personnel:
Eddie Taylor: Guitar, Vocals
Louis Myers: Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Odie Payne, Jr.: Drums, Vocals
Dave Myers: Bass, Vocals

Recorded live at Seibu Kodo, University of Kyoto on December 17, 1977 (Disc 1) and December 18, 1997 (Disc 2, 2-1 to 2-16; track 2-17 recorded at Nihon Kyoiku Kaikan Hall, Tokyo on December 21, 1977.

Thanks to MarcFr
Live In Japan 1977

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Eddie Taylor - Still Not Ready For Eddie

Size: 97,3 MB
Time: 41:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1987
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front & Back

01. Bad Boy (4:15)
02. If You Don't Want Me Baby (3:24)
03. Clouds In My Heart (4:48)
04. Knockin' At Your Door (4:22)
05. Sittin' Here Thinkin' (5:44)
06. Bigtown Playboy (4:19)
07. Look On Yonder's Wall (6:27)
08. Anna Lee (5:39)
09. Boogaloo Farm (2:49)

Personnel:
Guitar, Vocals – Eddie Taylor
Bass – Bob Stroger
Drums – Ted Harvey (tracks: 1, 7, 8), Tim Taylor (6)
Guitar – Hubert Sumlin (tracks: 1, 7, 8), Jimmy Rogers (tracks: 4), Luther Tucker
Harmonica – Snooky Pryor
Piano – Sunnyland Slim

Featuring 'the last recordings of the man behind the Vee Jay Sound of Jimmy Reed and John Lee Hooker'.

Mississippi is known for its many blues musicians, and Eddie Taylor is one of these artists. Although he often found himself in Jimmy Reed’s shadow, he was a great guitar player. Eddie Taylor was born to Joseph Taylor and Mamie Gaston iJanuary 29, 1923. His mother and father separated when he was young, and Taylor had to stay home from school and work on his mother’s farm in Benoit, Mississippi. In 1936 he got his first guitar and taught himself how to play it. His son, Eddie Taylor, Jr, said in a recent interview that his father was a natural guitar player.

Taylor’s playing style became that of the delta tradition (All Music Guides). Listening to the music of his favorite musicians, Charley Palton and Robert Pelway, pushed Taylor to try harder. Little did Eddie Taylor known that he would eventually grow into a great blues guitarist. In 1949, Eddie Taylor moved to Chicago where he began working with Jimmy Lee Robinson in Jake’s Tavern. Club Jumboree was another club Taylor played. According to one source, a blues man named Freddie King moved north to Chicago in his mid-teens., and in 1950 became influenced by local blues guitarists Eddie ‘Playboy’ Taylor and Robert Lockwood. King absorbed elements from both of these blues men’s styles before he added elements of Magic Sam and Otis Rush. Taylor himself began playing behind Jimmy Reed in 1953. This fact is interesting because Eddie Taylor taught Jimmy Reed to play guitar back in Leland, Mississippi. Eddie Taylor primarily became known for playing with Jimmy Reed.

During the 1970s Big Bear Records steadily built a worldwide reputation with its now-legendary recordings of important American blues men like Doctor Ross, Homesick James, Lightnin’ Slim, Big John Wrencher, Snooky Prior, Tommy Tucker, Eddie Playboy Taylor, Eddie Guitar Burns and others. Even though Eddie Taylor is known for playing with Jimmy Reed, he did make solo albums.He got a chance to show his vocal skills through songs like “Ready for Eddie,” “I Feel So Bad,” and “Big Town Play Boy” (All Music Guides).His best-known solo album is I Feel So Bad. Eddie Taylor was underrated while he was alive, and Chaos Music states, “Eddie Taylor was never a self-promoter, and he has probably sold more records since his death in 1985 than while he was alive. His son Edward released a tribute album in 1998.

Eddie Taylor had eight children. His first child, Brenda Taylor, was born in 1963. In the interview Eddie Taylor Jr. said about his sister, “She likes to joke around.” Vera’s first son, Larry Taylor, was born in 1955 and was taught to play drums by Howlin’ Wolf’s drummer Cassell Burrows. Eddie Taylor’s first son, Timothy Taylor, was born in 1965, and he also plays drums. Edna Taylor, who was born in 1967, likes to sing. Valicia Taylor was born in 1969. Edward Taylor, Jr., a guitarist like his father, was born in 1972. Born in 1975 was Demetria Taylor, who enjoys playing the drums. Milton Taylor was the last born in 1975. He plays the drums also.

In conclusion, Eddie Taylor was a great guitarist and father. Eddie Taylor died on Christmas day, December 25, 1985, in Chicago. ~By Christopher Miles

Thanks to MarcFr.
Still Not Ready For Eddie MP3
Still Not Ready For Eddie FLAC

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Eddie Taylor - Bad Boy (With Vera Taylor & The West Side Allstar Band)

Size: 172,1 MB
Time: 73:24
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Bad Boy (4:19)
02. Take Your Hands Down (4:33)
03. Moon Is Rising (5:46)
04. Pink Champagne (3:32)
05. Keep On Pushing (4:54)
06. I Have The Blues (3:26)
07. I Found Out (5:26)
08. Long Home Blues (3:57)
09. I Do Know Right From Wrong (3:30)
10. Look Over Yonders Wall (4:40)
11. Three O'Clock In The Morning (5:39)
12. I Got Long To Stay (3:33)
13. Look Out (2:50)
14. All Your Lovin (2:43)
15. Feel Like Jumping (2:59)
16. You Make Me See (5:11)
17. Big Town Playboy (6:15)

Personnel:
Vocals, Guitar – Eddie Taylor
Bass – Willie Kent
Drums – Larry Taylor
Drums – Tim Taylor (tracks: 2, 10)
Guitar – Johnny B. Moore
Vocals – Vera Taylor (tracks: 6, 7, 13, 14)

The Delta-rooted mid-'50s Vee-Jay label classics by perennially underrated Chicago guitarist Eddie Taylor, who stepped out of Jimmy Reed's shadow long enough to leave behind "Bad Boy," "Big Town Playboy," "Ride 'Em on Down," the bouncy "I'm Gonna Love You," and several more brilliant sides. Fifteen songs in all, including five from 1964 that are scarcely less impressive than his previous stuff. ~by Bill Dahl

With the help of a friend.
Bad Boy

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The Aces - Chicago Beat

Size: 142,0 MB
Time: 61:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1976/1999
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full

01. Tell Me Mama (2:50)
02. Hoo Doo Man (3:59)
03. Take A Little Walk With Me (3:17)
04. Whole Lot Of Lovin' (3:30)
05. Got My Mojo Workin' (3:40)
06. Ace's Shuffle (2:55)
07. Blues For Marcelle (5:17)
08. Kansas City (6:05)
09. Early In The Morning (4:10)
10. Money, Marbles And Chalk (4:15)
11. Route 66 (4:56)
12. Blue Shadows (3:38)
13. Wee Wee Baby (3:23)
14. Fannie Mae (2:44)
15. Ace's Shuffle (3:56)
16. Stop, Stop, Stop (3:02)

Personnel: Louis Myers (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Fred Below (vocals, drums); Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Rogers , Mickey Baker (guitar); Willie Mabon (piano).

Common wisdom says that Muddy Waters was the man responsible for turbo charging the Delta blues and creating what we now call Chicago blues. Waters' importance is inestimable, but to lay all the credit at his feet is to ignore the contributions of those who quite literally used Waters' music as a jumping-off point, and blazed historical trails of their own. Of all the great musicians who passed through Waters' bands, perhaps the most important of all was harmonica player and singer Little Walter Jacobs. Jacobs left Waters' band at the age of 22 already a seasoned veteran of the road and the recording studio. He quickly recruited his own superb band, and came very close to eclipsing his former boss' success during the heyday of Chicago blues in the '50s, with two number one hits among his ten appearances on the nationwide Billboard R&B charts; Waters himself had 12 songs reach the Billboard charts, but he never scored a number one hit. Much of Little Walter's success can be attributed to the fact that he was doing something new, different, and thoroughly urban; where Waters' appeal lay heavily with Southern emigres longing for familiar sounds, Walter's swinging, modern, jazz-inflected style found favor with a younger generation of city blues fans not so closely tied to the "down-home" sounds of the South.

But Little Walter couldn't have done it alone -- he needed accompanists who shared his desire to push the edge of the blues envelope, so he recruited his band from among the most accomplished and forward-thinking blues musicians available in Chicago. His first recording and touring band in 1952 was one that he'd sometimes sat in with while still with Waters -- The Aces, featuring brothers David and Louis Myers on guitars. The Myers brothers were born in Byhalia, MS, and had learned the rudiments of guitar from their father before the family relocated to Chicago in the early '40s while both brothers were still in their early teens. There their musical tastes were formed by equal doses of the big-band swing that was popular at the time, pop ballads they heard on the radio, and the blues that was being played all around their southside neighborhood. By the late '40s they had assumed the roles they'd play for much of their musical careers: older brother Dave providing basslines and chords into which Louis wove his tastefully jazzy blues riffing. Their rock-solid musical foundation provided the perfect base for the veteran bluesman they soon found themselves backing, but their musical precociousness drove them to eventually form the Aces, which incorporated some of the more modern and sophisticated influences that had raised eyebrows with the older blues crowd. The Aces were rounded out by schooled jazz drummer Fred Below, a Chicago native for whom the rough Southern blues rhythms were almost completely foreign; after his first gig with the group he was so musically disoriented that he decided to quit the band, but was persuaded to stick it out and adapt his jazz techniques to the blues, ultimately becoming the most in-demand blues drummer in Chicago (in addition to putting the beat to many of rock & roll pioneer Chuck Berry's early hits). Little Walter approached his harmonica like a jazz saxophone player, and the Aces provided the propulsive backing of a swinging big band. It would have been near impossible at the time to find three musicians who were better suited to providing the solid foundation for Walter's musical innovations than the Aces, who had the musical and dynamic range, swing sensibilities, and melding of individual strengths that made them the standard by which all of Little Walter's later ensembles -- and most harp-led blues bands since -- have been measured.

Unfortunately this band was not to last; the Aces had been establishing their own name around town, but when their first records with Little Walter were released by the Chess Records subsidiary Checker as by "Little Walter and His Night Caps" or "...and His Jukes" (to capitalize on the popularity of his first hit "Juke," recorded during a session while he was still with Waters), there was dissension in the ranks. The first to leave was Louis, who was replaced by Robert Jr. Lockwood in 1954. Almost 40 years old at the time, Lockwood's roots were in the Delta; as Robert Johnson's stepson, he had a firm handle on the deepest of blues, but had been studying jazz guitarists since at least the '30s, and had been recording since before WWII. He proved to be an adept foil for Walter's harp excursions, and many of Walter's jazziest adventures were supported and driven by Lockwood's sophisticated guitar riffing.

Dave Myers was the next to leave, joining his brother Louis in 1955 in a re-formed Aces that featured Junior Wells (who had played with them pre-Walter) and later Otis Rush. Dave was replaced by 19-year-old guitar prodigy Luther Tucker, who had been hanging around the band and occasionally sitting in with them, as well as with other local blues acts. Although Tucker's role was initially the same as Dave's -- thumping out basslines on his guitar and providing chordal fills behind Lockwood -- he soon distinguished himself as one of the flashiest of the new breed of guitarists in Chicago. When given the chance to take the lead, Tucker's fleet-fingered bursts of nervous energy helped push Little Walter's music in new and exciting directions. The first wave of rock & roll was cresting, aggressively played electric guitar was moving to the forefront of popular music, and Luther Tucker was among the blues guitarists at the leading edge.

It was around this time that Fred Below vacated the drum seat, although as was the custom at Chess/Checker Records, he continued to be brought in for recording sessions for the next several years. Replacing him on the road for a time was his old drum school classmate Odie Payne, Jr., who had been playing and recording in Chicago since the late '40s with the likes of Tampa Red, Memphis Minnie, Memphis Slim and Elmore James, and later worked as the house drummer at Cobra Records, playing behind Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Otis Rush and others. Payne's slightly more orthodox but still distinctly jazzy style was by all accounts ideally suited to Walter's music, although there's no documentation of him ever appearing on any of Walter's records.

After a short time with a still young and rambunctious Little Walter and the even younger Luther Tucker, Lockwood was began to tire of the grind, and he left Walter's band, although he continued to appear on records with him (and also notably with Sonny Boy Williamson) until the late '50s. In 1956 Jimmie Lee Robinson joined Little Walter's band, pushing Luther Tucker into the lead role that Lockwood had vacated. Robinson was another Chicago native, who had grown up around the blues-rich Maxwell Street Market area, and knew Walter from his escapades there during his earliest years in Chicago. Robinson's formative years included musical apprenticeship on Maxwell Street, followed by formal music lessons for a time, and then time spent with guitarists Freddie King, Elmore James, Eddie Taylor, and others in the early '50s. His guitar style had similarities to Tucker's, and eventually their roles carrying the top and bottom of the music melded to the point where they would trade back and forth even during songs. Unfortunately there are only a few examples of Jimmie Lee's years with Walter on record, due to the record label's insistence on not tampering with the successful studio formula that had been established by the Tucker/Lockwood/Below ensemble (usually augmented by Willie Dixon on string bass).

By the end of the '50s, Little Walter's hit-making days were behind him, and his bands soon became a revolving door through which a number of local musicians passed. In 1959 guitarist Freddie Robinson joined the band for a time (replacing Jimmie Lee Robinson, a move that has caused much confusion among discographers over the years), during which he sometimes played electric bass. Odie Payne left the band after a short time to be replaced by the solid if less musically adventurous George Hunter. During sessions over the next few years the drum throne (on sessions, at least) was also occupied by Billy Stepney, session ace Al Duncan, and even the return of Fred Below for a 1960 session. But blues tastes were changing, and his great ensembles of the past had all scattered and moved on to other pursuits with varying degrees of success. ~by Scott Dirks

Chicago Beat

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Various Artists - The Original Blue & Lonesome

Year: 2017
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:32
Size: 165,8 MB
Styles: Blues/R&B
Scans: Full

1. Little Walter - Just Your Fool (2:23)
2. Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:07)
3. Little Walter - Blue And Lonesome (2:55)
4. Magic Sam - All Of Your Love (2:54)
5. Little Walter - I Gotta Go (2:41)
6. Jimmy Reed - Little Rain (3:08)
7. Eddie Taylor - Ride 'Em On Down (2:57)
8. Little Walter - Hate To See You Go (3:05)
9. Lightnin' Slim - Hoo Doo Blues (2:20)
10. Howlin' Wolf - Just Like I Treat You (2:58)
11. Dale Hawkins - Susie Q (Bonus) (2:14)
12. Chuck Berry - Around And Around (Bonus) (2:39)
13. Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On (Bonus) (2:44)
14. Muddy Waters - Look What You've Done (Bonus) (2:23)
15. Howlin' Wolf - The Red Rooster (Bonus) (2:26)
16. Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller (Bonus) (2:14)
17. Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee (Bonus) (3:01)
18. Gene Allison - You Can Make It If You Try (Bonus) (2:08)
19. Chuck Berry - Carol (Bonus) (2:48)
20. Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle (Bonus) (2:48)
21. Larry Williams - She Said Yeah (Bonus) (1:50)
22. Solomon Burke - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (Bonus) (2:50)
23. Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Not Fade Away (Bonus) (2:20)
24. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (Bonus) (2:56)
25. Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do (Bonus) (2:45)
26. Bo Diddley - Mona (Bonus) (2:22)
27. Robert Johnson - Love In Vain Blues (Bonus) (2:22)

When the Rolling Stones' first new release in 11 years turned out to be an all vintage blues album some fans were a bit dismayed, but it was a natural, almost inevitable, move.

After all, the Stones began life as a blues band and they have supported its originators - sharing stages with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Etta James - and up held the blues as a key inspiration throughout their career.

With Blue & Lonesome, they celebrated the genre by taking on some key post-war blues classics and here we have compiled the original recordings by the artists who introduced the songs. /Excerpt from the liner notes by Jonny Whiteside

The Original Blue & Lonesome mc
The Original Blue & Lonesome zippy

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VA - The Chicago Blues Box 2

Size: 157,5+148,5+153,5+155,7+149,8+140,2+147,3+128,0 MB
Time: 67:44+64:01+66:16+67:09+64:36+60;28+63:18+55:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. Eddie Taylor - Opening (2:58)
02. Eddie Taylor - Red Light (4:30)
03. Eddie Taylor - Big Town Playboy (3:23)
04. Eddie Taylor - Blow Wind Blow (4:04)
05. Eddie Taylor - Down In Virginia (2:53)
06. Eddie Taylor - Lucky Lou (4:37)
07. Eddie Taylor - Tell Me Mama (4:53)
08. Big Mojo Elem - Talk To Your Daughter (2:53)
09. Big Mojo Elem - Hide Away (4:49)
10. Big Mojo Elem - Be My Little Girl (2:28)
11. Andrew Blueblood McMahon - Red Light, Pt. 2 (3:56)
12. Andrew Blueblood McMahon - Mojo Hand (4:44)
13. Big Voice Odom - Mojo Working (2:44)
14. Big Mojo Elem - Dry Land, Pt. 2 (5:53)
15. Big Voice Odom - Where Are You Goin' (8:38)
16. Big Voice Odom - Thrill Is Gone (4:15)

CD 2:
01. Hip Lankchan - You Left Me With A Broken Heart (5:12)
02. Hip Lankchan - I'm On My Way (5:20)
03. Hip Lankchan - Last Night (4:58)
04. Hip Lankchan - All Your Love (4:47)
05. Hip Lankchan - I Don't Want No Woman (4:27)
06. Hip Lankchan - Black Nights (5:24)
07. Hip Lankchan - Somebody Loan Me A Dime (4:43)
08. Hip Lankchan - Same Old Blues (3:27)
09. Hip Lankchan - Why I Sing The Blues (5:50)
10. Eddie Clearwater - Everyday I Have The Blues (4:25)
11. Eddie Clearwater - You Don't Have To Go (4:57)
12. Eddie Clearwater - Poison Ivy (3:39)
13. Eddie Clearwater - My Babe (6:47)

CD 3:
01. Jimmy Dawkins - Way She Walks (4:27)
02. Jimmy Dawkins - Rock Me Baby (5:08)
03. Jimmy Dawkins - I Wonder Why (4:46)
04. Jimmy Dawkins - Cold Sweet Blues (7:14)
05. Jimmy Dawkins - Driving Wheel (5:39)
06. Jimmy Dawkins - Will My Baby Home Tonight (5:44)
07. Jimmy Dawkins - Big Duke's (4:40)
08. Jimmy Dawkins - Hard Road To Travel (6:54)
09. Jimmy Dawkins - J.D's Jam (3:31)
10. Jimmy Dawkins - Nature Ball (5:41)
11. Jimmy Dawkins - Pretty Woman (4:42)
12. Jimmy Dawkins - Ode To Billy Joe (7:44)

CD 4:
01. Jimmy Johnson - Long About Midnight (7:06)
02. Jimmy Johnson - Strange Thing Happening (5:29)
03. Jimmy Johnson - Look On Yonder Wall (3:34)
04. Jimmy Johnson - I'm Crazy About You Baby (4:28)
05. Jimmy Johnson - Breaking Up Somebody's Home (5:01)
06. Jimmy Johnson - Sweet Little Angel (5:22)
07. Jimmy Johnson - Three Times Chicago (4:42)
08. Jimmy Johnson - Midnight Hour (4:08)
09. Jimmy Johnson - My Own Fault (5:26)
10. Jimmy Johnson - Get Ready Here I Come (3:51)
11. Jimmy Johnson - Same Old Blues (4:09)
12. Jimmy Johnson - So Many Roads (6:45)
13. Jimmy Johnson - As The Years Go Passing By (7:02)

CD 5:
01. John Littlejohn - Dust My Broom (4:31)
02. John Littlejohn - Rob And Steal (3:39)
03. John Littlejohn - Five Long Years (3:21)
04. John Littlejohn - Kiddeo (2:44)
05. John Littlejohn - That's All Right (7:17)
06. John Littlejohn - I Can't Stay Here (5:10)
07. John Littlejohn - Bobby's Rock (3:43)
08. John Littlejohn - Twenty Nine Ways (6:13)
09. John Littlejohn - So Glad You're Mine (4:13)
10. John Littlejohn - All I Want (2:48)
11. John Littlejohn - Dream, Pt. 2 (6:39)
12. John Littlejohn - All Your Love (6:26)
13. John Littlejohn - Sunny Road (7:46)

CD 6:
01. Magic Slim - Buddy Buddy Friend (4:25)
02. Magic Slim - You Upset Me Baby (3:45)
03. Magic Slim - Born Down The Bridge (6:30)
04. Magic Slim - Rock Me Baby (5:02)
05. Magic Slim - Tell Me Baby (2:52)
06. Magic Slim - Jumpin' At Ma Bea's (4:56)
07. Magic Slim - I Don't Got Over (5:22)
08. Magic Slim - Tramp (6:04)
09. Magic Slim - Josephine's (4:49)
10. Magic Slim - As The Years Go Passing By (6:04)
11. Magic Slim - Everything Gonna Be Alright (5:02)
12. Magic Slim - Mary Lou (5:31)

CD 7:
01. The Aces - Rock Me Baby (4:25)
02. The Aces - You're The One (3:08)
03. The Aces - Baby What You Want Me To Do (4:04)
04. The Aces - Someday Baby (3:41)
05. The Aces - Off The Wall (4:24)
06. The Aces - Bobby's Rock (4:16)
07. The Aces - Kansas City (4:51)
08. The Aces - Honky Tonk (4:50)
09. The Aces - Don't Throw Your Love On Me (3:45)
10. The Aces - C.C. Rider (4:07)
11. The Aces - Sweet Home Chicago (2:49)
12. The Aces - Hide Away (5:05)
13. The Aces - Tribute To Little Walter (1:54)
14. The Aces - The Ace's Shuffle (3:09)
15. The Aces - Blues With A Feeling (3:42)
16. The Aces - Honky Tonk, Pt. 2 (5:01)

CD 8:
01. Willie Kent - I'm Not The Same Person (5:42)
02. Willie Kent - Ghetto (7:43)
03. Willie Kent - Dust My Broom (3:55)
04. Willie Kent - Chili Con Carne (3:08)
05. Willie Kent - Blue Guitar (5:26)
06. Willie Kent - Bobby's Rock (4:06)
07. Willie Kent - Sweet Home Chicago (2:54)
08. Willie Kent - Tell Him He Got To Go (4:17)
09. Willie Kent - Chicken Shack (4:10)
10. Willie Kent - 19 Years Old, Pt. 2 (3:44)
11. Willie Kent - I Love The Woman (4:44)
12. Willie Kent - You Know I Love You (5:13)

After the popularity of Storyville’s first best-selling boxed set of Chicago blues recordings, we’re delighted to present another outstanding 8 CD collection from the vaults of MCM Records. As in the first boxed set, the live atmosphere of these unedited performances shines through, revealing the true ambiance of the Chicago Blues club scene in the mid-1970s, as well as the individuals whose talents MCM Records would preserve. They captured an authenticity that rarely surfaced on the major label recordings that some of these artists made.

MCM was a labour of love by a young French woman, Marcelle Chailleux, and her future husband Jacques Morgantini. In the 1950's Jacques had brought the likes of Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker to Europe to appear at his French hometown event - a dedicated Chicago blues festival - but it was recent blues convert Marcelle who travelled to Chicago in the mid-1970s to record a unique collection of live performances.

Some of the performances presented here were by men who would become giants of the blues; others were by talented artists who never found wider fame and whose MCM recordings remain the only surviving evidence of their talent.

In this superb collection, you will find rare tracks by Eddie Taylor, Big Mojo Elem, Andrew “Blueblood” McMahon, Big Voice Odom, Hip Lankchan, Eddie Clearwater, Jimmy Dawkins, Jimmy Johnson, Magic Slim, John Littlejohn, Bobby King and The Aces. The recordings stem from famous Chicago blues venues Ma Bea’s, the Golden Slipper and Big Duke’s. Marcelle was only just in time to capture the genuine feel and sound of those old-time clubs before they disappeared. Jimmy Dawkins, bluesman par excellence, was her guide to the 1975 Chicago blues scene, and has said: “It was natural and ‘for real’ without over-preparation. You get the feeling of the room, the music, the audience, and the blues. It was the real thing. Places like Ma Bea’s and the old Golden Slipper are all gone now.” Jacques Morgantini writes in the liner notes: “These records capture the music that was played in the clubs at that time, the real Chicago blues sound! And that was exactly what Marcelle wanted: to give those musicians a chance to get themselves better known”.

The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 1
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 2
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 3
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 4
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 5
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 6
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 7
The Chicago Blues Box 2 Vol. 8

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Sunnyland Slim - Be Careful How You Vote

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:17
Size: 94.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1989
Art: Front

[4:40] 1. You Can't Have It All
[3:08] 2. Workin' Two Jobs
[3:47] 3. Have A Good Day Now
[4:13] 4. Chicago Jump
[4:48] 5. Past Life
[3:36] 6. Be Careful How You Vote
[3:47] 7. Johnson Machine Gun
[5:01] 8. Speak Once And Think Twice
[4:06] 9. Midnight Jump
[4:08] 10. Patience Like Job

Lurrie Bell/Guitar; Beau Biley/Trombone; Sam Burckhardt/Sax (Tenor); Chico Chism/Drums; Fred Grady/Drums; Nick Holt/Bass; Eddie Lusk/Organ; Magic Slim/Guitar; Mickey Martin/Drums; Hasson Miah/Drums; John Riley/Bass; Bob Stroger/Bass; Hubert Sumlin/Guitar; Sunnyland Slim/Composer, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals; Eddie Taylor/Guitar.

This CD reissues a variety of recordings cut by the veteran blues pianist/vocalist Sunnyland Slim during 1981-83 for his private label Airway Records. In his mid-70s at the time, Slim's energetic vocals and powerful piano playing belie his age. As is typical of the pioneer Chicago bluesman, he allocated plenty of solo space to his sidemen (which include Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Taylor, Lurrie Bell or Magic Slim on guitar) although there was never any doubt about who was in control. The intelligent lyrics, high musicianship, mood variation (including two excellent instrumentals) and spirited playing make this a highly enjoyable and recommeded date despite the LP-length playing time. ~Scott Yanow

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Various Artists - Lonesome & Blue: The Original Versions

Year: 2017
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:53
Size: 100,0 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Little Walter - Just Your Fool (2:24)
2. Memphis Slim - Blue And Lonesome (2:56)
3. Magic Sam - All Your Love (aka All Of Your Love) (2:55)
4. Little Walter - I Got To Go (2:42)
5. Eddie Taylor - Ride 'Em On Down (2:55)
6. Little Walter - Hate To See You Go (2:18)
7. Lightnin' Slim - Hoo Doo Blues (2:21)
8. Jimmy Reed - Little Rain (3:10)
9. Howlin' Wolf - Just Like I Treat You (2:57)
10. Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby (3:05)
11. Muddy Waters - I Just Want To Make Love To You (Bonus) (2:50)
12. Chuck Berry - Come On (Bonus) (1:49)
13. Slim Harpo - I'm A King Bee (Bonus) (3:02)
14. Dale Hawkins - Susie Q (Bonus) (2:20)
15. Marvin Gaye - Hitch Hike (Bonus) (2:35)
16. Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster (Bonus) (2:25)

The original versions of songs that inspired the Rolling Stones on their latest album, Blue & Lonesome, along with six bonus tracks: originals covered by the band earlier in their catalog. The Stones' versions of Muddy Waters' "I Just Want To Make Love To You" and Slim Harpo's "I'm A King Bee" appeared on England's Newest Hit Makers, Chuck Berry's "Come On" on their debut single, Dale Hawkins' "Susie Q" on 12 X 5, Marvin Gaye's "Hitch Hike" on Out of Our Heads, and Howlin' Wolf's "Little Red Rooster" on their second no. 1 single.

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VA - Walkin' Blues: 15 Years From Mountain Top Productions

Size: 158,3+183,0 MB
Time: 68:11+78:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: West Coast Blues
Art: Front

CD 1:
01 Cary Bell - Low Down Dirty Shame (5:18)
02 Gary Smith - Scared Of That Child (3:36)
03 Mark Hummel - Seven Nights To Rock (3:32)
04 Johnny Dyer - Forty Days And Forty Nights (4:16)
05 Fillmore Slim - Minding My Own Business (2:22)
06 R.J. Mischo & Steve Freund - West Winds Are Blowing (3:34)
07 Fillmore Slim & Frank Stickums - Hey Little Brother (4:24)
08 Big Walter Shufflesworth - Nailed To The Bone (5:25)
09 Paris Slim & Johnny Ace - Solid Sender (4:09)
10 Mark Hummel - City Livin' (5:32)
11 Fillmore Slim - Nosey Woman (7:41)
12 Johnny Dyer - Trouble No More (2:44)
13 R.J. Mischo - Money Back Guarantee (3:10)
14 Paris Slim - Let's Talk About Love (3:00)
15 Dona McGee - Upside Your Head (2:55)
16 Lazy Lester - Bloodstains On The Wall (4:01)
17 R.J. Mischo & W. Shufflesworth - Rj, Get Up! Milk That Cow (2:23)

CD 2:
01. Gary Primitch - Ain't She Trouble (5:14)
02. Cephas & Wiggins - Broke And Hungry (3:25)
03. Johnny Dyer - Country Boy (3:57)
04. Fillmore Slim - The Legend Of Fillmore Slim (5:15)
05. Gary Smith - About To Lose Your Clown (5:18)
06. Paris Slim - No Escapin' From The Blues (6:45)
07. Fillmore Slim - My Friend Blue (4:05)
08. Johnny Dyer - Got To Find My Baby (2:41)
09. Paris Slim - Feel Like Shouting (2:36)
10. R.J. Mischo - It's My Life, Baby (5:04)
11. Fillmore Slim - Faster Than Time (3:59)
12. Gary Smith - Blues For Mr. B (3:14)
13. Mark Hummel - Can't Judge Nobody (6:46)
14. Eddie Taylor - Red Light (5:00)
15. M. Hummel - Blue And Lonesome (6:30)
16. Rick Estrin - You're Gonna Need My Help (7:55)
17. Johnny Dyer - Evans Shuffle (1:05)

Over the past fifteen years, Mountain Top Productions has delivered more than a dozen magnificent West Coast Blues CD masterpieces to the world's blues audience. They've also become classy connoiseurs of blues harmonica releases, purveying state-of-the-art recordings that drip with true blues soul. Their Blues Harmonica Videos/DVD's are regarded as the best-in-the-business and blues lovers should shake their hand(s) for giving us a steady stream of Oakland/L.A. Blues legends like Johnny Dyer, Fillmore Slim, Gary Smith, Mark Hummel, Franck Goldwasser, R.J. Mischo, and many others. ~Andy Grigg

Walkin' Blues CD 1
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Memphis Slim, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy, Eddie Taylor - Together Again One More Time/Still Not Ready For Eddie

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:51
Size: 148.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Memphis blues
Year: 1990/2012
Art: Front

[4:05] 1. Wish Me Well
[4:07] 2. Steppin' Out
[4:22] 3. Havin' Fun
[3:55] 4. Movin' On
[3:12] 5. Black Cat Blues
[4:44] 6. Boogie, Juggie
[5:22] 7. My Baby
[4:12] 8. Bad
[3:20] 9. If You Don't Want Me Baby
[4:44] 10. Clouds In My heart
[4:18] 11. Knockin' At Your Door
[5:41] 12. Sittin' Here Thinkin'
[4:16] 13. Big Town Playboy
[5:38] 14. Anna Lee
[2:48] 15. Boogaloo Farm

2 LPs on 1 CD. The 2 titles are "Together Again One More Time" and "Still Not Ready For Eddie". Matt "Guitar" Murphy (guitar); Memphis Slim (vocals, piano); Eddie Taylor (vocals, guitar); Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy Rogers, Luther Tucker (guitar); Snooky Pryor (harmonica); Joe Sublett, Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff (saxophone); Sunnyland Slim (piano); George Rains, Timothy Taylor, Ted Harvey (drums). Recording information: Antone's (12/04/1985).

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Various Artists - Don't Worry 'Bout the Bear

This compilation contains 33 tracks of rare 1970s blues, courtesy of the long-lost Big Bear label! Includes sides by Homesick James, Doctor Ross. Eddie "Playboy" Taylor, Lightnin' Slim, Snooky Pryor, Billy Boy Arnold, Mickey Baker, Billy Emerson and others.

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2003
Styles: Blues
Time: 60:02
Size: 138,4 MB
Covers: Front, CD, Tray, Inside

Album: Don't Worry 'Bout the Bear Disc 1
(3:20) 1. Snooky Pryor - Shake Your Boogie
(3:55) 2. Homesick James & Snooky PryorAfter You There Won't Be Nobody Else
(3:48) 3. Homesick James - Crossroads
(4:19) 4. Homesick James - Highway 51
(2:18) 5. Big John Wrencher - Honeydripper
(4:00) 6. Eddie Taylor - Seems Like a Million Years
(3:29) 7. Eddie Taylor - Ready for Eddie
(5:29) 8. Doctor Ross - Don't Worry 'Bout the Bear
(4:14) 9. Doctor Ross - I'm a Mannish Boy
(4:12) 10. Doctor Ross - Got Something to Tell You
(2:01) 11. Erwin Helfer - Sneaky Pete
(2:56) 12. Erwin Helfer & Bob Hall - Homage to AA and PJ
(3:47) 13. Whispering Smith - Texas Flood
(2:27) 14. Lightnin' Slim - Walkin' in the Park
(2:25) 15. G.P. Jackson - 12th Street Boogie
(7:13) 16. Johnny Mars & Boogie Woogie Red & Baby Boy Warren - Meet Me in the Alley

Album: Don't Worry 'Bout the Bear Disc 2
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2003
Styles: Blues
Time: 61:58
Size: 142,8 MB
Covers: Full

(4:33) 1. Eddie 'Guitar' Burns - She's in L.A.
(3:29) 2. Eddie 'Guitar' Burns - Do It If You Wanna
(1:58) 3. Boogie Woogie Red - Viper Song
(3:42) 4. Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would
(6:03) 5. Johnny Mars - It's My Own Fault
(2:29) 6. Johnny Mars - I've Been Down So Long
(3:54) 7. Willie Mabon - Klickety Klock
(3:48) 8. Mickey Baker - Blues Fell This Morning
(3:29) 9. Mickey Baker - I'll Always Be in Love With You
(4:32) 10. Tommy Tucker - Alimony
(3:51) 11. Billy 'The Kid' Emerson - Buzzard Luck
(5:24) 12. Charles Brown - Blues for My Baby
(3:02) 13. Gene Connors - So Tired
(3:51) 14. Gene Connors - Let the Good Times Roll
(4:22) 15. Gene Connors - Honky Tonk
(3:23) 16. Cousin Joe - When a Woman Loves a Man

Don't Worry 'Bout the Bear Disc 1
Don't Worry 'Bout the Bear Disc 2
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Various Artists - Antone's: Clifford's Picks

Year: 2000
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:55
Size: 154,8 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Doyle Bramhall - Too Sorry (2:46)
2. Toni Price - Chain Of Love (3:37)
3. Miss Lavelle White - You Gonna Make Me Cry (4:45)
4. Kim Wilson - If I Should Lose You (3:24)
5. Sue Foley - Gone Blind (3:44)
6. Matt Murphy - Way Down South (4:34)
7. ZuZu Bollin - Hey Little Girl (3:37)
8. Lazy Lester - Irene (3:45)
9. James Cotton - Call It Stormy Monday (6:48)
10. Barbara Lynn - I'm A Good Woman (3:17)
11. Doug Sahm - She Put The Hurt On Me (2:45)
12. Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton & Angela Strehli - I Idolize You (3:37)
13. Eddie Taylor - Big Town Playboy (4:18)
14. Memphis Slim - Having Fun (4:22)
15. Pinetop Perkins - Ida B (7:20)
16. Earl King - Things I Used To Do (4:12)

When Clifford Antone talks about the blues, folks listen. And when he speaks, he uses superlatives that he has earned the right to use. For the last quarter-century, the Port Arthur native has struggled to give blues a home and at the end of the century, the club, a record store and recording label bear his name in Austin. Not too shabby for a man who just wanted to give back a little of what he got from the blues.

"One of the things I have been trying to deal with all my life is why we don't honor these great musicians. It's just a real shame. How can anybody see Barbara Lynn and not want to make her one of the biggest stars in America?" Sadly, the ailing reply is that artists like Barbara Lynn, Lazy Lester, and Lavelle White aren't heard enough.

Fortunately, Cliff's Picks will remedy that social ill with 16 of the finest doses of the blues recorded over the last 15 years from performers like Memphis Slim and Eddie Taylor to Sue Foley. "I recorded everyone - Angela, James Cotton, even recorded a Kim Wilson album before 1986", says Clifford Antone. "There is so much history in the Antone's vaults, it's unbelievable." Small wonder then that Clifford Antone's label asked him to choose his favorites. /Excerpt from the liner notes

(Note: There is also another version of this album entitled "Cliff's Picks", also released in 2000, containing 14 tracks plus a bonus track featuring a 15 minutes interview with Clifford Antone.)

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Eddie Taylor - Eddie Taylor In Session: Diary Of A Chicago Bluesman 1953-1957

Size: 186,4 MB
Time: 78:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Front

01. Ice Cream Man (Elmore James) (2:44)
02. Lifetime Baby (John Brim) (3:05)
03. You Don't Have To Go (Jimmy Reed) (3:02)
04. Going Back To Memphis (Sunnyland Slim) (2:54)
05. Devil Is A Busy Man (Sunnyland Slim) (2:49)
06. Shake It Baby (Sunnyland Slim) (2:58)
07. Bassology (Sunnyland Slim) (2:54)
08. School Days (Floyd Jones) (3:11)
09. Ain't Times Hard (Floyd Jones) (3:04)
10. Any Old Lonesome Day (Floyd Jones) (2:55)
11. Tough Times (Elmore James) (3:07)
12. Gary Stomp (John Brim) (2:48)
13. Falling Rain Blues (Little Willie Foster) (2:33)
14. Four Day Jump (Little Willie Foster) (2:09)
15. Bad Boy (2:58)
16. E.T. Blues (2:42)
17. Wheel And Deal (John Lee Hooker) (2:32)
18. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby (Jimmy Reed) (2:12)
19. Ride 'em On Down (2:52)
20. Big Town Playboy (2:56)
21. Dimples (John Lee Hooker) (2:08)
22. You'll Always Have A Home (2:32)
23. Don't Knock At My Door (2:44)
24. You Got Me Dizzy (Jimmy Reed) (2:48)
25. Crawlin' Black Spider (John Lee Hooker) (2:41)
26. I'm Gonna Love You (1:56)
27. Lookin' For Trouble (2:25)
28. Find My Baby (2:16)
29. Stroll Out West (2:29)

Eddie Taylor was considered one of the greatest of all guitarists active during the heyday of Chicago blues scene. However despite featuring on numerous hit records he never had a hit under his own name, he was to be forever in the shadow of the artists he performed with during the period covered by this CD collection. Tracks such as "Ice Cream Man", "Lifetime Blues", "Bad Boy", "Big Town Playboy", "Dimples" exude a real quality and despite them not initially achieving hit status have now quite rightfully gone on to be Chicago blues classics. Eddie Taylor never really achieved the stardom he so richly deserved, he was though a very important element in the sub-genre of Chicago blues and without his presence on so many hit records would have been notably poorer. This great CD set from Jasmine showcases his early contributions and what a great guitarist and musician he was.

MC
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Floyd Jones, Eddie Taylor - Masters Of Modern Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:31
Size: 115.7 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1994/2014
Art: Front

[2:49] 1. Train Fare Home
[2:31] 2. Big Town Playboy
[2:39] 3. Peach Tree Blues
[2:58] 4. Bad Boy
[3:34] 5. Feel So Bad
[2:37] 6. After Hours
[3:06] 7. Take Your Hand Down
[1:59] 8. Bad Boy
[3:20] 9. Rising Wind
[3:37] 10. Dark Road
[3:57] 11. Stockyard Blues
[3:29] 12. Sweet Talkin' Woman
[3:54] 13. Hard Times
[2:53] 14. M & O Blues
[3:33] 15. Playhouse Blues
[3:29] 16. Dark Road

Tracks 1-8 - Eddie Taylor; Tracks 9-16 - Floyd Jones.

Eight priceless 1966 tracks by tragically underrecorded guitarist Floyd Jones are paired for this CD with eight more by sessionmate Eddie Taylor. Produced in both cases by Testament boss Pete Welding with Big Walter Horton on harp, pianist Otis Spann, and drummer Fred Below lending their collective hands, Jones re-creates his dour, uncompromising "Dark Road," "Hard Times," and "Stockyard Blues" with an early-'50s sense of purpose. ~Bill Dahl

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Eddie Taylor - My Heart Is Bleeding

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1980/1994
Styles: Blues
Time: 63:35
Size: 146,7 MB
Art: Full

Musicians:
Eddie Taylor - guitar & vocals
Steve Beal - guitar
George Kitta - bass
Odie Payne - drums

Special guests:
Sunnyland Slim - piano (13-14)
Hubert Sumlin - guitar (10-14) & vocal (10,11)
Carey Bell - harp (10-14) & vocal (12)

(6:01) 1. My Heart Is Bleeding
(3:30) 2. Going to Virginia
(5:28) 3. So Bad
(3:55) 4. Lexington Breakdown
(3:53) 5. Blow Wind Blow
(5:34) 6. Wreck on 83 Highway
(4:48) 7. Soul Brother
(5:12) 8. There'll Be a Day
(4:58) 9. Lawndale Blues
(3:40) 10. Gamblin' Woman
(3:08) 11. I Got a Little Thing They Call It Swing
(4:22) 12. One Day I Get Lucky
(4:45) 13. Dust My Broom
(4:15) 14. There'll Be a Day

Credible set from 1980 mostly cut in Chicago but first out on the German L+R label. Taylor's in typically solid form, and his tough backing includes the marvelous Sunnyland Slim on piano and harpist Carey Bell. Taylor pays homage to his pal Jimmy Reed with a loping "Going to Virginia" and Muddy Waters on "Blow Wind Blow," but "Soul Brother" rides a chunky R&B groove that's a long way from Reed's rudimentary rhythms. The last five sides are from a 1980 European tour (with Hubert Sumlin and Bell handling some of the vocals) and don't add much to the package. -- Allmusic.

My Heart Is Bleeding
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Eddie Taylor - Long Way from Home

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1977/1995
Styles: Blues
Time: 46:28
Size: 107,0 MB
Art: Full

Musicians:
Eddie Taylor - guitar & vocals (-2,8)
Louis Myers - guitar, harp & vocal (track 2)
Dave Myers - bass
Odie Payne Jy - drums & vocal (track 8)

(0:10) 1. (Introduction)
(3:39) 2. Bad Boy
(2:53) 3. Baby Please Don't Go
(4:25) 4. My Sometimes Baby
(3:52) 5. There'll Be a Day
(3:28) 6. Crossroads
(4:28) 7. Hoy Hoy
(4:15) 8. Goin' Down Slow
(4:54) 9. I Don't Know
(4:53) 10. You're Gonna Look for Me (And I'll Be Hard to Find)
(5:07) 11. Signals of Love
(4:19) 12. Blow Wind Blow

Recorded live in Japan in december 1977. Taylor toured Japan in a blues package with Fenton Robinson and was accompanied by a group of master musicians of Louis & Dave Myers of the famous Aces, and on drums the great Odie Payne Jr. With the exception of 2 tracks, Eddie Taylor handles all the vocal duties and swaps guitar solos with Louis Myers. They roamed a long way from home to play this extraordinary gig. Many faithful Eddie Taylor fans can only wish they had seen him perform in just such a confident, powerful performance as this. Recordings such as this rekindle fond memories and give newer fans a chance to hear one of the great blueswrights of the post-war Chicago era in the leading role too often denied him.

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Eddie Taylor - Ready for Eddie

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1975
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Time: 53:51
Size: 124,1 MB
Art: Front, Tray, CD, Inside

(3:43) 1. I'm a Country Boy
(4:00) 2. Seems Like a Million Years
(2:57) 3. Gamblin' Man
(3:25) 4. After Hours
(2:45) 5. Sloppy Drunk
(3:30) 6. Ready for Eddie
(3:17) 7. You Don't Love Me
(4:37) 8. Too Late to Cry
(3:19) 9. You'll Always Have a Home
(3:04) 10. Playboy Boogie
(4:02) 11. My Little Machine
(4:37) 12. Cross Cut Saw
(5:05) 13. I Used to Have Some Friends
(5:24) 14. I Know My Baby

Eddie Taylor was the man for whom the word 'underrated' was invented. The anger and resentment had set in long before, as Eddie had stood by and watched lesser talents reap rewards that he could only imagine. A modest and shy man, he was a brilliant guitarist, his downhome blues feel combining with his unique modern sound. But he also was not a comfortable man to be with, showing no patience to fellow musicians and little to other folk. On stage he was a immaculate performer, his highly accomplished guitar work was a joy, his rhythmic drive irresistible, his singing passionate, moving, from another time. Born in Mississippi, as a child he would hang around outside the juke joints, before getting his first guitar at thirteen. He started playing fish-fries and house parties, moving on in 1943 to live and play in Memphis and on to Chicago in 1948. He played Maxwell Street with Snooky Pryor and Floyd Jones. Taylor teamed up with Jimmy Reed in 1953 and they auditioned for Vee Jay. He put his stamp on the majority of Reed's recordings between 1953 and 1964, but he also accompanied John Lee Hooker, Sunnyland Slim, Muddy Waters and Elmore James. Becoming one of the most in-demand musicians in Chicago, Taylor toured Europe in 1968 and remained the driving force of many fine bands. Back in Europe in 1973 with the Chicago Blues Festival and the American Blues Legends 1974 tour, he recorded this 'Ready for Eddy' album in London, accompanied by The Blueshounds (Bob Hall, Roger Hill, Graham Gallery, Bob Brunning and Peter York).

On the exterior "Ready for Eddie" is a great electric Chicago blues outing which certainly doesn't disappoint in it's own right with lots of great guitar fills by Taylor and well picked material but at times such as the main highlight, the almost jazzy sounding bursting instrumental title track, it hints at going even deeper which really gives this album an edge over many other standard Chicago blues affairs. If only Bob Brunning (bass) was playing on that track, that would have been the cherry on top as I think it would have suited his busy stylings very well but it was not to be. He does play on many fine tracks here though like the opening tumbling blues-funk of "I'm a country boy", the rumbling shuffle of "Gamblin' man", a meaningful slow blues instrumental called "After hours" (which one may recall from Brunning's De Luxe Blues Band album "A street car named deluxe"), a slow stroller called "Too late to cry", "You don't love me" (which here has the strong punch but not the roll needed to pull it off), another clucking rumble called "You'll always have a home" and the tough closing tumble of "Playboy boogie". The others do deserve attention though as the howling stroll of "Seems like a million years" shows Taylor's overlooked vocal abilities and his version of "Sloppy drunk" measures up very closely to Jimmy Rogers & Left Hand Frank's.

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Various - Chicago Blues Nights Vols. 1 & 2

Album: Chicago Blues Nights Vol. 1
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:28
Size: 138.4 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[9:21] 1. Jimmy Dawkins - Welfare Line
[4:28] 2. Jimmy Dawkins - You Don't Love Me
[2:56] 3. Jimmy Dawkins - Down In Virginia
[4:45] 4. Jimmy Dawkins - Lucky You
[4:03] 5. Hip Lankchan - Millionaire Blues
[3:26] 6. Hip Lankchan - Hip's Jam
[2:50] 7. Hip Lankchan - All Right The Way You Do
[4:10] 8. Hip Lankchan - Sweet Home Chicago
[4:14] 9. Jimmy Dawkins - So Glad You're Mine
[2:50] 10. Jimmy Dawkins - Alli I Want
[3:30] 11. Hip Lankchan - Little By Little
[4:14] 12. Hip Lankchan - Lucille
[4:43] 13. Hip Lankchan - I Want Some
[4:52] 14. Hip Lankchan - Hide Away

This disc is the first in a new series "The Blues Recorded Live In Chicago" capturing the very special atmosphere in the joints of Chicago's black ghetto, West- and Southside created by the great bluesmen playing and not the least by the enthusiastic black audience present at the various venues we are going to visit. This is The Blues of the mid-70s as recorded on the spot, originally produced for the French MCM label but now to appear for the first time including much previously unissued material - on Storyville CDs!

Chicago Blues Nights Vol. 1 mc
Chicago Blues Nights Vol. 1 zippy

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Album: Chicago Blues Nights Vol. 2
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:16
Size: 138.0 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1997
Art: Front

[4:50] 1. Eddy Clearwater - Let's Jam
[6:49] 2. Eddy Clearwater - I Came Up The Hard Way
[5:32] 3. Eddy Clearwater - Three Ways To Skin A Cat
[3:04] 4. Jimmy Dawkins - Let's Boogie
[2:55] 5. Jimmy Dawkins - Opening
[4:30] 6. Jimmy Dawkins - Red Light
[3:23] 7. Jimmy Dawkins - Big Town Play Boy
[4:07] 8. Eddie Taylor - Jackson Town Blues
[5:57] 9. Eddie Taylor - Train Fare Home
[5:48] 10. Eddie Taylor - Route 66 (A One A Two)
[4:53] 11. Jimmy Dawkins - Tell Me Mama
[4:19] 12. Eddie Taylor - Blues For Luc
[4:04] 13. Jimmy Dawkins - Blow Wind Blow

Eddie Clearwater, Jimmy Dawkins, Sylvester Boines and Fred Below make up a blues band which is completely out of the ordinary and one of the most fascinating that blues fans could dream of... Number 1 -4 of this CD is the continuation of their recording at "Ma Bea's" famous club on the West Side in November, 1976 - a session which has already resulted in the CD, "Black Night" (Storyville STCD 8036). For the other tunes on this CD (from 5-13), the tape-recorder at the "Golden Slipper" caught Fred Below's Blues Combo, featuring the well-known Eddie Taylor on guitar and vocals. This veteran of the blues is provided with a strong guitar back-up by Lacy Gibson who takes the two solos on "Red Light". Moreover, fans will easily identify guitarists Eddie Taylor and Lacy Gibson when they improvise one after another on "Big Town Play Boy" or "Blues For Luc". Fred Below may not be the greatest of singers but he certainly gives us a very pleasant and swinging version of "Route 66", starting with his famous and rhythmic "A one and a two... and you know what to do!".

Chicago Blues Nights Vol. 2 mc
Chicago Blues Nights Vol. 2 zippy

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Various Artists - Antone's Anniversary Anthology Vol. 1&2

Album: Antone's Tenth Anniversary Anthology Vol. 1
Year: 1986
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:31
Size: 147,7 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Front, inside, tray

1. Snooky Pryor - How'd You Learn To Shake It Like That (8:16)
2. Eddie Taylor - If You Don't Want Me Baby (3:20)
3. James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues (5:11)
4. Sunnyland Slim - Built Up From The Ground (4:09)
5. Albert Collins - Cold Cold Feeling (5:58)
6. Jimmy Rogers - Walkin' By Myself (2:20)
7. James Cotton - Sad Letter Blues (6:13)
8. Eddie Taylor - Bad Boy (3:49)
9. Buddy Guy - Look On Yonders Wall (4:12)
10. Buddy Guy - Things I Used To Do (6:25)
11. Pinetop Perkins - Caldonia (5:23)
12. Otis Rush - Double Trouble (3:47)
13. Jimmy Rogers - You're Sweet (5:21)

Chicago blues living legends were recorded live at a popular Austin, TX, club in July 1985. Included is Buddy Guy, Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, James Cotton, Snooky Pryor, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, and more. The CD has three bonus cuts. Good sound and very good performances. /Niles J. Frantz, AllMusic

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Album: Antone's Anniversary Anthology Vol. 2
Year: 1991
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:02
Size: 123,9 MB
Styles: Blues
Scans: Full

1. Jimmy Rogers - Chicago Bound (4:01)
2. Pinetop Perkins - Trouble Blues (5:23)
3. Calvin 'Fuzz' Jones - Shake For Me (5:44)
4. Buddy Guy - Everything Gonna Be Alright (4:37)
5. Otis Rush - Natural Ball (3:41)
6. Snooky Pryor - Sloppy Drunk (5:27)
7. James Cotton - Moanin' At Midnight (5:21)
8. James Cotton - Evan Shuffle (2:34)
9. Albert Collins - Black Cat Bone (7:03)
10. Lazy Lester - The Same Thing Could Happen To You (3:50)
11. Matt 'Guitar' Murphy - High Jack (6:16)

Cliff Antone's Austin, Texas nightclub is to blues what Gilley's is to country/western: a living showcase of some of the best musicians around. Along with the club, Antone also has a record label where he presents many of the legends of blues who have appeared at his venue, as well as some younger up-and-comers. This second volume of an anthology of music recorded at Antone's features some of the biggest names in blues history laying down strong performances. With artists like Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Albert Collins, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy and James Cotton, it would pretty hard to go wrong. When outright stars like these are surrounded by some of the best backing musicians in the business, the results should be – and here are – outstanding.

Not only does the record serve as a showcase for the above artists, but fans of those musicians may end up being even more excited because they sit in with each other for informal jams. Murphy, Cotton and former Muddy Waters guitarist Jimmy Rogers, for instance, help out Pinetop Perkins on "Trouble Blues," while Perkins sits in on piano later behind Guy. The highlight of this album is the two-song run with harpist Cotton and another former Muddy Waters guitarist, Hubert Sumlin, in a duet: Howlin' Wolf's "Moanin' at Midnight" and Waters' "Evan Shuffle." Unlike the case with most live albums, the sound quality here is stellar and the crowd knowledgeable enough to shut up while the musicians are playing. /Jim Trageser

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Eddie Taylor - I Feel So Bad

Size: 96,4 MB
Time: 41:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1972/1991
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. I Feel So Bad (2:28)
02. Jackson Town (3:39)
03. Stop Breaking Down (4:06)
04. 13 Highway (3:33)
05. Stroll Out West (3:17)
06. Sittin' Here Thinkin' (3:47)
07. Going Upside Your Head (2:43)
08. Twelve Year Old Boy (3:35)
09. There'll Be A Day (2:44)
10. Bullcow Blues (3:10)
11. Wreck On 83 Highway (4:24)
12. Blues In The Rain (3:40)

One of the Chicago guitarist's most satisfying contemporary albums, this 1972 set (first issued on Advent) was cut not in the Windy City, but in L.A. in 1972, with a combo featuring Phillip Walker on second guitar and George Smith on harp. Eddie Taylor was no strict traditionalist; he was as conversant with funk-tinged modern rhythms as with Delta-based styles, and he exhibits both sides of his musical personality on this one. ~by Bill Dahl

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