Francesca De Fazi' N' Band - Blues Dues

Size: 428 MB
Time: 72:27
File: Flac
Released: 2002
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Teaching While I Learn ( 2:43)
2. Like A Virgin ( 4:20)
3. Son Of A Preacherman ( 5:11)
4. Flowers On Stage ( 4:06)
5. Move Over ( 4:35)
6. Everywhere I Go ( 5:30)
7. S.Francisco 68 ( 7:37)
8. Manic Depression ( 4:24)
9. Rollin' N' Tumbling The Big Road ( 3:46)
10. Ache In My Heart ( 4:13)
11. Material Girl ( 4:40)
12. A Whiter Shade of Pale ( 5:24)
13. Down On Me (15:51)

I started music playin' a tennis racket and a Suzie Quatro LP.. I grew up loving the Beatles, Genesis, the Police, the Pretenders .. When I saw U2 live on stage with B.B.King in the early 90s, I acknowledged all my preferences tied up to one mean : the blues! I bought "Sally", my first Fender Telecaster by a "stornelli" player downtown , I put together a rock'n'roll band and rised from ranks in clubs , between Rome, London and Los Angeles . I loved California and my only plan to get what I wanted.. but what I needed got me! The L.A. sessions gave me chance to meet loads of musicians , glamourous to unknown; I worked with ex Ikettes Carol Basley with the "L.Knight Blowin Smoke Revue" , "Larry Johnson Blues Band" and played places like S.Monica Harvelle's, House of Blues, B.B.King's blues club, Venice Bistro … Back in Italy I got the recognition I deserved playing clubs like Big Mama, Home of the Blues in Rome, where I had sessions with partenopean band Blues Staff , actual big record selling artists Alex Britti, the italian Blues pioneer Roberto Ciotti, , Andy J. Forest, Lousiana Red.. Mediaset network enrolled me in the new female big band for big-share TV shows and I performed in "Vintage in Italy" program too, where I'm invited for Dobro and the slide guitar playing. In the summer of 98 I'm contacted by Belgrade Italian Culture Institute for a fortnight tour in the ex-Jugoslavia with bluesman Boki Skipic band Dirty Fingers, and, still a must of my career , opening for Jeff Healey and David Crosby at Pistoia Blues Festival. In 1998 TICKET 2 RIDE is released, first live cd where I sing anything from James Taylor to the "Ironia della sorte", my version of A. Morissette hit "Ironic". JANIS JOLPIN TRIBUTE BAND began in the new millenium and setting the backline I join forces with the best blues musicians in Rome. It 's magic how ,with their help, I let myself go deep down to the spirit of one of my truest heroins. We played national festivals like: "Welcome blues", Trieste , "Aventino Blues Festival", Abruzzo "Poggio Murella Blues" , Toscany, "Maggio Rock", Basilicata, "Millenium", E.Romagna, "Macchia Blues", Campania,(opening for Rory Block), "Roma incontra il mondo", (Villa Ada). Part of this tour we backed up Mississipi bluesman Luoisiana Red, so me, the "little Bonnie Raitt" (as he enjoys calling me), had the chance to learn more blues roots . The experience I had with Red inspired me the opening song in my new cd , "Teaching while I learn" . Meanwhile I wrote music for Fazi Ed. cult fiction writer Rocco Fortunato promotional shows and realised the cd HANDMADE together with the book. The live cd "Janis Joplin Lives on" is a success broadcasting RadioRock and in the summer 2001 we're on tour in Switzerland and Europe for "Flower Power Festival". In September we are booked at The Hard Rock Cafè of Rome, until Christmas. "Blues Dues" is realesed may 2002, the best of Big mama sessions through the year ;13 songs, originals and classics, throughout "the only bluesgirl in town" double senses and apparent contraddiction, try to tell a different story breaking and adjusting blues and schedules. 2002 Summer tour includes "Soul Jazz Taranto Blues" (with italian jazz stars Franco Cerri, Gegè Telesforo), "Trasimeno Blues Festival", "Imola in Musica", "Naima Blues Festival", "Salerno Blues" openin' for Taji Mahal. In December I make my two weeks sold out theatre debut at historical "Sala Umberto" of Rome for Giffoni and S. Francisco N.I.C.E prizes winner, director also starring , Francesco Apolloni play, "Io senza gli altri" ("Me without others" n.d.r.), performing original italian songs harmonized to the actor monologues.

Blues Dues FLAC

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Francesca De Fazi - Craft Songs

Size: 97,8 MB
Time: 42:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Making Miracles (4:04)
02. Message In The Bottleneck (3:44)
03. Emergency (3:37)
04. Pacific Trash Vortex (4:19)
05. Danubio Blues (4:01)
06. Post Partum Blues (3:37)
07. At The Bottom Of A Glass (3:36)
08. Heaven Pie (5:46)
09. Heart In Mind (3:29)
10. White Lies (3:28)
11. Barbecue Blues (2:30)

Francesca De Fazi is an Italian songwriter and guitarist from Rome, Italy. She has called herself the Roman Blues Woman since she recorded one of her early albums in New Orleans years ago. Francesca has over 20 years of experience in music with a large background in studio and television recordings as well as live shows all around the world. She has collaborated with jazz, blues and pop artists such as Scott Henderson, Stefano Di Battista, Marcello Rosa, Andy J. Forest, Roberto Ciotti, Louisiana Red, Amii Stewart, Taj Mahal, Rory Block, Alex Britti, Grazia Di Michele, Mario Biondi.
Francesca describes the 11 tracks of "Craft Songs" as being “tied together with water, tears, sea, whiskey, rain, blood and amniotic fluid.” Even if the blues come to mind while first listening to the album, the music is much more than that. The album combines experimentations, research, ideas matured on the road and in Francesca’s dreams.

Craft Songs

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Francesca De Fazi & The Gipsy Band - Roman Blues Woman

Size: 106,8 MB
Time: 46:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: New Orleans Blues, Blues Rock, Delta Blues
Art: Front

01. Evil Gal Blues (Feat. Andy J. Forest) (4:14)
02. Walking To New Orleans (Feat. Andy J. Forest) (4:06)
03. High Water Everywhere (Feat. Andy J. Forest) (4:28)
04. I'd Rather Go Blind (Feat. Andy J. Forest) (5:54)
05. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans (2:54)
06. Roman Blues Woman (3:13)
07. This Tav Train (2:53)
08. I Just Wanna Make Love To You (Feat. Andy J. Forest) (4:43)
09. Tartaruga Blues (Feat. Andy J. Forest) (5:25)
10. Hello Dolly (2:38)
11. Southern Nights (3:07)
12. Ice Cold Water (2:23)

"Here I am next to the Mississippi river, it seems I have already crossed a thousand times in my blues turnarounds…
But you can't really understand the sound of Louisiana until you are there feeling it gets you right down in the belly!
In this album, I hope to have transmitted all the joy I experienced when singing in a very special place, rediscovered in myself, thanks to New Orleans!"

“Roman Blues Woman”, is a spot I wrote about myself, it's business sound card to show, when I travel and play around the world, that the river Tevere is just like the Mississippi!

"I was born in Rome under the blues sign, October 3th, the night before Janis Joplin died in Los Angeles .. and I celebrate my birthday every year with Steve Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins at a party between heaven and hell!"

"I start up my career in the school church choir and soon I discover that my spirit is more in line with the pace of the Devil.. So I'm leaving Rome to get away from the influence of the nuns and the Vatican ... I hitch hike to London to play "4 tips Only" form home bathroom to Hyde Park corners... when it does not rain! So, missing the sun, I decide to slide over to California!

Artistically grown in England and especially in the U.S. where she performed at the House of Blues and BB King Blues Club in Los Angeles, has his recording debut in 2002 with the so-called "Dues Blues", recorded live at Big Mama, the home of the blues in Rome, following a dense concert season, getting a great response from audiences and critics.
She performed with Scott Henderson, Andy J. Forest, Roberto Ciotti and Blues Staff.

Participate in the Pistoia Blues Festival where he opened for David Crosby; Blues Festival in Salerno with Taj Mahal, Macchia d'Isernia Blues Fest, with Rory Block, Taranto Soul & Blues with F. Cerri and Gege Telesforo; Fussy Blues with Willie Murphy, Trasimeno Blues, Blues Festival Aventine in Abruzzo, Hard Rock Cafe in Rome, from which is extracted a television special; Rome meets the World at Villa Ada with Alex Britti and Louisiana Red.
She collaborated with Massimo Nunzi & Jazz Orchestra for the event "History of Jazz" at the Teatro Sistina in Rome, in theater she has worked next to director Francesco Apolloni, at the Sala Umberto in Rome and at the Giffoni Film Festival.
She is acclaimed by the press as "the Blues made in Italy most beautiful hope" , high class singer and grit guitarist ,
featuring an intense personality that is reflected in his voice, sensual and scratchy, and in his guitar phrasing, with the slide guitar and Dobro."

Roman Blues Woman

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