Francine Reed - American Roots-Blues

Size: 339 MB
Time: 50:31
File: Flac
Released: 2002
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Why I Don't Know - Featuring Lyle Lovett (2:56)
2. You Bug Me - Featuring Delbert McClinton (3:10)
3. Stop Me! Before I Love Again (3:58)
4. Been There, Done That (3:48)
5. Crack The Bone (4:55)
6. What Is That Light (4:16)
7. Love Without Mercy (3:55)
8. Why Does Everything Change? (5:54)
9. Wonderin' (4:25)
10. One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show) (3:39)
11. Evil Gal (3:52)
12. For Your Precious Love (5:35)

Francine Reed (born July 11, 1947, in Pembroke Township, Illinois, United States) is an American blues singer, solo artist, and regular singing partner of Lyle Lovett since the 1980s and member of Lovett's Large Band. Reed has also recorded duets with Willie Nelson and Delbert McClinton and others. Reed sang at church services in her youth and her music was inspired and influenced by her gospel-singing father. She is the sister of jazz singer Margo Reed who died in April 2015 at the age of 73.In Phoenix, Arizona, Francine Reed appeared with Miles Davis, Stanley Jordan, Smokey Robinson, Etta James, and The Crusaders. In 1985, she began recording and touring with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. Reed has also appeared on recordings by Delbert McClinton, Willie Nelson and Roy Orbison. After she relocated to Georgia in the 1990s, she released her first solo album, I Want You to Love Me. Reed has received the W. C. Handy Artist of the Year and Song of the Year nominations. (The W. C. Handy awards were renamed the Blues Music Awards in 2006). Reed was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame in 1997.Reed is perhaps best known for her performances of the classic blues song "Wild Women (Don't Get the Blues)," written in 1924 by Ida Cox. A recording of this song appears on Reed's albums, I Want You to Love Me, I Got a Right!...to Some of My Best, and Blues Collection; as well as on Ichiban Records Wild Women Do Get the Blues and Lyle Lovett's Live in Texas.Reed's distinctive voice can be heard on a television advertisement for Senokot laxative ("I Feel Good"), and in a scene from the film The Firm (1993).In the mid-1990s she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she frequently performed at Blind Willie's in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood. In 2016 she moved back to Phoenix and has given up touring.

American Roots - Blues FLAC

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Francine Reed - Shades Of Blue

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:03
Size: 121.4 MB
Styles: Blues vocals
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[5:21] 1. The Man That Got Away
[4:04] 2. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
[7:29] 3. When Love Was New
[5:08] 4. What Do I Do
[6:22] 5. Beyond My Wildest Dreams
[5:41] 6. I Have A Right To Know
[4:37] 7. I'm A Handful
[4:35] 8. Wrong Man For The Job
[4:24] 9. A Touch Of Love
[5:17] 10. 455 Rocket

Though she's a relative newcomer to recording (Shades of Blue is her third album), Francine Reed has the pipes of an experienced vocalist. Her voice has richness and depth, not to mention versatility; she handles everything from classic jazz ("I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues") to up-tempo blues ("Wrong Man for the Job") to sensual ballads ("A Touch of Love"). She's even got a little bit of rock & roll in "455 Rocket." But it's when she's delivering those shivery, heated love songs that Reed really shines, whether her subject is love lost in "When Love Was New" or love found in "Beyond My Wildest Dreams." There's no doubt that Reed, who toured as part of Lyle Lovett's band for a decade, can carry herself as a solo act, and we can look forward to much more from this fine vocalist. ~Genevieve Williams

Shades Of Blue

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VA - Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 & Vol. 4

Album: Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 1
Size: 99,4 MB
Time: 36:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Xmas
Art: Front

01 Chick Willis - All I Want For Christmas Is To Lay Around And Love On You (3:19)
02 Jerry McCain - Absent Minded Santa (3:49)
03 Blues Boy Willie - Lonesome Christmas (3:43)
04 Nappy Brown - Santa Clause Is Back In Town (2:48)
05 Little Johnny Taylor - Christmas Is Here Again (4:31)
06 Trudy Lynn - Christmas Time Comes But Once A Year (3:19)
07 Vernon Garrett - I Didn't Get Nothin' For Christmas (3:39)
08 David Dee - Chrismas Tears (5:39)
09 Drink Small - Christmas, Don't Forget About Me (2:49)
10 Chick Willis - Please Come Home For Christmas (2:44)

Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 1

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Album: Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 2
Size: 109,9 MB
Time: 42:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1992
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Xmas
Art: Front

01 Kip Anderson - Silver Bells (3:16)
02 William Bell - Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday (6:22)
03 Chick Willis - May Christmas Bring You Happiness (3:40)
04 Theodis Ealey - A Christmas Wish (4:10)
05 Drink Small - Christmas Once A Year (3:31)
06 Gary BB Coleman - All I Need For Christmas Is You (2:48)
07 The Ledgendary Blues Band - One Day Before Christmas (4:00)
08 Jerry McCain - Sad, Sad Christmas (6:14)
09 Chick Willis - Santa Claus Got The Blues (4:37)
10 William Bell - Merry Christmas, Baby (4:05)

Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 2

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Album: Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 3
Size: 105,7 MB
Time: 41:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Xmas
Art: Front

01 Jimmy Dawkins - Christmastime Blues (4:20)
02 Sandra Hall - Christmas Tears (3:41)
03 William Bell - Beautiful Memories Of Christmas (3:37)
04 Jerry McCain - I Want To Be Your Santa Claus (4:01)
05 Travis Haddix - Santa Claus Got The Blues (4:11)
06 Slim Fatz - Southern Christmas (2:37)
07 Francine Reed - Merry Christmas, Baby (3:35)
08 Kip Anderson - Gonna Have A Merry Christmas (3:53)
09 Bob Thompson - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (4:46)
10 Willie Hill - Lonely Lonely Christmas (3:44)
11 Trudy Lynn - Please Come Home For Christmas (3:05)

Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 3

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Album: Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 4
Size: 103,2 MB
Time: 43:05
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Xmas
Art: Front

01 Francine Reed - Go Tell It On The Mountain (3:34)
02 Theodis Ealey - The Reason For The Season (3:32)
03 The Excellos - Santa, I Want A Stratocaster (2:29)
04 Jerry Butler - Little Red Shoes (3:32)
05 Sandra Hall - Christmas Just For Me (2:22)
06 Bob Thompson - Angels We Have Heard On High (7:16)
07 Willie Hill - Christmas Snow (3:24)
08 The Shadows - Santa Ain't Jivin' (3:10)
09 Jimmy Dawkins - Thank God For Mama (3:43)
10 Blues Boy Willie - Christmas Pretty Baby (3:24)
11 Rick Huff - Red And Green Christmas Blues (3:32)
12 Vernon Garrett - Please Come Home For Christmas (3:01)

Ichiban Blues At Christmas Vol. 4

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Francine Reed - Wild Hearted Woman

Size: 100,4 MB
Time: 36:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Blues, Soul, R&B, Jazz
Art: Front

01. Wild Hearted Woman (3:25)
02. The Less I Love You (3:26)
03. It Won't Be Me (3:19)
04. It's All About You (2:55)
05. Goin' To The River (3:42)
06. You've Got To Change (4:43)
07. Sunday Morning Sunshine (3:45)
08. Singin' The Good News (3:38)
09. Girl's Gotta Do (3:49)
10. Good Lovin' Woman (3:56)

Atlanta vocalist Francine Reed is set to get wild again November 13. That’s the release date for “Wild Hearted Woman,” the first full-length studio album of new material from the blues and jazz singer since 1999’s “Shades of Blue.” Reed is backed throughout by consummate musicians like bassist Andy Gonzales, guitarist D.R. Wilke and long-time Phoenix bluesman Hans Olson on harmonica.

Bio:
Vocalist Francine Reed can't remember a time when she didn't sing. In her youth, the Chicago-born, Phoenix-raised song stylist sang in church and in grammar school. She began singing professionally with her family when she was five and continued into her teens. She got married young and had four children, whom she ended up raising alone. She worked a variety of day jobs and kept her singing career an avocation until 1985, when some friends introduced her to Lyle Lovett. Lovett was interested in finding a female vocalist for his new band and found his singer in Reed. She toured with Lovett for ten years as a member of Lovett's Large Band, and did several TV performances with the Texas singer/songwriter. While her association with Lovett continues, she has embarked on the kind of solo career she always wanted when working the day jobs to support her family. To date, Reed has recorded two albums for the Atlanta-based Ichiban label in 1995 and 1996. Her amphitheater performances with Lovett must have surely had an effect on sales of both of her records. Reed also got a few other nice breaks, including the chance to do some singing for TV commercials. Tom Cruise cranks her album up in a scene from the 1993 movie The Firm. Reed's two albums for Ichiban include I Want You to Love Me (1995) and Can't Make It on My Own (1996). The former features a duet with bandleader Lovett, while the latter includes a duet with Delbert McClinton. On both albums, Reed continues the tradition already set down by great women soul-blues vocalists like Carla Thomas, Irma Thomas, and Etta James; she returned in 1999 with Shades of Blue on the Intersound label. In 2001 following the demise of Ichiban Records, which left her first two records out of print and unavailable, Reed and longtime collaborator Marvin Taylor re-recorded some of her best material live in the studio and released the results as I Got a Right!...To Some of My Best. The record business being as unpredictable as it is, Ichiban was resurrected in 2002 and released American Roots: Blues, a compilation of her first two records. ~Richard Skelly

Wild Hearted Woman

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Francine Reed - I Want You To Love Me

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:13
Size: 121.8 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues-soul vocals
Year: 1995/2014
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. Why I Don't Know
[4:54] 2. Leavin' Town
[3:42] 3. One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show)
[4:42] 4. Gathering Up My Love
[5:11] 5. Trouble In Mind
[4:59] 6. Crack The Bone
[3:48] 7. I Want You To Love Me
[4:18] 8. What Is That Light
[4:18] 9. Grady's Song
[3:50] 10. Evil Gal
[5:39] 11. For Your Precious Love
[4:49] 12. Wild Women

By the time she released her debut album, Francine Reed had established herself as a fine blues singer through her work with Lyle Lovett. I Want You to Love Me proves that she can do it on her own. Lovett drops in for the opening cut, "Why I Don't Know," but this remains Reed's show, and she shows she knows what she's doing. She can sing sultry slow blues, belt out soul, and get down and dirty -- in short, she can do it all. Furthermore, she has the songs to prove her talents, relying on classics from Jerry Butler and Muddy Waters, among others. The result is a thoroughly entertaining record from an accomplished artist. ~Thom Owens

Harvey Thompson - vocals, saxophone; Charles Rose - trombone; Muscle Shoals Horns - horns; Vinnie Ciesielski - trumpet; Francine Reed - vocals; Albey Scholl - harp, tenor saxophone; Buzz Amato - keyboards.

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