Fabrizio Poggi - Harpway 61

Size: 357 MB
Time: 58:58
File: Flac
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Baton Rouge, LA (Dedicated to Slim Harpo) (4:37)
2. New Orleans, LA (Dedicated to Little Walter) (4:34)
3. Tunica, MS (Dedicated to James Cotton) (4:57)
4. Clarksdale, MS (Dedicated to George 'Harmonica' Smith) (4:42)
5. Greenwood, MS (Dedicated to Johnny Woods) (3:57)
6. Memphis, TN (Dedicated to Junior Wells) (3:26)
7. Greenville, MS (Dedicated to Sonny Terry) (4:56)
8. Kosciusko, MS (Dedicated to Charlie Musselwhite) (4:06)
9. Chicago, IL (Dedicated to Paul Butterfield) (3:28)
10. Holly Springs, MS (Dedicated to Peg Leg Sam) (4:06)
11. Hornlake, MS (Dedicated to Big Walter Horton) (4:55)
12. Helena, AR (Dedicated to Sonny Boy Williamson I & II) (4:28)
13. Moorhead, MS (Dedicated to Deford Nailey) (3:37)
14. Tutwiler, MS (Dedicated to Sonny Boy Williamson II) (3:04)

Harpway 61 is an all instrumental album by Italian blues harmonica player Fabrizio Poggi. The CD is released by The Blues Foundation. All proceeds from the sale of the album go to The Blues Foundation. The music was donated by Fabrizio and the artwork was donated by Portland artist Dan Dalton. The Italian artist is a tireless worker promoting blues on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This CD is also a way to give something back to the musicians who have inspired and guided him during his long career. Harpway 61 is a tribute to the blues harmonica greats. Each song has the name of a city whose history is inextricably linked with a great harmonica player: Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson I and II, James Cotton, George Harmonica Smith, Junior Wells, Slim Harpo, Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite, Sonny Terry, DeFord Bailey, Peg Leg Sam and Johnny Woods. On this CD, the harmonica becomes Fabrizio’s voice, on the road marked by the great performers of the first two decades of last century. Great artists like the aforementioned Sonny Terry and DeFord Bailey, but also Jaybird Coleman, Palmer McAbee, Noah Lewis, Jed Davenport, Jazz Gillum, Hammie Nixon, JC Burris, Alfred Lewis, Freeman Stowers, Lee Brown, Robert Cooksey, Gwen Foster, Robert Hill, and Elder Roma Wilson. The cover is really charming and evocative with the portraits of blues greats painted in perfect folk-art style by the excellent Dan Dalton.

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Fabrizio Poggi - Basement Blues

Size: 127.7 MB
Time: 55:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Precious Lord (3:17)
02. Little Red Rooster (Feat. Guy Davis) (3:03)
03. Midnight Train (5:14)
04. John The Revelator (Feat. Garth Hudson) (4:51)
05. Your Light (Feat. Ronnie Earle) (2:29)
06. Black Coffee (Feat. Guy Davis) (6:53)
07. The Soul Of A Man (3:53)
08. Blues For Charlie (4:00)
09. Up Above My Head (Feat. Ronnie Earle) (2:59)
10. Boogie For John Lee Hooker (4:37)
11. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Feat. Guy Davis) (4:47)
12. I'm On The Road Again (5:08)
13. Hole In Your Soul (3:50)

Fabrizio Poggi singer, Hohner Award harmonica player, traveller, musicologist, writer, journalist and amazing performer began to give birth, with music and words, to his musical inspiration: the blues and the amazing folk music of the Southern United States. From the delta blues of Mississippi to gospel and spirituals, to american folk ballads, his musical future was easily decided. Today that dream is not only still alive and well but is being loved by audiences in Italy, Europe and America.

Fabrizio Poggi during his long career has played at the most prestigious clubs and festivals in Italy, Europe and USA (Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana) performing on stage or on his own recordings with legendary artists as: Garth Hudson of THE BAND and Bob Dylan (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Eric Bibb, Zachary Richard (who appears on "Heroes & Friends" cd), Guy Davis, Jerry Jeff Walker (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), Otis Taylor, Ponty Bone of Joe Ely Band (who appears on "Mercy" and "Nuther World" cds), Bob Brozman, Mitch Woods, Eric Andersen, Richard Thompson, Merel Bregante of Loggins & Messina (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), Tom Russell, Jimmy LaFave (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), John Inmon of Omar & The Howlers (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), The Original Blues Brothers Band, Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Lou Marini, Alan Rubin, Rob Paparozzi of Blood, Sweat & Tears (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Seth Walker (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Bill "Howl ‘n' Madd" Perry, Johnny Drummer, James Wheeler, Sonny "Sunshine" Payne of King Biscuit Time (who appears on "The breath of soul" cd), Tony McPhee of The Groundogs, Bill Abel, Lightnin' Malcom, Robert Belfour and many others.

Fabrizio Poggi has recorded twelve albums and has written two great books about blues and folk harmonica history. His latest works, a cd titled "Mercy" and a book titled "Il soffio dell'anima: armoniche e armonicisti blues" (The breath of soul: harmonica and blues harmonica players) have enjoyed tremendous critical acclaim all around the world.

On the folk music side, Fabrizio Poggi, after a period of sickness, as he did for the American music, started the meticulous and passionate research of words of songs, lyrics, old books and records almost lost and forgotten. Fabrizio Poggi discovered the magical world of the Lombard folklore: the rice weeders songs and the troubadors repertoire. He recorded with the band named Turututela three cds, "Canzoni popolari", "Il violino dei poveri", "La storia si canta". He wrote also a book about folk harmonica history in his country, that was a best seller in Italy.

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Fabrizio Poggi - Armonisiana

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 49:51
Size: 114,7 MB
Released: 2003
Styles: Harmonica Blues, Electric/Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

1. Bone (3:44)
2. Train (4:59)
3. Zz (2:05)
4. Walkin' (5:19)
5. Muddy (3:18)
6. Harley (5:06)
7. Stevie Ray (2:31)
8. Texas Tears (4:44)
9. Funk Reel (5:37)
10. Local Hero (4:04)
11. Zydeco (2:53)
12. Burnin' (5:25)

Fabrizio Poggi singer, Hohner Award harmonica player, traveller, musicologist, writer, journalist and amazing performer began to give birth, with music and words, to his musical inspiration: the blues and the amazing folk music of the Southern United States. From the delta blues of Mississippi to gospel and spirituals, to american folk ballads, his musical future was easily decided. Today that dream is not only still alive and well but is being loved by audiences in Italy, Europe and America.

Fabrizio Poggi during his long career has played at the most prestigious clubs and festivals in Italy, Europe and USA (Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana) performing on stage or on his own recordings with legendary artists as: Garth Hudson of THE BAND and Bob Dylan (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Eric Bibb, Zachary Richard (who appears on "Heroes & Friends" cd), Guy Davis, Jerry Jeff Walker (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), Otis Taylor, Ponty Bone of Joe Ely Band (who appears on "Mercy" and "Nuther World" cds), Bob Brozman, Mitch Woods, Eric Andersen, Richard Thompson, Merel Bregante of Loggins & Messina (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), Tom Russell, Jimmy LaFave (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), John Inmon of Omar & The Howlers (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), The Original Blues Brothers Band, Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Lou Marini, Alan Rubin, Rob Paparozzi of Blood, Sweat & Tears (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Seth Walker (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Bill "Howl ‘n' Madd" Perry, Johnny Drummer, James Wheeler, Sonny "Sunshine" Payne of King Biscuit Time (who appears on "The breath of soul" cd), Tony McPhee of The Groundogs, Bill Abel, Lightnin' Malcom, Robert Belfour and many others.

Fabrizio Poggi has recorded twelve albums and has written two great books about blues and folk harmonica history. His latest works, a cd titled "Mercy" and a book titled "Il soffio dell'anima: armoniche e armonicisti blues" (The breath of soul: harmonica and blues harmonica players) have enjoyed tremendous critical acclaim all around the world.

On the folk music side, Fabrizio Poggi, after a period of sickness, as he did for the American music, started the meticulous and passionate research of words of songs, lyrics, old books and records almost lost and forgotten. Fabrizio Poggi discovered the magical world of the Lombard folklore: the rice weeders songs and the troubadors repertoire. He recorded with the band named Turututela three cds, "Canzoni popolari", "Il violino dei poveri", "La storia si canta". He wrote also a book about folk harmonica history in his country, that was a best seller in Italy.

Armonisiana

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Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo - Spirit & Freedom

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 71:35
Size: 166.2 MB
Styles: Electric/Acoustic blues
Released: 2010
Art: Front

1. I'm On My Way (feat. The Blind Boys of Alabama, Charlie Musselwhite) (5:36)
2. I Shall Be Released (5:46)
3. Stayed On Freedom (feat. Guy Davis, Augie Meyers) (5:42)
4. Halleluja (2:13)
5. In My Hour Of Darkness (feat. Mickey Raphael) (4:27)
6. I Heard The Angels Singin'(feat. Eric Bibb, Maud Hudson, Garth Hudson) (4:34)
7. They Killed Him (4:00)
8. Jesus Called Me In Heaven (feat. Brian Standefer) (4:39)
9. Spiritual (feat. Debbi Walton) (5:33)
10. My Peace Jesus Christ (feat. Debbi Walton) (3:07)
11. Mr. Bojangles (feat. Tish Hinojosa) (6:37)
12. We Shall Not Be Moved (3:33)
13. He Was A Friend Of Mine (feat. Kevin Welch, Ron Knuth, Mike Blakely) (4:09)
14. Heaven Stood Still (feat. Flaco Jimenez) (4:11)
15. Live Forever (feat. Billy Joe Shaver) (3:18)
16. Glory Glory Spirit & Freedom (feat. Guy Davis, Augie Meyers, Donnie Price) (4:02)

Many years ago a young man from Voghera, Italy, decided it was time to bring to life a dream that he had carried safely in his heart for most of his life. With that decision, his band Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo was born.

Fabrizio Poggi singer, Hohner Award harmonica player, traveller, musicologist, writer, journalist and amazing performer began to give birth, with music and words, to his musical inspiration: the blues and the amazing folk music of the Southern United States. From the delta blues of Mississippi to gospel and spirituals, to american folk ballads, his musical future was easily decided. Today that dream is not only still alive and well but is being loved by audiences in Italy, Europe and America.

A rather impressive roster on this 2010 gospel/folk album from Italian singer, Hohner Award harmonica player, traveller, musicologist, writer, journalist and performer Fabrizio Poggi.

Spirit & Freedom

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Mora & Bronski - 50/50

Size: 113,6 MB
Time: 48:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues, Folk, Country
Art: Front

01. Spaghetti Blues (2:36)
02. Pistol Packin' Mama (2:34)
03. Mezzanera (2:24)
04. The Fat Man (Feat. Max Lazzarin) (1:20)
05. Carezze All'ossigeno (Feat. Pietro Marcotti) (2:48)
06. No Potho Reposare (3:54)
07. Keep It To Yourself (Feat. Fabrizio Poggi) (3:40)
08. Anarcos (Feat. Fabrizio Poggi) (4:10)
09. The Backdoor (Feat. Arlo Zenzeni) (2:26)
10. Appuntamento Al Buio (Feat. Pietro Marcotti, Lorenz Zadro) (3:57)
11. See My Jumper Hangin' Out On The Line (2:59)
12. Neve E Cenere (Feat. Pietro Marcotti) (4:05)
13. Jolie Louise (2:23)
14. Piu Giu (3:11)
15. This Train Is Bound For Glory (Feat. Deborah Kooperman) (2:28)
16. Vudumanti (Feat. Stephanie Ocean Ghizzoni, Max Lazzarin) (Veglia Danzante) (3:28)

Mora & Bronski, a musical power duo in the balance between folk, blues and Italian singer-songwriter, offer a journey through the Americas through Blues, Country, Folk and Rock'n'Roll classics, along with original compositions of their own composition.
Fabio Mora and Fabio Ferraboschi, respectively voice and acoustic guitar, explore the most intimate nuances between black and white, thus arriving to the essence and root of the American Music - essential aspect of their nourished musical baggage - that was, only in waiting to be expressed at the right time.
Mora & Bronski began a tour that led them to perform more than 50 concerts, playing in some of the major Italian Blues festivals such as Blues Made in Italy, Trasimeno Blues Festival, Rootsway and Levico Terme Blues Festival. The duo, similarly live, manages to maintain an instinctive and radical imprint fed by percussive parts performed with the aid of breath, hands, feet and pops of fingers and harmonic parts played with guitars 6 and 12 strings, banjo and steel guitar, as happened in the old juke joint - this is the spirit of their concerts.
Acquiring a greater awareness of style and a large following of people, the power duo feels ready for the most important test: to get their music to a wider audience.
So on 23 February 2018 "Spaghetti Blues" comes out, a song that Mora & Bronski decided to bring to the radio. The song anticipates the highly anticipated new album "50/50", a record full of musical collaborations including Fabrizio Poggi (recently nominated at the Grammy Awards 2018), Deborah Kooperman, Lorenz Zadro, Pietro Marcotti, Arlo Zenzani and Bayou Moonshiners composed by Stephanie Ghizzoni and Max Lazzarin.
Mora & Bronski go to the root of their culture sinking and dirtying their hands in the mud of African-American music in search of their identity, retrieving and mixing the cards on a table where they play - in fact - between blues & folk nuances to stars and stripes and the Italian songwriting. Intentions stripped bare, without frills, because their only goal is to get straight to the heart. ~(Google translation)

50/50

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Guy Davis, Fabrizio Poggi - Sonny & Brownie's Last Train

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:06
Size: 105.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[4:04] 1. Sonny & Brownie's Last Train
[4:50] 2. Louise, Louise
[2:57] 3. Hooray, Hooray, These Women Are Killing Me
[3:35] 4. Shortin' Bread
[4:52] 5. Baby Please Don't Go To New Orleans
[4:09] 6. Take This Hammer
[5:24] 7. Goin Down Slow
[3:00] 8. Freight Train
[4:14] 9. Evil Hearted Me
[2:28] 10. Step It Up And Go
[2:47] 11. Walk On
[3:40] 12. Midnight Special

Guy Davis and Fabrizio Poggi team up to deliver an aural love letter to two of their personal favorites, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee on this delightful collection album, dramatically reviving the memory of two of the greatest acoustic bluesmen and longest enduring musical partners the world has ever known.A master craftsman in the Piedmont style of blues harmonica, Terry was born in Georgia, grew up in the vicinity of Raleigh, N.C., and went blind as a teenager. He rose to prominence in 1938 when he was invited by John Hammond to participate in the legendary From Spirituals To Swing concert at Carnegie Hall, the two-day event that introduced the blues – along with Big Joe Turner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jimmy Rushing, Big Bill Broonzy and others – to white society for the first time. He was a Broadway star, too, appearing in 1947 in the long-running play, Finnian’s Rainbow. A native of Knoxville, Tenn., and stricken with polio at age four, McGhee was a powerful vocalist who rose to prominence with a picking style that was distinctly different than his contemporaries. He worked alongside his hero, Blind Boy Fuller, in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. He and Terry met in 1939 and started working together after Fuller’s death two years later. They were an essential part of the folk revival of the ‘60s and worked together until 1975 – even though they hadn’t spoken to one another in decades over a dispute, the origin of which neither could remember.

Both Poggi — pronounced with a soft “g”, who produced Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train, in Milan, Italy, where he fronts the band Chicken Mambo, is a one of the world’s foremost practitioners of the Piedmont harp style, a technique in which Davis, an award-winning singer, guitarist, actor and storyteller, is also gifted. The pair have recorded frequently together and toured both sides of the Atlantic, delighting audiences wherever they appear. And Guy also revived Sonny’s Finnian role in three different runs on the New York stage.

“Brownie and Sonny were two musicians whose work will never surpassed, let alone improved on,” says Guy. While that might be true, this writer is old enough to have experienced those giants on multiple occasions in my youth and, more recently, been blessed with the good fortune of catching Davis and Poggi in concert, too. Even though they deliver much of the same material as their predecessors, they achieve a level of intimacy that Terry and McGhee never approached – possibly because of personal differences. And that warmth flows like a torrent from the digital imprint on this CD. ~Marty Gunther

Sonny & Brownie's Last Train" is a loving tribute by The Ambassador of the blues, Guy Davis and international harmonica star, Fabrizio Poggi. Recorded in Milan Italy, Guy and Fabrizio explore the the music of one the great blues duos in history. Besides many engaging covers like "Evil Hearted Me" and "Hooray, Hooray These Women is Killing Me" Guy penned an original composition for the release.

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Fabrizio Poggi - Fabrizio Poggi & The Amazing Texas Blues Voices

Size: 110,3 MB
Time: 47:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. Nobody's Fault But Mine (Feat. Carolyn Wonderland) (3:37)
02. Walk On (Feat. Ruthie Foster) (4:56)
03. Forty Days And Forty Nights (Feat. Mike Zitto) (4:48)
04. Rough Edges (Feat. W.C. Clark) (3:49)
05. Mississippi, My Home (Feat. Lavelle White) (7:59)
06. Neighbor Neighbor (Feat. Bobby Mack) (5:13)
07. Many In Body (Feat. Mike Cross) (4:05)
08. Welcome Home (Feat. Shelley King) (4:59)
09. Wishin' Well (Feat. Mike Cross) (3:31)
10. Run On (Feat. Guy Forsyth) (4:00)

Fabrizio Poggi singer, Hohner Award harmonica player, traveller, musicologist, writer, journalist and amazing performer, has recorded fifteen albums, mostly in USA. Fabrizio’s performances have been described as dramatic, totally captivating, amazing, engaging and soulful with a sound truly unique.

He during his long career has played at the most prestigious clubs and festivals in Europe and USA performing on stage or on his own recordings with legendary artists as: Garth Hudson, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Charlie Musselwhite, Flaco Jiménez, Little Feat, Otis Taylor, Eric Andersen, Blues Brothers Band, Bob Margolin, James Cotton, Robert Plant, Robben Ford, Tony McPhee, Doug MacLeod, Mitch Woods, Eddie Bo, Super Chickan, and many others..

Live At Fabrizio Poggi & The Amazing Texas Blues Voices

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Fabrizio Poggi - Il Soffio Della Liberta

Size: 111,6 MB
Time: 47:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Blues Folk
Art: Front

01. We Shall Overcome (1:07)
02. I Shall Be Released (4:36)
03. Needed Time (4:28)
04. Deep In My Heart (3:07)
05. I'm On My Way (4:22)
06. I Heard The Angels Singin' (4:12)
07. Oh Freedom (0:38)
08. Stayed On Freedom (3:27)
09. You Gotta Move (4:04)
10. We Shall Not Be Move (3:05)
11. I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (3:29)
12. Jesus On The Meanline (4:14)
13. Precious Lord (3:36)
14. Amazing Grace (3:12)

Fabrizio Poggi from Italy is an artist that respects such statement right to the bone. His new record, Il Soffio Della Liberta' (The Murmur Of Freedom) is a labour of love, inspired by the blues culture and the values and the richness of history that this genre carries. The album has been inspired by a theatrical music performance of the Italian Bluesman, celebrating a century of blues through the songs and the stories of those human heroes that have brought the Afro-American population from slavery to freedom.

The album features some brilliantly revised classics, such as Seeger's We Shall Overcome or Dylan's I Shall Be Released and some powerful Traditionals of the Blues, like Oh Freedom or I Want Jesus To Walk With Me.

Poggi has, in this record, stellar Special Guests to help him accomplishing this splendid music project, artists of the highest calibre like The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Eric Bibb, Charlie Musselwhite, Garth Hudson and many more. Musically, Poggi challenges himself in performing those classics, by offering an highly palatable ensemble of Blues, Folk and Americana. And where his voice can't reach, then there is his fabulous harmonica and the class of the musicians accompanying Poggi, creating some really special vibes on this musical history ride. To hear the closing track of the album, the evergreen Amazing Grace, just on harmonica and voice, it is really something special and almost goose-pumping.

There are several references, on Il Soffio Della Liberta', to Martin Luther King and his importance on inspiring Poggi to create this concept album. In one of his most famous quotes, King once said "You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream". That is the way in which the Italian Artist lives and has always lived his life, by breathing, thinking and living the dream of Blues every single day through his enormous talent.

A work of love, honesty and class. Il Soffio Della Liberta' is musical food for soul. ~Giovanni "Gio" Pilato

Il Soffio Della Liberta

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Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo - Heroes & Friends

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:31
Size: 134.0 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:53] 1. Hey Evangeline
[5:15] 2. What The Cowboys Say
[3:08] 3. I'm A King Bee
[3:44] 4. Chicken Gumbo
[6:34] 5. Sweet Cajun Flower
[2:48] 6. See You Later Alligator
[2:52] 7. Bayou Queen
[4:44] 8. Canzone Delle Rondini
[4:12] 9. Roamin' Blues
[5:42] 10. Big Chief
[2:34] 11. Creole Angel
[5:51] 12. Stand By Me
[4:25] 13. Bluesharp
[3:42] 14. Dead Shrimp

Fabrizio Poggi - vocals, harp, rubboard, percussions; Gianfranco "French" Scala - guitars; Maurizio Fassino - guitars; Davide Giorgi - piano, organ, accordion, double bass; Giuseppe "Joe" Barreca - bass; Corrado Ciceri - drums.

Heroes & Friends as already announced by the titile includes many guests' and friends' performance, while the band changed partially members and name, turned into Fabrizio Poggi & chicken Mambo. In the third album of the band there are the famous Cajun rocker Zachary Richard (vocals and accordion on two tracks), DonMcCalister and his band (which included Eamon McLouglin, now with the Greencards, Donnie Price (legendary Texan bassist who played with many great artists) and Slim Richey (appreciated Texan guitarist and producer); Billy Gregory extraordinary blues guitarist (he was one of the founders of the "It's a beautiful day" and performed and recorded with John Lee Hooker and Willy DeVille). There are many friends who contributed to the success of this album including Vince Vallicelli, David Teicher, and Joseph Di Carlo. The most significant songs chosen among originals and covers are "Hey Evangeline," "Bayou Queen" (both with Zachary Richard), "What the Cowboys say" (with Don McCalister); "Chicken Gumbo" and "Creole Angel" (with Billy Gregory and Vince Vallicelli); "I'm a King Bee" by Slim Harpo, the classic "See you later alligator", the very first version of "Sweet Cajun flower", the personal and successful cover of "Stand by Me"; "Dead Shrimp "by Robert Johnson and" Canzone Delle Rondini " a touching translation of a Zachary Richard's song.

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Guy Davis - Kokomo Kidd

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:23
Size: 140.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:09] 1. Kokomo Kidd (Feat. Ben Jaffe)
[5:54] 2. Wish I Hadn't Stayed Away So Long
[3:51] 3. Taking Just A Little Bit Of Time
[6:24] 4. She Just Wants To Be Loved
[4:04] 5. Like Sonny Did
[4:50] 6. Lay Lady Lay
[6:32] 7. Little Red Rooster (Feat. Charlie Musselwhite)
[2:57] 8. Maybe I'll Go
[5:54] 9. Blackberry Kisses
[4:05] 10. Have You Ever Loved A Womn (Feat. Fabrizio Poggi)
[3:53] 11. Cool Drink Of Water
[4:58] 12. Bumblee Blues
[3:47] 13. Wear Your Love Like Heaven

When Guy Davis plays the blues, he doesn’t want you to notice how much art is involved. “It takes work making a song that’s simple, and playful, and easy to do,” he says. “And I don’t want people to see that. I want to uplift and create something that causes delight. And I want some little eight-year-old kid in the front row to have big eyes and say, ‘Hey, I want to do that!’.”

Davis’ much-praised 1995 debut, Stomp Down the Rider on Red House Records, marked the arrival of a major talent, earning acclaim for his deft acoustic playing, his well-traveled voice and his literate, yet highly accessible songwriting. He’s barely rested since then, taking his music to television (the Conan O’Brien and David Letterman shows) and radio (A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, World Cafe, E-Town), as well as performing at theaters and festivals. And he’s played the four corners of the world, with a recent tour taking him from the Equator to the Arctic Circle. He played the Ukraine in summer of 2014, just a week or so before the statues of Lenin were torn down. He even played for the visiting Queen of Denmark when he performed at a children’s home in Greenland.

“I feel like I’ve only hit three corners of the world, with a lot more to go,” he says. “I seek to communicate no matter where I go. When I play in non-English speaking countries I play more of the classics—Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell. And I may tell fewer stories, but sometimes I can get away with it because the words sound like music.” Above all he’s looking to bring people together through music. “With the world falling apart it’s up to all of us to be ambassadors and to spread the music everywhere we can. There’s nowhere that I don’t want to play.”

His parallel careers– as a musician, an author, a music teacher and a film, television and Broadway actor—mark Davis as a Renaissance man, yet the blues remain his first and greatest love. Growing up in a family of artists (his parents were Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis), he fell under the spell of Blind Willie McTell and Fats Waller at an early age. Guy’s one-man play, The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed With the Blues, premiered Off-Broadway in the ‘90s and has since been released as a double CD. He went on to star Off-Broadway as the legendary Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick The Devil, winning the Blues Foundation’s “Keeping the Blues Alive” award. He followed the footsteps of another blues legend when he joined the Broadway production of Finian’s Rainbow, playing the part originally done in 1947 by Sonny Terry. Along the way he cut nine acclaimed albums for the Red House label and three for his own label, Smokeydoke Records; and was nominated for nearly a dozen Blues Awards.

So it’s no wonder that Davis is reluctant to define himself simply as a bluesman. “To me, a bluesman is somebody who has to carry a knife or a gun and enter dangerous situations and sometimes fuel it with alcohol—That’s not who I am. I call myself a blues musician, and to me the blues is a broad title. I include some ragtime, I make a nod to New Orleans, and a nod to the fife and drum players. And I always include things that make you want to dance.”

All that and more can be heard on Kokomo Kidd, Guy’s twelfth studio album and his follow-up to the stripped-down, critically acclaimed 2013 release “Juba dance”, produced in Italy by Fabrizio Poggi. As always he combines modern with traditional blues, the somber and the celebratory. And for him it represents a jump into new territory. “It’s the first time I’ve produced myself,” he points out. “I stepped up to the plate, put the cash on the barrelhead and said ‘Let’s make this happen.’ What I‘m showing here is a side of me that’s deep inside. It’s needing air and light, and here it comes!”.

The most surprising of the album’s four cover tunes has to be “Wear Your Love Like Heaven,” the slightly trippy Donovan hit from 1967. “I loved that song back when I was a kid, and I wasn’t even sure why—It wasn’t especially rhythmic, more on the acoustic psychedelic side of things. Growing up as an African-American, for me it was always about James Brown, soul music. So it comes from a more courageous part of myself to show how much I love that song. Same with the Bob Dylan song, ‘Lay Lady Lay’– There was a time when I wouldn’t have had the self-confidence to do a song like that.”

Closer to home is “Little Red Rooster,” the Willie Dixon classic first recorded by Howlin’ Wolf. The song teams Davis with another old friend, harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite. “I play the harp myself when I do that one live, but Charlie brings something special to it. In his blood he feels the harmonica and its sound, just as they did in the days of Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf.”

Continuing his mission to spread the blues around the world, Guy has lately been doing more teaching. “I’ve had beginning and intermediate students, and I try to give them enough of the basics that they can go into a jam session, and create more licks out of the ones they know. And I try to give them a bit of my philosophy. To my mind you can treat these songs as recombinant DNA, you can own it and you can create something new with it. And I didn’t sign any papers, but I can claim an ownership to the blues.”

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Chicken Mambo - 2 albums: Mississippi Moon / Under The Southern Sky

Album: Mississippi Moon
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:54
Size: 86.8 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues
Year: 1993/2010
Art: Front

[5:15] 1. Swing Low Sweet Zydeco
[3:26] 2. Big Easy Blues
[3:01] 3. Dancin' With My Crawfish
[2:14] 4. Great Balls Of Fire
[3:25] 5. Zydeco Rumba
[5:19] 6. Mississipi Moon
[3:38] 7. Cajun Lady
[4:09] 8. I'm On The Road Again
[2:09] 9. Allons Dancer
[2:48] 10. Creole Queen
[2:24] 11. Susan Song

Fabrizio Poggi - vocals, harmonica, rubboard, diatonic accordion; Maurizio Fassino - guitars; Giuseppe “Joe” Barreca - bass; Michele Vittori - drums and percussion.

Mississippi Moon is Chicken Mambo’s first cd. All songs written by Fabrizio Poggi except “Great balls of fire” (Hammer – Blackwell), “Will the circle be unbroken” (Carter), and “When the saints go marchin’ in” (traditional).

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Album: Under The Southern Sky
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:37
Size: 129.6 MB
Styles: Louisiana blues
Year: 1995/2010
Art: Front

[5:44] 1. Under The Southern Sky
[4:34] 2. Iko Iko
[3:33] 3. Laissez Faire
[4:13] 4. Love My Zydeco
[3:57] 5. Tipitina
[3:32] 6. Indian Baby
[5:09] 7. Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
[5:04] 8. Late At Night
[5:25] 9. Hey Louisianne
[3:42] 10. Blowin My Blues Away
[2:34] 11. Mississippi Saxophone
[3:16] 12. Zydeco Boogaloo
[5:48] 13. White Church Medley

Fabrizio Poggi - vocals, harp, rubboard; Maurizio Fassino - guitar, dobro; Davide Giorgi - piano, hammond; Giuseppe “Joe” Barreca - bass; Michele Vittori - drums and percussions.

"Under The Southern Sky" it's the second album by Chicken Mambo. The album introduce to a mature sound arisen from the band's heavvy live activity. among the most representative pieces there are: "Under The Southern Sky" a beautiful roots ballad written by Fabrizio Poggi (special guest Heggy Vezzano at the guitar), the classical New Orleans tune "Iko Iko", the country-cajun "Laissez Faire", a blues version of "Love My Zydeco" by Zachary Richard, very appreciated by its author, "Indian Baby", an autograph piece by Poggi, and "Tee Ni Nee Ni Nu, by Slim Harpo, which has been the band's live setlist highlight for many years, very enjoyable also the final triad of songs, all arisen from Poggi's pen: the shuffle "Hey Louisianne", the country-style song "Blowin My Blues Away" and the harp tour de force "Mississipi Saxophone". The album ends with an heart touching medley where there are just piano, harp and vocals, made up of "Amazing Grace", Lousiana 1927" by Randy Newman and the traditional "Sitting On The Top Of The World". Very interesting are also versions of "Tipitina" by Professor Longhair and "Zydeco Boogaloo" by Buckwheat Zydeco.

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Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo - Spaghetti Juke Joint

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:16
Size: 144.8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:47] 1. Bye Bye Bird
[6:23] 2. King Bee (With Sonny Landreth)
[5:32] 3. The Blues Is Alright (With Ronnie Earl)
[5:30] 4. Devil At The Cross Road
[4:40] 5. Mistery Train
[3:42] 6. Way Down In The Hole
[4:55] 7. Checkin' Up On My Baby
[5:48] 8. Onekind Favor
[5:50] 9. Mojo (With Bob Margolin)
[4:50] 10. Rock Me Baby
[4:10] 11. Nobody (With Sara Cappelletti)
[4:42] 12. I Want My Baby (With Claudio Bazzarri)
[2:19] 13. Baby Please Don't Go

Fabrizio Poggi has been playing the blues for many years in his native Italy as well as across Europe and the USA. In 2013 he worked with Guy Davis on his BMA nominated CD Juba Dance and over the years he has played with many leading American blues artists. His 18th album was recorded in Milan with his regular Italian band Chicken Mambo, a recording of mainly covers from the classic blues canon, with three tracks credited to Fabrizio. The band is Fabrizio on harp and vocals, Enrico Polverari on guitar, Tino Cappelletti on bass and B/V, Gino Carravieri on drums, with Claudio Noseda adding accordion and keyboards to some tracks, Stefano Spina singing B/V’s on one track and adding percussion to two others, Claudio Bazzari adding slide to one track and Sara Cappelletti adding B/V’s throughout and singing lead on one track. Special guest guitarists on one track each are Sonny Landreth, Ronnie Earl and Bob Margolin.

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Guy Davis - Juba Dance

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:47
Size: 125.4 MB
Styles: Country blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Lost Again
[4:33] 2. My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble
[3:22] 3. Love Looks Good On You
[3:15] 4. Some Cold Rainy Day
[5:10] 5. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
[4:01] 6. Dance Juba Dance
[4:30] 7. Black Coffee
[4:00] 8. Did You See My Baby
[4:45] 9. Satisfied
[4:13] 10. That's No Way To Get Along
[4:00] 11. Saturday's Blues
[5:29] 12. Prodigal Son
[3:55] 13. Statesboro Blues

Guy Davis is one of today's most prominent Blues artists. He’s a guitarist and banjo player, songwriter and actor. He has been nominated for nine ‘Handy Awards’ over the years, and has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues. His new album (with special guests Blind Boys Of Alabama & Lea Gilmore) is magic … !

Blues guitarist Guy Davis seamlessly combines standards with his own original compositions as he breathes new life into the country blues idiom on Juba Dance, assisted by Fabrizio Poggi on harmonica. Named after a form of expression that originated in West Africa and involves foot-stomping and patting of the arms, legs, chest and cheeks, juba – also known as hambone — was brought to the New World via the slave trade and was a precursor to the blues. In many ways, it was used as an attempt to dance away one’s sorrows. With “Juba Dance,” Davis weaves both the beauty and pain of that experience into a rich, modern musical tapestry.

The son of celebrated actors and Civil Rights activists Ruby Dee and Ozzie Davis and an actor-director himself, Guy fell in love with the music by listening to his grandparents. He’s celebrated them throughout his career by weaving their experiences into his songs. Poggi, who co-produced this CD, is a native of Voghera, Italy, where he’s also journalist, and has performed frequently in the U.S. during the past 20 years, most notably with his band, Chicken Mambo.

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Fabrizio Poggi - 2 albums: The Breath Of Soul / Spirit Of Mercy (A Collection)

Album: The Breath Of Soul
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:19
Size: 117.5 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[4:41] 1. The Soul Of A Man
[5:08] 2. Dust My Broom
[4:35] 3. John The Revelator
[4:29] 4. Diving Duck Blues
[3:54] 5. Song For Angelina
[4:05] 6. Cross Road Blues
[2:53] 7. Pay Day
[5:07] 8. Beefsteak Blues
[3:33] 9. Glory Glory
[4:27] 10. Another Man Done Gone
[2:45] 11. Checkin' Up On My Baby
[3:34] 12. The Breath Of Soul
[2:03] 13. Sitting On Top Of The World

“Sunshine” Sonny Payne” host of the legendary King Biscuit Time KFFA Radio, Helena Arkansas “Here in the deep south of America, it's often been said a white man cannot sing or play the black man's blues. After hearing the new cd "The breath of soul" with Fabrizio Poggi, someone, somewhere got their stories mixed up. I have played the blues for 56 years, and the "The breath of soul" cd is the finest I've ever heard by a white group. My point is, you don't have to come to America to hear the blues, because you have it right there in Italy. These guys are for real”. Blues Revue says: “Poggi is a terrific harp player and a good singer whose own songs match up well with the covers, and the band is tight and tasteful...”. Easy Reeding (Official Hohner Magazine) says: “ … a great CD that certainly crosses geographical and cultural boundaries...”.

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Album: Spirit Of Mercy (A Collection)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:41
Size: 129.8 MB
Styles: Harmonica blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[1:09] 1. Mercy
[4:05] 2. You Gotta Move
[4:33] 3. Needed Time
[5:32] 4. I'm On My Way
[4:33] 5. I Heard The Angels Singin'
[5:31] 6. Spiritual
[3:34] 7. Nobody's Faul But Mine
[3:53] 8. Glory Glory
[5:01] 9. Soul 0f A Man-Alternate Take
[3:39] 10. Precious Lord
[4:41] 11. Jesus On The Mainline-Alternate Take
[1:13] 12. Amazing Grace
[3:28] 13. I Want Jesus To Walk With Me
[5:43] 14. I Shall Be Released

Fabrizio is a multi talented musician, a man who lives, walks, talks, and is the blues. Fabrizio is a star player, one of a handful of the very best, who not only plays A1+ harmonica, but writes great lyrics, and sings very nice to, coupled with so much meaningful expression, and tone. I love this Artist, truly, and certainly is one of a handful of today’s living harmonica Legends. ~Shaun Monument May

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