Showing posts with label Ernie Hawkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ernie Hawkins. Show all posts

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Ernie Hawkins - Blues Advice

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:03
Size: 107.7 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Police Dog Blues
[3:32] 2. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
[3:02] 3. Another Friend Like Me
[3:03] 4. What Am I To Do Blues
[3:32] 5. Will There Be Stars In My Crown
[2:50] 6. If You Haven't Any Hay, Get On Down That Road
[3:28] 7. Penitentiary Blues
[2:28] 8. Crow Jane
[2:20] 9. Florida Blues
[3:18] 10. Where The Mississippi Meets The Monongahela
[2:20] 11. Cold Winter Day
[2:59] 12. Call Up China
[4:13] 13. Samson & Delilah
[3:33] 14. Cocaine
[3:21] 15. Down South When You Do Anything That's Wrong

A real smorgasbord of traditional country blues, by one of the best fingerpickers. Done as a 100th birthday tribute to his mentor, Rev, Gary Davis, you get 3 unrecorded Davis pieces.

For many years Ernie Hawkins has been playing concerts, clubs, blues and folk festivals, workshops, colleges, museums, parties, fist fights and millennium celebrations in the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe and at every stop in the road from A Prairie Home Companion to Antone's to the Madrid Jazz Festival. He has played with blues greats such as Son House, Mance Lipscomb, Fred McDowell, Jim Brewer, Rev. Gary Davis and many others.

"Ernie Hawkins is an important link in the unbroken chain of blues and gospel artists. His guitaristry and love of the style is incomparable. From the Rev. Gary Davis into the future with his own style Ernie is one of the special ones!"

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Ernie Hawkins - 2 albums: Whinin' Boy / Bluesified

Album: Whinin' Boy
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:06
Size: 133.0 MB
Styles: Acoustic guitar blues, Dixieland
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:46] 1. Whinin' Boy
[4:08] 2. Susie (Of The Islands)
[3:59] 3. Makin' Whoopie
[4:18] 4. The Southbound Sneak
[3:54] 5. Basin Street Blues
[3:14] 6. My Poodle Has Fleas
[6:06] 7. Vicksburg Blues
[4:29] 8. I'm Coming Virginia
[4:16] 9. Back In Your Own Backyard
[3:15] 10. Weather Bird
[3:11] 11. Blue Skies
[3:10] 12. Shuffle Rag
[4:41] 13. There Is A Table In Heaven
[4:33] 14. Whinin' Boy (Instrumental)

Whinin’ Boy" is an authentic and spirited guitar pickin’ romp through some of the greatest music of the early twentieth century.... a reminder of how infectious Dixieland music can still be in the hands of a creative and inventive musician and arranger. Ernie makes this music come alive. ~Mike Regenstreif

Ernie Hawkins • guitar, ukulele, vocals; George Heid • washboard, drums; Dwayne Dolphin • bass; Paul Consentino • clarinet; Marc Reisman • harmonica; Joe Dallas • trombone; Roger Day • tuba; James Moore • trumpet.

Whinin' Boy mc
Whinin' Boy zippy

Album: Bluesified
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:34
Size: 113.5 MB
Styles: Gospel-blues
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[3:50] 1. I Am A Pilgrim
[3:48] 2. Slow Drag
[4:42] 3. Bluesified
[5:17] 4. Crucifixion Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed
[5:02] 5. Riding On A Moonbeam
[3:45] 6. Broke Down Engine
[4:28] 7. Root Hog Or Die
[3:34] 8. Hawkins Rag
[4:42] 9. What You Gonna Do
[4:17] 10. I Belong To The Band
[6:06] 11. Amazing Grace (Tribute To Blind Willie Mctell)

Despite the title, Bluesified is as much a gospel album as a blues album, and it shows Ernie Hawkins taking a step closer to the masterful level of blues-and-spirituals versatility set by his two main influences, Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Willie McTell. As he did on his previous two solo albums, Hawkins pays considerable homage the Davis canon here, with achingly good results on "I Belong to the Band" (sung by guest vocalist Maria Muldaur) and a 12-string rendition of "Crucifixion" into which Hawkins also weaves the melody of "Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed." But whereas 1996's Blues Advice presented Hawkins in more of a revivalist mode, Bluesified has him stretching out, experimenting with musical roots ranging from prewar jazz to country to African folk songs. In the end, Hawkins still puts on a formidable ragtime guitar clinic -- but he's obviously got a lot on his mind besides the blues. ~Ken Chang

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