Down Home Super Trio - In The House

Size: 127.3 MB
Time: 54:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Introduction (0:29)
02. If You Dig Me Let Me Know (3:30)
03. Sister Taught Me Guitar (4:49)
04. Candle Is Burning Low (5:58)
05. Just Can't Stay (3:26)
06. Blues King Mango (2:20)
07. Keep On Running (3:17)
08. Grand Casino (5:53)
09. Going Down The Line (4:32)
10. They Try To Kill Me (3:31)
11. Just Don't Care (3:40)
12. Homesick Blues (6:40)
13. Bloody Tears (6:05)

Personnel:
R.J. Mischo - Harmonica & Vocals (3,5-7,9,10)
Frank Goldwasser - Guitar & Vocals (2,11-13)
Richard Innes - Drums

Guests:
Alex Schultz - Guitar (9)
Billy Flynn - Guitar (13)

Recorded live at Lucerne Blues Festival, Swizerland, 2003.
This trio from California was one of last year's biggest surprises at Lucerne. Their simple, straight-forward style, inspired by the old masters and trios like the one led by Hound Dog Taylor, got the attention of the audience almost immediately. Frank Goldwasser (Paris Slim) knows how to build the fudamental grooves, and R.J. is a great story teller in blues. Without any doubt, Richard Innes is one of the greatest blues drummers, ever. And who's the bass player? There is no bass player! ~Crosscut Records

Let me state right up front that this CD is one of the best that I have heard in a long while. Featuring three well known West Coast blues players, The Down Home Super Trio plays blues the old fashioned way. Kudos to the Down Home Super Trio for adopting the trio format and trying an approach that most modern bands would not attempt. It takes very skilled musicians to pull this off and these guys have succeeded big time. Very highly recommended. ~Southwest Blues Magazine

Pure hard drivin’ Chicago blues with a demolishing straight playing with no ‘design stylistic concessions’. A bright powerful hot album that makes me think the real blues spirit was there that particular night… and you have the proof here. ~Blues Matters

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VA - Road Tested Vol.1

Size: 177.6 MB
Time: 77:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2006
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01 Randy Chortkoff - Parker's Grind ( 4:31)
02 Frank Goldwasser - The 12 Year Old Boy (Feat. Leon Blue) ( 5:09)
03 Mitch Kashmar - Stoop Down Baby (Feat. Rusty Zinn) ( 4:39)
04 Lynwood Slim - Act Like You Love Me (Feat. Kid Ramos) ( 7:41)
05 Hollywood Blue Flames - I Got My Eyes On You (Feat. Rick Holmstrom) (10:29)
06 Kid Ramos - Johnny Cochino ( 5:07)
07 Johnny Dyer - Keep It To Yourself ( 3:33)
08 Rusty Zinn - Lizabeth ( 5:13)
09 Finis Tasby - As The Years Go Passing By (Feat. Kid Ramos) ( 9:48)
10 Mitch Kashmar - Gettin' Drunk (Feat. Junior Watson) ( 3:59)
11 Mannish Boys - Sun Is Shining (Feat. Finis Tasby, Johnny Dyer, Hook Herrera) ( 7:56)
12 Hollywood Blue Flames - Nit Wit (Feat. Rick Holmstrom) ( 4:49)
13 Mannish Boys - Mannish Boy ( 4:36)

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Jon Gindick - Love At The All Night Cafe (Feat. Franck Goldwasser)

Size: 116.2 MB
Time: 50:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. I Was Born To Wail (4:46)
02. Feeling Her Gone (3:26)
03. Baby's Got The Blues (3:31)
04. The All Night Cafe (4:54)
05. Load Me Up Baby (4:31)
06. Mississippi Moods (4:35)
07. Happy Wife, Happy Life, Happy Home (3:09)
08. The Song I Couldn't Write (4:54)
09. I Love The Feminine Girl (5:07)
10. Hand Holding Man (4:01)
11. Can't Get That Girl Off My Mind (3:33)
12. In The Land Of You (3:52)

At the heart of great songwriting is great storytelling and a keen eye for wordsmithing and phraseology. Jon Gindick has graced the world with another collection of great stories full of fresh phrases and joyful tales of life, love and the blues on his second album “Love At The All Night Cafe.” It’s also no coincidence that Gindick is also a master harmonica player, for his leads and solos are as fluid and lyrical as his vocal lines, as if he is singing through the blues harp. Gindick is backed by his trio of Ralph Carter on bass, guitarist Franck Goldwasser and Pete Gallagher on drums for a twelve-song set of foot stompin’ blues, swingin’ R&B, Calypso and soul.
The opening number, ‘I Was Born To Wail,’ is a lesson on the history of the blues harp with Gindick playing out his dream of joining the masters of the art and paying tribute to all who inspired him, and calling them out by name “Sonny Boy, Sonny Terry, Big Walter, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed and Howlin’ Wolf. These are the giants who created my music and to them I take my hat off.” The easy groove of the tale of heartache in ‘Feeling Her Gone’ has a classic Memphis Soul sound. The vibe gets edgy for ‘Baby’s Got The Blues,’ then deftly switches gears into a Latin groove for the satirical title track ‘The All Night Cafe.’ Some fine piano work from Carter frames Gindick’s colorful description of the scene portrayed in the painting “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper that graces the album cover. He then spars with Goldwasser on the slinky shifting blues ‘Load Me Up Baby’ and spells out the virtues of his muse on the sweetly swinging ‘Mississippi Moods.’

Gindick takes liberty with the old advice to husbands on ‘Happy Wife, Happy Life, Happy Home,’ while the band dishes out some breezy western swing. He gets to finally put into words the depth of his love on the piano driven ballad ‘The Song I Couldn’t Write,’ then challenges the #metoo movement with an old-fashioned boogaloo about his baby ‘I Love The Feminine Girl,’ and then defends his machismo by declaring his sensitivity on the loping blues ‘Hand Holding Man.’ The tasty bossa nova ‘Can’t Get That Girl Off My Mind’ plays out the romantic tale. For the album closer Gindick speaks of his music and the profound love and redemption he has found in its creation on the soaring ‘In The Land Of You’ (a man giving up everything for a woman he has seen only once.)

Another great songwriter and his wife once penned the line “Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs, And what’s wrong with that?” Jon Gindick has taken this notion to heart and with “Love At The All Night Cafe” gives it an edge of bluesy reality ~Rick J. Bowen

Love At The All Night Cafe

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Frank 'Paris Slim' Goldwasser - Bluju

Size: 137,5 MB
Time: 59:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Homesick Blues (3:06)
02. Back Door Key (4:17)
03. Petit A Petit (L'oiseau Fait Son Nid) (4:00)
04. Bluju (3:10)
05. I'm-A-Love You (2:44)
06. Don't Take Away My Love (3:43)
07. I Can't Stand It (3:09)
08. Well, Well, Josephine (5:01)
09. Melba's Bump (2:48)
10. The Twelve Year Old Boy (4:45)
11. Playing In The Park (3:46)
12. Three Sisters (5:22)
13. Feels Like Home (4:24)
14. She's Gone (Bonus Track) (4:46)
15. 55th Street Boogie (Bonus Track) (4:20)

Personnel: Frank "Paris Slim" Goldwasser (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Alex Schultz, Phillip Walker, Alastair Greene (guitar); James Calire (accordion, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, piano, organ); Lee Thornburg (valve trombone); J.J. Malone (piano); Red Young (organ); John Hanes (drums, congas, percussion); Tom Lackner, Paul Fasulo (drums); Lorenzo Martinez (congas, percussion); Souhail Kaspar (tabla); Cynthia Manley (background vocals).

This album from West Coast via Paris blues guitarist Goldwasser has a circuitous history. Originally recorded in 2001, it was finally released -- but only on the German Crosscut label -- in 2003. It was then given a new lease on life in 2007 when co-producer Randy Chortkoff reissued it in a re-sequenced version with fresh graphics and two bonus tracks on his Delta Groove label. The set is a bit of a mishmash too, with different backing musicians bouncing between styles that both pay tribute to classic blues forms and expand the genre's boundaries on world-influenced tracks such as the Afro-beat of "Don't Take Away My Love." Goldwasser tells the story of his professional career in the spoken word intro to the instrumental late-night groove of "Three Sisters," recounting the various artists he has played with and clubs he has worked in, ending with the titular venue. He also touches base on New Orleans second-line funk with "Petit a Petit (L'Oiseau Fait Son Nid)," sung in his native French, and shifts into a stripped-down Jimmy Reed vamp on a cover of Reed's "I'm a Love You." Goldwasser also successfully takes on soul-blues with a Latin, Santana-styled flair on "I Can't Stand It" and hits Peter Green territory on the instrumental "Melba's Bump." He shifts into lowdown swamp mode on "Well, Well, Josephine," one of the disc's most fiery tracks. It is all impeccably played and Goldwasser is certainly a talented guitarist and vocalist. But neither his voice nor tone is distinctive enough to make blues fan's ears perk up when heard in a pack of similarly gifted players. The disc succeeds on its own terms, though, driven by the artist's obvious enthusiasm for the project. Ultimately, there isn't much terribly unique about Bluju, but Goldwasser acquits himself admirably and over the course of the hourlong playing time hits enough high points to please any contemporary blues fan. However, as of 2007, six years after it was first recorded, there hasn't been a follow-up release. ~Review by Hal Horowitz

Bluju

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Blisterstring - The Highway Is Like a Woman

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2002
Styles: Blues
Time: 41:12
Size: 94,7 MB
Covers: Full

(2:53) 1. Reet, Petite and Gone
(3:36) 2. Chips Flying Everywhere
(3:31) 3. What a Fool I Was
(4:08) 4. Feelin' Good
(3:30) 5. Black Nights
(4:45) 6. Cigarette Blues
(2:56) 7. Always Have a Home
(3:00) 8. West Memphis Promenade
(4:52) 9. The Highway Is Like a Woman
(2:28) 10. Taylor's Rock
(1:48) 11. How Long Can This Go On?
(2:51) 12. Party Girl
(0:47) 13. Stray Bullet

Blisterstring is the joining of forces of two veteran West Coast blues musicians: drummer-producer/promoter and Fedora Records founder Chris Millar, and Parisian-born singer-guitarist-songwriter Frank Goldwasser, aka Paris Slim. Between the two of them, Millar and Goldwasser have recorded and performed with an impressive cast of some of the most illustrious blues artists of the contemporary era, including Percy Mayfield, Lowell Fulson, Big Mama Thornton, Jimmy McCracklin and many, many more. Recorded in seven hours on a ridiculously small budget, "The Highway Is A Woman" was originally intended as a demo for the trio. It has received rave reviews from the specialized press in the U.S. and abroad. It features Goldwasser on guitar, harmonica and vocals, Millar on drums and Kevin Hill on electric bass and tuba. -- Amazon.
Frank Goldwasser has been playing music professionally since the early 1980s and is the most talented blues guitarist of his generation. In Oakland Troyce Key gives him the nick Paris Slim and the young guitarist is backing up a who's who of West Coast legends as Jimmy McCracklin, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulson and others. Jimmy McCracklin is so impressed and for some years Paris Slim toured with McCracklin. In the mid 1980s he's playing the guitar in Charlie Musselwhite's tour band and with Mitch Woods and the Rocket 88's. Paris Slim’s first album, "Blues For Esther" (on the Belgian label Blue Sting) receives a nomination for the prestigious WC. Handy Awards. A second album, "Bleedin' Heart", is released in 1996 and produced by Joe Louis Walker and featuring a guest appearance by Sonny Rhodes. In 1998, Goldwasser moves to the Los Angeles area where he joins forces with Fedora Records producer-drummer Chris Millar and he contributes to numerous Fedora releases. LA record producer & Delta Groove label owner Randy Chortkoff is the next one to hire Goldwasser to back up Finis Tasb and Billy Boy Arnold. Chortkoff is impressed by his fantastic guitar playing and he offers to record an album (Blu Ju)(Kirk Fletcher and Alex Schultz are joining on guitar). Goldwasser is also a regularly featured guitarist in the rotating cast of The Mannish Boys.
Impressive guitar work from Frank Goldwasser aka Paris Slim.

The Highway Is Like a Woman

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